Jeremias 27
1 THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
Pada permulaan pemerintahan Zedekia, anak Yosia raja Yehuda, datanglah firman ini dari TUHAN kepada Yeremia.
2 Proclaim you among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say you, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
Beginilah firman TUHAN kepadaku: "Buatlah tali pengikat dan gandar, lalu pasanglah itu pada tengkukmu!
3 For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
Kemudian kirimlah pesan kepada raja Edom, kepada raja Moab, kepada raja bani Amon, kepada raja Tirus dan kepada raja Sidon, dengan perantaraan utusan-utusan yang telah datang ke Yerusalem menghadap Zedekia, raja Yehuda.
4 In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
Perintahkanlah mereka mengatakan kepada tuan-tuan mereka: Beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam, Allah Israel: Beginilah harus kamu katakan kepada tuan-tuanmu:
5 They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
Akulah yang menjadikan bumi, manusia dan hewan yang ada di atas muka bumi dengan kekuatan-Ku yang besar dan dengan lengan-Ku yang terentang, dan Aku memberikannya kepada orang yang benar di mata-Ku.
6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
Dan sekarang, Aku menyerahkan segala negeri ini ke dalam tangan hamba-Ku, yakni Nebukadnezar, raja Babel; juga binatang di padang telah Kuserahkan supaya tunduk kepadanya.
7 All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
Segala bangsa akan takluk kepadanya dan kepada anaknya dan kepada cucunya, sampai saatnya juga tiba bagi negerinya sendiri, maka banyak bangsa dan raja-raja yang besar akan menaklukkannya.
8 Flee you out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
Tetapi bangsa dan kerajaan yang tidak mau takluk kepada Nebukadnezar, raja Babel, dan yang tidak mau menyerahkan tengkuknya ke bawah kuk raja Babel, maka bangsa itu akan Kuhukum dengan pedang, kelaparan dan penyakit sampar, demikianlah firman TUHAN, sampai mereka Kuserahkan ke dalam tangannya.
9 For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
Mengenai kamu, janganlah kamu mendengarkan nabi-nabimu, juru-juru tenungmu, juru-juru mimpimu, tukang-tukang ramalmu dan tukang-tukang sihirmu yang berkata kepadamu: Janganlah kamu mau takluk kepada raja Babel!
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
Sebab mereka bernubuat palsu kepadamu dengan maksud menjauhkan kamu dari atas tanahmu, sehingga kamu Kuceraiberaikan dan menjadi binasa.
11 Because you rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because you exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
Tetapi bangsa yang mau menaruh tengkuknya ke bawah kuk raja Babel dan yang takluk kepadanya, maka mereka akan Kubiarkan di atas tanahnya, demikianlah firman TUHAN, dan mereka akan mengolahnya dan diam di sana."
12 Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
Kepada Zedekia, raja Yehuda, aku telah berbicara dengan cara yang sama, kataku: "Taruhlah tengkukmu ke bawah kuk raja negeri Babel, takluklah kepadanya dan kepada rakyatnya, maka kamu akan hidup.
13 by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
Mengapa engkau beserta rakyatmu harus mati oleh pedang, kelaparan dan penyakit sampar seperti yang difirmankan TUHAN tentang bangsa yang tidak mau takluk kepada raja Babel itu?
14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
Janganlah dengarkan perkataan nabi-nabi yang berkata kepadamu: Janganlah kamu mau takluk kepada raja Babel! Sebab mereka bernubuat palsu kepadamu.
15 and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
Sebab Aku tidak mengutus mereka, demikianlah firman TUHAN, tetapi mereka bernubuat palsu demi nama-Ku, sehingga kamu Kuceraiberaikan dan menjadi binasa bersama-sama dengan nabi-nabi yang bernubuat kepadamu itu."
16 Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
Juga kepada imam-imam dan kepada seluruh rakyat itu aku berbicara, kataku: "Beginilah firman TUHAN: Janganlah dengarkan perkataan nabi-nabimu yang bernubuat kepadamu: Sesungguhnya, perkakas-perkakas rumah TUHAN tidak berapa lama lagi akan dibawa kembali dari Babel! Sebab mereka bernubuat palsu kepadamu.
17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.
Janganlah kamu mendengarkan mereka, takluklah kepada raja Babel, maka kamu akan hidup. Mengapa kota ini harus menjadi reruntuhan?
18 Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.
Jika memang mereka itu nabi dan jika ada firman TUHAN pada mereka, baiklah mereka mendesak kepada TUHAN semesta alam, supaya perkakas-perkakas yang masih tinggal dalam rumah TUHAN dan dalam istana raja Yehuda dan di Yerusalem itu jangan diangkut ke Babel.
19 And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
Sebab beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam tentang tiang-tiang, bejana 'laut' dan galang, tentang sisa perkakas-perkakas yang masih tinggal di kota ini,
20 In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left
yang tidak diambil oleh Nebukadnezar, raja Babel, ketika ia mengangkut Yekhonya bin Yoyakim, raja Yehuda, ke dalam pembuangan beserta segala pemuka Yehuda dan Yerusalem, dari Yerusalem ke Babel, --
21 on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.
sungguh, beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam, Allah Israel, tentang perkakas-perkakas yang masih tinggal itu di rumah TUHAN dan di istana raja Yehuda dan di Yerusalem:
22 A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
Semuanya akan diangkut ke Babel dan akan tinggal di sana sampai kepada hari Aku memperhatikannya lagi, demikianlah firman TUHAN, lalu membawanya kembali ke tempat ini."
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
24 They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, Babylon, that you will even be taken captive: you are found and taken, because you did resist the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 For her times are come: open you her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
27 Dry you up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
28 A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.
29 Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.
31 Behold, I am against you the haughty one, says the Lord: for your day is come, and the time of your retribution.
32 And your pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
33 Thus says the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
34 But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
35 and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
36 a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
37 a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
38 and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.
39 Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.
41 Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:
42 [the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
44 Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
46 For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.
