Yesaya 41

1 Kata Allah, "Diamlah dan dengarkan Aku, hai penduduk negeri-negeri yang jauh. Bersiaplah untuk tampil di pengadilan, majulah dan ajukanlah perkaramu. Mari kita bersidang bersama, untuk memutuskan siapa benar, siapa salah.

Hold a feast to me, you islands: for the princes shall renew [their] strength: let them draw near and speak together: then let them declare judgment.

2 Siapakah yang menggerakkan penguasa dari timur, dan memberi dia kemenangan terus-menerus? Siapakah yang membuat dia mengalahkan bangsa-bangsa, dan menaklukkan raja-raja baginya? Pedangnya membuat mereka terserak seperti debu, panahnya menghamburkan mereka seperti jerami ditiup angin.

Who raised up righteousness from the east, [and] called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint [it] an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

3 Ia terus mengejar dan maju tanpa rintangan; kakinya cepat, hampir tak menyentuh jalan.

And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in peace.

4 Siapakah yang melakukan semuanya itu? Siapakah yang menentukan jalannya sejarah? Aku, TUHAN, Akulah yang pertama, dan tetap ada sampai penghabisan.

Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to [all] futurity, I AM.

5 Penduduk negeri-negeri jauh melihat apa yang telah Kuperbuat. Mereka terkejut dan gemetar ketakutan, lalu berkumpul bersama dan datang.

The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew near, and came together,

6 Semua orang saling menolong, dan saling menguatkan hati.

every one judging for his neighbor and [that] to assist his brother: and one will say,

7 Tukang kayu menguatkan hati tukang emas, orang yang memipihkan logam dengan martil memuji orang yang menempa di atas landasan. Katanya, 'Baik benar pekerjaanmu'; lalu dikuatkannya dengan paku supaya tidak goyang.

The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, [and] forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

8 Tetapi engkau, Israel, hamba-Ku, umat pilihan-Ku, engkau keturunan Abraham, sahabat-Ku.

But you, Israel, are my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved:

9 Engkau telah Kuambil dari ujung-ujung bumi, Kupanggil dari tempat-tempat yang terjauh. Kata-Ku, 'Engkaulah hamba-Ku; Aku tidak menolak pilihan-Ku.'

whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called you, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and I have not forsaken you.

10 Jangan takut, sebab Aku menyertaimu, jangan cemas, sebab Aku Allahmu. Engkau akan Kuteguhkan dan Kutolong, Kutuntun dengan tangan-Ku yang jaya.

Fear not; for I am with you: wander not; for I am your God, who have strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with my just right hand.

11 Lihatlah, semua orang yang marah kepadamu, akan dikalahkan dan tersipu-sipu. Orang-orang yang melawan engkau, akan binasa dan habis tersapu.

Behold, all your adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not: and all your opponents shall perish.

12 Engkau akan mencari orang-orang yang menentang engkau, tetapi mereka tidak kautemukan. Orang-orang yang berperang dengan engkau sekarang sudah binasa dan hilang.

You shall seek them, and you shall not find the men who shall insolently rage against you: for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against you shall not be.

13 Sebab Aku TUHAN, Allahmu, memegang tangan kananmu; kata-Ku, 'Jangan takut, Aku akan menolong engkau.'"

For I am your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you,

14 Kata TUHAN, "Jangan takut, Israel, biarpun engkau kecil dan lemah. Akulah TUHAN yang menolong engkau, Yang Mahakudus, Allah Israel adalah Penyelamatmu.

Fear not, Jacob, [and you] Israel few in number; I have helped you, says your God, he that redeems you, O Israel.

15 Lihatlah, engkau Kujadikan seperti papan pengirik, yang baru, tajam dan bergigi dua jajar. Engkau akan mengirik gunung-gunung dan menghancurkannya; bukit-bukit kaujadikan seperti sekam.

Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make [them] as chaff:

16 Engkau akan menampi mereka, lalu mereka diterbangkan angin dan dihamburkan topan. Engkau akan bergembira karena Aku, TUHAN, dan bermegah karena Aku, Allah Israel.

and you shall winnow [them], and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

17 Apabila bangsa-Ku yang malang itu mencari air, dan kerongkongan mereka kering karena kehausan, maka Aku, TUHAN, akan menjawab doa mereka; Allah Israel tak akan meninggalkan umat-Nya.

And the poor and the needy shall exult; for [when] they shall seek water, and there shall be none, [and] their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them:

18 Kubuat sungai-sungai mengalir di bukit-bukit yang gundul; mata air akan membual di tengah dataran. Padang gurun akan Kujadikan telaga; air akan memancar dari tanah yang kering.

but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.

19 Padang gurun akan Kutanami pohon cemara, pohon zaitun, pohon murad dan pohon akasia. Padang belantara akan Kujadikan hutan, hutan eru, berangan dan cemara.

I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and white poplar:

20 Maka semua orang akan melihatnya dan mengetahui bahwa Aku, TUHAN, yang melakukannya. Mereka akan memperhatikan dan mengerti, Allah kudus Israel membuat itu terjadi."

that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has wrought these [works], and the Holy One of Israel has displayed [them].

21 TUHAN, raja Israel, berkata kepada dewa-dewa, "Ajukanlah perkaramu, kemukakan alasan-alasannya!

Your judgment draws near, says the Lord God; your counsels have drawn near, says the King of Jacob.

22 Datanglah, dan ramalkanlah apa yang akan terjadi, supaya kami tahu kesudahannya nanti. Beritahukanlah kejadian-kejadian yang dahulu, terangkan artinya supaya kami perhatikan.

Let them draw near, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell [us] what things were of old, and we will apply [our] understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things:

23 Katakanlah apa yang akan terjadi, supaya kami tahu kamu sungguh ilahi. Lakukanlah yang berguna atau yang merugikan, supaya kami tercengang melihatnya.

tell us, declare you to us the things that are coming on at the last [time], and we shall know that you are gods: do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time

24 Sesungguhnya, kamu dan perbuatanmu tidak ada, dan para pemujamu menjijikkan saja.

whence you are, and whence is your works: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

25 Aku telah menggerakkan seorang dari timur: Kupanggil dia untuk menyerang dari utara. Para penguasa akan diinjak-injaknya seperti lumpur, seperti tukang periuk menginjak-injak tanah liat.

But I have raised up him that [comes] from the north, and him that [comes] from the rising of the sun: they shall be called by my name: let the princes come, and as potter's clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall you be trodden down.

26 Siapa dari kamu sudah menubuatkannya sehingga kami dapat membenarkan dia? Tetapi di antara kamu tak ada yang memberitahukannya, tidak ada yang mendengar kamu berbicara.

For who will declare the things from the beginning, that we may know also the former things, and we will say that they are true? there is no one that speaks beforehand, nor anyone that hears your words.

27 Aku, TUHAN, yang pertama mengabarkannya kepada Sion; Aku mengirim pembawa kabar baik ke Yerusalem.

I will give dominion to Sion, and will comfort Jerusalem by the way.

28 Waktu Kucari di antara dewa-dewa, tak satu pun dapat memberi petunjuk, tak ada yang dapat menjawab.

For from among the nations, behold, [there was] no one; and of their idols there was none to declare [anything]: and if I should ask them, Whence are you? they could not answer me.

29 Sungguh, dewa-dewa itu tidak berguna, mereka hanya patung tuangan yang tidak berdaya, dan tidak mampu berbuat apa-apa."

For [these] are your makers, [as you think], and they that cause you to err in vain.