Isaiah 24
1 Behold, YHWH is emptying the earth, And is making it desolate, And has overturned [it on] its face, And has scattered its inhabitants.
TUHAN akan membinasakan bumi, sehingga menjadi tandus dan sepi. Ia akan membalik permukaannya dan menceraiberaikan penduduknya.
2 And it has been—as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maidservant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting [it] on himself.
Semua orang akan mengalami nasib yang sama: imam-imam dan rakyat, budak belian dan majikan, penjual dan pembeli, peminjam dan yang meminjamkan, kaya dan miskin.
3 The earth is utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled, For YHWH has spoken this word:
Bumi akan berantakan dan dihancurkan. TUHAN sudah berbicara, dan hal itu pasti terjadi.
4 The earth has mourned, faded, The world has languished, faded, They have languished—the high place of the people of the earth.
Bumi menjadi kering dan layu, seluruh dunia merana. Langit dan bumi merana bersama-sama.
5 And the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a perpetual covenant.
Bumi menjadi cemar karena penduduknya melanggar perintah-perintah Allah, mengubah ketetapan-ketetapan-Nya dan mengingkari perjanjian yang dibuat-Nya dengan mereka untuk selama-lamanya.
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, And the inhabitants in it become desolate, Therefore inhabitants of the earth have been consumed, And few men have been left.
Sebab itu TUHAN telah mengutuk bumi dan menghukum penduduknya karena perbuatan mereka. Mereka dihanguskan dan sedikit saja dari mereka yang selamat.
7 The new wine has mourned, the vine languished, All the joyful of heart have sighed.
Pohon anggur merana dan air anggur sukar didapat. Orang yang dahulu gembira sekarang sedih.
8 The joy of tambourines has ceased, The noise of exulting ones has ceased, The joy of a harp has ceased.
Tidak lagi terdengar petikan kecapi yang riang dan tabuhan rebana yang meriah. Keramaian orang yang bersuka ria sudah berhenti.
9 They do not drink wine with a song, Strong drink is bitter to those drinking it.
Tak ada lagi yang minum anggur dengan bernyanyi, tak ada lagi yang menikmati lezatnya minuman keras.
10 It was broken down—a city of emptiness, Every house has been shut from [its] entrance.
Seluruh kota rusuh; semua pintu rumah terkunci karena penghuninya ketakutan.
11 In out-places [is] a cry over the wine, All joy has been darkened, The joy of the land has been removed.
Orang-orang berteriak di jalan-jalan karena kehabisan air anggur. Tak ada lagi kegembiraan di negeri itu untuk selama-lamanya.
12 Desolation [is] left in the city, And the gate is struck [with] ruin.
Kota sudah hancur lebur, dan gerbang-gerbangnya runtuh berantakan.
13 When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the surrounding of the olive, As gleanings when harvest has been finished,
Itulah yang akan terjadi di seluruh bumi pada setiap bangsa. Sama halnya seperti di musim panen, waktu buah zaitun diambil sampai habis dan buah anggur yang terakhir dipetik dari pohon.
14 They lift up their voice, They sing of the excellence of YHWH, They have cried aloud from the sea.
Orang-orang yang selamat akan bernyanyi gembira. Orang di barat akan memberitakan keagungan TUHAN
15 Therefore honor YHWH in prosperity, In islands of the sea, the Name of YHWH, God of Israel.
dan orang di timur akan memuji Dia. Penduduk di pesisir akan mengagungkan TUHAN, Allah Israel.
16 From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, “Leanness [is] to me, Leanness [is] to me, woe [is] to me.” Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Indeed, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.
Dari ujung bumi terdengar nyanyian pujian untuk Israel, bangsa yang taat. Tetapi celakalah aku! Aku merana! Pengkhianat masih terus saja berkhianat, bahkan mereka semakin berkhianat.
17 Fear, and a snare, and a trap, [Are] on you, O inhabitant of the earth.
Dengarlah, hai seluruh penduduk bumi! Kegemparan, perangkap dan jerat menantikan kamu.
18 And it has come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear falls into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the trap, For windows have been opened on high, And foundations of the earth are shaken.
Orang yang melarikan diri dari kegemparan akan jatuh ke dalam perangkap, dan orang yang luput dari perangkap akan terjerat. Hujan deras akan tercurah dari langit, dan dasar bumi akan guncang.
19 The earth has been utterly broken down, The earth has been utterly broken, The earth has been utterly moved.
Bumi retak, remuk dan goyah.
20 The earth staggers greatly as a drunkard, And it has been moved as a lodge, And its transgression has been heavy on it, And it has fallen, and does not add to rise.
Bola bumi terhuyung-huyung seperti orang mabuk, dan goyang seperti gubuk dalam badai. Bumi roboh karena berat dosanya. Ia hancur dan tak akan bangkit lagi.
21 And it has come to pass in that day, YHWH lays a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the earth on the earth.
Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan menghukum para penguasa angkasa raya dan raja-raja di bumi.
22 And they have been gathered—A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And they have been shut up in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.
Mereka akan dikumpulkan bersama-sama seperti tahanan di dalam liang, dan dijebloskan ke dalam penjara sampai tiba waktunya untuk dihukum.
23 And the moon has been confounded, And the sun has been ashamed, For YHWH of Hosts has reigned In Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And before His elderly—glory!
Bulan akan menjadi gelap dan matahari tak lagi bersinar, sebab TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa akan memerintah sebagai raja. Ia akan memerintah di Yerusalem, di atas Bukit Sion, dan menunjukkan keagungan-Nya kepada para pemimpin umat-Nya.
