Nehemiah 2
1 Artexerxes vaihom na kum somni lhin Nisan lhasungin, lengpa koma a adon ding ju kadoplut peh in ahi. Keiman akoma khat vei cha lungkham mel kana put khahlou hel anahi.
And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before his face.
2 Hijeh chun lengpan eina dongin, “Ipi dinga hibangtah a hi lungkham a nahim? Adammo dan la nahi pon, lungkham na khohtah khat vang nanei hinte eiti; hichun keima kati ajalheh jengin ahi.
And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear:
3 Ahinlah keiman kadonbut’in, “Lengpa hingsot’in! Keima iti kalungkham da ding ham? Kapu kapate ana kivuina khopi chu amangthah tan, chuleh akulpi kelkot hojong meiyin akalha gamtai,” kati.
And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?
4 Hichun lengpan eidongin’ “Aphai; chuti chu ahileh ipi lampen a kaki thopi thei ding ham?” eiti; hichun keima van Pathen koma kataovin;
Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I prayed to the God of heaven,
5 Hitin kadonbut tai, “Lengpa nasohpa keima chunga khoto na naneiya nalunglhaina ahi dingle Judah gam'a neisol’in lang kapu kapate kivuina khopi chu gasa phange” kati.
And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into Judea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.
6 Hiche pet’a chu lengnu toh toukhom lhon ahin, lengpan phat itih chan naga sulut dem? itih donleh nahung kile thei dem?” eiti, Keiman phat itih chan kaga suh lut ding ham ti kahetsah jou chun aman eiphat sah peh tai.
And the king said to me, and the queen that sat by him: For how long shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased the king, and he sent me: and I fixed him a time.
7 Lengpa koma chun keiman kaseibe kitin, “Lengpa nalung alhai dinga ahile, Eupharates vadung gal lhanglam gamkaiya gam vaipo ho koma lekha eijih peh in lang Judah gam kajot na a agamsungu boilouhel a kajot galkai theina dingin thupeh neithot peh in,” kati.
And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, let him give me letters to the governors of the country beyond the river, that they convey me over, till I come into Judea:
8 “Chule lengpa thing gampo pa Asaph koma lekha neijih peh in lang, Houin kulpi khopi kulbang sah na dingle keima chen na ding in sahna a Kaman chah ding thing eipeh thei na dingin thupeh neithot peh in,” kati. Hichun Pathenin kachunga khotona anei jal'in lengpan kathum jouse eiphal pehin ahi.
And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, to give me timber that I may cover the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls of the city, and the house that I shall enter into. And the king gave me according to the good hand of my God with me.
9 Eupharates vadung lhumlam gamkaiya gamvaipo ho kom kalhun phat in lengpa lekha jih ho chu kape lutin ahi. Gahseibe ding chun lengpan sakol sepai hole vaipo ho keima eiveng dingin eihin solpeh in ahi.
And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and gave them the king’s letters. And the king had sent with me captains of soldiers, and horsemen.
10 Ahin Horon mi Samballat leh Ammon mi Tobiah leng lhacha a pang teni hin kavai lhun ahetdoh lhon phatin Israel chate panpi ding mikhat ahungtai tin alung nom mo lheh jeng lhonin ahi.
And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.
11 Hiti hin nithum jouvin Jerusalem kaga lhung tai.
And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
12 Jankhangin aguh in kathoudoh in mi phabep toh kahin, Pathenin Jerusalem a eitoh sah nom ho chu koima cha kasei peh pon ahi. Katouna sa-ngan tailou gancha dang khat cha kapui pouvin ahi.
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.
13 Hiti chun jan khang kim in kapot doh’un phaicham kelkot langa kacheuvin, Sial twikul chu kaho pauvin, ehbohna kelkot geiyin kacheuvin akivo chimsa pal hole akihal lha kakhol toh soh keiyun ahi.
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.
14 Chujouvin, twisam putna kelkot le lengpa twikul geiyin kacheuvin ahileh katounau sa-ngan chu songchip ho lah a chun athol tapoi.
And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass.
15 Hiti chun jan khanglai chun Kidron phaicham geiyin kachen, palchu kahin kholpeh in, chujouvin kahung kilen phaicham kelkot langa kahung lut tai.
And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.
16 Hiti chun khopi vaihom hon itih a kapot doh a ipi kaga bol ham ti ahepouve; ajeh chu keiman katoh gon chu koima cha kana hetsah pon ahi. Judah lamkai hole thempu ho, chule mithupi hole vaihom ho ahilou leh vaihom na muna umho khat cha kana hetsahpon ahi.
But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.
17 Tun vang keiman amaho chu kahet sah tan ahi, “Itobang hahsat na itou hitam Jerusalem hi khopigem ahitan, akelkot ho jousela maiyin akavam soh tai tihi nanghon nahe soh kei’uve; tun eihon Jerusalem kulpi pal hi sapha kitnu hitin ijum nao hi subei tao hite,” katin ahi.
Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.
18 Hiche jou chun keiman itibang Pathen kaihoi kachan ham chuleh lengpa toh iti kahung kihou lim lhon ham ti kasei peh tan ahi.
And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the king’s words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and build. And their hands were strengthened in good.
19 Ahin lah Samballat, Tobiah le Arab mi Geshem te hon katoh gon’u chu ahet doh phat’un noise tah in eina houvun ahi. “Ipi nabol’u ham? Lengpa douna a na natoh u ham?” tin eidongun ahi.
But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?
20 Hichun keiman kadonbut’in, “Van Pathenin eipan hu’uva eitoh chai sah diu ahi. chule keiho ama lhachaten khopi pal hi kasah phat diu ahi; amavang nanghon hiche ahin chan anei pouve, thanei na jong nanei pouve, Jerusalem khopi ahin nachan diu goujong nanei pouvin ahi,” kati.
And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he helpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you have no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.
