Yesaya 59
1 Jangan mengira TUHAN terlalu lemah untuk menyelamatkan kamu, atau terlalu tuli untuk mendengar seruanmu.
Look, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:
2 Karena kejahatanmulah maka Ia tidak mendengarkan waktu kamu berdoa kepada-Nya. Dosa-dosamulah yang memisahkan kamu dari Allah.
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will 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 lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
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.
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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!
They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act 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 evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; destruction and calamity are in their paths.
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 do not know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes in it does not know 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, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, look, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
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 for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
11 Kami ketakutan dan kesedihan; kami mencari keadilan, tetapi tidak ada; kami mengharapkan keselamatan, tetapi sia-sia.
We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off 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 multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for 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.
transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 Hukum yang adil sudah disingkirkan, dan keadilan dijauhkan. Kejujuran diremehkan di tempat-tempat umum, dan ketulusan dikesampingkan.
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't 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.
Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him 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.
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
17 Ia memakai keadilan dan keselamatan sebagai baju besi dan topi baja. Ia bertekad untuk memulihkan keadaaan dan membalas ketidakadilan.
He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
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 their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
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.
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of the LORD drives.
20 TUHAN berkata kepada umat-Nya, "Aku akan datang ke Yerusalem untuk menyelamatkan kamu semua yang bertobat dari dosa-dosamu.
"A Redeemer will come from Zion, and he will turn away transgression from Jacob," says 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."
"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your children, nor out of the mouth of your children's children," says the LORD, "from now on and forever."
