Isaiah 33
1 Woe to you who plunder! Will you yourselves not also be plundered? And woe to you who despise! Will you yourselves not also be despised? When you will have completed your plundering, you will be plundered. When, out of fatigue, you will have ceased acting with contempt, you will be treated with contempt.
Celakalah musuh-musuh kita! Mereka merampok walaupun tidak dirampok, dan berkhianat walaupun tidak dikhianati. Tetapi sesudah merampok dan berkhianat, mereka sendiri akan menjadi korban perampokan dan pengkhianatan.
2 O Lord, take pity on us. For we have waited for you. Be our arm in the morning and our salvation in the time of tribulation.
Ya TUHAN, kasihanilah kami. Engkaulah harapan kami. Lindungilah kami dari hari ke hari dan selamatkanlah kami di waktu kesesakan.
3 From the voice of the Angel, the people fled. And from your exultation, the nations were scattered.
Jika Engkau bangkit dan memperdengarkan suara-Mu yang gemuruh, bangsa-bangsa akan lari dan tercerai-berai.
4 And your spoils will be gathered together, just as the locusts are collected when the ditches have become filled with them.
Seperti kawanan belalang orang menyerbu dan merampok harta mereka.
5 The Lord has been magnified, because he has lived on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.
TUHAN sangat luhur; Ia menguasai segala-galanya. Ia akan menegakkan hukum dan keadilan di Yerusalem
6 And there will be faith in your times: the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. For the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
dan memberi keamanan kepada umat-Nya. Harta yang menyelamatkan mereka adalah kebijaksanaan dan pengetahuan serta hormat kepada TUHAN.
7 Behold, outside, those who see will cry out. The Angels of peace will weep bitterly.
Orang-orang yang gagah berani berteriak minta tolong; para utusan yang mengusahakan perdamaian menangis dengan pedih.
8 The roads have become desolate. Travelers have ceased along the paths. The covenant has been nullified. He has tossed aside cities. He has disregarded men.
Jalan-jalan raya sangat berbahaya sehingga menjadi sunyi; tak ada orang yang melaluinya. Perjanjian diingkari dan persetujuan ditolak. Tak ada lagi yang dihiraukan.
9 The earth has mourned and languished. Lebanon has been confounded and desecrated. And Sharon has become like a desert. And Bashan and Carmel have been struck together.
Negeri ditinggalkan menjadi sepi. Hutan-hutan Libanon merana, dan lembah Saron yang subur menjadi seperti padang gurun. Di Basan dan di Gunung Karmel daun-daun berguguran.
10 “Now, I will rise up!” says the Lord. “Now I will be exalted! Now I will lift myself up!”
TUHAN berkata kepada bangsa itu, "Sekarang Aku akan bangkit dan bertindak menunjukkan kekuasaan-Ku.
11 You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire.
Rencanamu sia-sia, dan segala yang kamu lakukan tak ada gunanya. Kemarahanmu seperti api yang membinasakan dirimu sendiri.
12 And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.
Kamu seperti batu karang yang dibakar untuk dijadikan kapur; seperti semak duri yang ditebang dan dibakar dalam api.
13 “You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!”
Biarlah semua orang yang dekat maupun yang jauh mendengar tentang perbuatan-Ku dan mengakui kekuasaan-Ku."
14 The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among you is able to live with a devouring fire? Who among you will live with an everlasting flame?
Orang-orang berdosa di Sion gemetar ketakutan. Kata mereka, "Keputusan Allah seperti api yang menyala untuk selama-lamanya. Mungkinkah ada yang bisa bertahan dalam api yang memusnahkan itu?"
15 The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.
Kamu dapat bertahan kalau kamu berkata dan berbuat yang benar. Jangan mencari untung dengan memeras orang miskin, dan jangan menerima uang suap. Jangan ikut dengan orang yang merencanakan pembunuhan atau kejahatan lain.
16 Such a one will live on high; the fortification of rocks will be his lofty place. Bread has been given to him; his waters are reliable.
Maka kamu akan terlindung dan aman, seolah-olah berada di dalam benteng yang kuat. Makanan dan minuman akan tersedia bagimu.
17 His eyes will see the king in his elegance; they will discern the land from far away.
Akan tiba saatnya kamu melihat seorang raja yang memerintah dengan semarak atas negeri yang terbentang ke segala penjuru.
18 Your heart will meditate on fear. Where are the learned? Where are those who ponder the words of the law? Where are the teachers of little ones?
Ketakutanmu yang sudah-sudah terhadap pemungut pajak, penjabat dan pengawas asing tinggal kenangan saja.
19 You will not look upon a shameless people, a people of exalted words. For you are not able to understand the dissertation of a tongue in which there is no wisdom.
Kamu tak akan lagi melihat orang-orang asing biadab yang berbicara dalam bahasa yang tidak kamu mengerti.
20 Look with favor upon Zion, the city of our solemnity. Your eyes will behold Jerusalem: an opulent habitation, a tabernacle that can never be taken away. Its stakes will not be taken away forever, nor will any of its cords be broken.
Pandanglah kota Sion, tempat kita merayakan pesta-pesta agama. Pandanglah Yerusalem! Alangkah amannya tempat itu untuk didiami, seperti kemah yang tak pernah dipindahkan, patoknya tak pernah dicabut dan talinya tak pernah putus.
21 For only in that place has our Lord been magnified. It is a place of rivers, very broad and open. No ship with oars will cross through it, nor will the great Greek ship pass through it.
TUHAN akan memperlihatkan keagungan-Nya kepada kita. Kita akan hidup di tepi sungai yang lebar, yang tak dapat dilayari kapal musuh.
22 For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He himself will save us.
Semua perlengkapan di kapal mereka tak ada gunanya; layar-layarnya tak dapat dibentangkan! Semua kekayaan pasukan musuh akan kita rampas, dan jumlahnya sangat banyak, sehingga orang lumpuh pun mendapat bagian. TUHAN sendiri akan menjadi raja kita; Ia akan memerintah, menegakkan hukum dan menyelamatkan kita dari musuh.
23 Your ropes have become loose, and they will not prevail. Your mast will be such that you will not be able to unfurl a flag. Then the spoils of much plunder will be divided. The lame will seize the spoils.
24 He who is nearby will not say: “I am too weak.” The people who live in it will have their iniquity taken away from them.
Tak seorang pun di negeri kita akan mengeluh karena sakit, dan semua dosa akan diampuni.
