Obadiah 1
1 This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom [people-group]. Yahweh our God has told me this about [the people of] Edom: “I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations, telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom.”
Vision d’Obadia. Ainsi parle le Seigneur Dieu au sujet d’Edom: Nous avons entendu une annonce de la part de l’Eternel, un messager a été envoyé parmi les nations: "Debout! Levons-nous contre lui pour combattre!"
2 And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom: “I will soon cause you to become the weakest and most despised nation [on the earth].
Voici, je te fais petit parmi les peuples, tu es méprisable au possible.
3 Your [capital city] is high in the rocky cliffs, and you are very proud; you think that you are safe from being attacked by your enemies [RHQ], but you [IDM] have deceived yourselves.
L’Infatuation de ton cœur t’a égaré, ô toi qui habites les pentes des rochers, qui as établi ta demeure sur les hauteurs et qui dis en toi-même: "Qui pourrait me faire descendre à terre?"
4 And I tell you that even if [you had wings and] could fly higher than eagles fly, and if you could make your homes among the stars, I would bring you [crashing] down from there.
Quand même tu fixerais ton aire aussi haut que l’aigle et la placerais dans la région des étoiles, je t’en précipiterais, dit l’Eternel.
5 When thieves break into someone’s house during the night, they certainly [RHQ] steal only the things that they want. And people who pick grapes always [RHQ] leave a few grapes on the vines. But your country will be completely destroyed!
Si ce sont des voleurs qui viennent contre toi, des détrousseurs de nuit, comme tu seras éperdu! Ne pilleront-ils pas tout ce qu’ils pourront? Si ce sont des vendangeurs qui viennent contre toi, que laisseront-ils sinon de quoi grappiller?
6 Everything that is valuable will be taken away. [Your enemies] will find and take away even the valuable things that you have hidden.
Ah! comme Esaü est fouillé en tous sens! comme ses retraites mystérieuses sont mises à découvert!
7 All (your allies/nations who promised to help you) will turn against you, and they will force you to leave your country/land. Those with whom you have peace now will trick/deceive you and defeat you. Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you, and [then they will say to you], ‘You are not [RHQ] as clever [as you thought you were]!’
Ils te poursuivent jusqu’aux frontières, tous ceux qui étaient tes alliés; ils te trompent, ils te maîtrisent, tes prétendus amis! Le pain qu’ils t’apportent, c’est un piège sous tes pas, et tu ne l’as pas compris!
8 I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom, I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who [thought that they] were wise.
Certes, en ce jour, dit l’Eternel, je ferai disparaître les sages en Edom et la prudence sur le mont d’Esaü.
9 The soldiers from Teman [town] will become terrified; all you people who are descendants of Esau will be (wiped out/killed).
Tes guerriers, ô Têmân, seront paralysés, de sorte que tout homme sur le mont d’Esaü soit exterminé lors du carnage.
10 You acted cruel in a cruel way toward your relatives who are descendants of Jacob, [the twin brother of your ancestor Esau]. So now you will be disgraced forever; you will be completely destroyed.
A cause de ta cruauté à l’égard de ton frère Jacob, tu seras couvert de honte, et ta ruine sera éternelle.
11 Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem and (cast lots/threw small stones that were marked) to decide what valuable things they would take away; but you were as bad as those foreigners, because you just stood there [and did not help the Israelis].
Le jour où tu te postas comme spectateur, alors que les barbares emmenaient son armée captive, que l’étranger envahissait ses portes et partageait Jérusalem au sort, toi aussi tu fus comme l’un d’eux.
12 You should not have (gloated/been happy) about the disaster that the Israelis were experiencing. You should not have been happy when their towns were ruined. You should not have made fun [of them] when they were suffering.
Ah! cesse donc d’être un témoin complaisant du jour de ton frère, du jour de son malheur, de triompher des fils de Juda au jour de leur ruine et d’ouvrir aussi grande ta bouche au jour de la détresse!
13 They are my people, so you should not have entered their [city] gates when they were experiencing those disasters and you should not have laughed at them. And you should not have taken away their [valuable] possessions.
Cesse de franchir la porte de mon peuple au jour du revers; au jour du revers, ne te repais point, toi aussi, du spectacle de ses maux; au jour du revers ne fais pas main basse sur ses richesses!
14 You should not have stood at crossroads to catch those who were [trying to] escape. You should not have [captured them and] put them into the hands of [their enemies] when they were experiencing those disasters.”
Ne monte pas la garde à l’angle des routes pour achever ses fuyards, pour livrer ses débris au jour de l’angoisse!
15 “There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge [and punish] all the nations. And you [people of Edom] will experience the same [disasters] that you caused [others to experience]. The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.
Quand approchera le jour du Seigneur pour toutes les nations, comme tu as fait il te sera fait, tes œuvres retomberont sur ta tête.
16 [My people in Jerusalem have been punished] because I was very angry with them. [It is as though] [MET] they drank [a cup of very bitter liquid] on Zion, my sacred hill. But [I] will punish [MET] all the other nations even more severely, and cause them to disappear completely.
Oui, comme vous avez bu sur ma montagne sainte, ainsi les nations boiront sans discontinuer; elles boiront et en perdront la raison, elles seront comme si elles n’avaient jamais été.
17 But some [people in Jerusalem will escape], and Jerusalem will become a very holy/sacred place. Then the descendants of Jacob will [conquer and] possess again the land that truly belongs to them.
Mais sur le mont Sion un débris subsistera et sera une chose sainte, et la maison de Jacob rentrera en possession de son patrimoine.
18 The descendants [MTY] of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like [MET] a fire, and the people [MTY] of Edom will be like [MET] stubble that will be completely burned in that fire. Not one person will remain alive. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.”
La maison de Jacob sera un feu, la maison de Joseph une flamme, la maison d’Esaü un amas de chaume: ils le brûleront, ils le consumeront, et rien ne survivra de la maison d’Esaü: c’est l’Eternel qui le dit.
19 The Israeli people [who live] in the southern desert are the ones who will capture Edom. And those [who live in] the western foothills will capture the Phoenicia [region] and the areas of Ephraim and Samaria. And people of the tribe of Benjamin will conquer the Gilead [region].
Le Midi héritera de la montagne d’Esaü, et la Plage, du territoire des Philistins; ils reprendront la campagne d’Ephraïm et la campagne de Samarie, et Benjamin le pays de Galaad.
20 Those who were (exiled in/forced to go to) [Babylon] will [return to their land] [and] capture the Phoenicia [region] as far north as Zarephath [on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea]. People of Jerusalem who were captured and taken to Sardis, [the capital city of the Lydia region], will capture the towns in the southern desert.
Et les exilés de cette légion d’enfants d’Israël, répandus depuis Canaan jusqu’à Çarefat, et les exilés de Jérusalem, répandus dans Sefarad, possèderont les villes du Midi.
21 The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it, and Yahweh will be their king.
Et des libérateurs monteront sur la montagne de Sion, pour se faire les justiciers du mont d’Esaü; et la royauté appartiendra à l’Eternel.
