Isaiah 49
1 All you people who live on islands [in the ocean] and in other distant areas, pay attention [DOU] to what I will say! Yahweh called/chose me before I was born; he chose/appointed me when I was still in my mother’s womb.
Dengarkanlah aku, hai pulau-pulau, perhatikanlah, hai bangsa-bangsa yang jauh! TUHAN telah memanggil aku sejak dari kandungan telah menyebut namaku sejak dari perut ibuku.
2 [When I grew up], he caused my messages to be like [SIM] a sharp sword. He has protected me with his hand [SYN]. [He protects me] [MET] like someone protects sharp arrows in a quiver.
Ia telah membuat mulutku sebagai pedang yang tajam dan membuat aku berlindung dalam naungan tangan-Nya. Ia telah membuat aku menjadi anak panah yang runcing dan menyembunyikan aku dalam tabung panah-Nya.
3 He said to me, “You will serve my Israeli [people], and you will cause people to honor me.”
Ia berfirman kepadaku: "Engkau adalah hamba-Ku, Israel, dan olehmu Aku akan menyatakan keagungan-Ku."
4 I replied, “My work has been useless; I have used my strength, but I have accomplished nothing worthwhile; everything that I have done has been (in vain/useless). However, Yahweh can honor me as he pleases; my God is the one who will reward me [as I deserve].”
Tetapi aku berkata: "Aku telah bersusah-susah dengan percuma, dan telah menghabiskan kekuatanku dengan sia-sia dan tak berguna; namun, hakku terjamin pada TUHAN dan upahku pada Allahku."
5 Yahweh formed me when I was in [my mother’s] womb in order that I would serve him; he appointed me to bring [the people of] Israel back to himself [DOU]. Yahweh has honored me, and he is the one who has caused me to be strong.
Maka sekarang firman TUHAN, yang membentuk aku sejak dari kandungan untuk menjadi hamba-Nya, untuk mengembalikan Yakub kepada-Nya, dan supaya Israel dikumpulkan kepada-Nya--maka aku dipermuliakan di mata TUHAN, dan Allahku menjadi kekuatanku--, firman-Nya:
6 He says to me, “It is not enough for you to serve me by bringing the descendants of Jacob back to worship me again [DOU]; I also want you to be like [MET] a light for the non-Jews; I want you to take my [my message] about how to be saved to [people] all over the world.”
"Terlalu sedikit bagimu hanya untuk menjadi hamba-Ku, untuk menegakkan suku-suku Yakub dan untuk mengembalikan orang-orang Israel yang masih terpelihara. Tetapi Aku akan membuat engkau menjadi terang bagi bangsa-bangsa supaya keselamatan yang dari pada-Ku sampai ke ujung bumi."
7 Yahweh, the one who saves us, the Holy God of us Israeli [people], says to the one who was despised and rejected by the [people of many] nations, the one who is the slave of rulers, “[Some day] kings will stand up to respect you when they see you, and princes will bow down before you because [you serve] me, Yahweh, the one who faithfully [does what I promise]. I am the Holy God to whom you Israelis belong, the one who has chosen you.”
Beginilah firman TUHAN, Penebus Israel, Allahnya yang Mahakudus, kepada dia yang dihinakan orang, kepada dia yang dijijikkan bangsa-bangsa, kepada hamba penguasa-penguasa: "Raja-raja akan melihat perbuatan-Ku, lalu bangkit memberi hormat, dan pembesar-pembesar akan sujud menyembah, oleh karena TUHAN yang setia oleh karena Yang Mahakudus, Allah Israel, yang memilih engkau."
8 This is also what Yahweh says: “At a time when it pleases me, I will answer your prayers. On the day when you will be rescued [from your oppressors], I will help you. I will protect you and enable you to establish an agreement with other nations. And by what you do, I will re-establish your nation of Israel and allow you to live/settle again in your land that was abandoned.
Beginilah firman TUHAN: "Pada waktu Aku berkenan, Aku akan menjawab engkau, dan pada hari Aku menyelamatkan, Aku akan menolong engkau; Aku telah membentuk dan memberi engkau, menjadi perjanjian bagi umat manusia, untuk membangunkan bumi kembali dan untuk membagi-bagikan tanah pusaka yang sudah sunyi sepi,
9 I will say to those who were captured [and (exiled/taken to Babylonia)], ‘Leave [Babylonia] and return to your own country!’ And I will say to those who are in dark prisons, ‘Come out into the light!’ When that happens, they will again be like [MET] sheep that eat grass in green pastures, on hills where [previously] there was no grass.
untuk mengatakan kepada orang-orang yang terkurung: Keluarlah! kepada orang-orang yang ada di dalam gelap: Tampillah! Di sepanjang jalan mereka seperti domba yang tidak pernah kekurangan rumput, dan di segala bukit gundulpun tersedia rumput bagi mereka.
10 They will not be hungry or thirsty [any more]; the hot sun will not beat upon them again [DOU]. I, Yahweh, will act mercifully toward them and lead them; I will lead them to where there are springs of cool water.
Mereka tidak menjadi lapar atau haus; angin hangat dan terik matahari tidak akan menimpa mereka, sebab Penyayang mereka akan memimpin mereka dan akan menuntun mereka ke dekat sumber-sumber air.
11 And I will cause the mountains to become [as though they were] level roads, and I will prepare good highways [for my people to travel on, to return to Jerusalem].
Aku akan membuat segala gunung-Ku menjadi jalan dan segala jalan raya-Ku akan Kuratakan.
12 My people will return from far away; some will come from the north, some from the west, some from southern Egypt.”
Lihat, ada orang yang datang dari jauh, ada dari utara dan dari barat, dan ada dari tanah Sinim."
13 [Because of what Yahweh has promised to do], everything should shout joyfully— the sky and the earth and the mountains should sing, because Yahweh comforts his people, and he will pity those who are suffering.
Bersorak-sorailah, hai langit, bersorak-soraklah, hai bumi, dan bergembiralah dengan sorak-sorai, hai gunung-gunung! Sebab TUHAN menghibur umat-Nya dan menyayangi orang-orang-Nya yang tertindas.
14 [The people of] Jerusalem say, “Yahweh has abandoned us; he has forgotten about us.”
Sion berkata: "TUHAN telah meninggalkan aku dan Tuhanku telah melupakan aku."
15 But [Yahweh replies], “That is not true! (Can a woman forget the infant that she is nursing?/A woman certainly cannot forget the infant that she is nursing!) [RHQ] (Can she stop being kind to the child to whom she has given birth?/She certainly cannot stop being kind to the child to whom she has given birth!) [RHQ] But even if a woman would do that, I will not forget you!
Dapatkah seorang perempuan melupakan bayinya, sehingga ia tidak menyayangi anak dari kandungannya? Sekalipun dia melupakannya, Aku tidak akan melupakan engkau.
16 Note that I have written your [names] on the palms of my hands; in my mind I can always see the walls of your city.
Lihat, Aku telah melukiskan engkau di telapak tangan-Ku; tembok-tembokmu tetap di ruang mata-Ku.
17 Soon your children will be returning there (OR, Those who rebuild your city will work more quickly than those who destroyed it), and all those who destroyed your city will leave.
Orang-orang yang membangun engkau datang bersegera, tetapi orang-orang yang merombak dan merusak engkau meninggalkan engkau.
18 You will look around and see all of your children coming back to you. As surely as I live, they will be around you [for you to show to people] like [SIM] a bride shows her wedding ornaments!
Angkatlah mukamu dan lihatlah ke sekeliling, mereka semua berhimpun datang kepadamu. Demi Aku yang hidup, demikianlah firman TUHAN, sungguh, mereka semua akan kaupakai sebagai perhiasan, dan mereka akan kaulilitkan, seperti yang dilakukan pengantin perempuan.
19 Your land has been ruined and caused to become desolate/abandoned [DOU], but [some day] it will be filled with people, and those who conquered you will be far away.
Sebab tempat-tempatmu yang tandus dan sunyi sepi dan negerimu yang dirombak, sungguh, sekarang terlalu sempit untuk sekian banyak pendudukmu dan orang-orang yang mau menelan engkau akan menjauh.
20 The children who were born while you were (exiled/in Babylonia) [MET] will return [to Jerusalem] and say, ‘This city is too small for us; We need more space to live in!’
Malahan, anak-anakmu yang kausangka hilang akan berkata kepadamu: "Tempat itu terlalu sempit bagiku, menyisihlah, supaya aku dapat diam di situ!"
21 Then you will think to yourselves [MTY], ‘It is amazing that we have [RHQ] all these children! Most of our children were dead, and the rest were exiled. We were left here alone; so we do not know [RHQ] where all these children have come from! Who raised them?'”
Maka engkau akan berkata dalam hatimu: "Siapakah yang telah melahirkan sekaliannya ini bagiku? Bukankah aku bulus dan mandul, diangkut ke dalam pembuangan dan disingkirkan? Tetapi anak-anak ini, siapakah yang membesarkan mereka? Sesungguhnya, aku tertinggal seorang diri, tetapi mereka ini, dari manakah datangnya?"
22 This is what Yahweh our God says: “Watch! [It is as though] I will lift up my hand to signal to those who are not Israelis. And they will carry your little sons and daughters on their shoulders and bring them back to you.
Beginilah firman Tuhan ALLAH: "Lihat, Aku akan mengangkat tangan-Ku sebagai tanda untuk bangsa-bangsa dan memasang panji-panji-Ku untuk suku-suku bangsa, maka mereka akan menggendong anak-anakmu laki-laki dan anak-anakmu perempuan akan didukung di atas bahunya.
23 Kings will serve you and will tutor/teach your children, and their queens will take care of your young children. They will prostrate themselves in front of you and [humble themselves by] licking the dust off your feet. When that happens, you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do]; and those who trust in me will never be disappointed.”
Maka raja-raja akan menjadi pengasuhmu dan permaisuri-permaisuri mereka menjadi inangmu. Mereka akan sujud kepadamu dengan mukanya sampai ke tanah dan akan menjilat debu kakimu. Maka engkau akan mengetahui, bahwa Akulah TUHAN, dan bahwa orang-orang yang menanti-nantikan Aku tidak akan mendapat malu."
24 There is no one [RHQ] who can snatch valuable things from a soldier who has captured those things [in a war]; there is no one [RHQ] who can force a (tyrant/cruel man) to free the people whom he has captured.
Dapatkah direbut kembali jarahan dari pahlawan atau dapatkah lolos tawanan orang gagah?
25 But Yahweh says this: “[Some day], those who have been captured will be freed, and the valuable things that (tyrants/cruel men) have snatched from others will be returned, because I will fight against those who fight against you, and I will rescue your children.
Sungguh, beginilah firman TUHAN: "Tawanan pahlawanpun dapat direbut kembali, dan jarahan orang gagah dapat lolos, sebab Aku sendiri akan melawan orang yang melawan engkau dan Aku sendiri akan menyelamatkan anak-anakmu.
26 And I will cause your enemies to destroy themselves [MET] instead of murdering others. When that happens, everyone [in the world] will know that I, Yahweh, am the one who saves you, the one who rescues you from your enemies; everyone will know that I am the mighty God to whom [you descendants of] [MTY] Jacob belong.”
Aku akan memaksa orang-orang yang menindas engkau memakan dagingnya sendiri, dan mereka akan mabuk minum darahnya sendiri, seperti orang mabuk minum anggur baru, supaya seluruh umat manusia mengetahui, bahwa Aku, TUHAN, adalah Juruselamatmu dan Penebusmu, Yang Mahakuat, Allah Yakub."
