Isaïe 29
1 Ah! Ariel, Ariel! Cité où résida David! Laissez l’année s’ajouter à l’année, que les fêtes accomplissent leur cycle!
[This is a message from Yahweh: ] Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where [King] David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.
2 Alors, je serrerai de près Ariel, il y aura des plaintes et des lamentations, et je m’associerai au deuil d’Ariel.
But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, [and when that happens], people will weep and lament [very much]. Your city will become like [MET] an altar [to me] [where people are burned as sacrifices].
3 Autour de toi j’établirai mon camp comme en cercle, contre toi j’élèverai des retranchements et dresserai des redoutes.
I will cause your enemies [to come to your city]; they will surround it by [building] towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.
4 Tu descendras si bas que tu parleras comme de dessous terre et que tes paroles affaiblies sembleront sortir de la poussière; ta voix montera de terre, pareille à celle d’un spectre, et, comme un murmure, tes paroles s’élèveront du sol.
Then you will talk [as though you were] buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.
5 Mais la multitude de tes ennemis sera comme de la menue poussière; et la foule des oppresseurs comme le chaume qui passe: cela se produira soudain, en un instant.
But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away [by the wind]. [It will happen] very suddenly.
6 II y sera pourvu de la part de l’Eternel-Cebaot, à l’aide du tonnerre, d’un tremblement de terre et d’un formidable fracas, à l’aide d’une tempête, d’un ouragan et des flammes d’un feu dévorant.
The Commander of the armies of angels will come [to help you] with thunder and an earthquake and a very loud noise, with a strong wind and a big storm and a fire that will burn up everything.
7 Il en sera comme d’un songe et d’une vision nocturne de toute cette multitude de nations qui font campagne contre Ariel, de tous ces guerriers qui le combattent lui et ses forts et qui le serrent de près.
[Then] the armies of all the nations that will be attacking Jerusalem will quickly disappear like a dream in the night [DOU]. Those who will be attacking Jerusalem will suddenly vanish/disappear.
8 Tel l’homme affamé qui s’imagine, en rêvant, qu’il mange, s’il se réveille, a l’estomac creux; tel l’homme altéré de soif, qui croit, en rêve, qu’il boit, s’il se réveille, se sent épuisé et a le gosier sec, telle sera la foule de ces peuples qui vont au combat contre la montagne de Sion.
People who are asleep dream about eating food, [but] when they wake up, they are still hungry. People who are thirsty dream about drinking something, [but] when they wake up they are still thirsty. It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Zion Hill; [they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, ] [they will realize that they have not succeeded].
9 Soyez saisis de surprise et de stupeur! Soyez fascinés et éblouis, vous qui êtes ivres et non de vin, vous qui titubez mais non par excès de boisson!
You [people of Jerusalem], be amazed and surprised [about this] [IRO]! Do not believe [what I have said] [SAR]! And continue to be blind [IRO] [about what Yahweh is doing]. You are stupid, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine. You stagger, but not from drinking alcoholic drinks.
10 Car l’Eternel a répandu sur vous un esprit de torpeur, il a fermé vos yeux les prophètes et voilé vos têtes les voyants.
Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding [and telling you his messages], [it is as though] he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.
11 Aussi la révélation de tous ces événements est-elle pour vous comme les mots de ce livre scellé, qu’on présente à un homme lettré en lui disant: "Lis donc ceci!" Et lui de répondre: "Je ne puis, car le livre est scellé."
[Yahweh gave me] this vision; [but] for you, it is only words on a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to those who can read [and request that they read it], they will say, “We cannot read it because the scroll is sealed.”
12 Et si on présente le livre à un homme illettré en lui disant: "Lis donc ceci!" Il répond: "Je ne sais pas lire."
When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we do not know how to read.”
13 Le Seigneur a dit: "Puisque ce peuple ne me rend hommage que de bouche et ne m’honore que des lèvres, et qu’il tient son cœur éloigné de moi, et que sa piété à mon égard se borne à des préceptes d’hommes, à une leçon apprise,
[So] the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I [desire]. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.
14 je vais continuer à faire avec ce peuple des choses surprenantes, inouïes, où la sagesse de ses sages restera court, où l’intelligence de ses gens d’esprit se voilera.
Therefore, again I will do something to amaze these people; I will perform many miracles. And [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are wise are not really wise, and [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are intelligent are not really intelligent.
15 Malheur aux artisans de trames profondes, croyant cacher leurs desseins au Seigneur, travaillant dans les ténèbres et disant: "Qui peut nous voir? Qui peut nous reconnaître?"
Terrible things will happen to those who try to conceal from me, Yahweh, the [evil] things that they plan to do; they do those things in the darkness and they think, ‘Yahweh certainly cannot [RHQ] see us; he cannot [RHQ] know what we are doing!’
16 O perversité! Le potier mis sur le même rang que l’argile! L’Œuvre disant de l’ouvrier: "Il ne m’a pas fabriquée!" Le vase disant de celui qui l’a créé: "II n’y entend rien!"
They are extremely foolish! [They act as though] they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”
17 Certes, encore un peu de temps, et le Liban deviendra comme un verger et le verger pourra passer pour une forêt touffue.
Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
18 En ce jour, les sourds mêmes entendront la parole du livre et, du sein de l’obscurité et des ténèbres, les yeux des aveugles verront.
At that time, deaf people will [be able to hear]; [they will be able to] hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will [be able to see]; [they will be able to] see things when it is gloomy and [even] when it is dark.
19 Et les humbles goûteront des joies abondantes en Dieu, et les plus déshérités des hommes jubileront par le Saint d’Israël.
Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].
20 Car c’en sera fini des tyrans, les railleurs disparaîtront et tous les fauteurs d’iniquités seront anéantis,
There will be no more people who ridicule [others] and no more arrogant people. And those who plan to do evil things will be executed.
21 ceux qui, par la parole, incitent les hommes au péché, dressent des embûches à qui prêche la morale sur la place publique, et poussent le juste dans la voie du néant.
Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court [persuade judges to] make unjust decisions.
22 Donc, ainsi parle l’Eternel à la maison de Jacob, lui, le libérateur d’Abraham: "Désormais, Jacob ne sera plus mortifié, désormais son visage ne doit plus pâlir.
That is why Yahweh, who rescued Abraham, says about the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed; no longer will they show on their faces that they are ashamed.
23 Car, lorsque ses enfants la verront, l’œuvre des mains que j’accomplirai au milieu de lui, ils rendront hommage à mon nom; ils sanctifieront le Saint de Jacob et exalteront le Dieu d’Israël.
When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.
24 Alors les esprits égarés connaîtront la sagesse, et les révoltés accepteront l’instruction."
When that happens, those who have not been able to think well will think clearly, and those who complain [about what I am doing] will accept what I am teaching them.”
