Jeremiah 3
1 “[Moses wrote that] if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man, her first husband certainly must not [RHQ] take her back again [to be his wife], because that would certainly [RHQ] cause the whole nation to become unacceptable to me. But you have more [idols than] prostitutes have men whom they have slept with! So, [why should I accept you if] you return to me?” [RHQ] says Yahweh.
Il dit: Quand un homme répudie sa femme, et qu'elle le quitte, et devient la femme d'un autre, peut-il revenir à elle? le pays ne serait-il pas profané? Et toi, tu t'es livrée à nombre d'amants, et tu reviendrais auprès de moi? dit l'Éternel.
2 “Look up at the barren hilltops. On every hilltop there are [RHQ] [idols that you have worshiped]. [It is as though] they are all lovers with whom you have had sex. [It is as though] you have sat along the roadsides like an Arab, waiting [to attack and steal things from] those who pass by. Because of worshiping idols and all the other wicked things that you have done, you have caused the [entire] land to become unacceptable to me.
Lève les yeux vers les hauteurs, et vois! Où n'as-tu pas été impudique? Sur les chemins tu les attendais, telle que l'Arabe dans le désert, et tu souillas le pays par tes prostitutions et ta méchanceté.
3 That is why I have not sent you any rain at the times of the year when you needed it. But you are like prostitutes [MET] who are not at all ashamed [for what they have done].
Aussi les rosées furent-elles supprimées, et les dernières pluies ne vinrent-elles pas; mais tu as eu un front de prostituée, et tu as refusé de rougir.
4 Now each of you says to me, ‘You are my father! You have loved me ever since I was young!
Maintenant, n'est-ce pas? tu me dis: « Mon père! tu fus l'ami de ma jeunesse. Sera-t-Il toujours irrité?
5 So surely you will not [RHQ] be angry with me forever!’ But you will not quit sinning!”
gardera-t-Il sa colère à jamais? » Voilà ce que tu dis, et tu commets le crime, et le consommes!
6 [One day] when Josiah was the king of Judah, Yahweh said to me, “Have you seen what the people of Israel have done? They have turned away from me, like a woman who has abandoned her husband and sleeps with other men. They have gone up on every hilltop and under every big tree and worshiped idols there [MET].
Et l'Éternel me parla dans le temps du roi Josias: Vois-tu ce qu'a fait la rebelle Israël? Elle est allée sur toutes les hautes montagnes et sous tous les arbres verts, et elle s'est prostituée là.
7 I thought that they would return to me, so I said to them, ‘Come back to me!’ But they refused. So I sent them away [to other countries, like a man] writes a note saying that he is divorcing his wife and then sends his wife away because she has committed adultery [MET].
Et je disais: Après avoir fait toutes ces choses elle reviendra à moi; mais elle n'est point revenue. Et sa perfide sœur Juda l'a vu.
8 The people of Judah saw what I did to them. But they are just like the people of Israel. They are not afraid [of what I will do to them]. They also [have turned away from me and are worshiping idols like] women who abandon their husbands and go to other men [MET].
Et quoique pour cette raison, à cause de l'adultère de la rebelle Israël, je l'eusse répudiée, lui donnant sa lettre de divorce, j'ai vu que cependant la perfide Juda, sa sœur, n'a point eu de crainte, et est allée se prostituer elle aussi.
9 They thought that worshiping idols did not matter to me, so they have made the [entire] land unacceptable to me by worshiping idols of wood and stone.
Or cela était arrivé à cause de sa criante impudicité, car elle avait souillé le pays, et commis adultère avec la pierre et avec le bois.
10 The people of Judah have pretended to return to me, but they have not really done that. [This is true because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
Malgré tout cela, sa perfide sœur Juda n'est point revenue à moi de tout son cœur, mais avec hypocrisie, dit l'Éternel.
11 Then Yahweh said to me, “The people of Israel have turned away from me, but what the people of Judah have done is worse.
Et l'Éternel me dit: La rebelle Israël est innocente auprès de la perfide Juda.
12 So go and tell this to the people of Israel: ‘Yahweh says this to you Israeli people who have turned away from him: I am merciful. I will not continue to be angry with you forever. So return to me.
Va, et proclame ces paroles vers le nord et dis: Reviens, rebelle Israël! dit l'Éternel; je ne prendrai point pour vous un air sombre, car je suis clément, dit l'Éternel, et mon ressentiment n'est pas éternel.
13 But you must admit/say that you are guilty, and that you have rebelled against me, Yahweh, your God, that you have worshiped idols under big trees everywhere, and you have not obeyed me. You have turned away from me.
Seulement reconnais ta faute, car tu t'es détachée de l'Éternel, ton Dieu, et tu as fais errer tes pas vers les étrangers sous tous les arbres verts, et vous n'avez point obéi à ma voix, dit l'Éternel.
14 But you belong to me. So I will take you, one from [each] city and two from [each] clan, and bring you [back] to Jerusalem [from the countries to which you were exiled].
Revenez, enfants rebelles, dit l'Éternel; car je suis votre Souverain, et je veux vous reprendre, un par ville, et deux par famille, et vous ramener à Sion;
15 [If you do that], I will appoint for you leaders with whom I am pleased, leaders who will guide you [well] because they will know and understand [what pleases me].
et je vous donnerai des bergers selon mon cœur, qui vous paîtront avec sagesse et intelligence.
16 And when you become very numerous [DOU] in your land, you will not need to talk about the Sacred Chest that contained the Ten Commandments. You will not think about it, and you will not want to make a new one.
Et quand un jour vous serez nombreux et multipliés dans le pays, dit l'Éternel, alors on ne parlera plus de l'arche de l'alliance de l'Éternel, elle ne viendra dans l'esprit de personne, et on n'y pensera plus; et on ne la regrettera plus, et on n'en fera pas une autre.
17 At that time people will say, “Jerusalem is [the place where] Yahweh’s throne is.” [People from] all nations will come there to worship me. And they will no longer stubbornly do the evil things that they desire.
Dans ce temps-là on appellera Jérusalem le trône de l'Éternel, et tous les peuples s'y rallieront au nom de l'Éternel à Jérusalem, et ils ne marcheront plus d'après la dureté de leur cœur mauvais.
18 At that time you people [MTY] of Israel and the people of Judah will return from [being (exiled/forced to live) in] lands to the northeast. You will return to the land that I gave to your ancestors to belong to them [forever].
En ces jours, la maison de Juda cheminera avec la maison d'Israël, et elles viendront ensemble du pays du septentrion dans le pays dont je mis en possession vos pères.
19 You people of Israel, I wanted to accept you to be my children. I wanted to give you [this] delightful land. It is a land more desirable/pleasant than the land of any other nation! I wanted you to call me ‘father’, and I wanted you to never turn away from me.
Je disais alors: Quel rang tu auras entre les fils! et je te donnerai un pays délicieux, le plus magnifique héritage parmi les armées des nations. Je disais aussi: Vous m'appellerez « Mon père, » et vous ne vous détacherez pas de moi.
20 But you have abandoned me like wives who have abandoned their husbands.’” [That is what] Yahweh said, and [I told it] to the people of Israel.
Mais, comme une femme est infidèle à son amant, ainsi vous me fûtes infidèles, maison d'Israël, dit l'Éternel.
21 People will hear a noise on the barren hilltops. It will be the noise made by people weeping and pleading [for God to be merciful to them]. They will be admitting/saying that they have forgotten Yahweh their God, and that they turned away from behaving as God wanted them to.
Sur les hauteurs une voix se fait entendre: ce sont les pleurs des enfants d'Israël gémissant d'avoir pris des voies détournées, d'avoir oublié l'Éternel, leur Dieu.
22 Yahweh will say to them, “You Israeli people, come back to me! [If you do that], I will cause you to never turn away from me again.” [The people will reply], “We are returning to you, because you are Yahweh, our God.
Revenez, enfants rebelles, je veux réparer vos égarements.
23 We did not get any help from [the idols that we worshiped on] the hilltops; we did not get any help from making all that noise up there.
« Voici, nous venons à Toi, car tu es l'Éternel notre Dieu. Oui, c'est une déception que l'abondance qui vient des collines, qui vient des montagnes; oui, c'est dans l'Éternel, dans notre Dieu, qu'est la ressource d'Israël.
24 From the time when we were young, the shameful [god Baal] has taken away [from us] everything that our ancestors worked hard to acquire. He has taken away their flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle], their sons and their daughters.
Mais l'infamie a consumé les profits de nos pères dès notre jeunesse, leurs brebis et leurs bœufs, leurs fils et leurs filles.
25 So, now we should lie down feeling very ashamed [DOU], because we and our ancestors have sinned against Yahweh our God, and we have never obeyed him.”
Nous sommes gisants dans notre infamie, et notre ignominie nous recouvre, car nous avons péché contre l'Éternel notre Dieu, nous et nos pères, dès notre jeunesse jusques aujourd'hui et nous n'avons point obéi à la voix de l'Éternel, notre Dieu. »
