1 Samuel 2

1 Lalu Hana berdoa, katanya, "TUHAN menggembirakan hatiku; perbuatan-Nya menyenangkan jiwaku. Dengan rasa bahagia kuejek musuhku, sebab sungguh-sungguh Allah sudah menolongku.

Then Hannah prayed, saying, “I rejoice in [what] you, [, have done]. I am strong [MET] because I belong to you. I (laugh at/ridicule) my enemies, because you, Yahweh have rescued me [from being taunted by them].

2 Tak ada yang suci seperti TUHAN! Hanya Dia yang dapat memberi perlindungan.

There is no one who is holy like you, Yahweh. There is no other god like you. There is no one like you, our God, who can protect us [as though you were putting us beneath] a huge rock [where we can hide from danger].

3 Hentikanlah bualmu yang kosong! Akhirilah omongan yang sombong! Sebab TUHAN itu Allah yang mahapaham; yang menghakimi segala perbuatan orang.

[You people who oppose God], stop boasting! Yahweh is a God who knows [everything], and he will evaluate/judge everyone’s actions. So don’t speak so arrogantly!

4 Busur pahlawan patahlah sudah, tetapi makin kuatlah orang lemah.

Yahweh, you break the bows/weapons of mighty soldiers, and you give strength to those who stumble [because of being weak].

5 Orang yang dahulu kenyang karena berlimpah pangan, kini menjadi buruh upahan hanya untuk mendapat makanan. Orang yang dahulu kelaparan, sekarang puas, cukup makanan. Istri mandul, kini bangga, tujuh anak dilahirkannya sudah! Tetapi ibu yang banyak anaknya, ditinggalkan, dibiarkan merana.

Many people who previously had plenty to eat, now have to work for other people [to earn money] to buy food, but many who were always hungry are not hungry any more. The woman who did not have any children before, now has given birth to many/seven children, and the woman who had many children before, now is very lonely [because they have all died].

6 TUHAN mematikan, Ia pun menghidupkan. Ke dunia orang mati diturunkan-Nya manusia. Dan Dia pula yang mengangkat dari sana. (Sheol h7585)

Yahweh, you cause some people to die, and you restore some people who are almost dead. For some people, [it seems that they will soon] go to where the dead people are, but you cause them to become healthy again. (Sheol h7585)

7 Ada orang yang dibuat-Nya papa, ada juga yang dibuat-Nya kaya. Ada orang yang direndahkan-Nya, ada juga yang ditinggikan-Nya.

Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people and you honor some people.

8 Dari derita diangkat-Nya orang tak berharta, dari sengsara dibebaskan-Nya orang yang hina. Mereka dijadikan teman para bangsawan, dan diberikan jabatan kehormatan. Alas bumi Tuhanlah yang punya, di atasnya dibangun-Nya dunia.

[Sometimes] you lift poor people up so that they are no longer [despondent, sitting in the dust, ] or sitting on heaps of ashes; you cause them to sit next to princes; you cause them to sit on chairs/thrones where people who are highly honored sit. Yahweh, you are the one who laid the foundations of the earth, and you have set the whole world on those foundations.

9 Orang setia selalu aman dalam perlindungan TUHAN. Tapi yang jahat hancur binasa dalam kelam dan gelap gulita. Tenaga sendiri tak dapat diandalkan, kekuatan manusia tidak memberi kemenangan.

You will protect your loyal/faithful people [SYN], but you will cause the wicked to die [EUP] and descend to the dark [place where dead people are]. We do not defeat [our enemies] by our own strength;

10 Musuh-musuh TUHAN hancur lebur, mereka takut; dari langit Dia mengguntur. TUHAN akan menghakimi seluruh dunia ini, dan memberikan kuasa yang mulia kepada raja yang dipilih-Nya."

Yahweh, you will break into pieces those who oppose you. You will cause thunder in the sky to show that you (oppose/are angry with) them. Yahweh, you will judge [people everywhere, even those who live in] the most remote places on the earth. You will give strength to the king whom you will appoint, and give him great power [over his enemies].”

11 Lalu pulanglah Elkana dan keluarganya ke Rama, tetapi Samuel, anak itu, tinggal di Silo dan melayani TUHAN di bawah pengawasan Imam Eli.

Then Elkanah [and his family] returned to Ramah, but Samuel, the little boy, stayed to help Eli the priest serve Yahweh.

12 Anak-anak Eli jahat sekali. Mereka tidak mengindahkan TUHAN

Eli’s two [, who were also priests, ] were very wicked. They did not revere (OR, respect/obey) Yahweh.

13 dan sebagai imam mereka bertindak sewenang-wenang terhadap bangsa Israel. Jika misalnya ada orang yang mempersembahkan kurban, pembantu imam datang membawa garpu bergigi tiga. Sementara daging itu direbus,

While the people were boiling the meat from their sacrifices [in the huge pot at the temple], one of Eli’s sons, [would send his servant to come with a large three-pronged fork in his hand].

14 garpu itu ditusukkan ke dalam panci tempat daging itu dimasak, lalu apa saja yang ditarik ke luar dengan garpu itu menjadi milik imam. Semua orang Israel yang datang ke Silo untuk mempersembahkan kurban diperlakukan seperti itu.

[He] would stick the fork into [the meat in] the pot, and whatever meat fastened onto the fork, he would take [and give it] to the priest who sent him. Eli’s sons did this to all the Israeli people who came to Shiloh [to offer sacrifices].

15 Bahkan kadang-kadang pembantu itu datang sebelum lemaknya dipisahkan untuk dibakar, lalu ia berkata kepada orang yang mempersembahkan kurban itu, "Berikanlah daging yang masih mentah itu kepada imam supaya dipanggangnya; ia tidak mau menerima daging rebus."

Furthermore, before the fat [on the meat] was [cut off and] and burned [as a sacrifice to Yahweh], the servant of the priest would [sometimes] come to the man who was making the sacrifice and say to him, “Give me some meat [now to take] to the priest for him to roast! He wants raw meat; he does not want boiled meat.”

16 Jika orang itu menjawab, "Sebaiknya kita mentaati peraturan, dan membakar lemak itu dahulu; setelah itu boleh kauambil sesukamu," maka pembantu itu berkata, "Tidak, sekarang juga harus kauberikan, jika tidak, akan kuambil dengan paksa."

If the man said to the servant, “Let the priests [cut off and] burn the fat first; then you can take what you want,” the servant would reply, “No, give it to me now; if you do not give it to me, I will take it forcefully!”

17 Demikianlah kedua anak Eli itu berdosa besar di mata TUHAN, karena mereka meremehkan persembahan kurban untuk TUHAN.

Yahweh considered that the young [sons of Eli] were committing a very great sin, because they were treating very disrespectfully the offerings that were being given to Yahweh.

18 Sementara itu, Samuel yang masih anak-anak itu terus melayani TUHAN. Ia memakai baju khusus dari kain linen, seperti baju ibadat para imam.

As for Samuel, who was still a very young boy, he continued to do work for Yahweh, wearing a little sacred linen vest [like the Supreme Priest wore].

19 Setiap tahun ibunya membuat jubah kecil lalu diberikannya kepada Samuel kalau wanita itu bersama-sama dengan suaminya datang mempersembahkan kurban tahunan.

Each year his mother made a [new] little robe for him and took it to him when she went up [to Shiloh] with her husband to offer a sacrifice.

20 Maka Eli memberkati Elkana dan istrinya, dan ia berkata kepada Elkana, "Semoga TUHAN memberikan anak-anak lagi kepadamu dari istrimu ini, untuk menggantikan anak yang telah kamu serahkan kepada TUHAN." Sesudah itu pulanglah mereka ke Rama.

Then Eli would [ask God to] bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh.” Then Elkanah and his family would return home.

21 Hana diberkati Allah, sehingga melahirkan lagi tiga anak laki-laki dan dua anak perempuan. Samuel pun bertambah besar sementara ia melayani Allah.

And Yahweh was very kind to Hannah, and enabled her to give birth to three [other] sons and two daughters. Their son Samuel grew up while he was doing work for Yahweh [in the Sacred Tent].

22 Eli sudah sangat tua. Ia terus-menerus mendengar pengaduan mengenai kelakuan anak-anaknya terhadap orang Israel. Eli tahu juga bahwa anak-anaknya itu tidur dengan wanita-wanita yang bertugas di depan pintu Kemah Kehadiran TUHAN.

Eli became very old. He often heard about all the [evil] things that his sons were doing to the Israeli people. He heard that they [sometimes] (slept with/had sex with) the women who worked at the entrance to the tent where [God] spoke to [his people].

23 Sebab itu berkatalah ia kepada anak-anaknya, "Aku telah menerima laporan dari seluruh umat mengenai tingkah lakumu yang jahat. Mengapa kamu lakukan itu?

He said to them, “(It is terrible that you do such things!/Why do you do such things?) [RHQ] Many people keep telling me about the evil things that you do.

24 Jangan berbuat begitu lagi, anakku. Sungguh jelek sekali apa yang dibicarakan umat TUHAN tentang kamu!

My sons, stop it! The reports [about you] that the people who belong to Yahweh tell others are terrible [EUP]!

25 Jika orang bersalah terhadap manusia, Allah dapat membelanya; tetapi jika orang berdosa kepada TUHAN, siapakah dapat menolongnya?" Tetapi mereka tidak memperdulikan nasihat Eli ayah mereka, sebab TUHAN telah memutuskan untuk membunuh mereka.

If one person sins against another person, God can (intercede/act as a referee) between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, no one can [RHQ] (intercede/act as a referee) between them!” But Eli’s sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided [that someone should] them.

26 Sebaliknya Samuel, anak itu, semakin besar dan semakin disukai, baik oleh TUHAN, maupun oleh semua orang.

The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people.

27 Pada suatu hari datanglah seorang nabi kepada Eli dan menyampaikan pesan dari TUHAN kepadanya, kata-Nya, "Ketika leluhurmu Harun dan keluarganya menjadi hamba raja Mesir, Aku telah menyatakan diri-Ku kepada Harun.

One day, a prophet came to Eli and told him, “This is what Yahweh has told me: ‘When your ancestors were slaves of the king of Egypt, I appeared to Aaron.

28 Dari segala suku Israel telah Kupilih keluarganya menjadi imam-Ku, untuk melayani di mezbah, membakar dupa, dan memakai baju efod jika berbicara dengan-Ku. Dan kepada mereka serta keturunan mereka telah Kuberi hak untuk mengambil sebagian dari kurban persembahan yang dibakar di mezbah.

From all the tribes of the Israeli people, I chose him [and his male descendants] to be priests for me. I appointed them to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear a sacred apron [as they worked] for me. And I declared that they could take [and eat some of the meat] that the Israeli people burned [on the altar].

29 Jadi, mengapa engkau masih serakah melihat kurban-kurban yang sesuai dengan perintah-Ku, dipersembahkan bangsa-Ku kepada-Ku? Mengapa engkau Eli, lebih menghormati anak-anakmu daripada menghormati Aku, dan membiarkan mereka menggemukkan dirinya dengan bagian yang terbaik dari setiap persembahan bangsa-Ku kepada-Ku?

So why do you show disrespect for the sacrifices and offerings that I commanded [the people to bring] to me [RHQ]? You are honoring your sons more than you are honoring me, by allowing them to get fat from eating the best parts of all the sacrifices that the Israeli people bring to me!’

30 Aku, TUHAN Allah Israel, dahulu telah berjanji, bahwa keluargamu dan margamu akan melayani Aku sebagai imam untuk selamanya. Tetapi sekarang Aku tidak menghendaki hal itu lagi! Sebab yang menghormati Aku, akan Kuhormati tetapi yang menghina Aku, akan Kuhina.

“Therefore, this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], declares: ‘I definitely promised that Aaron and his descendants would continue to serve [IDM] me forever.’ But now I declare this: ‘It will not continue like that! I will honor those who honor me, but I will despise those who despise me.

31 Dengarlah, akan datang masanya Aku membunuh semua pemuda dalam keluarga dan margamu, sehingga tak seorang pria pun dalam keluargamu akan mencapai usia lanjut.

Listen carefully! There will soon be a time when I will cause all the strong [young men] in your family to die. The result will be that no men in your family will [live long enough to] become old men.

32 Engkau akan sedih dan merasa iri melihat segala berkat yang akan diberikan kepada orang-orang lain di Israel, sedangkan dalam keluargamu sendiri semua akan mati muda.

You will be distressed and envious as you see the blessings that I will give to [the other people in] Israel. And [I repeat that] no men in your family will ever live long enough to become old men.

33 Tetapi, seorang dari keturunanmu, akan Kubiarkan hidup dan melayani Aku sebagai imam. Namun ia akan menjadi buta dan hidup dengan putus asa. Semua keturunanmu yang lain akan terbunuh.

There is one of your descendants whom I will spare, and not prevent him from serving me as a priest. But he will become blind, and then he will always be sad and grieving. But all your other descendants will die violently.

34 Sebagai bukti bahwa segala yang Kukatakan itu betul akan terjadi, maka kedua anakmu itu, Hofni dan Pinehas akan mati dalam sehari.

And your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will both die on the same day. And that will prove to you [that all that I have said will come true/happen].

35 Kemudian Aku akan memilih imam yang setia kepada-Ku dan yang melakukan apa yang Kuperintahkan kepadanya. Kepadanya akan Kuberikan keturunan yang selalu akan bertugas sebagai imam di hadapan raja-raja yang Kupilih.

‘have chosen another man to be my priest. He is one who will serve me faithfully: He will do everything I want [DOU] him to do. And I will enable him to have many descendants [IDM] who will be priests and will always serve me by helping the king whom I will choose.

36 Setiap keturunanmu yang masih hidup, akan pergi kepada imam itu untuk meminta uang dan makanan. Ia akan memohon, izinkanlah aku membantu para imam, supaya aku dapat makan biar hanya sesuap saja."

All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, “Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may [earn some money to] buy some food.”’”