¹Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

¹TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Juda kumpipa in ah hoh suk inla, hiai thu vagen in.

²Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.

²Aw Juda kumpipa, David tutphah tunga tu, nang leh na nungjuite leh na mi hiai kongkhaka lutte toh, TOUPA thu ngaikhia unla, chiin:

³Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

³TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Diktak leh hoihtakin vai hawm unla; simmohmi khut akipan loh thuakmi hunkhhia unla; huan, mikhualte, pa neiloute leh meithai tungah te diklouhna hiam hiamgamna hiam ching kei un; hiai mun ah mi hoih sisan leng suah sam kei un,

⁴For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

⁴Hiai thu jui ngei hi le uchin jaw, David tutphah tunga kumpipate kangtalaite leh sakolte tunga tuangin, amaute leh a nungjuite uh leh a mite uh hiai na kongkhakte uah a lut ngeingei ding uh.

⁵But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.

⁵Himahleh hiai thute na ngaihkhiak kei uleh, hiai in a segawp dinga, chiin, kei leh kei kilouin ka kichiam ahi, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

⁶For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.

⁶TOUPAN Juda kumpipa inkuan tungtang thu hichibangin a gen hi: Nang jaw kei ading in Gilead bang, Lebanon mual vum bang na hi: himahleh gamdai ka honsuaksak ding, luahmi omlou khopi bang maiin.

⁷I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

⁷Nang hihmang dingte, galvan nei chiatin, ka bawlkhol dinga; na sidar sing telte a phuk ding ua, meiah a khul ding uh.

⁸Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?

⁸Huan, nam dang tampiten hiai khopi a pal paisuak ding ua, mi chihin amau insakinkhangte kiangah TOUPAN hiai khopi thupi mahmah bangdia hichi taka hih hi ding ahia eita? a chi ding uh.

⁹Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

⁹A Pathian uh TOUPA thukhun a lehngatsanua pathian dangte a biak ua, a na a sep jiak uh ahi, chiin a dawng ding uh.

¹⁰Don’t weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

¹⁰Misi kah kei unla, sun sam kei un; paimangmi bel nakpi mahmahin kah un, a hongkik nawn sin ngal keia, a pianna gam a muh nawn louh ding jiakin.

¹¹For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.

¹¹Juda kumpipa Sallum, Josia sika vaihawmpa, hiai mun akipan paikheta tungtang thu bel TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Hiaiah a hongkik nawnta kei ding.

¹²But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.

¹²Sala a pi na mun uah, huailai mahah a si dinga, hiai gam a mu nawnta kei ding.

¹³Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

¹³Diktatlouhnaa in lama, diklouhnaa a dantan tungnungte bawlmi, a thawna amah insakinkhangte tha zang, loh pe nuam loumite tung a gik hi;

¹⁴who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

¹⁴In thupi mahmah ka kilam dinga, dantan tungnung zapite neiin, tohlette ka hong dinga, sidar singin ka thuap suak dinga, ze san ka nuh ding, chimi tung mah.

¹⁵Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

¹⁵Sidar singa vuallehphai na khen jiakin, kumpipa kisa na hi maw! huan na pan a nein a dawna, diktakin vai a hawm ahi kei maw? huai tuh amah dingin a hoih ahi.

¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says Yahweh.

¹⁶Mi genthei leh tasamte a vaihawm saka, huai tuh a hoih ahi. Hiai tak na hontheihdan ding ahi maw? chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

¹⁷But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

¹⁷Himahleh na huaihamnate adingin, mi hoih sisan suahna dingin, nuaisiahna ding leh hiamgamna ding leiin na mit leh na lungsim na pu ahi.

¹⁸Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, saying Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

¹⁸Huaijiakin Judate kumpipa Jehoiakim, Josia tapa tungthu bel TOUPAN hichiin a gen a: Aw ka unaupa, chiin hiam, Aw ka sanggamnu, chiin hiam amah a kah kei ding ua, Aw toupa, chiin hiam, Aw thupi pen, chiin hiam amah a sun sam kei ding uh.

¹⁹He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

¹⁹Jerusamlem kulh po lama lot khiaka, paihin, sabengtung vuia vuiin a om ding.

²⁰Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.

²⁰Lebanon ah pai tou inla, kikouin, Basan ah na aw suah inla, Abarim akipanin kikou in, na mi itte tengteng a mangthangta ngal ua.

²¹I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

²¹Na lohchinin na kiangah thu ka gena, nang lah ka ngaikhe kei ding, na chi a, ka kamsuak na ngaihkhiak louh na tuailai akipanin hiai na omdan ahi hi.

²²The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

²²Na belampute tengteng uh huihin a kivak ding ua, na miitte sal din a tang ding ua, nang leng gitlouna tengteng jiakin zahlak tak leh mangbang tak in na hongom ngei ding hi.

²³Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

²³Aw Lebanon tanga teng, sidar sing laka bu septu natna na tunga a hongtuna na honghehpihhuai dingdan mai jaw! numei nauvei na bang maiin.

²⁴As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;

²⁴A hina ka hin sung, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi; Juda kumpipa Konia, Jehoiakim tapa bel ka khut taklama sawnna zungbuh himahle chin, huai a kipan ka honbot ngeingei ding.

²⁵and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

²⁵Huan, thah dinga nang hongzongmi khut ah, Babulon kumpipa Nebukadnezzar khut ah leh Kaldaite khut ah ngeingei nang ka honpe ding hi.

²⁶I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

²⁶Na pianna hi lou gam dangah nang leh na nu nang honsuang ka honpai khe dinga, huaiah na si ding uh.

²⁷But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

²⁷A lungsim ua kik nawn a ut mahmahna gam uah a kik nawn het kei ding uh.

²⁸Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don’t know?

²⁸Hiai Konia pen bel kitam gawp, simmohhuai ahi ka hia? bel a sunga lungkimna omlouhna ahi kai maw? bangdia amah leh a suante paihkhiaka gam a theih ngeilouh ua paihkhiaka a om uh?

²⁹O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.

²⁹Aw, gam, gam, gam, TOUPA thu ngaikhia in,TOUPAN hichiin a chi, Hiai mi ta neilou, a damsunga lohching lou ding mi ahi, a suante kuamah lohchinga, David tutphah tunga tu ding lah Juda gama vaihawm nawn ding lah a om sin ngal kei ua, chiin gelh in.

³⁰Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

³⁰TOUPAN hichiin a chi, Hiai mi ta neilou, a damsunga lohching lou ding mi ahi, a suante kuamah lohchinga, David tutphah tunga tu ding lah Juda gama vaihawm nawn ding lah a om sin ngal kei ua, chiin gelh in.