Ulangan 9
1 "Dengarlah Saudara-saudara! Hari ini kamu menyeberangi Sungai Yordan untuk menduduki daerah bangsa-bangsa yang lebih besar dan lebih kuat dari kamu. Kota-kota mereka besar-besar dengan tembok-temboknya yang menjulang setinggi langit.
“You people of Israel, listen to me! You will soon [HYP] cross the Jordan [River]. In the land that you will enter, there are large cities that have very high walls [around them] that [seem to] [HYP] extend up to the sky. There are people-groups in that land that are more numerous and more powerful than you are.
2 Orang-orangnya besar dan kuat perawakannya; mereka itu raksasa, dan kamu sudah mendengar bahwa tak seorang pun dapat melawan mereka.
Those people are very tall and strong. [Some of them] are giants who are descendants of Anak. You know about them, and you have heard people say that no one [RHQ] can defeat the descendants of Anak.
3 Tetapi sekarang, kamu akan menyaksikan sendiri bagaimana TUHAN Allahmu berjalan di depan kamu seperti api yang menghanguskan. Ia akan mengalahkan mereka di depan matamu, sehingga kamu dapat mengusir dan membinasakan mereka dengan cepat seperti yang dijanjikan TUHAN.
But I want you to know that Yahweh our God will go ahead of you. He will be like a raging/roaring fire. While you advance, he will defeat and destroy them. As a result, you will quickly be able to expel some of them and kill the others, which is what Yahweh promised that you would do.
4 Sesudah TUHAN Allahmu mengusir mereka untukmu, jangan menyangka bahwa kamu dibawa-Nya ke sana untuk memiliki tanah itu karena kamu baik dan melakukan kehendak TUHAN Allahmu sehingga pantas menerimanya. Sekali-kali tidak! TUHAN mengusir bangsa-bangsa itu untuk kamu karena mereka jahat. TUHAN membiarkan kamu mengambil tanah mereka, karena Ia ingin memenuhi janji-Nya kepada nenek moyangmu Abraham, Ishak dan Yakub.
“After Yahweh our God has expelled them for you, do not say to yourselves, ‘It is because we are righteous that Yahweh has enabled us to capture this land.’ The truth is that it is because the people in that land are wicked that Yahweh will expel them as you advance.
[I say again that] it is not because you are righteous or because you do things that are righteous that you will enter and capture that land. It is because those people-groups are very wicked that Yahweh our God will expel them as you advance, and because he intends to do what he vowed to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would do.
6 Yakinlah bahwa TUHAN Allahmu tidak menyerahkan tanah subur itu kepadamu oleh karena kamu pantas menerimanya. Tidak! Kamu ini bangsa yang keras kepala.
I want you to know that it is not because you are righteous that Yahweh our God is giving you this good/fertile land. I say that because [you are not righteous]; you are a very stubborn [IDM] people.”
7 Ingatlah bagaimana kamu membuat TUHAN Allahmu marah di padang gurun. Sejak kamu meninggalkan Mesir sampai kamu tiba di sini, kamu menentang TUHAN.
“Never forget what your ancestors did in the desert that caused Yahweh our God to become angry. From the day that we left Egypt until the day that we arrived here, you and your ancestors have continually rebelled against him.
8 Bahkan di Gunung Sinai kamu membuat TUHAN marah sekali, sehingga Ia mau membinasakan kamu.
Even at Sinai [Mountain] your ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry. Because he was very angry, he was ready to get rid of [all of] them.
9 Saya mendaki gunung itu untuk menerima batu perjanjian yang dibuat TUHAN dengan kamu. Empat puluh hari dan empat puluh malam lamanya saya tinggal di atas gunung itu tanpa makan atau minum.
When I climbed the mountain to receive from him the stone tablets on which he had written the Ten Commandments that he was giving to them, I stayed there 40 days and nights, and [during that time] I did not eat or drink anything.
10 Kemudian TUHAN memberi saya kedua batu yang telah ditulisi oleh Allah sendiri. Pada batu itu tertulis kata-kata yang diucapkan-Nya dari tengah-tengah api kepadamu, ketika kamu berkumpul di kaki gunung.
Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written [the commandments] with his own fingers. They were the words/commandments that he had spoken to your ancestors from the fire on that mountain, when they were gathered together [at the bottom of the mountain].
11 Ya, sesudah lewat empat puluh hari dan empat puluh malam, TUHAN memberikan kepada saya kedua batu perjanjian itu.
“At the end of those 40 days and nights, Yahweh gave me those two stone tablets on which he had written those commandments.
12 Lalu TUHAN berkata kepada saya, 'Turunlah segera, sebab bangsamu yang kaubawa keluar dari Mesir telah berbuat jahat. Mereka sudah menyimpang dari perintah-perintah-Ku, dan membuat patung untuk disembah.'
But then he said to me, ‘Go down the mountain immediately, because [the people whom you are leading], the people whom you led out of Egypt, have committed a terrible sin! They have very quickly done what I commanded them not to do. They have made for themselves a metal statue [of a calf to worship].’
13 TUHAN juga berkata kepada saya, 'Aku tahu bangsa itu amat keras kepala.
Then Yahweh said to me, ‘I have been watching these people, and I see that they are very stubborn.
14 Jangan coba menghalangi Aku. Aku hendak membinasakan mereka sehingga mereka tidak diingat lagi. Tetapi engkau akan Kujadikan bapak dari suatu bangsa yang lebih besar dan lebih kuat daripada mereka.'
So do not try to stop me. I am going to destroy all of them, with the result that no one anywhere will remember (their names [MTY]/that they ever existed). Then I will enable you to become [the ancestor of] a nation that will be more numerous and more powerful than they are.’
15 Lalu saya berpaling, dan sambil membawa kedua batu perjanjian dengan kedua tangan, saya turuni gunung yang sedang menyala-nyala.
So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying in my hands the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were [written]. Fire was burning all over the mountain.
16 Saya lihat bahwa kamu sudah melanggar perintah TUHAN Allahmu. Kamu sudah berdosa terhadap TUHAN karena membuat bagi dirimu sebuah patung sapi dari logam.
I looked, and I was shocked to see that your ancestors had committed a [great] sin against Yahweh. They very quickly had begun to do what Yahweh our God had commanded them not to do. They had [requested Aaron to] make for them [a metal image of] a calf [to worship].
17 Maka di depan matamu kedua batu perjanjian itu saya banting sampai hancur berkeping-keping.
So while they were watching, I lifted up those two stone tablets and threw them [on the ground], and they broke into pieces.
18 Lalu sekali lagi saya bersujud di depan TUHAN di puncak gunung selama empat puluh hari dan empat puluh malam, tanpa makan atau minum. Itu saya lakukan karena kamu telah berdosa terhadap TUHAN dengan melakukan apa yang dianggap-Nya jahat, sehingga Ia marah.
Then I (prostrated myself/lay) on the ground in Yahweh’s presence as I had done before, and I did not eat or drink anything for 40 days and nights. I did that because your ancestors had sinned against Yahweh and caused him to become very angry.
19 Saya takut kepada kemarahan TUHAN yang menyala-nyala terhadap kamu sehingga kamu mau dibinasakan-Nya, tetapi kali ini pun TUHAN mendengarkan saya.
I was afraid/worried that because Yahweh was very angry with them, he would get rid of all of them. [But again I prayed that he would not do that], and again he listened to me [and answered my prayer].
20 TUHAN juga marah sekali kepada Harun sehingga Ia mau membunuhnya, maka saya berdoa untuk dia juga.
Yahweh was also very angry with Aaron [for making that golden calf] and was ready to kill Aaron. But at the same time I prayed for Aaron also, [and Yahweh answered my prayer].
21 Patung sapi logam buatanmu, saya lemparkan ke dalam api. Lalu saya hancurkan dan tumbuk sampai halus seperti debu, dan debu itu saya lemparkan ke dalam anak sungai yang mengalir dari gunung itu.
Your ancestors had sinned by [requesting Aaron to] make [a metal statue of] a calf. So I took that statue and [I melted it] in a fire and crushed it and ground it into very tiny pieces [HYP]. Then I threw those tiny pieces into the stream that flowed down the mountain.
22 Juga di Tabera, Masa dan Kibrot-Taawa, kamu membuat TUHAN marah.
Your ancestors also caused Yahweh to become very angry [by what they did] at [places which they named] Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
23 Lalu pada waktu kamu disuruh TUHAN meninggalkan Kades-Barnea untuk maju dan menduduki tanah yang akan diberikan-Nya kepadamu, kamu menentang perintah TUHAN Allahmu; kamu tidak mau percaya atau taat kepada-Nya.
And when we were at Kadesh-Barnea, Yahweh said to your ancestors, ‘Go up and capture the land that I am about to give to you!’ But they rebelled against him. They did not trust him, and they did not obey what he told [MTY] them to do.
24 Sejak saya kenal kamu, kamu selalu menentang TUHAN.
Your ancestors rebelled against Yahweh from the first day that I knew them, [in Egypt].
25 Saya tahu TUHAN bertekad hendak membinasakan kamu. Maka selama empat puluh hari dan empat puluh malam saya sujud di depan TUHAN
So, [as I said], I lay on the ground in Yahweh’s presence for 40 days and nights, because Yahweh had said that he would get rid of your ancestors.
26 dan berdoa begini: Ya TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi, janganlah binasakan umat milik-Mu ini, bangsa yang Kaubebaskan dan Kauantar keluar dari Mesir dengan kekuatan dan kekuasaan-Mu yang besar.
And I prayed to Yahweh, saying, ‘Lord God, these people belong to you; do not destroy them. They are people whom you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your very great power. [DOU, MTY]
27 Ingatlah akan hamba-hamba-Mu Abraham, Ishak dan Yakub, dan jangan perhatikan sifat keras kepala, kejahatan dan dosa bangsa ini.
Do not forget [what you promised to] Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Please ignore these stubborn and wicked people and the sin that they have committed.
28 Kalau umat-Mu Kaumusnahkan juga, maka orang Mesir akan berkata bahwa Engkau tak sanggup membawa bangsa-Mu ke negeri yang Kaujanjikan kepada mereka, dan bahwa Engkau membawa mereka ke padang gurun untuk membunuh mereka, karena Engkau benci kepada mereka.
If you do not do that, [and if you get rid of them], the people of Egypt will [hear about it and] say that you were not able to bring them into the land that you promised to give to them. They will say that you took them into the desert only to kill them there because you hated them.
29 Tetapi ingatlah, TUHAN, bahwa mereka ini bangsa yang Kaupilih menjadi umat-Mu, dan Kaubawa dari Mesir dengan kekuatan dan kekuasaan-Mu yang besar."
[Do not forget that] they are your people. [You chose them to] belong to you. You brought them out [from Egypt] by your very great power [DOU, MTY].’”
