Kâboutpoenae 28
1 Sahnin kâ na poe e kâpoelawknaw na tarawi nahanelah, na BAWIPA Cathut e lawk hah na ngai pawiteh, BAWIPA Cathut ni nang teh miphunnaw lathueng na tawm han.
“If you do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and faithfully obey everything that I am today commanding you to do, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation on the earth.
2 Na BAWIPA Cathut e lawk hah na tarawi pawiteh, nang koe ka tho hane yawhawinaw hateh:
If you obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to bless you:
3 Nang teh khothung vah yawhawi, kahrawngum hai yawhawi lah na o han.
He will bless everything that you do when you are in the cities and he will bless everything that you do when you are [working] in the fields.
4 Canaw lahoi thoseh, talai a pawhik lahoi thoseh, saring ni a khe e a canaw lahoi thoseh, tu hoi maitonaw lahoi thoseh, yawhawi lah na o han.
He will bless you by giving you many children [IDM] and by giving you abundant crops, and plenty of cattle and sheep.
5 Tangthung dawk thoseh, tavai kanawknae kawlung dawk thoseh, yawhawi ao han.
He will bless you by causing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
6 Na im thung na kâen nah yawhawi ao han. Alawilah na tâco nah yawhawi ao han.
He will bless you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
7 Nang na ka tuk hane tarannaw hah na hmalah BAWIPA ni a sung sak han. Ahnimouh teh lamthung buet touh hoi nang koe a tho awh eiteh, lamthung sari touh hoi a yawng awh han.
Yahweh will enable you to defeat [the armies of] your enemies; they will attack you from one direction, but they will run away from you in seven/many directions.
8 Nange hnoim dawk thoseh, na tawksaknae tangkuem dawk thoseh, BAWIPA nang koe yawhawi pha sak hanelah a dei pouh awh han. BAWIPA Cathut ni na poe e ram dawk nang yawhawinae na poe han.
Yahweh will bless you [by filling] your barns [with grain], and he will bless all the work that you do; he will bless you in the land that he is giving to you.
9 Nang teh na BAWIPA Cathut e kâpoelawk na tarawi teh, a lamthung dawk na dawn pawiteh, BAWIPA ni thoebo e patetlah nang hah BAWIPA hanlah, kathounge miphun lah pou na o sak han.
“If you obey all the commandments that Yahweh our God [has given to you] and if you conduct your lives as he wants you to do, you will continue to be his people, which is what he promised.
10 Nang teh, BAWIPA e min lahoi kaw lah na o tie miphun pueng ni a panue teh, na taki awh han.
“When all the people-groups on the earth will realize that you belong to [MTY] Yahweh, and they will be afraid of you.
11 BAWIPA ni nang koe na poe hanelah, mintoenaw koe thoebo e ram dawk hnopai, na canaw, saring pungdawnae hoi talai dawk a pawhik a pung sak han.
“And Yahweh will cause you to prosper very much. He will give you many children [IDM], many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he vowed to our ancestors that he would give to you.
12 BAWIPA ni atueng a pha torei teh, nange ram dawk kho a rak sak hane thoseh, na sak nah tangkuem dawk yawhawi poe hane thoseh, kalvan hnoim a paawng han. Nang ni miphunnaw hah câwisaknae kâ ao han. Ahnimouh ni nang na cawi sak mahoeh.
“When rain is needed, Yahweh will send it from where he stores it in the sky, and he will bless all your work, with the result that you [will be able to] lend money to many other nations, but you will not need to borrow [money from them].
13 BAWIPA ni nang teh a mai lah na awm sak laipalah, a lû lah na o sak dawkvah, nang teh rahim lah na awm laipalah, lathueng lah onae kâ na tawn han.
If you faithfully obey all of the commands of Yahweh our God that I am giving you today, Yahweh will cause your nation to be a leader among the nations, not inferior to them; you will always be prosperous and never be needy/poor [IDM].
14 Sahnin kai ni kâ na poe e lawknaw thung hoi avoilah, aranglah phen laipalah, alouknaw e cathut bawk laipalah na awm awh pawiteh, hottelah e hawinae hah na coe awh han.
[Yahweh will do all these things for you] if you do not turn away from [obeying] what I am commanding you today, and if you never worship or serve other gods.
15 Sahnin ka dei e BAWIPA Cathut ni lawk na poe e pueng na tarawi hanelah, lawk na ngâi hoehpawiteh, na lathueng ka phat hane thoebonae hateh:
But if you do not do what Yahweh our God is telling you to do, and if you do not faithfully obey all his rules and regulations that I am giving to you today, this is what he will do to curse you:
16 Nang teh khothung hai thoseh, kahrawngum hai thoseh yawthoe lah na o awh han.
He will curse you when you are in the cities and he will curse you when you are [working] in the fields.
17 Tangthung dawk thoseh, tavai kanawknae kawlung dawk thoseh, thoebo lah ao han.
He will curse you by not allowing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
18 Canaw lahoi thoseh, talai a pawhik lahoi thoseh, saring ni a khe e a canaw lahoi thoseh, tu hoi maitonaw lahoi thoseh, thoebo lah na o han.
He will curse you by giving you only a few children [IDM], by causing you to have poor crops, and by not enabling you to have many cattle and sheep.
19 Na im thung na kâen nah thoebo lah na o han. Alawilah na tâco nah thoebo lah ao han.
He will curse you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
20 BAWIPA na pahnawt teh na sakpayon e yon kecu dawk, karang poung lah rawknae koe na pha hoehroukrak, na tawksak e pueng dawk rektapnae, tarawknae, pathoenae naw teh na lathueng vah a pha sak han.
If you do evil things and reject Yahweh, he will curse you by causing you to (be confused/not know what to do), and to be frustrated in everything that you do, until [your enemies] quickly and completely destroy you {you will be quickly and completely destroyed}.
21 Na cei teh na coe hane ram dawk hoi be na raphoe hoehroukrak, lacik ka pha sak han.
Yahweh will cause you to experience terrible diseases, until not one of you remains alive in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
22 BAWIPA ni laheipatawnae, vairoe, ekkhu, vuenpatawnae, tahloi hoi theinae, kahlî hoi thingthairompo due saknae, ahri ni ca e lahoi thingthairompo due saknae, khokangnae naw hoi na rawk totouh, hote laciknaw ni na pâlei han.
Yahweh will strike/afflict you with diseases that shrivel your bodies, with fever, with inflammation/swelling. It will be extremely hot, and it will not rain. There will be scorching winds, and [Yahweh will cause] your crops to rot. All these things will strike you until you die.
23 Na lathueng e kalvan teh na lû dawk rahum patetlah thoseh, na rahim e talai hai sum patetlah ao han.
There will be no rain [MET], [with the result that] the ground will be [as hard as] iron [MET].
24 BAWIPA ni na ram dawk ka rak e kho hah lailo hoi vaiphu lah ao sak dawkvah, na rawk hoehroukrak kalvan lahoi na van a bo sak han.
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh will send strong winds to blow sand and dust over your land, until your land is ruined.
25 Na tarannaw hmalah BAWIPA ni lacik na poe han. Lamthung buet touh dueng dawk hoi na cei sin ei, lamthung sari touh dawk hoi na yawng awh vaiteh, talai van kaawm e khoram tangkuem na kampuen awh han.
Yahweh will enable your enemies to defeat you; your soldiers will attack your enemies from one direction, but they will run away from your enemies in seven/many directions, and when the people of other nations see what is happening to you, they will say that it is horrible.
26 Na ro teh tavanaw, kahrawng e moithangnaw ni ca hanelah ao han. Hote moithangnaw hah apinihai pâlei mahoeh.
[You will die], and birds and wild animals will come and eat your corpses, and there will not be anyone to scare/shoo them away.
27 BAWIPA ni nang hah Izip ram e âhlut, baksa, takpatha e lahoi lacik na poe han.
Yahweh will cause you to have boils on your skin, like he caused the people of Egypt to have [many years ago]. He will cause you to have tumors, open sores, and your skin will itch, and there will be nothing that will cure those diseases.
28 Pathunae, mitdawnnae, lungpuennae lacik a pha sak vaiteh,
Yahweh will cause [some of] you to become insane; he will cause some of you to become blind, and he will cause [some of] your minds to become confused.
29 mitdawn ni hmonae koe a payam e patetlah nang teh kanîthun vah thupthup na payam han. Na sak e hno dawk na cum laipalah, rektapnae, lawpnae na khang vaiteh, apinihai na rungngang mahoeh.
[Because you will not be able to see where you are going], at midday you will (grope/feel your way) around with your hands, like people do in the darkness. You will continually be oppressed and robbed, and no one will help you.
30 Yu na paluen eiteh, ayânaw ni a ikhai han. Im na sak eiteh, na awm nah mahoeh. Misur na ung eiteh, a paw na khi mahoeh.
Some of you men will be engaged/promised to marry a young woman, but someone else will rape her. You will build houses, but you will never live in them. You will plant grapevines, but you will not eat the grapes; [someone else will eat them].
31 Na maito hah na hmalah a thei awh eiteh, nama ni na cat mahoeh. Nange la hah na hmalah thama lahoi a ceikhai awh eiteh, bout na poe awh mahoeh toe. Nange tunaw hah taran kut dawk poe toteh, ka rungngang hane awm mahoeh.
Your enemies will butcher your cattle while you watch them, and you will not get any of the meat to eat. They will drag away your donkeys while you watch them do it, and they will not give them back to you. They will take away your sheep; and no one will help you [rescue them].
32 Na canaw teh ayâ kut dawk a pha teh, na mit ni kanîruirui a khet vaiteh, a tha a baw han. Na kut hai a tha awm mahoeh.
While you watch, your sons and daughters will be given to foreigners to become their slaves. Every day you will very sadly watch for your children to return, but (you will watch in vain/they will never return).
33 Na panuepaca hoeh e miphun ni na ram dawk e a pawhik hai thoseh, na tawk teh na hmu e hnonaw hai thoseh a ca awh han. Nang teh rektapnae dueng doeh pout laipalah na khang ti.
People from a foreign nation will take all the crops that you worked hard to produce, and they will constantly treat you harshly and cruelly [DOU].
34 Hottelah, ma ni khei kâhmo e dawkvah, nang teh na pathu han.
The result will be that all these terrible things that you see/experience will cause you to become insane.
35 BAWIPA ni na khokpakhu hoi na khok hloilah, na khoktabei koehoi kamtawng teh, na laduem koe totouh, kahmat thai hoeh e lacik a pha sak han.
Yahweh will cause your legs [to be covered with] painful boils that cannot be healed, and you will have boils from the bottoms of your feet to the tops of your heads.
36 BAWIPA ni nang ni na tawm e siangpahrang hah, nang hoi na mintoenaw ni a panue boihoeh e miphun koe, na thak vaiteh, nang teh alouke cathut, thing cathut, talung cathutnaw hah na bawk han.
Yahweh will cause your king and the rest of you to be taken to another country, to a place in which you and your ancestors have never lived before, and there you will worship and serve gods that are made of wood or stone.
37 BAWIPA ni nang na thaknae ram tangkuem dawkvah, nang teh, kângairunae, bangnuebangta nahane, pathoe hanelah na o han.
When the people-groups in nearby countries see what has happened to you, they will be shocked/horrified; they will make fun [DOU] of you.
38 Nang ni cati moikapap laikawk koe na sin eiteh, awsinaw ni a ca dawkvah, cakang youn touh ca doeh na a ti.
You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.
39 Misur takha na sak teh, misur ka ung nakunghai, ahri ni a ca dawkvah, nama ni misur paw na khi mahoeh. Misur tui hai na net mahoeh.
You will plant grapevines and take care of them, but you will not pick any grapes to make wine, because worms will eat the vines.
40 Na onae koe olivekung ao eiteh, a paw hmin hoehnahlan a sarut dawkvah, nang teh olive satui na kâhluk mahoeh.
Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not get any olive oil to rub on your skin because the olives will drop [on the ground before they are ripe].
41 Canu capa na khe eiteh, ahnimouh hoi na nawm mahoeh. Taran ni san lah a man han.
You will have sons and daughters, but they will not stay with you, because they will be captured and taken away.
42 Na onae ram dawkvah, thing kaawm e pueng, talai a pawhik kaawm e pueng, awsi ni a ca han.
Swarms of locusts/insects will eat your crops and [the leaves of] all your trees.
43 Nang hoi rei kaawm e imyinnaw teh, rasang vaiteh, nang van a luen awh han. Nang law teh rahim lah na kum han.
Foreigners who live in your land will become more and more [powerful], and you will become less and less [powerful].
44 Ahni ni nang na cawi sak vaiteh, nang ni ahni na cawi sak mahoeh. Ahni ni a lû lah awm vaiteh nang law teh a mai lah na o han.
They will [have money to] lend to you, but you will not [have any money to] lend to them. They will be superior [IDM] to you, and you will be inferior to them [IDM].
45 Bawi ni na poe e kâpoelawknaw hoi BAWIPA e phunglawknaw hah tarawi nahanelah na BAWIPA Cathut e lawk na ngâi hoeh dawkvah, nang teh, na rawk totouh hete thoebonae teh nang lathueng phat vaiteh, na pâlei vaiteh rek na patawt han.
“You will experience all these disasters, and you will continue to experience them you until you are destroyed, if you do not do what Yahweh your God told you to do, and do not obey all the rules and regulations that he gave to you.
46 Nang lathueng thoseh, na catounnaw lathueng thoseh, pout laipalah mitnoutnae kângairu hno lah ao han.
“These disasters will warn [DOU] you and your descendants forever [about what happens to groups who disobey Yahweh].
47 Hnopai na tawn toteh, lunghawinae hoi BAWIPA Cathut e a thaw hah na tawk awh hoeh dawkvah,
“Because Yahweh blessed you abundantly in many ways, you should have served him very joyfully [DOU], but you did not do that.
48 BAWIPA ni a patoun e tarannaw e thaw hah vonhlam hoi, tui kahran hoi, caici lah onae hoi bangpueng dawk roedeng laihoi na tawk awh han. Na rawk awh hoehroukrak na lahuen dawk sumkahnam a bang awh han.
“Therefore, you will work for the enemies whom Yahweh will send to attack you. You will be hungry and thirsty; you will not have clothes to wear; and you will lack everything else that you need. And Yahweh will cause you to become slaves [MET] and work hard until he gets rid of you.
49 Ahla poungnae koe e miphunnaw hah nangmouh tuk sak hanelah, BAWIPA ni patoun vaiteh, mataw kamleng e patetlah a tho awh han.
“Yahweh will cause an army from very far away [HYP] to attack you, whose soldiers speak a language that you do not know/understand. They will swoop down on you [quickly] like an eagle [SIM] attacks its prey.
50 A lawk na thai awh hoeh e miphun, kacuenaw hai ka bari hoeh e miphun, kanawnaw hai ka pahren hoeh e miphun, ka matheng e miphun lah ao awh han.
They will be fierce looking. They will not act mercifully toward anyone, not even young children and old people.
51 Na rawk awh hoehroukrak, taran ni na tuca, maitoca, talai a pawhik ca hane, cakang, misurtui, satui pueng nang hanelah pek mahoeh.
They will [kill and] eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will (starve/die because you do not have anything to eat). They will not leave for you any grain or wine or [olive] oil or cattle or sheep; and you will all die [from hunger].
52 Na ram dawk e na kâuep e khopui rapannaw pueng a tip awh hoehroukrak, na khoram kaawm e pueng a kalup awh han. Na BAWIPA Cathut ni na poe e na ram kaawm e pueng, na khoram kaawm e pueng dawk hai thoseh a kalup awh han.
Your enemies will surround your towns throughout the land that Yahweh your God is about to give to you, and they will break down the high and strong walls [around your towns], walls which you trusted/thought would protect you.
53 Na taran ni khik na kalup dawkvah, na BAWIPA Cathut ni na poe e canu capa camosennaw e moinaw hah na ca awh han.
“When your enemies are surrounding [your towns], you will be extremely hungry, with the result that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters that Yahweh your God has given to you.
54 Na onae kho hah taran ni khik a kalup toteh,
When your enemies have surrounded your towns, even the most gentle and sensitive men among you will want food very desperately, with the result that they will [kill their own children and] eat their flesh, because they will not have anything else to eat. They will not even share any of it with their brothers or wives whom they love very much or with any of their children who are still alive.
55 a nuen kahawi e tongpa ni a takang lawi vah, amae hmau, a pahren e a yu, hoi a pek e a canu capanaw patenghai yah, rei van laipalah a ca han.
56 Na onae kho hah taran ni khik a kalup teh runae na kâhmo toteh, a takthai a naw lawi vah, talai patenghai ka coungroe boihoeh e napui ni hai, a pahren e a vâ, a canu hoi a capa patenghai hmawt ngai mahoeh.
Even the most gentle and sensitive/kind women among you, who are very refined/rich with the result that they have never had to walk anywhere [HYP], will do the same thing. When your enemies have surrounded your towns, those women will be extremely hungry, with the result that after they give birth to a baby, they will secretly [kill it and] eat its flesh and also eat its afterbirth. And they will not share any of it with their husbands whom they love very much or with any of their other children.
57 A khe e camonaw hoi a thunnaw patenghai arulahoi a ca awh han.
58 Na BAWIPA Cathut, ka lentoe ni teh takikatho poung e min hah taki hanelah thoseh, hete kâlawk dawk thut lah kaawm e hete lawklungnaw pueng hah kâhruetcuet lahoi na tarawi hoeh pawiteh,
“If you do not faithfully obey all of the laws that I am writing, and if you do not revere Yahweh our glorious God [MTY],
59 nange lacik hoi na ca catounnaw koe ka phat hane lacik hah atueng ka saw sak vaiteh, dam thai hoeh e kângairu han kawi hah BAWIPA Cathut ni a tho sak han.
he will [punish you by] causing you and your descendants to experience great afflictions and plagues which will last for many years.
60 Hotnaw e hmalah, nang ni na taki e Izip ram e patawnae pueng hai BAWIPA ni nang dawk a pha sak han. Hotnaw teh nang dawk a kâbet awh han.
He will cause you to experience the plagues that he sent on the people of Egypt, and you will never be healed.
61 Hothloilah, hete kâlawk cauk dawk thut lah kaawm hoeh e patawpanatnae lacik kaawm naw pueng hai, na rawk hoehroukrak BAWIPA ni nang dawk a pha sak han.
He will also cause you to experience many other sicknesses and diseases that I have not talked about in these laws, until you all will die.
62 Kalvan e âsi yit touh na kapap awh nakunghai, BAWIPA Cathut e lawk na ngâi awh hoeh dawkvah, kayounca lah na o awh han.
You became as numerous as the stars in the sky, but only a few of you will remain alive, if you do not obey Yahweh your God.
63 BAWIPA ni nangmouh hanlah hawinae sak e hoi pungdaw sak hanelah a ngai e patetlah nangmouh lathueng rawknae pha sak hane hoi nangmouh raphoe e dawk a lunghawi teh, coe hanelah na kâen sin awh e ram thung hoi phawk lah na o awh han.
Yahweh was very happy to do good things for you and to cause you to become very numerous, but now he will be happy to ruin you and get rid of you. [Those of] you [who do not die from these plagues] will be snatched away from the land that you will soon be entering to possess.
64 BAWIPA Cathut ni talai poutnae koehoi avanglah apoutnae koe totouh, miphun pueng koe na kâkahei sak han. Hawvah, na mintoenaw ni a panue awh hoeh e thing cathut, talung cathutnaw hah na bawk awh han.
“Yahweh will scatter you among many people-groups, all over the earth, and in those areas/places you will serve other gods that are made of wood or stone, gods which you and your ancestors have never known/worshiped.
65 Hote miphunnaw rahak vah, nang teh roumnae awm mahoeh. Na khok kâhatnae awm mahoeh. Lungtâsuenae, mit thayounnae, hoi lungthoengnae hah BAWIPA ni na poe han.
In those places you will be restless. Yahweh will cause you to be constantly worried/anxious, feel hopeless, and discouraged.
66 Nang teh karum khodai pout laipalah, lungpuennae hoi, kadout han na ou, ka hlout han na ou tie panuek laipalah na o han.
You will always be afraid that your enemies will kill you. You will be very fearful, all day and all night.
67 Na lungthung vah takinae, na mit hoi na hmu e hno dawkvah, nang ni amom vah tangmin a pha lei saw na ti vaiteh, tangmin vah, amom a pha lei saw na ti han.
Because you will be very fearful/afraid because of the [terrible] things that you see, each morning you will say ‘I wish it were evening already!’ and each evening you will say ‘I wish it were morning already!’
68 Hote lam hah bout na hmawt awh mahoeh toe ka tie lam dawk hoi BAWIPA ni nang hah Izip ram lah lawng hoi bout na thak dawkvah, hote ram dawk sanpa sannu lah o hanelah, tarannaw koe na yo awh han. Hateiteh, apinihai nang hah na ran ngaihoeh telah Isarelnaw koe a dei awh han.
Yahweh will send [some of] you back to Egypt in ships, even though he promised that you would never [be forced to] go there again. There in Egypt you will try to sell yourselves to become slaves of your enemies [in order to have food to eat], but no one will buy you. [All those things will happen to you if you do not obey the laws that Yahweh is giving to you].”
