Ezekiel 15

1 BOEIPA ol te kai taengla ha pawk tih,

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 “Hlang capa, duup kah thing dongah thingluei aka om misur thing te thing boeih lakah metlam a om?

“Son of man, how is a vine better than any tree with branches that is among the trees in a forest?

3 Bitat la saii ham te lamkah thing a loh tih a soah hnopai cungkuem hoei ham anih lamkah te ciphuem la a loh uh nim?

Do people take wood from a vine to make anything? Or do they make a peg from it to hang anything on it?

4 Hmai dongah toihthing bangla a pup ke. A hmoi rhoi te hmai loh a hlawp tih a bangli due tlum. Te te bitat ham thaihtak aya?

See! If it is thrown into a fire as fuel, and if the fire has burned both of its ends and also the middle, is it good for anything?

5 A cuemthuek la a om vaengah pataeng bitat la a saii pawt atah hmai loh a cilh tih a tlum phoeiah bitat la metlam koep a saii eh?

See! When it was complete, it could not make anything; surely then, when the fire has burned, then it still will not make anything useful.

6 Te dongah ka Boeipa Yahovah loh he ni a. thui. Duup thing dongkah misur thing te hmai dongah toihthing ham ka khueh vanbangla Jerusalem khosa rhoek te ka khueh van ni.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Unlike the trees in the forests, I have given the vine as fuel for fires; I will act in the same way toward the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

7 Amih te ka maelhmai ka khueh thil vetih hmai lamloh coe uh cakhaw hmai loh amih te a hlawp ni. Kai loh ka maelhmai amih ka khueh thil vaengah BOEIPA kamah te nan ming uh bitni.

For I will set my face against them. Though they come out from the fire, yet the fire will consume them; so you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

8 boekoeknah la boe a koek uh dongah khohmuen te khopong ka khueh ni. He tah ka Boeipa Yahovah kah olphong ni,” a ti.

Then I will make the land into an abandoned wasteland because they have committed sin—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.”