Yesaya 17
1 TUHAN berkata, "Damsyik tidak lagi merupakan kota, tetapi hanya tumpukan puing-puing.
The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.
2 Kota-kota di Siria akan ditinggalkan untuk selama-lamanya dan menjadi tempat kawanan ternak; tak seorang pun akan menghalaukan mereka.
Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
3 Israel akan kehilangan perlindungannya dan Damsyik kehilangan kemerdekaannya. Orang Siria yang masih sisa akan hidup dalam kehinaan seperti orang Israel. Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, sudah berbicara."
The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.
4 TUHAN berkata, "Akan tiba waktunya kejayaan Israel berakhir, dan kemakmurannya lenyap.
And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.
5 Israel akan seperti ladang di Refaim yang habis dituai gandumnya, dan hanya tersisa sedikit.
And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Seperti pohon zaitun yang habis dipetik buahnya, dan tinggal beberapa saja di ujung-ujung dahan-dahannya, begitu juga di Israel sedikit orang saja yang akan selamat. Aku, TUHAN, Allah Israel, telah berbicara."
But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 Pada hari itu orang akan kembali minta tolong kepada Penciptanya, Allah kudus Israel.
In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 Mereka tak akan lagi mengharapkan hasil dari buatan mereka sendiri, yaitu mezbah-mezbah tempat membakar dupa, dan patung-patung Dewi Asyera.
He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
9 Pada hari itu, kota-kota Israel yang kuat pertahanannya akan menjadi reruntuhan dan sunyi sepi, seperti kota-kota yang ditinggalkan oleh orang Hewi dan Amori ketika mereka lari dari orang Israel.
In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.
10 Israel, engkau telah melupakan Allah yang menyelamatkan dan melindungi engkau seperti gunung batu yang kokoh. Sebaliknya, engkau telah menanami kebun-kebun untuk dewa-dewa.
For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;
11 Tapi sekalipun tanaman itu langsung bertunas dan berbunga pada hari engkau menanamnya, namun tak akan ada hasilnya. Yang ada hanyalah kesusahan dan rasa sakit yang tak dapat hilang.
In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
12 Bangsa-bangsa kuat sedang ribut; bunyinya gemuruh seperti deru ombak laut yang hebat.
Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!
13 Mereka maju seperti banjir yang dahsyat. Tetapi Allah mengancam mereka, lalu mereka melarikan diri sampai jauh. Mereka dikejar seperti sekam di lereng bukit diterbangkan angin, atau debu ditiup badai.
But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
14 Di waktu senja mereka mendatangkan ketakutan yang hebat, tetapi menjelang pagi mereka sudah hilang. Itulah nasib setiap orang yang merampasi kita.
In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
