Yeremia 9
1 Alangkah baiknya jika kepalaku seperti sumur yang penuh air, dan mataku pancuran yang terus mengalir! Maka aku dapat menangis siang dan malam, meratapi orang-orang sebangsaku yang dibunuh lawan.
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.
2 Sekiranya di padang gurun dapat kutemukan tempat menginap bagi orang yang dalam perjalanan! Maka aku akan meninggalkan bangsaku, dan lari ke sana untuk menjauh dari mereka. Mereka pengkhianat semuanya, suatu kumpulan orang yang tak setia,
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them. For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."
3 dan selalu siap untuk berdusta. Di seluruh negeri, kebenaran tidak berkuasa, bahkan ketidakjujuran merajalela. TUHAN berkata, "Umat-Ku melakukan kejahatan dengan tak henti-hentinya, mereka tidak mengakui Aku sebagai Allah mereka."
"They bend their tongue as a bow. Falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me," says Jehovah.
4 Terhadap kawan, setiap orang harus waspada dan saudara sekandung pun tak dapat dipercaya. Sebab, seperti Yakub demikianlah mereka, masing-masing menipu saudaranya. Setiap orang berjalan ke mana-mana untuk menyebarkan fitnah dan dusta.
"Everyone be on guard against his neighbor, and do not trust any brother; for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
5 Semuanya saling menipu, tak ada yang berbicara jujur. Mulutnya telah terbiasa berdusta, mereka tak sanggup meninggalkan dosanya. Kekejaman demi kekejaman, penipuan demi penipuan terus-menerus mereka lakukan, mereka sama sekali menolak TUHAN.
Everyone deceives his neighbor, and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; they do evil, they do not cease so as to return.
Oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit. They refuse to know me," says Jehovah.
7 Sebab itu TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa berkata, "Seperti logam, umat-Ku akan Kuuji supaya mereka menjadi murni. Apa lagi yang dapat Kulakukan terhadap umat-Ku yang telah berbuat kejahatan?
Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, "Look, I will melt them, and try them; for how should I deal with the wickedness of the daughter of my people?
8 Kata-kata mereka sangat berbahaya, mampu mematikan seperti panah berbisa. Ucapan-ucapan mereka dusta belaka. Kata-kata mereka manis memikat, tetapi sebenarnya mereka memasang jerat.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait for him.
9 Masakan ke atas bangsa semacam ini tak Kutimpakan hukuman yang sesuai? Akan Kubalas perbuatan mereka; Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara!"
Shall I not visit them for these things?" says Jehovah; "shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
10 Aku, Yeremia, berkata, "Aku hendak menangis dan berkabung karena padang rumput di gurun dan di gunung-gunung yang telah kering kerontang serta tak dilalui orang. Suara ternak tak terdengar lagi, unggas dan binatang-binatang lainnya telah lari dan lenyap."
"For the mountains I will take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through; nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled, they are gone."
11 TUHAN berkata, "Yerusalem akan Kujadikan reruntuhan tempat bersembunyi anjing hutan. Kota-kota Yehuda akan menjadi sunyi, tempat yang tidak lagi dihuni."
"I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."
12 Aku bertanya, "TUHAN, mengapa negeri ini dibiarkan tandus dan kering seperti padang gurun sehingga tak ada yang melaluinya? Apakah ada yang cukup pandai untuk mengerti semuanya ini? Kepada siapakah telah Kauberi penjelasan supaya ia dapat meneruskannya kepada orang lain?"
"Who is the wise man, that may understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?"
13 TUHAN menjawab, "Itu terjadi karena umat-Ku tidak lagi memperhatikan ajaran-ajaran yang Kuberikan kepada mereka. Mereka tidak taat kepada-Ku, dan tidak mau menuruti perintah-Ku.
Jehovah says, "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked in it,
14 Mereka keras kepala dan menyembah berhala-berhala Baal seperti yang diajarkan oleh leluhur mereka.
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;
15 Karena itu, dengarkanlah apa yang Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, Allah Israel, akan lakukan: umat-Ku akan Kuberi tanaman pahit untuk dimakan dan racun untuk diminum.
therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Look, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 Mereka akan Kuserakkan ke antara bangsa-bangsa yang tidak dikenal oleh mereka atau leluhur mereka. Aku akan terus mengirim tentara yang menggempur mereka sampai Aku membinasakan mereka sama sekali."
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.'"
17 TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa berkata kepada umat-Nya, "Perhatikanlah apa yang sedang terjadi di negeri ini, dan segeralah panggil para peratap. Suruhlah mereka datang dan menyanyikan lagu perkabungan."
Thus says Jehovah of hosts, "Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:"
18 Orang Yehuda berkata, "Suruh mereka segera menyanyikan lagu perkabungan untuk kita sekalian, supaya berlinang-linang air mata membasahi pipi kita."
"and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 Di Sion terdengar suara tangisan, "Kita binasa dan sangat dipermalukan. Negeri kita harus kita tinggalkan, rumah-rumah kita hancur berantakan."
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined. We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
20 Aku berkata, "Dengarkan kata-kata TUHAN, hai wanita sekalian! Kepada putri-putrimu ajarkan nyanyian ratapan, kepada kawan-kawanmu lagu perkabungan.
"Yet hear the word of Jehovah, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
21 Maut telah masuk melalui jendela, telah menerobos ke dalam istana; ia menerkam anak-anak di jalan serta orang muda di lapangan.
'For death has come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.'
22 Mayat terserak di mana-mana seperti sampah di atas tanah; seperti gandum yang telah dipotong lalu ditinggalkan dan tidak lagi dikumpulkan. Itulah pesan TUHAN yang harus kuberitakan."
Speak, 'Thus says Jehovah, "The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather them."'"
23 TUHAN berkata, "Orang arif tak boleh bangga karena kebijaksanaannya, orang kuat karena kekuatannya, dan orang kaya karena kekayaannya.
Thus says Jehovah, "Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, do not let the rich man glory in his riches;
24 Siapa mau berbangga tentang sesuatu, haruslah berbangga bahwa ia mengenal dan mengerti Aku; bahwa ia tahu Aku mengasihi untuk selama-lamanya dan Aku menegakkan hukum serta keadilan di dunia. Semuanya itu menyenangkan hati-Ku. Aku, TUHAN, yang mengatakan itu."
but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Jehovah who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight," says Jehovah.
25 TUHAN berkata, "Akan tiba masanya Aku menghukum orang Mesir, Yehuda, Edom, Amon, Moab, dan penduduk padang gurun yang memotong pendek rambutnya. Mereka semua disunat sama seperti orang Israel, tapi baik mereka maupun bangsa Israel berlaku seperti orang-orang yang tidak disunat, karena mereka tidak mentaati perjanjian yang dilambangkan oleh sunat itu."
"Look, the days come," says Jehovah, "that I will punish all those who are circumcised in uncircumcision:
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the people of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."
