Yeremia 11

1 Firman yang datang kepada Yeremia dari TUHAN, bunyinya:

This is [another] message that Yahweh told me:

2 "Dengarlah perkataan-perkataan perjanjian ini dan sampaikanlah itu kepada orang Yehuda dan kepada penduduk Yerusalem!

“Listen to the agreement that I made with [the ancestors of] the people of Jerusalem and [the other cities in] Judah. Then remind them of [that agreement].

3 Katakanlah kepada mereka: Beginilah firman TUHAN, Allah Israel: Terkutuklah orang yang tidak mendengarkan perkataan-perkataan perjanjian ini,

Then tell them that [I], Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli [people worship], said that I will curse everyone who does not obey what was written in that agreement that I made with them.

4 yang telah Kuperintahkan kepada nenek moyangmu pada waktu mereka Kubawa keluar dari tanah Mesir, dari dapur peleburan besi, dengan berfirman: Dengarkanlah suara-Ku dan lakukanlah segala apa yang Kuperintahkan kepadamu, maka kamu akan menjadi umat-Ku dan Aku akan menjadi Allahmu,

It is the same agreement that I made with their ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt. [What happened to them in Egypt was terrible; it was as though they were] living in a hot furnace [MET]. When I brought them out of Egypt, I told them to obey me, and to do everything that I had commanded them to do. [I also told them] that if they obeyed me, they would be my people and I would be their God.

5 sehingga Aku dapat menepati sumpah yang telah Kuikrarkan kepada nenek moyangmu untuk memberikan kepada mereka tanah yang berlimpah-limpah susu dan madunya, seperti halnya pada waktu ini." Lalu jawabku: "Begitulah hendaknya, ya TUHAN!"

[Now tell these people that if they obey me], I will do what I promised to do for their ancestors. I will enable them to continue living in this very fertile [IDM] land in which they now live.” I replied, “Yahweh, I hope that what you said will happen.”

6 Berfirmanlah TUHAN kepadaku: "Serukanlah segala perkataan ini di kota-kota Yehuda dan di jalan-jalan Yerusalem dengan mengatakan: Dengarkanlah perkataan-perkataan perjanjian ini dan lakukanlah itu!

Then Yahweh said to me, “Go into the streets of Jerusalem and to the [other] cities in Judah. Proclaim my message to the people. Tell them to listen to the agreement [that I made with their ancestors], and to obey it.

7 Sebab Aku sungguh-sungguh memperingatkan nenek moyangmu, pada waktu Aku menuntun mereka keluar dari tanah Mesir; sampai kepada waktu ini Aku memperingatkan mereka terus-menerus: Dengarkanlah suara-Ku!

When I brought their ancestors out of Egypt, I solemnly pleaded with them many times to obey me, and I am still pleading with them now.

8 Tetapi mereka tidak mau mendengarkan ataupun memperhatikannya, melainkan mereka masing-masing mengikuti kedegilan hatinya yang jahat; maka Aku telah mendatangkan ke atas mereka segala perkataan perjanjian ini, yang telah Kuperintahkan dipegang, tetapi mereka tidak memegangnya."

But they did not obey me or [even] pay any attention to me. Everyone continued to be stubborn and to do the evil things that they wanted to do. I commanded them to do what was written in the agreement, but they refused. So I punished them in all the ways that I promised that I would.”

9 Berfirmanlah TUHAN kepadaku: "Telah terdapat persepakatan jahat di antara orang Yehuda dan penduduk Yerusalem.

Then Yahweh said to me, “The people of Jerusalem and [the other cities in] Judah are rebelling against me.

10 Mereka sudah jatuh kembali kepada kesalahan nenek moyang mereka yang dahulu telah menolak mendengarkan firman-Ku. Mereka mengikuti allah lain dan beribadah kepadanya. Kaum Israel dan kaum Yehuda telah mengingkari perjanjian-Ku yang telah Kuikat dengan nenek moyang mereka.

Their ancestors refused to do what I told them to do, and [now] these people have returned to committing the sins that their ancestors committed. They are worshiping other gods. The people of Israel disobeyed the agreement that I made with their ancestors, and [now] the people of Judah have done the same thing.

11 Sebab itu beginilah firman TUHAN: Sesungguhnya, Aku mendatangkan ke atas mereka malapetaka yang tidak dapat mereka hindari, dan apabila mereka berseru-seru kepada-Ku, maka Aku tidak akan mendengarkan mereka.

So now I, Yahweh, am warning them that I will cause them to experience disasters, and they will not escape them. And when they cry out for me [to help them], I will not pay attention.

12 Dan biarpun kota-kota Yehuda dan penduduk Yerusalem pergi berseru-seru kepada para allah yang mereka sembah dengan korban bakaran, tetapi allah itu sama sekali tidak dapat menolong mereka pada waktu mereka ditimpa malapetaka.

When that happens, the people in Jerusalem and [other] cities in Judah will [offer sacrifices and] burn incense to their gods and ask for their help, but those gods will not be able to save them when those disasters come to them.

13 Sebab seperti banyaknya kotamu demikian banyaknya para allahmu, hai Yehuda, dan seperti banyaknya jalan di Yerusalem demikian banyaknya mezbah yang kamu dirikan untuk membakar korban kepada Baal.

There are more gods in Judah than there are towns in Judah, and the people of Jerusalem have erected as many altars to burn incense [to those gods] as there are streets in Jerusalem.

14 Adapun engkau, janganlah engkau berdoa untuk bangsa ini dan janganlah naikkan permohonan dan doa untuk mereka, sebab Aku tidak akan mendengarkan pada waktu mereka berseru kepada-Ku karena malapetaka mereka.

Jeremiah, do not pray for these people, and do not plead with me to rescue them. If you plead with me, I will not pay attention; and if they cry out to me for help when they are in distress, I will not listen to them.”

15 Apakah lagi urusan kekasih-Ku di dalam rumah-Ku, bukankah ia sudah melaksanakan rancangan-rancangan yang jahat? Dapatkah nazar-nazar dan daging yang suci melewatkan malapetaka dari padamu, sehingga kemudian engkau dapat beria-ria?

Then Yahweh said, “The people [of Judah] whom I love certainly no longer have [RHQ] a right to come to my temple, because they continually do many evil things. [They think that] continually making sacrifices of meat to me certainly will [RHQ] protect them from disasters, with the result that they will be able to rejoice.

16 Pohon zaitun yang rimbun, elok dipandang mata, pernah TUHAN menamai engkau. Tetapi dengan bunyi keributan yang hebat Ia menyalakan api pada daun-daunnya, sehingga ranting-rantingnya terbakar.

I previously said that they were like an olive tree full of green leaves with a lot of good olives on it, but [now I will send their enemies to attack] them furiously; [it is as though] I will break off their branches, and [their city] will be destroyed by fire.

17 TUHAN semesta alam, yang telah membuat engkau tumbuh, telah menentukan malapetaka atasmu karena kejahatan yang telah dilakukan oleh kaum Israel dan kaum Yehuda untuk menimbulkan sakit hati-Ku dengan membakar korban kepada Baal."

[It is as though] the people of Judah and Israel were a beautiful olive tree that I, the Commander of the armies of angels, planted, but [now], by burning incense to [their god] Baal, they have caused me to become [very] angry. So [now] I have decided to destroy them.”

18 TUHAN memberitahukan hal itu kepadaku, maka aku mengetahuinya; pada waktu itu Engkau, TUHAN, memperlihatkan perbuatan mereka kepadaku.

Yahweh revealed to me that [my enemies] were planning to kill me.

19 Tetapi aku dulu seperti anak domba jinak yang dibawa untuk disembelih, aku tidak tahu bahwa mereka mengadakan persepakatan jahat terhadap aku: "Marilah kita binasakan pohon ini dengan buah-buahnya! Marilah kita melenyapkannya dari negeri orang-orang yang hidup, sehingga namanya tidak diingat orang lagi!"

[Before he did that], I was like a lamb that was being led away to be slaughtered; I did not know what they were planning to do. I did not know that they were saying, “Let’s get rid of this tree and its fruit,” so [I did not know] that they intended to kill me, in order that no one would remember me [MTY].

20 Tetapi, TUHAN semesta alam, yang menghakimi dengan adil, yang menguji batin dan hati, biarlah aku melihat pembalasan-Mu terhadap mereka, sebab kepada-Mulah kuserahkan perkaraku.

[Then I prayed], “Commander of the armies of angels, you judge people justly/fairly, and you examine everything that we are thinking [DOU]. Allow me to watch you getting revenge on the people [who want to kill me], because I trust that you will do for me what is right.”

21 Sebab itu beginilah firman TUHAN tentang orang-orang Anatot yang ingin mencabut nyawaku dengan mengatakan: "Janganlah bernubuat demi nama TUHAN, supaya jangan engkau mati oleh tangan kami!" --

It was the men of [my own town], Anathoth, who wanted to kill me, and they told me that they would kill me if I did not stop prophesying what Yahweh told me to say.

22 Sebab itu beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam: "Sesungguhnya, Aku akan menghukum mereka: pemuda-pemuda mereka akan mati oleh pedang, anak-anak mereka yang laki-laki dan perempuan akan habis mati kelaparan;

So the Commander of the armies of angels said [about them], “I will punish them. Their young men will be killed in wars, and their children will die because they have no food.

23 tidak ada yang tinggal hidup di antara mereka, sebab Aku akan mendatangkan malapetaka kepada orang-orang Anatot pada tahun hukuman mereka."

I have set a time when I will bring disasters to the people of Anathoth, and when that happens, none of them will remain alive.”