¹Sisan suah hat khopi a tung a gik hi; juau leh kilohnain a dim khina; a sa keih uh tatlak lou ahi.

¹Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

²Jepna van gingte, kangtalai khe sin gingte, sakol tawm te, kangtalai tai guapguap te toh;

²The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

³Sakol tung tuang mi sakola tuangte, namsau te zolzolte, teipi te zualzual te toh; mi thah om lemlum te, luang om jiajua te toh; luangij bei chih mahmah a neikei; a luangte uh a sui ua:

³the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

⁴Huai tuh, kijuak mel hoih, bunsiamnu, a angkawmna jiaka nam juaka, a bum hatna jiaka inkuan juaknu angkawmna thupi mahmah jiaka hongawm ahi.

⁴because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

⁵Sepaihte TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Ngaiin, ka hondou ahi; na mai lamah na puan ka lem dinga; na vuaktanna namte kiangah leh na zahlakna kumpipa gamte kiangah ka ensak ding.

⁵“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

⁶Nin kihhuai mahmahin ka hontheh dinga, zumhuai mahmahin ka honbawl dinga, muhnop adingin ka hon koih ding.

⁶I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

⁷Huan, hichi ahi dinga, nang honmu peuhmahnanga kipan a taimang ding ua, Ninevi khua a hongse gawp ta hi:

⁷It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

⁸Luite kikala om No-amon, a kima tuiin a um, a kulh dinga tuipi zanga a kulh bang dinga tuipi neisangin na hoih jaw ahia?

⁸Are you better than No-Amon, or, Thebes who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

⁹Ethipia leh Aigupta a hatna ahi a, huai bel tawp hun chih hei lou ahi; Put leh Lubim bel nang panpihte ahi uh.

⁹Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

¹⁰Huchi pipiin leng lak mangin a om a, salin a tang a: kongzing teng tawpah a naupang neute a paih nen sak uh: a mi thahte adingin ai a san ua, a mi liante tengteng khainianga gak ahi uh.

¹⁰Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹¹Nang leng na kham sam dinga, selin na om ding; melma jiakin kulh kip na zong lai ding hi.

¹¹You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

¹²Na kulh tengteng theipi kung, gah min masa pu bang ahi ding ua: a lin peuhmah uleh nemi kamah a ke lut jel uh.

¹²All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹³Ngaiin, na sunga na mipite numei ahi ua; na melmate din an kongpi a kihong heihou: na kikalhna sik tawnte meiin a kang tun ahi.

¹³Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

¹⁴Umkimvela na om sung adingin tui tawi inla, ka kulhte hihkipin: tungman omnaah hoh inla, suangmatna chil inla, lei hal takna thuk hihkipin.

¹⁴Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

¹⁵Huailaiah meiin a hongkang tum dinga, namsauin a honsat lum dinga, singnget bangin a honhih mang thang ding. Singnget bangin kitamsak inla, khaukhup bangin kihihtamin.

¹⁵There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

¹⁶Na sumsinmite van aksi sanga tamin na khang saka: singngetin a hihsiaa, a leng mang mai sek.

¹⁶You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

¹⁷Lallukhu khu na mite lah khaukhup bang ahi ua, na sepaihte kho dam nia gawla khaupe hon bok khawm bang ahi uh, ahihhangin ni a hongsuaka, a leng mang ua, a omna mun himhim uh theih ahi kei.

¹⁷Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

¹⁸AW ASSURIA kumpipa, na belam chingmite a lusu uhi: na mi liante a khawl ua: na kipite tangte khawngah a dalh khin ua, pi kahwmmi kuamah a om kei uh.NA natna damna sing a om kei; na liamna a thupi mahmah hi: na husa zapeuhin khut a honbet khum ua; na gitlouhnain a tup gige louh kua a oma?

¹⁸Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

¹⁹NA natna damna sing a om kei; na liamna a thupi mahmah hi: na husa zapeuhin khut a honbet khum ua; na gitlouhnain a tup gige louh kua a oma?

¹⁹There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?