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The Utter Destruction of Babylon

¹Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will raise up against ⚓Babylon,
Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai,
⚓A destroying wind.
²And I will send ⚓winnowers to Babylon,
Who shall winnow her and empty her land.
⚓For in the day of doom
They shall be against her all around.
³Against her⚓let the archer bend his bow,
And lift himself up against her in his armor.
Do not spare her young men;
⚓Utterly destroy all her army.
⁴Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
⚓And those thrust through in her streets.
⁵For Israel is ⚓not forsaken, nor Judah,
By his God, the Lord of hosts,
Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.”
⁶⚓Flee from the midst of Babylon,
And every one save his life!
Do not be cut off in her iniquity,
For ⚓this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance;
⚓He shall recompense her.
⁷⚓Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
⚓The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations ⚓are deranged.
⁸Babylon has suddenly ⚓fallen and been destroyed.
⚓Wail for her!
⚓Take balm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed.
⁹We would have healed Babylon,
But she is not healed.
Forsake her, and ⚓let us go everyone to his own country;
⚓For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.
¹⁰The Lord has ⚓revealed our righteousness.
Come and let us ⚓declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.
¹¹⚓Make the arrows bright!
Gather the shields!
⚓The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.
⚓For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it,
Because it is⚓the vengeance of the Lord,
The vengeance for His temple.
¹²⚓Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon;
Make the guard strong,
Set up the watchmen,
Prepare the ambushes.
For the Lord has both devised and done
What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
¹³⚓O you who dwell by many waters,
Abundant in treasures,
Your end has come,
The measure of your covetousness.
¹⁴⚓The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself:
“Surely I will fill you with men, ⚓as with locusts,
And they shall lift ⚓up a shout against you.”
¹⁵⚓He has made the earth by His power;
He has established the world by His wisdom,
And ⚓stretched out the heaven by His understanding.
¹⁶When He utters His voice—
There is a multitude of waters in the heavens:
⚓“He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightnings for the rain;
He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”
¹⁷⚓Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge;
Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image;
⚓For his molded image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them.
¹⁸They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
¹⁹The Portion of Jacob is not like them,
For He is the Maker of all things;
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance.
The Lord of hosts is His name.
²⁰“You⚓are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
²¹With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
²²With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
With you I will break in pieces ⚓old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;
²³With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.
²⁴“And⚓ I will repay Babylon
And all the inhabitants of Chaldea
For all the evil they have done
In Zion in your sight,” says the Lord.
²⁵“Behold, I am against you, ⚓O destroying mountain,
Who destroys all the earth,” says the Lord.
“And I will stretch out My hand against you,
Roll you down from the rocks,
⚓And make you a burnt mountain.
²⁶They shall not take from you a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for a foundation,
⚓But you shall be desolate forever,” says the Lord.
²⁷⚓Set up a banner in the land,
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
⚓Prepare the nations against her,
Call ⚓the kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
²⁸Prepare against her the nations,
With the kings of the Medes,
Its governors and all its rulers,
All the land of his dominion.
²⁹And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every ⚓purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,
⚓To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
³⁰The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They have remained in their strongholds;
Their might has failed,
⚓They became like women;
They have burned her dwelling places,
⚓The bars of her gate are broken.
³¹⚓One runner will run to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;
³²⚓The passages are blocked,
The reeds they have burned with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.
³³For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
“The daughter of Babylon is⚓like a threshing floor
When⚓it is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
⚓And the time of her harvest will come.”
³⁴“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has ⚓devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an ⚓empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
³⁵Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.
³⁶Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ⚓I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
⚓I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
³⁷⚓Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
⚓An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
³⁸They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
³⁹In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
⚓I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.
⁴⁰“I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.
⁴¹“Oh, how ⚓Sheshach is taken!
Oh, how ⚓the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
⁴²⚓The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
⁴³⚓Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where ⚓no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
⁴⁴I will punish ⚓Bel in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, ⚓the wall of Babylon shall fall.
⁴⁵“My⚓ people, go out of the midst of her!
And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the Lord.
⁴⁶And lest your heart faint,
And you fear ⚓for the rumor that will be heard in the land
(A rumor will come one year,
And after that, in another year
A rumor will come,
And violence in the land,
Ruler against ruler),
⁴⁷Therefore behold, the days are coming
That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;
Her whole land shall be ashamed,
And all her slain shall fall in her midst.
⁴⁸Then ⚓the heavens and the earth and all that is in them
Shall sing joyously over Babylon;
⚓For the plunderers shall come to her from the north,” says the Lord.
⁴⁹As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.
⁵⁰⚓You who have escaped the sword,
Get away! Do not stand still!
⚓Remember the Lord afar off,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind.
⁵¹⚓We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.
Shame has covered our faces,
For strangers ⚓have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.
⁵²“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.
⁵³⚓Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.
⁵⁴⚓The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,
⁵⁵Because the Lord is plundering Babylon
And silencing her loud voice,
Though her waves roar like great waters,
And the noise of their voice is uttered,
⁵⁶Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon,
And her mighty men are taken.
Every one of their bows is broken;
⚓For the Lordis the God of recompense,
He will surely repay.
⁵⁷“And I will make drunk
Her princes and ⚓wise men,
Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men.
And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says ⚓the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts.
⁵⁸Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly ⚓broken,
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
⚓The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”

Jeremiah’s Command to Seraiah

⁵⁹The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of ⚓Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster. ⁶⁰So Jeremiah ⚓wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon. ⁶¹And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words, ⁶²then you shall say, ‘O Lord, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that ⚓none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.’ ⁶³Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, ⚓that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. ⁶⁴Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’ ”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

51

Ziouv Dingc Mbaa^mbi^lon Nyei Zuiz

¹Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv,
“Yie oix bun zoux mietc nyei nziaaux buonc daaih⚓
zoux bun Mbaa^mbi^lon,
caux Ken^ndie Mienh.⚓
²Yie yaac oix paaiv mienh mingh nyomx Mbaa^mbi^lon,
ninh mbuo ziouc nyomx ninh aqv.
Taux kouv naanc nyei hnoi
ninh mbuo yiem bung-bung daaih zoux bun ninh wuov zanc,
ninh mbuo ziouc bun ninh nyei deic-bung kungx nzengc.
³Maiv dungx bun buonv juang-zinx nyei mienh baeng juang-zinx,
yaac maiv dungx bun ninh zuqv hlieqv-lui souv jienv.
Maiv dungx liouh ninh nyei mienh lunx mienh nyei maengc.
Oix zuqc mietc nzengc⚓ ninh nyei yietc zungv jun-baeng.
⁴Ken^ndie Mienh yiem ganh nyei deic-bung zuqc daix daic,
yaac yiem wuov jaai-horngc zuqc mun.
⁵Weic zuqc I^saa^laa^en Mienh caux Yu^ndaa Mienh
maiv zuqc Nernh Jiex nyei Ziouv, ninh mbuo nyei Tin-Hungh, guangc ninh mbuo,
maiv gunv ninh mbuo nyei deic-bung⚓ baamz zuiz
zoux dorngc I^saa^laa^en nyei Cing-Nzengc Tin-Hungh.
⁶“Yiem Mbaa^mbi^lon gu'nyuoz biaux maah!
Gorqv-mienh njoux gorqv-mienh nyei maengc.
Maiv dungx laaix ninh zuqc dingc zuiz
weic zuqc naaiv se Ziouv jaauv win nyei ziangh hoc taux aqv,
ziux Mbaa^mbi^lon zoux nyei oix winh bun ninh.
⁷Zinh ndaangc Mbaa^mbi^lon hnangv norm jiem-zaanv
yiem Ziouv nyei buoz,
bun lungh ndiev mienh nquin mingh.
Maanc guoqv mienh hopv ninh nyei a'ngunc diuv,
ninh mbuo ziouc butv ndin mi'aqv.⚓
⁸Mbaa^mbi^lon liemh zeih mbaang njiec huv nzengc,
oix zuqc weic ninh nyiemv.
Dorh ndie-laangh hietv ninh mun nyei dorngx,
nziex ninh haih zorc longx daaih.
⁹“+‘Yie mbuo oix zorc Mbaa^mbi^lon
mv baac zorc maiv longx.
Oix zuqc guangc ninh aqv,
gorqv-mienh nzuonx gorqv-mienh nyei guoqv.
Weic zuqc ninh zuqc siemv zuiz mbaengc lungh.
Zungv ndui jienv taux ndaamv-lungh.’⚓
¹⁰Ziouv bun cing yie mbuo horpc.
Daaih maah! Mbuo oix zuqc mingh ⟨Si^on⟩ zunh gorngv
Ziouv, yie mbuo nyei Tin-Hungh, zoux nyei gong.
¹¹“Oix zuqc nzioux laic forng-cang,
nanv jienv torngv-baaih.
Ziouv dongz zuqc Mi^ndie Mienh nyei hungh,
weic zuqc gorngv taux Mbaa^mbi^lon,
Ziouv nyei eix se oix mietc nzengc.
Weic zuqc naaiv se Ziouv jaauv win,
se weic ninh nyei biauv jaauv win.
¹²Oix zuqc liepc geh mborqv Mbaa^mbi^lon nyei zingh laatc,
bun zuov nyei baeng jaa henv,
paaiv ziangx siouv gaeng nyei baeng,
yaac liuc leiz ziangx bingx jienv zuov nyei mienh,
weic zuqc Ziouv daav za'eix yaac zoux ziangx ziux ninh ziangv jienv gorngv Mbaa^mbi^lon Mienh nyei waac.
¹³Meih yiem wuom camv nyei ga'hlen,
maaih zinh zoih camv nyei mienh aah!
Meih nyei setv mueiz taux aqv,
meih ziangh wuov diuh maengc taux bouc aqv.⚓
¹⁴Nernh Jiex nyei Ziouv
ziangv jienv ninh ganh houv waac gorngv,
yie ndongc haaix zungv oix bun meih
maaih mienh buangv ndongc jopv-nyeic camv,
ninh mbuo ziouc nauc jienv weic mborqv hingh meih.

Ceng Tin-Hungh Nyei Nzung

¹⁵“Tin-Hungh longc ninh nyei qaqv zeix ndau,
longc ninh nyei cong-mengh liepc baamh gen,
longc ninh mengh baeqc nyei jauv corng lungh.
¹⁶Ninh yietv cuotv qiex,
yiem wuov lungh maaih wuom nyei qiex mbui zoz-zoz nyei.
Ninh bun mouc yiem lungh gorn faaux.
Ninh bun mba'lingc gan mbiungc,
yaac bun nziaaux yiem ninh siou nyei dorngx cuotv daaih.
¹⁷“Dauh dauh baamh mienh se hngongx nyei, maiv maaih wuonh zaang.
Mouz dauh jiem-zaangc laaix ninh mbuo zoux nyei miuc-fangx zuqc nyaiv,
weic zuqc ninh nyei miuc-fangx se jaav nyei,
maiv maaih yietc deix qiex tauv.
¹⁸Miuc-fangx maiv maaih jaax-zinh,
zoux daaih benx jaav nyei ga'naaiv hnangv.⚓
Taux ninh mbuo zuqc dingc zuiz nyei ziangh hoc, ninh mbuo ziouc zuqc mietc.
¹⁹Yaakopv nyei Buonc maiv hnangv naaiv deix,
weic zuqc ninh se Zeix Maanc Muotc Wuov Dauh,
I^saa^laa^en se ninh nzipc daaih nyei fingx,
ninh nyei mbuox heuc Nernh Jiex nyei Ziouv.

Ziouv Nyei Hlieqv-Zueih

²⁰“Meih se yie longc mborqv jaax nyei hlieqv-zueih caux wuoqc ginc.
Yie longc meih mborqv muonc ziex fingx.
Yie longc meih mietc camv-norm guoqv.
²¹Yie longc meih mborqv muonc maaz caux geh maaz mienh.
Yie longc meih mborqv muonc mborqv jaax maaz-cie caux zaangv cie nyei mienh.
²²Yie longc meih mborqv muonc m'jangc m'sieqv.
Yie longc meih mborqv muonc mienh gox mienh caux mienh lunx mienh.
Yie longc meih mborqv muonc houh saeng caux sieqv-dorn.
²³Yie longc meih mborqv muonc goux ba'gi yungh nyei mienh caux ninh nyei ba'gi yungh guanh.
Yie longc meih mborqv muonc zoux ndeic nyei mienh caux ninh nyei yietc doix ngongh.
Yie longc meih mborqv muonc saengv-ziouv caux zoux hlo nyei jien.”

Mbaa^mbi^lon Zuqc Dingc Zuiz

²⁴Ziouv gorngv, “Yie oix dorng jienv meih mbuo nyei m'zing jaauv win bun Mbaa^mbi^lon caux yiem Ken^ndie Deic-Bung nyei yietc zungv baeqc fingx weic ninh mbuo yiem Si^on zoux nyei yietc zungv orqv sic.”
²⁵Ziouv gorngv, “Zoux mietc nyei mbong aah!
Se mietc lungh ndiev wuov norm mbong,
yie caux meih doix-dekc aqv.
Yie oix sung yie nyei buoz cuotv zoux bun meih,
bun meih yiem mbaengx-ningv njangx njiec mingh,
bun meih benx buov qui nyei mbong.”
²⁶“Mienh maiv yiem meih naaiv zorqv la'bieiv
fai zoux biauv-gorqv nyei la'bieiv,
yaac maiv longc haaix norm zoux gorn-ndoqv nyei la'bieiv.
Meih zungv oix zuqc benx yietc liuz baaic huaang nyei dorngx.”
Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv.
²⁷“Yiem ndau-beih liepc geh,
yiem maanc fingx mbu'ndongx biomv jorng,
heuc maanc guoqv mienh liuc leiz daaih mborqv Mbaa^mbi^lon,
heuc naaiv deix guoqv daaih mborqv ninh.
Se Aa^laa^latv, Minni caux Atc^ke^natv.
Paaiv jun-baeng-bieiv daaih mborqv ninh,
paaiv maaz faaux daaih hnangv jopv-nyeic guanh.
²⁸Liuc leiz maanc guoqv mienh daaih mborqv Mbaa^mbi^lon,
heuc Mi^ndie Mienh nyei hungh caux ninh mbuo nyei saengv-ziouv caux saengv-ziouv nyei borng-buoz mienh,
caux Mi^ndie gunv nyei norm-norm deic-bung.
²⁹Ndau dongz, laaix mun yaac niouv-niouv nyei,
weic zuqc Ziouv dingc zoux bun Mbaa^mbi^lon nyei za'eix corc yiem nyei,
se oix bun Mbaa^mbi^lon benx ndau-huaang,
maiv maaih mienh yiem.
³⁰Mbaa^mbi^lon mborqv jaax henv nyei baeng dingh njiec maiv mborqv,
ninh mbuo yiem jienv ninh mbuo wuonv nyei dorngx.
Ninh mbuo nyei qaqv tuix mi'aqv,
ninh mbuo ziouc hnangv m'sieqv dorn nor.
Mbaa^mbi^lon yiem nyei dorngx maaih douz zieqc jienv,
ninh nyei gaengh sorn yaac nauv mi'aqv.
³¹Douc fienx mienh yietc dauh tiux mingh nzipc yietc dauh,
fungx fienx nyei mienh nzipc jienv fungx njiec yietc dauh,
mingh mbuox Mbaa^mbi^lon hungh,
ninh nyei biei bung zingh zuqc caangv mi'aqv.
³²Jiex nyei jauv-bouc zuqc caangv mi'aqv.
Weih wuonv nyei dorngx zuqc douz buov.
Jun-baeng yaac lunc nzengc.
³³Weic zuqc Nernh Jiex nyei Ziouv, I^saa^laa^en nyei Tin-Hungh, hnangv naaiv gorngv,
“Mbaa^mbi^lon Mienh⚓ se hnangv mborqv mbiauh ciangv
doix zuqc caaiv nyei ziangh hoc.
Aav dangh hnangv, siou ninh nyei mbiauh nyei ziangh hoc taux aqv.”
³⁴“Mbaa^mbi^lon nyei hungh, Ne^mbu^katv^netv^saa, naqv yie,
yaac ngatv jienv yie.
Ninh bun yie zoux kungx nyei jaa-dorngx,
ninh naqv yie hnangv domh mbiauz.
Yie maaih haaix nyungc kuv nyei ninh nyanc buangv ga'sie,
yaac tuiv yie cuotv mingh.”⚓
³⁵Bun Si^on nyei baeqc fingx gorngv,
“Ninh zoux doqc yie aengx hoic yie nyei cien-ceqv,
tov bun ndortv zuqc Mbaa^mbi^lon.”
Bun Ye^lu^saa^lem gorngv,
“Tov bun liouc yie nyei nziaamv cuotv nyei zuiz⚓
ndortv zuqc Ken^ndie Mienh.”
³⁶Weic naaiv Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv,
“Yie oix tengx meih mbuo caengx sic,
aengx tengx meih mbuo jaauv win.
Yie oix bun Mbaa^mbi^lon nyei koiv nqaai,
yaac bun ninh nyei wuom-zingv nqaai.
³⁷Mbaa^mbi^lon ziouc benx mbaang waaic nyei ga'naaiv-ndui,
benx hieh juv yiem nyei dorngx,
bun mienh gamh nziex, bun mienh huotv,
yaac maiv maaih mienh yiem.
³⁸Ninh mbuo oix lomh nzoih njunh hnangv sienh nor,
ninh mbuo yaac oix hnangv sienh dorn nor heuc.
³⁹Ninh mbuo jorm jienv zoux nyei ziangh hoc,
yie oix weic ninh mbuo mbenc hnaangx hlo nyei,
bun ninh mbuo diuv nquin taux ninh mbuo meih muangv,⚓
yaac yietc liuz m'njormh,
maiv nyie.”
Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv.
⁴⁰“Yie oix dorh ninh mbuo njiec daaih
hnangv dorh mingh daix⚓ nyei ba'gi yungh dorn,
hnangv ba'gi yungh gouv caux yungh gouv.

Mbaa^mbi^lon Zuqc Kouv

⁴¹“Mbaa^mbi^lon zuqc caangv mi'aqv.
Lungh ndiev mienh ceng nyei dorngx zuqc caangv mi'aqv.
Mbaa^mbi^lon yiem maanc guoqv mbu'ndongx
benx mienh gamh nziex nyei dorngx.
⁴²Koiv nyei wuom faaux yiemx Mbaa^mbi^lon,
ninh zuqc koiv beqv nyei wuom-laangc nqomz jienv ninh.
⁴³Ninh nyei zingh benx gamh nziex nyei dorngx,
benx deic-bung-haanz, deic-bung-huaang,
maiv maaih mienh yiem nyei deic-bung,
yaac maiv maaih baamh mienh jiex mingh.
⁴⁴Yie oix dingc yiem Mbaa^mbi^lon nyei Mben zienh nyei zuiz,
ninh naqv njiec nyei ga'naaiv yie oix bun ninh lov cuotv.⚓
Maanc guoqv mienh maiv duqv aengx mingh lorz ninh,⚓
Mbaa^mbi^lon nyei zingh laatc mbaang mi'aqv.
⁴⁵“Yie nyei baeqc fingx aah!
Meih mbuo oix zuqc yiem ninh biaux cuotv.
Gorqv-mienh oix zuqc njoux gorqv-mienh nyei maengc,
biaux ndutv Ziouv ciouv haic nyei ga'qiex.
⁴⁶Maiv dungx bun meih nyei hnyouv mau, maiv dungx gamh nziex,
weic meih haiz deic-bung gu'nyuoz nyei fienx.
Dongh naaiv hnyangx maaih fienx daaih,
da'nyeic hnyangx aengx maaih fienx daaih.
Deic-bung gu'nyuoz yaac maaih doqc nyei sic,
zoux hlo gunv nyei mienh
laanh caux laanh doix-dekc.
⁴⁷Weic naaiv mangc maah! Hnoi-nyieqc oix taux,
yie oix dingc Mbaa^mbi^lon miuc-fangx nyei zuiz.
Ninh nyei ziangh norm deic-bung ziouc nyaiv,
ninh nyei yietc zungv zuqc daix daic nyei mienh
ziouc yiem ninh gu'nyuoz king njiec.
⁴⁸Wuov zanc lungh caux ndau
caux yiem lungh ndau gu'nyuoz nyei yietc zungv ga'naaiv
ziouc weic Mbaa^mbi^lon njien-youh nyei heuc⚓
weic zuqc zoux mietc nyei mienh
oix yiem baqv bung daaih mborqv ninh mbuo.⚓
Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv.
⁴⁹Mbaa^mbi^lon oix zuqc mbaang laaix bun I^saa^laa^en Mienh daic,
hnangv lungh ndiev mienh zuqc Mbaa^mbi^lon daix daic.⚓
⁵⁰Meih mbuo biaux ndutv nzuqc ndaauv nyei mienh aah!
Oix zuqc gaanv mingh, maiv dungx ngaih.⚓
Yiem go nyei dorngx jangx Ziouv,
yaac bun meih mbuo nyei hnyouv jangx Ye^lu^saa^lem.
⁵¹“Yie mbuo muangx haiz huotv nyei waac
yie mbuo ziouc zuqc nyaiv,
yaac bun yie mbuo za'gengh zuqc baaic hmien,
weic zuqc ganh fingx mienh daaih
bieqc zaangc Ziouv nyei biauv,
cing-nzengc nyei dorngx.”
⁵²Ziouv gorngv,
“Weic naaiv mangc maah! Hnoi-nyieqc oix taux,
yie oix dingc Mbaa^mbi^lon nyei miuc-fangx nyei zuiz.
Yiem gormx ninh nyei deic-bung
zuqc mun nyei mienh oix njunh jienv yiem.
⁵³Maiv gunv Mbaa^mbi^lon faaux taux lungh,
yaac maiv gunv ninh ceix ninh hlang jiex nyei dorngx wuonv,
yie oix bun zoux mietc nyei mienh daaih mietc ninh.”
Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv.
⁵⁴“Muangx maah! Maaih qiex yiem Mbaa^mbi^lon heuc.
Yiem Ken^ndie Mienh nyei deic-bung
maaih zuqc mietc nyei domh qiex mbui.
⁵⁵Weic zuqc Ziouv zoux bun Mbaa^mbi^lon benx ndau-huaang,
bun ninh mbui nyei domh qiex sekv.
Ninh mbuo nyei win-wangv⚓ hnangv wuom camv nyei wuom-laangc mbui,
ninh mbuo nyei qiex mbiouh mbiouh nyei cuotv.
⁵⁶Zoux mietc wuov dauh daaih mborqv,
se daaih mborqv Mbaa^mbi^lon.
Ninh mborqv jaax henv nyei baeng zuqc caangv mingh,
ninh mbuo nyei juang-zinx nauv muonc.
Weic zuqc Ziouv se jaauv win nyei Tin-Hungh,
ninh ndongc haaix zungv oix jaauv win.
⁵⁷Yie oix bun ninh nyei jien caux ninh nyei cong-mengh mienh,
ninh nyei saengv-ziouv caux saengv-ziouv nyei borng-buoz mienh,
caux ninh henv haic nyei baeng diuv nquin.
Ninh mbuo ziouc m'njormh mingh, yietc liuz m'njormh maiv nyie.”
Hungh Diex, dongh maaih mbuox heuc Nernh Jiex nyei Ziouv, hnangv naaiv gorngv.
⁵⁸Nernh Jiex nyei Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv,
“Mbaa^mbi^lon jangv nyei zingh laatc
zungv oix zuqc mbaang njiec ndau.
Ninh hlang nyei zingh gaengh
yaac oix zuqc douz buov.
Zuangx baeqc fingx zoux gong yaac maiv lamh longc.
Maanc guoqv mienh laauh luic zoux nyei kungx zuqc douz buov.”

Ye^le^mi Nyei Fienx Taux Mbaa^mbi^lon

⁵⁹Se^nde^ki^yaa zoux Yu^ndaa nyei hungh da'feix hnyangx wuov hnyangx, mingh Mbaa^mbi^lon nyei ziangh hoc, Maa^se^yaa nyei fun, Ne^li^yaa nyei dorn, Se^lai^aa, caux ninh mingh. Se^lai^aa zoux bieiv zeiv mbenc ninh mbuo hitv nyei dorngx. Naaiv se douc waac mienh, Ye^le^mi, paaiv Se^lai^aa dorh mingh nyei waac. ⁶⁰Ye^le^mi zorqv Mbaa^mbi^lon oix zuqc buangh nyei yietc zungv ciouv nyei zeqc naanc fiev njiec sou. Naaiv deix yietc zungv waac gorngv taux Mbaa^mbi^lon. ⁶¹Ye^le^mi gorngv mbuox Se^lai^aa, “Meih mingh taux Mbaa^mbi^lon meih zungv oix zuqc doqc naaiv deix yietc zungv waac, ⁶²yaac gorngv, ‘Ziouv aac, meih gorngv taux naaiv norm dorngx, se meih oix pai guangc ziouc liemh mienh, liemh saeng-kuv, maiv maaih haaix nyungc yiem, oix zuqc yietc liuz benx ndau-huaang. ⁶³Meih doqc liuz naaiv njunc sou oix zuqc zorqv sou bangc norm la'bieiv ndoh jienv zoi Yu^fe^ditc Ndaaih gu'nyuoz.⚓ ⁶⁴Oix zuqc gorngv, “Mbaa^mbi^lon oix zuqc hnangv naaiv nor zemh njiec, yietc liuz maiv haih mbiouh faaux, laaix yie bun ninh zuqc ciouv nyei zeqc naanc.’+”
Ye^le^mi gorngv nyei waac zengc njiec mbuoqc naaiv.