Jeremiah 23
1 Anunae ka rhamtlim kah boiva a dawn vaengah aka milh sak tih aka taekyak aih te, he tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni.
Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Jehovah.
2 Te dongah Israel Pathen BOEIPA loh he ni a thui. Ka pilnam aka dawn tih aka luem puei nang loh ka boiva te na taekyak. Amih te na heh tih amih te na hip moenih. Na khoboe thaenah te namah soah kan cawh he khaw BOEIPA kah olphong coeng ni.
Therefore thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says Jehovah.
3 Te dongah diklai pum lamkah ka boiva kah a meet te ka coi ni. Amih te te la ka heh hnap mai cakhaw a tolkhoeng la ka mael puei ni. Te vaengah pungtai uh vetih ping uh ni.
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
4 Amih aka dawn te ka thoh thil vetih amih te luem uh ni. Te vaengah rhih uh voel pawt vetih, rhihyawp uh pawt vetih hal uh mahpawh. He tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni.
And I will set up shepherds over them who shall feed them. And they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed. Neither shall any be lacking, says Jehovah.
5 BOEIPA kah olphong khohnin ha pawk coeng ke. Te vaengah thingdawn dueng te David ham ka thoh pah tih manghai la manghai pawn ni. Te dongah tiktamnah neh duengnah te diklai ah a saii vetih a cangbam ni.
Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
6 Anih tue vaengah Judah te daem vetih Israel ngaikhuek la kho a sak ni. A ming te khaw BOEIPA tah mamih kah duengnah la a khue ni.
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name by which he shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.
7 Te dongah BOEIPA kah olphong hnin tah ha pawk coeng ke. Te vaengah Egypt kho lamloh Israel ca aka khuen hingnah BOEIPA te koep thui uh mahpawh.
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that they shall no more say, As Jehovah lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,
8 Tedae hingnah BOEIPA amah lat loh Israel imkhui kah tiingan te tlangpuei kho lamkah neh diklai pum lamloh hang khuen tih ham pawk puei. Te ah te amih heh mai cakhaw amamih khohmuen ah kho a sak uh ni.
but, As Jehovah lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.
9 Tonghma kawng dongah ka kotak khuikah ka lungbuei paeng coeng. Ka rhuh he boeih hinghlawk tih yurhui hlang bangla ka om. BOEIPA kah mikhmuh neh amah kah ol cim hmai ah misurtui loh a puem hlang bangla tui ka yuka.
Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.
10 Diklai he samphaih neh hah coeng tih thaephoeinah hmai ah ni diklai he a nguekcoi uh. Khosoek toitlim ngawnkoh uh coeng tih a yongnah khaw yoethae la a poeh pah dongah a thayung thamal om tangloeng pawh.
For the land is full of adulterers. For because of swearing the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right.
11 Tonghma neh khosoih khaw poeih uh coeng tih ka im khuiah pataeng amih kah boethae ka hmuh. He tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni.
For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says Jehovah.
12 Te dongah amih taengah a longpuei te longhnal la poeh ni. Khohmuep khuila bung uh vetih a khuiah cungku uh ni. Amih cawhnah kum kah boethae te amih soah ka thoeng sak ni. He tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni.
Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They shall be driven on, and fall in it. For I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says Jehovah.
13 Samaria tonghma rhoek taengah khaw a hohap ni ka hmuh. Baal rhangneh tonghma uh tih ka pilnam Israel te khohmang la a khuehuh.
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14 Jerusalem tonghma rhoek taengah khaw a samphaih rhih om te ka hmuh. A honghi neh pongpa uh tih thaehuet ham kut a hluem uh. Hlang he a boethae lamloh a mael uh pawt dongah kai taengah tah amamih te Sodom bangla, a khuikah khosa rhoek khaw Gomorrah bangla boeih om uh coeng.
In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery, and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Te dongah caempuei BOEIPA loh he ni a thui. Amih tonghma rhoek te pantong ni ka cah coeng he. Jerusalem tonghma taeng lamloh diklai pum ah a rhonging a coe dongah amih te anrhat tui ni ka tul eh.
Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.
16 Caempuei BOEIPA loh he ni a thui. Nangmih taengah aka tonghma, tonghma rhoek ol te hnatun uh boeh. Amih te amamih lungbuei kah mangthui neh nangmih taengah hoemdawk uh tih BOEIPA kah ka lamloh aka thoeng te a thui uh moenih.
Thus says Jehovah of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
17 Kai yahbai ham aka thui la aka thui nangmih taengah BOEIPA ngaimongnah om saeh a ti lahko. Te dongah nim a lungbuei kah thinthahnah dongah aka pongpa boeih loh, 'Nangmih taengah yoethae ha pawk mahpawh,” a ti uh.
They say continually to those who despise me, Jehovah has said, Ye shall have peace. And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.
18 Tedae BOEIPA kah baecenol dongah pai tih aka hmu coeng neh a ol aka ya te unim? A ol te a ol bangla aka hnatung tih aka ya te unim?
For who has stood in the council of Jehovah, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has marked my word, and heard it?
19 BOEIPA kah kosi hlipuei ha thoeng pawn ni ke. Te vaengah hlipuei te kilkul vetih halang kah a lu te a kilkul thil ni.
Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, wrath, has gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest. It shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
20 Anih loh a saii tih a lungbuei kah thuepnah a thoh duela BOEIPA kah thintoek tah mael mahpawh. Te te hmailong tue vaengah yakmingnah neh na yakming uh bitni.
The anger of Jehovah shall not return until he has executed, and till he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.
21 Tonghma rhoek te ka tueih pawt dae amamih yong uh. Amih te ka uen pawt dae amamih tonghma uh.
I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.
22 Tedae kai kah baecenol dongah pai uh tih ka pilnam te kai ol yaak sak uh koinih a longpuei thae neh a khoboe thaenah lamloh amih mael uh ni.
But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 He tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni. Kai neh a yoei kah Pathen la om tih a hla ah tah a Pathen moenih a?
Am I a God at hand, says Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
24 Hlang he a huephael ah thuh uh cakhaw kai loh anih te ka hmuh moenih a? He tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni. Vaan neh diklai he ka tluek moenih a? He tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni.
Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Jehovah. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says Jehovah.
25 Tonghma rhoek loh kai ming neh ka tonghma a ti uh tih a laithae neh mang ka man rhoe ka man coeng a ti uh te ka yaak.
I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 Me hil nim laithae la aka tonghma tonghma rhoek neh a lungbuei aka huep tonghma rhoek kah lungbuei khuiah a koe aih ve.
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
27 A mang dongah ni ka pilnam loh ka ming he hnilh ham a moeh uh. A napa rhoek loh Baal kongah kai ming a hnilh uh vanbangla hlang loh a hui taengah ana thui te.
Who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
28 Amah taengah mueimang aka om tonghma te tah a mueimang khaw thui saeh. Tedae a taengah kai ol aka dang long tah ka ol oltak he thui saeh. He tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni, cangpai neh cangkong te metlam a vai uh eh?
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Jehovah.
29 He tah BOEIPA kah olphong coeng ni. Ka ol he hmai bangla, thaelpang aka taekyak kilung bangla a om moenih a?
Is not my word like fire? says Jehovah, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 Te dongah a hui taeng lamloh ka ol aka huen hlang neh tonghma rhoek te ka pai thil coeng ne. He tah BOEIPA kah olphong coeng ni.
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Jehovah, who steal my words each one from his neighbor.
31 He tah BOEIPA kah olphong ni. Olphong te a phong lalah amih kah ol loh kongahtonghma rhoek te ka pai thil coeng ne.
Behold, I am against the prophets, says Jehovah, who use their tongues, and say, He says.
32 He tah BOEIPA kah olphong coeng ni. A honghi kah mang neh aka tonghma rhoek khaw ka pai thil coeng ne. A thui uh vaengah ka pilnam he a honghi neh, a hohap neh khohmang la a khuehuh. Tedae amih te ka tueih pawt tih amih ka uen van pawt dongah a hoeikhang ham akhaw pilnam ham a hoeikhang moenih. He tah BOEIPA kah olphong coeng ni.
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Jehovah, and tell them. And cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting. Yet I sent them not, nor commanded them, neither do they profit this people at all, says Jehovah.
33 He pilnam long khaw, tonghma long khaw, khosoih long khaw nang n'dawt atah BOEIPA kah olrhuh te thui pah. Te vaengah amih taengah nangmih kam phap ham olrhuh te amih taengah thui pah. He tah BOEIPA kah olphong coeng ni.
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? Then thou shall say to them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Jehovah.
34 Te dongah tonghma khaw, khosoih khaw, pilnam khaw BOEIPA kah olrhuh aka phoei tah tekah hlang te khaw a im te ka cawh pah ni.
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.
35 BOEIPA loh metla a doo tih BOEIPA loh metla a voek khaw hlang neh a hui taengah khaw hlang neh a manuca taengah khaw thui pah tangloeng.
Thus ye shall say each one to his neighbor, and each one to his brother: What has Jehovah answered? and, What has Jehovah spoken?
36 A ol he hlang taengah olrhuh la om dae BOEIPA kah olrhuh te koep na poek uh moenih. Te dongah ni caempuei BOEIPA mamih kah Pathen, hingnah Pathen kah ol he na maelh uh.
And the burden of Jehovah ye shall mention no more, for every man's own word shall be his burden. For ye have perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts our God.
37 BOEIPA loh nang metla n'doo tih BOEIPA loh metla m'voek khaw tonghma taengah thui pah van.
Thus thou shall say to the prophet: What has Jehovah answered thee? and, What has Jehovah spoken?
38 BOEIPA kah olrhuh na ti van atah BOEIPA loh a thui he thui van tangloeng. He ol he BOEIPA kah olrhuh la na thui. Tedae Thui hamla nang te kan tueih vaengah BOEIPA kah olrhuh ni na ti hae moenih.
But if ye say, The burden of Jehovah, therefore thus says Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent to you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah,
39 Te dongah kai loh nangmih te kan hnilh rhoe kan hnilh pawn ni he. Nangmih taeng neh na pa rhoek taengah kam paek khopuei neh ka mikhmuh khui lamloh nangmih te kam phap ni.
therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you. And I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.
40 Kumhal kah kokhahnah neh kumhal kah yahpohnah te nangmih soah kang khueh vetih hnilh tlaih mahpawh.
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
