¹Celakalah kamu yang membuat hukum-hukum yang tak adil untuk menindas bangsa-Ku.

¹Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

²Dengan cara itu kamu mencegah orang miskin mendapat hak dan keadilan, dan merampas milik para janda dan yatim piatu.

²to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

³Apa yang akan kamu buat pada hari Allah menghukum kamu? Apa dayamu pada waktu Ia mendatangkan bencana dari negeri yang jauh? Kepada siapa kamu akan minta tolong? Di mana akan kamu sembunyikan kekayaanmu itu?

³What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

⁴Nasibmu hanyalah dibunuh dalam perang atau digiring sebagai tawanan. Tetapi TUHAN masih marah dan tetap menghukum.

⁴They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁵TUHAN berkata, "Celakalah Asyur! Asyur Kupakai sebagai cambuk dan pentung untuk memukul orang-orang yang kena kemarahan-Ku.

⁵Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

⁶Aku mengirim Asyur untuk menyerang bangsa-Ku yang murtad dan yang membuat Aku marah. Aku mengutus Asyur untuk merampok dan mencuri dan menginjak-injak bangsa-Ku seperti debu di jalan."

⁶I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷Tetapi raja Asyur mempunyai rencananya sendiri. Ia bertekad untuk memakai kekerasan dan membinasakan banyak bangsa.

⁷However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

⁸Ia menyombongkan diri, katanya, "Panglima-panglimaku semuanya raja-raja!

⁸For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

⁹Kurebut kota-kota Kalno dan Karkemis, Hamat dan Arpad. Kurebut juga kota-kota Samaria dan Damsyik.

⁹Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

¹⁰Kukalahkan kerajaan-kerajaan yang menyembah berhala-berhala yang lebih berkuasa dari yang ada di Yerusalem dan Samaria.

¹⁰As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹¹Samaria dan semua berhalanya sudah kubinasakan. Yang sama akan kulakukan di Yerusalem dengan semua berhala yang disembah di sana."

¹¹shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹²Tetapi TUHAN berkata, "Kalau yang hendak Kulakukan di Bukit Sion dan di Yerusalem itu sudah selesai, Aku akan menghukum raja Asyur karena kesombongan dan keangkuhannya."

¹²Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

¹³Raja Asyur membual, katanya, "Semua itu kulakukan dengan kuasaku sendiri. Aku bijaksana dan pintar. Kuhapus batas-batas antara bangsa-bangsa, dan kurampas persediaan mereka. Seperti banteng aku menginjak-injak orang-orang yang memerintah.

¹³For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

¹⁴Bangsa-bangsa di dunia seperti sarang burung; dengan gampang harta mereka kuambil, seperti orang meraup telur yang ditinggalkan di sarang. Tak ada sayap yang menggelepar, tak ada yang membuka paruhnya atau menciap-ciap."

¹⁴My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

¹⁵Tetapi TUHAN berkata, "Dapatkah kapak membanggakan diri terhadap orang yang memakainya? Apakah gergaji lebih penting dari orang yang menggunakannya? Bukan pentung yang mengangkat orang, melainkan oranglah yang mengangkat pentung."

¹⁵Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

¹⁶Karena orang Asyur telah menyombongkan diri, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa akan mendatangkan wabah penyakit untuk menghukum perwira-perwira yang tegap-tegap. Mereka akan mengidap demam tinggi seperti api yang membakar terus-menerus.

¹⁶Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

¹⁷Allah yang suci, Cahaya Israel, akan menjadi seperti nyala api yang dalam satu hari membakar habis segala sesuatu, bahkan semak-semak berduri.

¹⁷The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

¹⁸Hutan-hutan lebat dan ladang-ladang subur di negeri Asyur akan dibinasakan sama sekali, seperti orang sakit yang merana sampai mati.

¹⁸He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

¹⁹Pohon-pohon akan tinggal sedikit saja, sehingga anak kecil pun dapat menghitungnya.

¹⁹The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

²⁰Waktunya akan tiba sisa bangsa Israel yang terluput tidak lagi menggantungkan nasibnya kepada bangsa penguasa yang hampir membinasakan mereka, melainkan kepada TUHAN, Allah kudus Israel.

²⁰It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹Sisa kecil bangsa Israel akan bertobat kepada Allah yang perkasa.

²¹A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

²²Biarpun orang Israel sekarang sama banyaknya dengan butir-butir pasir di laut, hanya beberapa saja akan kembali. Hukuman TUHAN sudah dekat, dan memang pantas dan adil bangsa itu dibinasakan.

²²For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

²³Ya, seluruh negeri akan dihancurkan oleh TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa; itulah keputusan TUHAN, dan tidak dapat diubah lagi.

²³For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.

²⁴TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa berkata kepada umat-Nya yang tinggal di Sion, "Jangan takut kepada orang Asyur, walaupun mereka menindas dan menganiaya kamu seperti yang dilakukan orang Mesir dahulu.

²⁴Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

²⁵Dalam waktu singkat kemarahan-Ku kepadamu berhenti, lalu mereka akan Kubinasakan.

²⁵For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

²⁶Aku TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, akan mencambuk mereka dengan cemeti, seperti Kuhajar orang Midian di gunung batu Oreb. Asyur akan Kuhukum, seperti Aku menghukum Mesir.

²⁶Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

²⁷Pada waktu itu Aku akan membebaskan kamu dari penindasan Asyur, dan mereka tidak lagi berkuasa atas kamu."

²⁷It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

²⁸Tentara Asyur sudah merebut kota Ayat. Mereka sudah melewati Migron! Perbekalan mereka ditinggalkan di Mikhmas!

²⁸He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

²⁹Mereka sudah lewat penyeberangan dan bermalam di Geba! Penduduk kota Rama gemetar, dan penduduk Gibea, kota Raja Saul, telah melarikan diri.

²⁹They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

³⁰Berteriaklah, hai penduduk Galim! Dengarlah, penduduk Laisya! Jawablah, penduduk Anatot!

³⁰Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

³¹Penduduk Madmena dan Gebim lari mengungsi.

³¹Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

³²Hari ini musuh berada di kota Nob, dan di sana mereka mengepalkan tinju ke arah Bukit Sion, ke kota Yerusalem.

³²This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³³TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa akan merobohkan mereka seperti dahan ditebang dari pohon. Yang paling megah dan tinggi di antaranya akan dipotong dan dirobohkan.

³³Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

³⁴TUHAN akan menumbangkan mereka seperti pohon di tengah hutan ditebang dengan kapak. Walaupun mereka kuat seperti pohon yang paling hebat di Libanon, mereka akan roboh juga!

³⁴He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.