Lamentations 3
1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Kai tah a thinpom caitueng dongkah phacipphabaem aka hmu hlang ni.
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Kai te m'hmaithawn tih hmaisuep ah n'caeh sak vaengah vangnah om pawh.
3 Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
Kai taengah a tloeng tangloeng tih khohnin yung ah a kut a hluem.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
Ka vin neh ka saa a hmawn sak tih ka rhuh a paep sak.
5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Kai he rhahalung n'suem thil tih sue neh bongboepnah te m'ven thil.
6 He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
Ka khosak he khosuen kah aka duek bangla khohmuep ah ka om.
7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
Kai taengah khoep a biing tih ka rhohum loh n'nan he ka loeih pawh.
8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Ka khue tih ka pang vaengah pataeng ka thangthuinah te a toeng.
9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
Lungrhaih neh ka longpuei a biing tih ka hawn a paihaeh sak.
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
Kai taengah tah vom neh sathueng pataeng a huephael kah sathueng bangla amah rhongngol coeng.
11 He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
Ka longpuei ah m'phaelh sak tih kai n'soek dongah kai aka pong la n'khueh.
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
A lii a phuk tih thaltang ham kutnoek la kai n'tai.
13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Anih kah liva ca loh ka kuel khuila pawlh.
14 I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
Ka pilnam pum kah nueihbu neh khohnin yung ah amih kah rhotoeng la ka poeh.
15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
Ankhaa te kai ng'kum sak tih pantong neh kai m'hmilhmal sak.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
Ka no he lungcang neh a mawth tih hmaiphu khuiah kai m'vuei.
17 You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
Ka hinglu he ngaimongnah lamloh a hlahpham tih a then khaw ka hnilh.
18 I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
Te dongah kai kah hmailong neh BOEIPA lamkah ka ngaiuepnah khaw paltham coeng ka ti.
19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
Kai kah phaiphabaem neh ka airhoeng khaw, ka pantong neh ka anrhat khaw poek lah.
20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
A poek a poek vaengah ka khuikah ka hinglu tah tlayae la tlayae coeng.
21 This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
He he ka ngaiuep dongah ni ka lungbuei he ka mael puei.
22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
BOEIPA kah sitlohnah tah bawt pawt tih a haidamnah khaw muei pawh.
23 They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
Mincang ah na uepomnah thai khaw ping.
24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
Ka hinglu loh, “BOEIPA tah ka khoyo ni,” a ti dongah amah te ka ngaiuep van.
25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
BOEIPA tah amah aka lamtawn ham neh amah aka toem hinglu ham a then pah.
26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
BOEIPA kah loeihnah dongah tah rhingoel ngolsut ham khaw then.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
A camoe vaengah hnamkun a phueih te ni hlang ham khaw then.
28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
Amah soah a poeh bangla amah bueng khosa saeh lamtah kuemsuem saeh.
29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
A ka te laipi khuiah vuei saeh lamtah ngaiuepnah a om khaming.
30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
Amah aka ngawn ham a kam duen pah saeh lamtah kokhahnah neh kum saeh.
31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Ka Boeipa loh kumhal duela a hlahpham ngawn moenih.
32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Pae sak bal mai cakhaw a sitlohnah dongkah sitlohnah a khawk vanbangla a haidam bitni.
33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
Hlang ca te a lungbuei a phaep pah tih a pae sak bal moenih.
34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Khohmuen kah thongtla boeih te a kho hmuiah a phop ham,
35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
Khohni kah mikhmuh ah hlang kah tiktamnah hnawt ham,
36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
A tuituknah neh hlang a khun sak ham khaw ka Boeipa loh a hmuh ngaih moenih.
37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
Ka Boeipa loh a uen pawt te om ni tila unim aka thui thai.
38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
A thae neh a then khaw Khohni ka lamloh thoeng pawt nim.
39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
A tholhnah sokah a tholhnah yuvat ah balae tih tongpa hlang hing loh a kohuet mai eh.
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Mamih kah longpuei he phuelhthaih tih n'khe phoeiah BOEIPA taengla mael uh sih.
41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Mamih kah thinko neh kut he vaan kah Pathen taengah phuel uh sih.
42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
Kaimih kah boekoek neh nang kan koek uh te khodawk nan ngai uh moenih.
43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
Thintoek neh na cun uh vaengah kaimih nan hloem tih lungma ti kolla nan ngawn.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Thangthuinah neh paan ham khaw namah te cingmai neh na cun uh.
45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
Kaimih he pilnam lakli ah yun-aek neh kawnhnawt la nan khueh.
46 “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Ka thunkha boeih loh kaimih taengah a ka a ang uh.
47 Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
Birhihnah neh rhom khaw kaimih taengah omdamnah neh pocinah la thoeng.
48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ka pilnam nu kah a pocinah dongah ka mik he sokca tui la long.
49 My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
Ka mik loh a hawk vetih a bawtnah om pawt hil kak mahpawh.
50 until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
A dan neh BOEIPA loh vaan lamkah a hmuh duela.
51 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Ka khopuei tanu boeih kongah ka mik loh ka hinglu he a poelyoe.
52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Lunglilungla maila kai he ka thunkha rhoek loh vaa bangla m'mae khaw m'mae uh mai.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
Ka hingnah te tangrhom ah a det uh kai taengah lungto a omtoem thil.
54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
Ka lu he tui loh a et vaengah tah n'tuiphih muema ka ti.
55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
BOEIPA na ming te tangrhom laedil lamloh kang khue.
56 You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
Ka hilhoemnah ham ka pang te hna na buem pawt dongah ka ol na yaak coeng.
57 You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
Namah kang khue khohnin ah na mop tih, “Rhih boeh,” na ti.
58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
Ka hinglu kah tuituknah khaw ka Boeipa loh na rhoe tih ka hingnah na tlan.
59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
BOEIPA aw ka lolhmaihnah na hmuh cakhaw ka laitloeknah dongah n'tang sak lah.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
Kai soah amih kah tawnlohnah boeih neh amih kah kopoek boeih te na hmuh.
61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,
BOEIPA aw kai soah amih kah kokhahnah neh amih kah kopoek boeih te na yaak coeng.
62 the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
Khohnin yung ah a phungding ol neh kamah taengah kai m'pai thiluh.
63 You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
A hoepnah neh a painah ah, amih kah hnaelnah ni ka paelki.
64 You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
BOEIPA aw, amih kut dongkah khoboe neh a tiing la amih te thuung lah.
65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
Amih te lungbuei kotalh la khueh lamtah na tapvoepnah te amih soah thoeng sak.
66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
BOEIPA aw thintoek te na hloem dongah ni amih te vaan hmui lamloh na mitmoeng sak.
