Deuteronomy 9

1 Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

"Dengarlah Saudara-saudara! Hari ini kamu menyeberangi Sungai Yordan untuk menduduki daerah bangsa-bangsa yang lebih besar dan lebih kuat dari kamu. Kota-kota mereka besar-besar dengan tembok-temboknya yang menjulang setinggi langit.

2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

Orang-orangnya besar dan kuat perawakannya; mereka itu raksasa, dan kamu sudah mendengar bahwa tak seorang pun dapat melawan mereka.

3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said unto you.

Tetapi sekarang, kamu akan menyaksikan sendiri bagaimana TUHAN Allahmu berjalan di depan kamu seperti api yang menghanguskan. Ia akan mengalahkan mereka di depan matamu, sehingga kamu dapat mengusir dan membinasakan mereka dengan cepat seperti yang dijanjikan TUHAN.

4 Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you.

Sesudah TUHAN Allahmu mengusir mereka untukmu, jangan menyangka bahwa kamu dibawa-Nya ke sana untuk memiliki tanah itu karena kamu baik dan melakukan kehendak TUHAN Allahmu sehingga pantas menerimanya. Sekali-kali tidak! TUHAN mengusir bangsa-bangsa itu untuk kamu karena mereka jahat. TUHAN membiarkan kamu mengambil tanah mereka, karena Ia ingin memenuhi janji-Nya kepada nenek moyangmu Abraham, Ishak dan Yakub.

5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people.

Yakinlah bahwa TUHAN Allahmu tidak menyerahkan tanah subur itu kepadamu oleh karena kamu pantas menerimanya. Tidak! Kamu ini bangsa yang keras kepala.

7 Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until all of you came unto this place, all of you have been rebellious against the LORD.

Ingatlah bagaimana kamu membuat TUHAN Allahmu marah di padang gurun. Sejak kamu meninggalkan Mesir sampai kamu tiba di sini, kamu menentang TUHAN.

8 Also in Horeb all of you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

Bahkan di Gunung Sinai kamu membuat TUHAN marah sekali, sehingga Ia mau membinasakan kamu.

9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

Saya mendaki gunung itu untuk menerima batu perjanjian yang dibuat TUHAN dengan kamu. Empat puluh hari dan empat puluh malam lamanya saya tinggal di atas gunung itu tanpa makan atau minum.

10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Kemudian TUHAN memberi saya kedua batu yang telah ditulisi oleh Allah sendiri. Pada batu itu tertulis kata-kata yang diucapkan-Nya dari tengah-tengah api kepadamu, ketika kamu berkumpul di kaki gunung.

11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

Ya, sesudah lewat empat puluh hari dan empat puluh malam, TUHAN memberikan kepada saya kedua batu perjanjian itu.

12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get you down quickly from behind; for your people which you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

Lalu TUHAN berkata kepada saya, 'Turunlah segera, sebab bangsamu yang kaubawa keluar dari Mesir telah berbuat jahat. Mereka sudah menyimpang dari perintah-perintah-Ku, dan membuat patung untuk disembah.'

13 Furthermore the LORD spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stubborn people:

TUHAN juga berkata kepada saya, 'Aku tahu bangsa itu amat keras kepala.

14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

Jangan coba menghalangi Aku. Aku hendak membinasakan mereka sehingga mereka tidak diingat lagi. Tetapi engkau akan Kujadikan bapak dari suatu bangsa yang lebih besar dan lebih kuat daripada mereka.'

15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Lalu saya berpaling, dan sambil membawa kedua batu perjanjian dengan kedua tangan, saya turuni gunung yang sedang menyala-nyala.

16 And I looked, and, behold, all of you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: all of you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

Saya lihat bahwa kamu sudah melanggar perintah TUHAN Allahmu. Kamu sudah berdosa terhadap TUHAN karena membuat bagi dirimu sebuah patung sapi dari logam.

17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Maka di depan matamu kedua batu perjanjian itu saya banting sampai hancur berkeping-keping.

18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which all of you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Lalu sekali lagi saya bersujud di depan TUHAN di puncak gunung selama empat puluh hari dan empat puluh malam, tanpa makan atau minum. Itu saya lakukan karena kamu telah berdosa terhadap TUHAN dengan melakukan apa yang dianggap-Nya jahat, sehingga Ia marah.

19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.

Saya takut kepada kemarahan TUHAN yang menyala-nyala terhadap kamu sehingga kamu mau dibinasakan-Nya, tetapi kali ini pun TUHAN mendengarkan saya.

20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

TUHAN juga marah sekali kepada Harun sehingga Ia mau membunuhnya, maka saya berdoa untuk dia juga.

21 And I took your sin, the calf which all of you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

Patung sapi logam buatanmu, saya lemparkan ke dalam api. Lalu saya hancurkan dan tumbuk sampai halus seperti debu, dan debu itu saya lemparkan ke dalam anak sungai yang mengalir dari gunung itu.

22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, all of you provoked the LORD to wrath.

Juga di Tabera, Masa dan Kibrot-Taawa, kamu membuat TUHAN marah.

23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then all of you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and all of you believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

Lalu pada waktu kamu disuruh TUHAN meninggalkan Kades-Barnea untuk maju dan menduduki tanah yang akan diberikan-Nya kepadamu, kamu menentang perintah TUHAN Allahmu; kamu tidak mau percaya atau taat kepada-Nya.

24 All of you have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

Sejak saya kenal kamu, kamu selalu menentang TUHAN.

25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

Saya tahu TUHAN bertekad hendak membinasakan kamu. Maka selama empat puluh hari dan empat puluh malam saya sujud di depan TUHAN

26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

dan berdoa begini: Ya TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi, janganlah binasakan umat milik-Mu ini, bangsa yang Kaubebaskan dan Kauantar keluar dari Mesir dengan kekuatan dan kekuasaan-Mu yang besar.

27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

Ingatlah akan hamba-hamba-Mu Abraham, Ishak dan Yakub, dan jangan perhatikan sifat keras kepala, kejahatan dan dosa bangsa ini.

28 Lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

Kalau umat-Mu Kaumusnahkan juga, maka orang Mesir akan berkata bahwa Engkau tak sanggup membawa bangsa-Mu ke negeri yang Kaujanjikan kepada mereka, dan bahwa Engkau membawa mereka ke padang gurun untuk membunuh mereka, karena Engkau benci kepada mereka.

29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your mighty power and by your stretched out arm.

Tetapi ingatlah, TUHAN, bahwa mereka ini bangsa yang Kaupilih menjadi umat-Mu, dan Kaubawa dari Mesir dengan kekuatan dan kekuasaan-Mu yang besar."