Yesaya 63

Bagian: Penglihatan Yesaya: TUHAN menghukum bangsa Edom

1 Aku melihat seseorang datang dari kota Bosra di negeri Edom.
Dia berjalan dengan gagah perkasa.
Pakaiannya mewah, bermandikan warna merah.
“Siapakah dia?” tanyaku.
“Itulah Aku,” jawab TUHAN.
“Aku, yang perkataan-Nya benar.
Aku, yang berkuasa menyelamatkan.” 2 “Mengapa pakaian-Mu berlumuran merah
seperti orang yang baru menginjak-injak anggur di tempat pemerasan?” tanyaku lagi. 3 Kata TUHAN:
Karena memang negeri Edom ibarat tempat pemerasan anggur bagi-Ku.
Seorang diri Aku menginjak-injak penduduknya sampai lumat.
Tak ada seorang pun yang membantu-Ku.
Dalam murka-Ku, Aku telah menginjak-injak seisi Edom
dan darah mereka terciprat ke pakaian-Ku
hingga seluruhnya bernoda merah. 4 Aku melakukan itu karena sudah tiba waktunya
untuk membalaskan kejahatan Edom
dan menebus umat-Ku. 5 Selama ini Aku menanti-nanti,
namun tak ada satu pun yang menolong kaum yang tertindas.
Maka Aku sendiri turun tangan menyelamatkan.
Dengan murka-Ku sendiri Aku bertindak. 6 Aku menginjak-injak bangsa-bangsa dalam kemarahan-Ku.
Mereka menelan murka itu banyak-banyak hingga tak berdaya seperti orang mabuk.
Darah mereka Aku tumpahkan di muka bumi.

Bagian: Yesaya mengingat kemurahan hati TUHAN di masa lalu

7 Aku hendak memuji-muji TUHAN atas kebaikan-kebaikan-Nya
yang telah berulang kali Dia tunjukkan
dengan segala kemurahan yang Dia berikan kepada kita, umat Israel, sejak semula,
sebab belas kasih-Nya besar dan kesetiaan-Nya melimpah-limpah. 8 Karena Dia berkata,
“Mereka sungguh adalah umat-Ku,
anak-anak yang akan setia kepada-Ku.”
Dan Dia pun menyelamatkan mereka. 9 Saat mereka menderita, Dia pun menderita.
Dan dari hadirat-Nya, seorang utusan datang menyelamatkan.
Karena cinta dan belas kasihan-Nya, TUHAN menyelamatkan umat-Nya.
Dahulu kala diangkat-Nya mereka dan ditopang-Nya selalu. 10 Namun, mereka memberontak terhadap Dia
sehingga membuat Roh Kudus-Nya berduka.
Maka TUHAN berbalik menjadi musuh mereka
dan Dia sendiri memerangi mereka. 11 Tetapi kemudian umat-Nya mengingat zaman dahulu kala
ketika Musa memimpin nenek moyang mereka.
Mereka merindukan masa itu, ketika TUHAN menuntun umat-Nya melewati laut
seperti gembala menuntun kawanan domba.
Mereka menginginkan lagi saat-saat ketika Roh Kudus TUHAN tinggal di antara umat-Nya. 12 Mereka mendambakan masa itu, ketika TUHAN menyertai Musa dengan kuasa-Nya.
Dia membelah lautan sehingga nama-Nya termasyhur di antara bangsa-bangsa. 13 Waktu itu, Dia memimpin mereka melewati air yang dalam.
Dan ketika melintasi padang belantara, Dia membuat mereka berjalan kuat bagai kuda
sehingga mereka tidak pernah tersandung. 14 Waktu itu, Roh TUHAN memberi mereka ketenangan
seperti kawanan gembalaan turun merumput ke lembah.
Ya TUHAN, demikianlah dahulu Engkau memimpin umat-Mu
sehingga nama-Mu terkenal mulia.
Tetapi sekarang, di manakah TUHAN yang melakukan semuanya itu?
Akankah Engkau bertindak lagi? 15 Pandanglah ke bawah dari surga, ya TUHAN.
Lihatlah kami dari tempat kediaman-Mu yang kudus dan megah.
Tunjukkan kembali kedahsyatan-Mu dan perbuatan ajaib-Mu.
Janganlah menahan belas kasih dan rasa sayang-Mu terhadap kami. 16 Sebab Engkaulah Bapa kami!
Abraham dan Yakub mungkin tidak lagi mengakui kami sebagai keturunan mereka,
tetapi Engkau, TUHAN, adalah Bapa kami.
Sejak semula sampai selamanya Engkaulah Penebus kami. 17 TUHAN, mengapa Engkau membiarkan kami menyimpang dari jalan-Mu?
Mengapa Engkau mengeraskan hati kami, sehingga kami tidak hormat dan takut akan Engkau?
Kembalilah, ya TUHAN, demi hamba-hamba-Mu ini,
kaum-kaum milik-Mu turun temurun. 18 Baru sebentar saja umat kudus-Mu memiliki tanah ini,
tetapi kemudian musuh-musuh kami datang meruntuhkannya serta menginjak-injak rumah-Mu. 19 Sekarang keadaan kami sangat menyedihkan.
Tidak tersisa lagi tanda-tanda bahwa Engkau pernah memimpin kami.
Kami seakan tak pernah menjadi milik-Mu.

1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.” 2 Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat? 3 “I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me.
Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing. 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. 5 I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold.
Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me. 6 I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.” 7 I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 8 For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior. 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit.
Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them. 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying,
“Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?” 12 Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble? 14 As the livestock that go down into the valley, Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest. So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name. 15 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. 16 For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. 17 O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. 19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.