Jeremiah 46
1 These are messages that Yahweh gave to the prophet Jeremiah about [other] nations.
Firman TUHAN yang datang kepada nabi Yeremia tentang bangsa-bangsa.
2 After Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah, had been ruling Judah for almost four years, this message about Egypt was given [by Yahweh]. It was when the army of King Neco of Egypt was defeated by the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon along the Euphrates River. [This is what Yahweh said: “The officers of the army of Egypt are saying to their troops],
Mengenai Mesir. Terhadap tentara Firaun Nekho, raja Mesir, yang berkemah di tepi sungai Efrat dekat Karkemis dan yang dipukul kalah oleh Nebukadnezar, raja Babel, dalam tahun yang keempat pemerintahan Yoyakim bin Yosia, raja Yehuda:
3 ‘Prepare your shields and march out to fight the battle!
"Siapkanlah perisai besar dan perisai kecil dan majulah untuk bertempur!
4 Put harnesses on your horses, and get on their backs. (Get into your positions/Line up) [for the battle]; put on your helmets. Sharpen your spears, and put on your armor!’
Pasanglah kuda, dan naiklah, hai pengendara-pengendara! Ambillah tempatmu dengan memakai ketopong, tajamkanlah tombakmu, pakailah baju zirahmu!
5 But what [RHQ] do I see? I see that the soldiers of Egypt will be terrified and will be fleeing. [Even] the bravest of their soldiers will be running away, without [even] looking backward! [I, ] Yahweh, say that [their soldiers] will be terrified on all sides!
Mengapa kulihat mereka terkejut, mundur ke belakang? Pahlawan-pahlawan mereka terpukul kalah, lari kocar-kacir, tanpa menoleh; kedahsyatan dari segala jurusan!, demikianlah firman TUHAN.
6 [Even] the fastest [runners] will try to run away, but [even the greatest of] their warriors will not escape. In the north, by the Euphrates [River], they will stumble and fall.
Orang yang tangkas tidak dapat melarikan diri, pahlawan tidak dapat meluputkan diri; di utara, di tepi sungai Efratlah mereka tersandung dan rebah.
7 What group is this that will be covering the land like the water of the Nile [River] covers the land when it floods?
Siapakah ini yang meluas seperti sungai Nil dan yang airnya bergelora seperti sungai-sungai?
8 [It is the army of] Egypt that will be covering the land like a surging/huge flood, and they will boast that they will cover the earth and will destroy cities and the people [who live in them].
Itulah Mesir yang meluas seperti sungai Nil, dan yang airnya bergelora seperti sungai-sungai. Ia berkata: Aku mau meluas menutupi bumi, membinasakan kota dan penduduknya.
9 You [riders of] horses, charge/rush [into the battle]! You [drivers of] chariots, drive furiously! [All] you warriors from Ethiopia and Libya who carry your shields, you warriors from Lydia who shoot arrows, you come!
Majulah, hai kuda-kuda! Melajulah, hai kereta-kereta! Majulah berperang, hai pahlawan-pahlawan, hai kamu orang Etiopia dan orang Put yang memegang perisai, dan orang Lidia yang membentur busur!
10 But, [you need to know that] this is the day when [I], Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels, will get revenge on my enemies. With my sword [PRS] I will kill [my enemies] until I am satisfied; my sword will [be like a monster that] [MET, PRS] drinks the blood [of the animals it kills] until it is no longer thirsty. [The enemy soldiers who will be killed] in the north beside the Euphrates River [will be like] [MET] a sacrifice to [me], the Commander of the armies of angels.
Hari itu ialah hari Tuhan ALLAH semesta alam, hari pembalasan untuk melakukan pembalasan kepada para lawan-Nya. Pedang akan makan sampai kenyang, dan akan puas minum darah mereka. Sebab Tuhan ALLAH semesta alam mengadakan korban penyembelihan di tanah utara, dekat sungai Efrat.
11 You people [IDM] of Egypt, go up to the Gilead [region] to obtain medicine; but it will be useless to take all those medicines; you will not be healed.
Pergilah ke Gilead mengambil balsam, hai anak dara, puteri Mesir! Sia-sia engkau memakai banyak obat, kesembuhan tidak akan kaudapat!
12 [People in] the [other] nations will hear how you were humiliated. [People] all over the earth will hear you wailing. [Your mighty] warriors will stumble over each other and they will all fall down together.”
Bangsa-bangsa telah mendengar tentang celamu, bumi telah penuh dengan teriakmu, sebab pahlawan yang satu tersandung kepada pahlawan yang lain, keduanya rebah bersama-sama."
13 [Then] Yahweh gave me this message about King Nebuchadnezzar when he planned to attack Egypt [with his army]:
Firman yang disampaikan TUHAN kepada nabi Yeremia tentang datangnya Nebukadnezar, raja Babel, untuk memukul kalah tanah Mesir:
14 “Shout [this message] throughout Egypt! Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpenes [cities]! ‘(Get into your positions/Line up) [for the battle]; Prepare to defend yourselves, because [everyone] around you will be killed.’ [PRS, MTY]
"Beritahukanlah di Mesir, dan kabarkanlah di Migdol! Kabarkanlah di Memfis dan di Tahpanhes! Katakanlah: Ambillah tempat dan bersiaplah, sebab sekitarmu habis dimakan pedang!
15 Your god is a bull; Why does he fall down? He will not be able to stand up, because Yahweh will knock him down.
Mengapa Apis melarikan diri, tidakkah sanggup sapi jantanmu bertahan? Sungguh, TUHAN telah menundukkan dia!
16 The soldiers from other countries will stumble and fall over each other, and [then] they will say to each other, ‘Let’s get up and go back to our own people, to our own land. Let’s get away from the swords of our enemies!’
Banyak dari padamu yang tersandung dan rebah, mereka berkata seorang kepada yang lain: Marilah kita pulang kepada bangsa kita, ke negeri kelahiran kita, untuk mengelakkan pedang yang merajalela ini!
17 There [in Egypt] they will say, ‘The king of Egypt talks loudly, but when our [army] had an opportunity [to defeat our enemies], they failed.’
Sebutlah nama Firaun, raja Mesir: Tukang ribut yang membiarkan kesempatan berlalu!
18 [I, ] the King, who am called the Commander of the armies of angels, say this: ‘As [surely as] I live, someone’s army will be coming [to fight against the army of Egypt]. They will be [extremely powerful], [as though they were as tall] as Tabor Hill, or [as high] as Carmel [Mountain] close to the [Mediterranean] Sea.
Demi Aku yang hidup, demikianlah firman Raja yang nama-Nya TUHAN semesta alam, ia akan datang seperti gunung Tabor yang menjulang di antara gunung-gunung lain, seperti gunung Karmel yang menganjur ke laut.
19 [All] you people who live in Egypt, pack your possessions/clothes and prepare to be exiled. Memphis [city] will be destroyed; it will become a ruin, and no one will be living there.
Siapkanlah bagimu barang-barang untuk perjalananmu ke pembuangan, hai puteri Mesir yang sudah lama menetap! Sebab Memfis akan menjadi sunyi sepi, dijadikan reruntuhan yang tidak berpenduduk lagi.
20 Egypt is [like] [SIM] a beautiful young cow, but [the army of a powerful king] from the northeast will come to attack it [like] a horsefly [MET] [bites a cow].
Mesir adalah lembu muda yang elok, tetapi seekor pikat dari utara mendatangi dia.
21 The (mercenaries/soldiers [from other countries] who have been hired) will become like [SIM] fat calves; but they also will turn around and run away; they will not stand [there and fight], because it will be a day when there will be a [great] disaster in Egypt, a day when their people will be [greatly] punished.
Juga prajurit-prajurit upahan yang ada padanya adalah seperti anak-anak lembu tambun; merekapun berbalik dan melarikan diri bersama-sama; mereka tidak dapat bertahan, sebab hari bencana mereka menimpa mereka, yakni waktu penghukuman mereka.
22 [The soldiers of] Egypt will run away, as silently as a snake scurries/crawls away. [The army of] the enemy will advance; they will march along carrying their axes like [SIM] men who cut down trees.
Suaranya seperti ular yang mendesis, apabila mereka berjalan maju dengan bertentara; mereka mendatangi dia dengan membawa kapak seperti orang-orang penebang pohon.
23 [I, ] Yahweh, say that they will kill the soldiers [of Egypt] as though [SIM] they were a forest of trees, because the enemy soldiers will be as numerous as [a swarm of] locusts.
Mereka menebang hutannya, demikianlah firman TUHAN, sekalipun itu tidak dapat dimasuki; sebab lebih banyak mereka dari pada belalang, tidak terbilang jumlahnya.
24 The people of Egypt will be humiliated; they will be conquered by people from the northeast.’
Puteri Mesir menjadi malu, diserahkan ke dalam tangan bangsa dari utara."
25 [I, ] the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom the Israelis [worship], say, ‘I will punish Amon, [the god whom the people] of Thebes [city] worship, and [all] the [other] gods in Egypt. [I will punish] the King of Egypt and [all] those who trust in him.
TUHAN semesta alam, Allah Israel, berfirman: "Sesungguhnya, Aku mendatangkan hukuman atas dewa Amon dari Tebe, atas Firaun beserta Mesir, dewa-dewanya dan raja-rajanya, yakni atas Firaun beserta orang-orang yang percaya kepadanya.
26 I will cause them to be captured by those who want to kill them—Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon, and his army officers. But many years later, people will live in Egypt again. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.’
Aku akan menyerahkan mereka ke dalam tangan orang-orang yang berusaha mencabut nyawa mereka, yakni ke dalam tangan Nebukadnezar, raja Babel, dan para pegawainya. Tetapi sesudahnya negeri itu akan didiami seperti dalam zaman purbakala, demikianlah firman TUHAN.
27 But you people of Israel who serve me, do not be at all dismayed [DOU] now, because some day I will bring you back from distant places; I will bring your descendants from the land to which they were exiled. [Then you] Israeli people will again live peacefully and safely, and there will not be any [nation] to cause you to be terrified.
Maka engkau, janganlah takut, hai hamba-Ku Yakub, janganlah gentar, hai Israel! Sebab sesungguhnya, Aku menyelamatkan engkau dari tempat jauh dan keturunanmu dari negeri pembuangan mereka. Yakub akan kembali dan hidup tenang dan aman, dengan tidak ada yang mengejutkan.
28 [I, ] Yahweh, say to you people of Israel who serve me, ‘Do not be afraid, because I will be with you. I will completely destroy the nations among whom I have scattered you, but I will not completely get rid of you. I will punish you, but I will punish you only as severely as you deserve: It would be wrong if I did not punish you at all.’”
Maka engkau, janganlah takut, hai hamba-Ku Yakub, demikianlah firman TUHAN, sebab Aku menyertai engkau: segala bangsa yang ke antaranya engkau Kuceraiberaikan akan Kuhabiskan, tetapi engkau ini tidak akan Kuhabiskan. Aku akan menghajar engkau menurut hukum, tetapi Aku sama sekali tidak memandang engkau tak bersalah."
