Tingtoeng 58
1 Aka mawt ham David kah, “Phae boeh “laa Duengnah he olmueh na ti uh tih, hlang ca rhoek taengah vanatnah neh lai na tloek uh tang a?
To the Chief Musician. "Do not Destroy." A precious Psalm, of David. Are ye, indeed, silent [when] righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?
2 Tedae, lungbuei neh dumlai na saii. Diklai ah kuthlahnah te na kut dongah na thuek.
Aye! ye all do work, perversity, —Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
3 Halang rhoek tah bung khui lamloh kholong uh coeng tih, laithae aka thui rhoek khaw a bungko khui lamloh kho a hmang uh.
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
4 Amih kah kosi te rhul sue phek la om tih minta hnapang bangla a hna a buem.
Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;
5 Te vaengah aka hloih thai rhoek loh a hloih vaengkah a sisuk ol te ya pawh.
That will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, Though the wise one try to bind him with spells.
6 Pathen aw, amih ka dongkah a no te koengloeng pah. BOEIPA aw sathueng kah kamkenno te thuk pah.
O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!
7 Amih te tui aka long bangla yip kak uh saeh. Thaltang, thaltang a phuk te haih pah tangloeng saeh.
Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down:
8 Hnap neh aka thoeih lainat neh huta aka rhumpu bangla khomik hmu uh boel saeh.
Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:
9 Na umam loh a yakming uh hlan ah cangpalam loh a yawn bangla hling khaw, thinghing khaw thingkoh khaw yawn saeh.
Before your kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
10 Phulohnah a hmuh vaengah hlang dueng loh a kohoe vetih halang kah thii neh a kho a silh ni.
The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one: —
11 Te vaengah pilnam loh, “Aka dueng ham thapang om pai. Diklai ah Pathen loh lai a tloek pai,” a ti ni.
So that a son of earth may say—Surely there is fruit for the righteous man! Surely there are gods who judge in the earth!
