¹Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.

¹TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Ngai dih, Babulon tungah leh Kaldai mite tungah, hihse ding huihpi ka sawl sin ahi;

²I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her around.

²Japsiangmi ka sawl sin, Babulon tungah, amah japin a gam a jap siang ding ua, siatna niin umin a sual sin ngal ua.

³Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don’t spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

³Thalpeu zangmiin thalpeu lai louin, sik puannak silhin, din leng ding kei heh, a tangval hon khat leng hawilouin, a sepaih tengteng nuai mang un.

⁴They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

⁴Kaldai gamah thahin a puk ding ua, a kholak uahte sut pailetin a om ding uhi.

⁵For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

⁵Israel leh Juda bel a Pathian uh sepaihte TOUPAN a manghilh ngal keia, a gam uh Israel Mi Siangthou tungah khelhna in a dim naa.

⁶Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don’t be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

⁶Tai mang unla, Babulon kho sung akipan, mi chihin amah hinna humbit hen; a thulimlouhna man loh kei un, TOUPA phu lak hun lah ahi ngala, aman athuk ngeigngei sin hi.

⁷Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

⁷Babulon bel TOUPA khuta dangkaeng nou, lei pumpi hihkhamna ahia, namten lung a mawl khin ta ahi.

⁸Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

⁸Babulon bel a puk guiha, a mangta, amah kah ekek un, hihdam theih dingdan ahihleh singnai damdawi nuh chi laksak un.

⁹We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

⁹Babulon hihdam ka tuma, a dam tuan ngal keia, amah nusiain eimah gam chiat uah pai ni, a mohnain van a suna van dum phaa dopkang ahi.

¹⁰Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.

¹⁰TOUPAN ka dikna a phuangta; kisa un, Zion ah I phuang ding uh, TOUPA I Pathian thil hih.

¹¹Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.

¹¹Thalte hiam unla, lumte len un, Media kumpipate lungsim lah TOUPAN a tokthoutaa, a thiltup lah Babulon hihsiat ahi ngala. Huai lah TOUPAN phu lakna ahi ngala, a biakin phu mah.

¹²Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹²Babulon kulh bul ah kidouna puanzak tak un, venna hihhatin, galvilmi koih un, galbuknate bawl unla, Babulon mite tuntang thu ah TOUPAN a gentak, a ngaihtuah in a hihkhinta ngala.

¹³You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

¹³Aw nang, tui tamna muna tengmi, sum leh pai hau mahmah, na tawpna a tungta, na hinna khau a kitanta hi.

¹⁴Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

¹⁴Sepaihte TOUPAN amah kilouin achiamta hi, Khaupe bang main mihingin ka hondimsak ngeingei ding, nakpiin a honot khum ding uh.

¹⁵He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

¹⁵A thilhihtheihnain lei a bawla, a pilnain khovel a dingkhesaka, a lemtheihnain van a palhsak.

¹⁶when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁶A aw a suah leh, vana tui a ging hawhawa, kawlmong akipan meipi a paitou saka, vuah zukna dingin khua a phe saka, a goubawm akipan huih a nungsak.

¹⁷Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁷Mi chih a mual ua, theihna louin, dangkaeng sekmi chihin a lim sek pen a zumpih ua, a milim sun lah zuau ngen ahi ngala, amau ah nakna a om kei lai.

¹⁸They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁸Bangmah lou phet ahi ua, khemna nasep lel, a gawtna hun chiangin a mang mai ding uh.

¹⁹The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

¹⁹Jakob tantuan zaw hichibang ahi kei, thil tengteng bul ahi ngala; Israel a gouluah nam ahia, amin sepaihte TOUPA ahi.

²⁰You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;

²⁰Nang bel ka galdouna heipi leh vanzat na hi seka, nang hon zangin namte ka hihzana, nang zangin lalna gamte ka hihmang hi.

²¹and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

²¹Nang honzangin sakol leh a tunga ka hihjana, nangmah zangin kangtalai leh a tunga tuang ka hihjana;

²²and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

²²Nangmah zangin numei leh pasal ka hihjana, nangmah zangin putek leh tuailai ka hihjana, nangmah zangin nungak leh tangval ka hihjana;

²³and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

²³Nangmah zangin belamching leh belamhon ka hihjana, nangmah zangin lou neimi leh bawngtal kop ka hihjana, nangmah zangin gam ukpipate leh upate ka hihjan sek ahi.

²⁴I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.

²⁴Nang mitmuh ngeiin Zion tunga a thil hoihlou hih tengteng uh Babulon leh Kaldai mite tungah ka thuk ding, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

²⁵Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

²⁵Ngai in, lei pumpi hihsia, aw hihsetu tang lian, nang ka hondou ahi, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi: Na tungah ka lik dinga, kawl sanga kipan ka honkhuk khe ding, tang kang mit khinsain ka honbawl ding.

²⁶They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.

²⁶Nang akipan suang ning ding leh suangphum ding lakkhiak ahi nawn kei ding; khantawnin na segawp zo ding, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

²⁷Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.

²⁷Huai gamah kidou puanjak tak unla. Namte laka pengkul mut un, amah dou ding namte kisa sak unla, Ararat te, Minni te, Askhenaz gam te, amah sual ding sepaih sep unla, khaupe juangjang bang maiin sakolte kaikhawm un.

²⁸Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.

²⁸Amah dou ding namte kisa sak un, Media kumpipate, ukpipate leh upate, a thuneihna gam tengteng toh.

²⁹The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

²⁹Huaigam nat thuakin a linga, Babulon gam, tengmi om loua hihsiat dingin, Babulon tunga TOUPA thiltup a ding gige ahi.

³⁰The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

³⁰Babulon galkapmiten galkap ding ngapta louin, a kulhpi a tawn maimah uh, a pasalphatna uh a khinga, numei bangmai ahong hita ua, a tenna munte a kang khina, a deidanna siktawn a kitan.

³¹One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

³¹Thangkou taiin mi dang leng a ki tuahpiha, mi sawl inleng mi dang a tuaka, Babulon kumpipa kianga a khopi ning chih ah a manta uh chih hilh dingin.

³²and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

³²Lui kannate a man ua, phailuangte a hal siang ua, kidou mite leng a lunglelta uh.

³³For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

³³Sepaihte TOUPA, Israel Pathianin hichiin a chi: Babulon tanu phual sik ngil lai bang ahia, sawt lou nungin buhchil hun a tungah a hongtung ding.

³⁴Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

³⁴Hon gaita, Babulon kumpipa Nebukadnezzarin, hon hai jana, bel vuak lelin a honbawlta, gulpi bangin hon nawmvalhta, ka thil limten a gilpi a dimsaka, a honpai khe nawnta hi.

³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

³⁵Kei leh ka sa tunga hiamgam thilhih, Babulon tungah om hen; ka sisan Kaldai mite tungah om hen, Jerusalem a chi ding.

³⁶Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

³⁶Huaiziakin TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Ngai in, nang lamah ka pang dinga, na phu ka honlaksak ding, a tuipi ka kangsak dinga, a tuikhuk leng ka keugo sak ding.

³⁷Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

³⁷Huan, Babulon bel hoihlou paihkhawm lel, sehal tenna mun, lamdang sak chiat leh tek khum, tengmi omlou mun a honghi ding.

³⁸They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ cubs.

³⁸A kikou ton ding ua, humpinelkai lunlai bangin, a ngiau tuaktuak ding ua, humpinelkai nou bangin.

³⁹When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.

³⁹A kham lungpuam lai un ankuang ka luisak dia, ka khamsak dia, kho theihet louin, khanglou het lou dinga a ihmut den theihna ding un, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

⁴⁰Ka pi khe dinga, belam goh ding bangin, belamtalte keltalte bang maiin.

⁴¹How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

⁴¹Shesak lak ahita ve: lei pumpi pahtawi sek matin a omta ve, namte lakah Babulon a segawm ve:

⁴²The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

⁴²Babulon tuipiin a tumta, a kihawt thupi mahmah in a khuh khinta.

⁴³Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

⁴³A khopi a segawptaa, gam keu, gamdai, mihing himhim ten louhna mihing ta kuamah phak louh gam a hongsakta.

⁴⁴I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

⁴⁴Babulon bel ka gawt ding, a valh khitsa a kam a kipan a suah khe ding, namte bel a kiangah a luang khawm nawn kei ding uh, ahi Babulon kulhpi a chim ding.

⁴⁵My people, go away from the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.

⁴⁵Ka mite aw, a sunga kipan hong pawt unla, TOUPA hehna lauhuai mahmah akipan, mi chih a mau ki humbit chiat un.

⁴⁶Don’t let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year shall come news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

⁴⁶Na lungtang uh bah kei hen, huai gama thuthang leng lau kei un; kum khatin thuthang ahong tung dinga, kum dangin thuthang a hong tung nawn sin ngala, kumpipa leh kumpipa kisualin gamah hiamgamna a om ding.

⁴⁷Therefore behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

⁴⁷Huaijiakin, ngai un, nite a hongtung hi. Babulon milim sektawmte tunga vai ka hawma, a gam pumpi a zumna ni ding; huan, a sungah a mi thahte a puk ding uh.

⁴⁸Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.

⁴⁸Huchiin lei leh van leh a sunga om tengtengin, Babulon tunga kipakin la a sa ding uh; mal akipan simmite a kiangah a tung ding uh ahi ngala, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

⁴⁹As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

⁴⁹Babulon in Israel mi thahte a puksak bangin Babulon ah gam chiha mi thahte a puk ding uh.

⁵⁰You who have escaped the sword, go, don’t stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

⁵⁰nou namsau pel mite aw, kuan unla, ding maimai kei un, gamla pia kipanin TOUPA thei gige unla, na lungsim uah Jerusalem lut hen.

⁵¹We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.

⁵¹Gensiatna thu ka jak jiak un ka zum ua, lungdon na in ka mai uh a tuam a, Toupa in a mun siangthoute ah pautheihlouh mite a honglutta ngal ua.

⁵²Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

⁵²Huaijiakin ngai un, nite a hongtung hi, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi, a milim sek tawmte uh tunga vai ka hawmna ding leh a gam pumpi tunga mi liamte thumna ni ding ngei.

⁵³Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.

⁵³Babulon bel van sunin sang mahleh, a kulh sangte hihkip mahleh, a tungah ka kianga kipan hihsemi a hongtung himhim ding, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

⁵⁴The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

⁵⁴Babulon akipan kah husa leh Kaldai gam akipana siatna thupitak husa:

⁵⁵For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

⁵⁵TOUPAN Babulon a sima, a husa uh thupi tak ahih daihsak hi. A gamtat husa uh tui tampi ging hawhaw bang ahi, a awng juajua ua.

⁵⁶for the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.

⁵⁶A tungah simmi a hongtung, Babulon ngei tungah, a mi hatte matin a om ua, a thalpeute uh a kitan gawpta, TOUPA bel thukna Pathian ahi ngala, a thuk ngeingei ding.

⁵⁷I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

⁵⁷Huan, a heutute leh a mipilte, a ukpipate leh upate leh mi hatte ka khamsak ding; a lum den ding ua, a khanglou kei ding uh, chih, kumpipa, sepaihte TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

⁵⁸Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

⁵⁸Sepaihte TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Babulon kumpipa kulh bang sah takte achim vek dinga, a kongpi sang takte a kang vek ding; a miten a thawnin a sem ua, namten mei ading lelin a kihihgim uh a na hi.

⁵⁹The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.

⁵⁹Juda kumpipa Zedekia lal kim linaa Babulon a hoh laia a kianga honsam, Serai Neria tapa, Maaseia tapa kianga Jawlnei Jeremia thupiak.

⁶⁰Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

⁶⁰Serai bel kumpipa in sung heutupen ahia. Huan, Jeremiain Babulon tunga siatna hongtung ding tengteng, Babulon tungtanga hiai thu gelh tengteng laibu ah agelh a.

⁶¹Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,

⁶¹Huan Jeremiain Seria kianga, Babulon na tun hun chiangin hiai thu tengteng sim ngeingei inla,

⁶²and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.

⁶²Aw TOUPA hiai nam tungtangah kuamah, mi leh sa leh, ten louhna ding suksiata omin, khantawn a kisegawp zo dingin thu na genta a, na chi ding.

⁶³It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:

⁶³Huan, hichi a honghi dinga, hiai laibu na sim khit chiangin suang toh gak khawmin Euphrates luiah pai lut inla,Babulon hichibang maiin a tum dinga, a tunga siatna ka hontut ding jiakin a thou nawn kei ding; a bah mahmah ding uh, chiin na gen ding ahi, a chi a. Hichiteng Jeremia thu ahi.

⁶⁴and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

⁶⁴Babulon hichibang maiin a tum dinga, a tunga siatna ka hontut ding jiakin a thou nawn kei ding; a bah mahmah ding uh, chiin na gen ding ahi, a chi a. Hichiteng Jeremia thu ahi.