Ezra 1
1 Pada tahun pertama pemerintahan Kores, raja Persia, TUHAN melaksanakan apa yang telah diucapkan-Nya melalui Nabi Yeremia. TUHAN mendorong hati Kores untuk mengeluarkan sebuah perintah yang dibacakan di seluruh kerajaannya. Bunyinya demikian:
In the first year of Cyrus, king of the Persians, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of the Persians, so that the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah would be fulfilled. And he sent out a voice, throughout his entire kingdom, and also in writing, saying:
2 "Inilah perintah Kores, raja Persia. TUHAN, Allah penguasa di surga telah menjadikan aku raja atas seluruh dunia, dan menugaskan aku untuk membangun rumah bagi-Nya di Yerusalem di daerah Yehuda.
“Thus says Cyrus, the king of the Persians: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me, and he himself has instructed me that I should build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.
3 Semoga Allah melindungi kamu sekalian yang menjadi umat-Nya. Kamu harus pulang ke Yerusalem dan membangun kembali Rumah TUHAN, Allah Israel, Allah yang diam di Yerusalem.
Who among you is from his entire people? May his God be with him. Let him ascend to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and let him build the house of the Lord, the God of Israel. He is the God who is in Jerusalem.
4 Jika ada seorang dari umat-Nya di tempat pembuangan ini yang memerlukan bantuan untuk dapat pulang, maka tetangga-tetangganya harus memberikan bantuan itu. Mereka harus memberikan kepadanya perak dan emas, bekal untuk di jalan serta binatang muatan, dan juga persembahan-persembahan untuk Rumah TUHAN di Yerusalem."
And let all who remain, in all the places wherever they may live, assist him, each man from his place, with silver and gold, and goods and cattle, in addition to whatever they may offer voluntarily to the temple of God, which is in Jerusalem.”
5 Kemudian para kepala kaum dari suku Yehuda dan Benyamin, para imam dan orang-orang Lewi, dan setiap orang yang hatinya digerakkan oleh Allah, berkemas-kemas untuk pulang ke Yerusalem dan membangun kembali Rumah TUHAN.
And the leaders of the fathers from Judah and from Benjamin, with the priests, and the Levites, and all those whose spirit was stirred by God, rose up, so that they might ascend to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.
6 Semua tetangga mereka ikut membantu dengan memberikan barang-barang, seperti perkakas-perkakas perak dan emas, bekal untuk di jalan, binatang muatan, harta benda lainnya dan persembahan-persembahan untuk Rumah TUHAN.
And all those who were all around assisted their hands with vessels of silver and gold, with goods and cattle, with equipment, in addition to whatever they had offered freely.
7 Kores mengeluarkan mangkuk-mangkuk dan cawan-cawan yang dahulu dipakai dalam Rumah TUHAN di Yerusalem. Barang-barang itu telah diangkut oleh Raja Nebukadnezar dan ditaruh di dalam kuil dewa-dewanya sendiri.
Likewise, king Cyrus offered the vessels of the temple of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god.
8 Kores menyerahkan urusan benda-benda itu kepada Mitredat, kepala perbendaharaan kerajaan. Kemudian Mitredat membuat daftar dari barang-barang itu untuk Sesbazar, gubernur Yehuda.
Now Cyrus, king of Persia, offered these by the hand of Mithredath, the son of the treasurer, and he counted these out to Sheshbazzar, the leader of Judah.
9 Inilah daftarnya: mangkuk-mangkuk emas untuk upacara persembahan-30; mangkuk-mangkuk perak untuk upacara persembahan-1.000; mangkuk-mangkuk lainnya-29; mangkuk-mangkuk kecil dari emas-30; mangkuk-mangkuk kecil dari perak-410; perkakas lainnya-1.000.
And this is their number: thirty gold bowls, one thousand silver bowls, twenty-nine knives, thirty gold cups,
four hundred ten of a second kind of silver cup, one thousand other vessels.
11 Seluruhnya berjumlah 5.400 mangkuk emas dan perak serta barang-barang lain. Semuanya itu dibawa oleh Sesbazar ketika dia dan orang-orang buangan yang lain berangkat dari Babel menuju ke Yerusalem.
All the vessels of gold and silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these, with those who ascended from the transmigration of Babylon, into Jerusalem.
