1“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
1Jakob inkuan aw, Israel min kikoppiha, Juda tuite akipana pawt, thutakah lah hi lou, diktatnaah leng lah hi sam lou, Toupa min lou-a kichiama, Israelte Pathian min lou jelte aw, hiai ngaikhia un.
2(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name):
2Khopi siangthou-a mi a kichi ngal ua, Israel Pathian tungah ginna a nga ua; A min sepaihte Toupa ahi.
3I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they happened.
3A tunga kipanin thil masate ka gena; ahi, ka kama kipanin a pawta, ka theisaka; thakhatin ka tangtung sak guiha, a hongtung hi.
4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
4Mi genhak na hi uh, na ngawng uh sik tha ahi, na tal uh dal ahi chih ka theih jiakin,
5therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.’
5Nidanglaia kipanin na kiang uah ka genta; a hongtun main leng na kiang uah ka hontheisakta hi: huchilouin jaw, Ka milimin a hih ahi, ka milim bawl tawm leh ka milim sunin thu a piak ahi, na chi kha ding uh.
6You have heard it; see all this; and you, will you not declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
6Na zata uh; hiaite tengteng en un; noumau na genta kei ding ua hia? Tua kipanin thil thak ka hontheisak ding, thil kisel na theih ngei louhte uh.
7They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn’t hear them; lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
7Huaite nidanglaia siam hilouin, tua siam ahi; tuni main na bil un na za ngei kei uh; huchilouin jaw, Ngaiin, huaite I theihsa ahi, na chi kha ding uh.
8Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
8A hi, na bil un na za ngei kei ua; ahi, na lungsim un leng na thei ngei sam kei uh; ahi, nidanglaia kipanin na bil uh honin a om ngei kei himhi: lepchiah taktakin na hih jel uh chih leh, sul akipanin talekmi a honchi him uh chih lah ka thei ngala.
9For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off.
9Ka honhihman louhna dingin ka min jiakin ka hehna ka hawi lai dinga, phat ka lohna dingin na tunguah ka kidek ding.
10Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
10Ngai un, ka honhih siang ahi, himahleh dangka hihsiang bangin ahi kei; haksatna haltuina meiah ka hon chian ahi.
11For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
11Kei leh kei jiakin, ahi, kei leh kei jiak lelin ahi ka hih ding; bang dingin ka min suksiatin a om dia? ka thupina midang kiangah ka pe kei ding.
12“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
12Jakopte leh ka sap Israel aw, ka thu ngaikhia un: kei amah ka hi; amasapen ka hi, a nanungpen leng ka hi.
13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
13Ahi, ka khutin lei kingakna a phuma, ka khut taklamin a vante a kaipalh a: ka sap takin a ding khawm jel uh.
14“Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
14Noute tengteng aw, kikhawm unla, ngaikhia un; a lak uah kuan hiai thil a gen dia? Toupan lah amah a ita: aman Babulon tungah a deihlam a hih dinga, a ban Kaldaite tungah likin a om ding.
15I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
15Kei, keimah ngeiin, thu ka genta; ahi, amah ka sama, ka pia, a lampi zangsak ding.
16“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.
16Nouten honnaih unla, hiai ngaikhia un; atung akipanin asimin thu ka gen ngei kei; a om tung lai akipanin huaiah ka om: tuin Toupa Pathianin kei leh a Kha a honsawlta hi.
17Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
17Toupa, nou hantanpa, Israelte Mi Siangthouin hichiin a a chi: Kei, Toupa na Pathian uh, na hoihna ding ua noute honchilpa, na paina ding lampi ua honpipa ka hi.
18Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:
18Aw nouten ka thupiakte na ngaikheta hi le uchin, na tung ua lemna lui bang maia om dinga, na diktatna uh lah tuipi kihawtte bang maia om ding hi ven maw:
19your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
19Na suante u leng piaunel zah pha ding ua, na gil ua gahte leng piaunel mal neu chikchik zah pha ding hive un maw; a min uh ka maa kipan thai mangin a om kei ding, hihmanin leng a om sam kei ding, chiin.
20Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.
20Babulon akipan pawt unla, Kaldaite taimang san un; hiai lasak husain genjak unla, hilh unla, kawlmong tanphain leng gingsak unla, Toupan a sikha Jakopte a tanta, chi un.
21They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
21Gamdaia a pi laiin a dangtak kei ua: suangpi akipanin amau adingin tuite a luangkhe saka: suangpi a phelkhapa, huchiin tui a hongpawt hokhok hi.Toupan, Mi thulimlote a dingin a muanna himhim a om kei, a chi.
22“There is no peace,” says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
22Toupan, Mi thulimlote a dingin a muanna himhim a om kei, a chi.