Joshua 23

1 Kum te yeta om phoeiaha kaepvai thunkha boeih taeng lamkah Israel te BOEIPA loh a duem sak tih Joshua khaw a khohnin loh patong ben laa paan coeng.

And it comes to pass, many days after that YHWH has given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, that Joshua is old, entering into days,

2 Te dongah Israel pum kah a hamca rhoek neha lu rhoek, laitloek rhoek neh rhoiboei rhoek te Joshua loh a khue tih, “Kai he ka khohnin loh patong ben la ka paan coeng.

and Joshua calls for all Israel, for his elderly, and for his heads, and for his judges, and for his authorities, and says to them, “I have become old; I have entered into days;

3 Namtom boeih taengah BOEIPA na Pathen loh nangmih mikhmuh aha saii boeih te na hmuh uh coeng. BOEIPA na Pathen loh nangmih hama vathoh thil coeng.

and you have seen all that your God YHWH has done to all these nations because of you, for your God YHWH [is] He who is fighting for you;

4 Namtom aka sueng he nangmih koca rhoek kah rho la nangmih taengah kan tael tih Jordan lamkah namtom boeih pataeng khotlak tuili puei due ka saii te na hmuh uh.

see, I have caused these nations who are left to fall to you for an inheritance to your tribes, from the Jordan (and all the nations which I cut off), and the Great Sea [at] the [setting] sun.

5 Amih te BOEIPA na Pathen loh na mikhmuh lamkaha haek vetih na mikhmuh lamkaha tulh bitni. Te vaengah BOEIPA na Pathen loh nangmih taengaha thui vanbangla a khohmuen te na pang pa uh bitni.

As for your God YHWH, He thrusts them from your presence, and has dispossessed them from before you, and you have possessed their land, as your God YHWH has spoken to you,

6 Tedae Moses kah olkhueng cabu dongah daek tangtae te banvoei bantang lamloh taengphael tak mueh la ngaithuen ham neh boeih vai ham taoe thahuel uh.

and you have been very strong to keep and to do the whole that is written in the Scroll of the Law of Moses, so as not to turn aside from it right or left,

7 Nangmih lakli ah aka sueng namtom rhoek he kun thil uh boeh. A pathen ming te phoei uh boeh, toemngam uh boeh, amih taengah thothueng uh boeh, amih taengah bakop uh boeh.

so as not to go in among these nations, these who are left with you; and you do not make mention of the name of their gods, nor do you swear, nor do you serve them, nor do you bow yourselves to them;

8 Tahae khohnin due na saii uh vanbangla BOEIPA na Pathen taeng bueng ah mah hangdang uh.

but you cleave to your God YHWH, as you have done until this day.

9 Namtom vangpuei pilnu pataeng BOEIPA loh na mikhmuh lamkaha haek tih tihnin due nangmih mikhmuh ah hlang pakhat khaw a pai voel moenih.

And YHWH is dispossessing great and mighty nations from before you; as for you, none has stood in your presence until this day;

10 Nangmih taengaha thui vanbangla BOEIPA na Pathen loh nangmih hama vathoh coeng dongah nangmih lamkah hlang pakhat long mah thawngkhat khaw a hloem coeng.

one man of you pursues a thousand, for your God YHWH [is] He who is fighting for you, as He has spoken to you;

11 Te dongah BOEIPA na Pathen te na hinglu neh lungnah ham rhep ngaithuen uh.

and you have been very watchful for yourselves to love your God YHWH.

12 Tedae nangmih taengkah aka sueng namtom hlangrhuel taengah na mael na mael uh tih na hangdang uh, amih neh na yuva uh tih amih neh nangmih te na pawnhlai uh thae atah,

But—if you turn back at all and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you,

13 namtom rhoek he BOEIPA na Pathen loh na mikhmuh lamkah haek ham khoep voel mahpawh tila ming rhoe ming uh. BOEIPA na Pathen loh nangmih taengah m'paek khohmuen then lamkah na milh uh hil nangmih ham pael neh hlaeh bangla, na vae ah cungcik la, na mik khuiah tlaeh la om uh ni.

certainly know that your God YHWH is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a trap, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground which your God YHWH has given to you.

14 Tihnin ah Kai loh diklai pum kah longpuei ah ka cet coeng. BOEIPA na Pathen loh nang taengaha thui ol then boeih te tah ol pakhat khaw dalh pawh tila na thinko boeih, na hinglu boeih neh na ming uh. Nangmih ham boeih ha thoeng tih a ol pakhat pataeng khaw a dalh sak moenih.

And behold, I am going, today, in the way of all the earth, and you have known—with all your heart, and with all your soul—that there has not fallen one thing of all the good things which your God YHWH has spoken concerning you; the whole have come to you; there has not failed of it one thing.

15 BOEIPA na Pathen loh nangmih taengaha thui ol then boeih loh nangmih hama thoeng vanbangla BOEIPA na Pathen loh nangmih m'paek khohmuen then dong lamkah nangmih m'mitmoeng sak hlan khuiah hno thae cungkuem te nangmih soah BOEIPA loh hang khuen van ni.

And it has been, as there has come on you all the good thing which your God YHWH has spoken to you, so YHWH brings on you the whole of the evil thing, until His destroying you from off this good ground which your God YHWH has given to you;

16 BOEIPA na Pathen loh nangmih ng'uen paipi te na poe uh, na cet uh tih pathen tloe rhoek taengah tho na thueng uh, amih te na bakop thil atah BOEIPA kah thintoek loh nangmih taengah ha sai vetih nangmih taengah m'paek khohmuen then dong lamkah baang na milh uh ni,” a ti nah.

in your transgressing the covenant of your God YHWH which He commanded you, and you have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, then the anger of YHWH has burned against you, and you have perished quickly from off the good land which He has given to you.”