Isaiah 51

1 Listen to me, you who follow what is just and who seek the Lord. Pay attention to the rock from which you have been hewn, and to the walls of the pit from which you have been dug.

TUHAN berkata: "Dengarlah Aku, hai kamu yang ingin diselamatkan dan datang kepada-Ku minta pertolongan. Ingatlah gunung batu dari mana kamu terpahat, dan penggalian batu dari mana kamu digali.

2 Pay attention to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone, and I blessed him, and I multiplied him.

Ingatlah nenek moyangmu Abraham dan Sara yang melahirkan kamu; waktu Aku memanggil Abraham, ia tidak punya anak; lalu Kuberkati dia dan Kuberi keturunan yang banyak.

3 Therefore, the Lord will console Zion, and he will console all its ruins. And he will turn her desert into a place of delights, and her wilderness into a garden of the Lord. Gladness and rejoicing will be found in her, thanksgiving and a voice of praise.

Yerusalem, Aku akan menghibur engkau, dan semua yang tinggal di puing-puingmu. Padang-padangmu yang tandus Kujadikan taman, seperti Eden, taman-Ku yang subur. Di situ orang akan bergirang dan bersuka ria dan bersyukur dengan nyanyi-nyanyian.

4 Pay attention to me, my people, and listen to me, my tribes. For a law will go forth from me, and my judgment will rest as a light for the nations.

Perhatikanlah suara-Ku, hai bangsa-Ku, dengarlah kata-kata-Ku, hai umat-Ku. Kuberi ajaran-Ku kepada bangsa-bangsa, hukum-hukum-Ku akan menerangi mereka.

5 My just one is near. My savior has gone forth. And my arms will judge the people. The islands will hope in me, and they will patiently wait for my arm.

Keselamatan yang Kuberikan sudah dekat; saat kemenangan-Ku hampir tiba. Aku sendiri akan memerintah bangsa-bangsa. Negeri-negeri yang jauh menanti-nantikan Aku dan mengharapkan perbuatan-Ku yang perkasa.

6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth below. For the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will be worn away like a garment, and its inhabitants will pass away in like manner. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will not fail.

Pandanglah langit dan tengoklah bumi; langit akan lenyap seperti asap dan bumi akan usang seperti baju tua, semua penduduknya akan mati seperti nyamuk. Tetapi keselamatan yang Kuberikan tetap selamanya, dan kemenangan-Ku tak akan berakhir.

7 Listen to me, you who know what is just, my people who have my law in their heart. Do not be afraid of disgrace among men, and do not dread their blasphemies.

Dengarlah Aku, hai bangsa-Ku, kamu tahu apa yang benar; ajaran-Ku tersimpan di dalam hatimu. Jangan takut kalau kamu diejek manusia, jangan cemas kalau kamu dihina mereka.

8 For the worm will consume them like a garment, and the moth will devour them like wool. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will be from generation to generation.

Mereka akan binasa dan lenyap, seperti pakaian dimakan ngengat dan kain bulu domba dimakan gegat. Tapi keselamatan yang Kuberikan tetap selamanya, kemenangan-Ku berlangsung turun-temurun."

9 Rise up, Rise up! Clothe yourself in strength, O arm of the Lord! Rise up as in the days of antiquity, as in generations long past. Have you not struck the arrogant one and wounded the dragon?

Bangkitlah ya TUHAN, tolonglah kami, selamatkanlah kami dengan kuasa-Mu. Bangkitlah seperti di zaman dahulu waktu Engkau meremukkan Rahab dan menikam naga laut itu sampai mati.

10 Have not you dried up the sea, the waters of the great abyss, and turned the depths of the sea into a road, so that the delivered could cross over it?

Engkau pula yang mengeringkan laut, air samudra yang dalam. Engkau membuat jalan melalui air itu, supaya orang-orang yang diselamatkan dapat menyeberang.

11 And now, those who have been redeemed by the Lord will return. And they will arrive in Zion, praising. And everlasting rejoicing will be upon their heads. They will take hold of gladness and rejoicing. Anguish and mourning will flee away.

Maka orang-orang yang dibebaskan TUHAN akan pulang mereka masuk ke Yerusalem dengan sorak-sorai wajah mereka berseri karena sukacita abadi. Mereka bergembira dan bersuka ria, duka dan keluh kesah lenyaplah sudah.

12 It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?

TUHAN berkata, "Akulah yang menghibur kamu. Mengapa engkau takut kepada manusia yang fana, kepada manusia yang dibuang seperti rumput?

13 And have you forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who extended the heavens, and who founded the earth? And have you been in constant dread, all day long, at the face of his fury, of the one who afflicted you and who had prepared to destroy you? Where is the fury of the oppressor now?

Masakan engkau lupa akan TUHAN Penciptamu yang membentangkan langit dan meletakkan dasar bumi? Mengapa sepanjang hari engkau gentar terhadap amukan si penindas yang bersiap-siap memusnahkan? Sesungguhnya, amukan mereka itu tak akan mempan terhadapmu.

14 Advancing quickly, he will arrive to be revealed, and he will not kill unto utter destruction, nor will his bread fail.

Para tawanan akan segera dibebaskan; mereka tak akan kekurangan makanan, dan tak akan mati dan dikubur.

15 But I am the Lord, your God, who stirs up the sea, and who makes the waves swell. The Lord of hosts is my name.

Sebab Akulah TUHAN Allahmu, yang menggelorakan laut sehingga ombaknya berderu. Yang Mahakuasa adalah nama-Ku.

16 I have placed my words in your mouth, and I have protected you in the shadow of my hand, so that you might plant the heavens, and found the earth, and so that you might say to Zion, “You are my people.”

Akulah yang membentangkan langit dan meletakkan dasar-dasar bumi. Aku berkata kepada Sion: Engkaulah umat-Ku; Aku memberi ajaran-Ku kepadamu dan melindungi engkau dengan kuasa-Ku."

17 Lift up, Lift up! Arise, O Jerusalem! You drank, from the hand of the Lord, the cup of his wrath. You drank, even to the bottom of the cup of deep sleep. And you were given to drink, all the way to the dregs.

Bangunlah, hai Yerusalem, bangunlah! Hukuman yang dijatuhkan TUHAN karena kemarahan-Nya sudah kaujalani sampai habis.

18 There is no one who can uphold her, out of all the sons whom she has conceived. And there is no one who would take her by the hand, out of all the sons whom she has raised.

Dari pendudukmu tak ada yang membimbingmu, dari penghunimu tak ada yang menuntunmu.

19 There are two things which have happened to you. Who will be saddened over you? There is devastation and destruction, and famine and sword. Who will console you?

Engkau ditimpa dua macam bencana; akibat perang negerimu hancur binasa dan rakyatmu mati kelaparan. Tak ada yang mengasihani dan menghibur engkau.

20 Your sons have been cast out. They have slept at the head of all the roads, and they have been ensnared like a gazelle. They have been filled by the indignation of the Lord, by the rebuke of your God.

Di setiap ujung jalan orang-orangmu jatuh kehabisan tenaga seperti rusa yang kena jaring. Mereka ditimpa kemarahan Tuhan, dan kena hardik Allahmu.

21 Therefore, listen to this, O poor little ones, and you who have been inebriated, but not by wine.

Dengarlah hai orang-orang yang tertindas, yang terhuyung-huyung seperti orang mabuk!

22 Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord, and your God, who will fight on behalf of his people: Behold, I have taken the cup of deep sleep from your hand. You shall no longer drink from the bottom of the cup of my indignation.

Beginilah kata Tuhanmu, TUHAN Allahmu yang membela kamu, "Penderitaan yang Kuberikan dalam kemarahan-Ku, akan Kuambil kembali daripadamu. Kemarahan-Ku akan reda, dan kamu tak usah lagi menanggungnya.

23 And I will set it in the hand of those who have humiliated you, and who have said to your soul: “Bow down, so that we pass over.” And you placed your body on the ground, as a path for them to pass over.

Penderitaan itu Kuberikan kepada penindasmu, yang pernah menyuruh kamu berbaring di tanah, dan menginjak-injak kamu, seolah-olah kamu jalanan yang dilalui orang."