Lamentations 2

1 Comment, dans sa colère, le Seigneur a-t-il couvert d’un nuage la fille de Sion! Il a jeté des cieux sur la terre la beauté d’Israël, et, au jour de sa colère, il ne s’est pas souvenu du marchepied de ses pieds.

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

2 Le Seigneur a englouti, sans épargner, toutes les habitations de Jacob; il a renversé dans sa fureur les forteresses de la fille de Juda; il a jeté par terre, il a profané le royaume et ses princes.

The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

3 Il a retranché, dans l’ardeur de sa colère, toute la corne d’Israël; il a retiré sa droite devant l’ennemi, et il a brûlé en Jacob comme un feu flamboyant qui dévore à l’entour.

In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.

4 Il a bandé son arc comme un ennemi; il s’est tenu là avec sa droite comme un adversaire, et il a tué tout ce qui était agréable à l’œil dans la tente de la fille de Sion; il a versé, comme un feu, sa fureur.

His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

5 Le Seigneur a été comme un ennemi; il a englouti Israël; il a englouti tous ses palais, il a détruit ses forteresses, et il a multiplié chez la fille de Juda le gémissement et la plainte.

The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

6 Il a saccagé sa clôture comme un jardin; il a détruit le lieu de son assemblée. L’Éternel a fait oublier dans Sion jour solennel et sabbat; et, dans l’indignation de sa colère, il a méprisé roi et sacrificateur.

And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

7 Le Seigneur a rejeté son autel, il a répudié son sanctuaire; il a livré en la main de l’ennemi les murs de ses palais; on a poussé des cris dans la maison de l’Éternel comme au jour d’une fête solennelle.

The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

8 L’Éternel s’est proposé de détruire la muraille de la fille de Sion; il a étendu le cordeau, il n’a pas retiré sa main pour cesser de détruire; et il fait mener deuil au rempart et à la muraille: ils languissent ensemble.

It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

9 Ses portes sont enfoncées dans la terre; il a détruit et brisé ses barres; son roi et ses princes sont parmi les nations; la loi n’est plus; ses prophètes aussi ne trouvent pas de vision de la part de l’Éternel.

Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

10 Les anciens de la fille de Sion sont assis par terre, ils gardent le silence; ils ont mis de la poussière sur leur tête, ils se sont ceints de sacs; les vierges de Jérusalem baissent leur tête vers la terre.

The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.

11 Mes yeux se consument dans les larmes, mes entrailles sont agitées, mon foie s’est répandu sur la terre, à cause de la ruine de la fille de mon peuple, parce que les enfants et ceux qui tètent défaillent dans les places de la ville.

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

12 Ils disent à leurs mères: Où est le blé et le vin? – défaillant dans les places de la ville comme des blessés à mort, [et] rendant l’âme sur le sein de leurs mères.

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.

13 Quel témoignage t’apporterai-je? Que comparerai-je à toi, fille de Jérusalem? Qui est-ce que j’égalerai à toi, afin que je te console, vierge, fille de Sion? car ta ruine est grande comme la mer: qui te guérira?

What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?

14 Tes prophètes ont vu pour toi la vanité et la folie, et ils n’ont pas mis à découvert ton iniquité pour détourner ta captivité; mais ils ont vu pour toi des oracles de vanité et de séduction.

The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.

15 Tous ceux qui passent par le chemin battent des mains sur toi; ils sifflent et branlent la tête sur la fille de Jérusalem: Est-ce ici la ville dont on disait: La parfaite en beauté, la joie de toute la terre?

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

16 Tous tes ennemis ouvrent la bouche sur toi; ils sifflent et grincent des dents; ils disent: Nous les avons engloutis; oui, c’est ici le jour que nous attendions! Nous l’avons trouvé, nous l’avons vu!

All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

17 L’Éternel a fait ce qu’il s’était proposé, il a accompli sa parole qu’il avait commandée dès les jours d’autrefois; il a renversé et n’a point épargné, et il a fait que l’ennemi s’est réjoui sur toi; il a élevé la corne de tes adversaires.

The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

18 Leur cœur a crié au Seigneur. Muraille de la fille de Sion, laisse couler des larmes jour et nuit, comme un torrent; ne te donne pas de relâche, que la prunelle de tes yeux ne cesse point!

Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.

19 Lève-toi, crie de nuit au commencement des veilles; répands ton cœur comme de l’eau devant la face du Seigneur. Lève tes mains vers lui pour la vie de tes petits enfants qui défaillent de faim au coin de toutes les rues.

Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

20 Regarde, Éternel, et considère à qui tu as fait ainsi! Les femmes dévoreront-elles leur fruit, les petits enfants dont elles prennent soin? Tuera-t-on le sacrificateur et le prophète dans le sanctuaire du Seigneur?

Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

21 L’enfant et le vieillard sont couchés par terre dans les rues; mes vierges et mes jeunes hommes sont tombés par l’épée: tu as tué au jour de ta colère, tu as égorgé, tu n’as point épargné!

The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

22 Tu as convoqué, comme en un jour de fête solennelle, mes terreurs de toutes parts; et au jour de la colère de l’Éternel, il n’y a eu ni réchappé, ni reste: ceux dont j’avais pris soin et que j’avais élevés, mon ennemi les a consumés.

As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.