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.
At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan, the swift-moving monster/dragon, that coiling serpent that lives in the sea. Yahweh will kill it with his sharp, huge, and powerful sword.
2 Pada waktu itu TUHAN akan berkata, "Bernyanyilah tentang kebun anggur-Ku yang indah.
At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
3 Aku, TUHAN, penjaganya; setiap saat Aku menyiraminya, siang malam Aku menjaganya, agar jangan ada yang mengganggunya.
I will [protect you] [like a farmer] [MET] waters his crops carefully [in order that they will grow well]. I will guard you day and night, in order that no one harms you.
4 Aku tidak merasa marah lagi. Sekiranya ada rumput atau semak berduri, Aku akan membasminya, dan membakar habis semuanya.
I am no [longer] angry [with my people]; [if any of your enemies try to injure you like briers and thorns injure people] [MET], I will attack them [in battles]; I will get rid of them completely,
5 Tetapi jika musuh-musuh umat-Ku mencari perlindungan pada-Ku, biarlah mereka berdamai dengan Aku, ya, berdamai dengan Aku."
unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
6 Di masa yang akan datang, bangsa Israel akan seperti pohon yang berakar dan berkembang, serta memenuhi muka bumi dengan buah-buahnya.
There will be a time when the (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) will [prosper like] a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; [what they do will bless] all the people in the world.
7 TUHAN menghukum umat-Nya tidak seberat Ia menghukum bangsa-bangsa yang memusuhi mereka. Ia tidak membunuh umat-Nya seperti Ia membunuh musuh-Nya.
[But now I ask], has Yahweh punished us Israelis like he punished our enemies? Has he punished us as much as he punished them?
8 TUHAN menghukum umat-Nya dengan membuang mereka ke negeri asing. Ia mengusir mereka dengan angin jahat dari timur.
[No, he has not done that], [but] he punished us Israeli people and (exiled us/forced us to leave our country); we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
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.
Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins, and remove our guilt. As a result [of our being exiled], all the altars to other gods [in Israel] will be demolished, and we will be forgiven for the sins that we have committed. There will be no more poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah, or altars for burning incense to other gods; they will all be torn down.
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.
The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty; like the desert, they will have no one living in them. The houses will be abandoned, and the streets will be full of weeds. Calves will eat grass there and lie down there; they will chew up all the leaves on the trees.
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.
[The Israeli people are like] [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires [under their cooking pots]. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to 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.
[However], there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together [again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people] separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them [back to Israel], one by one, from [the land between] the Euphrates River [in the northeast] and the brook at the border of Egypt [in the southwest].
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.
At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on [Zion], his holy hill.
