Yesaya 27
1 Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan memakai pedang-Nya yang kuat dan tajam untuk menghukum Lewiatan, ular yang meliuk-liuk dan melingkar-lingkar itu, dan untuk membunuh naga laut.
In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
2 Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan berkata, "Bernyanyilah tentang kebun anggur-Ku yang indah.
In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.
3 Aku, TUHAN, penjaganya; setiap saat Aku menyiraminya, siang malam Aku menjaganya, agar jangan ada yang mengganggunya.
I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.
4 Aku tidak merasa marah lagi. Sekiranya ada rumput atau semak berduri, Aku akan membasminya, dan membakar habis semuanya.
My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
5 Tetapi jika musuh-musuh umat-Ku mencari perlindungan pada-Ku, biarlah mereka berdamai dengan Aku, ya, berdamai dengan Aku."
Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.
6 Di masa yang akan datang, bangsa Israel akan seperti pohon yang berakar dan berkembang, serta memenuhi muka bumi dengan buah-buahnya.
In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
7 TUHAN menghukum umat-Nya tidak seberat Ia menghukum bangsa-bangsa yang memusuhi mereka. Ia tidak membunuh umat-Nya seperti Ia membunuh musuh-Nya.
Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?
8 TUHAN menghukum umat-Nya dengan membuang mereka ke negeri asing. Ia mengusir mereka dengan angin jahat dari timur.
Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.
9 Tetapi dosa-dosa Israel hanya dapat diampuni kalau mezbah dewa-dewa digiling halus seperti kapur. Semua pedupaan dan lambang Dewi Asyera harus dihancurkan juga.
So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
10 Kota berkubu itu sudah menjadi sepi dan ditinggalkan seperti padang belantara yang kosong. Kawanan ternak merumput dan beristirahat di situ sambil menghabiskan daun-daun dari dahan-dahan pohon.
For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
11 Apabila ranting-rantingnya sudah kering dan patah, wanita-wanita datang dan menjadikannya kayu api. Bangsa itu tidak mengerti apa-apa, maka Allah Penciptanya tidak akan menyayangi atau mengasihi mereka.
When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
12 Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan mengumpulkan bangsa-Nya satu demi satu dari Sungai Efrat sampai ke perbatasan Mesir. Ia akan memisahkan mereka seperti orang memisahkan butir gandum dari sekamnya.
And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.
13 Pada waktu itu akan dibunyikan trompet besar untuk memanggil kembali semua orang Israel yang dibuang di Asyur dan di Mesir. Mereka akan datang ke Yerusalem untuk menyembah TUHAN di bukit-Nya yang suci.
And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
