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.
If only my head could produce water, and my eyes be a fountain of tears! For I wish to weep day and night for those among the daughter of my people who have been killed.
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,
If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors!
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."
Yahweh declares, “They tread on their bows of lies with their tongues, but it is not because of any faithfulness of theirs that they grow strong on the earth. They go from one wicked act to another. They do not know me.”
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.
Each of you, be on guard against your neighbor and do not trust in any brother. For every brother is certainly a deceiver, and every neighbor walks in slander.
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.
Each man mocks his neighbor and does not speak the truth. Their tongues teach deceitful things. They are exhausted from committing iniquity.
Your dwelling is in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me—this is Yahweh's declaration.”
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?
Yahweh of hosts says this, “See, I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of what my people have done?
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 tongues are sharpened arrows; they speak unfaithful things. With their mouths they proclaim peace with their neighbors, but with their hearts they lie in wait for them.
9 Masakan ke atas bangsa semacam ini tak Kutimpakan hukuman yang sesuai? Akan Kubalas perbuatan mereka; Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara!"
Should I not punish them because of these things—this is Yahweh's declaration— and should I not avenge myself on a nation that is like 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."
I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows. For they are burned so no one can pass through them. They will not hear the sound of any cattle. The birds of the skies and the animals have all fled away.
11 TUHAN berkata, "Yerusalem akan Kujadikan reruntuhan tempat bersembunyi anjing hutan. Kota-kota Yehuda akan menjadi sunyi, tempat yang tidak lagi dihuni."
So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals. I will make Judah's cities ruined places without inhabitants.”
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?"
What man is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, and he will declare it? Why has the land perished and been destroyed like the wilderness that no one can pass 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.
Yahweh says, “It is because they have abandoned my law that I set before them, because they do not listen to my voice or walk by it.
14 Mereka keras kepala dan menyembah berhala-berhala Baal seperti yang diajarkan oleh leluhur mereka.
It is because they have walked by their stubborn hearts and have followed the Baals as their fathers taught them to do.
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 Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says this, 'See, I am about to make this people eat wormwood and drink poisonous water.
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."
Then I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, neither they nor their ancestors. I will send out a sword after them until I have completely destroyed 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."
Yahweh of hosts says this, “Think about this: Summon funeral singers; let them come. Send out for women skilled at lamenting; let them come.
18 Orang Yehuda berkata, "Suruh mereka segera menyanyikan lagu perkabungan untuk kita sekalian, supaya berlinang-linang air mata membasahi pipi kita."
Let them hurry and sing a mournful song over us, so our eyes may run with tears and our eyelids flow with water.
19 Di Sion terdengar suara tangisan, "Kita binasa dan sangat dipermalukan. Negeri kita harus kita tinggalkan, rumah-rumah kita hancur berantakan."
For the sound of wailing is heard in Zion, 'How we are devastated. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land since they tore down our houses.'
20 Aku berkata, "Dengarkan kata-kata TUHAN, hai wanita sekalian! Kepada putri-putrimu ajarkan nyanyian ratapan, kepada kawan-kawanmu lagu perkabungan.
So you women, hear Yahweh's word; pay attention to the messages that come from his mouth. Then teach your daughters a mourning song, and each neighbor woman a funeral song.
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 through our windows; it goes into our palaces. It destroys children from outside, and young men in the city squares.
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."
Declare this, 'This is Yahweh's declaration—the corpses of men will fall like dung in the fields, and like grain stalks after the reapers, and there will be no one to gather them.'”
23 TUHAN berkata, "Orang arif tak boleh bangga karena kebijaksanaannya, orang kuat karena kekuatannya, dan orang kaya karena kekayaannya.
Yahweh says this, “Do not let the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the warrior in his might. Do not let the wealthy man take pride 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."
For if a man takes pride in anything, let it be in this, that he has insight and knows me. For I am Yahweh, who acts with covenant loyalty, justice and righteousness on earth. For it is in these that I take pleasure —this is Yahweh's declaration.”
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."
“See, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will punish all the circumcised who are such only in their body.
I will punish Egypt and Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all the people who cut the hair on their heads very short. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel has an uncircumcised heart.”
