< Jeremiah 2 >

1 Pakai thusei kaheng ahunglhung kit in, aman kajah’a,
The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
2 Chenlang hiche kathupeh hi, Jerusalem’a gaphongjaltan ati. Pakaiyin asei chu,” Jinei ding kigo khangdong cha mounu’n kitahtah’a hinkho aman bangin, nangin kei ichengeiya neilungset’a, chuleh itobang gammang lah hijongleh neijuile chu, keiman kageldoh jing e.
“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
3 Hiche phatlai chun, Israel chu Pakai dinga atheng ahin, Ama ding a alholhun aga masapen chu ahi.
Israel was holiness to the LORD, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,”’ says the LORD.”
4 Pakai thusei hi ngaiyun, Vo Jacob insung Israel chate,
Hear the LORD’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
5 Pakaiyin hitin aseiye,”Napu napateuvin kachung’a adihlou ipi amudoh’uva, ipi jeh’a keiya kon’a gamla tah’a vahmang gam’u hitam? Amahon phatchomna bei dolim semthu ahouvun, amaho tah jong pannabei asohgamtauvin ahi.
The LORD says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
6 Amahon, Egypt gam’a kon’a eihinpuidoh’uva, gammang lah’a eihin pui’uva, nelgam leh kokhuh lah’a eihinpui’uva, twi beina gam leh thina gam’a, koima kho-nung umlouna leh mi chennalou gam’a eihinpui’uva, Pakai Pathen chu hoiya um hitam? atipouve.
They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’
7 Keiman nangho, kateppih bangin, gamleiset phatah leh gamga chu nalut phat’un thet umtah in nasuboh tauvin ahi.
I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
8 Thempu hon, Pakai chu hoiya um hitam, tin aholpouve. Kathupeh tuh’a hilson hon jong eidontapouve; chuleh gamvaipo ho jing jong keima douvin apang gamtauvin ahi. Themgao hon jong Baal min in gaothu aseiyun, panna beiyin lim semthu ho nung ajui gamtauvin ahi.
The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ and those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.
9 Hijeh chun, keiman nachunguva kalunghanna kalhut ding, chuleh khonung geiya nachateu chung a kalunghanna kalhut ding ahi.
“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
10 Cheuvin lhumlam’a, Cypress gamsung gaveuvin; chuleh solam’a cheuvin Kedar gamsung gakhol’uvin. Hitobang thilkidang hi ahekha leh ajakha umkha nam?
For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.
11 Pathen dihtah houlou hijongleu, namkhat in a pathen chu thildang khat toh akhel khah am? Ahinlah kamiten vang aloupinau a Pathen’u keima hi, pannabei semthu pathen toh eikhelto tauve.
Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12 Hichea hin, vanthamjol atijan akithing in, chuleh nungkin leuvin alungdonge, tin Pakaiyin aseiye.
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says the LORD.
13 Kamiten chonset gitlouna thilni aboltauve. Amahon hinna twinah keiya um chu adalhauvin, chuleh achamtah in a amaho ding twi umlouna mun chu alaiuvin ahi.
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
14 Ibol’a Israel chu soh hiya ham? Ipi jeh’a amelmaten ama chu achomgam’uva chuleh suhgam ding bep’a akaimangu ham?
Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
15 Sakei thahatlai kitum bangin akitum khum’un, ama chu adouvin ahi. Amahon agamsung asuchavaiyun, akhopi jouse kho-gem asosah’un chuleh acheng beihel kho-homkeu asotauve.
The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
16 Memphis khopi leh Tahpanhes khopia konin, Egypt mite ahung kitoldoh’un, Israel loupina leh thaneina chu asumang hel tauvin ahi.
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
17 Hiche hi, Pakai na Pathen in lampia napui laiya, nangin Ama nadou jeh’a, nanigin nachung a nakilhut khum ahibouve.
“Have not you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
18 Egypt toh napankhom’a chuleh Assyria toh kitepna nabol’a chu, nang ding’a ipi aphachom um am? Nile vadung twi donding nati ham, chuleh Ephrates vadung twi donding nagot ham? Nang dinga thilpha ipi um am?
Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
19 Nathilse bol chun nachung a pohgih ahinlhut ding, chuleh keima neidalhah chun najumso ding ahi. Nangman thilse tah nato ding, Hichu nangin Pakai na Pathen nadalhah’a chuleh jabollou tah’a nabol jeh’a, nang dinga akha-cheh nekha nabah ding ahi, tin keima Pakai Van Pathen chun kaseidoh ahitai.
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.
20 Chuleh keiman sotlai peh’a napohgih pohna namkol kaheboh’a, chuleh soh’a nakihenna khao jong kabotan ahitai. Ahivangin tunjong nangin naseiyin,”Keiman nang kajinlou hil ding nahi, nati. Ajeh chu nangman, lhangsanglai jouse leh thingphung noi tin’ah, semthu doilim angsung’a, noti bangin nakun jol jol e.
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
21 Ahivangin keiman nanghi, lengpithei gui phapen lah’a kon’a kalhentum’a, chuleh muchi thengsel’a kalah’a kaphu nahi. I-atileh, gamlah lengpithei guitoh kijop’a, dei umlou tah’a hung khangdoh nahim
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
22 Nangma cha-ngel tamtah'in kisil inlang, Chuleh sabon tamtah mang jong lechun, hichun nasoptheng jou ponte. Nathemmona ho kamit’a akilang jing’e, tin thaneipen Pakaiyin aseiye.
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD.
23 Nangin naseiyin, “Keima kakisubuhpoi. Baal doilim jong chibai kabohpoi,”nati. Hichu iti naseithei ham? Nalamlhahna phaicham ho ven, chonset gimnei tah tah nabol doh ho geldoh in! Nang hi, sangongsao lagol in, kimatpi ding ahol’a alheile tobang nahi.
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
24 Nang hi, gamlah’a sangan lagol in angaichat holna-a huilah anah lele tobang nahi. Amanun angaichat aholna akham ding koiham?
a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
25 Pathen dangho nung najuilea, kenga lam najot’a chuleh danggo leuva nalheile chu itih nangah ding hitam? Ahinlah nangin naseiyin,”Keiman gamdang pathen ho kalungset in, chuleh amaho nung kajuihi ngapong e,” nati.
“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’
26 Gucha akimatdoh teng ajahchat banga, Israel jong chuti ding ahi. Amaho, lengho, vaihom ho, thempu ho chuleh themgao ho jouse, abon’uva chuti ahiuve.
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed— they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
27 Amahon thingphunga kon kisemdoh milim jah’a, “nang kapa nahi” atiuvin, chuleh song’a kon’a kikhengdoh milim jah’a “nang kanu nahi” atiuve. Amahon keima einungngat gam’u ahitai. Ahivangin, agenthei ahesoh teng’uleh, amaho kahenga ahungkap’un, hungin neihuhdoh’uvin, atijiuve.
who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
28 Ahileh, nang dinga nakisem na-pathen ho chu, hoiya umtam? Amaho chu, mihuh hing thei ahiuleh, hesoh genthei natopet chun nahuhhingu hen. Vo Judah, na khopi jouseu jat’a pathen ho naneiyu hilou ham?
“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
29 Ibol’a thilse bol’a keima neingoh’u ham? Nangho joh, nabon’un keima doumah mah bol in napangtauve, tin Pakaiyin aseiye.
“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD.
30 Keiman nachateu kaden ahitai, Ahivangin amahon kasuhdihna chu adonpouve. Sakei yin aneh ding akimat’a athabangin, nanghon nangho chemjam maman, nathemgaoteu nathattauve.
“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 Vo Kamite, Pakai thusei hi ngaiuvin! Keima hi Israel dinga gamgo lah kahim? Ahilouleh keima hi, amaho dinga gamut thimlah kahim? Ibol’a kamiten, tunvang Pathen’a kon ongdoh kahitauve, keiho ama henga hungkit tapou vinge, tia aseiyu ham?
Generation, consider the LORD’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’?
32 Numei khangdong laiyin, akijepna asuhmil ngai am? Chuleh jinei ding nun amou-von ahaimil thei am? Ahinlah, kamiten akum kum in keima eisumildel tauvin ahi.
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
33 Nakilungsetpi ding jollhahje, aguh in themtah in nagongtoh jin ahi. Numei kijohho geiyin jong nang thilbol’a konin akihiluve.
How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.
34 Na ponsil chunga monabei leh tahlelte thisan anat dimset e. Hiche hi keiman aguh’a kahet ahipon, lhangphong tah’a kamudoh ahibouve. Ahin thil hiyat nabolsa chung’a hin,
Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.
35 Nangin naseiyin,”Keiman thildihlou kabolpoi. Tahbeh in kachunga Pathen alunghanna ding aumpoi nati. Amavang tua hi, nachunga thutanna kalhut ding ahitai. Ajeh chu nangman nathilse bol naseilep in, chonsetna kaneipoi, nati.
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
36 Nangman pankhompi ding holnan gam leh lei nachon in ahi. Hijongleh, Assyria in najumso bang banga chu nakisonpi Egypt in jong nahinbol tei ding ahi.
Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
37 Jum leh ja pum’a, khut kolnam thangsea, gamsung nadalhah ding ahi. Ajeh chu nangin nakisonpi ho jouse chu Pakaiyin imalouva akoigam ahitai. Chuleh amahoa kon’a aphachom namulou helding ahi.
You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper with them.

< Jeremiah 2 >