Yesaya 47
1 TUHAN berkata, "Hai, Babel, turunlah dari takhtamu, dan duduklah di atas debu. Engkau tidak genit dan manis seperti dahulu.
Descend, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground. There is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called delicate and tender.
2 Gilinglah tepung dengan batu; bukalah kerudungmu, angkatlah gaunmu sampai tampak betismu, dan seberangilah sungai-sungai.
Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams.
3 Orang akan melihat engkau telanjang, dihina dan dipermalukan. Aku akan membalas dendam kepadamu, dan tak seorang pun Kuluputkan."
Your disgrace will be revealed, and your shame will be seen. I will seize vengeance, and no man will withstand me.
4 Allah kudus Israel membebaskan kita, nama-Nya TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa.
Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5 TUHAN berkata kepada Babel, "Diamlah, dan masuklah ke dalam kegelapan. Engkau tak akan lagi disebut 'Ratu kerajaan-kerajaan.'
Sit in silence, and enter into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no longer be called the noblewoman of kingdoms.
6 Dahulu Aku marah kepada umat-Ku, mereka tidak lagi Kuanggap milik-Ku. Lalu mereka Kuserahkan kepadamu, dan engkau tidak mengasihani mereka, bahkan yang tua-tua kautindas dengan kejam.
I was angry with my people. I have polluted my inheritance, and I have given them into your hand. You have not shown mercy to them. You have greatly increased the burden of your yoke upon the elders.
7 Engkau menyangka akan menjadi ratu selama-lamanya, dan tidak menyadari atau memikirkan kesudahannya.
And you have said: “I will be a noblewoman forever.” You have not set these things upon your heart, and you have not remembered your end.
8 Sebab itu dengarlah Aku, hai engkau yang suka mengejar kesenangan! Kausangka hidupmu aman, dan tak ada yang seperti engkau. Kaupikir engkau tak akan menjadi janda, dan keturunanmu tak akan binasa.
And now, hear these things, you who are delicate and have confidence, who say in your heart: “I am, and there is no one greater than me. I will not sit as a widow, and I will not know barrenness.”
9 Tetapi sesaat saja, dalam satu hari, kedua hal itu sekaligus terjadi. Biar engkau memakai sihir dan mantra, suamimu dan anakmu direnggut juga.
These two things will suddenly overwhelm you in one day: barrenness and widowhood. All things shall overwhelm you, because of the multitude of your sorceries and because of the great cruelty of your enchantments.
10 Engkau merasa aman dalam kejahatanmu, kaupikir perbuatanmu tidak diperhatikan. Engkau disesatkan oleh kebijaksanaan dan pengetahuanmu, kausangka tak ada yang seperti engkau.
And you have trusted in your malice, and you have said: “There is no one who sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge, these have deceived you. And you have said in your heart: “I am, and beside me there is no other.”
11 Tetapi engkau akan ditimpa bencana, ilmu sihirmu tak dapat mengelakkannya. Engkau akan didatangi malapetaka, dan tak sanggup menangkisnya. Kebinasaan akan datang dengan tiba-tiba, dan tidak kausangka-sangka sebelumnya.
Evil will overwhelm you, and you will not notice its rising. And calamity will fall violently over you, and you will not be able to avert it. You will suddenly be overwhelmed by a misery such as you have never known.
12 Bertekunlah saja dengan semua mantra dan sihirmu, yang merepotkan engkau sejak masa kecilmu. Siapa tahu itu berguna bagimu, untuk menakut-nakuti musuh-musuhmu.
Stand with your incantations, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if somehow it might benefit you, or as if it were able to make you stronger.
13 Engkau payah karena banyaknya nasihat. Suruhlah peramal-peramal tampil menyelamatkan engkau; mereka yang telah meneliti segala penjuru langit dan mempelajari bintang-bintang, dan pada setiap bulan baru meramalkan apa yang menjadi nasibmu.
You have failed in the multitude of your plans! Let the seers stand and save you, those who were contemplating the stars, and figuring the months, so that from these they might announce to you the things to come.
14 Lihat, mereka seperti jerami yang dimakan api; tak dapat mereka menyelamatkan diri sendiri! Nyala api itu terlalu panas bagi mereka, bukan api hangat untuk berdiang.
Behold, they have become like stubble. Fire has consumed them. They will not free themselves from the power of the flames. These are not coals by which they may be warmed, nor is this a fire which they may sit beside.
15 Itulah faedah para peramal bagimu yang merepotkan engkau sejak masa kecilmu; masing-masing pergi meninggalkan engkau; tak ada yang datang untuk menolongmu."
So have all these things, in which you have labored, become to you. Your merchants from your youth, each one has erred in his own way. There is no one who can save you.
