Isaiah 23
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Tyre [city]: You [sailors on] [APO] ships from Tarshish, weep, because [the harbor of] Tyre and all the houses [in the city] have been destroyed. The reports that you heard in Cyprus [island] about Tyre [are true].
Ucapan ilahi tentang Tirus. Merataplah, hai kapal-kapal Tarsis, sebab Tirus sudah rusak, tiada lagi rumahmu atau pangkalanmu! Ketika mereka masih di negeri orang Kitim telah dinyatakan hal itu kepada mereka.
2 You people who live along the coast [near Tyre], and merchants of Sidon [city], mourn silently. Your sailors went across the seas [to many places like Tyre].
Berdiam dirilah, hai penduduk tanah pesisir, hai saudagar Sidon, suruhan-suruhanmu mengarungi laut, dan berlayar di samudera besar;
3 They sailed across deep seas to buy grain in Egypt and [other] crops that are grown along the Nile [River]. Tyre became the city where people from [all] nations bought and sold goods.
barang-barang yang dimasukkan ke Sidon ialah gandum dari Sihor, dan panen daerah Nil, sehingga kota itu menjadi pasar bagi bangsa-bangsa.
4 But now you people in Sidon should be ashamed, because [you trusted in Tyre], which has been a strong fortress [on an island] in the sea. [Tyre is like a woman who is saying], “[Now it is as though] I have not given birth to [any] children, or raised [any] sons or daughters.”
Tahulah malu hai Sidon, sebab laut, benteng laut, berbicara, katanya: "Aku tidak pernah menggeliat sakit dan tidak melahirkan, aku tidak pernah membesarkan anak-anak teruna, dan tidak mengasuh anak-anak dara."
5 When [the people of] Egypt hear what has happened to Tyre, they will grieve very much.
Apabila kabar tentang Tirus itu sampai ke Mesir, mereka akan gemetar mendengarnya.
6 Sail to Tarshish [and tell them what happened]; weep, you people who live along the coast.
Mengungsilah ke Tarsis, merataplah, hai penduduk tanah pesisir!
7 [The people in] the very old city [of Tyre] were [RHQ] previously joyful. Traders [PRS] from Tyre established colonies in many distant nations.
Inikah kotamu yang beria-ria, yang asalnya dari zaman purbakala? Orangnya telah melawat ke tempat yang jauh untuk merantau ke sana.
8 People from Tyre appointed kings [over other places]; their traders were wealthy; they were [as powerful and wealthy as] [MET] kings. [So], who [RHQ] caused the people of Tyre to experience this disaster?
Siapakah yang memutuskan ini atas Tirus, kota yang pernah menghadiahkan mahkota, yang saudagar-saudagarnya pembesar-pembesar dan pedagang-pedagangnya orang-orang mulia di bumi?
9 It was the Commander of the armies of angels who did it; he did it in order to cause [you people in] Tyre not to be proud any more, to humiliate you men who are honored all over the world.
TUHAN semesta alam yang telah memutuskannya untuk mematahkan kesombongan, untuk menghinakan segala yang permai dan semua orang mulia di bumi.
10 You people of Tarshish, you must grow crops in your land [instead of trading]; spread out over your land like [SIM] the Nile [River] spreads over the land [of Egypt] when it floods, because there is no harbor [in Tyre for your ships] now.
Kerjakanlah ladangmu seperti di tepi sungai Nil, hai puteri Tarsis, sudah tidak ada lagi galangan-galangan kapal!
11 [It is as though] Yahweh stretched out his hand over the sea and shook the kingdoms of the earth. He commanded that in Phoenicia/Canaan all its fortresses must be destroyed.
TUHAN telah mengacungkan tangan-Nya terhadap laut dan membuat kerajaan-kerajaan gemetar; Ia telah memberi perintah mengenai Kanaan untuk memusnahkan benteng-bentengnya.
12 He said to the people of Sidon, “You will never rejoice again, because you will be crushed; even if you flee to Cyprus [island], you will not escape destruction.”
Dan ia telah berfirman: "Engkau tidak akan beria-ria lagi, hai anak dara yang digagahi, hai puteri Sidon! Bangkitlah, mengungsilah kepada orang Kitim! Di sanapun juga tidak akan ada tempat yang senang bagimu."
13 Think about what happened in Babylonia: the people who were in that land have disappeared. [The armies of] Assyria have caused that land to become a place where wild animals from the desert live. The Assyrians built dirt ramps to the top of the walls [of the city of Babylon]; [then they entered the city and] tore down the palaces and caused the city to become [a heap of] rubble.
Lihat negeri orang Kasdim! Bangsa itulah yang melakukannya, bukan orang Asyur. Mereka telah menyerahkan Tirus kepada binatang-binatang gurun, mereka telah mendirikan menara-menara pengepungan dan telah meratakan puri-puri kota itu dan membuat kota itu menjadi reruntuhan.
14 [So] wail, you [sailors on the] ships of Tarshish, because the harbor [in Tyre where your ships stop] is destroyed!
Merataplah, hai kapal-kapal Tarsis, sebab sudah dirusakkan bentengmu!
15 For seventy years, which is as long as kings usually live, people will forget about Tyre. [But then it will be rebuilt]. What will happen there will be like what happened to a prostitute in this song:
Pada waktu itu Tirus akan dilupakan tujuh puluh tahun lamanya, sama dengan umur seorang raja. Sesudah lewat tujuh puluh tahun, akan terjadi kepada Tirus seperti terjadi kepada perempuan sundal dalam nyanyian ini:
16 “You harlot, whom people had forgotten, play your harp well, and sing many songs, in order that people will remember you again.”
"Ambillah kecapi, kelilingilah kota, hai sundal yang dilupakan! Petiklah baik-baik, bernyanyilah banyak-banyak, supaya engkau diingat orang."
17 [It is true that] after seventy years Yahweh will restore Tyre. Their merchants will again earn a lot of money by buying things from and selling things to many [other] nations [HYP].
Dan sesudah lewat tujuh puluh tahun, TUHAN akan memperhatikan Tirus, sehingga ia kembali mendapat upah sundalnya, dan ia akan bersundal dengan segala kerajaan yang ada di muka bumi.
18 [But] their profits will be given to Yahweh. [The merchants] will not hoard their money; instead, they will give it to Yahweh’s priests in order that they [can] buy food and nice clothes.
Labanya dan upah sundalnya akan kudus bagi TUHAN, tidak akan ditahan atau disimpan, tetapi dengan labanya itu akan disediakan makanan yang cukup dan pakaian yang indah bagi orang-orang yang diam di hadapan TUHAN.
