¹The burden of Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

¹Damaska kho puak gik, Ngaiin, Damaska hi khopi hi nawn lou dinga lakmang a hita, huchiin in chim khawm lel a hita ding hi.

²The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

²Aroer khote taisanin a omta; belam honte omna ding ahi mai ding, huaite lah a om ngei ding ua, kuamahin a lausak kei ding uh.

³The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

³Ephraim akipanin kulhpi a mang dinga, Damaska akipan gam a mang ding, Suria gama om sunte leng a mang ding uh; Israel suante thupina bang lelin a om ding uh, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi hi.

⁴“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

⁴Huai ni chiangin hichi ahi dinga, Jakob thupina hihgawnin a om dinga, a sa thauna leng a honggawngta ding hi.

⁵It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.

⁵Huchiin buh lapan buh a laka, a vuite a lak bang mai ahi dinga, ahi, Rephaim guamah min buh maihkhakte a tom bang mai uh ahi ding hi.

⁶Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁶himahleh, oliv sing sin khita a jikpi sangpen dawna gah nihtou thumtou hiam, singgah mahmah hiang saupentea litou ngathou hiam a om sek bangin, huaiah maihkhak top ding a om laiding, Toupa Pathian in a chi hi.

⁷In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

⁷Huai ni chiangin min a Bawlpa uh lam a enta ding ua, a mitte un Israelte Mi Siangthou a zahtakta ding uh.

⁸They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

⁸Maitam, amau khut suak lamte khawng a en nawnta kei ding ua, amau khuta bawl Asherim hiam, gimlim maitamte hiam a zahtakta kei ding uhi.

⁹In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

⁹Huai ni chiangin a kho kip takte uh gammang leh tang vuma mun taisan sa, Israel maa a taisan sa bang uh, ahi ding; huchiin mun loih ahita ding hi.

¹⁰For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

¹⁰Nang honhondampa Pathian na mangngilha, na hatna Suangpi lah na theigige ngal keia; huaijiakin kung kilawm taktakte na suan seka, a sungah hiang tuamte na vut tang niaunuau seka:

¹¹In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

¹¹Na suan niin na khang sak a, jingsangin thil chi lah na paksak seka; ahihhangin gah loh lah lungngaihna leh natna thupi tak niin a mang sek hi.

¹²Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

¹²A, mipi tampi ging nuanua, tuipite ging nuanua banga ging nuanuate leh nam chih ging hawhaw, tui thupitakte ging hawhaw banga ging hawhawte tel o!

¹³The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

¹³Nam chih lah tuipi tam pi ging hawhaw bangin a ging hawhaw ding ua; himahleh aman a taihilh dinga, huchiin gamla pi-ah a taimang ding ua, tanga buhsi huih mut bang leh leivui huihpi mut leng lunglung bang in delhin a om ding uh.Nitaklamin, ngaiin, thil mulkimhuai tak a om a; huan, khovak main lah a om nawn kei uh. Huailah gallaka honlak sakmite tan ahi a, hon guksakmite tuam leng ahi hi.

¹⁴At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

¹⁴Nitaklamin, ngaiin, thil mulkimhuai tak a om a; huan, khovak main lah a om nawn kei uh. Huailah gallaka honlak sakmite tan ahi a, hon guksakmite tuam leng ahi hi.