Sakaria 12
1 Nkɔmhyɛ: Yei ne Awurade asɛm a ɛfa Israel ho. Awurade a ɔtrɛ ɔsoro mu, deɛ ɔto asase fapem, deɛ ɔyɛ honhom a ɔte onipa mu asɛm nie:
The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:
2 “Merebɛyɛ Yerusalem kuruwa a ɛbɛma aman a atwa ne ho ahyia no atɔ ntintan. Wɔbɛto ahyɛ Yuda ne Yerusalem so.
Behold I will make Jerusalem a lintel of surfeiting to all the people round about: and Juda also shall be in the siege against Jerusalem.
3 Saa ɛda no a ewiase aman nyinaa aboa wɔn ho ano retia no no, mɛma Yerusalem ayɛ ɔbotantim ama aman no nyinaa. Wɔn a wɔbɛpɛ sɛ wopire no no nyinaa bɛpirapira wɔn ho.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all people: all that shall lift it up shall be rent and torn, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall be gathered together against her.
4 Saa ɛda no, mɛma ɔpɔnkɔ biara abɔ huboa, na mɛma ne sotefoɔ nso abɔ dam,” sɛdeɛ Awurade seɛ nie. “Mɛbue mʼani ahwɛ Yuda fie, na mɛfirafira aman ahodoɔ no apɔnkɔ ani.
In that day, saith the Lord, I will strike every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes upon the house of Juda, and will strike every horse of the nations with blindness.
5 Na Yuda ntuanofoɔ bɛka wɔ wɔn akoma mu sɛ, ‘Yerusalemfoɔ yɛ ahoɔdenfoɔ, ɛfiri sɛ Asafo Awurade yɛ wɔn Onyankopɔn.’
And the governors of Juda shall say in their heart: Let the inhabitants of Jerusalem be strengthened for me in the Lord of hosts, their God.
6 “Saa ɛda no, mɛyɛ Yuda ntuanofoɔ sɛ ogya ayowaa a ɛhyɛ nnyina mu, te sɛ ogyatɛn a ɛrederɛ wɔ wira a wɔaboa ano mu. Wɔbɛhye nnipa a wɔatwa wɔn ho ahyia nyinaa wɔ benkum ne nifa, nanso hwee renka Yerusalem wɔ baabi a ɔwɔ hɔ.
In that day I will make the governors of Juda like a furnace of fire amongst wood, and as a firebrand amongst hay: and they shall devour all the people round about, to the right hand, and to the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place in Jerusalem.
7 “Awurade bɛbɔ Yuda atenaeɛ ho ban kane, sɛdeɛ Dawid fie ne wɔn a wɔte Yerusalem animuonyam renkyɛne Yudafoɔ animuonyam.
And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda, as in the beginning: that the house of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not boast and magnify themselves against Juda.
8 Saa ɛda no, Awurade bɛbɔ wɔn a wɔte Yerusalem ho ban, deɛ ɔyɛ mmerɛ koraa wɔ wɔn mu no bɛyɛ sɛ Dawid. Na Dawid asefoɔ bɛyɛ sɛ Onyankopɔn, te sɛ Awurade Bɔfoɔ a ɔdi wɔn anim.
In that day shall the Lord protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that hath offended among them in that day shall be as David: and the house of David, as that of God, as an angel of the Lord in their sight.
9 Saa ɛda no, mɛhyɛ aseɛ asɛe aman a wɔko tia Yerusalem nyinaa.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 “Mehwie adom ne nkotosrɛ honhom agu Dawid fie ne wɔn a wɔte Yerusalem so. Wɔbɛhwɛ me a wɔahwire me, na wɔatwa adwo ama no te sɛ obi a ɔretwa adwo wɔ ɔba korɔ ho, na wɔasu yaaya te sɛ obi a ɔresu ne ba barima piesie.
And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.
11 Saa ɛda no agyaadwo twerɛ a ɛwɔ Yerusalem no ano bɛyɛ den te sɛ Hadad-Rimon agyaadwo twerɛ wɔ Megido asase tam so.
In that day there shall be a great lamentation in Jerusalem like the lamentation of Adadremmon in the plain of Mageddon.
12 Asase no sofoɔ nyinaa bɛdi awerɛhoɔ, abusua biara ne wɔn yerenom; Dawid fie abusua ne wɔn yerenom, Natan fie abusua ne wɔn yerenom,
And the land shall mourn: families and families apart: the families of the house of David apart, and their women apart:
13 Lewifie abusua ne wɔn yerenom, Simei abusua ne wɔn yerenom,
The families of the house of Nathan apart, and their women apart: the families of the house of Levi apart, and their women apart: the families of Semei apart, and their women apart.
14 ne mmusua a aka no nyinaa ne wɔn yerenom.
All the rest of the families, families and families apart, and their women apart.
