Sam 113

1 Kathutkung: Panuekhoeh BAWIPA teh pholen awh. Oe BAWIPA e sannaw, pholen awh. BAWIPA min teh pholen awh.

Praise Yahweh! You people who serve Yahweh, praise him! Praise (him/his name)!

2 BAWIPA min teh atuhoi a yungyoe ditouh pholen lah awm lawiseh.

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 Kanîtho koehoi kanîloum totouh, BAWIPA min teh pholen lah awm lawiseh.

People who live in the east and people who live in the west, everyone, should praise Yahweh [MTY]!

4 BAWIPA teh miphun pueng e lathueng vah ao teh, a bawilennae teh kalvan hlak a rasang.

Yahweh rules [MTY] over all the nations, and high in the heavens he shows that his glory is very great.

5 A rasang hmuen koe ao eiteh, BAWIPA Cathut patetlah apimouh kaawm.

There is no one [RHQ] who is like Yahweh, our God, who lives/sits/rules in the highest heaven,

6 Kalvan e hno hoi talai hnonaw ka khen e BAWIPA patetlah apimaw kaawm.

and looks far down through the heavens and sees the [people on] the earth.

7 Mathoenaw hah vaiphu koehoi ka pathaw niteh, kavoutthoupnaw hah vaipuen koehoi a tawm teh,

[Sometimes] he lifts poor people up [so that they no longer sit in] the dirt; he helps needy [people so that they no longer sit on] heaps of ashes

8 bawinaw hai thoseh, a taminaw hoi cungtalah ao thai awh nahanelah thoseh hmuen a poe.

and causes them to [be honored] by sitting next to princes, the sons of the kings [who rule] their people.

9 Cakaroe e napui o nahan im a poe teh, camo ka tawn e napui patetlah a konawm. Hallelujah.

He also enables women who have no children to have a family; he causes them to be happy mothers. Praise Yahweh!