Yesaya 27
1 Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan memakai pedang-Nya yang kuat dan tajam untuk menghukum Lewiatan, ular yang meliuk-liuk dan melingkar-lingkar itu, dan untuk membunuh naga laut.
In that day, the LORD with his fierce and great and mighty sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the serpent that is in the sea.
2 Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan berkata, "Bernyanyilah tentang kebun anggur-Ku yang indah.
In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard.
3 Aku, TUHAN, penjaganya; setiap saat Aku menyiraminya, siang malam Aku menjaganya, agar jangan ada yang mengganggunya.
I, the LORD, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Aku tidak merasa marah lagi. Sekiranya ada rumput atau semak berduri, Aku akan membasminya, dan membakar habis semuanya.
Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle. I would march on them and I would burn them together.
5 Tetapi jika musuh-musuh umat-Ku mencari perlindungan pada-Ku, biarlah mereka berdamai dengan Aku, ya, berdamai dengan Aku."
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me."
6 Di masa yang akan datang, bangsa Israel akan seperti pohon yang berakar dan berkembang, serta memenuhi muka bumi dengan buah-buahnya.
In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
7 TUHAN menghukum umat-Nya tidak seberat Ia menghukum bangsa-bangsa yang memusuhi mereka. Ia tidak membunuh umat-Nya seperti Ia membunuh musuh-Nya.
Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been killed as their killers were killed?
8 TUHAN menghukum umat-Nya dengan membuang mereka ke negeri asing. Ia mengusir mereka dengan angin jahat dari timur.
In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
9 Tetapi dosa-dosa Israel hanya dapat diampuni kalau mezbah dewa-dewa digiling halus seperti kapur. Semua pedupaan dan lambang Dewi Asyera harus dihancurkan juga.
Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
10 Kota berkubu itu sudah menjadi sepi dan ditinggalkan seperti padang belantara yang kosong. Kawanan ternak merumput dan beristirahat di situ sambil menghabiskan daun-daun dari dahan-dahan pohon.
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
11 Apabila ranting-rantingnya sudah kering dan patah, wanita-wanita datang dan menjadikannya kayu api. Bangsa itu tidak mengerti apa-apa, maka Allah Penciptanya tidak akan menyayangi atau mengasihi mereka.
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
12 Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan mengumpulkan bangsa-Nya satu demi satu dari Sungai Efrat sampai ke perbatasan Mesir. Ia akan memisahkan mereka seperti orang memisahkan butir gandum dari sekamnya.
It will happen in that day, that the LORD will thresh from the flowing stream of the Perath to the Wadi of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
13 Pada waktu itu akan dibunyikan trompet besar untuk memanggil kembali semua orang Israel yang dibuang di Asyur dan di Mesir. Mereka akan datang ke Yerusalem untuk menyembah TUHAN di bukit-Nya yang suci.
It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
