Nehemiah 5
1 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Hatnavah, napui tongpanaw ni a miphun lah kaawm e Judahnaw hah a taran awh teh puenghoi a hramki awh.
2 And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.
Tangawn ni kaimae canunaw hoi capanaw moi apap. Ahnimanaw ka paca hane nâ e rawca namaw ka la awh han ati awh.
3 And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.
Tangawn ni kaimae law, takha, imnaw hoi ka pâhung awh toe. Canei takangnae atueng nâ e maw ka hmu awh han vah ati awh.
4 And others said: Let us borrow money for the king’s tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:
Tangawn ni kaimouh ni siangpahrang koe aphawng poe hanelah law, takha naw hane tangka ka cawi awh toe.
5 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.
Atuvah maimae takthainaw teh miphun buet touh e takthai patetlah doeh ao. Maimae canaw teh ahnimae canaw patetlah doeh ao awh. Maimae canaw hah yo vaiteh, san lah o sak han namaw. San dawk kaawm e canunaw patenghai ratang thai awh hoeh. Law hoi misur takhanaw pueng ayânaw e kut dawk a pha toe ati awh.
6 And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to these words.
Hettelah hramnae lawk ka thai navah puenghoi ka lungkhuek.
7 And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,
Hahoi, kahawicalah kho ka pouk teh bawinaw hoi lawkcengkungnaw ka kaw teh, nangmouh ni na hmaunawngha koe bangkongmaw apung na ca awh vaw telah ka yue teh, hote kong kâpankhai nahanelah taminaw teh ka kamkhueng sak.
8 And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.
Jentelnaw koe kaawm e hmaunawngha Judah taminaw hah a coung thai totouh ka ratang awh teh, nangmouh ni hmaunawnghanaw bout na yo awh han rah maw, nangmouh ni hmaunawnghanaw bout na kâyo awh han rah maw telah ka yue teh lawkkamuem duem ao awh teh, pathung nahane lawk tawn awh hoeh toe.
9 And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies?
Hahoi kai ni, nangmouh ni na sak e hnonaw hawihoeh. Maimae taran lah kaawm e Jentelnaw ni na dudam awh han. Nangmouh ni Cathut taki laihoi hnokahawi sak kawi nahoehmaw ka ti pouh.
10 Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn to many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the debt that is owing to us.
Kai hoi hmaunawngha, ka sannaw ni taminaw koehoi e hnopai hoi cainaw kârei thai awh van nahoehmaw. Apung canae teh pâpout awh leih.
11 Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you mere wont to exact of them, give it rather for them.
Sahnin roeroe vah ahnimae law, takha, Olive takhanaw hoi imnaw amamouh koehoi na kâreikhai e cai, misurtui hoi satuinaw 100 touh dawk buet touh na la awh e pueng hai bout poe awh leih ka ti pouh.
12 And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of them: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath of them, to do according to what I had said.
Ahnimouh ni hai bout ka poe awh han toe. Banghai bout ka lat awh mahoeh toe. Na dei e patetlah ka sak awh han ati awh. Hahoi vaihmanaw ka kaw teh lawkkam e patetlah tawk hanelah lawkkamnae ka sak sak.
13 Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So may God shake every man that shall not accomplish this word, out of his house, and out of his labours, thus may he be shaken out, and become empty. And all the multitude said: Amen. And they praised God. And the people did according to what was said.
Kai ni hai kâkhu e ka kathuek teh, hete lawkkam ka tarawi hoeh e tami teh Cathut ni im dawk hoi thoseh, a thaw dawk hoi thoseh kathuek van naseh telah taminaw koe ka dei navah ahnimouh ni Amen telah ati awh. BAWIPA a pholen awh. Hahoi teh taminaw pueng ni lawkkam patetlah a tawksak awh.
14 And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors.
Judah ram ukkung lah ka o navah siangpahrang Artaxerxes kum 20 touh hoi kamtawng teh kum 32 totouh, kum 12 touh thung kai hoi ka hmaunawnghanaw ni ukkung e tamuk ka lat boi awh hoeh.
15 But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sides: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.
Ahmaloe ukkungnaw teh taminaw hanelah hnokari poung lah ao awh. Vaiyei hoi misurtui hai thoseh, hnin touh dawk sekel 40 touh a poe awh. Hothloilah a sannaw koehoi dumyennae hai a kâhmo awh. Hatei kai teh Cathut ka taki dawkvah hottelah ka sak hoeh.
16 Moreover I built in the work of the wall, and I bought no land, and all my servants were gathered together to the work.
Hothloilah, kai teh khopui rapan doeh pou ka pathoup. Kai hoi ka sannaw ni la ka ran awh hoeh. Khopui rapan pathoup hane doeh lungkângingcalah kâyawm awh.
17 The Jews also and the magistrates to the number of one hundred and fifty men, were at my table, besides them that came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
Hahoi miphun alouke hoi ka tho e dei laipalah, Judah miphunnaw hoi lawkcengkungnaw 150 touh ni ka caboi dawk rawca pou a ven awh.
18 And there was prepared for me day by day one ox, and six choice rams, besides fowls, and once in ten days I gave store of divers wines, and many other things: yet I did not require my yearly allowance as governor: for the people were very much impoverished.
Hnintangkuem maito buet touh, tu 6 touh hoi ânaw pou a thei awh hloilah, hnin 10 touh dawk vai touh misurtui aphunphun ka nei awh. Hettelah ka baw nakunghai taminaw ni puenghoi thaw a tawk awh dawkvah, khobawi ni pang hane kawi ka het boi awh hoeh.
19 Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done for this people.
OE ka Cathut, hete taminaw hanelah hnokahawi ka sak e dawkvah kai heh kahawi nahanelah na pahnim pouh hanh lah a.
