Olrhaepnah 32
1 Vaan nang loh hnatun lamtah ka thui lah eh. Ka ka dongkah ol he diklai nang loh ya lah.
“Listen to me, [all you who are in the] heavens, and [all you who are on the] earth, listen to what I say [MTY].
2 Ka rhingtuknah he khotlan bangla tlan saeh. Toian dongkah dotui neh baelhing dongkah mueitui bangla, ka olthui he buemtui bangla cip saeh.
I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
3 BOEIPA ming te ka khue vetih, mamih Pathen kah boeilennah ka paan ni.
I will praise Yahweh [MTY]. And [all you people should] tell others that our God is very great.
4 Uepomnah Pathen kah longpuei tah boeih tiktam tih, a bisai khaw hmabut a lungpangcoeng. Te dongah amah tah dueng tih a thuem dongah, dumlai om pawh.
He is like a rock [MET] [under which we are protected]; [everything] that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.
5 Anih te pocicoeng. BOEIPAkaha carhoek moenih. Amihte voeldak neh vawva cadil la om tih a lolhmaih la om.
“But [you Israeli people] have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer [deserve to] be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].
6 Pilnam ang neh cueih aka khueh mueh, he tlam a BOEIPAna thuung eh? Anihte nang napa moenih a? Anih long la nang n'laitih nang n'saii phoeiah khaw n'thoh dae.
You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, (is this the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you]?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you].) [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.
7 Khosuen tuete poek lamtah, thawnpuei neh cadilcahmakaha kum te khaw yakming lah. Na pate dawt lamtah ha puen bitni. Namah a ham rhoek long khaw nang taengah han thui uh bitni.
“Think about [what happened] long ago; consider what happened to your ancestors. Ask your parents, and they will inform you; ask the older people, and they will tell you.
8 Khohniloh namtom a phaeng vaengah, Adam koca a hoep sak tih, Israel ca kah hlangmi bangla pilnam kah rhilung a ling.
When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and (assigned to/chose for) each people-group a god/angel.
9 A pilnam he BOEIPA kah khoyo la om tih, Jakob khaw amahkaha rho khoyo la om.
But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; he chose [us, the descendants of] Jacob, to belong to him.
10 Anihte khosoek neh rhungnah neh khopong hinghong kho ah a hmuh. A mik dongkah thenhnaih bangla a kueinah dongah, a yakming tih khoep a ku.
“He saw [our ancestors] when they were in a desert, wandering in a land (that was desolate/where no people lived). He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
11 A bu dongkah a vacate atha bangla haenghang. A phae a khong tih a phuel phoeiah, a ca te a lohtih a phaemul soah a ludoeng.
[Yahweh protected his people] just like an eagle encourages its babies [to fly] and flutters over them [MET], spreading its wings and catching them [if they start to fall].
12 Anihte BOEIPA buengloha mawt tih anih taengah kholong pathen loh a om puei moenih.
Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.
13 Anihte diklai hmuensang hmuensang ah a ngol sak. Khohmuen paiso khaw a cah tih, thaelpang khoitui, hmailung lungpang dongkah situi neh a khut.
“[After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them], Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew [even] in stony ground.
14 Vaito suknaeng neh boiva kah suktui nen khaw, tuca tha nen khaw, Bashan carhoek tutal nen khaw, kikongkaha kuel a pang, cang neh yucang misur thii khaw na ok.
The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.
15 Tedae Jeshurunte tha putsut tih, na tha te na saibawn atah na talaeh. Anihaka saii Pathen te a phap tih khangnah lungpang vik te a hnoo sut.
“The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
16 Amahte kholongrhoek nen khaw, tueilaehkoi nen khaw a thatlai uh thil tih, amah te a veetuh.
So he abandoned them because they started to worship other/strange gods. Because of their worshiping disgusting idols, he became angry.
17 Rhaithaerhoek te Pathen pawt mai ah a nawnuh. A thai la aka phoe paek pathenrhoek te na pa rhoek loh a ming noek moenih. A rhih khaw a rhihuh moenih.
They offered sacrifices to gods who were [really] demons, gods that their ancestors had never known; they offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about, gods whom your ancestors had never revered.
18 Nangaka sa lungpang te na hmaai tih nangaka poe sak Pathen te na hnilh.
They forgot [the true] God, the one who protects them [MET], the one who created them and caused them to live.
19 BOEIPAloha hmuh ngawn dae, a capa neh a canukaha konoinah dongah yah a bai.
“When Yahweh saw that [they had abandoned him], he became angry, so he rejected [the Israeli people, who are like] his sons and daughters.
20 A cadilcahmaloh calaak uh tih, a carhoekkhaw a khuiah oltakaom pawt dongah, ka maelhmai he ka thuh saeh lamtah, amih hmailong khaw ka so dae eh.
He said, ‘They are very wicked/stubborn people, very unfaithful; so I will no longer help them, and then I will watch and see what happens to them.
21 Pathen pawt nen khaw amihloh kai n'thatlai thil uh tih a honghi neh kai m'veetuh. Te dongah pilnam pawt nen khaw amihte ka thatlai thil vetih, aka ang namtom neh ka veet ni.
They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be [jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me]. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send [to attack them an army of] a nation of worthless and foolish people.
22 Ka thintoek te hmai la ka hlae vetih Saelkhui laedil la ung kangna saeh. Diklai neh a cangpai khaw ung saeh lamtah tlang yung khaw hlawp kangna saeh. (Sheol h7585)
I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Amih te kamah kah boethae thaltang neh ka khoengvoep sak vetih, amih te ka khah ni.
I will cause them to experience many disasters; [they will feel as though] [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.
24 Khokhaloha thah vetih rhaekhmailoha dom ni. Lucik khahing neh rhamsa note amih taengah ka tueih pah vetih, kosi neh laipi dongah kawl uh ni.
They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers and because of terrible diseases; I will send wild animals to attack [MTY] them, and poisonous snakes to bite [MTY] them.
25 Kawtpoeng ah cunghang loh n'cakol sak vetih, imkhui ah mueirhihloh tongpang neh oila khaw, cahni neh tongpa sampok khaw a ngawn ni.
Outside [their houses, their enemies] will kill them [MTY] with swords, and in their homes, [their enemies will cause] them to be terrified. Their enemies will kill young men and young women, and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.
26 Amih te ka phaek saeh lamtah, hlanghing lamkah amih poekkoepnah he ka toeng mai eh ka ticoeng.
I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries in order that no one would ever remember them.
27 Thunkha kah konoinah dongah ka bakuep sak pawt akhaw a rhal hmat uh lah ve. “Mamih kut a pomsang vetih, BOEIPAloh he he boeih saii mahpawh,” ti uh lah ve.
But [if I did that], their enemies would wrongly boast that they were the ones who had [gotten rid of my people]; they would say, “We [SYN] are the ones who defeated them; it was not Yahweh who has done all these things.”’
28 Namtom tah a cilsuep moelh tih, a lungcuei neh om pawh.
You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.
29 Cueihuh koinih lungming la om uh vetih, a hmailong khaw a yakming uh suidae.
If you were wise, you would understand [why you would be punished]; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
30 Pakhatloh thawngkhat metlam a hloem vetih, panitloh thawngrha a rhaelrham sak eh. Amih kah lungpang te yoih pah pawt cakhaw, amihte BOEIPA loh khoep a khaih vancoeng.
[You would have realized] why 1,000 [of your soldiers] would be defeated by only one [of the enemy soldiers], and why two of your enemies would chase away 10,000 [Israeli soldiers]. [You would realize that this would happen] only if God, the one who always defended you [MET], had allowed your enemies to defeat you, because he had abandoned you.
31 Amih kah lungpang te, mamih kah lungpang banglaaom pawt dongah, n'thunkharhoek khaw rhokhan a khueh pah.
Your enemies know that their gods are not powerful like Yahweh, our God, [so their gods could not have defeated us Israelis].
32 Amih kah misur tah, Sodom misur neh Gomorrah lohmali lamloh ha thoeng dongah, a misurthaih khaw anrhat misur khahing thaihsu la poeh.
Your enemies are like [MET] grapevines planted near [the ruins of] Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; the grapes from those vines are bitter and poisonous;
33 A misurtui tah tuihnam sue neh minta sue bangla muen.
the wine [from those grapes] is like the poison of snakes [DOU].
34 Hekah he kamah taengah ka tung pawt tih, ka thakvoh dongah miknoek ka daeng moenih a?
[“Yahweh says], ‘I know [RHQ] [what I have planned to do to the Israeli people and to their enemies], and those plans are so secure [that it as though he locked them up] [MET].
35 Amih kholoha paloe tue vaengah, he phulohnah neh laisahnah khaw kamah hut ni. Amih kah rhainah khohninloh yoei coeng tih, amih taengah a coekcoe la tawnuh coeng.
I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done [to my people], at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
36 BOEIPAloh a pilnam kah lai a tloek pah vetih, a sal pum dongkah a kut a khawk dongah a khaih banlak tih, a tlo-oeng te a hmuh vaengah hal bitni.
“But Yahweh will see that you who are truly his people, who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and he will be merciful to you. And he will see that you are helpless, and that there are very few of you, slaves or free people, who are still alive.
37 Te dongah, “Amih kah pathen tah melae, mekah lungpang khuiah lae a ying uh,” a ti bitni.
Then Yahweh will ask his people, ‘Where are the gods that you thought would protect you [MET]?
38 Amih kah hmueih thaaka ca tih, a boeimang misurtuiaka orhoek te thoo uh saeh lamtah, nangmihaka bom neh nangmih ham hlipyingnah la om saeh.
You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed, and you poured out wine for them to drink. So, they should begin to help you; they should be the ones who will protect you!
39 Kai kamah tah amah moek la ka om tih, kai phoeiah pathen tloe a om pawt he hmuuh lah. Kai loh ka duek sak tih ka hing sak. Ka phop tih kamah loh ka hoeih sak. Te dongah kai kut dong lamlohaka lat thai u pakhat khaw a om moenih.
“But now you will realize that I, only I, am God; there is no other god who is [a real] god. I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live; I can wound people, and I can heal people, and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.
40 Ka kut he vaan la ka phuel tih, kamah ka mulhing he kumhal ah ka thui.
I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare that just as sure as I live forever,
41 Ka cunghangte khopha bangla ka tahcoeng. Ka kut dongkah laitloeknah loh pha koinih, phulohnah khaw ka rhal soah ka thuung sui tih, ka lunguet taengah ka sah sue.
that when I sharpen my sword, as I [SYN] prepare to punish people, I will get revenge on my enemies; I will pay back those who hate me.
42 Ka thaltang khaw thii ka rhuihmil sak vaengah, ka cunghangloh hmalaem thii neh, thunkha tawnlo lu lamkah tamna saate hlap pah saeh.
I will kill all [of my enemies] with a sword; it will be as though I had arrows that will be covered with their blood. I will kill [MTY] all those whom I capture and cut off their leaders’ heads.’
43 A pilnamte namtom rhoek loh tamhoe puei saeh. A sal rhoek kah thii phu te loh vaengah, phulohnah neh a rhalrhoek te a thuunh vetih, a pilnam khohmuen te a dawth pah ni.
“You people of all nations, you as well as his people should praise Yahweh, because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him; and he cleanses his people’s land which has become defiled because of their sins.”
44 Te phoeiah Moseste halo tih, hekah laa lung he a pilnam neh Nun capa Hosea kah hna kaepah boeih a thuipah.
Joshua and Moses/I recited the words of that song while the Israeli people were listening.
45 Mosesloh Israel pum taengah hekah olka cungkuem a thui te a khah.
When they/we finished reciting to the Israeli people the words of this song,
46 Te phoeiah amih te, “Tihnin kah nangmih taengah kan rhalrhing sak bangla olka boeih he na thinkoah khuehuh. He olkhueng ol boeih he ngaithuen ham neh vai hamla na carhoek taengah khaw uenuh.
Moses/I said, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
47 He nangmih ham a hong ol pawttih he ni na hingnah. He ol nenni khohmuen ah hinglung a vang eh. Tete pang ham pahoini Jordan te na kat uh,” a tinah.
These instructions are very important [LIT]. If [you obey] them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to occupy.”
48 Tekah khohnin tuung dongah Moses te BOEIPAloha voek tih,
On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses/me,
49 Jerikho imdan Moab kho kah Abarim tlang, Nebo tlang la luei lamtah kailoh Israel carhoek taengah khohut la ka paek Kanaan kho te so lah.
“Go to the Abarim Mountain range [here] in the Moab region, across from Jericho. Climb Nebo Mountain, and look [toward the west] to see Canaan land, the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people.
50 Na maya Aaronloh Hor tlang ah duek tih a pilnam taengah a khoemuh bangla nang khaw tlang lana luei tih na duek vaengah na pilnam taengla khoem uh van laeh.
You will die on that mountain [EUP, DOU], like your [older] brother Aaron died on Hor Mountain.
51 Zin khosoek, Meribah Kadesh tui taengkah Israel carhoek lakli ah kai taengla boe na koek. Israel carhoek lakli ah kai nan ciim pawh.
You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israeli people, when you all were at Meribah Springs near Kadesh [town] in the Zin Desert. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israeli people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
52 Te dongah khohmuen te a hla lamlohna hmuh vetih Israel carhoek taengah ka paek khohmuen lana kun mahpawh,” a tinah.
[When you are on that mountain where I told you to go], you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people, but you will not enter it.”
