¹Aw nou Jakobte heutute leh Israel inko vaikhawmmite aw, Ngaikhia unla, ka honngen ahi, k a chi ahi: vaihawm dan na theih ding uh hilou hia?

¹I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

²Thil hoih na hua ua, thil hoih lou na deih ua, a vun uh na hawk sak ua, a guh ua kipanin sa na leu khia ua:

²You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

³Ka mite sa na nei lai ua; a vun uh na lip ua, a guh uh na hihtan sak ua: ahi, bela huan ding bangin na at nen ua, sa-uina bel sunga sa at nen bang maiin.

³who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

⁴Huai hun chiangin TOUPA a sam ding ua, himahleh amau a dawng kei ding: ahi, huai hun chiangin a thilhih ua a hih hoihloudan bang bang un, amau akipan a mai a sel ding.

⁴Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

⁵Ka mite hihkhialsakmi, hai a neih ua, Muanna chia kikoua, a kam ua bak loumi peuhmah do dia kisa hial mi jawlneite tungtang thu TOUPAN hichiin a chi:

⁵Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

⁶Huaijiakin kilakna na neih louhna ding un na kiangah jan a hongtung ding; ai na san theihlouhna ding un na kiang uah mialna a hongom dinga; jawlneite adingin niin mual a khum dinga, sun leng a mau tungah kho mial ahi ding.

⁶“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

⁷Mutheimite a zum ding ua, aisansiamte a zahlak ding uh, ahi, a vek un a muk uh a hum ding uh: Pathian dawnna lah a om ngal kei a,

⁷The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” .”

⁸Himahleh Jakobte kiangah a tatlekna uh theisak ding leh Israelte kiangah a khelhna uh theisak dingin TOUPA kha jiaka thilhihtheihna te, vaihawm na te, leh hatna tein ka dim petmah ahi.

⁸But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

⁹Nou Jakobte inkote heutte leh Israel inko vaihawmmi, vaihawmna kiha, dikna chiteng lumlet mite aw, hiai ngaikhiaunla, ka honngen ahi.

⁹Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

¹⁰Zion sisanin a lam ua, Jerusalem ginatlounain.

¹⁰They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹¹Huaia heututen kipahman lamenin vai a hawm ua, huaia siamputen lawh lamenin a sinsak ua, huaia jawlneiten dangka lamenin ai a san uhi: huchiin leng, TOUPA a lak uah a om ka hia? thil hoih lou i tunguah a hongtung kei ding, chiin TOUPA tungah a kinga uhi.Huaijiakin Zion, noute jiakin, lou banga leileh ahi dinga, Jerusalem thil sia omkhawm ahi dinga, biakin omna tang dawi mun sang bang ahi ding.

¹¹Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.”

¹²Huaijiakin Zion, noute jiakin, lou banga leileh ahi dinga, Jerusalem thil sia omkhawm ahi dinga, biakin omna tang dawi mun sang bang ahi ding.

¹²Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.