¹Inilah pesan tentang Lembah Penglihatan: Hai, penduduk Yerusalem, mengapa kamu semua naik ke atap rumah?

¹The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

²Tidak patut seluruh kota berpesta-pesta dan bersorak gembira. Sebab pejuang-pejuangmu yang mati dalam perang ini bukan mati karena bertempur.

²You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

³Semua panglimamu melarikan diri dan ditawan sebelum mereka sempat menembakkan panah. Semua orang kuatmu tertawan juga walaupun sudah lari jauh.

³All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

⁴Jangan perhatikan aku; biarkan aku meratapi orang-orang dari bangsaku yang telah tewas. Jangan coba menghibur aku.

⁴Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁵Memang, TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi dan Mahakuasa telah menetapkan hari ini sebagai hari kekacauan, kegemparan dan huru-hara di Lembah Penglihatan. Tembok-tembok kota sudah dirobohkan. Teriakan minta tolong bergema di bukit-bukit.

⁵For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

⁶Orang Siria datang dengan kuda dan kereta perang, orang Elam bersenjatakan busur dan panah, orang Kir menyiapkan perisainya.

⁶Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

⁷Lembah-lembah subur Yehuda penuh dengan kereta perang. Pasukan berkuda siap di depan gerbang-gerbang Yerusalem.

⁷It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

⁸Seluruh pertahanan Yehuda runtuh. Pada waktu itu, kamu memeriksa alat-alat perang di gudang senjata.

⁸He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

⁹Kamu menemukan banyak sekali retak di tembok kota Yerusalem yang perlu diperbaiki. Kamu memeriksa semua rumah di Yerusalem, membongkar beberapa di antaranya dan memakai batunya untuk memperbaiki tembok kota. Untuk mengumpulkan air,

⁹You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

¹⁰(22:9)

¹⁰You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

¹¹kamu membuat kolam di dalam kota dan menampung air dari kolam lama. Tetapi kamu tidak memperhatikan Allah yang sudah lama merencanakan semua itu, dan yang menyebabkan itu terjadi.

¹¹You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

¹²Pada waktu itu TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi dan Mahakuasa menyuruh kamu menangis dan meratap, mencukur kepala dan mengenakan kain karung.

¹²In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

¹³Tapi sebaliknya, kamu bersenang-senang dan berpesta. Kamu menyembelih sapi dan domba, makan daging dan minum air anggur sambil berseru, "Marilah kita makan dan minum, sebab besok kita mati!"

¹³and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

¹⁴TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi dan Mahakuasa menyatakan diri kepadaku dan berkata, "Sungguh, kejahatan mereka itu tak akan Kuampuni sampai mereka mati. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."

¹⁴Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

¹⁵TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi dan Mahakuasa menyuruh aku menemui Sebna, kepala rumah tangga istana, untuk menyampaikan kepadanya pesan TUHAN ini,

¹⁵Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

¹⁶"Sangkamu engkau ini siapa? Apa hakmu sehingga engkau memahat kuburan bagimu di bukit batu?

¹⁶‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

¹⁷Awas, Aku akan membuang engkau jauh-jauh. Engkau akan Kucekam dan Kugulung-gulung lalu Kugulingkan seperti bola ke negeri yang besar. Di sana engkau akan mati di samping kereta-kereta kebanggaanmu. Engkau telah mencemarkan nama keluarga tuanmu.

¹⁷Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

¹⁸(22:17)

¹⁸He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.

¹⁹Sebab itu engkau akan Kupecat dari jabatanmu dan Kuturunkan dari pangkatmu yang tinggi.

¹⁹I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

²⁰Pada waktu itu Aku akan memanggil hamba-Ku Elyakim anak Hilkia.

²⁰It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

²¹Pakaian kebesaran dan ikat pinggangmu akan Kukenakan padanya. Segala kekuasaanmu akan Kuberikan kepadanya. Ia akan menjadi bapak bagi penduduk Yerusalem dan Yehuda.

²¹and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

²²Ia akan berkuasa penuh di bawah raja keturunan Daud. Ia akan memegang kunci kerajaan. Kalau ia membuka, tak ada yang dapat menutup, dan kalau ia menutup, tak ada yang dapat membuka.

²²I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

²³Dia akan Kuberi kedudukan yang teguh seperti pasak terpasang kuat pada tembok. Seluruh keluarganya akan dihormati karena dia.

²³I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

²⁴Tetapi kaum kerabat dan tanggungannya akan menjadi beban baginya. Mereka akan menggantungkan diri kepadanya, seperti periuk belanga bergantungan pada pasak.

²⁴They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

²⁵Kalau itu terjadi, maka pasak yang dipasang dengan kuat itu akan terlepas dan jatuh. Dan itulah penghabisan kaum keluarga dan semua orang yang menggantungkan diri kepadanya. Aku, TUHAN, telah berbicara."

²⁵“In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”