Jeremias 27
1 THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
Au début du règne de Joïakim, fils de Josias, roi de Juda, la révélation suivante fut adressée à Jérémie de la part de l’Eternel.
2 Proclaim you among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say you, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
Voici ce que me dit l’Eternel: "Fais-toi des liens et des jougs, pose-les sur ton cou;
3 For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
puis, tu les enverras au roi d’Edom, au roi de Moab, au roi des Ammonites, au roi de Tyr et au roi de Sidon par l’entremise des ambassadeurs qui sont venus à Jérusalem auprès de Sédécias, roi de Juda.
4 In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
Tu leur recommanderas de dire à leurs maîtres: Ainsi parle l’Eternel-Cébaoth, Dieu d’Israël: Vous direz ceci à vos maîtres:
5 They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
C’Est moi qui, par ma grande puissance et mon bras étendu, ai créé la terre, les hommes et les animaux qui couvrent la terre, et je l’ai donnée à qui il me plaisait.
6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
Or, maintenant je livre tous ces pays au pouvoir de Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, mon serviteur; même les animaux des champs, je les lui livre pour qu’ils le servent.
7 All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
Tous les peuples le serviront, lui, son fils et son petit-fils, jusqu’à ce que pour son pays aussi arrive le jour où des peuples puissants et de grands rois le réduiront en servitude.
8 Flee you out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
S’Il est un peuple, un royaume qui refuse de se soumettre à lui, Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, et d’engager son cou dans le joug du roi de Babylone, ce peuple, je le châtierai par le glaive, la famine et la peste, dit l’Eternel, jusqu’à ce que je l’aie anéanti par sa main.
9 For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
Vous donc, n’écoutez ni vos prophètes, ni vos devins, ni vos songes, ni vos augures, ni vos magiciens qui, eux, vous disent: Vous ne serez point asservis au roi de Babylone!
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
Car c’est des mensonges qu’ils vous prophétisent, qui auront pour conséquence que vous serez éloignés de votre pays, que je vous bannirai et consommerai votre ruine.
11 Because you rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because you exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
Tandis que le peuple qui engagera son cou dans le joug du roi de Babylone et qui se soumettra à lui, je le maintiendrai, dit l’Eternel, dans son pays, qu’il pourra cultiver et habiter.
12 Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
A Sédécias aussi, roi de Juda, j’ai adressé des discours exactement pareils, disant: Engagez votre cou dans le joug du roi de Babylone, soumettez-vous à lui et à son peuple, et vous vivrez.
13 by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
Pourquoi voudriez-vous périr, toi et ton peuple, par le glaive, la famine et la peste, comme Dieu l’a prédit au peuple qui refuserait soumission au roi de Babylone?
14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
N’Écoutez donc pas les paroles des prophètes vous disant: Ne vous soumettez point au roi de Babylone! car c’est des mensonges qu’ils vous prophétisent.
15 and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
Car je ne les ai chargés d’aucune mission, dit l’Eternel; mais eux prophétisent en mon nom mensongèrement, de façon à ce que je vous bannisse et que vous périssiez, vous et les prophètes qui vous adressent ces prophéties.
16 Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
Aux prêtres aussi et à tout ce peuple j’ai parlé en ces termes: Voici ce que dit l’Eternel: N’Écoutez point les discours de vos prophètes qui vous annoncent ceci: Bientôt maintenant les vases du Temple de l’Eternel seront rapportés de Babylone; car c’est des mensonges qu’ils vous débitent.
17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.
Ne les écoutez point! Servez plutôt le roi de Babylone et vous aurez la vie sauve! Pourquoi cette ville deviendrait-elle une ruine?
18 Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.
Si ce sont réellement des prophètes et si la parole de Dieu se communique à eux, eh bien! qu’ils sollicitent donc l’Eternel-Cebaot, afin que les vases qui restent encore dans le Temple de l’Eternel, dans le palais du roi de Juda et à Jérusalem, ne soient pas aussi transportés à Babylone.
19 And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
Car voici ce que dit l’Eternel-Cebaot au sujet des colonnes, de la Mer, des supports et des autres vases qui sont restés dans cette ville,
20 In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left
que Nabuchodonosor n’a pas enlevés quand il exila leconia, fils de Joïakim, roi de Juda, de Jérusalem à Babylone, avec tous les grands de Juda et de Jérusalem;
21 on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.
oui, voici ce que dit l’Eternel-Cebaot, Dieu d’Israël, au sujet des vases qui sont restés dans la maison de l’Eternel, dans le palais du roi de Juda et à Jérusalem:
22 A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
Ils seront transportés à Babylone et y resteront jusqu’au jour où je me souviendrai d’eux, dit l’Eternel, pour les faire rapporter et réintégrer en ces lieux.
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
24 They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, Babylon, that you will even be taken captive: you are found and taken, because you did resist the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 For her times are come: open you her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
27 Dry you up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
28 A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.
29 Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.
31 Behold, I am against you the haughty one, says the Lord: for your day is come, and the time of your retribution.
32 And your pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
33 Thus says the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
34 But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
35 and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
36 a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
37 a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
38 and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.
39 Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.
41 Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:
42 [the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
44 Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
46 For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.
