1“Frɛ wo nuammarimanom ‘Me nkurɔfoɔ’ na frɛ wo nuammaanom ‘Mʼadɔfoɔ.’ ”
Wɔtwe Israel Aso, Gye No To Mu Bio
2“Ka wo maame anim, ka nʼanim,
na ɔnnyɛ me yere
na mennyɛ ne kunu.
Ma ɔnsesa nʼanim a ayɛ adwaman anim no
na ɔnnyae awaresɛeɛ a ɔde ne nufu yɛ no.
3Anyɛ saa a mɛpa ne ho ntoma
na wada adagya te sɛ ɛda a wɔwoo no;
mɛma wayɛ sɛ anweatam,
mɛdane no asase a awo wesee
na mama osukɔm akum no.
4Merennɔ ne mma,
ɛfiri sɛ wɔyɛ adwaman mma.
5Wɔn maame anyɛ ɔnokwafoɔ
na ɔnyinsɛnee wɔn wɔ animguaseɛ mu.
Ɔkaa sɛ, ‘Mɛdi mʼadɔfoɔ akyi,
wɔn a wɔma me aduane ne nsuo,
ne kuntu ne nwera, ngo ne nsã.’
6Yei enti, mede nkasɛɛ bɛsi no ɛkwan;
mɛto ɔfasuo afa no ho, sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a ɔnhunu ɛkwan.
7Ɔbɛti nʼadɔfoɔ nanso ɔrento wɔn;
ɔbɛhwehwɛ wɔn, nanso ɔrenhunu wɔn.
Afei, ɔbɛka sɛ,
‘Mɛsane akɔ me kunu nkyɛn, te sɛ kane no,
ɛfiri sɛ, saa ɛberɛ no na ɛyɛ ma me sene seesei.’
8Ɔnnkae sɛ me na
memaa no aduane, nsã foforɔ ne ngo,
deɛ ɔmaa sikakɔkɔɔ ne dwetɛ buu no so
ma wɔde kɔsom Baal no.
9“Enti, sɛ mʼaduane no duru twaberɛ a mɛfa mʼadeɛ,
ne me nsã foforɔ no nso saa ara.
Mɛgye me kuntu ne me nwera,
a anka mepɛ sɛ ɔde kata nʼadagya so no.
10Enti afei mɛbɔ no adagya
wɔ nʼadɔfoɔ anim;
obiara rentumi nnye no mfiri me nsam.
11Mɛtwa nʼafahyɛ nyinaa so:
nʼafenhyia afahyɛ, Ɔbosome Foforɔ afahyɛ
Home Ɛda afahyɛ ne nʼafahyɛ ahodoɔ nyinaa.
12Mɛsɛe ne bobe ne borɔdɔma nnua,
deɛ ɔka sɛ nʼadɔfoɔ de tuaa no ka no;
mɛyɛ ne nyinaa nkyɛkyerɛ,
ama wiram mmoa awe.
13Mɛtwe nʼaso wɔ nna a
ɔhyee aduhwam maa Baal no ho;
ɔde nkawa ne agudeɛ hyehyɛɛ ne ho,
tu dii nʼadɔfoɔ akyi,
medeɛ ne werɛ firii me,”
deɛ Awurade seɛ nie.
14“Enti merekɔdaadaa no;
mede no bɛkɔ anweatam so
na makasa bɔkɔɔ akyerɛ no wɔ hɔ.
15Mɛsane de ne bobe mfuo ama no.
Mɛyɛ Akɔr bɔnhwa no,
anidasoɔ ɛkwan.
Ɛhɔ na ɔbɛto dwom sɛdeɛ na ɔyɛ ne mmabunu berɛ mu no
ne ɛberɛ a ɔfirii Misraim no.
16“Saa ɛda no,” sei na Awurade seɛ,
“Wobɛfrɛ me ‘me kunu’;
na woremfrɛ me ‘me wura’ bio.
17Mɛyi Baal ahodoɔ din no afiri nʼano;
na ɔrenkankye wɔ wɔn din mu bio.
18Saa ɛda no, mɛyɛ apam ama wɔn,
wɔne wiram mmoa ne ewiem nnomaa
ne mmoa a wɔwea wɔ asase so.
Tadua, mpea ne ɔko,
mɛbra wɔ asase no so
sɛdeɛ wɔn nyinaa bɛtena ase asomdwoeɛ mu.
19Mɛware wo afebɔɔ;
mɛyi tenenee ne atɛntenenee,
ahummɔborɔ ne ayamhyehyeɛ akyerɛ wo.
20Mɛware wo nokorɛ mu,
ama woahunu Awurade.
21“Saa ɛda no, mɛgye wo so,”
deɛ Awurade seɛ nie.
“Mɛgye ɔsoro so,
na ɔsoro de osuo bɛgye asase so,
22na asase nso bɛgye mfudeɛ so:
bobe foforɔ ne ngo dua,
na wɔn nso agye so sɛ ‘Yesreel’, ‘Onyankopɔn na wadua’.
23Mede Israel bɛdua asase no so ama me ho;
mɛda me dɔ adi akyerɛ deɛ mekaa sɛ ‘wonnyɛ me dɔfo’ no.
Meka akyerɛ wɔn a mesee wɔn sɛ ‘monnyɛ me nkurɔfoɔ’ sɛ
‘moyɛ me nkurɔfoɔ’,
na wɔn nso aka sɛ, ‘Wone me Onyankopɔn.’ ”
1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah. 2.1 Ammi: that is, My people2.1 Ru-hamah: that is, Having obtained mercy 2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.2.5 drink: Heb. drinks
6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.2.6 make…: Heb. wall a wall 7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.2.8 wine: Heb. new wine2.8 which…: or, wherewith they made Baal 9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.2.9 recover: or, take away 10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.2.10 lewdness: Heb. folly, or, villany 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.2.12 destroy: Heb. make desolate 13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
14¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.2.14 comfortably: or, friendly: Heb. to her heart 15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.2.16 Ishi: that is, My husband2.16 Baali: that is, My lord 17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. 19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
