Yesaya 49
1 Dengarlah aku, hai negeri-negeri yang jauh perhatikanlah kata-kataku. TUHAN memanggil aku sebelum aku dilahirkan, Ia memilih aku sejak dari kandungan.
All you people who live on islands [in the ocean] and in other distant areas, pay attention [DOU] to what I will say! Yahweh called/chose me before I was born; he chose/appointed me when I was still in my mother’s womb.
2 Ia membuat kata-kataku setajam pedang, dengan tangan-Nya sendiri Ia melindungi aku. Ia menjadikan aku seperti anak panah yang terasah, dan menyimpannya dalam tabung supaya siap dipakai.
[When I grew up], he caused my messages to be like [SIM] a sharp sword. He has protected me with his hand [SYN]. [He protects me] [MET] like someone protects sharp arrows in a quiver.
3 Kata-Nya kepadaku, "Engkaulah hamba-Ku; Aku akan diagungkan karena engkau."
He said to me, “You will serve my Israeli [people], and you will cause people to honor me.”
4 Tetapi aku berkata, "Jerih payahku percuma; kuhabiskan tenagaku dengan sia-sia!" Namun aku yakin TUHAN membela hakku, Allah membalas aku menurut perbuatanku.
I replied, “My work has been useless; I have used my strength, but I have accomplished nothing worthwhile; everything that I have done has been (in vain/useless). However, Yahweh can honor me as he pleases; my God is the one who will reward me [as I deserve].”
5 Sebelum lahir, aku dipanggil TUHAN menjadi hamba-Nya, untuk mengumpulkan umat Israel, supaya mereka kembali kepada-Nya. TUHAN menjadikan aku terhormat, Allah adalah kekuatanku.
Yahweh formed me when I was in [my mother’s] womb in order that I would serve him; he appointed me to bring [the people of] Israel back to himself [DOU]. Yahweh has honored me, and he is the one who has caused me to be strong.
6 TUHAN berkata kepadaku, "Tugas yang lebih besar menanti engkau, hai hamba-Ku; kau tidak hanya akan memulangkan sisa keturunan Yakub dan memulihkan kebesaran suku-suku Israel, tetapi Kujadikan pula terang bangsa-bangsa, supaya seluruh dunia diselamatkan."
He says to me, “It is not enough for you to serve me by bringing the descendants of Jacob back to worship me again [DOU]; I also want you to be like [MET] a light for the non-Jews; I want you to take my [my message] about how to be saved to [people] all over the world.”
7 Allah kudus Penyelamat Israel berkata kepada orang yang sangat dihina, dan yang dibenci oleh bangsa-bangsa serta menjadi hamba para penguasa, "Raja-raja akan melihat perbuatan-Ku; mereka akan bangkit menghormati Aku. Para penguasa akan melihatnya juga, lalu sujud menyembah." Itu terjadi karena TUHAN telah memilih hamba-Nya; Allah kudus Israel setia kepada janji-Nya.
Yahweh, the one who saves us, the Holy God of us Israeli [people], says to the one who was despised and rejected by the [people of many] nations, the one who is the slave of rulers, “[Some day] kings will stand up to respect you when they see you, and princes will bow down before you because [you serve] me, Yahweh, the one who faithfully [does what I promise]. I am the Holy God to whom you Israelis belong, the one who has chosen you.”
8 TUHAN berkata kepada umat-Nya, "Pada waktu Aku berkenan, Aku akan menjawab; pada hari Aku menyelamatkan, Aku menolong kamu. Kamu Kulindungi dan Kujaga, dan Kujadikan perjanjian bagi bangsa-bangsa. Kupulihkan negeri yang sunyi sepi menjadi tanah pusaka yang didiami.
This is also what Yahweh says: “At a time when it pleases me, I will answer your prayers. On the day when you will be rescued [from your oppressors], I will help you. I will protect you and enable you to establish an agreement with other nations. And by what you do, I will re-establish your nation of Israel and allow you to live/settle again in your land that was abandoned.
9 Orang yang dipenjarakan Kusuruh keluar; yang ada di tempat gelap Kubawa kepada terang. Bahkan di bukit yang gundul mereka tidak kekurangan, di sepanjang jalan tersedia makanan.
I will say to those who were captured [and (exiled/taken to Babylonia)], ‘Leave [Babylonia] and return to your own country!’ And I will say to those who are in dark prisons, ‘Come out into the light!’ When that happens, they will again be like [MET] sheep that eat grass in green pastures, on hills where [previously] there was no grass.
10 Mereka tak akan menjadi haus atau lapar, dan tak akan ditimpa terik matahari di padang gurun. Sebab Aku, penyayang mereka, akan membimbing mereka, dan menuntun mereka ke sumber-sumber air.
They will not be hungry or thirsty [any more]; the hot sun will not beat upon them again [DOU]. I, Yahweh, will act mercifully toward them and lead them; I will lead them to where there are springs of cool water.
11 Aku akan membuat jalan melalui pegunungan, semua jalan raya-Ku akan Kuratakan.
And I will cause the mountains to become [as though they were] level roads, and I will prepare good highways [for my people to travel on, to return to Jerusalem].
12 Dari jauh umat-Ku berdatangan, dari utara, barat dan Sinim di selatan."
My people will return from far away; some will come from the north, some from the west, some from southern Egypt.”
13 Bernyanyilah hai langit, bersoraklah hai bumi, hai gunung-gunung, bersoraklah gembira! Sebab TUHAN datang menghibur umat-Nya, Ia mengasihani umat-Nya yang tertindas.
[Because of what Yahweh has promised to do], everything should shout joyfully— the sky and the earth and the mountains should sing, because Yahweh comforts his people, and he will pity those who are suffering.
14 Tetapi penduduk Yerusalem berkata, "TUHAN sudah meninggalkan kita, TUHAN kita sudah melupakan kita."
[The people of] Jerusalem say, “Yahweh has abandoned us; he has forgotten about us.”
15 TUHAN menjawab, kata-Nya, "Mungkinkah seorang ibu melupakan anaknya, dan tidak menyayangi anak kandungnya? Sekalipun dia melupakannya, Aku tak akan melupakan engkau!
But [Yahweh replies], “That is not true! (Can a woman forget the infant that she is nursing?/A woman certainly cannot forget the infant that she is nursing!) [RHQ] (Can she stop being kind to the child to whom she has given birth?/She certainly cannot stop being kind to the child to whom she has given birth!) [RHQ] But even if a woman would do that, I will not forget you!
16 Yerusalem, Aku selalu ingat padamu; namamu Kuukir di telapak tangan-Ku.
Note that I have written your [names] on the palms of my hands; in my mind I can always see the walls of your city.
17 Orang-orang yang membangun engkau segera datang, dan yang telah menghancurkan engkau akan pergi.
Soon your children will be returning there (OR, Those who rebuild your city will work more quickly than those who destroyed it), and all those who destroyed your city will leave.
18 Lihatlah dan pandanglah di sekelilingmu, rakyatmu sudah berkumpul dan datang kepadamu. Demi Aku, Allah yang hidup, Aku berkata, sungguh, engkau akan bangga karena pendudukmu, seperti pengantin wanita bangga karena perhiasannya.
You will look around and see all of your children coming back to you. As surely as I live, they will be around you [for you to show to people] like [SIM] a bride shows her wedding ornaments!
19 Negerimu yang tandus dan sunyi sepi, sekarang menjadi terlalu sempit bagi orang-orang yang ingin mendiaminya. Dan orang-orang yang mau membinasakan engkau, sudah pergi jauh daripadamu.
Your land has been ruined and caused to become desolate/abandoned [DOU], but [some day] it will be filled with people, and those who conquered you will be far away.
20 Anak-anak yang lahir di pengasingan akan berkata kepadamu, 'Negeri ini terlalu sempit bagiku, berilah tempat supaya aku dapat diam di sini.'
The children who were born while you were (exiled/in Babylonia) [MET] will return [to Jerusalem] and say, ‘This city is too small for us; We need more space to live in!’
21 Maka engkau akan berkata dalam hati, 'Siapakah yang melahirkan anak-anak itu bagiku? Bukankah aku sudah kehilangan anak-anakku, dan tak dapat melahirkan lagi? Aku diangkut dalam pembuangan dan disingkirkan dan ditinggalkan seorang diri. Jadi dari mana anak-anak itu, dan siapa yang membesarkan mereka?'"
Then you will think to yourselves [MTY], ‘It is amazing that we have [RHQ] all these children! Most of our children were dead, and the rest were exiled. We were left here alone; so we do not know [RHQ] where all these children have come from! Who raised them?'”
22 TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi berkata kepada umat-Nya, "Aku akan memberikan tanda kepada bangsa-bangsa dan mereka akan memulangkan anak-anakmu; anak-anakmu laki-laki akan digendong, dan anak-anakmu perempuan dipikul di atas bahu.
This is what Yahweh our God says: “Watch! [It is as though] I will lift up my hand to signal to those who are not Israelis. And they will carry your little sons and daughters on their shoulders and bring them back to you.
23 Raja-raja akan seperti bapak bagimu, dan ratu-ratu sebagai ibu. Mereka akan sujud menghormati engkau dan merendahkan diri terhadapmu. Maka engkau akan tahu bahwa Aku TUHAN; orang yang berharap pada-Ku tidak dikecewakan."
Kings will serve you and will tutor/teach your children, and their queens will take care of your young children. They will prostrate themselves in front of you and [humble themselves by] licking the dust off your feet. When that happens, you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do]; and those who trust in me will never be disappointed.”
24 Kamu bertanya, "Mungkinkah jarahan dirampas dari tangan pahlawan, atau tawanan direbut dari genggaman orang kejam?"
There is no one [RHQ] who can snatch valuable things from a soldier who has captured those things [in a war]; there is no one [RHQ] who can force a (tyrant/cruel man) to free the people whom he has captured.
25 TUHAN menjawab, "Itulah yang akan terjadi. Tawanan para pahlawan akan direbut kembali. Jarahan orang kejam akan dirampas lagi. Sebab Aku sendiri melawan musuhmu; Aku akan menyelamatkan anak-anakmu.
But Yahweh says this: “[Some day], those who have been captured will be freed, and the valuable things that (tyrants/cruel men) have snatched from others will be returned, because I will fight against those who fight against you, and I will rescue your children.
26 Aku akan membuat musuhmu mabuk darah, sehingga mereka saling membunuh. Maka seluruh umat manusia akan tahu, bahwa Aku, TUHAN, Penyelamatmu; Yang Mahakuat, Allah Yakub, Penebusmu."
And I will cause your enemies to destroy themselves [MET] instead of murdering others. When that happens, everyone [in the world] will know that I, Yahweh, am the one who saves you, the one who rescues you from your enemies; everyone will know that I am the mighty God to whom [you descendants of] [MTY] Jacob belong.”
