¹{An instruction: of Asaph.} Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

¹Pathian aw, bangdinga honpai mang den ding na hia oi? Bangdinga na gantatna muna belamte tunga na hehna a khut?

²Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

²Na mite kikhawmte, nidang laia na lei, nam na gou dinga na tat, thei gige in; na omna nak Zion tang toh.

³Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

³Khantawn siatna lamah na khe khaiin, melmaten mun siangthou ah thil gilou chiteng a hihta uhi.

⁴Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.

⁴Nangmah doute na mite kikhawmte lakah a awng juajua ua; achiamnate uh chiamtehna dingin a takta uhi.

⁵[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

⁵Mi singbawk heipi a ngimte bangin a kimu ua.

⁶And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

⁶Tunah a thil- khuak kilawm tengteng uh heita leh sekin a hihse chiat uhi.

⁷They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

⁷Na mun siangthou a hal ua; na min omna leia tum khop hialin a hihbuahta uhi.

⁸They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all ùGod's places of assembly in the land.

⁸A lungsim un, A vekin i hihse ding, a chi ua: hiai gama Pathian kikhopna in tengteng a halse khinta uhi.

⁹We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

⁹I kichiamtehnate uh i muta kei ua: jawlnei himhim a omta kei uhi; a sawt dingdan thei himhim i lak uah leng a om kei hi.

¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?

¹⁰Pathian aw, melmain bangtan ahia hon gensiat ding? Galin na min khantawnin a gense dia hia?

¹¹Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].

¹¹Bangdingin ahia, na khut, na khut taklam na lak tak? Pholh khe nawn inla, amaute hihmang in.

¹²But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.

¹²Himahleh, Pathian tuh nidanglai tana ka Kumpipa ahi, lei lai taka hotdamna siampa pen.

¹³*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:

¹³Nang na hatnain tuipi na kikhensaka nang tuia drakonte na kitamsak hi.

¹⁴*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

¹⁴Nang tuh ole lute na jansaka, amah tuh gamdai mi omte kiangah an dingin na pia hi.

¹⁵*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers.

¹⁵Nang tuikhuk leh tuilian na khena; nang lui lian taktakte na kangsak hi.

¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:

¹⁶Sun nanga ahi a, jan leng nanga ahi. Nang khovak leh nisa na ngaihtuah hi.

¹⁷*Thou* hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter -- *thou* didst form them.

¹⁷Nang leitung gamgite tengteng na khung vek hi: nang nipi leh phalbi na siam ahi.

¹⁸Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

¹⁸Toupa aw, hiai theigige in, melmain a hon gensiata; nam haipiin na min a gensiat.

¹⁹Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.

¹⁹Aw na vakhu hinna gam sahang kiangah pe mahmah kenla; na mi gentheite hinna khantawnin leng mangngilh sam ken.

²⁰Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

²⁰Thukhun tuh honkhawksa in: leimun mial tata hiamgamna omnain a dim ngala.

²¹Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.

²¹Aw, nuaisiahna thuakte zahlakin kihei kei uhenla: genthei leh tagahten na min phat uhen.

²²Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;

²²Pathian aw, thou inla, nangmah thu tuh kigen tawm inla, mi haiin nitumin a hon gensiatdan theigigr in.Nangmah galte husa tuh mangngilh ken: a hon sualte chiak vengvung tuh a toupai gige ahi.

²³Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.

²³Nangmah galte husa tuh mangngilh ken: a hon sualte chiak vengvung tuh a toupai gige ahi.