1 Samuel 2

1 Lalu berdoalah Hana, katanya: "Hatiku bersukaria karena TUHAN, tanduk kekuatanku ditinggikan oleh TUHAN; mulutku mencemoohkan musuhku, sebab aku bersukacita karena pertolongan-Mu.

Then Hannah prayed, saying, “I rejoice in [what] you, [, have done]. I am strong [MET] because I belong to you. I (laugh at/ridicule) my enemies, because you, Yahweh have rescued me [from being taunted by them].

2 Tidak ada yang kudus seperti TUHAN, sebab tidak ada yang lain kecuali Engkau dan tidak ada gunung batu seperti Allah kita.

There is no one who is holy like you, Yahweh. There is no other god like you. There is no one like you, our God, who can protect us [as though you were putting us beneath] a huge rock [where we can hide from danger].

3 Janganlah kamu selalu berkata sombong, janganlah caci maki keluar dari mulutmu. Karena TUHAN itu Allah yang mahatahu, dan oleh Dia perbuatan-perbuatan diuji.

[You people who oppose God], stop boasting! Yahweh is a God who knows [everything], and he will evaluate/judge everyone’s actions. So don’t speak so arrogantly!

4 Busur pada pahlawan telah patah, tetapi orang-orang yang terhuyung-huyung, pinggangnya berikatkan kekuatan.

Yahweh, you break the bows/weapons of mighty soldiers, and you give strength to those who stumble [because of being weak].

5 Siapa yang kenyang dahulu, sekarang menyewakan dirinya karena makanan, tetapi orang yang lapar dahulu, sekarang boleh beristirahat. Bahkan orang yang mandul melahirkan tujuh anak, tetapi orang yang banyak anaknya, menjadi layu.

Many people who previously had plenty to eat, now have to work for other people [to earn money] to buy food, but many who were always hungry are not hungry any more. The woman who did not have any children before, now has given birth to many/seven children, and the woman who had many children before, now is very lonely [because they have all died].

6 TUHAN mematikan dan menghidupkan, Ia menurunkan ke dalam dunia orang mati dan mengangkat dari sana. (Sheol h7585)

Yahweh, you cause some people to die, and you restore some people who are almost dead. For some people, [it seems that they will soon] go to where the dead people are, but you cause them to become healthy again. (Sheol h7585)

7 TUHAN membuat miskin dan membuat kaya; Ia merendahkan, dan meninggikan juga.

Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people and you honor some people.

8 Ia menegakkan orang yang hina dari dalam debu, dan mengangkat orang yang miskin dari lumpur, untuk mendudukkan dia bersama-sama dengan para bangsawan, dan membuat dia memiliki kursi kehormatan. Sebab TUHAN mempunyai alas bumi; dan di atasnya Ia menaruh daratan.

[Sometimes] you lift poor people up so that they are no longer [despondent, sitting in the dust, ] or sitting on heaps of ashes; you cause them to sit next to princes; you cause them to sit on chairs/thrones where people who are highly honored sit. Yahweh, you are the one who laid the foundations of the earth, and you have set the whole world on those foundations.

9 Langkah kaki orang-orang yang dikasihi-Nya dilindungi-Nya, tetapi orang-orang fasik akan mati binasa dalam kegelapan, sebab bukan oleh karena kekuatannya sendiri seseorang berkuasa.

You will protect your loyal/faithful people [SYN], but you will cause the wicked to die [EUP] and descend to the dark [place where dead people are]. We do not defeat [our enemies] by our own strength;

10 Orang yang berbantah dengan TUHAN akan dihancurkan; atas mereka Ia mengguntur di langit. TUHAN mengadili bumi sampai ke ujung-ujungnya; Ia memberi kekuatan kepada raja yang diangkat-Nya dan meninggikan tanduk kekuatan orang yang diurapi-Nya."

Yahweh, you will break into pieces those who oppose you. You will cause thunder in the sky to show that you (oppose/are angry with) them. Yahweh, you will judge [people everywhere, even those who live in] the most remote places on the earth. You will give strength to the king whom you will appoint, and give him great power [over his enemies].”

11 Lalu pulanglah Elkana ke Rama tetapi anak itu menjadi pelayan TUHAN di bawah pengawasan imam Eli.

Then Elkanah [and his family] returned to Ramah, but Samuel, the little boy, stayed to help Eli the priest serve Yahweh.

12 Adapun anak-anak lelaki Eli adalah orang-orang dursila; mereka tidak mengindahkan TUHAN,

Eli’s two [, who were also priests, ] were very wicked. They did not revere (OR, respect/obey) Yahweh.

13 ataupun batas hak para imam terhadap bangsa itu. Setiap kali seseorang mempersembahkan korban sembelihan, sementara daging itu dimasak, datanglah bujang imam membawa garpu bergigi tiga di tangannya

While the people were boiling the meat from their sacrifices [in the huge pot at the temple], one of Eli’s sons, [would send his servant to come with a large three-pronged fork in his hand].

14 dan dicucukkannya ke dalam bejana atau ke dalam kuali atau ke dalam belanga atau ke dalam periuk. Segala yang ditarik dengan garpu itu ke atas, diambil imam itu untuk dirinya sendiri. Demikianlah mereka memperlakukan semua orang Israel yang datang ke sana, ke Silo.

[He] would stick the fork into [the meat in] the pot, and whatever meat fastened onto the fork, he would take [and give it] to the priest who sent him. Eli’s sons did this to all the Israeli people who came to Shiloh [to offer sacrifices].

15 Bahkan sebelum lemaknya dibakar, bujang imam itu datang, lalu berkata kepada orang yang mempersembahkan korban itu: "Berikanlah daging kepada imam untuk dipanggang, sebab ia tidak mau menerima dari padamu daging yang dimasak, hanya yang mentah saja."

Furthermore, before the fat [on the meat] was [cut off and] and burned [as a sacrifice to Yahweh], the servant of the priest would [sometimes] come to the man who was making the sacrifice and say to him, “Give me some meat [now to take] to the priest for him to roast! He wants raw meat; he does not want boiled meat.”

16 Apabila orang itu menjawabnya: "Bukankah lemak itu harus dibakar dahulu, kemudian barulah ambil bagimu sesuka hatimu," maka berkatalah ia kepada orang itu: "Sekarang juga harus kauberikan, kalau tidak, aku akan mengambilnya dengan kekerasan."

If the man said to the servant, “Let the priests [cut off and] burn the fat first; then you can take what you want,” the servant would reply, “No, give it to me now; if you do not give it to me, I will take it forcefully!”

17 Dengan demikian sangat besarlah dosa kedua orang muda itu di hadapan TUHAN, sebab mereka memandang rendah korban untuk TUHAN.

Yahweh considered that the young [sons of Eli] were committing a very great sin, because they were treating very disrespectfully the offerings that were being given to Yahweh.

18 Adapun Samuel menjadi pelayan di hadapan TUHAN; ia masih anak-anak, yang tubuhnya berlilitkan baju efod dari kain lenan.

As for Samuel, who was still a very young boy, he continued to do work for Yahweh, wearing a little sacred linen vest [like the Supreme Priest wore].

19 Setiap tahun ibunya membuatkan dia jubah kecil dan membawa jubah itu kepadanya, apabila ia bersama-sama suaminya pergi mempersembahkan korban sembelihan tahunan.

Each year his mother made a [new] little robe for him and took it to him when she went up [to Shiloh] with her husband to offer a sacrifice.

20 Lalu Eli memberkati Elkana dan isterinya, katanya: "TUHAN kiranya memberikan keturunan kepadamu dari perempuan ini pengganti yang telah diserahkannya kepada TUHAN." Sesudah itu pulanglah mereka ke tempat kediamannya.

Then Eli would [ask God to] bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh.” Then Elkanah and his family would return home.

21 Dan TUHAN mengindahkan Hana, sehingga dia mengandung dan melahirkan tiga anak laki-laki dan dua anak perempuan lagi. Sementara itu makin besarlah Samuel yang muda itu di hadapan TUHAN.

And Yahweh was very kind to Hannah, and enabled her to give birth to three [other] sons and two daughters. Their son Samuel grew up while he was doing work for Yahweh [in the Sacred Tent].

22 Eli telah sangat tua. Apabila didengarnya segala sesuatu yang dilakukan anak-anaknya terhadap semua orang Israel dan bahwa mereka itu tidur dengan perempuan-perempuan yang melayani di depan pintu Kemah Pertemuan,

Eli became very old. He often heard about all the [evil] things that his sons were doing to the Israeli people. He heard that they [sometimes] (slept with/had sex with) the women who worked at the entrance to the tent where [God] spoke to [his people].

23 berkatalah ia kepada mereka: "Mengapa kamu melakukan hal-hal yang begitu, sehingga kudengar dari segenap bangsa ini tentang perbuatan-perbuatanmu yang jahat itu?

He said to them, “(It is terrible that you do such things!/Why do you do such things?) [RHQ] Many people keep telling me about the evil things that you do.

24 Janganlah begitu, anak-anakku. Bukan kabar baik yang kudengar itu bahwa kamu menyebabkan umat TUHAN melakukan pelanggaran.

My sons, stop it! The reports [about you] that the people who belong to Yahweh tell others are terrible [EUP]!

25 Jika seseorang berdosa terhadap seorang yang lain, maka Allah yang akan mengadili; tetapi jika seseorang berdosa terhadap TUHAN, siapakah yang menjadi perantara baginya?" Tetapi tidaklah didengarkan mereka perkataan ayahnya itu, sebab TUHAN hendak mematikan mereka.

If one person sins against another person, God can (intercede/act as a referee) between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, no one can [RHQ] (intercede/act as a referee) between them!” But Eli’s sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided [that someone should] them.

26 Tetapi Samuel yang muda itu, semakin besar dan semakin disukai, baik di hadapan TUHAN maupun di hadapan manusia.

The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people.

27 Seorang abdi Allah datang kepada Eli dan berkata kepadanya: "Beginilah firman TUHAN: Bukankah dengan nyata Aku menyatakan diri-Ku kepada nenek moyangmu, ketika mereka masih di Mesir dan takluk kepada keturunan Firaun?

One day, a prophet came to Eli and told him, “This is what Yahweh has told me: ‘When your ancestors were slaves of the king of Egypt, I appeared to Aaron.

28 Dan Aku telah memilihnya dari segala suku Israel menjadi imam bagi-Ku, supaya ia mempersembahkan korban di atas mezbah-Ku, membakar ukupan dan memakai baju efod di hadapan-Ku; kepada kaummu telah Kuserahkan segala korban api-apian orang Israel.

From all the tribes of the Israeli people, I chose him [and his male descendants] to be priests for me. I appointed them to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear a sacred apron [as they worked] for me. And I declared that they could take [and eat some of the meat] that the Israeli people burned [on the altar].

29 Mengapa engkau memandang dengan loba kepada korban sembelihan-Ku dan korban sajian-Ku, yang telah Kuperintahkan, dan mengapa engkau menghormati anak-anakmu lebih dari pada-Ku, sambil kamu menggemukkan dirimu dengan bagian yang terbaik dari setiap korban sajian umat-Ku Israel?

So why do you show disrespect for the sacrifices and offerings that I commanded [the people to bring] to me [RHQ]? You are honoring your sons more than you are honoring me, by allowing them to get fat from eating the best parts of all the sacrifices that the Israeli people bring to me!’

30 Sebab itu--demikianlah firman TUHAN, Allah Israel--sesungguhnya Aku telah berjanji: Keluargamu dan kaummu akan hidup di hadapan-Ku selamanya, tetapi sekarang--demikianlah firman TUHAN--: Jauhlah hal itu dari pada-Ku! Sebab siapa yang menghormati Aku, akan Kuhormati, tetapi siapa yang menghina Aku, akan dipandang rendah.

“Therefore, this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], declares: ‘I definitely promised that Aaron and his descendants would continue to serve [IDM] me forever.’ But now I declare this: ‘It will not continue like that! I will honor those who honor me, but I will despise those who despise me.

31 Sesungguhnya akan datang waktunya, bahwa Aku akan mematahkan tangan kekuatanmu dan tangan kekuatan kaummu, sehingga tidak ada seorang kakek dalam keluargamu.

Listen carefully! There will soon be a time when I will cause all the strong [young men] in your family to die. The result will be that no men in your family will [live long enough to] become old men.

32 Maka engkau akan memandang dengan mata bermusuhan kepada segala kebaikan yang akan Kulakukan kepada Israel dan dalam keluargamu takkan ada seorang kakek untuk selamanya.

You will be distressed and envious as you see the blessings that I will give to [the other people in] Israel. And [I repeat that] no men in your family will ever live long enough to become old men.

33 Tetapi seorang dari padamu yang tidak Kulenyapkan dari lingkungan mezbah-Ku akan membuat matamu rusak dan jiwamu merana; segala tambahan keluargamu akan mati oleh pedang lawan.

There is one of your descendants whom I will spare, and not prevent him from serving me as a priest. But he will become blind, and then he will always be sad and grieving. But all your other descendants will die violently.

34 Inilah yang akan menjadi tanda bagimu, yakni apa yang akan terjadi kepada kedua anakmu itu, Hofni dan Pinehas: pada hari yang sama keduanya akan mati.

And your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will both die on the same day. And that will prove to you [that all that I have said will come true/happen].

35 Dan Aku akan mengangkat bagi-Ku seorang imam kepercayaan, yang berlaku sesuai dengan hati-Ku dan jiwa-Ku, dan Aku akan membangunkan baginya keturunan yang teguh setia, sehingga ia selalu hidup di hadapan orang yang Kuurapi.

‘have chosen another man to be my priest. He is one who will serve me faithfully: He will do everything I want [DOU] him to do. And I will enable him to have many descendants [IDM] who will be priests and will always serve me by helping the king whom I will choose.

36 Kemudian siapa yang masih tinggal hidup dari keturunanmu akan datang sujud menyembah kepadanya meminta sekeping uang perak atau sepotong roti, dan akan berkata: Tempatkanlah kiranya aku dalam salah satu golongan imam itu, supaya aku dapat makan sekerat roti."

All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, “Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may [earn some money to] buy some food.”’”