Deuteronomy 30
1 “I have now told you about the ways that Yahweh our God will bless you [if you obey him] and the ways that he will curse you [if you disobey him]. I am saying that you must choose which you want. But when [you choose not to obey his laws], some day you will be living in the countries to which he will scatter you, and you will remember [what I told you].
Musa melanjutkan pengajarannya kepada umat Israel, “Pada masa mendatang, kalian semua dan keturunanmu akan mengalami semua berkat TUHAN Allahmu yang sudah saya sampaikan. Ketika kalian menjauh dari TUHAN, kamu sekalian akan mengalami semua kutukan yang sudah saya sampaikan juga. Namun, di negeri bangsa asing ke mana TUHAN mencerai-beraikan kalian nanti, kalian akan teringat kepada semua yang tertulis dalam kitab Taurat ini.
2 Then, if you return to Yahweh our God and faithfully [IDM] obey all that I have today commanded you to do,
Apabila besok kamu dan keturunanmu berbalik kepada TUHAN dengan segenap hati dan dengan segenap nafas hidupmu mematuhi perintah-Nya yang saya sampaikan hari ini,
3 he will be merciful to you. He will bring you back from the nations to which he scattered you, and he will cause you to be prosperous again.
maka TUHAN Allah akan berbelas kasihan dan membebaskan kalian dari penawanan. Dia juga akan mengumpulkan kalian kembali dari negeri bangsa-bangsa lain itu.
4 Even if you have been scattered to the most distant places on the earth, Yahweh our God will gather you from there and bring you back [to your land].
Sekalipun kalian dibuang ke ujung bumi, Dia tetap akan membawamu kembali.
5 He will enable you to possess again the land where your ancestors lived. And he will cause you to be more prosperous and more numerous than you are now.
TUHAN Allah akan membawa kalian pulang ke negeri nenek moyang kalian, dan kalian akan kembali menduduki negeri Israel. Dia akan membuat keturunan kalian menjadi lebih makmur dan lebih banyak daripada jumlah nenek moyang kalian.
6 Yahweh our God will change [MET] your inner beings, with the result that you will love him more than you love anything else and want to do only what he wants you to do. And then you will continue to live in that land.
TUHAN akan mengubah hatimu dan seluruh keturunanmu sehingga setiap orang sungguh-sungguh mengasihi Dia dengan segenap hati, supaya kalian dapat terus hidup di negeri ini.
7 Yahweh our God will cause your enemies and those who oppressed/persecuted you to experience all the disasters that I have told you about.
Lalu TUHAN akan menimpakan semua kutuk tersebut kepada musuh-musuh yang membenci dan menindas kalian.
8 You will do what Yahweh wants you to do, as you did before, and you will obey all the commands that I have given to you today.
Sedangkan kalian akan berbalik kepada TUHAN, menjadi taat kembali, dan melakukan semua perintah TUHAN yang saya sampaikan hari ini.
9 Yahweh our God will cause you to be very successful in all that you do. You will have many children [IDM], and a lot of cattle, and you will have abundant crops. He will again be happy to enable you to prosper, just like he was happy to enable your ancestors to prosper.
Kemudian Dia akan membuat kalian berhasil dalam semua pekerjaanmu. Dia akan memberkatimu dengan banyak anak, banyak ternak, dan hasil panen yang melimpah, karena Dia ingin membuat kalian makmur, sama seperti Dia senang memberkati nenek moyangmu.
10 [But he will do those things only] if you do what he has told you to do, and if you obey all his rules and regulations that I have written about [in this scroll], and if you will love him more than you love anything else and want to do only what he wants you to do.
Tetapi untuk menerima semua berkat itu, kalian harus kembali kepada-Nya dengan segenap hatimu dan sungguh-sungguh menaati semua perintah dan ketetapan-Nya yang tertulis dalam kitab Taurat ini.”
11 The commands that I am giving to you today are not very difficult for you [to obey], and they are not [difficult to know].
“Seluruh perintah yang saya sampaikan kepada kalian hari ini tidak terlalu sulit untuk kalian lakukan dan tidak di luar pemahamanmu.
12 They are not in heaven, with the result that you need to say, ‘(Who will need to go up to heaven for us to bring them [down here to us] in order that we can hear them and obey them?/Someone will need to go up to heaven for us to bring them [down here to us] in order that we can hear them and obey them.)’ [RHQ]
Perintah-perintah TUHAN itu tidak disimpan di surga sehingga kalian harus bertanya, ‘Siapakah yang bisa naik ke sana untuk mengambilkannya bagi kita, supaya kita bisa mendengar dan melakukannya?’
13 And they are not on the other side of the sea, with the result that you need to say, ‘(Who will need to cross the sea for us and bring them back to us, in order that we can hear them and obey them?/Someone will need to cross the sea for us and bring them back to us, in order that we can hear them and obey them.)’ [RHQ]
Perintah-perintah itu juga tidak disimpan di seberang laut sehingga kalian harus bertanya, ‘Siapakah yang bisa menyeberangi laut besar itu untuk mengambilkannya bagi kita, supaya kita bisa mendengar dan melakukannya?’
14 [You do not need to do that because] his commands are here with you. You know them [MTY] and you have (memorized them/put them in your minds). So you can [easily] obey them.
Sesungguhnya perintah TUHAN sangat dekat denganmu! Kalian sudah mengetahuinya dan bisa membicarakannya dengan sesamamu. Jadi, sekarang hanya tinggal melakukannya saja.
15 So listen! Today I am allowing you to choose between [doing what is] evil and [doing what is] good, between what will enable you to live [for a long time] and [what will cause you] to die [while you are still young].
“Perhatikanlah! Hari ini saya mengajukan dua pilihan kepada kamu sekalian: Hidup dengan sejahtera, atau ditimpa kesialan sampai mati.
16 [I say again], if you obey the commands of Yahweh our God that I am giving to you today, and if you love him and conduct your lives as he wants you to do, and if you obey all his rules and regulations, you will prosper and become very numerous, and Yahweh our God will bless you in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
Kasihilah TUHAN Allahmu, hiduplah menurut kehendak-Nya, dan taatilah perintah, ketetapan, serta peraturan-Nya. Dengan demikian, bangsa kita akan tetap hidup serta bertambah besar, dan TUHAN Allah akan memberkati kalian di negeri yang sebentar lagi kalian duduki.
17 But if you turn away [from Yahweh] and refuse to heed what he says, and if you allow yourselves to be led away to worship other gods,
“Namun, jika hatimu berpaling dari TUHAN dan kamu menolak mendengarkan Dia, malahan terpikat untuk menyembah dewa-dewa,
18 I am warning you today that you will [soon] die. You will not live for a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to enter and possess.
saya memperingatkanmu hari ini: Kamu pasti akan binasa! Kamu tidak akan hidup lama di negeri di seberang sungai Yordan itu.
19 I am requesting that [everyone in] heaven and the earth testify to you, that today I am allowing you to choose whether you [want to] live for a long time or to soon die, whether [you want Yahweh to] bless you or to curse you. So choose to live.
“Jadi, hari ini saya sudah memberi dua pilihan kepada kamu sekalian, yakni hidup dengan berkat TUHAN, atau mengalami kutuk-Nya sampai mati. Biarlah langit dan bumi menjadi saksi atas pilihanmu! Demi kebaikanmu sendiri dan keturunanmu, pilihlah hidup!
20 [Choose to] love Yahweh our God, and to obey him [MTY], and to (be faithful to/have a close relationship with) him. If you do that, you and your descendants will live for a long time in the land that Yahweh solemnly promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give to them.”
Kasihilah TUHAN Allah kita, taatilah Dia, dan berpeganglah erat kepada-Nya selalu. Seharusnya begitulah cara hidupmu! Jika kamu mengasihi Dia dan taat kepada-Nya, kamu dan keturunanmu akan tinggal selamanya di negeri yang TUHAN janjikan untuk diberikan kepada nenek moyang kita Abraham, Isak, dan Yakub.”
