Jérémie 36
1 Voici les paroles de l'écrit que Jérémie envoya de Jérusalem aux anciens de l'émigration, aux prêtres et aux faux prophètes; lettre adressée en Babylone aux captifs et à tout le peuple,
It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Après le départ du roi Jéchonias, et de la reine, et des eunuques, et de tout homme libre, et de tout esclave, et de tout artisan de Jérusalem,
"Take a scroll, and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
3 Par les mains d'Éléasar, fils de Sapha et de Gamarias, fils d'Helcias, que Sédécias, roi de Juda, envoya au roi de Babylone, disant:
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."
4 Ainsi parle le Seigneur, Dieu d'Israël, sur les captifs que j'ai transportés de Jérusalem:
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll.
5 Bâtissez des maisons, et habitez-les; plantez des arbres et mangez-en les fruits.
Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am shut up; I can't go into the house of the LORD:
6 Prenez des femmes et engendrez des fils et des filles; prenez pour vos fils des femmes, et donnez vos filles à des hommes: multipliez et ne décroissez pas.
therefore you go, and read from the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
7 Et cherchez la paix en la contrée où je vous ai transportés, et priez le Seigneur pour ses peuples; car en leur paix réside votre paix.
It may be they will present their petition before the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people."
8 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Que les faux prophètes qui sont avec vous, que vos devins ne vous séduisent pas; et n'ayez point confiance aux songes que vous aurez songés.
Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.
9 C'est à tort qu'ils vous prophétisent en mon nom, et je ne les ai pas envoyés.
Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before the LORD.
10 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Lorsque les soixante-dix ans seront près d'être révolus en Babylone, je vous visiterai et je confirmerai mes paroles sur vous, en ramenant votre peuple en ce lieu.
Then Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
11 Car j'ai sur vous des pensées de paix, et non de malheur, pour vous donner ces biens.
When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard from the scroll all the words of the LORD,
12 Priez-moi, et je vous exaucerai.
he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's room: and look, all the officials were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the officials.
13 Cherchez-moi, et vous me trouverez. Parce que, si vous me cherchez de tout votre cœur,
Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.
14 Je me manifesterai à vous,
Therefore all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand, and came to them.
15 Parce que vous direz: Le Seigneur a institué pour nous des prophètes en Babylone.
They said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our ears." So Baruch read it in their ears.
16 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, "We will surely tell the king of all these words."
17 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
They asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?"
18 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Then Baruch answered them, "He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink on the scroll."
19 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are."
20 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
They went in to the king into the court; but they had put the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
21 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the officials who stood beside the king.
22 Et parmi tous les captifs en Babylone, c'est d'eux que l'on se servira pour maudire, disant: Puisse le Seigneur te traiter comme il a traité Sédécias et Achiab, que le roi de Babylone a fait frire dans le feu,
Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.
23 Parce qu'ils avaient fait l'iniquité en Israël; qu'ils avaient commis des adultères avec les femmes de leurs concitoyens, et dit en mon nom des paroles que je ne leur avais point commandé; et j'en porte témoignage, dit le Seigneur,
It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that the king cut it with a knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
24 Et à Séméi l'Élamite tu diras:
They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
25 Je ne t'ai point envoyé en mon nom. Et à Sophonias, fils de Messie, le prêtre, dis encore:
Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.
26 Le Seigneur t'a établi prêtre à la place du prêtre Joad, pour que tu sois, dans le temple du Seigneur, le maître de tout faux prophète et de tout homme en délire; et ceux-là, fais-les mettre en prison et au cachot.
The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but the LORD hid them.
27 Et maintenant pourquoi tous ensemble injuriez-vous Jérémie, d'Anathoth, qui prophétisait pour vous?
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28 Ne vous a-t-il pas envoyé une lettre à ce sujet? Dans le cours de ce mois, il vous l'a envoyée à Babylone, disant: Ce sera long; bâtissez donc des maisons et habitez-les; plantez des jardins et manges-en les fruits.
"Take again another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
29 Or Sophonie lut la lettre aux oreilles de Jérémie,
Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'Thus says the LORD: "You have burned this scroll, saying, 'Why have you written in it, saying, "The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?"'"
30 Et la parole du Seigneur vint à Jérémie, disant:
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
31 Envoie-les aux captifs, disant: Ainsi parle le Seigneur sur Jérémie l'Elamite: Puisque Séméi vous a prophétisé sans être envoyé par moi, et qu'il a gagné votre confiance injustement,
I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they did not listen."'"
32 A cause de cela, dit le Seigneur, je visiterai Séméi et sa race, et il n'en restera pas un homme parmi vous, pour voir le bien que je vous ferai; non, ils ne le verront pas.
Then Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the instruction of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like words.
