Israel Ogye
1Saa da no,
Awurade de nʼafoa bɛtwe aso,
ɔde nʼafoa a ɛyɛ hu na ɛso na ɛyɛ nnam no,
ɔwɔ Lewiatan a ɔde ahoɔhare tu hoo,
ɔwɔ Lewiatan a ɔbobɔw ne ho;
obekum po mu aboa kɛse a ne ho yɛ hu no.
2Saa da no,
“To dwom fa bobeturo a ɛsow no ho se:
3Me, Awurade, mehwɛ so;
migugu so nsu bere biara.
Mebɔ ho ban awia ne anadwo
sɛnea obiara rensɛe no.
4Me bo mfuw ɛ.
Sɛ ɛkaa nware ne nsɔe nko ara na ɛko tia me a
anka me ne wɔn de bɛbɔ ani;
na mahyew wɔn nyinaa.
5Sɛ ɛnte saa a, ma wɔmmra me nkyɛn mmehintaw;
ne me mmɛdwene asomdwoe ho
Yiw, asomdwoe ho na mo ne me mmɛdwene.”
6Nna a ɛreba no mu no, Yakob ase betim,
Israel begu nhwiren na anyin fɛfɛɛfɛ
na ɔde ne nnuaba ahyɛ wiase nyinaa ma.
7Awurade abɔ Israel
sɛnea ɔbɔɔ wɔn a wɔbɔɔ Israel hwee fam no ana?
Awurade akum Israel
sɛnea okum wɔn a wokum Israel no ana?
8Wode ɔko ne asutwa twe nʼaso,
wode mframa a ano yɛ den pam no
te sɛ da a apuei mframa bɔ no.
9Eyi na ɛbɛyɛ mpata ama Yakob afɔdi,
eyi na ɛbɛyɛ ne bɔne asetu so aba a edi mu:
bere a ɔyɛ afɔremuka so abo
sɛ hyirew a wɔabubu mu nketenkete,
na Asera nnua
ne nnuhuam afɔremuka nsisi hɔ bio no.
10Kuropɔn a wɔabɔ ho ban no ada mpan
wɔagyaw atenae a wɔafi so no te sɛ nweatam
hɔ na nantwimma didi,
hɔ na wɔdeda;
wɔwe so nnua no mman ma ho yɛ kokwakokwa.
11Sɛ nnubaa no wo a, wobubu
na mmea bɛfa de kɔsɔ ogya.
Na saa nnipa yi nni ntease
enti wɔn yɛfo nhu wɔn mmɔbɔ,
na wonnya adom mfi nea ɔbɔɔ wɔn no nkyɛn.
12Saa da no, Awurade bɛporow afi asuten Eufrate akosi Misraim Bon Wosee mu, na mo, Israelfo de, wɔbɛfa mo mmaako mmaako aboaboa mo ano. 13Saa da no, wɔbɛhyɛn torobɛnto kɛse no. Wɔn a na wɔrewuwu wɔ Asiria ne wɔn a na wɔwɔ nnommum mu wɔ Misraim bɛba abɛsom Awurade wɔ Yerusalem bepɔw kronkron no so.
Deliverance of Israel
1In that day,
the Lord will punish with his sword –
his fierce, great and powerful sword –
Leviathan the gliding serpent,
Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster of the sea.
2In that day –
‘Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
3I, the Lord, watch over it;
I water it continually.
I guard it day and night
so that no-one may harm it.
4I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
I would march against them in battle;
I would set them all on fire.
5Or else let them come to me for refuge;
let them make peace with me,
yes, let them make peace with me.’
6In days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill all the world with fruit.
7Has the Lord struck her
as he struck down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8By warfare27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. and exile you contend with her –
with his fierce blast he drives her out,
as on a day the east wind blows.
9By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:
when he makes all the altar stones
to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah or incense altars
will be left standing.
10The fortified city stands desolate,
an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,
there they lie down;
they strip its branches bare.
11When its twigs are dry, they are broken off
and women come and make fires with them.
For this is a people without understanding;
so their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator shows them no favour.
12In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. 13And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
