Jeremiah 12
1 Yahweh, whenever I tell you that I am unhappy [about what is happening to me], you [always] act justly/fairly. So now allow me to ask about one more thing [that I do not understand]: Why are wicked people [often] very prosperous? Why do things go very well for dishonest/wicked people?
Vo Pakai, adih’a thutan nangbou nahi. Hijeh chun, nakom’a kakiphinna thu sei-inge. Ipi dinga migiloute khangtou tou’uva, Chule joule nal a thilbol ho phatou touvu ham?
2 You allow them to prosper like [MET] trees that grow tall and bear [a lot of] fruit. They [always] say [MTY] good things about you, but their hearts are [really] far from you.
Nangin amaho naphut det in; Hijeh chun amahon ajung akho det un, chule akhang theiuve. Akam seh in namin apha jingun; Ahivangin, alungthim u nang’a konin agamla lheh e.
3 But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being. You see what I [do] and you are able to know what I am thinking. So drag away those [wicked] people, like [people drag away] sheep that they are going to butcher. Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
Hijongle, Vo Pakai nangman kei lungthim nahet ahi. Nangman keima neimuchen in, ka lunggel jong nei patep e. Amaho vang thadinga kikai kelngoi bang in, abonchauvin kaimang soh in, thadin gotsa koidoh jeng in.
4 This land is [RHQ] becoming very dry and even the grass is withering. The wild animals and the birds have [all] died because the people are [very] wicked. [All that has happened] because the people have said, “Yahweh does not know what we are doing (OR, what will happen to us)!”
Itihchan gamsung hi lunghem’a umding ham? Gamsung mite gitlou jeh in, gamsa ho leh vachate jong gamsunga kon in akithehmang sohtauve. Amahon hiti jong hin aseiuve, “Eihon ipi boljong leuhen, Pakaiyin bon muphalou” atiuve.
5 [Then to show me that I needed to be prepared to endure even greater difficulties, Yahweh said to me], [“It is as though] you have become exhausted from racing against men; so how will you be able to race against horses? If you [stumble and] fall when you are running on open/bare/smooth ground, what will happen to you when you are running through the thornbushes near the Jordan [River]?
Nangma mitoh nakenga nakilheitet’a bon nachol leh, nangman sakol iti na lheitet jou ding ham? Chule nangma chu, gamnom lai le a-ong laiya nakiselhuh theileh, Jordan vadung panga, gamnoiya iti nadin jou ding ham?
6 [Already] your brothers and [other members of] your own family oppose you. They (plot against/plan to do evil things to) you and they say bad things about you. So even if they say nice things about you, do not trust them!
Ajeh chu nasopite leh nang insung mite jong nangma douva pang ahiuve. Amahon nang dounan kiphinna thu aseiyun, thading jeng injong agel uve. Hijeh chun, amahon thu ngeitah tah seijongleu, tahsan hih beh in.
7 I have abandoned my [Israeli] people, the people whom I chose to belong to me. I have allowed their enemies to conquer the Israeli people, whom I love.
Keiman ka goulo ding kamite ka dalhah’a, amaho chu donlouva kakoi ahitai. Keiman ka-ittah kamite chu, amelmateu khut a kapehdoh ahitai.
8 My people have become to me like [SIM] a lion in the forest. [It is as though] they roar at me like a lion, so now I hate them.
Kalhentum kamiten eidouvun, gammang noiya keipi kisen bangin eikisenkhum’un: Hijeh chun, amahohi keiman kahot lheh jeng e.
9 My chosen people have [RHQ] become like speckled hawks that are surrounded by vultures [waiting to eat their flesh after they are dead]. Tell all the wild animals to come and eat [the flesh of their corpses].
Ka lhentum kamiten, muthong ho umchan athouve. Ahinla muthonghon amaho joh aumkimvel’u ahitai. Amaho negam dingle nengim dingin gamsa ho gakoukhomun.
10 Many rulers [from other countries have come with their armies and] devastated/destroyed my people [whom I care for like a farmer takes care of his] vineyard. They have caused my beautiful land to become a barren desert where no one lives.
Gamdang vaipohon ka lengpilei asuseuvin, kaloulai jouse jong akeng in achilthang tauve. Ka-ittah ka gamsung abon'in gamkeo leh nelgam asosahtauvin ahi.
11 They have caused it to become completely empty; [it is as though] I hear the land crying sadly/mournfully. The whole land is desolate, and no one (worries about/pays any attention to) it.
Amahon gamsung pumpi ahomkeo leh pannabeiyin akoiyun, ahomkeova aumphat un, akanau ogin kajan, ahinla koiman gelkhoh in aneipoi.
12 The soldiers [of our enemies] have marched across all the barren hilltops. But [I], Yahweh, am using those armies [MTY] to punish your land from one end to the other, and no one will escape.
Molchung achailah ho jousea, amaho sumang ding galmi ho ahung kitollut tauve. Pakai chemjam chun, leiset ninglang khat a pat a langkhat geiya, namtin vaipi chu a bahgamtai. Koimacha asohcha umlou ding ahi.
13 [It is as though] my people planted wheat, but now they are harvesting thorns. They have become very tired [because of much hard work], but they have gained nothing [from all that work]. They will be very disappointed because their harvests [will be very small], [and that will happen] because [I], Yahweh, am extremely angry [with them].”
Kamiten suhlou chang atu-uvin, ahinlah ling le khao jeng a-atkhomui. Amahon choltah in na atongun, ahivangin imacha aphatchompi pouve. Amahon alho-lhun u ajumpi dingu, ajeh chu, Pakai lungsatna chu achung'uva chu ahitai.
14 This is [also] what Yahweh said to me: “[I will punish] the evil nearby nations that have been trying to take away the land that I gave to my Israeli people, and I will force them to leave their own land. But I will throw the people of Judah out of their land, also.
Pakaiyin hitin aseiye, “Keiman kami Israelte kapehsa gamsung sumanga, Israel heng le kom, nam gilou ho chu, gamsung’a kon’a thingphung ajung geiuva kibotdoh bang’a kabodoh ding ahi. Chuleh alah uva kon’a keiman Judah chu kaloidoh ding ahi.
15 But later I will act mercifully toward those nations again, and I will bring them back to their own lands again. Each [clan] will come back to its own land.
Chutahle keiman amaho chunga lainatna kaneikit ding, Amitakip chu ama ama goulo mun leh ama ama gamsung cheh’a kahin le puilut kitding ahi.
16 And if the people [of the other nations whose armies have invaded Israel] learn the [religious] customs of my people, and if they learn that I [am listening] when they solemnly promise that they will do something good, like they taught my people to believe that [their god] Baal [was listening] when they made solemn promises, I will cause them to become prosperous, and they also will be my people.
Chule hitiding ahi, hiche mite hin, kamite jal’a kihilna thah aneiyuva, keima minpan’a ‘Hingjing Pakaiyin’ tia akihahsel theiuva, keima eihouvu leh, amahon kamite lah’a mun aneithei dingu chule khangtou diu ahi.
17 But I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
Amavang koihileh, nam khattouvin ka thusei angailouleh, amaho chu thingphung kibodoh banga kabodoh a, kasuhmang ding ahi, kei Pakaiyin kasei ahi,” ati.
