Ezra 3
1 Ketika tiba bulan yang ketujuh, setelah orang Israel menetap di kota-kotanya, maka serentak berkumpullah seluruh rakyat di Yerusalem.
And now the seventh month had arrived, and the sons of Israel were in their cities. Then, the people were gathered together, like one man, in Jerusalem.
2 Maka mulailah Yesua bin Yozadak beserta saudara-saudaranya, para imam itu, dan Zerubabel bin Sealtiel beserta saudara-saudaranya membangun mezbah Allah Israel untuk mempersembahkan korban bakaran di atasnya, sesuai dengan yang ada tertulis dalam kitab Taurat Musa, abdi Allah.
And Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, rose up with his brothers, the priests. And Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, rose up with his brothers. And they built the altar of the God of Israel, so that they might offer holocausts upon it, just as it was written in the law of Moses, the man of God.
3 Mereka mendirikan mezbah itu di tempatnya semula, sungguhpun mereka ketakutan terhadap penduduk negeri, lalu mereka mempersembahkan di atasnya korban bakaran kepada TUHAN, korban bakaran waktu pagi dan waktu petang.
Now they set the altar of God upon its bases, while keeping the people of all the surrounding lands away from it. And they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord, morning and evening.
4 Mereka juga mengadakan hari raya Pondok Daun, sesuai dengan yang ada tertulis, dan mempersembahkan korban bakaran hari demi hari menurut jumlah yang sesuai dengan peraturan, yakni setiap hari menurut yang ditetapkan untuk hari itu.
And they kept the solemnity of tabernacles, just as it was written, and the holocaust of each day in order, according to the precept, the work of each day in its time.
5 Dan sejak itu diadakanlah korban bakaran yang tetap, juga korban bakaran pada bulan baru dan pada setiap hari raya yang kudus bagi TUHAN, dan setiap kali orang mempersembahkan persembahan sukarela kepada TUHAN.
And after these, they offered the continual holocaust, as much on the new moons as on all the solemnities of the Lord that were consecrated, and on all those when a voluntary gift was offered to the Lord.
6 Sejak hari pertama bulan yang ketujuh mereka mulai mempersembahkan korban bakaran kepada TUHAN, namun dasar bait suci TUHAN belum juga diletakkan.
From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer holocausts to the Lord. But the temple of God had not yet been founded.
7 Lalu mereka memberikan uang kepada tukang batu dan tukang kayu, sedang kepada orang Sidon dan Tirus makanan dan minuman dan minyak, supaya orang-orang itu membawa kayu aras dari Libanon sampai ke laut dekat Yafo, seperti yang telah diizinkan kepada mereka oleh Koresh, raja negeri Persia.
And so they gave money to those who cut and laid stones. Similarly, they gave food, and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, so that they would bring cedar wood, from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, in accord with what had been commanded of them by Cyrus, the king of the Persians.
8 Pada tahun yang kedua sesudah mereka sampai ke rumah Allah di Yerusalem, dalam bulan yang kedua, maka Zerubabel bin Sealtiel dan Yesua bin Yozadak beserta saudara-saudara mereka yang lain, yakni para imam dan orang-orang Lewi, dan semua orang yang pulang ke Yerusalem dari tempat tawanan memulai pekerjaan itu. Mereka menugaskan orang-orang Lewi yang berumur dua puluh tahun ke atas untuk mengawasi pekerjaan membangun rumah TUHAN.
Then, in the second year of their advent to the temple of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the remainder of their brothers, the priests, and the Levites, and all who had arrived from the captivity to Jerusalem, began, and they appointed Levites, from twenty years and over, to hasten the work of the Lord.
9 Lalu Yesua serta anak-anak dan saudara-saudaranya dan Kadmiel serta anak-anaknya, orang-orang Yehuda bersama-sama bertindak mengawasi orang-orang yang melakukan pekerjaan membangun rumah Allah. Demikian juga bani Henadad, anak-anak dan saudara-saudara mereka, orang-orang Lewi itu.
And Jeshua and his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, and the sons of Judah, like one man, stood so that they might have charge over those who did the work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad, and their sons, and their brothers, the Levites.
10 Pada waktu dasar bait suci TUHAN diletakkan oleh tukang-tukang bangunan, maka tampillah para imam dengan memakai pakaian jabatan dan membawa nafiri, dan orang-orang Lewi, bani Asaf, dengan membawa ceracap, untuk memuji-muji TUHAN, menurut petunjuk Daud, raja Israel.
And when the builders had founded the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their adornment with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, stood with cymbals, so that they might praise God by the hand of David, the king of Israel.
11 Secara berbalas-balasan mereka menyanyikan bagi TUHAN nyanyian pujian dan syukur: "Sebab Ia baik! Bahwasanya untuk selama-lamanya kasih setia-Nya kepada Israel!" Dan seluruh umat bersorak-sorai dengan nyaring sambil memuji-muji TUHAN, oleh karena dasar rumah TUHAN telah diletakkan.
And they sung together with hymns and confession to the Lord: “For he is good. For his mercy is over Israel unto eternity.” And likewise, all the people shouted with a great clamor in praise to the Lord, because the temple of the Lord had been founded.
12 Tetapi banyak di antara para imam, orang-orang Lewi dan kepala-kepala kaum keluarga, orang tua-tua yang pernah melihat rumah yang dahulu, menangis dengan suara nyaring, ketika perletakan dasar rumah ini dilakukan di depan mata mereka, sedang banyak orang bersorak-sorai dengan suara nyaring karena kegirangan.
And many of the priests and the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers and of the elders, who had seen the former temple, when now this temple was founded and was before their eyes, wept with a great voice. And many of them, shouting for joy, lifted up their voice.
13 Orang tidak dapat lagi membedakan mana bunyi sorak-sorai kegirangan dan mana bunyi tangis rakyat, karena rakyat bersorak-sorai dengan suara yang nyaring, sehingga bunyinya kedengaran sampai jauh.
Neither could anyone distinguish between the voice of clamor of joy, and a voice of weeping of the people. For the shouting of the people mixed into a great clamor, and the voice was heard from far away.
