¹“Woe to the rebellious children,” says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

¹TOUPAN, ta helhatte a tung uh a gik hi! huaiten lah mi a dong ua, kei lah hon dong kei uh, a khelhna tung ua khelhna a behlapna ding un, khuhnain a khuh ua, ka kha thuin lah a khuh tuan kei uh;

²who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

²Pharo hatnaa kihatsak dingin leh, Aigupta lim bel dingin, ka kam dong tuan louin Aigupta gama paisuk tumin a kuan uh.

³Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

³Huaijiakin Pharo hatna noute zahlakna a hita dinga, Aigupta lim na na belh uhlah na maizumna uh a hita ding.

⁴For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

⁴A mi liante lah Zoan khuaah a om ua, a palaite lah Hanes khua a tungta ngal uhi.

⁵They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

⁵Amau adia phattuamna himhim neilou mi, huhna hilou, phattuamna nei mi leng hi lou, maizumna leh minsiatna hizote, a vek un a zumpih sin uh, achi a.

⁶The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

⁶Sim gama sate puakgik, Buaina leh lunglauna gam, humpinelkainu leh humpinelkaipa, ngandekpak leh gul kuang leng thei pawtna, a sum uh sa bengtung nou tungte ah, a gou uh sangawngsau nungvumte ah po sakin, amau adia phattuamna neilou mite kaingah piak dingin, a pai ton dapdap uh.

⁷For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.

⁷Aiguptain lah phatuamlou tak leh pannaneilou takin a panpih jel ngala; huaijiakin ahi, amah, Rahab tu kinkennu, ka chih.

⁸Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

⁸Tuin pai inla, huaite ama ua lai gelhna pekah gelh inla, laibu ah leng gelhin, tu nunga khantawn dong adig a hih theihna din.

⁹For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;

⁹Huaite lah mi helhatte, ta juautheite, ta TOUPA dan ngaikhe nuamloute ahi ngal ua;

¹⁰who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

¹⁰Mutheimite kianga, Mu kei un, jawlneite kianga, Thil dikte honhilh khol kei un, thil nuam lam ka kiang uah gen un, khemna thu gen un, khemna thu gen khol un;

¹¹Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

¹¹Lam lou ah pai un, lam sikah pial un, Israelte Mi Saingthou ka ma ua kipan hihmang un, chi ngitnget-te

¹²Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;

¹²Huaijiakin Israelte Mi Siangthouin hichiin ahi a. hiai thu na muhsit jiakun leh nuaisiahna leh phengphitna na muan ua, a tung ua na kingak jiak un.

¹³therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

¹³Hiai thulimlouhna noute adingin suangbang sangpi selai, chim dekdek, puak engong, thakhata mitphialkal lou-a se gawp ding bang ahi ding hi.

¹⁴He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

¹⁴Huchiin belvelmi bel a kitam gawp sak bang un, hawi om het lou-a kek nenin, a themnen lakah belpei thuka mei lakna ding hiam aw, tuikhuka tui dipna ding hiam aw, omlou khopin, a kitm nen sak ding, chiin.

¹⁵For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

¹⁵TOUPA PATHIAN Israelte Mi Siangthouin lah hichiin a chi ngala. Kik nawna khawla omin hotdamin na om ding ua; muang taka omna ah leh upna omnaah na hatna uh a om ding, chiin; himahleh nou lah na ut kei ua.

¹⁶but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift”; therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

¹⁶Hi lou e, sakol tunga tuangin i tai zozot ding uh, na chi zosop ua, huaijiakin na tai zozot ngei ding uh; Thil hat tak tungah i tuang ding, na chi ua; huaijiakin nou hondelh ding lah hat tak ahi ding uh.

¹⁷One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

¹⁷Mi khat phawnin sang khat a taikek dudup ding ua; mi nga phawn in na taikek dudup ding uh; a tawpin mualvuma puankhai khai bang leh, tang tunga chiamtehna om banga nutsiatin na om ding uhi.

¹⁸Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

¹⁸Huaijiakin noute TOUPAN a honhehpih theihna dingin a hongak dinga, huaijiakin noute a honlainat theihna dingin pahtawiin a om ding; TOUPA lah vaihawm diktatna Pathian ahi ngala; amah ngakte teng tengin nuam a sa uhi.

¹⁹For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

¹⁹Mite lah Jerusalema Zion ah a omsin ngal ua; na kap nawn kei ding uh; na kahna husa uah aman a hon hehpih mahmah ding a; a jak takin a hon dawng ding hi.

²⁰Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers;

²⁰TOUPAN lungkhamna an leh haksatna tui noute honpe mahleh, nou honsinsakmite a kibu nawn kei ding ua, na mit un nou honsinsakmite a mu zota ding;

²¹and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

²¹Huan, taklama na pial un hiam, veilama na pial un hiam, na bil un na nunglam ua thu, Hiai lampi ahi, hiai-ah pai un, chiin, a za jel ding hi.

²²You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

²²Huan na dangka uh milim bawl dangka chi-a zepna leh, na dangkaeng uh, milim sun dangkaeng tuia luanna lah na buahsak ding ua; thil nin bangin na paita ding ua, a kiangah, Pai mangin! na chi ding uh.

²³He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

²³Huchiin, aman na buh chi uh leia na tuh ding uh adingin vuahtui a pe dinga; leia thil poute leng an din a pe ding, huailah hoihtak pung tak ahi ding; huai ni chiangin na ganta uh gantatna mun za pi ah a ta ding uh.

²⁴The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

²⁴Bawngtal leh sabengtungnou leiletten an chisoh, ninluahna leh phajaha hihsiangsa a ne ding uh.

²⁵There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

²⁵Huan, kithahna thupitak ni-a galvenna singte a chip niin, tang sang teng ah leh mual vum sang tengah luipite leh luite tui luang khawng a hong om ding.

²⁶Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

²⁶Huailou leng TOUPAN a mite kihehna a tuama, a liamna ma uh a damsak ni chiangin, kha vak ni vak phain a omta dinga, ni vak a mun sagihin, ni sagih vak phain a omta ding hi.

²⁷Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.

²⁷Ngaiin, TOUPA min tuh, a hehna kuang juajuain, meikhu sah moimoiin jamtou ngoingoi lakah, gamla pi-a kipanin a hongpai hi; a mukte khawng lunghihlouhnain a dima, a lei lah thil kat mang hat mei bang ahi.

²⁸His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

²⁸A hu lah, manna lohpi-a nam chih sep dingin, lui ngawng chiang pha hiala a kuanga let nawnaw bang ahi; huan mi chih kamah pi khelhsakna kaihgingna khau a om ding.

²⁹You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

²⁹Huan, jana zehtan siangthou-a zeh a tan lai ua la a sak bangun, la a sa ding ua; TOUPA tanga Israelte Suangpi kiang tung dinga tamngai toh a pai lai ua lungtang nopsakna leng a nei ding uh.

³⁰Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

³⁰Huan, TOUPAN a aw thupitak a kijasakta dinga, a hehna thupitak leh thil kat mang ching mei kuangin, a huihpi leh vuahpi leh gialin, a khut khak dana ensakta ding.

³¹For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

³¹TOUPA aw jiakin Assuria mi, khetbuka mi khen nakpa, kitapjan sakin a om ding a hita ngala.

³²Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

³²Amah lah chiang sehsaa TOUPAN a jep peuhmah chiangin khuangtate leh kaihgingte toh a jep ding; achiang lika kisuaknate ah amau a sual ding.Tophet lhat lah tumaa nana bawlkholhsa ahi ngala; ahi, kumpipa adingin bawlzoh siang ahi a; thu tak za takin a bawla; a thil sek khawm tuh mei leh sing tamtak ahi a; TOUPA a hu, kat lui luang bangin, a kang sak juajua hi.

³³For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

³³Tophet lhat lah tumaa nana bawlkholhsa ahi ngala; ahi, kumpipa adingin bawlzoh siang ahi a; thu tak za takin a bawla; a thil sek khawm tuh mei leh sing tamtak ahi a; TOUPA a hu, kat lui luang bangin, a kang sak juajua hi.