Yeremia 49
1 Inilah yang dikatakan TUHAN mengenai Amon, "Mengapa tanah suku Gad direbut dan didiami orang-orang yang menyembah Dewa Milkom? Apakah sudah tak ada lagi orang Israel yang dapat membela daerah itu?
About the people of Ammon, Yahweh says this, “Does Israel have no children? Is there no one to inherit anything in Israel? Why does Molech occupy Gad, and his people live in its cities?
2 Tapi akan tiba saatnya Aku membuat penduduk Raba, ibukota negeri Amon itu, mendengar pekik-pekik pertempuran. Kota itu akan menjadi reruntuhan dan desa-desa di sekitarnya terbakar habis. Lalu Israel akan mengambil kembali tanahnya dari orang-orang yang dahulu merebutnya.
So look, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will sound the signal for battle against Rabbah among the people of Ammon, so it will become a deserted heap and its villages will be set on fire. For Israel will possess those who possessed him,” says Yahweh.
3 Hai orang Hesybon, menangislah sebab kota Ai sudah hancur! Hai wanita-wanita kota Raba, merataplah! Pakailah kain karung tanda sedih. Berlarilah ke sana ke mari penuh kebingungan. Milkom dewamu akan diangkut ke pembuangan bersama imam-imam dan para pejabat pemerintahnya!
“Howl in lament, Heshbon, for Ai will be devastated! Shout out, daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth. Lament and run about in futility, for Molech is going into captivity, together with his priests and leaders.
4 Hai kamu yang tak setia! Mengapa kamu membanggakan lembah-lembahmu yang subur? Apa sebab kamu mengandalkan kekayaanmu? Bagaimana mungkin kamu dapat berkata bahwa tak seorang pun berani menyerangmu?
Why do you brag about your valleys, your valleys that are so fruitful, faithless daughter? you who trust in your wealth and say, 'Who will come against me?'
5 Kamu akan ditimpa kekejaman yang Kudatangkan dari segala pihak. Kamu akan lari, masing-masing berusaha menyelamatkan dirinya sendiri, dan tak ada yang mengumpulkan kamu lagi.
See, I am about to bring terror on you—this is the declaration of Lord Yahweh of hosts— this terror will come from all those who surround you. Each one of you will be scattered before it. There will be no one to gather those running away.
6 Tapi di kemudian hari, keadaan bangsa Amon akan Kupulihkan. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."
But after this I will restore the fortunes of the people of Ammon—this is Yahweh's declaration.”
7 Inilah yang dikatakan TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa mengenai Edom, "Apakah orang Edom tidak dapat berpikir secara bijaksana? Apakah para penasihatnya tidak memberi nasihat lagi kepada mereka? Sudah lenyapkah kebijaksanaan mereka!
About Edom, Yahweh of hosts says this, “Is there no longer any wisdom to be found in Teman? Has good advice disappeared from those who have understanding? Has their wisdom become corrupted?
8 Hai penduduk Dedan, baliklah dan larilah! Pergilah bersembunyi. Aku akan menghancurkan keturunan Esau, karena sudah waktunya Aku menghukum mereka.
Flee! Turn back! Stay in holes in the ground, inhabitants of Dedan. For I am bringing the disaster of Esau on him at the time that I punish him.
9 Kalau orang memetik buah anggur, selalu ada yang disisakannya, dan kalau pencuri datang pada malam hari, ia hanya mengambil apa yang diingininya.
If grape harvesters came to you, would they not leave a little bit behind? If thieves came in the night, would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
10 Tetapi, Aku menyapu bersih milik keturunan Esau dan membuka rahasia tempat persembunyian mereka; mereka tak dapat menyembunyikan diri lagi. Orang Edom bersama saudara-saudara dan tetangga-tetangga mereka, semuanya sudah dibinasakan, tak seorang pun yang luput.
But I have stripped Esau bare. I have revealed his hiding places. So he will not be able to hide himself. His children, his brothers, and his neighbors are destroyed, and he is gone.
11 Hai Edom! Tinggalkanlah anak-anak yatimmu kepada-Ku, Aku akan memelihara mereka. Biarlah para jandamu menaruh kepercayaannya kepada-Ku.
Leave your orphans behind. I will take care of their lives, and your widows can trust in me.”
12 Orang yang tidak patut dihukum pun, terkena hukuman juga, masakan kamu tidak? Pasti kamu harus dihukum!
For Yahweh says this, “See, those who did not deserve it must certainly drink some of the cup. Do you yourself think you will go without punishment? You will not, for you will certainly drink.
13 Aku bersumpah demi nama-Ku sendiri bahwa kota Bozra akan menjadi tempat yang mengerikan yang ditinggalkan orang. Orang akan menertawakannya dan memakai namanya sebagai kutukan. Semua desa di sekitarnya akan menjadi reruntuhan untuk selama-lamanya. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."
For I have sworn by myself—this is Yahweh's declaration—that Bozrah will become a horror, a disgrace, a devastation, and an object for cursing. All of its cities will become devastations forever.
14 Aku, Yeremia, berkata, "Hai Edom, aku telah menerima suatu berita dari TUHAN. Ia telah mengirim utusan kepada bangsa-bangsa untuk menyuruh mereka mengumpulkan tentara dan bersiap-siap untuk menyerang engkau.
I have heard news from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent out to the nations, 'Gather together and attack her. Get ready for battle.'
15 TUHAN akan membuat engkau menjadi lemah dan dihina orang.
“For see, I have made you small compared to the other nations, despised by people.
16 Engkau tertipu oleh keangkuhanmu. Tak ada yang takut kepadamu seperti sangkamu. Engkau tinggal di celah-celah batu, jauh di puncak gunung. Tapi, meskipun kaubuat rumahmu di tempat yang tinggi sekali, setinggi tempat sarang burung rajawali, TUHAN akan menurunkan engkau dari situ. Tuhanlah yang mengatakan semuanya itu."
As for your fearsomeness, your heart's pride has deceived you, inhabitants of places on the cliff, you who have occupied the highest hills so that you may make your nest high like an eagle. I will bring you down from there—this is Yahweh's declaration.
17 TUHAN berkata, "Malapetaka yang menimpa Edom akan begitu hebat sehingga setiap orang yang lewat di situ akan terkejut dan takut.
Edom will become a horror to everyone passing by it. Every such person will tremble and hiss because all of its disasters.
18 Sebagaimana Sodom dan Gomora dimusnahkan bersama desa-desa di sekitarnya, begitu juga Edom. Tak seorang pun akan tinggal lagi di sana. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara.
Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors,” says Yahweh, “no one will live there; no person will stay there.
19 Seperti singa muncul dari hutan lebat dekat Sungai Yordan dan mendatangi padang tempat domba merumput, demikianlah Aku akan datang dan membuat orang Edom lari dari negeri mereka dengan tiba-tiba. Lalu Aku akan memilih seorang pemimpin untuk memerintah bangsa itu. Siapakah dapat disamakan dengan Aku? Siapakah berani membuat perkara dengan Aku? Apakah ada pemimpin yang dapat melawan Aku?
See, he will go up like a lion from the forests of the Jordan to the green pasturelands. For I will quickly make Edom run from it, and I will put someone who will be chosen in charge of it. For who is like me, and who will summon me? What shepherd is able to resist me?”
20 Karena itu, dengarkanlah apa yang telah Kurencanakan terhadap orang Edom, dan apa yang hendak Kulakukan terhadap penduduk kota Teman. Anak-anak mereka pun akan diseret pergi, dan semua orang akan ketakutan.
“So listen to the plans that Yahweh has decided against Edom, the plans that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman. They will certainly be dragged away, even the smallest flock. Their pasturelands will be turned into ruined places.
21 Apabila Edom jatuh, akan terdengar keributan yang begitu hebat sehingga seluruh dunia goncang; teriakan-teriakan penduduknya akan terdengar sampai ke Laut Gelagah.
At the sound of their falling the earth shakes. The sound of distressed shouts is heard at the Sea of Reeds.
22 Seperti burung rajawali menyambar dengan sayap terkembang, begitulah musuh akan datang dan menyambar Bozra. Pada hari itu tentara Edom akan ketakutan seperti wanita yang mau melahirkan."
See, someone will attack like an eagle, and swoop down and spread his wings over Bozrah. Then on that day, the hearts of Edom's soldiers will become like the heart of a woman in birth labor.”
23 Inilah yang dikatakan TUHAN tentang Damsyik. "Penduduk kota Hamat dan Arpad khawatir dan gelisah karena mendengar berita buruk. Hati mereka risau dan terombang-ambing seperti gelombang laut.
About Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad will be ashamed, for they have heard news of disaster. They melt away! They become as troubled as the sea, which cannot stay calm.
24 Penduduk Damsyik menjadi lemah, dan lari ketakutan. Mereka kesakitan dan menderita seperti wanita yang mau melahirkan.
Damascus has become very weak. It turns away to flee; terror seizes it. Distress and pain seize it, like the pain of a woman giving birth.
25 Kota termasyhur dan riang gembira itu kini sepi tanpa penghuni.
How has the city of praise not been forsaken, the town of my joy?
26 Pada hari itu pemuda-pemudanya akan tewas di jalan-jalan kotanya, dan seluruh tentaranya dihancurkan.
Therefore its young men will fall in its plazas, and all the fighting men will perish on that day—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.”
27 Tembok-tembok Damsyik akan Kubakar, dan istana-istana Raja Benhadad Kuhanguskan. Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, telah berbicara."
“For I will light a fire on the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the strongholds of Ben Hadad.”
28 Inilah yang dikatakan TUHAN tentang suku Kedar dan daerah-daerah kekuasaan Hazor, yang telah direbut Nebukadnezar raja Babel, "Hai Nebukadnezar, seranglah suku Kedar dan binasakanlah orang-orang di sebelah timur!
About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, Yahweh says this to Nebuchadnezzar (now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was going to attack these places): “Arise and attack Kedar and destroy those people of the east.
29 Rampaslah ternak domba, unta, serta kemah-kemah mereka dengan segala isinya, dan berteriaklah kepada mereka, 'Teror meliputi kamu!'
Their tents and their flocks will be taken, along with their tent curtains and all of their equipment; their camels will be led away from them, and men will shout to them, “Terror is on every side!”
30 Hai kamu orang Hazor! Aku, TUHAN, berkata: Cepatlah pergi mengungsi, dan bersembunyi. Nebukadnezar raja Babel telah merencanakan untuk menyerang kamu. Ia berkata,
Flee! Wander far away! Stay in holes in the ground, inhabitants of Hazor—this is Yahweh's declaration— for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devised a plan against you. Flee! Turn back!
31 'Ayo maju! Mari kita menyerang orang-orang yang merasa aman dan tentram itu. Kota mereka tidak terlindung karena tak ada pintu gerbangnya dan tak ada palangnya.'"
Arise! Attack the nation at ease, that lives in safety,” says Yahweh. “They have no gates or bars in them, and its people live by themselves.
32 TUHAN berkata lagi kepada Nebukadnezar, "Rampaslah unta-unta dan seluruh ternak mereka! Orang-orang yang rambutnya dipotong pendek itu akan Kuserakkan ke mana-mana. Aku akan mendatangkan malapetaka ke atas mereka dari segala pihak.
For their camels will become plunder, and the abundance of their property will become war plunder. Then I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring disaster on them from every side—this is Yahweh's declaration.
33 Hazor akan terlantar untuk selama-lamanya dan menjadi tempat bersembunyi anjing hutan. Tak seorang pun akan tinggal di sana lagi. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."
Hazor will become a lair of jackals, a permanent wasteland. No one will live there; no human being will stay there.”
34 Tak lama setelah Zedekia menjadi raja Yehuda, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa berbicara kepadaku tentang negeri Elam.
This is the word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam. This happened at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, and he said,
35 TUHAN berkata, "Aku akan membunuh semua ahli memanah yang membuat Elam sangat kuat.
“Yahweh of hosts says this: See, I am about to break the bowmen of Elam, the main part of their power.
36 Aku akan meniupkan angin ke Elam dari segala jurusan, dan menyerakkan penduduknya ke mana-mana sehingga tidak ada satu negeri pun yang tidak kedatangan pengungsi-pengungsi dari Elam itu.
For I will bring the four winds from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter the people of Elam to all of those winds. There is no nation to which those scattered from Elam will not go.
37 Aku akan membuat orang Elam takut kepada musuh yang mau membunuh mereka. Aku sangat marah kepada mereka dan akan menghancurkan mereka. Akan Kukirim tentara yang memerangi mereka sampai mereka habis sama sekali.
So I will shatter Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their lives. for I will bring disaster against them, the fury of my wrath—this is Yahweh's declaration— and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them.
38 Raja-raja dan pejabat-pejabat mereka akan Kuhancurkan, dan di negeri mereka akan Kudirikan takhta-Ku.
Then I will put my throne in Elam and will destroy its king and leaders from there—this is Yahweh's declaration—
39 Tapi di kemudian hari, keadaan Elam akan Kupulihkan. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."
and it will happen in later days that I will bring back the fortunes of Elam—this is Yahweh's declaration.”
