Jeremiah 5
1 Jerusalem khothung vah yawng nateh, thongma hoi khen nateh panuek awh. Thongma tanghling hah khen awh nateh, tami buet touh banghai lawkkatang ka tawng e lawkcengkung na hmawt awh pawiteh Jerusalem teh ka ngaithoum han.
“Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see now and know, And seek in her broad places, If you find a man, If there is one doing judgment, Seeking steadfastness—Then I am propitious to her.
2 BAWIPA a hring telah a dei awh nakunghai, laithoe hoi thoe a kâbo awh.
And if they say, YHWH lives, Surely they swear to a falsehood.”
3 Oe, BAWIPA lawkkatang teh, hmu han na ngai e nahoehmaw. Na hem awh nakunghai ka lung mathout hoeh. Na raphoe nakunghai, na tounnae hah tawm ngai awh hoeh. Lungsongpui hlak hai a pata teh, a tampanaw hah a te sak teh bout ban ngai kalawn aw hoeh.
YHWH, Your eyes, are they not on steadfastness? You have struck them, and they have not grieved, You have consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.
4 Hatdawkvah, kai ni, hetnaw heh tami karoedengnaw doeh, ahnimouh teh a pathu awh, bangkongtetpawiteh, BAWIPA e lam hoi amamae Cathut lawkcengnae hah panuek awh hoeh.
And I said, “Surely these [are] poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of YHWH, The judgment of their God.
5 Tami kalentoenaw koe ka cei vaiteh, ahnimouh koe lawk ka dei han. bangkongtetpawiteh, ahnimouh ni, BAWIPA e lam hoi amamae Cathut lawkcengnae han a panue awh, telah ka ti. Hateiteh, hetnaw ni, lungthin suetalah kahnam hah a khoe awh teh, kateknae rui a rathap awh.
I go to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of YHWH, The judgment of their God.” Surely they have broken the yoke together, They have drawn away the bands.
6 Hatdawkvah, ratu thung e sendek ni ahnimouh teh a kei awh han. Asui ni a raphoe awh han. Takai ni khopui pawm vaiteh, ka tâcawt e pueng vekrasen lah a phi han. Bangkongtetpawiteh, lawkeknae hah apap teh, hnuklah kamlangnae apap poung.
Therefore a lion out of the forest has struck them, A wolf of the deserts spoils them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Everyone who is going out of them is torn, For their transgressions have been many, Their backslidings have been mighty.
7 Hete hno dawk, bangtelamaw na ngaithoum thai han. Na canaw ni na ceitakhai awh teh, Cathut lah kaawmhoehnaw koe lah thoe a kâbo awh. Kaboumcalah ka kawkhik torei teh, a uicuk awh teh, tak kâyawt e im vah, a kamkhueng awh te, a yon awh.
“I am not propitious to you for this, Your sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by [those who are] not gods, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.
8 King kaboumlah rawca ka cat e marang patetlah ao awh, tami pueng ni amamae imri e a yunaw hah a nôe awh teh a cairing sin awh.
Fed horses—they have been early risers, They each neigh to the wife of his neighbor.
9 Hete hnonaw kecu dawkvah, ka rek mahoeh namaw telah BAWIPA ni ati, hot patet e miphun lathueng vah, ka pathung mahoeh namaw.
Do I not lay a charge for these?” A declaration of YHWH, “And on a nation such as this, Does My soul not avenge itself?
10 A rapan dawkvah, kâen nateh, koung raphoe awh. Hateiteh, abuemlah teh raphoe hanh awh, a cakang hah lat awh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, BAWIPA e nahoeh.
Go up on her walls, and destroy, And I do not make a completion, Turn her branches aside, For they [are] not YHWH’s,
11 Bangkongtetpawiteh, Isarel imthung naw hoi Judah imthung ni ka lathueng vah, huenghai hawi a sak awh, telah BAWIPA ni a dei.
For the house of Israel has dealt treacherously against Me, And the house of Judah,” A declaration of YHWH.
12 BAWIPA teh laikathout e lah a pouk awh teh, ahni ni banghai tet katang mahoeh, rucatnae hai maimouh lathueng phat sak katang mahoeh, tahloi hoi takang hai kâhmo katang mahoeh.
They have lied against YHWH, And they say, “[It is] not He, Nor does evil come in against us, Indeed, we do not see sword and famine.
13 Profetnaw teh kahlî doeh, ahnimouh dawk lawkkatang awm hoeh, hatdawkvah ahnimae a lawk teh amamouh hanelah awm yawkaw seh, ati awh.
And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them, Thus it is done to them.”
14 Hatdawkvah kalvan ransabawi ni hettelah a dei, ahnimanaw ni hete lawk a dei tangcoung dawkvah, kai ni ka lawknaw heh na pahni dawk hmai lah ka o sak vaiteh he e taminaw heh thing lah kacoungsak vaiteh hmai ni koung a kak awh han.
Therefore, thus said YHWH, God of Hosts: “Because of your speaking this word, Behold, I am making My words become fire in your mouth, And this people wood, And it has devoured them.
15 Oe Isarel imthungkhunaw, nangmanaw ka tuk hanelah kho hlanae koehoi miphun thasai ka kaw han, ayan hoi kaawm boi e tha kaawm poung, nangmouh ni a lawk na thai panuek awh hoeh e taminaw ka kaw han, telah BAWIPA ni a ti.
Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel,” A declaration of YHWH, “It [is] a strong nation, It [is] an ancient nation, A nation whose tongue you do not know, Nor understand what it speaks.
16 Ahnimae palanaw teh sut kamawng e phuen lah ao teh abuemlahoi thakasai pong e lah ao awh.
Its quiver [is] as an open tomb, All of them—mighty ones.
17 Ahnimouh ni na tangcoung e cang hai na ca han e rawca pueng haiyah koung a ca vaiteh, na capanaw hoi na canunaw ni a ca awh hane hai koung a ca awh han. Na maitonaw hoi na tunaw hai a ca han, na misurkung hoi thaibunglungnaw hai a ca han, rapan ka tawn e khonaw hai telah hoi koung a raphoe awh han.
And it has consumed your harvest and your bread, They consume your sons, and your daughters, It consumes your flock, and your herd, It consumes your vine and your fig tree, It makes your fortified cities poor, In which you are trusting—by the sword.
18 Hahoi teh hatnae hnin nah kai ni koung na pathup awh mahoeh, telah BAWIPA ni a ti.
And even in those days,” A declaration of YHWH, “I do not make you a completion.
19 Taminaw ni, bangkongmaw maimouh BAWIPA Cathut ni hettelah maimouh van hno a sak vai. Telah na pacei awh vah, nangmouh ni ahnimouh koe, “nangmouh ni kai na hnoun awh teh ramlouk cathut thaw hah na ram thung na sak van awh e patetlah, atu na ramdawk e laipalah ram alouke thaw teh na tawk a han toe teh poeh, telah BAWIPA ni a pâpho.
And it has come to pass, when you say, Why has our God YHWH done all these [things] to us? That you have said to them, As you have forsaken Me, And serve the gods of a foreigner in your land, So you serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.
20 Hete lawk heh Jakop imthungkhu koe dei poeh, Judah ram thung vah pâpho awh.
Declare this in the house of Jacob, And sound it in Judah, saying,
21 Oe nangmouh tamipathu hoi panuenae laipalah, mit na tawn awh eiteh, kahmawthoehnaw, hnâ na tawn awh eiteh kathaihoehnaw hetheh thai awh haw.
Now hear this, O people, foolish and without heart, They have eyes, and they do not see, They have ears, and they do not hear.
22 Na taket awh hoeh maw. Telah BAWIPA ni a dei. Ka hmalah na pâyaw awh mahoeh maw. Kai ni tuipui teng vah langri hanlah sadi ka sak, tapoung thai hoeh nahan yungyoe sak hanelah ao. Tuipui tuicapa ka tho nakunghai, tapoung thai mahoeh.
Do you not fear Me?” A declaration of YHWH; “Are you not pained from My presence? Who has made sand the border of the sea, A perpetual limit, and it does not pass over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Indeed, its billows have sounded, and they do not pass over.
23 Hatei ka taminaw ni a lungpata awh teh taranthawnae lungthin a tawn awh; tarantuk hanlah a yawng awh.
And this people has an apostatizing and rebelling heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.
24 Amamouh roeroe ni a lungthin hoi hai, “a tue nah hmaloe kho hoi hnuk ten kho ka rak sakkung, canga tue nah ka kesakkung, BAWIPA maimae Cathut heh takhet awh haw sei”, tet awh hoeh.
And they have not said in their heart, Now let us fear our God YHWH, who is giving rain, The autumn rain and the spring rain, in its season, He keeps the appointed weeks of harvest for us.
25 Namamae na sak payonnae ni hetnaw pueng heh a kahma sak teh, na yonnae naw pueng koung a ngang.
Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.
26 Ka taminaw rahak vah tamikathoutnaw ao teh tangkam kapatûngnaw ni tava a pawp awh e patetlah a pawp awh teh tangkam heh a patung pouh awh.
For the wicked have been found among My people. He watches like one who sets snares, They have set up a trap—they capture men.
27 Tapawm dawk tava a kawi e patetlah, a im dawk dumnae hai akawi, a bawi awh teh hnopai moikapap tawn awh.
As a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
28 Athaw awh teh minhmai a kâpi awh. Tamikathoutnaw ni sak e ka tapuetlah thoenae a sak awh, hno kathout saknae ni, na pa katawnhoehnaw koe laidei awh hoeh, roedengnaw ni hmu han kawi koelah kangdoutkhai awh hoeh.
They have been fat, they have shone, Indeed, they have surpassed the acts of the evil, They have not judged judgment, The judgment of the fatherless—and they prosper, And they have not judged the judgment of the needy.
29 Hete hnonaw dawkvah sak laipalah ka o han namaw telah BAWIPA ni a dei. Het patetlae miphunnaw lathueng moipathung laipalah ka o han namaw.
Do I not inspect for these,” A declaration of YHWH, “On a nation such as this, Does My soul not avenge itself?
30 Kângairu hnonaw, hoi takikathopoung hno teh ram thungvah a sak awh.
An astonishing and horrible thing has been in the land:
31 Profetnaw ni laithoe a dei awh teh, vaihmanaw ni amamae kâ lahoi a uk awh. Het patetlae naw hah ka taminaw ni a lungpataw awh. Hatei a poutnae koe lah teh bangmaw na sak awh han.
The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved [it] so, And what do they do at its latter end?”
