¹It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.

¹Kumpipa Daria kum linain hichi a honghia, a kha kuana ni li niin, Chisli mahmah ah, Zekaria kiangah TOUPA thu a hongtung hi.

²The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,

²Huan amau Beth-ela omten Serezer leh Regem-melek; leh a mite uh TOUPA deihsakna ngen dingin a sawl ua

³and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

³Sepaihte TOUPA ina siampute kiang leh jawlneite kianga thu vagen dingin. Hiai kum tampi sung ka nahihsa bangin, kei leh kei kihihtuamin, a kha ngana ah ka sunin an ka ngal diam? chiin.

⁴Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,

⁴Huailaiin sepaihte TOUPA thu ka kiangah a hongtunga,

⁵“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

⁵Gama mite tengteng kiang leh, siampute kiangah thugen in. Hiai kum sawmsagih sung a kha ngana leh a kha sagihnaa an na ngawl chiang un, kei dingin, keimahmah dingin na ngawlta himhim uh hia?

⁶When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

⁶Huan na nek chiang un, na dawn chiang un, noumaua mah dingin na ne un, noumaua dingin na dawn uh ahi kei maw?

⁷Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”

⁷Jerusalem a kiluah lai leh a hauhsak laia, a kim a vela khopite leh a Sim leh gamniam gam a kiluah laia jawlnei masate zanga TOUPA tangkou na thute ahi kei ua hia? chi in chiin.

⁸The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,

⁸Huan TOUPA thu Zekaria kiangah a hongtunga

⁹“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

⁹Hichibangin sepaihte TOPAN thu a gen. Vaihawm dik hih un, mi chihin a unau tungah chitna leh lainatna ensak hen.

¹⁰Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

¹⁰Huan meithai nuaisiah kei un, pabeite, mikhual, gentheite leng, na lak ua kuamahin a lungtangin a unau siatna ding gilou ngaihtuah kei hen, chi in, chiin.

¹¹But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

¹¹Himahleh ngaihkhiak a ut kei ua, paupeng takin a kihei mang ua, a bil uh a hum ua a jak louhna ding un.

¹²Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

¹²A hi, suang tak bangin a lungtang uh a bawl ua, huchikeileh dan a za kha ding ua, jawlnei masate khuta a Khaa sepaiht TOUPAN a thu khakte a za kha ding uh; huaijiakin sepaihte TOUPA a kipan nakpia hehna a hongtunga.

¹³It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

¹³Huan hichi a honghi a, Ka kikou laiin, a zanuam kei ua. Huchiin a ki kou uh, ka za kei ding, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi.Himahleh a theih loh uh namte lamah pingpeiin amaute ka dealhsak ding. Huchiin gam tuh amau nungin a segawp ding a, kuamahin a kantan un a lehkik kei ding uh; gam nuaiin a sukgawp ding a, kuamahin a kantan un a lehkik kei ding uh; gam nuam a sukgawp jiak un, chi in, chiin.

¹⁴“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

¹⁴Himahleh a theih loh uh namte lamah pingpeiin amaute ka dealhsak ding. Huchiin gam tuh amau nungin a segawp ding a, kuamahin a kantan un a lehkik kei ding uh; gam nuaiin a sukgawp ding a, kuamahin a kantan un a lehkik kei ding uh; gam nuam a sukgawp jiak un, chi in, chiin.