Yesaya 59
1 Jangan mengira TUHAN terlalu lemah untuk menyelamatkan kamu, atau terlalu tuli untuk mendengar seruanmu.
Behold, the Lord's hand is not too short to save; neither his ear too heavy for hearing;
2 Karena kejahatanmulah maka Ia tidak mendengarkan waktu kamu berdoa kepada-Nya. Dosa-dosamulah yang memisahkan kamu dari Allah.
But your iniquities have ever made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have caused him to hide his face from you, so that he would not hear.
3 Kamu bersalah karena berdusta dan berbuat curang, karena melakukan tindak kekerasan dan membunuh.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue uttereth deception.
4 Kamu mengadukan perkara tanpa alasan dan menghakimi dengan tidak adil. Kamu berdusta dan mengandalkan yang sia-sia; kamu membuat rencana untuk mencelakakan orang lain dan melakukan kejahatan.
No one admonisheth with righteousness, and no one executeth justice in truth; men trust in naught, and speak lies; they have conceived mischief, and bring forth wickedness.
5 Rencana-rencanamu yang jahat membawa maut seperti telur ular berbisa. Kalau telur itu dipecahkan, keluarlah ularnya. Rencana itu sama sekali tidak berguna bagimu, seperti pakaian yang ditenun dari sarang laba-laba!
Basilisk's eggs do they hatch, and spider's webs do they weave: he that eateth of their eggs must die, and if one be crushed, a viper will break forth.
Their webs cannot serve for garments, and they cannot clothe themselves with their works: their works are works of wickedness, and the deed of violence is in their hands.
7 Kamu terus-menerus merencanakan yang jahat, dan ingin segera melaksanakannya. Tanpa ragu-ragu kamu membunuh orang yang tak bersalah. Ke mana saja kamu pergi, kamu meninggalkan keruntuhan dan kebinasaan.
Their feet run to what is evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; wasting and destruction are on their highways.
8 Kamu tidak mengusahakan kerukunan, dan semua perbuatanmu tidak adil. Jalanmu berbelit-belit, dan orang yang mengikuti jalan itu tidak akan bahagia.
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice on their tracks: their paths they have made unto themselves crooked; whosoever walketh therein knoweth not peace.
9 Bangsa itu berkata kepada Allah, "Sekarang kami tahu mengapa Engkau tidak menyelamatkan kami dari orang-orang yang menindas kami. Kami menantikan terang, tetapi hanya ada kegelapan.
Therefore is justice far from us, nor will happiness overtake us: we ever hope for light, but behold there is darkness; for brightness, but in obscurity must we walk.
10 Kami meraba-raba seperti orang buta; di tengah hari kami tersandung seperti di tengah malam; di tengah orang hidup kami seperti orang mati.
We grope like the blind on the wall, and as if we had no eyes do we grope: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in complete darkness like the dead.
11 Kami ketakutan dan kesedihan; kami mencari keadilan, tetapi tidak ada; kami mengharapkan keselamatan, tetapi sia-sia.
We growl all of us like bears, and like doves do we moan sorely; we ever hope for justice, but there is none; for aid, but it is far from us.
12 Sungguh banyaklah kejahatan kami terhadap-Mu; dosa-dosa kami mempersalahkan kami. Kami sungguh-sungguh menyadari kejahatan kami, dan mengetahui dosa-dosa kami.
For our transgressions are numerous in thy presence, and our sins testify against us; for of our transgressions are we aware; and our iniquities—we know them;
13 Kami telah mungkir dan memberontak terhadap TUHAN, dan tak mau mengikuti Allah kami. Kami telah menindas orang lain dan menyeleweng; pikiran kami sesat, dan kata-kata kami bohong.
We transgressed and denied the Lord, and departed away from our God; we spoke oppression and revolt, conceived and brought forth in our heart words of falsehood.
14 Hukum yang adil sudah disingkirkan, dan keadilan dijauhkan. Kejujuran diremehkan di tempat-tempat umum, dan ketulusan dikesampingkan.
And justice is forced to turn backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbled in the street, and equity is not able to enter.
15 Tak ada lagi orang yang jujur, dan siapa yang menjauhi kejahatan, ia sendiri menjadi korban kejahatan." TUHAN telah melihatnya, dan Ia tidak senang bahwa tak ada lagi keadilan.
And thus is the truth missing; and he that departeth from evil is regarded as foolish: and the Lord saw it, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice.
16 Ia heran bahwa tak ada yang tampil dan tak ada yang membela. Maka Ia memakai kuasa-Nya sendiri untuk menyelamatkan dan memberi mereka kemenangan.
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore his arm brought him aid, and his righteousness, —yea, this sustained him.
17 Ia memakai keadilan dan keselamatan sebagai baju besi dan topi baja. Ia bertekad untuk memulihkan keadaaan dan membalas ketidakadilan.
And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and [placed] the helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance as raiment, and wrapped himself with zeal as with a cloak.
18 Ia membalas musuh-musuh-Nya sesuai dengan perbuatan mereka. Bahkan bangsa-bangsa di pulau-pulau yang jauh tidak luput dari hukuman-Nya.
According to the demerits, so will he repay [all], fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands will he repay what they have merited.
19 Kuasa dan keagungan-Nya akan ditakuti semua orang dari timur sampai ke barat. Ia akan datang seperti sungai yang deras yang digelorakan angin yang kencang.
And they shall fear from the west the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun his glory; for there shall come distress like the stream which the Spirit of the Lord urgeth forward.
20 TUHAN berkata kepada umat-Nya, "Aku akan datang ke Yerusalem untuk menyelamatkan kamu semua yang bertobat dari dosa-dosamu.
But unto Zion shall come the redeemer, and unto those who return from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21 Aku membuat perjanjian dengan kamu: Kamu Kuberi kuasa-Ku dan ajaran-Ku untuk selama-lamanya. Ajarkanlah kepada anak-anakmu supaya mereka pun dapat mengajarkannya turun-temurun sekarang sampai selama-lamanya."
And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy children, nor out of the mouth of thy children's children, saith the Lord, from henceforth and unto all eternity.
