Isaiah 22

1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

Inilah pesan tentang Lembah Penglihatan: Hai, penduduk Yerusalem, mengapa kamu semua naik ke atap rumah?

2 You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

Tidak patut seluruh kota berpesta-pesta dan bersorak gembira. Sebab pejuang-pejuangmu yang mati dalam perang ini bukan mati karena bertempur.

3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.

Semua panglimamu melarikan diri dan ditawan sebelum mereka sempat menembakkan panah. Semua orang kuatmu tertawan juga walaupun sudah lari jauh.

4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

Jangan perhatikan aku; biarkan aku meratapi orang-orang dari bangsaku yang telah tewas. Jangan coba menghibur aku.

5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

Memang, TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi dan Mahakuasa telah menetapkan hari ini sebagai hari kekacauan, kegemparan dan huru-hara di Lembah Penglihatan. Tembok-tembok kota sudah dirobohkan. Teriakan minta tolong bergema di bukit-bukit.

6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.

Orang Siria datang dengan kuda dan kereta perang, orang Elam bersenjatakan busur dan panah, orang Kir menyiapkan perisainya.

7 And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.

Lembah-lembah subur Yehuda penuh dengan kereta perang. Pasukan berkuda siap di depan gerbang-gerbang Yerusalem.

8 He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.

Seluruh pertahanan Yehuda runtuh. Pada waktu itu, kamu memeriksa alat-alat perang di gudang senjata.

9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

Kamu menemukan banyak sekali retak di tembok kota Yerusalem yang perlu diperbaiki. Kamu memeriksa semua rumah di Yerusalem, membongkar beberapa di antaranya dan memakai batunya untuk memperbaiki tembok kota. Untuk mengumpulkan air,

10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

kamu membuat kolam di dalam kota dan menampung air dari kolam lama. Tetapi kamu tidak memperhatikan Allah yang sudah lama merencanakan semua itu, dan yang menyebabkan itu terjadi.

12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

Pada waktu itu TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi dan Mahakuasa menyuruh kamu menangis dan meratap, mencukur kepala dan mengenakan kain karung.

13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

Tapi sebaliknya, kamu bersenang-senang dan berpesta. Kamu menyembelih sapi dan domba, makan daging dan minum air anggur sambil berseru, "Marilah kita makan dan minum, sebab besok kita mati!"

14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi dan Mahakuasa menyatakan diri kepadaku dan berkata, "Sungguh, kejahatan mereka itu tak akan Kuampuni sampai mereka mati. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."

15 The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,

TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi dan Mahakuasa menyuruh aku menemui Sebna, kepala rumah tangga istana, untuk menyampaikan kepadanya pesan TUHAN ini,

16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

"Sangkamu engkau ini siapa? Apa hakmu sehingga engkau memahat kuburan bagimu di bukit batu?

17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

Awas, Aku akan membuang engkau jauh-jauh. Engkau akan Kucekam dan Kugulung-gulung lalu Kugulingkan seperti bola ke negeri yang besar. Di sana engkau akan mati di samping kereta-kereta kebanggaanmu. Engkau telah mencemarkan nama keluarga tuanmu.

18 Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!

19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

Sebab itu engkau akan Kupecat dari jabatanmu dan Kuturunkan dari pangkatmu yang tinggi.

20 And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:

Pada waktu itu Aku akan memanggil hamba-Ku Elyakim anak Hilkia.

21 And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.

Pakaian kebesaran dan ikat pinggangmu akan Kukenakan padanya. Segala kekuasaanmu akan Kuberikan kepadanya. Ia akan menjadi bapak bagi penduduk Yerusalem dan Yehuda.

22 And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.

Ia akan berkuasa penuh di bawah raja keturunan Daud. Ia akan memegang kunci kerajaan. Kalau ia membuka, tak ada yang dapat menutup, dan kalau ia menutup, tak ada yang dapat membuka.

23 And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.

Dia akan Kuberi kedudukan yang teguh seperti pasak terpasang kuat pada tembok. Seluruh keluarganya akan dihormati karena dia.

24 And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.

Tetapi kaum kerabat dan tanggungannya akan menjadi beban baginya. Mereka akan menggantungkan diri kepadanya, seperti periuk belanga bergantungan pada pasak.

25 In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.

Kalau itu terjadi, maka pasak yang dipasang dengan kuat itu akan terlepas dan jatuh. Dan itulah penghabisan kaum keluarga dan semua orang yang menggantungkan diri kepadanya. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."