¹Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

¹Bil na doh un vante aw, ka gen sin hi; ka paukam suak leiin ngai leh:

²My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

²Vuahtui bangin ka thu a zu ding, daitui bangin ka thu gen a tak ding; loupa nou dipdip tunga vuah bang leh lounah tunga vuahphin bangin:

³For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness to our God!

³TOUPA min ka suah dinga: Thupina i Pathian pia un.

⁴The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

⁴Amah suangpi ahi, a thilhih a dik kim sipsip; A om dan tengteng dan ahi; Pathian muanhuai, thulimlouhna neilou, diktat leh hoih ahi.

⁵They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

⁵Hoihlou takin a tungah a hih ua, a tate ahi kei uh, gensiat a lohna uh ahi, suan ginalou leh genhak ahi uhi.

⁶Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

⁶Mi hai leh pil loute aw, huchiin maw, TOUPA na thuk sin uh? Nou honsuang, na pa uh ahi kei maw? a honbawla, a honding kip sak hi.

⁷Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

⁷Nidanglai nite theigige inla, suan tampi kumte ngaihtuah dih: na pa dong inla, a honkawkmuh ding, na upaten leng, a hon hilh ding uh.

⁸When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

⁸Tungnungpenin namte gam a piak laia, mihing tate a khen laiin namte gamgi a khunga, Israel suante zahin.

⁹For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

⁹TOUPA tantuan jaw a mite ahi ua; Jakobte lah a goutan ahi uhi.

¹⁰He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

¹⁰Gamdai gamah a mu ua, gamdai sia mau honhonah, a kim ua om khumin a kema, a mit- laivom bangin a kem:

¹¹As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

¹¹Muvanlaiin a bua a nou a tok thoua, a nou tungah kha a japa, a khate a jaka, a tuaha, a khaa a puak jel bangin:

¹²Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

¹²TOUPA kiain a pi jela, gam dang pathian hi louin.

¹³He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;

¹³Lei mun sangte ah a tuangsaka, loua thil tung a ne jela; suangpi akipanin khuaiju a kikhohkhesak jela, suang tak akipan thau toh;

¹⁴Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

¹⁴Bawng nawitui khal, belam nawitui, belamnou thau te toh, Basan uain na dawn ding.

¹⁵But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁵A hinnaa Jesurunte a hongthau ua, a hong kipek ua: na na thaua, na nasaphaa, na namaitaa; a bawlpa Pathian a lehngatsanta, hotdamna Suangpi a ngaineu.

¹⁶They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

¹⁶Gamdang pathiante khawngin mullitna a tok thoua, thil kihhuaiin a hehsak.

¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

¹⁷Pathian hi lou, dawite kiangah theih ngei louh uh pathiante kiangah, hongkhonung om phing pathian thakte, na pi, na pute un a kihtak ngei louh uh kiangah.

¹⁸Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

¹⁸Nang honsuang Suangpi na ngaisang kei, nang honbawlpa Pathian na mangngilh lai.

¹⁹Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

¹⁹Huai TOUPAN a mua. A mudaha, tanu leh tapate hih heh jiakin.

²⁰He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

²⁰Ka buk mang san dinga, bang a chi om him ding ua, a chi: suan thulimlou ahi ua, muan chinglou tate.

²¹They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

²¹Pathian hi lou thilin ka mullitna a tok thou ua; a thil ginalou un a hon heh sak uh; chia gen loutein ka mullit sak dinga, nam haitein ka hihheh ding hi.

²²For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

²²Ka heh a kuanga, Sheol to khon a kang, lei, a thil tung toh a kang khin, tang kingaknate a kang.

²³“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

²³A tunguah siatna ka chiang khawm dinga, a tunguah thal ka khah ding:

²⁴They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

²⁴Gilkialin a gongthak ding ua, meipi leh siatna leh nakpiin a kang mang ding, a tunguah gamsa hate ka sawl dinga, leivuia kitholh pawlte gu toh.

²⁵Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

²⁵Polamah namsauin a si ding ua, sung lamah launain, nungak tangval, nawi nelai, lua kelsam poute tan phain.

²⁶I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;

²⁶Ken, ka delh jak vek dinga, mihing laka amau theihgigena ka hihmang vek ding:

²⁷were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”

²⁷Melma thangpaihna lauthawng kei leng, a melmate un thei khialin, I khut uh tawisangin a omta, huaite tengteng TOUPA hih ahi kei, chi kha le uh, ka chi.

²⁸For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

²⁸Pilna neilou namte ahi ua, amau ah theihsiamna a om kei.

²⁹Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

²⁹Aw, pil le uh hiaite a theisiam ding ua, a tu nunglam thu uh ngaihtuah ding hive un!

³⁰How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

³⁰Bangchiin khatin sang a delh dia, nihin sing a taikek sak ding uh, a Suangpi un amaute a khawngkhintaa, TOUPAN amau a piak khiak a hih kei ngal uleh?

³¹For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

³¹A suangpi uh lah i Suangpi bang ahi kei, i melmate mahmah theih danin leng.

³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.

³²A grep phual uh Sodom grep phual, Gomora gama om ahi: a grepte grep sinkha ahi, a gahbomte a kha:

³³Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

³³A uainte uh drakon gu leh gulgial gu kha tak ahi.

³⁴“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

³⁴Huai ka kholkhawm ka goubawma bilh bikbek ahi kei maw?

³⁵Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste.”

³⁵Phulak leh thuk jaw kei hih ding ahi, a siksan uh a teu hun chiangin; a siatna ni uh a hongnaita, a tung ua thil hongtung dingte a hongtung ding zok ding.

³⁶For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, There is none remaining, shut up or left at large.

³⁶TOUPAN a mite vai a hawm sina, a sikhate leng a hih sak ding, a thilhihtheihna uh beia, gakchih leh chihlouh kuamah mah om loua a muh hun chiangin.

³⁷He will say, “Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

³⁷Aman a pathian uh akoi ah, a muan suangpi ah loi ah;

³⁸Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.

³⁸A kithoihna thau uh netu, a dawn ding thillat uh uain dawnmite? Hongthouin nou hong huh uhenla, nou honhuntu hi heh.

³⁹“See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

³⁹Kei, kei mahmah ka hih thei unla, pathian dang a om kei uh; ka hihlum jela, ka hihdam sam jel; ka khuta kipan honsut thei kuamah mah a om kei uh.

⁴⁰For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,

⁴⁰Van lamah ka khut ka jaka, ka hinna louin ka gena,

⁴¹if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

⁴¹Ka namsaute ka tathiama, ka khutin vaihawmna a kep leh ka melmate tungah phu ka la dinga, kei honhote ka thuk ding hi.

⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

⁴²Ka thalte sisan ka kham sak ding, ka namsauin sa a valh ding; thahte leh salte sisan toh melma heute lu akipanin, ka chi, a chi ding.

⁴³Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

⁴³Aw, nou nam chihte aw, a mite toh kipak un; a sikhate sisan phu a la sin ahi; amah doute tungah phu a la sin, a gam leh a mite adingin kilepna buching a bawl ding.

⁴⁴Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

⁴⁴Huchiin mipite jakin huai la thu tengteng Mosiin a vagena, amah toh, Nun tapa Hosia toh.

⁴⁵Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;

⁴⁵Huan, Mosiin huai thu tengteng Israel mi tengteng kianga a gen khitin, a kiang uah:

⁴⁶He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

⁴⁶Tua na kiang ua ka honthu theihsak ah na lungtang uh koih kip unla, hiai dan thu tengteng pilvang mahmaha jui dingin na tate uh thu pia un.

⁴⁷For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

⁴⁷Nou adingin thil bangmahlou lel ahi keia, na hinna uh lah ahi ngala; huan, hiai thil hihin luah dinga Jordan na vagalkahna gam uah na dam sawt ding uhi, a chi a.

⁴⁸Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

⁴⁸Huan, huai ni mahin TOUPAN Mosi a houpiha,

⁴⁹“Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;

⁴⁹Moab gama Jeriko jawna Abarim tangdunga Nebo tangah vahoh tou inla, Israel suante luah dinga ka piak Kanan gam va galetin:

⁵⁰and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:

⁵⁰Huchiin na unaupa Aron Hor tanga sia, a chite kianga pi a hite bang mahin na kah touhna tangah na si dinga, na chite kianga pi na hita ding hi.

⁵¹because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

⁵¹Zin gamdaia Kadesa Meriba tuia Israel suante laka ka tunga na khelh jiakin leh Israel suante laka na honpahtawi louh jiakin.Tua gam na va galmuh dinga; himahleh Israel suante ka piak gamah na lut kei ding, chiin.

⁵²For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”

⁵²Tua gam na va galmuh dinga; himahleh Israel suante ka piak gamah na lut kei ding, chiin.