¹The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

¹Toupa kianga kipana Jeremia kianga thu hongtung:

²“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.

²TOUPA in kongpi ah ding inla, huailaiah hiai thu puang inla, hichiin chi in: Nou Juda mi tengteng, TOUPA be dinga hiai kongpi a lutten TOUPA thu ngaikhia un.

³Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

³Sepaihte TOUPAN hichiin a chi: Na omdan uleh na thilhihte uh bawlhoih unla, hiai munah ka honteng sak ding hi.

⁴Don’t trust in lying words, saying, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.

⁴Hiai TOUPA in, TOUPA in, TOUPA in ahi, chih juau thute khawng um kei un:

⁵For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

⁵Na omdan uleh na thilhihte uh na bawl hoih petmah ua, mi leh a inveng kikala thudik taka na vaihawm sak ua,

⁶if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

⁶Nam dang mite, pa neiloute, meitheite na nuaisiah louh ua, hiai mun a midiktat sisan na suahlouh ua, na hoihlouhna ding ua pathian dangte na delh sam kei ua leh,

⁷then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.

⁷Hiai gam, tumasiaha na pipute uh kianga ka piak ah khantawn in ka hon tengsak ding hi.

⁸Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

⁸Ngai un, Juau thu, phattuamna om hetlou na um jaw ua.

⁹Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

⁹Gukguin, tualthatin, angkawmin, juaua kichiamin Baal kianga gimlim halin, pathian dang, na theih ngeilouhte uh delhin,

¹⁰and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?

¹⁰Huan, hiai in, ka min mahmaha loh ah ka maah hong dingin, hiai thil kihhuai tengtengte hih jel kawmin, Hotkhiak ka hita, na chi sin ua hia?

¹¹Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.

¹¹Hiai in ka min mahmaha loh, na mitmuh un suamhatte kokhuk bang lel ahi hia? Ngai un, kei, kei mahmahin ka mu hi, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

¹²But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

¹²A tunga ka min ka tensakna, ka mun Shilo ah hoh dih ua, ka mi Israel gitlouhna jiaka ka thilhih va en un.

¹³Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer:

¹³Tuin hiai thil tengteng na hih ua, jing pipia thoua na kiang ua thu ka gen ka gente na ngaihkhiak louh ua, nou ka honloha, na dawn louh ziak un:

¹⁴therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

¹⁴Shilo tunga ka hih bangin hiai ka min loh, noumau leh na pipute uh kianga ka mun piak, na muan sek uh tungah ka hih sin ahi.

¹⁵I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

¹⁵Na unau tengteng uh, Ephraim chi pumpi nangawn ka pai khia bangin ka mitmuha kipan nou ka honpai khe ding, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi.

¹⁶Therefore don’t pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

¹⁶Huaijiakin, hiai mite adingin thum kenla, kikou khiain thum kenla, ka kiangah leng ngetsak sam ken; ka honngai khe sin ngal kei a.

¹⁷Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

¹⁷Juda khopite a leh Jerusalem kholaktea a thilhih uh na mu ka hia?

¹⁸The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

¹⁸Naupangten sing a tom ua, a pate un mei a toh ua, numeiten, van kumpinu kianga lat ding tanghou a mek ua, pathian dangte dingin dawn ding thillat a tung khia ua, a honhehsakna lel ding un.

¹⁹Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh. Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

¹⁹Kei ahi maw honhehsak uh? chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi: amau zumna dingin amau ahi jaw kei uh maw?

²⁰Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

²⁰Huaijiakin Toupa Pathianin hichiin a chi: Ngaidih uh, hiai mun tungah te ka hehna leh thangpaihna ka sungkhe dinga; a kang dia, a mit kei ding.

²¹Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

²¹Sepaihte TOUPA, Israel Pathianin hichiin a chi: Na kithoihnate uah halmang kithoihnate behlap unla, san e un.

²²For I didn’t speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

²²Halmang thillate hiam, kithoihnate hiam tungthu ah jaw na pipute uh kiangah thu ka gen keia, Aigupta gam akipan ka pi khiak lain leng thu ka pe sam kei:

²³but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

²³Ka aw ngaikhia unla, na Pathian uh ka hi dinga, nou leng ka mite na hi ding uh; na hoih theihna ding un na omdan ding uh ka honhilh tengteng jui un, chiin thu ka pe jaw hi.

²⁴But they didn’t listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

²⁴Himaleh a ngaikhe kei ua, bil a doh sam kei uh: a lungtang gilou uh hihnangin amau thuthuin a om jaw uh, malam jawt sangin a nungtawn zota uhi.

²⁵Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

²⁵Na pipute uh Aigupta gam akipan a pawt ni ua kipana tuni tannin ka nasemmi, jawlnei tengtengte jing pipia thouin na kiang uah ni tengin ka sawl jel a,

²⁶yet they didn’t listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

²⁶Himahleh a honngaikhe tuan kei ua, bil a doh sam kei uh: a lungsim uh a khauhsak ua, a pipute uh sangin a gilou zota uhi.

²⁷You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

²⁷Huan, hiai thu tengteng a kiang ua nagen ding ahi: himahleh a hon ngaikhe kei ding ua; amau na sam dinga, a hondawng kei ding uh.

²⁸You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

²⁸A kiang uah, Hiai nam TOUPA a Pathian uh aw ngaikhe loua, thununna tang lou nam ei ve ua, na chi dinga: thudik a mangthangta, a kam ua kipan paih mang a hita.

²⁹Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

²⁹Na sam tan inla, pai mang inla, mun sang giau ahte kap khiain; TOUPAN lah a hehna tangmi suante a paikhiain a ngeingaihta ngal kei a.

³⁰For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

³⁰Juda taten lah ka mitmuhin thilgilou a hih ngal ua, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi: ka min lou in ah ninsak dingin a thil kihhuaite uh a koih khin uhi.

³¹They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.

³¹A tanute uh, a tapate uh hal dingin Ben-Hinem guam ah Taphet mun sangte a bawl ua; huaite ka thupiak ahi keia, ka lungsim ah leng a lut ngei sam kei.

³²Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

³²Huaijiakin, ngaidih uh, nite a hongtung sin, chih TOUPA thu pawt ahi: huai guam pen, Tophet, chih ahi nawn kei dinga, Ben-Hinom guam, chih leng ahi sam kei ding; Kithahna guam, chih a hita ding: Tophet ah a vui ding ua, vuina ding mun a omta kei ding.

³³The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

³³Mite luang tunga leng vasate leh gamsate an ahi ding; kuamahin a delh mang kei ding uh.Huan, Juda khopite ah leh Jerusalem kholakte ah nuamsa husate leh kipahna gingte, mouneipa awte, mou awte leng ka daisak ding: a gam lah a segawp sin ngala.

³⁴Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

³⁴Huan, Juda khopite ah leh Jerusalem kholakte ah nuamsa husate leh kipahna gingte, mouneipa awte, mou awte leng ka daisak ding: a gam lah a segawp sin ngala.