Yesaya 29
1 Celakalah kota Yerusalem yang disebut mezbah Allah! Celakalah kota tempat Daud berkemah! Biarlah tahun-tahun silih berganti dengan perayaan-perayaannya.
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city against which David fought: year has been added to year, the solemnities have unfolded.
2 Tetapi Allah akan mendatangkan bencana atas kota itu, sehingga orang mengerang dan mengaduh. Seluruh kota menyerupai mezbah yang berlumuran darah.
And I will surround Ariel with siege works, and it will be in sorrow and mourning, and it will be like Ariel to me.
3 Allah akan menyerang kota itu dan mengepungnya dari segala penjuru.
And I will surround you like a sphere all around you, and I will raise up a rampart against you, and I will set up fortifications to blockade you.
4 Yerusalem seperti hantu yang berusaha untuk memperdengarkan suaranya dari dalam tanah, suara yang redup dari dalam debu.
You will be brought low. You will speak from the ground, and your eloquence will be heard from the dirt. And, from the ground, your voice will be like that of the python, and your eloquence will mumble from the dirt.
5 Akan tetapi semua orang asing yang kejam itu akan hilang seperti debu atau sekam ditiup angin. Dengan tiba-tiba dan tak disangka-sangka.
And the multitude of those who fan you will be like fine dust. And the multitude of those who have prevailed against you will be like embers fading away.
6 TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa akan membebaskan kota itu dengan badai dan gempa bumi yang dahsyat. Ia akan mendatangkan topan dan api yang mengamuk.
And this will happen suddenly and swiftly. It will be visited from the Lord of hosts with thunder and earthquakes, and with the great noise of a whirlwind and a storm, and with a flame of devouring fire.
7 Lalu semua pasukan asing yang menyerang Yerusalem, kota mezbah Allah, semua yang mengepung dan menggempur kota itu, akan hilang seperti mimpi di waktu malam.
And the multitude of all the nations that have struggled against Ariel will be like the dream of a vision by night, along with all who have battled, and besieged, and prevailed against it.
8 Bangsa-bangsa yang berkumpul untuk menyerang Yerusalem akan seperti orang kelaparan yang mimpi ia sedang makan, lalu bangun dengan perut kosong, atau seperti orang kehausan yang mimpi ia sedang minum, lalu bangun dengan kerongkongan kering.
And it will be like one who is hungry and dreams of eating, but, when he has been awakened, his soul is empty. And it will be like one who is thirsty and dreams of drinking, but, after he has been awakened, he still languishes in thirst, and his soul is empty. So shall the multitude of all the nations be, who have struggled against Mount Zion.
9 Teruslah keheran-heranan dan menutup mata seperti orang buta! Jadilah mabuk, tetapi bukan karena minum anggur. Berjalanlah terhuyung-huyung, tetapi bukan karena minum arak.
Be stupefied and in wonder! Shake and quiver! Be inebriated, but not from wine! Stagger, but not from drunkenness!
10 TUHAN membuat kamu mengantuk dan tidur nyenyak. Ia menutupi mata para nabi dan menudungi muka para pelihat.
For the Lord has mixed for you a spirit of deep sleep. He will close your eyes. He will cover your prophets and leaders, who see visions.
11 Arti setiap penglihatan akan tersembunyi bagimu, seperti buku yang disegel. Jika buku itu dibawa kepada seorang yang dapat membaca supaya ia membacakannya bagimu, ia akan berkata bahwa ia tidak bisa, karena buku itu disegel.
And the vision of all will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which, when they have given it to someone who knows how to read, they will say, “Read this,” but he will respond, “I cannot; for it has been sealed.”
12 Jika dibawa kepada orang yang buta huruf, ia akan menjawab bahwa ia tidak bisa membaca.
But if the book is given to someone who does not know how to read, and it is said to him, “Read,” then he will respond, “I do not know how to read.”
13 TUHAN berkata, "Orang-orang itu hanya menyembah Aku dengan kata-kata, tetapi hati mereka jauh dari Aku. Agama mereka hanya peraturan manusia yang dihafalkan.
And the Lord said: Since this people have drawn near to me only with their mouth, and their lips glorify me while their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is based on the commandments and doctrines of men,
14 Karena itu mereka akan Kukejutkan dengan pukulan bertubi-tubi. Orang yang bijaksana akan menjadi bodoh, dan semua kepandaian mereka tak akan berguna."
for this reason, behold, I will proceed to accomplish a wonder for this people, a great and mystifying miracle. For wisdom will perish from their wise, and the understanding of their prudent will be concealed.
15 Celakalah orang yang berusaha menyembunyikan rencananya dari TUHAN! Mereka bertindak dengan diam-diam, dan menyangka tak seorang pun melihat atau tahu apa yang mereka lakukan.
Woe to you who use the depths of the heart, so that you may hide your intentions from the Lord. Their works are done in darkness, and so they say: “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
16 Segalanya mereka putar balikkan. Manakah yang lebih penting, tukang periuk atau tanah liat? Mungkinkah yang dibuat berkata kepada pembuatnya, "Bukan engkau yang membuat aku"? Atau dapatkah benda itu berkata kepadanya, "Engkau tak bisa apa-apa"?
This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: “You did not make me.” Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, “You do not understand.”
17 Ada pepatah yang berbunyi, "Tak lama lagi rimba menjadi tanah pertanian, dan tanah pertanian kembali menjadi rimba."
In not more than a little while and a brief time, Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and a fruitful field will be considered to be a forest.
18 Pada waktu itu orang tuli akan dapat mendengar kata-kata dari sebuah buku yang dibacakan, dan orang buta yang tadinya hidup dalam kegelapan akan dapat melihat.
And in that day, the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind will see.
19 Orang-orang miskin dan hina akan kembali merasakan kebahagiaan yang diberikan Allah kudus Israel.
And the meek will increase their rejoicing in the Lord, and the poor among men will exult in the Holy One of Israel.
20 Itulah penghabisan orang-orang yang menindas orang lain dan menghina Allah. Allah akan membinasakan semua orang berdosa,
For the one who was prevailing has failed, the one who was mocking has been consumed, and all those who were standing guard over iniquity have been cut down.
21 orang yang suka memfitnah, orang yang mencegah orang jahat dihukum, dan orang yang menyebarkan cerita-cerita bohong supaya orang jujur jangan mendapat keadilan.
For they caused men to sin by a word, and they supplanted him who argued against them at the gates, and they turned away from justice in vain.
22 Sebab itu TUHAN, Allah Israel yang membebaskan Abraham, sekarang berkata, "Bangsa-Ku, kamu tak akan dihina lagi dan wajahmu tak akan pucat lagi karena malu.
Because of this, thus says the Lord, he who has redeemed Abraham, to the house of Jacob: From now on, Jacob will not be confounded; from now on his countenance will not blush with shame.
23 Sebab apabila kamu melihat anak-anakmu yang Kuberikan kepadamu, maka kamu akan mengakui bahwa Akulah Allah kudus Israel. Kamu akan menghormati Aku dan takut kepada-Ku.
Instead, when he sees his children, they will be the work of my hands in his midst, sanctifying my name, and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will preach the God of Israel.
24 Orang bodoh akan belajar mengerti dan orang yang selalu menggerutu akan senang diajar."
And those who had gone astray in spirit will know understanding, and those who had murmured will learn the law.
