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 shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says 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 the LORD, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says 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.

“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply.

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.

I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says 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,” says the LORD, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

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 his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: The LORD our righteousness.

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 come,” says the LORD, “that they will no more say, ‘As the LORD lives, 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, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will 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.

Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because 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.

“For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

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 both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says 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 will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says 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.

“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

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.

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

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 the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out 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.

The LORD of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. 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 continually to those who despise me, ‘The LORD has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on 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 has stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my 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 LORD’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on 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 LORD’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.

21 Profet patoun ngai laipalah a yawng awh, ahnimouh koe ka dei pouh hoeh hai lawk a dei awh.

I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak 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.

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their 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 a God at hand,” says 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.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says 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 have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

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 will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit 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.

They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name because of 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 who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says 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.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks 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,” says the LORD, “who each steal my words from his neighbour.

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,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’

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 those who prophesy lying dreams,” says the LORD, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says 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.

“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says 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.

As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ I will even punish that man and his household.

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.

You will say everyone to his neighbour, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD said?’

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.

You will mention the message from the LORD no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of Armies, our God.

37 Profet koevah, BAWIPA ni bangtelamaw na pathung, BAWIPA ni bangmaw a dei, na ti pouh han.

You will say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and, ‘What has 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,

Although you say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ therefore the LORD says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from the LORD,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from 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 utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.

40 a yungyoe pathoenae hoi kayayeirai pahnim thai e lah kaawm hoeh e hah nangmouh koe ka pha sak han.

I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”