Yeremia 49

1 Mengenai bani Amon. Beginilah firman TUHAN: "Tidak adakah anak Israel, tidak adakah ahli warisnya? Mengapakah dewa Milkom memiliki Gad, dan bangsanya mendiami kota-kotanya?

About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?

2 Sebab itu, sesungguhnya, waktunya akan datang, demikianlah firman TUHAN, bahwa Aku akan memperdengarkan tempik sorak peperangan terhadap Raba bani Amon. Kota itu akan menjadi anak bukit yang tandus, dan kota-kota jajahannya akan dibakar dengan api; maka Israel akan memiliki orang-orang yang dahulu memilikinya, firman TUHAN.

Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage of those who took his heritage, says the Lord.

3 Merataplah, hai Hesybon, sebab pembinasa telah maju menyerbu, berteriaklah, hai puteri-puteri Raba, kenakanlah kain kabung, berkabunglah, berjalan kelilinglah dengan luka toreh-torehan, sebab Milkom akan pergi ke dalam pembuangan bersama-sama dengan para imam dan pemuka-pemukanya.

Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.

4 Betapa engkau memegahkan dirimu dengan lembahmu, hai puteri yang congkak, yang percaya akan harta bendanya dan yang berkata: Siapakah yang berani datang menyerang aku?

Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?

5 Sesungguhnya, Aku mendatangkan kekejutan atasmu demikianlah firman Tuhan ALLAH semesta alam, dari segala tempat di sekitarmu, sehingga kamu bersorak-sorak, masing-masing ke arahnya sendiri, dan tidak ada yang mengumpulkan orang-orang yang mengembara itu.

See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers.

6 Tetapi sesudah itu Aku akan memulihkan keadaan bani Amon itu, demikianlah firman TUHAN."

But after these things, I will let the fate of the children of Ammon be changed, says the Lord.

7 Mengenai Edom. Beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam: "Tidak adakah lagi kebijaksanaan di Teman? Sudah hilangkah pertimbangan dari orang-orang yang berakal budi, sudah busukkah kebijaksanaan mereka?

About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?

8 Larilah cepat, bersembunyilah dalam liang-liang, hai penduduk Dedan! Sebab malapetaka akan Kudatangkan atas Esau, pada waktu Aku menghukum dia.

Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.

9 Jika pemetik buah anggur datang kepadamu, mereka tidak akan meninggalkan sisa-sisa pemetikannya! Jika malam-malam pencuri datang kepadamu, mereka akan merusakkan sepuas-puasnya!

If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?

10 Tetapi Aku ini telah menelanjangi Esau, telah menyingkapkan tempat-tempat persembunyiannya, sehingga ia tidak dapat menyembunyikan diri lagi. Keturunannya telah binasa dan saudara-saudaranya dan bangsa-bangsa tetangganya tidak ada lagi.

I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.

11 Tinggalkanlah anak-anak yatimmu, aku akan menghidupi mereka; biarlah janda-jandamu menaruh kepercayaan padaku!"

Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.

12 Sebab beginilah firman TUHAN: "Sedangkan orang-orang yang tidak selayaknya meminum isi piala itu telah terpaksa meminumnya, masakan engkau ini akan bebas dari hukuman? Engkau tidak akan bebas dari hukuman, tetapi mesti meminumnya!

For the Lord has said, Those for whom the cup was not made ready will certainly be forced to take of it; and are you to go without punishment? you will not be without punishment, but will certainly be forced to take from the cup.

13 Sebab Aku telah bersumpah demi diri-Ku, demikianlah firman TUHAN, bahwa Bozra akan menjadi ketandusan, cela, keruntuhan dan kutuk, dan segala kotanya akan menjadi reruntuhan yang kekal."

For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.

14 Suatu kabar telah kudengar dari TUHAN, seorang utusan telah disuruh ke tengah-tengah bangsa-bangsa: "Berkumpullah, pergilah menyerangnya, bersiaplah untuk bertempur!

Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight.

15 Sebab sesungguhnya, Aku membuat engkau kecil di antara bangsa-bangsa, dihinakan di antara manusia.

For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

16 Sikapmu yang menggemetarkan orang memperdayakan engkau, dan keangkuhan hatimu, ya engkau yang tinggal di liang-liang batu, yang menduduki tempat tinggi bukit! Sekalipun engkau membuat sarangmu tinggi seperti burung rajawali, Aku akan menurunkan engkau dari sana, demikianlah firman TUHAN.

... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

17 Edom akan menjadi ketandusan; setiap orang yang melewatinya akan merasa ngeri dan bersuit karena segala pukulan yang dideritanya.

And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

18 Seperti pada waktu ditunggangbalikkannya Sodom dan Gomora dan kota-kota tetangganya--firman TUHAN--maka seorangpun tidak akan diam lagi di sana dan seorang manusiapun tidak akan tinggal lagi di dalamnya.

As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.

19 Sesungguhnya, seperti singa yang bangkit keluar dari hutan belukar sungai Yordan mendatangi padang rumput tempat kawanan domba, demikianlah Aku akan membuat mereka lari dengan tiba-tiba dari negeri itu dan mengangkat di dalamnya dia yang Kupilih. Sebab siapakah yang seperti Aku? Siapakah yang berani mendakwa Aku? Siapakah gerangan gembala yang tahan menghadapi Aku?

See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?

20 Sebab itu dengarlah putusan yang telah diambil TUHAN terhadap Edom dan rancangan-rancangan yang telah dibuat-Nya terhadap penduduk Teman: Bahwa sesungguhnya, yang paling lemahpun di antara kawanan domba akan diseret. Bahwa sesungguhnya, padang rumput mereka sendiri akan merasa ngeri terhadap mereka.

For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.

21 Bumi akan goncang karena bunyi jatuhnya mereka; teriakan mereka akan terdengar bunyinya di Laut Teberau.

The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.

22 Sesungguhnya, ia naik terbang seperti burung rajawali, melayang dan mengembangkan sayapnya ke atas Bozra. Hati para pahlawan Edom pada waktu itu akan seperti hati perempuan yang sakit beranak."

See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom's men of war on that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

23 Mengenai Damsyik. "Hamat dan Arpad telah menjadi malu, sebab mereka mendengar kabar buruk; hati mereka gemetar karena kecemasan, tidak dapat menjadi tenang.

About Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for the word of evil has come to their ears, their heart in its fear is turned to water, it will not be quiet.

24 Damsyik telah menjadi lemah semangat, berpaling untuk lari, kegemparan telah mencekam dia, kesesakan dan sakit beranak telah menggenggam dia seperti seorang perempuan yang sedang melahirkan.

Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.

25 Sungguh, kota yang terpuji itu sudah ditinggalkan, kota kegirangan itu!

How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!

26 Sebab itu teruna-terunanya akan rebah di tanah-tanah lapangnya dan semua prajuritnya akan menjadi bungkam pada waktu itu, demikianlah firman TUHAN semesta alam.

So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.

27 Aku akan menyalakan api di tembok Damsyik, yang menghanguskan puri Benhadad."

And I will have a fire lighted on the wall of Damascus, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.

28 Mengenai Kedar dan mengenai kerajaan-kerajaan Hazor yang dipukul kalah oleh Nebukadnezar, raja Babel. Beginilah firman TUHAN: "Bersiaplah, majulah melawan Kedar, binasakanlah orang-orang di sebelah timur!

About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.

29 Hendaklah kemah-kemah mereka dan kawanan domba mereka dirampas sampai bersih, tenda-tenda mereka dan segala perabot mereka; hendaklah unta-unta mereka habis dibawa serta, dan hendaklah berteriak-teriak kepada mereka: Kegentaran dari segala jurusan!

Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.

30 Larilah, mengungsilah cepat-cepat, bersembunyilah dalam liang-liang, hai penduduk Hazor! demikianlah firman TUHAN. Sebab Nebukadnezar, raja Babel, telah mengambil putusan terhadap kamu dan telah membuat rancangan terhadap kamu.

Go in flight, go wandering far off, take cover in deep places, O people of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a design against you, he has a purpose against you in mind.

31 Bersiaplah, majulah melawan bangsa yang hidup sentosa, yang diam dengan aman tenteram, demikianlah firman TUHAN, dan yang tidak punya pintu gerbang atau palang, dan yang tinggal tersendiri!

Up! go against a nation which is living in comfort and without fear of danger, says the Lord, without doors or locks, living by themselves.

32 Unta-unta mereka akan menjadi jarahan, dan ternak mereka yang banyak itu menjadi rampasan! Aku akan menyerakkan ke segala mata angin mereka yang berpotong tepi rambutnya berkeliling, dan dari segala penjuru Aku akan mendatangkan bencana atas mereka, demikianlah firman TUHAN.

And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.

33 Hazor akan menjadi tempat persembunyian bagi serigala, menjadi tempat tandus sampai selama-lamanya; seorangpun tidak akan diam lagi di sana dan seorang manusiapun tidak akan tinggal lagi di dalamnya."

And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

34 Firman TUHAN yang datang kepada nabi Yeremia mengenai Elam, pada permulaan pemerintahan Zedekia, raja Yehuda:

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, saying,

35 Beginilah firman TUHAN semesta alam: "Sesungguhnya, Aku mematahkan busur Elam, yakni inti kekuatannya.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will have the bow of Elam, their chief strength, broken.

36 Aku akan mendatangkan atas Elam keempat angin dari keempat penjuru langit dan akan menyerakkan mereka ke segala mata angin ini, sehingga tidak ada bangsa yang tidak kedatangan orang-orang yang berserakan dari Elam.

And I will send on Elam four winds from the four quarters of heaven, driving them out to all those winds; there will be no nation into which the wanderers from Elam do not come.

37 Aku akan membuat Elam terkejut di depan para musuhnya dan di depan orang-orang yang berusaha mencabut nyawanya. Aku akan mendatangkan atasnya malapetaka, yakni murka-Ku yang menyala-nyala, demikianlah firman TUHAN. Aku akan menyuruh pedang mengejar mereka sampai mereka Kuhabiskan.

And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:

38 Aku akan menaruh takhta-Ku di Elam, dan Aku akan membinasakan dari sana raja dan pemuka-pemuka, demikianlah firman TUHAN.

I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord.

39 Tetapi di kemudian hari Aku akan memulihkan keadaan Elam, demikianlah firman TUHAN."

But it will come about that, in the last days, I will let the fate of Elam be changed, says the Lord.