Isaiah 27
1 Hote hnin dawkvah, BAWIPA ni kate niteh, kalen niteh, athakaawme tahloi hoi vi kathawn e tahrun Leviathan, kâpoum e tahrun Leviathan, tuipui dawk kaawm e khorui hah a thei han.
At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan, the swift-moving monster/dragon, that coiling serpent that lives in the sea. Yahweh will kill it with his sharp, huge, and powerful sword.
2 Hote hnin dawkvah, ngai kaawm e misur takha hah la lah sak awh haw.
At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
3 BAWIPA teh hote takha kakhenkung lah ao. Kai ni hote takha hah atuhoitu tui ka awi. Apinihai runae a poe hoeh nahanelah karum khodai pout laipalah ka khetyawt.
I will [protect you] [like a farmer] [MET] waters his crops carefully [in order that they will grow well]. I will guard you day and night, in order that no one harms you.
4 Kai dawk lungkhueknae awm hoeh. Pâkhing hoi pâkhingkungnaw kaawm nakunghai, hotnaw koe ka kamthaw vaiteh, vaitalahoi hmai ka sawi han.
I am no [longer] angry [with my people]; [if any of your enemies try to injure you like briers and thorns injure people] [MET], I will attack them [in battles]; I will get rid of them completely,
5 Hoehpawiteh, kaie khetyawtnae dawk tha kâlat nateh, kai hoi roumnae lat awh. Kai hoi roumnae lat awh naseh.
unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
6 Ka tho hane atueng dawk, Jakop miphun ni a tangpha a payang teh, Isarel miphun hai a pei pei vaiteh, ahnimouh ni talaivan pueng a paw hoi akawi sak awh han.
There will be a time when the (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) will [prosper like] a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; [what they do will bless] all the people in the world.
7 Ahnimouh ka rektap e naw hah a rektap e patetlah ahnimouh hai a rektap a maw. Ahnimouh ka thet e naw teh thei lah ao e patetlah ahnimouh hai thei e lah ao awh maw.
[But now I ask], has Yahweh punished us Israelis like he punished our enemies? Has he punished us as much as he punished them?
8 Bawipa ni a taminaw hah ramlouk lah bout bout ceisaknae lahoi runae a poe. Kanîtholae kahlî a tho toteh, amae a kâko hoi puenghoi ka tâcawt e kahlî hoi ahnimouh hah peng a takhoe.
[No, he has not done that], [but] he punished us Israeli people and (exiled us/forced us to leave our country); we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
9 Hatdawkvah, Jakop miphun teh, ahnimouh hno lahoi, amae yon hah a tha teh, thuengnae khoungroe talung kaawm e pueng hah talungpangaw patetlah rekrek a hem teh, Asherah khom hoi meikaphawknaw hah parawp toteh, hot hateh, amamouh yon takhoenae hoi ka kawi e a paw lah ao han.
Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins, and remove our guilt. As a result [of our being exiled], all the altars to other gods [in Israel] will be demolished, and we will be forgiven for the sins that we have committed. There will be no more poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah, or altars for burning incense to other gods; they will all be torn down.
10 Bangkongtetpawiteh, kacaklah sak e kho teh, kingkadi e hmuen, kahrawng patetlah hnoun e hmuen lah ao han. Maitoca ni hote hmuen koe a pâ vaiteh, hote hmuen koe a i vaiteh, a dawn a kangnaw hah pekhli e patetlah ao sak han.
The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty; like the desert, they will have no one living in them. The houses will be abandoned, and the streets will be full of weeds. Calves will eat grass there and lie down there; they will chew up all the leaves on the trees.
11 A kangnaw a ke toteh a khoe awh han. Napuinaw ni tho awh vaiteh, hmai a sawi awh han. Bangkongtetpawiteh, hete miphunnaw teh hmuthainae kaawm hoeh e naw lah ao awh. Hatdawkvah, ahnimouh kasakkung ni ahnimanaw teh pahren awh mahoeh. Ahnimouh kacangkhaie ni ahnimouh koe hawinae sak pouh mahoeh.
[The Israeli people are like] [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires [under their cooking pots]. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.
12 Oe Isarelnaw, hote hnin dawkvah, Euphrates palangpui koehoi Izip palang totouh, BAWIPA ni cakang hah hem vaiteh, nangmanaw ni buet touh hnukkhu buet touh na rakhun awh han.
[However], there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together [again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people] separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them [back to Israel], one by one, from [the land between] the Euphrates River [in the northeast] and the brook at the border of Egypt [in the southwest].
13 Hote hnin dawkvah, kalenpounge mongka hah a ueng awh han. Siria ram dawk kahmat e taminaw hoi, Izip lah pâlei e taminaw teh, bout tho vaiteh, Jerusalem kho, kathounge mon dawkvah, BAWIPA hah a bawk awh han.
At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on [Zion], his holy hill.
