Yesaya 59
1 Jangan mengira TUHAN terlalu lemah untuk menyelamatkan kamu, atau terlalu tuli untuk mendengar seruanmu.
Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.
2 Karena kejahatanmulah maka Ia tidak mendengarkan waktu kamu berdoa kepada-Nya. Dosa-dosamulah yang memisahkan kamu dari Allah.
But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.
3 Kamu bersalah karena berdusta dan berbuat curang, karena melakukan tindak kekerasan dan membunuh.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.
4 Kamu mengadukan perkara tanpa alasan dan menghakimi dengan tidak adil. Kamu berdusta dan mengandalkan yang sia-sia; kamu membuat rencana untuk mencelakakan orang lain dan melakukan kejahatan.
There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.
5 Rencana-rencanamu yang jahat membawa maut seperti telur ular berbisa. Kalau telur itu dipecahkan, keluarlah ularnya. Rencana itu sama sekali tidak berguna bagimu, seperti pakaian yang ditenun dari sarang laba-laba!
They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.
Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.
7 Kamu terus-menerus merencanakan yang jahat, dan ingin segera melaksanakannya. Tanpa ragu-ragu kamu membunuh orang yang tak bersalah. Ke mana saja kamu pergi, kamu meninggalkan keruntuhan dan kebinasaan.
Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.
8 Kamu tidak mengusahakan kerukunan, dan semua perbuatanmu tidak adil. Jalanmu berbelit-belit, dan orang yang mengikuti jalan itu tidak akan bahagia.
They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them, knoweth no peace.
9 Bangsa itu berkata kepada Allah, "Sekarang kami tahu mengapa Engkau tidak menyelamatkan kami dari orang-orang yang menindas kami. Kami menantikan terang, tetapi hanya ada kegelapan.
Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.
10 Kami meraba-raba seperti orang buta; di tengah hari kami tersandung seperti di tengah malam; di tengah orang hidup kami seperti orang mati.
We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places as dead men.
11 Kami ketakutan dan kesedihan; kami mencari keadilan, tetapi tidak ada; kami mengharapkan keselamatan, tetapi sia-sia.
We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.
12 Sungguh banyaklah kejahatan kami terhadap-Mu; dosa-dosa kami mempersalahkan kami. Kami sungguh-sungguh menyadari kejahatan kami, dan mengetahui dosa-dosa kami.
For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us: for our wicked doings are with us, and we have known our iniquities:
13 Kami telah mungkir dan memberontak terhadap TUHAN, dan tak mau mengikuti Allah kami. Kami telah menindas orang lain dan menyeleweng; pikiran kami sesat, dan kata-kata kami bohong.
In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood.
14 Hukum yang adil sudah disingkirkan, dan keadilan dijauhkan. Kejujuran diremehkan di tempat-tempat umum, dan ketulusan dikesampingkan.
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth bath fallen down in the street, and equity could not come in.
15 Tak ada lagi orang yang jujur, dan siapa yang menjauhi kejahatan, ia sendiri menjadi korban kejahatan." TUHAN telah melihatnya, dan Ia tidak senang bahwa tak ada lagi keadilan.
And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil, lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment.
16 Ia heran bahwa tak ada yang tampil dan tak ada yang membela. Maka Ia memakai kuasa-Nya sendiri untuk menyelamatkan dan memberi mereka kemenangan.
And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished, because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice supported him.
17 Ia memakai keadilan dan keselamatan sebagai baju besi dan topi baja. Ia bertekad untuk memulihkan keadaaan dan membalas ketidakadilan.
He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.
18 Ia membalas musuh-musuh-Nya sesuai dengan perbuatan mereka. Bahkan bangsa-bangsa di pulau-pulau yang jauh tidak luput dari hukuman-Nya.
As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries, and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.
19 Kuasa dan keagungan-Nya akan ditakuti semua orang dari timur sampai ke barat. Ia akan datang seperti sungai yang deras yang digelorakan angin yang kencang.
And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory: when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:
20 TUHAN berkata kepada umat-Nya, "Aku akan datang ke Yerusalem untuk menyelamatkan kamu semua yang bertobat dari dosa-dosamu.
And there shall come a, redeemer to Sion, and to them that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21 Aku membuat perjanjian dengan kamu: Kamu Kuberi kuasa-Ku dan ajaran-Ku untuk selama-lamanya. Ajarkanlah kepada anak-anakmu supaya mereka pun dapat mengajarkannya turun-temurun sekarang sampai selama-lamanya."
This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
