Yesaya 31
1 Celakalah orang yang pergi ke Mesir untuk minta bantuan! Mereka mengandalkan kekuatan angkatan perang Mesir dengan pasukan pengendara kuda dan kudanya yang kuat-kuat serta keretanya yang banyak. Tetapi mereka tidak percaya kepada TUHAN, Allah kudus Israel dan tidak minta bantuan-Nya.
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, and they do not seek the LORD.
2 TUHAN bijaksana dan tahu apa yang Ia lakukan. Ia mendatangkan bencana dan melaksanakan ancaman-Nya untuk menghukum orang jahat dan orang yang menolong mereka.
Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against those who help evildoers.
3 Orang Mesir hanya manusia, bukan Allah. Kuda mereka makhluk biasa, tidak bersifat ilahi. Apabila TUHAN bertindak, bangsa penolong itu akan tersandung dan bangsa yang ditolongnya akan jatuh. Maka keduanya akan binasa.
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
4 TUHAN berkata kepadaku, "Seperti singa menggeram untuk mempertahankan mangsanya dan tak dapat ditakuti oleh teriakan dan jeritan serombongan gembala yang dikerahkan melawan dia, begitu juga Aku akan berperang dan mempertahankan Bukit Sion.
For thus says the LORD to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.
5 Seperti seekor burung berkepak-kepak di atas sarangnya untuk melindungi anak-anaknya, begitu juga Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa akan melindungi, membela dan menyelamatkan Yerusalem."
As birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it."
6 TUHAN berkata, "Bangsa Israel, kamu telah melawan Aku dan berdosa terhadap-Ku. Tetapi sekarang, kembalilah kepada-Ku!
Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
7 Akan tiba waktunya kamu semua membuang patung-patung berhala dari perak dan emas yang kamu buat sendiri dengan penuh dosa.
For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.
8 Asyur akan dibinasakan dalam perang, tetapi bukan dengan kekuatan manusia. Orang Asyur akan lari dari medan pertempuran, dan orang-orang muda mereka akan dijadikan hamba.
"The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of humankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.
9 Raja mereka akan lari ketakutan, dan para perwiranya sangat terkejut, sehingga mereka meninggalkan panji-panji perang." TUHAN telah berbicara, TUHAN yang disembah dan dihormati dengan kurban bakaran di Yerusalem.
His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his officers will be afraid of the banner," says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
