Zakharia 11
1 Hai Libanon, bukalah pintu-pintumu, agar api membakar pohon-pohon arasmu!
[You people of] [APO] Lebanon [should] open your gates, [because you will not be able to stop] fire from burning your cedar [trees]!
2 Hai pohon daru, merataplah, karena telah tumbang pohon-pohon cemara, pohon yang hebat-hebat telah rebah. Hai pohon-pohon besar di Basan, menangislah. Sebab hutan-hutan raya telah terbabat rata.
Your cypress/pine [trees] [APO] should [also] wail because the cedar [trees] have been cut down. Those glorious/great trees have been destroyed. The oak trees in the Bashan [region] should also wail, because the other trees in the forest have been cut down.
3 Dengarlah ratapan para penguasa lenyap sudah kejayaan mereka! Dengarlah aum singa-singa di hutan; sebab rusaklah kediaman mereka di sepanjang Sungai Yordan.
And listen to the shepherds crying because the fertile pastures have been ruined. Listen to the lions roar; they roar because the delightful forest [where they live] near the Jordan [River] has been ruined.
4 TUHAN Allah berkata kepadaku, "Berbuatlah seolah-olah engkau gembala yang menggembalakan domba yang akan dipotong.
This is what Yahweh my God said [to me]: “[I want you to] become a shepherd for a flock [of sheep that are about] to be slaughtered.
5 Para pembelinya membunuh domba-domba itu tanpa mendapat hukuman. Mereka yang menjual daging domba-domba itu berkata, 'Terpujilah TUHAN! Sekarang kita tambah kaya!' Gembala-gembala itu tidak merasa kasihan kepada domba-domba piaraan mereka.
The people who are going to buy the sheep will kill the sheep, and they will not be punished. Those who are selling the sheep say, ‘[I] praise Yahweh, [because] I will become rich!’ Even the shepherds do not feel sorry for the sheep.
6 Aku tidak mau lagi menaruh kasihan kepada siapa pun di negeri ini. Aku sendiri akan menyerahkan seluruh penduduknya kepada para penguasa. Mereka itu akan menghancurkan negeri ini, dan Aku tidak akan merebutnya dari kekuasaan mereka."
And similarly, I no longer feel sorry for the people of this country. I am going to allow many of them [HYP] to be captured by other people or by their king. Those who capture them will ruin this country, and I will not rescue any [of the people].”
7 Aku, Zakharia, lalu diupah oleh para pedagang domba untuk menggembalakan domba-domba yang akan dipotong. Aku punya dua tongkat; yang satu kunamai "Kemurahan" dan yang satu lagi "Ikatan". Kemudian aku mulai menjaga dan memelihara domba-domba itu.
So I became the shepherd of a flock [of sheep that were about] to be slaughtered [for their meat to be sold] to the dealers. [I took good care of the sheep, even the ones that were the weakest sheep. Then] I took two [shepherds’] /walking sticks). I named the one [staff] ‘Kindness’ and the other [staff] ‘Union’. And I took good care of the sheep.
8 Tiga orang gembala yang membenciku menghabiskan kesabaranku. Mereka kuusir dalam waktu satu bulan.
But the three shepherds [who had been working with me] detested me, and I became impatient with them. Within one month I (dismissed/got rid of) those shepherds.
9 Kemudian aku berkata kepada kawanan domba itu, "Aku tak mau menggembalakan kamu lagi. Yang harus mati biar saja mati, dan yang harus binasa, biar saja binasa. Lalu sisanya boleh saling membunuh."
So I said [to the dealers], “I will no [longer] be the shepherd. I will allow the ones that are dying to die. I will allow the ones that are getting lost to get lost. And I will not prevent those that remain from destroying each other.”
10 Lalu tongkat yang kunamai "Kemurahan" itu kuambil dan kupatahkan untuk membatalkan perjanjian yang dibuat TUHAN dengan semua bangsa.
Then I took the staff that I had named ‘Kindness’ and I broke it. [That showed that Yahweh] was annulling/canceling the agreement that he had made with all the people-groups.
11 Pada hari itu juga perjanjian itu dibatalkan. Para pedagang domba itu mengawasi aku, dan mereka sadar bahwa TUHAN sedang berkata-kata melalui segala perbuatanku.
So that agreement was ended immediately. And the men who bought and sold sheep who were watching me knew [by seeing what I was doing] that I was giving them a message from Yahweh.
12 Aku berkata kepada mereka, "Kalau Tuan-tuan setuju, berikanlah upah saya; kalau tidak, tidak usah." Lalu mereka memberikan kepadaku tiga puluh uang perak untuk upahku. TUHAN berkata kepadaku, "Masukkan uang itu ke dalam kas Rumah-Ku." Jadi kumasukkan ketiga puluh uang perak itu ke dalam kas Rumah TUHAN. Hanya sekianlah penghargaan mereka kepadaku!
I told them, “If you think it is what you should do, pay me [for taking care of the sheep]. If you do not think that is what you should do, do not pay me.” So they paid me [only] 30 pieces of silver.
Then Yahweh said to me, “[That is a ridiculously small amount of money that they have paid you]! [So] throw it to the man who makes clay pots!” So I took the silver to the temple of Yahweh, and I threw it in the chest where the offerings/money is kept.
14 Setelah itu kupatahkan tongkatku yang kedua, yaitu yang kunamai "Ikatan", maka pecahlah persatuan Yehuda dan Israel.
Then I broke my second staff, [the one that I named] ‘Union’. That [indicated that] Judah and Israel would no longer be united.
15 Lalu berkatalah TUHAN kepadaku, "Berbuatlah sekali lagi seolah-olah engkau gembala, tetapi kali ini sebagai gembala yang tidak baik.
Then Yahweh said to me, “Take again the things that a foolish shepherd uses,
16 Karena Aku akan menugaskan seorang gembala untuk menjaga kawanan domba-Ku, tetapi dia tidak menghiraukan domba yang hilang; dia tidak mencari domba yang tersesat, tidak pula mengobati domba yang luka, dan tidak memberi makan kepada domba yang masih hidup. Malahan ia sendiri makan daging domba yang paling gemuk dan mencabut kuku-kuku binatang itu.
because I am going to appoint a new king for the people, [one who will not take care of my people. He will be like a foolish shepherd]: [MET] He will not take care of those who are dying, those who are very young, those who have been injured, or those who do not have enough food. Instead, he will [treat them very cruelly, like a shepherd who would] [MET] kill and eat the best sheep and tear off their hoofs.
17 Terkutuklah gembala yang tidak berguna itu! Ia telah meninggalkan kawanan dombanya. Perang akan mengakhiri kekuasaannya. Lengannya akan menjadi lemah dan mata kanannya menjadi buta."
But terrible things will happen to that foolish/useless king who abandons the people [MET] over whom he rules. [His enemies] will strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. [The result will be that] he will have no strength in his arm, and his right eye will become completely blind.”
