Yesaya 42
1 Lihat, itu hamba-Ku yang Kupegang, orang pilihan-Ku, yang kepadanya Aku berkenan. Aku telah menaruh Roh-Ku ke atasnya, supaya ia menyatakan hukum kepada bangsa-bangsa.
[Yahweh says, “I want you people to know about] my servant, whom I encourage. I have chosen him, and I am pleased with him. I have given him my Spirit, and he will make certain that all the people-groups do what is right/just.
2 Ia tidak akan berteriak atau menyaringkan suara atau memperdengarkan suaranya di jalan.
He will not [show his power by] shouting [DOU] or by talking very loudly.
3 Buluh yang patah terkulai tidak akan diputuskannya, dan sumbu yang pudar nyalanya tidak akan dipadamkannya, tetapi dengan setia ia akan menyatakan hukum.
He will not get rid of [anyone who is weak like] [MET] a smashed reed, and he will not [end the life of anyone who is helpless like] [MET] someone would extinguish a dimly burning wick [of an oil lamp]. He will faithfully/continually make sure that judges decide cases justly.
4 Ia sendiri tidak akan menjadi pudar dan tidak akan patah terkulai, sampai ia menegakkan hukum di bumi; segala pulau mengharapkan pengajarannya.
He will not become exhausted or discouraged all during the time that he is causing things to be done justly throughout the earth. Even [people living on the islands in] [MTY] the oceans will confidently wait for [him to teach them] his laws.”
5 Beginilah firman Allah, TUHAN, yang menciptakan langit dan membentangkannya, yang menghamparkan bumi dengan segala yang tumbuh di atasnya, yang memberikan nafas kepada umat manusia yang mendudukinya dan nyawa kepada mereka yang hidup di atasnya:
Yahweh our God created the sky and spread it out. He also created the earth and everything on it. He gives breath to all the people on the earth; he causes them to live [DOU]. [And he is the one who says to his special servant],
6 "Aku ini, TUHAN, telah memanggil engkau untuk maksud penyelamatan, telah memegang tanganmu; Aku telah membentuk engkau dan memberi engkau menjadi perjanjian bagi umat manusia, menjadi terang untuk bangsa-bangsa,
“I, Yahweh, have chosen you to show people that I always act righteously/fairly. I will grasp your hand and protect you, and I will present you to [my Israeli] people to be the one who will put into effect my agreement with them. [You will be like] a light to the [other] nations.
7 untuk membuka mata yang buta, untuk mengeluarkan orang hukuman dari tempat tahanan dan mengeluarkan orang-orang yang duduk dalam gelap dari rumah penjara.
You will enable blind [IDM] people to see, you will free those who are in prison (OR, who are bound [by the guilt of their sins]) [MET] and release those who are in dark dungeons.
8 Aku ini TUHAN, itulah nama-Ku; Aku tidak akan memberikan kemuliaan-Ku kepada yang lain atau kemasyhuran-Ku kepada patung.
I am Yahweh; that is my name. I will not allow anyone else to receive the honor that only I deserve. And I will not allow idols to be praised like only I should be praised.
9 Nubuat-nubuat yang dahulu sekarang sudah menjadi kenyataan, hal-hal yang baru hendak Kuberitahukan. Sebelum hal-hal itu muncul, Aku mengabarkannya kepadamu."
Everything that I have prophesied has happened, and now I will tell about other things that will happen. I will tell you things that will happen before they happen.”
10 Nyanyikanlah nyanyian baru bagi TUHAN dan pujilah Dia dari ujung bumi! Baiklah laut bergemuruh serta segala isinya dan pulau-pulau dengan segala penduduknya.
Sing a new song to Yahweh! Sing to praise him throughout the world! All you people who sail across the oceans, and all you creatures that live in the oceans, and all you people who live on islands far away, sing!
11 Baiklah padang gurun menyaringkan suara dengan kota-kotanya dan dengan desa-desa yang didiami Kedar! Baiklah bersorak-sorai penduduk Bukit Batu, baiklah mereka berseru-seru dari puncak gunung-gunung!
You people who live in towns in the desert, sing loudly! You people who live in the Kedar [area in the north of Arabia], you rejoice also! You people in Sela [city in Edom], you also should sing joyfully; shout [to praise him] from the tops of your mountains!
12 Baiklah mereka memberi penghormatan kepada TUHAN, dan memberitakan pujian yang kepada-Nya di pulau-pulau.
Even people who live on distant islands should honor Yahweh and sing to praise him.
13 TUHAN keluar berperang seperti pahlawan, seperti orang perang Ia membangkitkan semangat-Nya untuk bertempur; Ia bertempik sorak, ya, Ia memekik, terhadap musuh-musuh-Nya Ia membuktikan kepahlawanan-Nya.
[It will be as though] Yahweh will march out like [SIM] a mighty soldier; he will show that he is very angry. He will shout a battle-cry, and [then] he will defeat all his enemies.
14 Aku membisu dari sejak dahulu kala, Aku berdiam diri, Aku menahan hati-Ku; sekarang Aku mau mengerang seperti perempuan yang melahirkan, Aku mau mengah-mengah dan megap-megap.
[He will say], “I have remained silent [DOU] for a long time; I have restrained myself [from doing what I need to do]. But now, like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby, I will cry out and gasp and pant.
15 Aku mau membuat tandus gunung-gunung dan bukit-bukit, dan mau membuat layu segala tumbuh-tumbuhannya; Aku mau membuat sungai-sungai menjadi tanah kering dan mau membuat kering telaga-telaga.
I will level off the hills and mountains, and I will cause all the plants and trees to dry up. I will cause the rivers to become small streams, and little islands will appear in them, and I will cause all the pools to become dry.
16 Aku mau memimpin orang-orang buta di jalan yang tidak mereka kenal, dan mau membawa mereka berjalan di jalan-jalan yang tidak mereka kenal. Aku mau membuat kegelapan yang di depan mereka menjadi terang dan tanah yang berkeluk-keluk menjadi tanah yang rata. Itulah hal-hal yang hendak Kulakukan kepada mereka, yang pasti akan Kulaksanakan.
[My people who have been taken to Babylonia are like] [MET] blind people, [but] I will lead them along a road on which they have not walked before, on a road that they have not seen before. They have felt [very helpless, as though] they were walking in the darkness, but I will take away that darkness and I will make smooth the road that is in front of them. Those are the things that I will do for them; I will not abandon them.
17 Orang-orang yang percaya kepada patung pahatan akan berpaling ke belakang dan mendapat malu, yaitu orang-orang yang berkata kepada patung tuangan: "Kamulah allah kami!"
But those who trust in carved idols, and say to images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be completely humiliated/disgraced.”
18 Dengarkanlah, hai orang-orang tuli pandanglah dan lihatlah, hai orang-orang buta!
You [Israeli people who have acted toward God like] deaf [people], listen [to what Yahweh says]! “You [who have been like] [MET] blind [people], look!
19 Siapakah yang buta selain dari hamba-Ku, dan yang tuli seperti utusan yang Kusuruh? Siapakah yang buta seperti suruhan-Ku dan yang tuli seperti hamba TUHAN?
No people are [RHQ] as blind as my people, who [should have been] serving me. No people are [RHQ] as much like [MET] deaf people as [the Israelis, who should have been] my messengers. No people are [RHQ] as much like [MET] blind people as those whom I chose to serve me.
20 Engkau melihat banyak, tetapi tidak memperhatikan, engkau memasang telinga, tetapi tidak mendengar.
You see and know what are the right things to do, but you do not do them. You hear [what I say to you], but you do not pay attention.”
21 TUHAN telah berkenan demi penyelamatan-Nya untuk memberi pengajaran-Nya yang besar dan mulia;
Because Yahweh is righteous, he has honored his glorious laws.
22 namun mereka suatu bangsa yang dijarah dan dirampok, mereka semua terjebak dalam geronggang-geronggang dan disembunyikan dalam rumah-rumah penjara; mereka telah menjadi jarahan dan tidak ada yang melepaskan, menjadi rampasan dan tidak ada yang berkata: "Kembalikanlah!"
But [the armies of Babylon have destroyed Jerusalem] and have completely (plundered/taken away) [DOU] all the valuable things, and they have captured Yahweh’s people and taken them away and put them in prison. They have been captured easily, because there was no one to protect them; there was no one to say that they should be allowed to return home.
23 Siapakah di antara kamu yang mau memasang telinga kepada hal ini, yang mau memperhatikan dan mendengarkannya untuk masa yang kemudian?
Who among you will listen carefully to these things? Who will pay attention from now on?
24 Siapakah yang menyerahkan Yakub untuk dirampas, dan Israel kepada penjarah? Bukankah itu TUHAN? Sebab kepada-Nya kita telah berdosa, dan orang tidak mau mengikuti jalan yang telah ditunjuk-Nya, dan kepada pengajaran-Nya orang tidak mau mendengar.
Who allowed the valuable possessions of the people of Israel to be stolen [RHQ, DOU]? It was Yahweh, because he is he one against whom we had sinned; we did not conduct our lives like he wanted us to, and we did not obey his laws.
25 Maka Ia telah menumpahkan kepadanya kepanasan amarah-Nya dan peperangan yang hebat, yang menghanguskan dia dari sekeliling, tetapi ia tidak menginsafinya, dan yang membakar dia, tetapi ia tidak memperhatikannya.
Therefore, he was extremely angry with us, and he caused our soldiers to be destroyed in battles. [It was as though] [MET] he lit a fire around us, but we did not understand [what he was trying to tell us]. [His being angry with us was like] a fire that would burn us up, but we did not pay attention [IDM].
