Yesaya 28
1 Celaka atas mahkota kemegahan pemabuk-pemabuk Efraim, atas bunga yang sudah mulai layu di perhiasan kepala mereka yang indah-indah--yaitu kota yang terletak tinggi di atas bukit, di atas lembah yang subur yang penuh peminum anggur yang sudah pening--!
Terrible things will happen to [Samaria city, the capital of Israel]! It is on a hill above a fertile valley; the people who live there, who get drunk by drinking too much wine, are very proud; it is a beautiful and glorious city, but some day that beauty will disappear like [MET] a flower that wilts and dries up.
2 Sesungguhnya, pada Tuhan ada seorang yang kuat dan tegap, seorang yang seperti angin ribut disertai hujan batu, yakni badai yang membinasakan, seorang yang seperti angin ribut disertai air hujan yang hebat menghanyutkan; ia akan menghempaskan mereka ke tanah dengan kekerasan.
Listen to this: Yahweh will cause a great army to attack Samaria. Their soldiers will be like [SIM] a huge hailstorm [or] a very strong wind; they will be everywhere, like the water of a huge flood, and they will smash to the ground [the buildings in Samaria].
3 Mahkota kemegahan pemabuk-pemabuk Efraim itu akan diinjak-injak dengan kaki,
The people of Samaria are proud, but everything that the drunks who live there think is wonderful/glorious will be trampled on by their enemies.
4 dan bunga yang sudah mulai layu di perhiasan kepala mereka yang indah-indah itu--yaitu kota yang terletak tinggi di atas bukit, di atas lembah yang subur--nasibnya akan seperti nasib buah ara yang masak duluan sebelum musim kemarau: baru saja dilihat orang terus dipetik dan ditelan.
[Yes], Samaria is beautiful, set on a hill above a fertile valley, but that beauty will disappear like [MET] a flower that wilts and dries up. Whenever someone sees a good fig at the beginning of the season [when figs become ripe], he quickly picks and eats it; [similarly, when the enemies of Israel see all the beautiful things in Samaria], [they will quickly conquer the city and take away all those things].
5 Pada waktu itu TUHAN semesta alam akan menjadi mahkota kepermaian, dan perhiasan kepala yang indah-indah bagi sisa umat-Nya,
At that time, the Commander of the armies of angels will be [like] a glorious wreath of flowers for [us] Israeli people who are still alive [after being exiled].
6 akan menjadi roh keadilan bagi orang yang duduk mengadili, dan menjadi roh kepahlawanan bagi orang yang memukul mundur peperangan ke arah pintu gerbang.
He will cause our judges to want to do what is fair/just when they decide people’s cases. He will enable the soldiers who stand at the city gates to strongly defend [the city when our enemies attack it].
7 Tetapi orang-orang di sinipun pening karena anggur dan pusing karena arak. Baik imam maupun nabi pening karena arak, kacau oleh anggur; mereka pusing oleh arak, pening pada waktu melihat penglihatan, goyang pada waktu memberi keputusan.
[But now, ] our leaders stagger/stumble because they have drunk a lot of wine and [other] alcoholic drinks. The priests and prophets also stagger because of drinking a lot of wine and other alcoholic drinks. They are not able to think right; they see visions but they cannot understand what they mean; they are unable to decide things correctly.
8 Sungguh, segala meja penuh dengan muntah, kotoran, sehingga tidak ada tempat yang bersih lagi.
All their tables are covered with [their] vomit; filth is everywhere.
9 Dan orang berkata: "Kepada siapakah dia ini mau mengajarkan pengetahuannya dan kepada siapakah ia mau menjelaskan nubuat-nubuatnya? Seolah-olah kepada anak yang baru disapih, dan yang baru cerai susu!
They ridicule Yahweh saying, “Who does he think that he is teaching? Why is he talking to us like this? [Does he think that] we are little children who have recently been weaned?
10 Sebab harus ini harus itu, mesti begini mesti begitu, tambah ini, tambah itu!"
[He continually tells us], ‘Do this, do that;’ first he tells us one rule, then another rule, he tells us only one line at a time.”
11 Sungguh, oleh orang-orang yang berlogat ganjil dan oleh orang-orang yang berbahasa asing akan berbicara kepada bangsa ini
So now, Yahweh will need to force them to listen to [Assyrians] speaking to them in a language that they do not understand.
12 Dia yang telah berfirman kepada mereka: "Inilah tempat perhentian, berilah perhentian kepada orang yang lelah; inilah tempat peristirahatan!" Tetapi mereka tidak mau mendengarkan.
Yahweh told his people [long ago], “[This is] a place where you can rest; you are exhausted [from all your travels through the desert], but you will be able to rest [in this land].” But they refused to pay attention to what he said.
13 Maka mereka akan mendengarkan firman TUHAN yang begini: "Harus ini harus itu, mesti begini mesti begitu, tambah ini tambah itu!" supaya dalam berjalan mereka jatuh telentang, sehingga luka, tertangkap dan tertawan.
So Yahweh continues to tell the people of Samaria, one line at a time, “Do this, do that,” first one rule and then another rule. But because [of their ignoring what God said], they will be attacked and defeated; they will be wounded and snared and captured.
14 Sebab itu dengarlah firman TUHAN, hai orang-orang pencemooh, hai orang-orang yang memerintah rakyat yang ada di Yerusalem ini!
Because of [what will happen in Samaria], you rulers in Jerusalem who make fun of me, listen to this message from Yahweh:
15 Karena kamu telah berkata: "Kami telah mengikat perjanjian dengan maut, dan dengan dunia maut kami telah mengadakan persetujuan; biarpun cemeti berdesik-desik dengan kerasnya, kami tidak akan kena; sebab kami telah membuat bohong sebagai perlindungan kami, dan dalam dusta kami menyembunyikan diri," (Sheol h7585)
You [boast] saying, “We have made an alliance with [the leaders of Egypt], so we will not be killed [in battles]; we will never go to the place where the dead people are. When the [army of Assyria] attacks us, they will never defeat us, because we have made [an agreement with Egypt] to protect us!” [But that agreement consists of] a lot of lies [DOU]. (Sheol h7585)
16 sebab itu beginilah firman Tuhan ALLAH: "Sesungguhnya, Aku meletakkan sebagai dasar di Sion sebuah batu, batu yang teruji, sebuah batu penjuru yang mahal, suatu dasar yang teguh: Siapa yang percaya, tidak akan gelisah!
Therefore, Yahweh [our] Lord says this: “Listen to this! I am going to place in Jerusalem [someone who is like] [MET] a foundation stone, [he is like] a stone that has been tested [to determine if it is solid]. [He will be like] a valuable cornerstone around which it will be safe to build a house; and whoever trusts in him will never be disappointed.
17 Dan Aku akan membuat keadilan menjadi tali pengukur, dan kebenaran menjadi tali sipat; hujan batu akan menyapu bersih perlindungan bohong, dan air lebat akan menghanyutkan persembunyian."
I will test you [people of Jerusalem] to find out if you will act justly and righteously [like] [MET] someone uses a plumb line [to determine if a wall is straight and vertical]. But because your agreement [with Egypt] to protect you [was made by leaders] lying to each other and deceiving each other, you will be defeated and taken away [from your country] by [an army that will come against you like] [MET] a flood.
18 Perjanjianmu dengan maut itu akan ditiadakan, dan persetujuanmu dengan dunia orang mati itu tidak akan tetap berlaku; apabila cemeti berdesik-desik dengan kerasnya, kamu akan hancur diinjak-injak. (Sheol h7585)
I will annul/destroy the agreement that you made [with the leaders of Egypt]. You thought that [because of that agreement] you would not be killed, and you would not go to the place where the dead are. [But] when the vast [army of Assyria] overwhelms you like a flood, they will trample you into the ground. (Sheol h7585)
19 Seberapa kali ia datang, ia akan menyeret kamu, sebab pagi demi pagi ia akan datang, pada waktu siang dan pada waktu malam; maka adalah semata-mata kengerian untuk mengerti firman yang didengar itu.
Their soldiers will come during the morning, at noontime, and at night, and they will carry you all away.” And when you understand this message, you will be terrified.
20 Sebab tempat tidur akan kurang panjang untuk dipakai membujurkan diri dan selimut akan kurang lebar untuk dipakai menyelubungi diri.
[You have heard people say], “Your bed is very short, you will not be able to sleep in it; your blankets are very narrow; they will not cover you!” [That means for you that your agreement with Egypt is not going to save you].
21 Sebab TUHAN akan bangkit seperti di gunung Perasim, Ia akan mengamuk seperti di lembah dekat Gibeon, untuk melakukan perbuatan-Nya--ganjil perbuatan-Nya itu; dan untuk mengerjakan pekerjaan-Nya--ajaib pekerjaan-Nya itu!
Yahweh will come [and cause you to be defeated]; he will do to you like he did to the army of Philistia at Perizim Mountain and like he did to the Amor people-group at Gibeon Valley. What he will do will be [very] strange and unusual [DOU].
22 Oleh sebab itu, janganlah kamu mencemooh, supaya tali belenggumu jangan semakin keras, sebab kudengar tentang kebinasaan yang sudah pasti yang datang dari Tuhan ALLAH semesta alam atas seluruh negeri itu.
The Commander of the armies of angels has told me that he is going to destroy the entire land. So do not ridicule [what I say any more], because if you do that he will punish you [even] more severely.
23 Pasanglah telinga dan dengarkanlah suaraku; perhatikanlah dan dengarkanlah perkataanku!
Listen [IDM] to what I say; pay attention carefully.
24 Setiap harikah orang membajak, mencangkul dan menyisir tanahnya untuk menabur?
When a farmer plows some ground, does he never plant seeds [RHQ]? Does he continue to plow it and never plant anything [RHQ]?
25 Bukankah setelah meratakan tanahnya, ia menyerakkan jintan hitam dan menebarkan jintan putih, menaruh gandum jawawut dan jelai kehitam-hitaman dan sekoi di pinggirnya?
No, he makes the ground very level, and then he plants seeds— dill and cumin and wheat and barley. He plants each kind of seed in the correct manner.
26 Mengenai adat kebiasaan ia telah diajari, diberi petunjuk oleh Allahnya.
[He does that] because God has taught him the correct way to do it.
27 Sebab jintan hitam tidak diirik dengan eretan pengirik, dan roda gerobak tidak dipakai untuk menggiling jintan putih, tetapi jintan hitam diirik dengan memukul-mukulnya dengan galah, dan jintan putih dengan tongkat.
[Farmers] never thresh caraway/dill with a heavy sledge/club; instead, they beat it only with a stick. [Farmers] never thresh cumin by driving a cart over it; instead, they hit it [only] with a rod.
28 Apakah orang waktu mengirik memukul gandum sampai hancur? sungguh tidak, orang tidak terus-menerus memukulnya sampai hancur! Dan sekalipun orang menjalankan di atas gandum itu jentera gerobak dengan kudanya, namun orang tidak akan menggilingnya sampai hancur.
And grain for baking bread is crushed easily, so the farmers do not continue to pound it for a long time. They sometimes cause their horses to pull a cart over it [to thresh it], [but] doing that does not grind the grain.
29 Dan inipun datangnya dari TUHAN semesta alam; Ia ajaib dalam keputusan dan agung dalam kebijaksanaan.
The Commander of the armies of angels gives [us] wonderful advice [about how to do things]; he causes [us] to be very wise. [So what the farmers do is very smart/wise, but what your leaders are doing is very stupid].
