Isaiah 15
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about the Moab [people-group]: In one night [two of your important cities], Ar and Kir, will be destroyed.
L’oracle touchant Moab. Car, dans la nuit où elle est dévastée, Ar de Moab est détruite, car, dans la nuit où elle est dévastée, Kir de Moab est détruite: …
2 The people of Dibon, [your capital city, ] will go to their temple to mourn/weep; they will go to [their shrines] on the hilltops to weep. They will wail because of [what happened to] Nebo and Medeba [towns in the south]; they will all shave the hair of their heads, and the men will cut off their beards [to show that they are grieving].
Il est monté à Baïth et à Dibon, aux hauts lieux, pour pleurer; Moab hurle sur Nebo et sur Médeba; toutes les têtes sont chauves, toute barbe est coupée.
3 In the streets people will wear rough sackcloth, and on their [flat] rooftops and in the [city] plazas everyone will wail, with tears streaming down their faces.
Dans ses rues, ils ont ceint le sac; sur ses toits et dans ses places tout gémit, se fondant en pleurs;
4 [The people of] Heshbon [city] and Elealeh [towns in the north of Moab] will cry out; people as far away as Jahaz [town in the south] will hear them wailing. Therefore the soldiers of Moab will tremble and cry out and they will be very afraid [IDM].
et Hesbon pousse des cris, et Elhalé: leur voix est entendue jusqu’à Jahats. C’est pourquoi les gens armés de Moab crient, son âme tremble en lui.
5 I feel very sorry for [the people of] Moab; they will flee to Zoar and Eglath-Shelishiyah [towns in the far south]. They will cry as they walk up to Luhith [town]. All along the road to Horonaim [town] people will mourn because their country has been destroyed.
Mon cœur pousse des cris au sujet de Moab; ses fugitifs [vont] jusqu’à Tsoar, [jusqu’à] Églath-Shelishija; car ils montent la montée de Lukhith en pleurant, et sur le chemin de Horonaïm ils élèvent un cri de ruine.
6 The water in Nimrim [Valley] will have dried up. The grass there will be withered; the green plants will [all] be gone, and there will be nothing left that is green.
Car les eaux de Nimrim seront des désolations; car l’herbage est desséché, l’herbe verte a péri, la verdure n’est plus.
7 The people will pick up their possessions and carry them across Willows Brook.
C’est pourquoi, les biens qu’ils ont acquis, et leur réserve, ils les portent au ruisseau des saules.
8 Throughout the country of Moab, [people] will be crying; people as far away as Eglaim [in the south] and Beer-Elim [in the north] will hear them wailing.
Car un cri environne la frontière de Moab: son hurlement [se fait entendre] jusqu’à Églaïm, et le hurlement jusqu’à Beër-Élim.
9 The stream near Dimon will become red from the blood [of people who have been killed], but I will cause the people of Moab to experience even more [trouble]: Lions will attack those who [are trying to] escape from Moab and will [also] attack the people who remain in that country.
Car les eaux de Dimon sont pleines de sang; car je ferai venir encore davantage sur Dimon: le lion sur les réchappés de Moab et sur ce qui reste du pays.
