Lawkcengkung 10
1 Abimelek hnukkhu Isarelnaw ka rungngang hanlah Issakhar miphun thung e Dodo capa, Puah capa Tola a tâco teh Ephraim mon Shamir vah ao.
After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
2 Kum 23 touh thung Isarelnaw a uk teh, hat hnukkhu hoi a due. Shamir vah a pakawp awh.
He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
3 Ahni hnukkhu Gilead tami lawkcengkung Jair a tâco. Kum 22 touh thung Isarel hah a uk.
After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.
4 A capa 30 touh lacanaw dawk ouk kâcui e a tawn. Gilead ram dawk kaawm e kho 30 touh hai a tawn. Hahoi atu totouh Havath Jair telah ati awh.
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
5 Hahoi Jair teh a due toe. Kamon vah a pakawp awh.
Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
6 Isarelnaw ni BAWIPA mithmu vah yonnae bout a sak awh. Baal hoi Ashtaroth, Siria cathut hoi Sidon cathut, Moab cathut, Ammon cathutnaw e a thaw hoiyah Filistinnaw e cathut thaw hah a tawk awh. Jehovah a pahnawt awh teh, a thaw tawk awh hoeh toe.
The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD, and didn’t serve him.
7 Hahoi BAWIPA ni Isarelnaw taranlahoi a lungkhuek teh Filistin hoi Ammonnaw e kut dawk koung a yo.
The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
8 Jordan palang namran Amor catounnaw e ram Gilead ram kaawm e Isarel catoun kaawm e pueng hah hatnae kum hoi kamtawng teh kum 18 touh thung a rektap awh.
They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9 Ammon miphunnaw ni hai Jordan palang a raka awh teh, Judah miphun, Benjamin miphun, Ephraim miphunnaw a tuk awh teh, Isarelnaw teh puenghoi a reithai awh.
The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
10 Hahoi Isarelnaw ni, mamae BAWIPA pahnawt awh teh BAWIPA koe yon awh toe. Baal cathut e thaw ka tawk awh toe telah BAWIPA koe a hram awh.
The children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
11 BAWIPA ni Isarelnaw koe Izipnaw hoi Amornaw, Ammonnaw hoi Filistinnaw thung hoi kai ni na rungngang awh nahoehmaw.
The LORD said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
12 Sidonnaw, Ameleknaw, Moannaw ni hai na rektap awh navah, kai na kaw awh teh, a kut dawk hoi na rungngang awh.
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
13 Hatei, nangmouh ni kai na pahnawt awh teh, alouke cathutnaw e thaw na tawk takhai dawkvah, kai ni bout na rungngang awh mahoeh toe.
Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
14 Na kârawi awh e cathut koe hram awh lawih khe. Ama ni na reithainae tueng dawk na rungngang naseh, telah atipouh.
Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
15 Isarelnaw niyah, BAWIPA koe ka payonae awh toe. Nang nama ni ahawi na tie lahoi kaimouh ka tak dawk sak nateh, atu vai touh dueng mah kaimouh na rungngang ei hottelah atipouh.
The children of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”
16 Hottelah alouke cathutnaw a pahnawt awh teh, BAWIPA e thaw a tawk awh. Hahoi teh, Isarelnaw ni rucatnae kecu dawk a lungpataw awh.
They put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
17 Hahoi Ammonnaw ni cungtalah a kamkhueng awh teh, Gilead vah a roe awh. Hahoi Isarelnaw ni king a kamkhueng awh teh, Mizpah vah a roe awh.
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.
18 Gilead kahrawikungnaw tami buet touh hoi buet touh a kâdei awh teh, apinimaw Ammonnaw hmaloe a tuk han, hote tami teh Gilead kho lathueng vah kahrawikung lah awm seh atipouh.
The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
