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?

[This message is] about the Ammon people-group. This is what Yahweh says: “There are [RHQ] plenty of Israeli people left to occupy [the land of the tribe of] Gad. So, why are [RHQ] [the people who worship the god] Molech living in those 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.

There will be a time when I will sound the battle-cry [for their enemies] to attack [their capital city], Rabbah. [Then] it will become a heap of ruins, and [all] the nearby towns will be burned. Then [the people of] Israel will again possess the land that the Ammon people-group took away from them.

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.

You people of Heshbon [city] [MTY], wail, because Ai [town nearby] will be destroyed. You people of Rabbah [city], weep; put on (rough clothing/sackcloth) [to show you are mourning]; run back and forth [in confusion] inside the city walls, because [your god] Milcom, along with its priests and officials, will be taken away (in exile/to other countries).

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?

You are [RHQ] very proud of your very fertile valleys, [but they will soon be ruined]. You rebellious people, you trusted in your wealth, and you said, ‘Certainly no [RHQ] army will be able to attack us!’

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.

But listen to this: 'I, the Commander of the armies of angels, will cause you to become terrified. You will all be forced to flee [to other countries], and no one will be able to bring you together [again].'

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

But some day I will enable the Ammon people-group to return to their land. [That will surely happen, because I, ] Yahweh, have said it.”

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?

[This message is] about the Edom people-group. This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “It seems that [RHQ] there are no wise people in Teman [district in Edom]! There are no people left who can give others [good] advice. The people who were wise [PRS] have disappeared.

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

You people of Dedan [city in the south of Edom], turn and flee and hide in deep [caves], because when I cause the Edom people-group to experience disaster, I will punish you, too.

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!

Those who harvest grapes always [RHQ] leave some on the vines. When thieves come at night, they surely [RHQ] steal only as much as they want.

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.

But I will cause everything in Edom to be destroyed, and there will be nothing left, and there will be no place for people to hide. [Many of] [HYP] the children, their relatives and their neighbors, will die, and Edom will not exist any more.

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

But I will protect the orphans, and the widows [also] will [be able to] depend on me [to help them].”

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!

And this is [also] what Yahweh says: “If those who do not deserve to suffer [MET] must suffer, you people of Edom must [RHQ] suffer much more [DOU]! You will not escape being punished.

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."

I, Yahweh, have solemnly promised, using my own name, that [your chief city] Bozrah will become a place that people will be horrified about. It will be a heap of ruins. People will make fun of it and use its name when they curse people. All the nearby towns and villages will be a ruins forever.”

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

I heard this message from Yahweh: “I have sent an ambassador to [many] nations, [to tell them to] gather together to attack Edom. They must prepare for battle!”

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

[And Yahweh says to the people of Edom, ] “I will cause your nation to become very unimportant among the [other] nations. They will all despise your country.

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.

You have caused [people of other nations] to be terrified, and you [MTY] have been very proud, but you have deceived yourselves. You live in caves in the rock cliffs; [you think that you are safe there because] you live high up there. But even if you make your homes as high up as the eagles’ nests, I will cause you to come [crashing] down.

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

Edom will become a place about which people are horrified; people who pass by will be horrified and will (gasp/be shocked) when they see the destruction.

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.

Edom will be destroyed as [completely as] Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns were destroyed [long ago]. [As a result, ] no one will live there [any more] [DOU].

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?

I will come to Edom [suddenly] like [SIM] a lion comes out of the jungle and [leaps on the sheep that are] eating in the good pastureland. I will quickly chase the people of Edom from their land. And [then] I will appoint for them a leader whom I will choose; [I can do that] because there is no one [RHQ] like me who can object to what I do. No ruler can oppose 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.

Listen to what I have planned to do to the people of Teman [town] and [the rest of] Edom: Even the little children will be dragged away, and I will completely get rid of the people [MET] who live there.

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

When Edom is destroyed, the noise [will be extremely great], with the result that the earth will shake, and the wailing of the people will be heard [as far away as] 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."

Look! The enemy troops will swoop/rush down over Bozrah like an eagle spreads its wings when it swoops down [to seize an animal]. On that day, [even the strongest] warriors of Edom will [be afraid] like [SIM] a woman who is about to give birth.”

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

[This message is] about Damascus. [This is what Yahweh says]: “[The people in the nearby cities of] Hamath and Arpad are confused, because they have heard bad news [about Damascus]. They are very anxious and restless, like [SIM] a sea in a big storm.

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.

The people of Damascus have become very weak, and [they all] have (panicked/fled [because] they are very afraid). The people are anguished and in pain like [SIM] a woman [experiences] who is about to give birth.

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

That famous city, that I was [previously] pleased with, will be abandoned.

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.

Its young men will fall in the streets. Its soldiers will all be killed in one day.

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

And I, the Commander of the armies of angels, will start a fire to burn the walls that surround Damascus, and the palaces of [King] Ben-Hadad will be burned down.”

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!

[This is a message] about the Kedar [people-group] and the kingdom of Hazor which [the army of] Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon attacked. This is what Yahweh says: “[I will cause an army to] advance to attack Kedar and destroy those people who live east [of Judah].

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 [of sheep] will be captured. The curtains [in their tents] and their camels and their other possessions will be taken away. [Everywhere] men will shout, ‘We are terrified [because terrible things are happening] all around us!’

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.

So [I, ] Yahweh, say, ‘Run away [quickly]! You people who live in Hazor, go and hide in deep [caves], because King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon wants to attack you [with his army]; he is planning to destroy you!’

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!

But I say [to Nebuchadnezzar], ‘Go up and attack that nation whose people feel secure; they do not have allies [who will help them] and do not have [walls with] gates that have bars in them.

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.

Your troops will seize their camels and [other] livestock. I will scatter in every direction [IDM] those people who live in remote places (OR, who cut their hair short). I will cause them to experience disasters from every direction.

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."

Hazor will become a place where jackals/wolves live, and it will be deserted forever. No one will live there again; no one will settle there [DOU].’”

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

I received this message from Yahweh when King Zedekiah was starting to rule Judah.

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

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “The men of Elam are famous (archers/men who shoot arrows well); that is how they have made their country very powerful. But I will get rid of them [MET].

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.

I will bring their enemies from all directions [IDM, DOU], and they will scatter the people of Elam in all directions. The people of Elam will be exiled to every nation on the earth [LIT, HYP].

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.

Because I am very angry with the people of Elam, I will enable their enemies to smash Elam; I will cause the people of Elam to experience great disasters. I will enable their enemies, who want to kill them, to pursue them [and kill them] with swords until I completely get rid of all of them.

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

I, Yahweh, will judge them there [MTY], and [then] I will get rid of their king and [his] officials.

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

But some day, I will enable the people of Elam to return to their land. [That will surely happen because I, ] Yahweh, have said it.”