Yeremia 12
1 Engkau memang benar, ya TUHAN, bilamana aku berbantah dengan Engkau! Tetapi aku mau berbicara dengan Engkau tentang keadilan: Mengapakah mujur hidup orang-orang fasik, sentosa semua orang yang berlaku tidak setia?
Yahweh, whenever I tell you that I am unhappy [about what is happening to me], you [always] act justly/fairly. So now allow me to ask about one more thing [that I do not understand]: Why are wicked people [often] very prosperous? Why do things go very well for dishonest/wicked people?
2 Engkau membuat mereka tumbuh, dan merekapun juga berakar, mereka tumbuh subur dan menghasilkan buah juga. Memang selalu Engkau di mulut mereka, tetapi jauh dari hati mereka.
You allow them to prosper like [MET] trees that grow tall and bear [a lot of] fruit. They [always] say [MTY] good things about you, but their hearts are [really] far from you.
3 Ya TUHAN, Engkau mengenal aku, Engkau melihat aku, dan Engkau menguji bagaimana hatiku terhadap Engkau. Tariklah mereka ke luar seperti domba-domba sembelihan, dan khususkanlah mereka untuk hari penyembelihan. --
But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being. You see what I [do] and you are able to know what I am thinking. So drag away those [wicked] people, like [people drag away] sheep that they are going to butcher. Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
4 Berapa lama lagi negeri ini menjadi kering, dan rumput di segenap padang menjadi layu? Karena kejahatan penduduknya binatang-binatang dan burung-burung habis lenyap, sebab mereka telah mengira: "Ia tidak akan melihat tingkah langkah kita!"
This land is [RHQ] becoming very dry and even the grass is withering. The wild animals and the birds have [all] died because the people are [very] wicked. [All that has happened] because the people have said, “Yahweh does not know what we are doing (OR, what will happen to us)!”
5 "Jika engkau telah berlari dengan orang berjalan kaki, dan engkau telah dilelahkan, bagaimanakah engkau hendak berpacu melawan kuda? Dan jika di negeri yang damai engkau tidak merasa tenteram, apakah yang akan engkau perbuat di hutan belukar sungai Yordan?
[Then to show me that I needed to be prepared to endure even greater difficulties, Yahweh said to me], [“It is as though] you have become exhausted from racing against men; so how will you be able to race against horses? If you [stumble and] fall when you are running on open/bare/smooth ground, what will happen to you when you are running through the thornbushes near the Jordan [River]?
6 Sebab saudara-saudaramu dan kaum keluargamu, mereka sendiri juga berbuat khianat terhadap engkau; mereka juga bersama-sama di belakangmu. Janganlah percaya kepada mereka, sekalipun mereka berkata manis kepadamu!
[Already] your brothers and [other members of] your own family oppose you. They (plot against/plan to do evil things to) you and they say bad things about you. So even if they say nice things about you, do not trust them!
7 Aku telah meninggalkan kediaman-Ku, telah membuangkan negeri milik-Ku; Aku telah menyerahkan buah hati-Ku ke dalam tangan musuhnya.
I have abandoned my [Israeli] people, the people whom I chose to belong to me. I have allowed their enemies to conquer the Israeli people, whom I love.
8 Negeri milik-Ku sudah menjadi seperti singa di hutan bagi-Ku; ia mengeraskan suaranya menentang Aku, sebab itu Aku membencinya.
My people have become to me like [SIM] a lion in the forest. [It is as though] they roar at me like a lion, so now I hate them.
9 Negeri milik-Ku sudah menjadi seperti burung belang bagi-Ku; burung-burung buas mengerumuninya. Ayo, kumpulkanlah segala binatang di padang, bawalah untuk menghabiskannya!
My chosen people have [RHQ] become like speckled hawks that are surrounded by vultures [waiting to eat their flesh after they are dead]. Tell all the wild animals to come and eat [the flesh of their corpses].
10 Banyak gembala telah merusakkan kebun anggur-Ku, memijak-mijak tanah-Ku, dan membuat tanah kedambaan-Ku menjadi padang gurun yang sunyi sepi.
Many rulers [from other countries have come with their armies and] devastated/destroyed my people [whom I care for like a farmer takes care of his] vineyard. They have caused my beautiful land to become a barren desert where no one lives.
11 Ya, mereka telah membuatnya sunyi sepi, sunyi sepi tanah itu berkabung di hadapan-Ku! Sunyi sepi sekarang segenap negeri itu, tetapi tidak ada orang yang memperhatikannya.
They have caused it to become completely empty; [it is as though] I hear the land crying sadly/mournfully. The whole land is desolate, and no one (worries about/pays any attention to) it.
12 Para pembinasa telah datang melintasi segala bukit gundul di padang gurun; sebab pedang TUHAN mengamuk makan dari ujung negeri yang satu ke ujung lain; tidak ada damai bagi segala yang hidup.
The soldiers [of our enemies] have marched across all the barren hilltops. But [I], Yahweh, am using those armies [MTY] to punish your land from one end to the other, and no one will escape.
13 Mereka telah menabur gandum, tetapi yang dituai adalah semak duri; mereka telah bersusah payah, tetapi usaha mereka tidak berguna; mereka malu karena hasil yang diperoleh mereka, akibat dari murka TUHAN yang menyala-nyala."
[It is as though] my people planted wheat, but now they are harvesting thorns. They have become very tired [because of much hard work], but they have gained nothing [from all that work]. They will be very disappointed because their harvests [will be very small], [and that will happen] because [I], Yahweh, am extremely angry [with them].”
14 Beginilah firman TUHAN: "Mengenai sekalian tetangga-Ku yang jahat yang telah mengusik negeri yang telah Kuberikan sebagai milik pusaka kepada umat-Ku Israel, bahwasanya Aku akan mencabut mereka dari tanah mereka dan Aku mencabut kaum Yehuda dari tengah-tengah mereka.
This is [also] what Yahweh said to me: “[I will punish] the evil nearby nations that have been trying to take away the land that I gave to my Israeli people, and I will force them to leave their own land. But I will throw the people of Judah out of their land, also.
15 Tetapi setelah Aku mencabut mereka, maka Aku akan menyayangi mereka kembali. Aku akan mengembalikan mereka masing-masing ke milik pusakanya dan masing-masing ke negerinya.
But later I will act mercifully toward those nations again, and I will bring them back to their own lands again. Each [clan] will come back to its own land.
16 Dan jika mereka sungguh-sungguh belajar cara hidup umat-Ku sehingga bersumpah demi nama-Ku: Demi TUHAN yang hidup, seperti tadinya mereka mengajar umat-Ku untuk bersumpah demi Baal, maka mereka akan dibangun di tengah-tengah umat-Ku.
And if the people [of the other nations whose armies have invaded Israel] learn the [religious] customs of my people, and if they learn that I [am listening] when they solemnly promise that they will do something good, like they taught my people to believe that [their god] Baal [was listening] when they made solemn promises, I will cause them to become prosperous, and they also will be my people.
17 Tetapi jika mereka tidak mau mendengarkan, maka Aku akan sungguh-sungguh mencabut dan membinasakan bangsa yang demikian, demikianlah firman TUHAN."
But I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
