Isaiah 43

1 And now thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and who formed you, O Israel: Do not be afraid. For I have redeemed you, and I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Israel, beginilah kata TUHAN, "Akulah yang menjadikan dan membentuk engkau, jangan takut, engkau pasti Kuselamatkan! Aku telah memanggil engkau dengan namamu, engkau adalah milik-Ku.

2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not cover you. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not scorch you.

Bila engkau mengarungi air, Aku akan menyertai engkau, engkau tak akan tenggelam dalam kesukaran-kesukaranmu. Bila melalui api, engkau tak akan hangus, percobaan-percobaan berat tak akan mencelakakan engkau.

3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have presented Egypt as your atonement, Ethiopia and Seba on your behalf.

Sebab Akulah TUHAN, Allahmu, Allah kudus Israel, Penyelamatmu. Mesir Kuberikan sebagai tebusanmu, Sudan dan Syeba sebagai gantimu.

4 Since then, you have become honorable in my eyes, and glorious. I have loved you, and I will present men on behalf of you, and people on behalf of your life.

Engkau berharga di mata-Ku, Aku menghargai dan mengasihi engkau; maka Kuberikan manusia sebagai gantimu, bangsa-bangsa sebagai ganti nyawamu.

5 Fear not, for I am with you. I will lead your offspring from the East, and I will gather you from the West.

Jangan takut, sebab Aku melindungi engkau. Dari barat dan dari timur Kusuruh anak cucumu datang berkumpul.

6 I will say to the North, “Release him,” and to the South, “Do not turn him away.” Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

Kuperintahkan kepada utara dan selatan, supaya mereka segera dilepaskan. Biar anak-anakmu lelaki kembali dari jauh, dan anak-anakmu perempuan pulang dari ujung-ujung bumi.

7 And each one who calls upon my name, I have created for my glory. I have formed him, and I have made him.

Sebab mereka semua telah dipanggil dengan nama-Ku, mereka Kuciptakan untuk mengagungkan Aku."

8 Lead forth the people who are blind and have eyes, who are deaf and have ears.

Allah berkata, "Suruhlah tampil ke depan bangsa-Ku yang buta, sekalipun mempunyai mata; yang tuli, sekalipun mempunyai telinga.

9 All the nations have been assembled together, and the tribes have been collected. Who among you will announce this, and who will cause us to listen to the things that are first? Let them present their witnesses. Let them act justly, and listen, and say: “It is true.”

Suruhlah semua bangsa berkumpul dan semua suku berhimpun. Siapakah di antara dewa-dewa mereka telah memberitahukan apa yang terjadi sekarang? Siapa di antaranya dapat meramalkan masa depan? Biarlah saksi-saksi mereka tampil, dan membuktikan bahwa mereka benar, supaya semua yang mendengar mereka berkata, bahwa memang demikian!

10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know, and may believe in me, and so that you may understand that I am the same. Before me, there was no god formed, and after me there will be none.

Hai umat-Ku, kamulah saksi-saksi-Ku, kamu Kupilih menjadi hamba-hamba-Ku, supaya mengenal Aku dan percaya kepada-Ku, dan mengerti bahwa Akulah Allah. Aku Allah Yang Mahaesa, tak ada lainnya sebelum dan sesudah Aku.

11 I am. I am the Lord. And there is no savior apart from me.

Aku sendirilah TUHAN, selain Aku tak ada yang menyelamatkan.

12 I have announced, and I have saved. I have caused it to be heard. And there was no stranger among you. You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.

Aku telah memberitahukannya kepadamu, Akulah yang menyelamatkan kamu, dan bukan ilah asing yang ada di antaramu; kamulah yang menjadi saksi-saksi-Ku. Dan Aku, Aku ini Allah,

13 And from the beginning, I am the same. And there is no one who can rescue from my hand. I act, and who can turn it aside?

untuk selamanya Aku tetap Allah. Tak ada yang dapat luput dari kuasa-Ku, atau menghalangi rencana-Ku."

14 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake, I sent to Babylon, and tore down all their bars, with the Chaldeans who glory in their ships.

TUHAN Penyelamatmu, Yang Kudus Israel, berkata, "Demi kamu, Aku mengirim tentara ke Babel, dan Kudobrak palang-palang pintu penjara; sorak-sorai orang Kasdim Kuubah menjadi ratapan.

15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

Akulah TUHAN, Allahmu yang kudus, Rajamu, yang menciptakan engkau, hai Israel!"

16 Thus says the Lord, who gave you a way through the sea and a path through the torrent of waters,

TUHAN telah membuat sebuah jalan melalui laut, melalui air yang bergelora.

17 who led out the chariot and the horse, the column of robust troops. They went to sleep together, and they will not arise. They have been crushed like flax, and they have been extinguished.

Ia menyuruh tentara dan perwira-perwiranya berperang, dan mereka maju dengan kereta berkuda. Tetapi mereka jatuh, tak dapat bangkit lagi, mereka mati seperti sumbu yang padam.

18 You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity.

TUHAN berkata, "Tak ada gunanya mengingat masa lalu, percuma mengenang yang sudah-sudah.

19 Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.

Perhatikanlah, Aku membuat sesuatu yang baru; sekarang sudah mulai, tidakkah kaulihat? Aku akan membuat jalan di padang gurun, dan sungai-sungai di padang belantara.

20 The wild beasts of the field will glorify me, with the serpents and the ostriches. For I have brought waters to the desert, rivers to inaccessible places, in order to give drink to my people, to my elect.

Binatang liar akan mengagungkan Aku; serigala dan burung unta akan memuji Aku sebab Aku mengalirkan air di padang gurun, dan sungai-sungai di padang belantara untuk memberi minum kepada umat pilihan-Ku.

21 This is the people whom I have formed for myself. They will speak my praise.

Merekalah bangsa yang Kubentuk bagi diri-Ku, agar dapat mewartakan pujian bagi-Ku."

22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, nor have you struggled for me, O Israel.

TUHAN berkata, "Tetapi engkau Israel, tidak menyembah Aku, dan tidak lagi berbakti kepada-Ku.

23 You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, and you have not glorified me with your victims. I have not burdened you with oblations, nor have I wearied you with incense.

Engkau tidak membawa domba untuk kurban bakaranmu, tidak menghormati Aku dengan persembahanmu. Padahal Aku tidak membebankan engkau dengan kurban, atau menyusahkan engkau dengan menuntut kemenyan.

24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Engkau tidak membeli dupa harum untuk-Ku, tidak memuaskan Aku dengan lemak kurban sembelihanmu. Sebaliknya engkau membebani Aku dengan dosa-dosamu, menyusahkan Aku dengan kesalahan-kesalahanmu.

25 I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.

Namun Aku Allah yang menghapus dosamu, Aku mengampuni engkau karena begitulah sifat-Ku; Aku tidak mengingat-ingat dosamu.

26 Call me to mind, and let us go to judgment together. If you have anything to justify yourself, explain it.

Ingatkanlah Aku, mari kita ke pengadilan, adukan perkaramu supaya nyata bahwa engkau benar.

27 Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have betrayed me.

Nenek moyangmu yang pertama telah berdosa, para pemimpinmu telah memberontak terhadap Aku,

28 And so, I have defiled the holy leaders. I have handed over Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to calumny.

imam-imammu telah mencemarkan Rumah-Ku. Maka Israel Kuserahkan untuk dihina, keturunan Yakub Kubiarkan ditumpas."