Habakuk 2
1 Aku mau naik ke menara penjagaanku, dan menunggu apa yang hendak dikatakan TUHAN kepadaku, dan bagaimana jawaban-Nya atas keluhanku.
[After I said that, I said to myself, ] “I will climb up into my watchtower, and stand there at my guard post. I will wait there to find out what Yahweh will say, what he will reply to what I have complained about.”
2 TUHAN menjawab aku begini, "Ukirlah dengan jelas pada kepingan tanah liat, apa yang Kunyatakan kepadamu, supaya dapat dibaca dengan mudah.
Then Yahweh replied to me, “Write plainly on tablets [what I am revealing to you in] this vision, [and then read it to a messenger] in order that he can run with it [to tell it to] other people.
3 Catatlah itu, sebab sekarang belum waktunya. Tetapi saat itu segera tiba, dan apa yang Kunyatakan kepadamu pasti akan terjadi. Meskipun tampaknya masih lama, tetapi tunggu saja! Saat itu pasti akan datang dan tak akan ditunda.
In this vision [I will be talking about things that will happen] in the future. Now is not the time when those things will happen, but they certainly will happen, and when they occur, they will occur quickly, and they will not be delayed. Now you [want those things to happen immediately, but] they are not happening. But wait patiently for them [to happen]!
4 Dan ingatlah: Orang yang jahat tidak akan selamat, tetapi orang yang melakukan kehendak Allah akan hidup karena kesetiaannya kepada Allah."
Think about the proud [people of Babylonia]! They are certainly not doing what is righteous. But people who are righteous will live because they faithfully [do what I want them to do].
5 Kekayaan itu selalu menipu orang. Orang yang serakah itu angkuh dan gelisah. Seperti maut, ia pun tidak pernah puas; bangsa demi bangsa di caploknya. (Sheol h7585)
If people [trust in their wealth], they will deceive themselves, and proud people are never able to rest. [It is as though] the greedy people [of Babylonia open their mouths] as wide as the place where dead people are, and they never have enough, like [the place where] dead people go never has enough dead people [PRS]. The [armies of Babylonia] conquer many nations for themselves, and capture all their people. (Sheol h7585)
6 Tetapi semua yang ditaklukkannya itu akan menyindir dan mengolok-oloknya. Mereka akan berkata, "Terkutuklah engkau sebab menimbun barang yang bukan milikmu! Berapa lama lagi engkau memperkaya dirimu dengan memaksa orang-orang yang berhutang kepadamu untuk membayar hutang mereka?"
But [soon] all those [whom they have captured] will ridicule [the soldiers from Babylonia]! They will make fun of them, saying, ‘Terrible things will happen to you who have stolen things [from other countries]! You got many things by forcing people to give them to you. [But you certainly will not keep those things] for a long time [RHQ]!’
7 Tetapi tanpa kausadari, engkau yang telah menaklukkan orang lain, akan berhutang juga dan dipaksa untuk membayar bunga. Musuh-musuhmu akan datang dan membuat engkau ketakutan. Mereka akan merampok hartamu!
Suddenly those whom you (oppressed/treated cruelly) will cause you to tremble, and they will take away all the things that you have stolen from them.
8 Engkau telah merampoki banyak bangsa, tetapi bangsa-bangsa yang berhasil luput akan merampoki engkau, karena pembunuhan yang telah kaulakukan, dan karena kekejamanmu terhadap negeri-negeri, kota-kota dan penduduknya.
You stole things from the people of many nations. You murdered [MTY] people of many people-groups, and you destroyed their land and their cities. So those who are still alive will steal valuable things from you.
9 Terkutuklah engkau! Engkau memperkaya keluargamu dengan keuntungan yang kauperoleh secara kejam, supaya rumahmu sendiri aman dan terhindar dari kesusahan dan bencana.
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who build big houses with money that you got by forcing others to give it to you. You are proud and you think that your houses will be safe because you have built them in places where you can easily defend them.
10 Tetapi rencanamu itu hanya membawa malu bagi keluargamu. Dengan merampoki banyak bangsa, engkau merugikan dirimu sendiri.
But because you have destroyed others, you have caused your family [MTY] to be shamed/disgraced, and you yourselves will be killed.
11 Bahkan batu-batu di tembok berseru-seru mengutuk engkau, dan tiang-tiang rumah mengumandangkan seruan itu.
[It is as though] the stones in the walls [of your houses] cry out to accuse you, and [it is as though] the beams [in your ceilings] also say the same things.
12 Terkutuklah engkau! Engkau mendirikan kota atas dasar kejahatan dan membangunnya dengan pembunuhan.
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who kill people [MTY] in order to build cities, cities that you build by using money that you have gotten by committing crimes.
13 Bangsa-bangsa yang kautaklukkan bersusah payah tanpa guna, dan segala sesuatu yang mereka dirikan habis ditelan api. Semua itu adalah kehendak TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa.
But the Commander of the armies of angels has [RHQ] declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that [will be destroyed by] fire; they will have worked hard uselessly.
14 Tetapi seperti lautan dipenuhi dengan air, demikian bumi pun akan dipenuhi dengan pengetahuan tentang TUHAN dan kuasa-Nya.
But [in contrast], like [SIM] the oceans are filled with water, the earth will be filled with [people who] know that Yahweh is very great.
15 Terkutuklah engkau! Engkau menghina dan mempermalukan tetangga-tetanggamu; kaubuat mereka terhuyung-huyung seperti orang mabuk.
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who cause people who live in nearby countries to become drunk. You force them to drink a lot of wine from wineskins [until they are drunk and then they walk around] naked, in order that you can see that.
16 Sekarang tibalah giliranmu untuk dipermalukan, dan bukan untuk dihormati. Kehormatanmu akan berubah menjadi kehinaan. TUHAN akan memaksa engkau minum dari cawan yang berisi hukuman bagimu. Engkau akan minum dan terhuyung-huyung.
But you are the ones who [soon] will be disgraced instead of being honored. [It will be as though you are forced to] drink [a lot of wine] in order that you will also stagger [around, drunk]. You will drink the wine [that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you], and he will cause you to be disgraced instead of being greatly respected [any more].
17 Engkau menebang pohon-pohon di hutan Libanon, dan sekarang engkau sendiri yang akan ditebang. Engkau membunuh binatang-binatangnya, dan sekarang binatang-binatang menakutkan engkau. Semua itu terjadi karena pembunuhan dan kekejaman yang telah kaulakukan terhadap negeri-negeri, kota-kota dan penduduk-penduduknya.
You did violent [PRS] things to [the people in] Lebanon, and you killed the wild animals [there], but you will be punished severely for doing that. You have killed [MTY] many people and you have destroyed their lands and their cities.
18 Terkutuklah engkau! Engkau berkata kepada sepotong kayu, "Bangunlah!" atau kepada sebuah batu besar, "Bangkitlah!" Dapatkah sebuah patung mengatakan sesuatu kepadamu? Boleh jadi patung itu berlapis emas dan perak, tetapi nyawa tak ada padanya. Apa gunanya patung berhala? Itu hanya buatan manusia saja. Yang kaudapat daripadanya hanya dusta belaka. Sia-sialah kepercayaan pembuat berhala kepada buatan tangannya, yang tak bisa berkata-kata itu.
[You people of Babylonia need to know that your] idols are completely [RHQ] useless, because it is people who made them. Statues that have been carved or made in a mold deceive you. Those who trust in idols are trusting in things that they themselves created, things that cannot speak!
Terrible things will happen to you who say to lifeless idols that are made of wood, ‘Wake up!’ Idols certainly cannot [RHQ] tell you what you should do; they [look nice/beautiful because] they are covered with silver and gold, but they are not alive.
20 TUHAN ada di dalam Rumah-Nya yang suci; hendaklah semua orang di bumi berdiam diri di hadapan-Nya.
But Yahweh is in his holy temple; everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence.”
