Yeremia 17
1 TUHAN berkata, "Hai bangsa Yehuda, dosamu telah terukir pada hatimu dan pada semua sudut mezbah-mezbahmu dengan pena besi yang bermata pena dari intan.
[Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!
2 Orang-orangmu beribadat pada mezbah-mezbah dan tiang-tiang berhala yang telah didirikan untuk Dewi Asyera di setiap pohon yang rindang, di puncak-puncak bukit,
[Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.
3 dan di gunung-gunung di luar kota. Karena semua tempat penyembahan berhala yang telah kamu dirikan di seluruh negeri dan karena segala dosa yang telah kamu lakukan, maka Aku akan membuat musuh-musuhmu mengangkut segala harta dan kekayaanmu.
So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.
4 Kamu akan terpaksa menyerahkan tanah yang telah Kuberikan kepadamu, dan Aku akan membuat kamu mengabdi kepada musuhmu di negeri yang sama sekali asing bagimu. Aku melakukan semuanya itu karena kemarahan-Ku telah meluap seperti api yang menyala dan tak dapat dipadamkan."
The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”
5 TUHAN berkata, "Apabila orang meninggalkan Aku, Tuhannya, dan berharap kepada manusia serta bersandar pada kekuatannya, maka Aku akan menghukum dia.
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.
6 Ia seperti tanaman yang tumbuh di padang, di tanah tandus, sunyi sepi dan bergaram, tak pernah ia mengalami kebaikan.
They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.
7 Tapi orang yang berharap kepada-Ku akan Kuberkati selalu.
But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
8 Ia bagaikan pohon di tepi sungai yang mengalir; akarnya merambat sampai ke air. Ia tak takut musim kemarau, daun-daunnya selalu hijau. Sekalipun negeri dilanda kekeringan, ia tak gelisah sebab ia selalu menghasilkan buah.
Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.
9 Hati manusia tak dapat diduga, paling licik dari segala-galanya dan terlalu parah penyakitnya.
Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
10 Aku, TUHAN, menyelidiki hati, batin manusia Kuuji. Setiap orang akan Kubalas menurut tingkah lakunya, dan Kuperlakukan sesuai dengan perbuatannya."
But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”
11 Bagaikan burung mengerami telur yang bukan miliknya, begitulah orang yang tak jujur mendapat harta. Pada usia setengah baya ia akan kehilangan semua hartanya. Pada akhir hidupnya terbukti ia orang yang bodoh sekali.
[I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.
12 Rumah TUHAN kita seperti takhta yang mulia, di gunung yang tinggi sejak semula.
Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
13 TUHAN, Engkaulah harapan Israel, umat-Mu; semua yang meninggalkan Engkau akan menjadi malu. Mereka akan lenyap dari dunia ini dan pergi ke dunia orang mati. Sebab, Engkau sumber air kehidupan telah mereka tinggalkan, ya TUHAN.
You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.
14 TUHAN, sembuhkanlah aku, maka aku akan menjadi sehat. Selamatkanlah aku, maka aku akan selamat. Engkau saja yang kumuliakan!
Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.
15 Orang berkata kepadaku, "Di mana semua ancaman TUHAN itu? Biarlah sekarang dilaksanakan!"
People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]
16 Tapi, ya TUHAN, tak pernah aku mendesak supaya Engkau mendatangkan celaka atas mereka. Aku tidak juga menginginkan supaya mereka ditimpa kemalangan. Engkau tahu itu, TUHAN. Engkau tahu apa yang kuucapkan.
Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].
17 Janganlah Engkau menjadi sesuatu yang menakutkan hatiku. Engkau tempat pengungsian bagiku bila datang kesukaran.
Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.
18 Semoga yang mengejar dan menindas aku, Kaupermalukan dan Kaupenuhi dengan ketakutan. Tetapi janganlah berbuat begitu terhadap aku, ya TUHAN. Datangkanlah malapetaka ke atas mereka sampai mereka hancur binasa.
[So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!
19 TUHAN berkata kepadaku, "Yeremia, pergilah ke Pintu Gerbang Rakyat yang dilalui raja-raja Yehuda apabila mereka keluar masuk kota. Pergilah juga ke semua pintu gerbang lainnya di Yerusalem.
This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.
20 Sampaikanlah pesan-Ku kepada raja-raja dan semua orang Yehuda serta seluruh penduduk Yerusalem yang lewat di pintu-pintu itu.
Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!
21 Katakanlah begini: 'Jika kamu tidak ingin mati, janganlah mengangkut barang pada hari Sabat, atau membawanya masuk melalui pintu-pintu gerbang Yerusalem.
He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!
22 Jangan bekerja atau membawa barang apa pun keluar dari rumahmu pada hari Sabat. Khususkanlah hari itu untuk Aku seperti yang telah Kuperintahkan kepada leluhurmu.
Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,
23 Tapi leluhurmu tidak mau mendengarkan atau memperhatikan apa yang Kukatakan. Mereka keras kepala, dan tidak mau taat atau ditegur.
but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.
24 Taatilah semua perintah-Ku. Jangan mengangkut barang apa pun melalui pintu gerbang kota ini pada hari Sabat. Khususkanlah, hari Sabat untuk Aku, dan janganlah mengerjakan apa pun pada hari itu.
But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,
25 Jika kamu sungguh-sungguh menjalankan perintah-perintah-Ku itu, maka raja-raja dan pejabat-pejabat yang memerintah seperti Daud akan memasuki gerbang-gerbang kota Yerusalem. Mereka bersama orang Yehuda dan penduduk Yerusalem, akan mengendarai kereta kuda, sehingga kota Yerusalem menjadi ramai sekali.
kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.
26 Orang-orang akan datang dari kota-kota Yehuda, dan dari desa-desa di sekitar Yerusalem; mereka akan datang dari wilayah Benyamin, dari daerah kaki bukit, dari daerah pegunungan, dan dari Yehuda bagian selatan. Mereka akan membawa ke Rumah-Ku binatang-binatang kurban, baik yang untuk dibakar maupun yang tidak, juga persembahan gandum dan kemenyan serta persembahan syukur.
And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.
27 Semua itu akan terjadi apabila kamu taat kepada-Ku dan mengkhususkan hari Sabat untuk Aku. Jangan mengangkut barang apa pun lewat pintu-pintu gerbang Yerusalem pada hari itu. Kalau kamu melanggar perintah-perintah-Ku itu, pintu-pintu gerbang Yerusalem serta istana-istananya akan Kubakar habis dan api itu tak akan dapat dipadamkan.'"
But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”
