Malakhi 2
1 He olpaek he nangmih khosoih rhoek ham pawn ni.
And now, O priests, this commandment is to you.
2 Ka ming te thangpomnah paek hamla na hnatun uh pawt tih na lungbuei ah na khueh uh pawt akhaw. Caempuei BOEIPA loh he ni a thui. Nangmih soah tapvoepnah kan tueih vetih na yoethennah te thae kam phoei thil ni. Lungbuei ah na khueh uh pawt dongah te te thae ka phoei thil.
If you will not listen, and if you will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yes, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because you lay not this to heart.
3 Nangmih kongah ni tiingan te khaw ka tluung. Na maelhmai ah aek kam bak vetih na khotue kah aek neh nangmih te n'khuen ni.
Behold, I turn my back upon you, and I will scatter dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts, and I will carry you away at the same time.
4 “Te vaengah Levi taengkah ka paipi om sak ham, nangmih taengah he kah olpaek kan tueih te na ming uh ni,” Caempuei BOEIPA loh a thui.
And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with the sons of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.
5 Ka paipi he a taengah hingnah neh rhoepnah om. Te rhoek te a taengah rhimomnah la ka paek. Te dongah kai he n'rhih tih ka ming hmai ah anih yawk.
My covenant of life and peace was with him, and I gave [it] him that he might reverently fear me, and that he might be awe-struck at my name.
6 Olkhueng oltak he anih ka dongah om tih a hmuilai ah dumlai a thoeng moenih. Rhoepnah nen ni ka taengah tlangtlae la a caeh dongah thaesainah lamloh muep a mael puei.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before me directing [his way] in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.
7 Khosoih kah hmuilai long tah mingnah ngaithuen saeh lamtah a ka lamloh olkhueng tlap saeh. Anih tah caempuei BOEIPA kah puencawn ni.
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.
8 Tedae longpuei lamloh na phael uh tih muep na paloe uh. Olkhueng dong lamloh Levi paipi na phae uh. Caempuei BOEIPA loh he ni a thui.
But you have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in [following] the law: you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.
9 Te olka dongah ni kai van long khaw nangmih te kan sawtsit tih pilnam boeih taengah tlarhoel la kang khueh. Ka longpuei aka ngaithuen tih olkhueng dongah mik aka huel he nangmih moenih.
And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
10 Mamih boeih kah napa tah pakhat moenih a? Mamih aka suen he Pathen pakhat moenih a? Balae tih hlang loh a manuca taengah a hnukpoh? A pa rhoek kah paipi aka poeih rhung la.
Have you not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have you forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?
11 Judah a hnukpoh dongah ni Israel ah khaw, Jerusalem ah khaw tueilaehkoi a saii. Kholong kah pathen canu a lungnah tih a yuunah te Judah loh BOEIPA kah hmuencim ni a poeih.
Juda has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Juda has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods.
12 Te bang aka saii hlang te tah aka haenghang khaw, Jakob dap lamloh a doo tih caempuei BOEIPA taengah khocang aka tawn khaw BOEIPA loh khoe nawn saeh.
The Lord will utterly destroy the man that does these things, until he be even cast down from out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and from among them that offer sacrifice to the Lord Almighty.
13 Na kut lamloh khocang neh kolonah doe ham koep na mael van pawt ah BOEIPA kah hmueihtuk tah mikphi neh et hamla rhahnah neh kiinah neh a pabae la na saii.
And these things which I hated, you did: you covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: [is it] meet [for me] to have respect to your sacrifice, or to receive [anything] from your hands [as] welcome?
14 Balae tih koep na dawt? BOEIPA tah nang laklo neh na camoe kah na yuu laklo ah laipai coeng. Anih te na cangyaeh neh na paipi yuu yamvat ah anih taengah na hnukpoh.
Yet you said, Therefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you has forsaken, and [yet] she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.
15 Anih ham a hil coih neh aka saii khaw pakhat moenih a? Balae tih Pathen kah tiingan te pakhat bueng loh a toem? Na mueihla te ngaithuen lamtah na camoe vaengkah na yuu taengah hnukpoh boeh.
And did he not do well? and [there was] the residue of his spirit. But you said, What does God seek but a seed? But take you heed to your spirit, and forsake not the wife of your youth.
16 Israel Pathen BOEIPA loh a thui coeng. Yuu hlak tih a pueinak neh kuthlahnah aka dah he a thiinah. Caempuei BOEIPA loh he ni a thui. Te dongah na mueihla te ngaithuen lamtah hnukpoh boeh.
But if you should hate [your wife] and put her away, says the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover your thoughts, says the Lord Almighty: therefore take you heed to your spirit, and forsake [them] not,
17 BOEIPA he na ol neh na kohnue sakuh. Tedae, “Balae na kohnue,” na ti uh. “Boethae aka saii boeih loh BOEIPA mik ah then tih amih te amah loh a ngaih. Tiktamnah Pathen te menim?” na ti uh.
you that have provoked God with your words. But you said, Wherein have we provoked him? In that you say, Every one that does evil is a pleasing [object] in the sight of the Lord, and he takes pleasure in such; and where is the God of justice?
