Jeremias 27
1 THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
Au commencement du règne de Jehoïakim, fils de Josias, roi de Juda, cette parole vint de par l’Éternel à Jérémie, disant:
2 Proclaim you amongst 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.
Ainsi me dit l’Éternel: Fais-toi des liens et des jougs, et mets-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.
et envoie-les au roi d’Édom, et au roi de Moab, et au roi des fils d’Ammon, et au roi de Tyr, et au roi de Sidon, par la main des messagers qui sont venus à Jérusalem vers 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.
et commande-leur, pour leurs seigneurs, disant: Ainsi dit l’Éternel des armées, le Dieu d’Israël: Vous direz ainsi à vos seigneurs:
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.
Moi, j’ai fait la terre, l’homme et la bête qui sont sur la face de la terre, par ma grande puissance et par mon bras étendu, et je les ai donnés à qui il était bon à mes yeux.
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.
Et maintenant j’ai livré tous ces pays en la main de Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, mon serviteur, et je lui ai aussi donné les bêtes des champs pour le servir.
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.
Et toutes les nations le serviront, lui, et son fils et le fils de son fils, jusqu’à ce que vienne le temps de son pays aussi, et que plusieurs nations et de grands rois l’asservissent.
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.
Et il arrivera que la nation ou le royaume qui ne le servira pas, lui, Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, et qui n’aura pas mis son cou sous le joug du roi de Babylone, je visiterai cette nation, dit l’Éternel, par l’épée, et par la famine, et par la peste, jusqu’à ce que je les aie consumés 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.
Et vous, n’écoutez pas vos prophètes, et vos devins, et vos songeurs, et vos pronostiqueurs, et vos magiciens, qui vous parlent, disant: Vous ne servirez point le roi de Babylone.
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
Car ils vous prophétisent le mensonge, pour vous faire aller loin de votre terre, et pour que je vous jette dehors, et que vous périssiez.
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.
Et la nation qui mettra son cou sous le joug du roi de Babylone et le servira, je la laisserai dans sa terre, dit l’Éternel, et elle la labourera et y demeurera.
12 Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
Et je parlai à Sédécias, roi de Juda, selon toutes ces paroles, disant: Prêtez vos cous au joug du roi de Babylone, et servez-le, lui et 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 mourriez-vous, toi et ton peuple, par l’épée, par la famine, et par la peste, selon que l’Éternel a parlé contre la nation qui ne servira pas le 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,
Et n’écoutez pas les paroles des prophètes qui vous parlent, disant: Vous ne servirez pas le roi de Babylone; car ils vous prophétisent le mensonge.
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 pas envoyés, dit l’Éternel, et ils prophétisent le mensonge en mon nom, afin que je vous jette dehors et que vous périssiez, vous et les prophètes qui vous prophétisent.
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.
Et je parlai aux sacrificateurs et à tout ce peuple, disant: Ainsi dit l’Éternel: N’écoutez point les paroles de vos prophètes qui vous prophétisent, disant: Voici, les ustensiles de la maison de l’Éternel vont bientôt revenir de Babylone; car c’est le mensonge qu’ils vous prophétisent.
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 pas; servez le roi de Babylone, et vivez. Pourquoi cette ville serait-elle un désert?
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.
Et s’ils sont prophètes, et si la parole de l’Éternel est avec eux, qu’ils intercèdent auprès de l’Éternel des armées, afin que les ustensiles qui restent dans la maison de l’Éternel, et dans la maison du roi de Juda, et à Jérusalem, n’aillent point 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 ainsi dit l’Éternel des armées touchant les colonnes, et touchant la mer, et touchant les socles, et touchant le reste des ustensiles qui sont de reste 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 n’a pas pris Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, quand il transporta de Jérusalem à Babylone Jéconias, fils de Jehoïakim, roi de Juda, et tous les nobles 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.
car ainsi dit l’Éternel des armées, le Dieu d’Israël, touchant les ustensiles qui restent dans la maison de l’Éternel, et dans la maison du roi de Juda, et à Jérusalem:
22 A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
Ils seront emportés à Babylone, et ils seront là jusqu’au jour où je m’en occuperai, dit l’Éternel, et où je les ferai remonter et revenir dans ce lieu.
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation amongst 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 judgement 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 amongst the nations.
