Ezekiel 36

1 And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord:

TUHAN berkata, "Hai manusia fana, bicaralah kepada gunung-gunung Israel dan suruhlah mereka mendengarkan amanat TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi,

2 This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:

'Ketika bangsa-bangsa di sekitar menyerang dan merampok kamu, mereka telah menghina seluruh Israel. Dengan gembira mereka berkata bahwa sekarang bukit-bukit purbakala itu menjadi milik mereka. Sebab itu, hai gunung-gunung dan bukit-bukit, anak-anak sungai dan lembah, hai kota-kota yang sudah menjadi puing dan yang telah ditinggalkan oleh penghuninya serta dirampok dan diejek oleh bangsa-bangsa di sekitarnya, dengarlah apa yang dikatakan TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi kepadamu: Dalam luapan amarah-Ku Aku mengecam bangsa-bangsa di sekitarmu dan khususnya Edom, karena mereka dengan senang dan bersikap menghina, telah merebut tanah-Ku dan merampasi padang-padang rumputnya. Sekarang Aku marah dan mengamuk karena bangsa-bangsa itu telah sangat menghina serta merendahkan kamu.

3 For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:

4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:

5 For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:

6 For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations:

7 For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you.

Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi bersumpah bahwa bangsa-bangsa di sekitarmu itu akan dihina pula.

8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.

Tetapi kepadamu Kukatakan hai gunung-gunung Israel, pohon-pohonmu akan bertunas dan berbuah lagi untuk umat-Ku Israel yang segera akan pulang.

9 For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

Aku ada di pihakmu hai Israel, dan Aku memastikan bahwa tanahmu akan dicangkul lagi dan ditaburi benih.

10 And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;

Aku akan menambah jumlah umat-Ku Israel. Mereka akan tinggal di kota-kota dan membangun kembali segala puingnya.

11 Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Penduduk dan ternakmu akan Kutambah, sehingga menjadi sangat banyak, lebih banyak dari semula, dan mereka akan beranak cucu banyak. Mereka akan hidup di sana seperti semula dan Kujadikan makmur, seperti belum pernah kamu alami. Maka tahulah mereka bahwa Akulah TUHAN.

12 Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.

Umat-Ku Israel, akan Kubawa pulang untuk mendiami negerinya lagi. Tanah itu akan menjadi milik mereka sendiri dan akan selalu memberi hasilnya sehingga anak-anak mereka tak akan lagi mati kelaparan.'

13 This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;

Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi berkata, 'Memang benar tanah ini diberi julukan pemakan manusia dan perampas anak-anak--bangsa yang mendiaminya.

14 For this reason you will no longer take the lives of men and will never again be the cause of loss of children to your nation, says the Lord.

Tetapi mulai sekarang tanah ini tak akan memakan manusia lagi atau merampas anak-anak mereka. Aku TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi telah berbicara.

15 And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.

Tak perlu lagi tanah ini mendengar ejekan bangsa-bangsa atau menanggung penghinaan orang. Tanah ini tak lagi akan menumpas bangsa yang mendiaminya. Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi telah berbicara.'"

16 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

TUHAN berkata kepadaku,

17 Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.

"Hai manusia fana, ketika orang-orang Israel tinggal di negeri mereka sendiri, mereka telah mencemarkannya dengan tindakan dan kelakuan mereka. Aku menganggap kelakuan mereka itu haram, seperti wanita yang sedang haid.

18 So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:

Kulimpahkan amarah-Ku kepada mereka karena mereka telah melakukan banyak pembunuhan di tanah itu dan mencemarkannya dengan berhala-berhala mereka.

19 And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.

Mereka Kuhukum sesuai dengan cara hidup dan kelakuan mereka, lalu mereka Kuceraiberaikan ke negeri-negeri asing.

20 And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land.

Ke mana saja mereka pergi, mereka selalu mencemarkan nama-Ku yang suci. Sebab orang-orang mengatakan begini, 'Bangsa ini adalah umat Allah, tetapi mereka harus meninggalkan tanah yang diberikan Allah kepada mereka.'

21 But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went.

Aku prihatin karena nama-Ku yang suci sudah dicemarkan oleh orang-orang Israel ke mana pun mereka pergi.

22 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.

Oleh sebab itu, sampaikanlah apa yang Aku TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi katakan kepada bangsa Israel, 'Apa yang akan Kulakukan nanti bukanlah karena kamu, hai orang-orang Israel, melainkan karena nama-Ku yang suci, yang telah kamu cemarkan ke mana pun kamu pergi.

23 And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.

Aku akan menunjukkan kesucian nama-Ku yang besar itu, nama yang telah kamu cemarkan di tengah bangsa-bangsa, maka tahulah mereka bahwa Aku TUHAN. Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi telah berbicara. Aku akan memakai kamu untuk memperlihatkan kepada bangsa-bangsa bahwa Aku ini suci, TUHAN Yang Mahasuci.

24 For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.

Dari setiap bangsa dan negeri, kamu akan Kukumpulkan dan Kupulangkan ke tanahmu sendiri.

25 And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

Setelah itu kamu akan Kuperciki dengan air jernih, supaya kamu bersih dari segala berhalamu dan dari segala sesuatu yang telah mencemarkan kamu.

26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

Maka kamu Kuberikan hati yang baru dan pikiran yang baru. Hatimu yang sekeras batu itu akan Kuganti dengan hati yang taat.

27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.

Roh-Ku akan Kucurahkan ke dalam hatimu dan kamu akan Kujaga supaya hidup menurut hukum-hukum-Ku serta mentaati segala perintah-Ku.

28 So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

Maka kamu akan tinggal di tanah yang telah Kuberikan kepada nenek moyangmu. Kamu akan menjadi umat-Ku dan Aku pun akan menjadi Allahmu.

29 And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.

Kamu akan Kubebaskan dari segala kecemaranmu. Aku akan memberi perintah kepada gandum supaya tumbuh dengan subur sehingga kamu tidak pernah lagi dilanda kelaparan.

30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

Aku akan menambah kesuburan pohon buah-buahanmu dan hasil ladang-ladangmu, sehingga kamu tidak akan lagi mengalami masa kelaparan yang memburukkan namamu di antara bangsa-bangsa.

31 And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.

Kamu akan teringat kepada kelakuanmu yang jahat dan tindakanmu yang tidak pantas itu, lalu kamu menjadi muak dengan dirimu sendiri karena dosa-dosa dan kekejianmu itu.

32 Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.

Ingatlah hai Israel, bahwa semua itu Kulakukan bukan karena kamu. Kamu harus merasa malu dan hina karena kelakuanmu. Aku TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi telah berbicara.'"

33 This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.

TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi berkata, "Setelah kamu Kubersihkan dari segala dosamu, kamu akan Kuizinkan tinggal di kota-kotamu lagi, dan membangun kembali puing-puingnya.

34 And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

Dahulu orang-orang yang berjalan lewat padang-padangmu melihat betapa tandusnya tanah itu, tetapi Aku akan memungkinkan kamu mengerjakan tanah itu lagi.

35 And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.

Maka semua orang akan menjadi heran, karena tanah yang tadinya tandus itu kini berubah menjadi taman Eden, dan kota-kota yang tadinya sepi, hancur dan menjadi puing-puing, sekarang menjadi kota-kota yang kuat pertahanannya dan padat penduduknya.

36 Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it.

Maka bangsa-bangsa tetangga yang masih ada, akan tahu bahwa Aku, TUHAN, telah membangun kembali kota-kota yang telah hancur, dan mengerjakan kembali ladang-ladang yang tandus. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara dan pasti akan melaksanakannya."

37 This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi berkata, "Hai bangsa Israel, kamu Kuizinkan lagi minta tolong kepada-Ku; Aku akan menambah jumlahmu seperti kawanan domba.

38 Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Kota-kota yang sekarang hancur, kelak akan penuh penghuninya seperti Yerusalem pada hari-hari raya di masa lampau, penuh dengan domba-domba yang dipersembahkan. Maka tahulah kamu bahwa Akulah TUHAN."