Ezekiel 26
1 Kum hlai at dongkah hla khat dongla a om vaengah kai taengla BOEIPA ol ha pawk tih,
Almost twelve [after we had been taken to Babylonia], on the first day of the month, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,
2 Hlang capa aw, Tyre loh Jerusalem te, 'Ahuei, pilnam kah thohkhaih po coeng tih kai taengla ha mael coeng. Te dongah la anih a khah vaengah kai ka hah bitni,’ a ti.
“You human, [the people of] Tyre [city] shouted joyfully and said about Jerusalem, ‘[Jerusalem, ] the city from which many traders/merchants went to many nations, is now destroyed. And now people from all over the world will come to us to buy and sell things. Because Jerusalem has now been ruined, we will prosper!’
3 Te dongah ka Boeipa Yahovah loh he ni a thui. Kai lohTyre nang kam pai thil coeng tih namtom te nang taengah tuipuei tuiphu aka cet bangla muep kang khuen ni he.
Therefore, this is what [I, ] Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘I am now the enemy of [you people of] Tyre. I will [the armies of] many nations to come and attack your [city], like the waves of the sea beat against the shores.
4 Te vaengah Tyre vongtung te a phae uh vetih a rhaltoengim khaw a koengloeng uh ni. A pum dongkah laipi te ka kuet pah vetih anih te thaelpang aka tlaai la ka khueh ni.
Their soldiers will destroy the walls around Tyre and tear down its towers. Tyre will become a place where people from many nations steal valuable things, [and then the city will be completely destroyed]. Then they will scrape away the rubble and cause the city to become a bare rock.
5 Te vaengah tuipuei laklung kah yaehtaboeih a yaalnah la poeh ni. Ka Boeipa Yahovah kah olphong he ka thui coeng dongah namtom ham maeh la poeh ni.
Out in the sea, Tyre will become an island where men spread [their fishing] nets to dry them. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh the Lord, have predicted it.
6 A canu rhoek te khohmuen kah cunghang loh a ngawn vaengah BOEIPA kamah te m'ming uh bitni.
The people in small villages on the coast near Tyre will be killed [their enemies’] swords. Then people will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].’
7 Te dongah ka Boeipa Yahovah loh he ni a thui. Manghai rhoek manghai tlangpuei lamkah Babylon manghai Nebukhanezar te marhang neh, leng neh, marhang caem neh, hlangping neh pilnam boeiping neh Tyre taengla ka thoeng sak coeng he.
This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, [is going to happen]: ‘From the north, I am going to bring the most powerful king [in the world], King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, [with his army] to attack Tyre. They will bring horses and chariots, and men who ride the horses [and men who drive the chariots]; it will be a huge army.
8 Na canu rhoek te khohmuen ah cunghang neh a ngawn ni. Nang te buep n'to thil vetih nang te tanglung n'lun thil uh phoeiah nang te photlinglen m'bai thil ni.
[In the battles in the small villages] on the coast, their soldiers will kill [many] people with their swords. [Then] they will set up devices to batter the wall around the city of Tyre, and they will build a dirt ramp up to the top of the wall, and they will all hold up shields [to protect themselves from arrows being shot from the ground].
9 Na vongtung te a khongmawt neh pet a tung thil vetih na rhaltoengim te a cunghang neh a phil ni.
The king will direct the soldiers who operate the (rams/things) to batter the walls, and who will use their iron bars to tear down the towers in the wall.
10 A marhang cako lamkah laipi loh nang m'vuei ni. Marhang caem neh humhae neh leng ol ah na vongtung khaw tuen ni. Na vongka lamloh a moe ham vaengah khopuei khuirhai bangla ueth coeng.
The king will have a huge number of horses, [the stamping of their hooves will result in] the city being covered with dust. [It will be as though] the walls will tremble because of the noise made by the horses, the [supply] wagons, and the chariots when they enter the city where the walls have been broken down.
11 A marhang khomae loh na tol boeih a taelh ni. Na pilnam te cunghang neh a ngawn vetih na sarhi kaam khaw diklai la bung ni.
The horses will trample all of the [of the city] with their hooves. The soldiers will kill the people with their swords; and they will cause your strong pillars to (collapse/fall to the ground).
12 Na thadueng a buem uh vetih na hnothungnah te a poelyoe uh ni. Na vongtung te a koengloeng uh vetih na sahnaih im khaw a phil uh ni. Na lungto neh na thing neh na laipi pataeng tui lung la a voeih uh ni.
They will take away all the people’s valuable possessions and steal the things that the merchants sell. They will tear down the walls of the houses and destroy their fine houses. Then they will throw into the sea the stones [from the walls] of those houses and the timber and the rubble.
13 Na laa a lilup te ka paa sak vetih na rhotoeng ol khaw ya voel mahpawh.
No longer will you sing noisy songs, and people will not play their harps any more.
14 Nang te thaelpang aka tlaai la kang khueh vetih yaehtaboeih yaalnah la na poeh ni. BOEIPA kamah loh ka thui coeng dongah na thoh thai voel mahpawh. He tah ka Boeipa Yahovah kah olphong ni.
The enemy soldiers will cause the city to become a bare rock and [only] a place where men spread [their fishing] nets. And the city will never be rebuilt. [Those things will surely happen] because [I], Yahweh the Lord, have [that they will happen].’
15 Ka Boeipa Yahovah loh Tyre ham he ni a thui. Na cungkunah ol dongah pawt nim rhok a kii ham neh na laklung kah ngawnnah dongah ngawn ham vaengah sanglak rhoek a hinghuen?
This is [also] what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say about [the people of] Tyre: ‘When the wounded [people in Tyre] groan and many people are slaughtered and the city is destroyed, [it will surely be as though] [RHQ] the areas along the coast will tremble.
16 Te vaengah tuipuei khoboei boeih khaw a ngolkhoel dong lamloh suntla uh ni. A hnikul te a rhoe uh vetih a rhaekva himbai te khaw a pit uh ni. Thuennah te a bai uh vetih diklai ah ngol uh ni. Mikhaptok ah lakueng uh vetih na taengah pong uh ni.
Then all the kings [in the cities] along the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and their embroidered clothes. They will be terrified, and they will sit on the ground, trembling. They will be appalled because of what has happened to the city of Tyre.
17 Te vaengah nang ham rhahlung ham phueih vetih nang te, 'Balae tih tuipuei khosa lamloh na milh, tuitunli neh a khuikah khosa rhoek soah khopuei thangthen neh tlungluen la na om ta. Amih a khuikah khosa boeih soah rhihnah a khueh uh ta.
Then they will sing a sad song about the city, and they will sing this: “The famous city [APO], in which many [who sailed on] the seas lived, is now destroyed! The people of that city had great power [because they had many ships that sailed] on the seas; they caused all the people who lived near them to be terrified.
18 Na cungkunah khohnin ah sanglak te lakueng tih na khum lamloh tuipuei kah sanglak rhoek khaw let uh.
Now on the day when that city is destroyed, [it is as though the people in] the areas along the coast tremble and the [the people on the] islands in the sea are terrified because of that city being ruined.”’
19 Ka Boeipa Yahovah loh he ni a thui. Khopuei nang te kang khueh vaengah khosa aka om pawh khopuei bangla n'khah ni. Te vaengah nang soah tuidung hang khuen vetih tui len loh nang n'khuk ni.
This is also what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘When I cause the city [of Tyre] to become desolate/empty, like [other] cities in which people no [longer] live, and when I cause the huge waves of the sea to cover it,
20 Te vaengah nang te tangrhom khuila aka suntla khosuen pilnam taengla kan suntlak sakni. Nang te tangrhom khuila aka suntla khosuen imrhong bangla diklai laedil ah kang om sak ni. Na om pawt daengah ni mulhing khohmuen ah kirhang khaw kam paek eh.
then I will bring the people of that city down to be with those who have gone down to where the dead people are, people who lived long ago. I will cause them to remain in the place below the earth that is like old/ancient ruins, with those who have gone down to that pit [previously], and they will never return to the earth, to where people are alive.
21 Nang te mueirhih kam paek vaengah na om voel mahpawh. N'toem cakhaw kumhal duela koep m'hmu mahpawh. He tah ka Boeipa Yahovah kah olphong ni,” a ti.
I will cause them to die in a horrible way (OR, people will be very afraid because of what happens to that city), and that will be the end of (them/their lives). People will search for that city but it will no longer exist. [That is what I, ] Yahweh the Lord, declare [will happen].’”
