¹Juda kumpipa Jotham te, Ahaz te, Hezekia te lal laia Moreseth mi Mika kianga TOUPA thu hongtung, Samari khua leh Jerusalem kho tungtang thu-a amuh.

¹The word of Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

²Nou chite aw, na vek un ja unla: aw lei leh a sunga om tengteng aw, ngaikhia un: TOUPA PATHIAN, TOUPA a biakin siangthou akipanin, nou hondemin na tung thu theipa hi heh.

²Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

³Ngai dih ua. TOUPA a mun akipan in a hongpawta, a hongpai suk dinga, lei mun sangte a chil ngal sina.

³For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

⁴Mei kiang china khuainun bang leh mun kena tui kikhoh khia bang maiin, tangte a nuaiah a zul dinga, guamte a khang tat ding.

⁴The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

⁵hiaite tengteng Jakobte tatlekna jiak leh Israel inkote khelhna jiak ahi. Jakobte tatlekna bang ahia oi? Samari ahi kei maw? Juda mun sangte bang ahia? Jerusalem ahi kei maw?

⁵“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they Jerusalem?

⁶huaijiakin Samari bel gama thil se om khawm bangin ka bawl dinga. grep huan mun bang maiin: huan, huailai muna suangte lui guam lamah ka khuk khe dinga, suangphumte ka dawksak ding.

⁶Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.

⁷A milim siam tawm tengteng sukkhap vek ahi dinga, a kijuakna mante meia hal mang ahi dinga, a milim tengteng ka hihgawp ding: kijuakna man ding in a la vek ngala, ki juakna man mahin a pang nawn ding uh.

⁷All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”

⁸Hiai jiakin ka kap dinga, ka mau vongvong dinga, kisuah leh vuaktangin ka om ding: sehalte bangin ka kihou dinga, vangawnsaute bang in ka thum ding hi.

⁸For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

⁹A liamna hihdam theih ahi kei: Juda gam a tungta ngala: ka mite kongpi, Jerusalem hial leng a tung hi.

⁹For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

¹⁰Gath khua ah gen unlam kap het kei un; Beth-le-aphra khuaah leivui ah ka kitholhta ahi.

¹⁰Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.” I have rolled myself in the dust.

¹¹Aw Saphir mi, vaktang leh zum tak in pai mang in: Zaanan mi a hongpawt kei; Betezel kahna in nang a hon din tuh ding.

¹¹Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.

¹²Maroth miin tan hoih tan a ngaklah tuntun hi, TOUPA kianga kipan thil hoih lou Jerusalem kongpi chin tana a hongtun suk jiakin.

¹²For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³Aw Lakis mi, kangtalai sakol hattak hen den in: amah pen Zion tanu khelhna kipatna ahi. Israelte tatlekna lah nanga muh ahi ngala.

¹³Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

¹⁴Huaijiakin Moreseth-gat kiangah kikhakna thilpiak na piak ding ahi: Akzib inte Israel am kumpipate a din khemna ahi ding.

¹⁴Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵Aw maresa mi, nang honzoutu na kiang ah konpi ding: Israelte thupina Adullam phain a hongpai ding.Kimet giau inla, na ta deihtakte jiakin kimet giau in: musane bang in kihihgiau semsemin; na kianga kipana sala piin lah a omta ngal ua.

¹⁵I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

¹⁶Kimet giau inla, na ta deihtakte jiakin kimet giau in: musane bang in kihihgiau semsemin; na kianga kipana sala piin lah a omta ngal ua.

¹⁶Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!