Yeremia 7
1 TUHAN menyuruh aku pergi ke Rumah-Nya dan berdiri di pintu gerbang yang dilalui orang Yehuda yang datang berbakti. Ia menyuruh aku mengumumkan pesan-Nya ini kepada mereka, "Ubahlah kelakuan dan cara hidupmu, maka Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, Allah Israel akan mengizinkan kamu tetap tinggal di sini.
Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,
“Go to the entrance of my temple, and give this message to the people: You people of Judah who worship here, listen to this message from Yahweh!
The Commander of the armies of angels says to you, ['If you] stop doing evil things and start doing what is right, I will allow you to remain living in your land.'
4 Janganlah percaya kepada penipu yang berkata, 'Kita aman, sebab ini Rumah TUHAN. Sungguh ini Rumah TUHAN!'
[But some people] are repeatedly saying to you, ‘The temple of Yahweh is here, [so we will be safe]; [he will not allow us and the temple to be destroyed].’ But do not pay attention to what they say, because they are deceiving you.
5 Ubahlah hidupmu dan kelakuanmu. Berlakulah adil seorang terhadap yang lain.
[I will act mercifully to you only] if you change your behavior and stop doing evil things, and if you [start to] act fairly/justly toward others,
6 Jangan lagi menindas orang asing, anak yatim piatu, dan janda-janda. Jangan membunuh orang yang tidak bersalah di negeri ini. Jangan menyembah ilah-ilah lain, sebab hal itu akan membinasakan kamu.
and if you stop oppressing foreigners [who live in your country], and orphans and widows, and if you stop murdering people, and if you stop worshiping (foreign gods/idols). However, if you continue to do those things, you will be destroyed.
7 Kalau kamu mengubah cara hidupmu dan kelakuanmu serta berhenti melakukan semuanya itu, Aku akan mengizinkan kamu tetap tinggal di negeri ini yang telah Kuberikan sebagai tanah pusaka kepada leluhurmu.
If you do what I have told you, I will allow you to stay in this land that I promised to your ancestors that it would belong to them [and their descendants] forever.
8 Tetapi, sesungguhnya percuma saja kamu percaya kepada kata-kata dusta.
[People are repeatedly] telling you, [‘The temple is here, so we are safe]’, and you are trusting/believing [that what they are saying is true], but it is a lie. [Those people are deceiving you, and what they say is] worthless.
9 Kamu mencuri, membunuh, berzinah, memberi kesaksian dusta, mempersembahkan kurban kepada Baal, dan menyembah dewa-dewa yang tidak kamu kenal.
You think that [RHQ] you can steal things, murder people, commit adultery, tell lies in court, and worship Baal and all those other gods that you did not know about previously,
10 Setelah semua itu kamu lakukan, kamu datang menghadap Aku di sini di Rumah-Ku sendiri, dan berkata, 'Kami aman!' Kemudian kamu melanjutkan perbuatanmu yang keji itu.
and then come here and stand in front of this temple, which is my temple, and say ‘Nothing bad will happen to us!’, while you continue to do all those abominable things.
11 Apakah kamu menganggap Rumah-Ku ini sarang perampok? Semua perbuatanmu sudah Kulihat.
Do you realize that you are causing this temple, which is my temple, to become like [MET] a den where bandits hide [RHQ]? Do you not know that I see [all the evil things that you people do there]?
12 Pergilah ke Silo, kota yang dahulu Kupilih menjadi tempat ibadat kepada-Ku. Lihatlah apa yang telah Kulakukan terhadap tempat itu karena dosa umat-Ku Israel.
[Long ago] I put my Sacred Tent at Shiloh [city], to be a place where people would worship me [MTY]. Think about how I [destroyed it] because my people, the Israeli people, did [many] wicked things there.
13 Sekalipun berkali-kali Aku berbicara kepadamu, kamu tidak mau mendengarkan. Kamu melakukan semua dosa itu, dan tak mau menyahut jika Aku memanggil.
And while you were continually doing those wicked things, I told you about it many times, but you refused to listen. I called out to you, but you refused to answer [me].
14 Nah, Rumah-Ku yang kamu andalkan, dan tempat yang Kuberikan kepada leluhurmu dan kepadamu ini akan Kuperlakukan seperti Silo dahulu.
Therefore, just like I destroyed Shiloh, I will [now] destroy this temple that was built for people to worship me [MTY], this temple that you trust in, that is in this place that I gave to you and your ancestors.
15 Kamu akan Kuusir dari hadapan-Ku seperti telah Kuusir sanak keluargamu, umat Israel."
And I will expel you from this land and send you [to other countries] far away from me, just like I did to your relatives, the people of Israel.”
16 TUHAN berkata, "Yeremia, janganlah mendoakan orang-orang ini. Jangan minta tolong atau berdoa untuk mereka; jangan mendesak Aku, sebab Aku tidak mau mendengarkan permohonan itu.
[Yahweh said to me, “Jeremiah], do not pray for these people [any longer]. Do not cry for them or plead for [me to help] them, because I will not pay any attention to you.
17 Engkau sudah melihat sendiri apa yang mereka lakukan di kota-kota Yehuda dan di jalan-jalan di Yerusalem!
Do you see [the wicked things] that they are doing in the streets of Jerusalem and in the [other] towns in Judah?
18 Anak-anak mengumpulkan kayu bakar, orang laki-laki menyalakan api, dan orang perempuan mencampur adonan untuk membuat kue bagi dewi yang mereka namakan Ratu Surga. Dan untuk menyakiti hati-Ku mereka juga mempersembahkan air anggur kepada ilah-ilah lain.
The children gather firewood and their fathers use it to make fires [on the altars to burn sacrifices]. The women knead/make dough to make cakes to offer to [their goddess Astarte who is called] the Queen of Heaven. And [on their altars] they pour out offerings of wine to [their] other idols. All of those things cause me to become extremely angry!
19 Tetapi sesungguhnya, bukan Aku yang mereka sakiti, melainkan diri mereka sendiri sehingga mereka malu.
But I am not [RHQ] the one whom they are hurting; they are really [RHQ] hurting themselves [by doing these things for which they should be] very ashamed!”
20 Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi, akan menimpakan murka-Ku yang dahsyat ke atas rumah ibadat ini, atas manusia dan binatang, juga atas pohon-pohon dan hasil bumi. Kemarahan-Ku akan berkobar-kobar seperti api yang tidak dapat dipadamkan."
So Yahweh the Lord says this: “Because I am extremely angry with [what happens at] this place, I will punish these people severely [MTY]; my being very angry will be [like] [MET] a fire that will not be extinguished, and I will destroy the people, [their] animals, [their] fruit trees, and [their] crops.”
21 TUHAN berkata, "Hai umat-Ku, kamu tahu bahwa persembahan yang kamu bakar di atas mezbah harus dibakar sampai habis, dan persembahan lainnya boleh kamu makan. Tetapi Aku, TUHAN berkata, silakan makan saja semuanya!
Therefore, this is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Take away [IRO] your offerings that you bring to burn completely on your altars and your [other] sacrifices; [don’t give them to me]; eat them [yourselves]!
22 Ketika Aku membawa leluhurmu keluar dari Mesir, Aku tidak memberi mereka peraturan mengenai kurban bakaran atau kurban-kurban lainnya.
When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not offerings to be completely burned on the altar or [other] sacrifices that I wanted from them.
23 Aku hanya memerintahkan mereka untuk mentaati Aku supaya Aku menjadi Allah mereka, dan mereka menjadi umat-Ku. Aku menyuruh mereka hidup menurut perintah-perintah-Ku supaya mereka bahagia.
What I told them was, ‘Obey me; [if you do that], I will be your God and you will be my people. If you do the things that I want you to do, everything will go well for you.’
24 Tetapi mereka tidak mau mendengarkan dan tidak mau memperhatikan. Mereka malah menuruti kemauan hati mereka sendiri yang keras dan jahat itu. Mereka bukannya menjadi baik melainkan menjadi lebih jahat.
But your ancestors would not pay any attention [DOU] to me. They continued to do [the evil things] that they wanted to do, everything that in their stubborn inner beings they desired to do. Instead of coming closer to me, they went further away from me.
25 Sejak leluhurmu keluar dari Mesir sampai hari ini Aku selalu mengutus hamba-hamba-Ku, para nabi, kepadamu.
From the day that your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have continued to send my prophets to you.
26 Tapi tak ada yang mendengarkan atau memperhatikan. Kamu malah menjadi lebih keras kepala dan jahat daripada leluhurmu."
But you, [my people], have not listened to me or paid attention to what I said; you have been stubborn, and you have done more sinful things than your ancestors did.”
27 Kemudian TUHAN berkata, "Karena itu, hai Yeremia, sekalipun engkau memberitahukan semuanya itu kepada umat-Ku, mereka tidak akan memperhatikan kata-katamu. Sekalipun engkau memanggil mereka, mereka tidak akan menjawab.
[Then Yahweh said to me], “When you tell all this to my people, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
28 Jadi, katakanlah kepada mereka bahwa mereka adalah suatu bangsa yang tidak mau taat kepada Aku, TUHAN, Allah mereka. Mereka tidak mau belajar dari hukuman yang telah dirasakannya. Kesetiaan kepada-Ku sudah lenyap, malah tidak dibicarakan lagi."
Say to them, ‘You people [of Judah] have not obeyed Yahweh, your God; you have not accepted it when he tried to correct you. No one among you is truthful; you do not say anything that is true; [you speak only lies].’
29 TUHAN berkata, "Wahai penduduk Yerusalem, berkabunglah! Potonglah rambutmu dan buanglah! Nyanyikanlah nyanyian ratapan di atas puncak-puncak di pegunungan, sebab Aku, TUHAN, sedang murka dan telah menolak kamu semua.
[So, tell them to] cut off their hair [to show that they are mourning]; tell them to go up into the hills and sing a sad funeral song, because I have completely rejected [DOU] this generation [of people] who have made me angry.”
30 Orang Yehuda telah melakukan kejahatan. Berhala-berhala mereka yang Kubenci itu telah mereka tempatkan di dalam Rumah-Ku, sehingga menajiskannya.
Yahweh says this: “The people of Judah have done many things that I say are evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in my temple, causing it to become an unacceptable [place to worship me].
31 Sebuah mezbah yang bernama Tofet telah mereka dirikan di Lembah Hinom untuk mempersembahkan anak-anak mereka sebagai kurban bakaran. Padahal Aku tak pernah menyuruh mereka melakukan hal itu, bahkan tak pernah hal semacam itu timbul dalam pikiran-Ku.
They have built altars at Topheth in Ben-Hinnom Valley [outside Jerusalem], and they sacrifice their sons and daughters on those altars. I never commanded them to do that; I never even thought that anyone would do that.
32 Karena itu, akan tiba waktunya tempat itu tidak lagi disebut Tofet atau Lembah Hinom, melainkan Lembah Pembantaian. Tanah itu akan menjadi tanah pekuburan karena tak ada tempat yang lain.
So they should beware! There will be a time when that place will no longer be called Topheth or the Hinnom Valley; instead, it will be called the Valley of Slaughter. There will be a huge number of people who will be buried there, with the result that there will be no space to bury more bodies.
33 Mayat-mayat mereka akan menjadi makanan burung dan binatang buas, tanpa ada yang mengusiknya.
The corpses of my people that are [not buried and are] left on the ground will be eaten by vultures and wild animals, and there will be no one to shoo/chase them away.
34 Negeri ini akan menjadi padang tandus. Suara kegembiraan dan suara pesta perkawinan akan Kuhentikan di kota-kota Yehuda dan di jalan-jalan Yerusalem.
There will be no one singing and laughing any more in the streets of Jerusalem; there will be no more joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides in Judah, because the land will be completely destroyed.”
