1 Samuel 20
1 Devit teh Ramah kho Naioth hmuen koehoi a yawng teh Jonathan koe a pha. Bangmaw ka sak, ka yonnae bang hah namaw, na pa koe bang yonnae maw ka sak teh thei hane na noe telah a dei.
David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
2 Jonathan ni ahni koevah, na dout mahoeh. Apa ni kai panuek laipalah, kathoeng kalen hai sak mahoeh. Bangkong hah na maw hete lawk heh kai koe a hro han, het heh a laithoe vai aw, bout atipouh.
He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”
3 Devit ni kai heh nang ni lung na pataw e hah na pa ni atangcalah a panue. Jonathan ni hethateh panuek hanh naseh, a lung mathout vaih ati dawk han doeh atipouh. BAWIPA a hring e hoi nang na hring e patetlah atangcalah ka dei, duenae hoi maimouh roi rahak khoktakan vai touh doeh kaawm atipouh.
David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favour in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
4 Jonathan ni Devit koevah na ngai e pueng na sak pouh han telah a ti.
Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”
5 Devit ni khenhaw! tangtho teh thapa rei hnin doeh. Siangpahrang koe buven roeroe hane doeh. Hatei kai na cetsak lawih. Apâthum hnin tangmin totouh law lah kâhro hanelah na cet sak.
David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
6 Na pa ni ka o hoeh e hah panuek pawiteh, Devit ni a onae Bethlehem vah cei hanelah atangcalah na dei pouh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, a imthungkhu hane kum tangkuem thuengnae tueng lah ao telah a dei pouh.
If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
7 Ahawi tetpawiteh, a san hah a rungngang han. A lungkhuek pawiteh hnokahawi hoeh e sak han a kâcai tie panuek lawih.
If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
8 Na san e lathueng lungmanae tawn. Bangkongtetpawiteh, na san heh BAWIPA lawkkamnae thung na kâkuetkhai toe. Hatei kai dawk ka payonnae na poe koe kuekluek na ceikhai han telah a ti.
Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”
9 Jonathan ni khuet na dout ti, bangkongtetpawiteh apa ni na lathueng hno kahawihoeh a sak e ka panuek pawiteh dei laipalah ka o han na maw telah a ti.
Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?”
10 Devit ni Jonathan koe na pa ni lawk kahram lahoi na pato teh apinimaw na dei pouh han telah a ti.
Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”
11 Jonathan ni Devit koe law cet roi sei telah ati. Hottelah kahni touh hoi law a cei roi.
Jonathan said to David, “Come! Let’s go out into the field.” They both went out into the field.
12 Jonathan ni Devit koe Isarel BAWIPA Cathut teh kapanuekkhaikung lah awm naseh, tangtho atu e tueng dawk thoseh, apâthum thoseh apa ka tanouk han. Devit kong dawk a hawinae koelah pawiteh nang koe tami ka patoun laipalah, dei laipalah ka o han nama.
Jonathan said to David, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good towards David, won’t I then send to you and disclose it to you?
13 Hatei apa ni na lathueng hno kahawihoeh sak hanelah kâcai pawiteh, na thaisak han. Kahawicalah na cei thai nahan na tha han, telah ka sak hoehpawiteh BAWIPA ni Jonathan dawk hot hlak hoe sak naseh. Apa koe BAWIPA ouk ao e patetlah nang koehai awm seh.
The LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in peace. May the LORD be with you as he has been with my father.
14 Ka hring nathung dawk dueng laipalah, ka hringnae abaw nah hai BAWIPA pahrennae kai dawk sak hoeh laipalah awm hanh.
You shall not only show me the loving kindness of the LORD while I still live, that I not die;
15 Nange pahren lungmanae hai kaie imthung koehoi nâtuek hai pâpout hanh. BAWIPA ni Devit e taran talai dawk hoi he a pahma totouh pâpout hanh telah a ti.
but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the LORD has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth.”
16 Jonathan ni Devit e imthungnaw hoi lawkkamnae a sak. Hot hah na raphoe pawiteh, Devit e taran kut dawk hoi BAWIPA ni pathung naseh.
So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “The LORD will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”
17 Jonathan ni amahoima lungpataw e patetlah Devit koe lawk bout a kam.
Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
18 Jonathan ni Devit koe tangtho thaparei hnin na tahungnae a houng han dawkvah, na awm hoeh tie a kamnue han.
Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
19 Apâthum hnin hnukkhu, karanglah cathuk nateh hete hno ao hnin hoi na kâhronae hmuen koe cet nateh, Ezel talung koe na o han.
When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.
20 Nue e hmuen dawk ka e patetlah, pala kathum touh talung teng vah ka ka han.
I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
21 Khenhaw! cet nateh, pala hah tawng telah camo ka patoun han. Camo koevah khenhaw! pala teh na hnukkhu lah ao. Lat nateh hi tho, ka tetpawiteh BAWIPA a hring e patetlah nang hane damnae, roumnae lah ao han. Taki hane awm mahoeh.
Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come, for there is peace to you and no danger, as the LORD lives.
22 Hatei camo koevah khenhaw! pala hah ahla na koe ao ka tetpawiteh, na cei han. Bangkongtetpawiteh, BAWIPA ni na ceisak e han doeh.
But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go your way, for the LORD has sent you away.
23 Nang hoi kai ni dei roi e hno kong dawkvah khenhaw! nang hoi kaie rahak vah BAWIPA teh pou ao doeh telah a ti.
Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever.”
24 Devit teh law vah a kâhmo, thaparei nah siangpahrang teh bu ven hanelah a tahung.
So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.
25 Siangpahrang teh ouk a tahungnae hmuen tapang koe a tahung. Jonathan a kangdue teh Abner teh Sawl e a teng a tahung. Hatei Devit e hmuen teh a houng.
The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.
26 Hatei hote hnin nah Sawl ni banghai dei hoeh, hno buet buet touh mue toe. A thounghoeh dawk mue, thounghoeh katang mue telah a pouk.
Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
27 Thaparei hnin tangtho vah Devit e bawitungkhung teh paroup a houng rah. Sawl ni a capa Jonathan koevah bangkongmaw Jesi capa heh paduem hoi sahnin hai buvennae koe a tho hoeh telah a pacei.
On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why didn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?”
28 Jonathan ni Sawl koe, Devit ni Bethlehem cei hanelah pou a kâhei.
Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
29 Na cetsak yawkaw bangkongtetpawiteh, ka imthungnaw ni thuengnae a sak awh teh ka hmaunawnghanaw ni awm van loe telah lawk a thui. Na pahren pawiteh na cetsak loe. Ka hmaunawnghanaw na hmawt sak telah ati. Hatdawkvah siangpahrang caboi koe a thohoehnae doeh telah a ti.
He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favour in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”
30 Jonathan koe Sawl ni a lung hmatara a khuek teh, napui ka mathout e a ca, Jesi capa teh yeirai na po nahane hoi na manu caici lah onae yeiraipo hanelah na rawi tie ka panuek hoeh maw.
Then Saul’s anger burnt against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
31 Jesi capa heh talai dawk a hring nah yunglam nang hoi na ram kangning mahoeh. Atu karanglah kaw sak nateh, kai koe thokhai a due roeroe han telah Jonathan koe a dei pouh.
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”
32 Jonathan ni Devit bang dawk maw a due han bang hno maw a sak telah a na pa Sawl hah a pacei.
Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
33 Sawl ni tahroe hoi thei hanlah a noung. Hote hno dawk Jonathan ni apa ni Devit a thei hanelah a noung roeroe tie a panue.
Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
34 Lungkhuek lahoi Jonathan teh caboi koehoi a thaw teh apâhni hnin thapareinae dawk, bu ven van hoeh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, a na pa ni Devit hah yeiraipo sak dawkvah a lungmathoe.
So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.
35 Amom vah Jonathan teh Devit hoi lawk a kâta roinae koe camo hoi law lah a cei roi.
In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
36 Camo koe ahni ni licung pali touh, hoi palanaw hah tawng telah atipouh. Camo a yawng lahun nah a hmalah palacung buet touh a pathui pouh.
He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37 Jonathan ni kâ e pala a bonae koe a pha nah na hnukkhu lah doeh atipouh.
When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
38 Jonathan ni camo a hnuk lahoi a tanawt teh karangbat lah yawng atipouh. Camo ni Jonathan ni a kâ e pala hah a racawng teh a bawipa koe lah a ban.
Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
39 Camo ni banghai panuek hoeh. Jonathan hoi Devit ni dueng hote kaawm hno hah a panue roi.
But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40 Jonathan ni amae senehmaica naw hah camo koe a poe teh cet lawih, khopui dawk cetkhai atipouh.
Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”
41 Camo a cei hnukkhu Devit teh akalah a onae hmuen koehoi a thaw teh, talai dawk a hmaibei hoi vai thum touh a tabo. A kâpaco roi teh kahni touh hoi rei a ka roi. Devit teh hoe kacailah a ka.
As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another and wept with one another, and David wept the most.
42 BAWIPA ni nang hoi kaie a rahak thoseh, na miphun hoi ka miphun rahak thoseh, pout laipalah awm seh telah a dei teh, maimouh roi BAWIPA min lahoi lawkkam roi toung dawkvah, Devit koe karoumcalah cet lawi atipouh.
Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the LORD’s name, saying, ‘The LORD is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.
