Jérémie 34
1 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Fais-toi de chaînes et un collier, et mets-les autour de ton cou.
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,
2 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Fais-toi de chaînes et un collier, et mets-les autour de ton cou.
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:
3 Et tu les enverras au roi de l'Idumée, et au roi de Moab, et au roi des fils d'Ammon, et au roi de Tyr, et in roi de Sidon, par les mains de leurs messagers qui sont venus et se sont rencontrés dans Jérusalem, auprès de Sédécias, roi de Juda.
And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.
4 Et tu prescriras à ces messagers de dire à leurs maîtres: Voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu d'Israël; voici ce que vous direz à vos maîtres:
But give ear to the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; this is what the Lord has said about you: Death will not come to you by the sword:
5 J'ai créé la terre par ma toute-puissance et mon bras très-haut, et je la donnerai à celui qui sera le plus agréable à mes yeux.
You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.
6 J'ai donné la terre à Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, afin qu'elle le serve; je lui ai donné les bêtes des champs, afin qu'elles travaillent pour lui.
Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
7 Et la nation et le royaume qui ne passeront point leur cou sous le joug du roi de Babylone, je les visiterai par le glaive et la famine, dit le Seigneur, jusqu'à ce qu'ils tombent défaillants sous ma main.
When the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the towns of Judah which had not been taken, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these were the last of the walled towns of Judah.
8 Et la nation et le royaume qui ne passeront point leur cou sous le joug du roi de Babylone, je les visiterai par le glaive et la famine, dit le Seigneur, jusqu'à ce qu'ils tombent défaillants sous ma main.
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem, to give news in public that servants were to be made free;
9 Quant à vous, n'écoutez pas vos faux prophètes, ni vos devins, ni les interprètes de vos songes, ni vos augures, ni vos magiciens qui disent: Ne travaillez pas pour le roi de Babylone.
That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:
10 Car ils vous prophétisent des mensonges, pour que vous soyez transportés loin de votre pays,
And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.
11 Et toute nation qui passera son cou sous le joug du roi de Babylone, et qui travaillera pour lui, je la laisserai sur sa terre, et elle y travaillera et y demeurera.
But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.
12 Et je parlerai à Sédécias, roi de Juda, conformément à ces paroles, disant: Passez votre cou sous le joug,
For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
13 Et travaillez pour le roi de Babylone, car ceux-ci vous prophétisent l'iniquité:
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,
14 Et travaillez pour le roi de Babylone, car ceux-ci vous prophétisent l'iniquité:
At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.
15 Car je ne les ai pas envoyés, dit le Seigneur, et ils prophétisent à tort en mon nom pour vous perdre; et vous périrez, vous et vos prophètes qui vous prophétisent le mensonge et l'iniquité.
And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:
16 Je vous ai parlé à vous, et à tout le peuple, et aux prêtres, disant: Ainsi dit le Seigneur: N'écoutez pas les discours des prophètes qui vous prophétisent, disant: Voilà que les vases du temple du Seigneur reviendront de Babylone; parce qu'ils vous prophétisent à tort et faussement, je ne les ai point envoyés.
But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.
17 S'ils sont prophètes, et si la parole du Seigneur est en eux, qu'ils aient une entrevue avec moi.
And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 S'ils sont prophètes, et si la parole du Seigneur est en eux, qu'ils aient une entrevue avec moi.
And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,
19 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Quant à ce qui reste des vases
The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,
20 Que n'a pas pris le roi de Babylone, lorsqu'il a transporté de Jérusalem le roi Jéchonias,
Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
21 Ils iront à Babylone, dit le Seigneur.
And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.
22 Ils iront à Babylone, dit le Seigneur.
See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.
