¹Gentheite ngaihtuah mi a hampha hi, mangbat niin Toupan amah a humbit ding hi.

¹Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

²Toupan amah humbitin a hihhing dinga, leiah vualjawl in a om ding; amah douten ututa a bawl dingin pe ken.

²Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

³Toupan a gimna lupna munah a hihhat dinga; nang a chi a nat lai in a lupna na bawlsak vek jel hi.

³Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

⁴Toupa aw, honhehpih inla, ka hinna hihdam in, na tungah thil ka hihkhial ngal a, ka chi a.

⁴I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

⁵Hondouten, chikchiang in a siin, a min a mang de aw! Chiin, hon gensia uh.

⁵My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

⁶Huan a lak ua kuahiamin a hongveh laiin, thu bangmahlou maimai a gen jela; a lungtang in thulimlouhna a lakhawm naka; a pawt khiak takin mi a hilh jel hi.

⁶If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

⁷Honhote tengteng in hon gensiain a kihuau ua: honhihsiatna ding uh a ngaihtuah ua.

⁷All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

⁸Natna hoihlou takin a man kipta, tu-a lum a thou nawn ta kei ding a chi ua.

⁸“An evil disease,” they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

⁹A hi, ka lawm kithuahpih theih, ka muantak, ka tanghou nekpih ngeiin a khetul ka tungah a likta hi.

⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰Hiamhleh, Toupa aw, nang honhehpih inla, amau ka thuk theihna dingin honkai thou nawnin.

¹⁰But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

¹¹Hiaiah ka tungah na kipak chih ka thei hi, hondou in a honzoh louh jiakin.

¹¹By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

¹²Kei jaw lungsim hoihtak ka putna ah nangman non lenchinten a, Na maah khantawn adingin non koih hi.Toupa, Israel Pathian, Khantawn akipan khantawn pha in phat in om hen, Amen, Amen.

¹²As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

¹³Toupa, Israel Pathian, Khantawn akipan khantawn pha in phat in om hen, Amen, Amen.

¹³Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. BOOK II