Yeremia 12
1 "Jika aku mengajukan perkaraku di hadapan-Mu, ya TUHAN, tentulah akan terbukti bahwa Engkaulah yang benar. Tapi aku ingin juga menanyakan kepada-Mu soal keadilan: Mengapa orang jahat makmur? Mengapa justru orang tak jujur yang berhasil?
Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?
2 Kautanam mereka seperti tumbuh-tumbuhan, lalu mereka berakar, bertumbuh, dan berbuah. Mereka selalu berbicara yang baik-baik tentang diri-Mu, tetapi dalam hati, mereka sebenarnya tidak peduli kepada-Mu.
You planted them, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.
3 Tetapi Engkau, ya TUHAN, mengenal aku. Engkau melihat apa yang kulakukan, dan Engkau mengetahui bagaimana perasaan hatiku terhadap-Mu. Giringlah orang-orang jahat itu keluar, bawalah mereka seperti domba ke pembantaian. Jagalah mereka sampai tiba waktunya mereka disembelih.
And you, O Lord, have known me well. You have seen me, and you have tested my heart with you. Gather them together like a flock for the sacrifice and sanctify them for the day of slaughter.
4 Sampai berapa lama lagi negeri ini kering, dan rumputnya layu di setiap ladang? Burung dan binatang lainnya mati karena kejahatan bangsa kami. Mereka berkata, bahwa aku tidak akan melihat nasib mereka."
How long shall the earth mourn? And how long shall the plants of every field whither because of the wickedness of the inhabitants within them? It has consumed the wild animals and the birds. For they said: “He will not see our very end.”
5 TUHAN berkata, "Yeremia, jika engkau menjadi lelah berlomba dengan manusia, mana mungkin engkau berlomba dengan kuda? Jika di tanah yang aman engkau ketakutan, apakah yang akan kaulakukan apabila kau berada di hutan belukar di tepi Yordan?
“If you have struggled to run on foot, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you have been secure in a land of peace, what will you do about the arrogance of the Jordan?
6 Engkau sudah dikhianati bahkan oleh sanak saudaramu sendiri; mereka ikut menyerang engkau. Janganlah percaya kepada mereka, meskipun kata-kata mereka manis."
For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even these have fought against you. And they have cried out after you with loud voice: ‘You should not believe them, when they speak good things to you.’”
7 TUHAN berkata, "Tempat tinggal-Ku tidak lagi Kupedulikan, negeri yang menjadi milik-Ku telah Kutinggalkan, dan umat-Ku yang Kukasihi telah Kuserahkan ke tangan musuh-musuhnya.
“I have abandoned my house. I have disowned my inheritance. I have given my beloved soul into the hand of its enemies.
8 Umat pilihan-Ku melawan Aku; seperti singa di rimba demikianlah mereka mengaum terhadap-Ku. Itulah sebabnya Aku membenci mereka.
My inheritance has become for me like a lion in the forest. It has uttered a voice against me, therefore, I have hated it.
9 Mereka seperti burung yang diserang oleh elang dari segala pihak. Panggillah segala binatang hutan untuk turut menghabiskan mereka.
Is my inheritance to me like a discolored bird? Is it like a bird that has entirely changed color? Approach and assemble, all beasts of the earth! Hurry, so that you may devour!
10 Banyak penguasa asing telah merusak kebun anggur-Ku dan menginjak-injak ladang-ladang-Ku. Negeri-Ku yang indah mereka ubah menjadi padang gurun yang sepi.
Many pastors have demolished my vineyard. They have trampled my portion. They have made my desirable portion into a desert of solitude.
11 Ya, Aku melihat mereka menjadikan negeri-Ku tempat sepi yang menyedihkan. Seluruhnya terlantar, tak ada yang memperhatikan.
They have squandered it, and it has grieved concerning me. The entire earth has become utterly desolate, because there is no one who understands with the heart.”
12 Dari seberang padang gurun di pegunungan, orang-orang datang untuk merampok. Aku mendatangkan peperangan untuk merusak seluruh negeri sehingga tak seorang pun dapat hidup damai.
The devastators have arrived, over all the ways of the wilderness. For the sword of the Lord will devour, from one end of the earth even to its furthest limits. There is no peace for all that is flesh.
13 Umat-Ku menabur gandum, tapi durilah yang dituai. Mereka bersusah payah tapi usahanya tidak berhasil. Aku sangat murka sehingga panenan mereka gagal."
They sowed wheat, but they reaped thorns. They received an inheritance, but it will not benefit them. You will be confounded by your own fruits, because of the wrath of the fury of the Lord.
14 TUHAN berkata, "Inilah pesan-Ku tentang negara-negara tetangga Israel yang telah merusak negeri yang Kuberikan kepada umat-Ku Israel. Seperti tanaman yang dicabut dari tanah, demikianlah orang-orang jahat itu akan Kukeluarkan dari negeri-negeri mereka, dan Yehuda akan Kulepaskan dari genggaman mereka.
Thus says the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, who touch the inheritance that I have distributed to my people Israel: “Behold, I will root them out of their own land, and I will root the house of Judah out of their midst.
15 Tetapi setelah mengeluarkan mereka, Aku akan mengasihani mereka lagi; setiap bangsa akan Kubawa kembali ke negerinya sendiri.
And when I have rooted them out, I will turn back and take pity on them. And I will lead them back, one man to his inheritance, and another man to his land.
16 Jika mereka dengan sepenuh hati mau menerima agama umat-Ku dan mau bersumpah dengan berkata, 'Demi TUHAN yang hidup,' --seperti dahulu mereka mengajar umat-Ku bersumpah demi Baal--maka mereka pun akan tergolong umat-Ku dan menjadi makmur.
And this shall be: if they are taught and they learn the ways of my people, so that they swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ just as they had taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people.
17 Tetapi bangsa yang tidak mau menuruti Aku, akan Kucabut seperti tanaman dan Kupunahkan. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."
But if they will not listen, I will uproot that nation unto utter destruction and perdition, says the Lord.”
