Sam 68
1 Kathutkung: Devit Cathut, thaw nateh tarannaw koung kâkayei naseh. Cathut kahmuhmanaw teh ama koehoi yawng awh naseh.
God, arise and scatter your enemies, and cause those who hate you to run away from you.
2 Hmaikhu a kahma e patetlah ahnimouh teh koung kahmat naseh. Khoilai teh hmai hma lah a kamyawt e patetlah, tamikathoutnaw teh Cathut hmalah kahmat awh naseh.
Like [wind] blows smoke away, chase your enemies away. Like wax melts when it is near a fire, cause wicked people to (disappear/be destroyed).
3 Hatei, tamikalannaw teh lunghawi laihoi Cathut hmalah konawm awh naseh. Bokheiyah, puenghoi konawm awh naseh.
But righteous people should be joyful; they should rejoice when they are in God’s presence; they should be happy, and be very joyful.
4 Cathut koe la sak hoi a min pholen la sak awh. Tâmai dawk kâcuie hateh pholen awh nateh, a min teh BAWIPA, pholen laihoi a hmalah lunghawi awh.
Sing to God; sing to praise him; sing a song (OR, make a road) for him who rides on the clouds; his name is Yahweh; be glad when you are in his presence.
5 Na pa ka tawn hoeh naw e napa, lahmainunaw karingkung, Cathut teh hmuen kathoung koe ao.
God, who lives in his sacred temple, is [like] [MET] a father to [those who are] orphans, and he is the one who protects widows.
6 Cathut ni amadueng kho ka sak e hah imthung a poe teh, paung e naw hai tawntanae hmuen koe a hrawi. Hatei, tarankathawnaw teh kenae hmuen koe ao sak.
For those who have no one to live with, he provides families [to live with]. He frees prisoners and enables them to be successful, but those who rebel [against him] will be forced to live in a very hot and dry land.
7 Oe Cathut na taminaw hrawi hanelah na tâco teh, kahrawngum vah hmalah na cei navah, (Selah)
God, you led your people out [of Egypt], and then you marched with them through the desert.
8 Talai a kâhuet teh, Cathut hmalah kalvan ni kho a rak sak. Sinai mon teh Cathut hmalah, Isarel Cathut hmalah a kâhuet.
After you did that, because when you, the God [worshiped by us] Israeli people, appeared to us at Sinai [Mountain], the earth shook, and rain poured down from the sky.
9 Oe Cathut nang ni kho thouk na rak sak teh, na râw taminaw ka patang e hah na kabawp.
You caused plenty of rain to fall [on your land], [and so] you enabled good crops to grow again on the land that you gave [to us Israelis].
10 Hawvah na tamimaya teh kho a sak awh. Oe Cathut, nang ni ka mathoenaw hah na hawinae hoi na kawk.
Your people built homes there; and because you were good to them, you provided [food] for those who were poor.
11 BAWIPA ni lawk a dei teh, hote kong ka dei e tamimaya teh ao.
The Lord gave a message, and many women took that message to other places.
12 Siangpahrang e ransanaw teh a yawng awh teh, im ka ring e napuinaw ni lawphno a kârei awh.
[They proclaimed], “Many kings and their armies are running away [from our army]!” [When our army brought back to their homes] the things that they captured, the women who were at home divided up those things [among themselves and among their families].
13 Tutakha thung na ka ip nakunghai, ngun hoi pathoup e bakhu rathei patetlah thoseh, sui hoi pathoup e rathei muen patetlah thoseh, na o awh han.
Even those women who were in the pens [taking care of] the sheep [received some of those things]; they got statues of doves whose wings were covered with silver and whose feathers were covered with pure yellow gold.
14 Athakasaipounge Cathut ni siangpahrangnaw a kayei navah, Zalmon mon dawk e ka pangaw e tadamtui patetlah ao.
When Almighty [God] scattered the [enemy] kings [and their armies], [the number of weapons that they abandoned there] seemed like there had been a snowstorm on Zalmon (OR, a black) [Mountain].
15 Bashan mon teh Cathut e mon lah ao teh, Bashan mon dawk monsom moikapap ao.
There is a very high mountain in the Bashan [region], a mountain which has many peaks.
16 Monsomnaw bangkongmaw utsinnae mit hoi na hmaiet awh. Hetheh, Cathut ni o han ngainae mon lah ao. BAWIPA teh hawvah pou ao han.
But the [people who live near] that mountain should not [RHQ] envy those who live near [Zion], the mountain on which God chose to live! Yahweh will live there forever!
17 Cathut e lengnaw teh a thong thong hra hlak moi apap. BAWIPA teh Sinai mon, hmuenkathoung koe ao e patetlah ahnimouh koe ao.
[After we defeated all our enemies], [it was as though] the Lord, surrounded by many thousands of strong chariots, descended from Sinai [Mountain] and came into the sacred temple [in Jerusalem].
18 Arasangnae koe na luen teh, tami moikapap na man teh, BAWIPA Cathut teh taminaw koe ao thai nahanlah, tami koehoi dueng laipalah, ka taran e taminaw koe totouh poehno hah a dâw.
He ascended the sacred mountain [where his temple is], and took with him many people who had been captured [in battles]; and received gifts from the enemies [whom he had defeated]. He received gifts even from those who had rebelled against him, and Yahweh our God will live there [in his sacred temple] forever.
19 Hnintangkuem hnori na ka hlai e Bawipa, rungngangnae Cathut teh pholen lah awm lawiseh.
Praise the Lord, who [helps us] carry our heavy loads every day; he is the one who saves/rescues us.
20 Cathut teh rungngangnae Cathut doeh. Duenae koehoi hloutnae hai Bawipa Jehovah e doeh.
Our God is the God who saves us; He is Yahweh, our Lord, the one who (allows us to escape/prevents us) from being killed [in battles].
21 Hateiteh, Cathut ni a tarannaw lû thoseh, yon pou kasaknaw e sam onae lû roeroe thoseh, hmâ a ca sak han.
But God will smash the heads of his enemies, the skulls of those who continue to behave sinfully.
22 Bawipa ni Bansan hoi ka bankhai vaiteh, ka dungpoung e talîpui koehoi bout ka bankhai han.
The Lord said, “I will bring back the [corpses of those who were killed in] Bashan, and I will bring back those who sank deep in the ocean [and drowned].
23 Na khok ni na taran thi coungroe vaiteh, na uinaw ni hai a palem awh han telah ati.
I will do that in order that you may wash your feet in their blood, and your dogs can [also] lap up some of your enemies’ blood.”
24 Oe Cathut, hmuen kathoung koe na tho e, ka Cathut, kaie Siangpahrang na tho e hah a hmu awh toe.
God, many people see you march triumphantly into your sacred temple, [celebrating that you have defeated your enemies]. You [march like] a king does, and a large crowd walks with you.
25 La kasakkungnaw hmalah a cei awh teh, tumkhawng katumnaw ni a kâbang awh. A lungui vah tanglanaw ni tâbaw a khawng awh.
The singers are in front, and the people who play stringed instruments are at the rear, and young women who are beating their tambourines are between them.
26 Kamkhueng e maya thung dawk, Cathut Isarel hringnae a kung, BAWIPA teh pholen awh.
[They are all singing], “You Israeli people, praise God when you gather together; praise Yahweh, all you who are descendants of Jacob!”
27 Hawvah, cahnoung Benjamin hoi kahrawikung ao. Judah bawinaw a huinaw ni a kâbang teh Zebulun hoi Naphtali bawinaw ni a kâbang awh.
First come [the people of the tribe of] Benjamin, the smallest [tribe], and following them come the leaders of [the tribe of] Judah and their group, and following them come the leaders of [the tribes of] Zebulun and Naphtali.
28 Na Cathut ni na thaonae teh kâ a poe toe. Oe Cathut kaimouh hanlah na sak tangcoung e patetlah hoehoe thasai sak haw.
God, show people that you are very powerful; show people the power with which you have helped us previously.
29 Jerusalem e na bawkim kecu, siangpahrangnaw ni poehno a sin awh han.
Show that power from your temple in Jerusalem, where kings bring gifts to you.
30 Lungpum um e sarangnaw hai thoseh, maitotannaw hoi, maitolanaw hai thoseh, a yue teh, tangka hoi kârahnoum awh naseh. Tarantuk ka ngai e miphunnaw hah, koung kayei naseh.
Rebuke [your enemies, such as those in Egypt who are like] wild hippopotamuses/animals that live in the reeds; and [powerful nations that are like] bulls that are among their calves [MET]; rebuke/trample them until they bow down and give you gifts of silver. Scatter the people who enjoy making wars.
31 Izip hoi laiceinaw tho awh vaiteh, Ethiopianaw ni Cathut koe karang poung lah a kut a dâw awh han.
Then people will bring gifts of bronze (OR, of cloth) to you from Egypt; the people in Ethiopia will lift up their hands [to praise you].
32 Talai siangpahrang uknae Cathut koe la sak laihoi Bawipa pholen laihoi la sak awh. (Selah)
[You people who are citizens of] kingdoms/countries all over the world, sing to God! Sing praises to the Lord!
33 Ayan vah, kalvannaw e kalvan kâcuie koevah, athakaawme lawk, a lawk roeroe a tâco sak.
Sing to the God, the one who rides across the sky, the sky that [he created] long ago. Listen as he shouts with a very powerful voice.
34 Cathut koe thaonae hah poe awh. A lawkpuilah, ahawinae hah Isarelnaw lathueng ao. A thaonae teh tâmai dawkvah ao.
Proclaim that God is very powerful; he is the king that rules over Israel, and in the skies [he also shows that] he is powerful.
35 Oe Cathut, na hmuen kathoung hlak hai takithohnawn. Isarel Cathut teh a taminaw thaonae hoi hnotithainae kapoekung doeh. Cathut teh pholen lah awm lawiseh.
God is awesome as he comes out of his sacred temple; he is the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship]. He makes [DOU] his people very powerful. Praise God!
