2 Samuel 12
1 Et le Seigneur envoya à David Nathan le prophète; celui-ci entra chez le roi, et il lui dit: Il y avait en une ville deux hommes, l'un riche, l'autre pauvre.
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.
2 Le riche possédait une multitude de brebis et de bœufs.
The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;
3 Le pauvre n'avait rien qu'une petite brebis; il l'avait achetée, il en avait pris soin, il l'avait nourrie, et elle avait crû auprès de lui en même temps que ses fils; elle mangeait de son pain, buvait dans sa coupe, dormait sur son sein; elle était pour lui comme une fille.
But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.
4 Or, un voyageur vint chez le riche, et celui-ci n'eut garde de prendre de ses moutons ni de ses bœufs pour faire un festin au voyageur étranger; mais il prit la brebis du pauvre, et il l'apprêta pour l'homme qui était venu chez lui.
Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.
5 David entra dans une grande colère contre le riche, et il dit à Nathan: Vive le Seigneur! c'est un fils de la mort qui a fait cela.
And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:
6 Il paiera la brebis sept fois pour ne l'avoir point épargnée, et pour avoir commis une telle action.
And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.
7 Et Nathan dit à David: Tu es l'homme qui a fait cela. Voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu d'Israël: C'est moi qui t'ai sacré roi de mon peuple, et qui t'ai tiré des mains de Saül.
And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;
8 Je t'ai donné la maison de ton maître, et tu as sur ton sein les femmes de ton maître. Je t'ai donné la maison d'Israël et de Juda, et, si c'est peu, j'y ajouterai encore.
I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.
9 Pourquoi donc as-tu méprisé la parole du Seigneur, au point de faire le mal à ses yeux? Tu as livré au glaive Urie l'Hettéen; tu as pris pour femme sa femme, après l'avoir tué lui-même par l'épée des fils d'Ammon.
Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10 Eh bien! maintenant, le glaive ne cessera plus de menacer ta maison, parce que tu m'as méprisé, et que tu as pris pour femme la femme d'Urie l'Hettéen.
So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
11 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Je susciterai contre toi des maux qui sortiront de ta maison, et je prendrai tes femmes sous tes yeux, et je les donnerai à ton prochain, et il dormira avec elles à la face de ce soleil.
The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
12 Tu as fait cela en cachette, et moi je ferai cotte chose devant tout Israël, et à la face de ce soleil.
You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.
13 Et David dit à Nathan: J'ai péché contre le Seigneur. Et Nathan dit à David: Le Seigneur a ôté ton péché, tu ne mourras point.
And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
14 Mais, comme par cette action tu as donné aux ennemis du Seigneur l'occasion de l'irriter, le fils que tu as engendré mourra de mort.
But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
15 Nathan retourna en sa maison, et le Seigneur frappa le fils que la femme d'Urie l'Hettéen avait enfanté à David, et l'enfant languit.
Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.
16 David pria le Seigneur pour son enfant, et David jeûna, et il se tint renfermé, et il passa les nuits couché sur la dure.
So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.
17 Et les anciens de sa maison accoururent pour le relever; mais il ne se releva pas, et il ne mangea point avec eux.
And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.
18 Le septième jour, enfin, l'enfant mourut, et les serviteurs de David craignirent de lui annoncer que l'enfant était mort. Car, dirent-ils, nous lui parlions de l'enfant, tandis qu'il vivait, et il ne nous écoutait pas; comment lui dirons-nous que l'enfant est mort? Il fera contre lui-même quelque chose de funeste.
And then on the seventh day the child's death took place. And David's servants were in fear of giving him the news of the child's death: for they said, Truly, while the child was still living he gave no attention when we said anything to him: what will he do to himself if we give him word that the child is dead?
19 David s'aperçut que ses serviteurs chuchotaient entre eux; il comprit que l'enfant était mort, et il dit à ses serviteurs: L'enfant est-il mort? Il est mort, dirent-ils.
But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is.
20 Aussitôt, David se releva, se baigna, se parfuma, changea de vêtements, et entra dans la maison du Seigneur; après l'avoir adoré, il revint en sa maison, et demanda qu'on lui servit à manger; on le servit, et il mangea.
Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.
21 Ensuite, David consola Bersabée, sa femme: il s'approcha d'elle, il dormit avec elle; elle conçut, et elle enfanta un fils qu'elle nomma Salomon; or, le Seigneur aima cet enfant.
Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.
22 David répondit: Tant qu'il vivait, je pleurais et je jeûnais; car, qui sait, disais-je, si le Seigneur n'aura pas compassion de moi, et s'il ne laissera pas l'enfant vivre?
And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?
23 Maintenant, il est mort: à quoi bon jeûner? Est-ce que je pourrais le rappeler? C'est moi qui irai à lui; mais il ne reviendra point à moi.
But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.
24 Ensuite, David consola Bersabée, sa femme: il s'approcha d'elle, il dormit avec elle; elle conçut, et elle enfanta un fils qu'elle nomma Salomon; or, le Seigneur aima cet enfant.
And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.
25 Le Seigneur envoya Nathan le prophète, et celui-ci, de la part du Seigneur, surnomma l'enfant Jeddedi (aimable à Dieu).
And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.
26 Cependant, Joab avait investi Rhabbath chez les fils d'Ammon, et il prit la ville royale.
Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.
27 Il envoya des messagers à David, et il dit: J'ai assiégé Rhabbath: j'ai pris la ville des eaux.
And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.
28 Maintenant, rassemble tout le reste du peuple, viens camper devant Rhabbath, et enlève-la, pour que je ne l'enlève pas moi-même; car toute la gloire m'en reviendrait.
So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.
29 David leva donc tout le peuple; il marcha sur Rhabbath, il donna l'assaut, et il la prit.
Then David got all the people together and went to Rabbah and made war on it and took it.
30 Alors, il enleva sur la tête de leur roi Molchom sa couronne, qui pesait un talent d'or, et qui était ornée de pierres précieuses; elle allait à la tête de David. Enfin, il rapporta de cette ville un immense butin.
And he took the crown of Milcom from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it were stones of great price; and it was put on David's head. And he took a great store of goods from the town.
31 Il emmena tout le peuple qui l'habitait, et il l'extermina en plaçant les uns sous des scies, sous des herses de fer, sous des cognées de bûcheron; en jetant les autres dans les fours à brique. Il traita de même toutes les villes des fils d'Ammon. Ensuite, David et toute son armée retournèrent à Jérusalem.
And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
