¹Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

¹TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Kuan unla, belvelmi lei bel valei un; huan, mipite upate leh siampu laka upate pi inla;

²and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;

²Harsith kongpi lutna china Benhinem guam ah hoh inla, huaiah na kianga thu ka honhilh ding na phuang ding.

³and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.

³Hichiin na chi ding hi: Juda kumpipate leh Jerusalema tengte aw, TOUPA thu ja un. Israel Pathian, sepaihte TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Ngaidih ua, hiai munah a ja pehmah bilam khop hiala thil hoihlou ka hontun sin hi.

⁴Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn’t know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

⁴Miten a honpai san ua, hiai mun a hihnin un, amau leh a pate uh leh Juda kumpipaten leng a theih ngei nai het louh uh, pathian dangte kiangah gimlim a hal jiak uleh hiai mun mi hoih sisana a dimsak jiak un leh Baal kianga halmang thillat dinga a tate uh a halna ding ua Baal mun sangte a lamkhiak jiak un;

⁵and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

⁵Huai jaw ka thupiak ahi keia, gen leng ka gen sam keia, ka lungsim ah leng a om ngeikei hi.

⁶therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

⁶Huaijiakin, ngaidih, nite a hongtung sin, TOUPA thu pawtin a chi: huai nite chiangin hiai mun Topheth chih ahita kei dinga, Benhinom guam chih ahi sam kei ding; kithahna guam chih ahi zota ding.

⁷I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

⁷Huan, hiai munah Juda leh Jerusalem thil tupte ka vuak suaksak dinga; huan, amau pen namsauin a melmate uh maah leh a hinna uh lak tummite khut ah ka puksak ding; a luangte uh tunga leng vasate leh leia gamsate an dingin ka pe ding.

⁸I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

⁸Huan, hiai khopi lamdang sak ding leh tek khum dingin ka bawl dinga, a vialpai peuhin siatna a tuahte jiakin lamdang a sa ding ua, a tek khum lai ding uhi.

⁹I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.

⁹A tanute uleh a tapate uh sa ka nesak dinga; huan a melmate u leh a hinna uh lak tummiten a um ua a mangbat sak hun chiang un kuapeuhin a invengte uh sa a ne ding uh.

¹⁰Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

¹⁰Huan, na paipihte mitmuhin bel na hihtam dinga, a kiang uah hi-chiin na chi ding.

¹¹and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

¹¹Sepaihte TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Hichimahbangin hiai mite leh hiai khua ka hihtam ding; belvelmi bel min a kitam saka, bawl hoih nawn vual ahi lou bangin; huan, Tophethah a vui ding ua, vuina ding mun dang a om louh jiakin.

¹²Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:

¹²Huchi hialin hiai mun ka bawl ding, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi; huan hichibang mahin hiai khua Topheth banga bawl hialin, a sunga tengte tungah leng ka hih ding:

¹³and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

¹³Jerusalem inte leh Juda kumpipate inte-in chiteng mahmah a tunga van lam thilte kianga gimlim halkhitna tengteng leh pathian dangte kianga dawn ding thillat butkhiaksana tengtengte Topheth mun bang hiala hihnit ahi ding hi.

¹⁴Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:

¹⁴Huan, Jeremia bel, TOUPAN thu gen dinga a sawlna mun Topheth akipan in a hongpaia; huan, TOUPA in um sungah a dinga, mipi tengteng kiangah hichiin a chi hi:Israelte Pathian, sepaihte TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Ngaihdih ua, thilhoihlou ka gen tengteng hiai khopi leh a kho dang tengteng ah ka hontungsak sin hi: ka thu ngaikhe lou dinga a lungtang uh a khuahsak jiak un.

¹⁵Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.

¹⁵Israelte Pathian, sepaihte TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Ngaihdih ua, thilhoihlou ka gen tengteng hiai khopi leh a kho dang tengteng ah ka hontungsak sin hi: ka thu ngaikhe lou dinga a lungtang uh a khuahsak jiak un.