Jeremiah 23
1 Kaie saringnaw a pânae hmuen koe e kâkayeisakkung tukhoumnaw teh lungmathoe hanelah ao awh, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.
2 Hatdawkvah, BAWIPA Isarel Cathut ni ka taminaw ka khoum e tukhoumnaw kong dawkvah, hettelah a dei, ka saringhu hah na kâkayei sak awh, na pâlei awh teh, na khenyawn awh hoeh. Khenhaw! na sak awh e yonnae kecu dawk na tho sin han telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the pastors that feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold I will visit upon you for the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.
3 Ka saringhu, kacawirae ka saringhu hah ka pâlei ram dawk hoi ka pâkhueng vaiteh, ngai ka tho poung e a paw ka paw e lah awm awh vaiteh, a pungdaw awh han.
And I will gather together the remnant of my flock, out of all the lands into which I have cast them out: and I will make them return to their own fields, and they shall increase and be multiplied.
4 Ahnimouh ka kawk hane tukhoumnaw hah ka pouk pouh han, taki puennae awm hoeh toung vaiteh, kângairu awh mahoeh toe. Kahmat e hai awm mahoeh toe, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
And I will set up pastors over them, and they shall feed them: they shall fear no more, and they shall not be dismayed: and none shall be wanting of their number, saith the Lord.
5 Khenhaw! Devit hanelah kalan e cakang ka kangdue sak hane atueng hah a pha tawmlei toe, telah BAWIPA ni a dei. Siangpahrang buet touh ni a uk vaiteh, a hmacawn han, talai van lawkcengnae hoi lannae a kuep sak han.
Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise, and shall execute judgement and justice in the earth.
6 Ahnimae tueng nah Judah teh, rungngang lah ao vaiteh, Isarel teh karoumcalah ao han. Hahoi, a min teh BAWIPA teh kaimae lannae tie lah ao han.
In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: the Lord our just one.
7 Hatdawkvah, khenhaw! atueng a pha tawmlei, BAWIPA ni ati. Isarelnaw Izip ram hoi ka tâcawtkhaikhung BAWIPA teh a hring e patetlah tet awh mahoeh toe.
Therefore behold the days to come, saith the Lord, and they shall say no more: The Lord liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt:
8 Tung lae ram hoi a pâleinae ramnaw thung hoi Isarel imthung a tâcokhai teh, bout kabankhaikung BAWIPA a hring e patetlah tet awh vaiteh amamae ram dawk khosak awh han.
But the Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither the seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of all the lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in their own land.
9 Profetnaw kecu dawk ka lungthin thung vah a rek. Ka hrunaw hai koung kâhuet, yamu ka parui e tami patetlah doeh ka o, BAWIPA hoi kathounge a lawk kecu dawk yamu ni rektap e patetlah ka o.
To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones tremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his holy words.
10 Bangkongtetpawiteh, ram teh uicuknae hoi a kawi teh, thoebo e kecu dawk ram ni a khui awh. Kahrawng hmuen kahawi pueng koung a ka toe. A hringnae lamthung hah a payon teh, a thaonae hai lan hoeh.
Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike.
11 Bangkongtetpawiteh, profetnaw hoi vaihmanaw ni CAthut hah bang lah noutna awh hoeh. Hawihoehnae naw hah ka imthung vah ka hmu telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
12 Hatdawkvah, a lamthung pueng teh khohmo vah ka pâhnan e lamthung patetlah ao han. Hote lamthung dawk pâlei e lah awm vaiteh, ka pâhnan e dawk koung a rawp awh han. Bangkongtetpawiteh, ahnimouh lathueng vah kathoute reknae hah ka pha sak han, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the dark: for they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evils upon them, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.
13 Samaria profetnaw dawkvah, panuettho e hah ka hmu, Baal kampang lahoi lawk hah a dei awh teh, Isarelnaw hah lampaihei lah a ceikhai awh.
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal, and deceived my people Israel.
14 Jerusalem e profetnaw dawk hai takitho poung e hno hah ka hmu, a uicuknae dawk a luen awh teh, laithoe hoi kho a sak awh. Apihai a thoenae dawk hoi a ban awh hoeh nahanelah, yonnae kasaknaw e kut hah a thao sak awh. Kai hanelah teh Sodom khonaw patetlah doeh ao. A kho thung e taminaw pueng hai Gomorrah kho e taminaw hoi a kâvan awh.
And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hand of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings: that are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.
15 Hatdawkvah, profetnaw kong dawk ransahu BAWIPA ni hettelah a dei, khenhaw! amamae cai kakhat hoi ka kawk vaiteh, kakhat e tui hah ka nei sak han. Bangkongtetpawiteh, Jerusalem e profetnaw kecu dawk ram thung pueng dawk Cathut taki teh bari hoeh nae hah a tâco.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold I will feed them with wormwood, and I will give them gall to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption has gone forth into all the land.
16 Ransahu BAWIPA ni hettelah a dei, profet ni nangmouh koe a dei awh e lawk hah ngai pouh hanh awh. Bang hoeh e hah na cangkhai awh. BAWIPA e pahni dawk hoi ka tâcawt e nahoeh niteh, amamae lungpouk e hah ouk a dei awh.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.
17 Kai na kadudamnaw koevah, roumnae ka hmu awh han, BAWIPA ni ati, telah pout laipalah rek a dei awh. Amamae lungthin thung a ngaihawi e patetlah kacetnaw koevah, thoenae nangmae lathueng vah phat mahoeh telah ati awh.
They say to them that blaspheme me: The Lord hath said: You shall have peace: and to every one that walketh in the perverseness of his own heart, they have said: No evil shall come to you.
18 Bangkongtetpawiteh, BAWIPA khokhangnae hah apimaw ka hrawk boi, a lawk dawk hoi kapanuekkung apimaw kaawm. Hoeh pawiteh, a lawk teh lawkpui lah pouk teh apinimaw a thai boi vaw.
For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?
19 Khenhaw! ka patawpoung katang e, bongparui BAWIPA lungkhueknae bongparui hah a tâco toe, tamikathoutnaw e lû dawk ka patawpoung e lah a bo han.
Behold the whirlwind of the Lord’s indignation shall come forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.
20 BAWIPA lungkhueknae teh ban mahoeh, a lungthung a noe tangcoung e teh, a kuep sak vaiteh, a cum hoehroukrak ban mahoeh toe. A hnuktengpoung e hnin ka kuepcalah na panue awh han doeh.
The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.
21 Profet patoun ngai laipalah a yawng awh, ahnimouh koe ka dei pouh hoeh hai lawk a dei awh.
I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 Kaie khokhannae dawk awm van pawiteh, ka lawk heh ka taminaw koe pâpho van vaiteh, a yonnae dawk hoi pankângai awh han ei.
If they stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way and from their wicked doings.
23 Kahlat lah kaawm e Cathut nahoeh niteh, a hnaicanae koe kaawm e CAthut lah maw ka o, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
24 Ka hmu thai hoeh nahanlah ka kâhrawk thai e ao awh maw, telah BAWIPA ni a dei. Talai hoi kalvan dawk ka kawi nahoehmaw, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
25 Mang ka mang, mang ka mang ti teh ka min lahoi laithoe ka dei e profetnaw ni dei e lawk hah ka thai.
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, and say: I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 Laithoe ouk ka dei e profet a ma hoi a lungthin a kâdum teh lawk ouk ka dei e lungthin dawk nâtotouh maw ao han.
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?
27 Ahni ni a imri koe a mang lah a dei pouh teh, a napanaw ni Baal kecu dawk ka min a pahnim e patetlah ka taminaw hah ka min pahnim sak hanelah a kâcai awh.
Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbor: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
28 Mang ka tawn e profet ni a mang hah dei naseh, kaie lawk ka tawn e profet ni kaie lawk hah yuemkamcu lah dei naseh, cahik hoi cahuem ni bangne kâvannae a tawn, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?
29 Ka lawk teh hmai patetlah talung rekkâbawng lah ka dêi thai e cakkin patetlah awm hoeh namaw, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Are not my words as a fire, saith the Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
30 Hatdawkvah, thai awh haw! kaie lawk ouk ka parawt e profet hah ka taran doeh, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Therefore behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words every one from his neighbor.
31 Khenhaw! a lai ka pâhnan e profet BAWIPA ni a dei, ka tet e hah ka taran doeh, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Behold I am against the prophets, saith the Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord saith it.
32 Khenhaw! a mang hah laithoe a dei teh, kâhat laipalah a dei awh e laithoe lahoi, lam teng lah ka taminaw kacetsakkung, profet hah ka taran doeh telah BAWIPA ni a dei. Hateiteh, ahnimouh ka patoun teh kâ ka poe hoeh. Hatdawkvah, taminaw hawinae poe kalawn hoeh, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.
33 Tamimaya thungup hoi thoseh, profetnaw thung hoi thoseh, vaihmanaw thung hoi thoseh, BAWIPA ni a pâpho e bangne telah na pacei awh pawiteh, hettelah na dei pouh han, bang lawk pâpho e maw, nangmanaw totouh na ceitakhai awh han, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
If therefore this people, or the prophet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them: You are the burden: for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.
34 Profet thoseh, vaihma thoseh, tami buetbuet touh thoseh, BAWIPA e pâpho lawk ao ka tet e tami awm pawiteh, hote tami hoi a imthung hah kai ni ka rek han.
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people that shall say: The burden of the Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his house.
35 Hottelah tami bangpatet nihai, a imri thoseh, a hmaunawngha koe thoseh, BAWIPA ni bangtelamaw a pathung, BAWIPA ni bangne a dei telah a pacei awh han.
Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and to his brother: What hath the Lord answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?
36 BAWIPA ni a pâpho e doeh katetkung hah teh, na dei awh mahoeh toe. Bangkongtetpawiteh, tami bangpatet hai amae lawk hah ama hanelah a pâpho e lah kaawm han.
And the burden of the Lord shall be mentioned no more, for every man’s word shall be his burden: for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.
37 Profet koevah, BAWIPA ni bangtelamaw na pathung, BAWIPA ni bangmaw a dei, na ti pouh han.
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath the Lord spoken?
38 Nangmouh ni BAWIPA e pâpho lawk doeh na ti awh dawkvah, BAWIPA ni a dei e teh, BAWIPA e pâpho lawk ao na ti awh hoeh nahanlah, kai ni kâ na poe awh eiteh, nangmouh ni BAWIPA e pâpho lawk ao na ti awh e lawk na hno awh dawkvah,
But if you shall say: The burden of the Lord: therefore thus saith the Lord: Because you have said this word: The burden of the Lord: and I have sent to you saying: Say not, The burden of the Lord:
39 thaihaw! betbet na sawn awh han. Kai koe na onae koehoi na tâkhawng awh han, nangmouh hoi na khopui, nangmouh koe thoseh, na mintoenaw koe thoseh, na poe awh e hoi,
Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out of my presence.
40 a yungyoe pathoenae hoi kayayeirai pahnim thai e lah kaawm hoeh e hah nangmouh koe ka pha sak han.
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall never be forgotten.
