¹“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.

¹Min ji ma henla, amah paisanin pasal dang nei leh, aman a na nei nawn diam? A gamin nit loh hial sin lou ding hai? Chih a om. Nang bel tangval tampi kiangah na huk manga, huchipin ka kiangah na hongkik nawn ding maw? Chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

²“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

²Tang giau viauvuau lamah na mitte lengtou sak inla, enin, a honluppih louhna mun koiah? Gamdaia Arabia mi bang maiin amau ngakin lampi geiahte na tu nilouh sek, na huknate leh na thulimlouhnatein gam na hihnin khinta.

³Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

³Huaijiakin vuah zuksak ahi keia, vuah nanung leng a zu sam kei; mihuk tal puakin na pua, na zum nuam het kei hi.

⁴Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

⁴Ka pa, ka tuailaia honpipa na hi, chiin, tua kipanin na sam kei ding maw?

⁵“‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

⁵Na heh tawntung sin ahia? A tawp phain hia a uk sin? Dai in, huchibangin na pau ngeia, himahleh a gilou thei bang penin thil na hih hi.

⁶Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

⁶Huai lou leng Josia lal laiin TOUPAN ka kiangah hichiin a chi a: Nungkin hat Israel thilhih na mu hia? Tang sang chiha kuan toua, singbawk chih nuaitea a hukna thil a hihte?

⁷I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

⁷Huan ken bel hiai thil tengteng a hih nungin ka kiangah a hongkik nawn ding, ka chi a; himahleh a hong kik tuan kei; huan, a sanggamnu, khemhat Judain a mu samta hi.

⁸I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn’t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

⁸Huan, aman nungkin hat Israel a angkawm jiaka ka maka, makna lai ka piak a muhin leng a sanggamnu, khemhat Judain a lau tuan kei, huchih naksangin a vahoha, hukna thil a va hih ta hi.

⁹It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

⁹Huan a huk mawkmawk zenhouh jiakin gam a hihnin khintaa; sing bul, suang bul kiangah ang kawmta hi.

¹⁰Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

¹⁰Huchipiin leng a sanggamnu, khemhat Juda lungtang taka ka kianga hongkik louin a khem lelin ahongkika, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

¹¹Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

¹¹Huan TOUPAN ka kiang ah hichiin a chi a: Nungkik hat Israelin a sanggamnu, khemhat Juda sangin diktat jawin a kihih langa.

¹²Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

¹²Kuan inla, hiai thu mallam ah vaphuangin; Nungkin hat Israel hongkikin, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi; Heh mel puin ka hon en kei dinga, zahngai thai tak ka hi ngala, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi, ka heh tawntung kei ding hi.

¹³Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”

¹³TOUPA na Pathian tunga na helnate, singbawk nuaia pautuam mite kianga na kiphalgaina te, ka paukam suak na manlouhnatea na thulimlouhna ah thupah tawiin, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

¹⁴“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

¹⁴Aw nungkin hat tate aw, hongkik un, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi. Nou honhonpa lah ka hi ngala, na lak ua kipan khopia mi khat, inkuana mi nih ka honla dinga, Zion ah ka honpi ding hi.

¹⁵I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

¹⁵Ka lungtuak lamtak belamchingte ka honpe dinga, amau theihna leh theihsiamnatein nou a honvak ding uh.

¹⁶It shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,” says Yahweh, “they shall say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of Yahweh!’ neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.

¹⁶Huan na hongtam ua, gama na hongpun hun chiang un, huai ni chiangin amau, TOUPA thukhun bawm, a chi ngei nawn kei ding uh; a lungsim uah a lut kei dinga, theih leng a theigige sam kei ding uh; a khelah nawn kei ding ua, a bawl nawn sam kei ding uh.

¹⁷At that time they shall call Jerusalem ‘The throne of Yahweh;’ and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem. Neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

¹⁷Huai nungin Jerusamem bel TOUPA mangtutphah a chi ding ua, huaiah nam tengteng TOUPA minin Jerusalem ah a hongpai khawm ding uh: a lungtang gilou khauhna uh bangin a paita kei ding uh.

¹⁸In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.

¹⁸Huai ni chiangin Juda inkote Israel inkote toh a om khawm ding ua, mallam gam a kipanin, na pipute uh kianga gouluah dinga ka piak gamah, a hongpawt khe ding uh.

¹⁹“But I said, ‘How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father,” and shall not turn away from following me.’

¹⁹Ken bel, Nam tampite laka gouluah ding hoih pen, gam nuam tak mai honpiain, tate laka honkoih ka utdan! Ka pa, chia non sapa, non zuihna akipan na pial mang kei ding chih ka na um a.

²⁰“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

²⁰Ji khem hatin a pasal a angkawm san bangin, Aw Israel inkote aw, honna khem neita ve ua, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

²¹A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

²¹Tang giau velvul tuagah husa a om hi, Israel tate kap leh thil ngen husa, TOUPA Pathian a mangngilh ua, a omdan uh a hihgawp jiak un.

²²Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

²²A nungkin hat tate aw, hongkik unla, na nungkin seknate uh ka hihdam ding hi: endih, na kiangah ka hongpai uhi, nang lah TOUPA ka Pathian uh na hi ngala.

²³Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

²³Tangte a phatuam keia, tang tunga husa chiak vengvungte. Israel hotdamna jaw TOUPA i Pathian mahmah ah ahi a om.

²⁴But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

²⁴Himahleh huai thil kihhuai mahmahin i tuailai a kipan in piputen tha a sukbeina uh a ne beita hi; a belam honte uh, a gan honte uh, a tanute uh, a tapate uh tanin.Zumin lum ni eleh, i zahlaknain honkhuh heh; TOUPA i Pathian tungah thil i hihkhial ua, ei leh I piputen i tuailai akipan tuni tannin TOUPA I Pathian paukam i man louh ziak in.

²⁵Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.”

²⁵Zumin lum ni eleh, i zahlaknain honkhuh heh; TOUPA i Pathian tungah thil i hihkhial ua, ei leh I piputen i tuailai akipan tuni tannin TOUPA I Pathian paukam i man louh ziak in.