Jérémie 36
1 Voici les paroles de l'écrit que Jérémie envoya de Jérusalem aux anciens de l'émigration, aux prêtres et aux faux prophètes; lettre adressée en Babylone aux captifs et à tout le peuple,
It came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, and he said,
2 Après le départ du roi Jéchonias, et de la reine, et des eunuques, et de tout homme libre, et de tout esclave, et de tout artisan de Jérusalem,
“Take a scroll for yourself and write on it all the words that I have told you concerning Israel and Judah, and every nation. Do this for everything I have told from the days of Josiah until this very day.
3 Par les mains d'Éléasar, fils de Sapha et de Gamarias, fils d'Helcias, que Sédécias, roi de Juda, envoya au roi de Babylone, disant:
Perhaps the people of Judah will listen to all the disasters that I intend to bring on them. Perhaps everyone will turn away from his wicked way, so I can forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
4 Ainsi parle le Seigneur, Dieu d'Israël, sur les captifs que j'ai transportés de Jérusalem:
Then Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote in a scroll, at Jeremiah's dictation, all the words of Yahweh spoken to him.
5 Bâtissez des maisons, et habitez-les; plantez des arbres et mangez-en les fruits.
Next Jeremiah gave a command to Baruch. He said, “I am in prison and cannot go to Yahweh's house.
6 Prenez des femmes et engendrez des fils et des filles; prenez pour vos fils des femmes, et donnez vos filles à des hommes: multipliez et ne décroissez pas.
So you must go and read from the scroll that you wrote at my dictation. On the day of the fast, you must read Yahweh's words in the hearing of the people in his house, and also in the hearing of all of Judah who have come from their cities. Proclaim these words to them.
7 Et cherchez la paix en la contrée où je vous ai transportés, et priez le Seigneur pour ses peuples; car en leur paix réside votre paix.
Perhaps their pleas for mercy will come before Yahweh. Perhaps each person will turn from his wicked way, since the wrath and fury that Yahweh has proclaimed against this people are severe.”
8 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Que les faux prophètes qui sont avec vous, que vos devins ne vous séduisent pas; et n'ayez point confiance aux songes que vous aurez songés.
So Baruch son of Neriah did everything that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him to do. He read aloud the words of Yahweh in the house of Yahweh.
9 C'est à tort qu'ils vous prophétisent en mon nom, et je ne les ai pas envoyés.
It came about in the fifth year and ninth month of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, that all the people in Jerusalem and the people who came to Jerusalem from the cities of Judah proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
10 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Lorsque les soixante-dix ans seront près d'être révolus en Babylone, je vous visiterai et je confirmerai mes paroles sur vous, en ramenant votre peuple en ce lieu.
Baruch read aloud Jeremiah's words in the house of Yahweh, from the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard, by the gate of the entrance to the house of Yahweh. He did this in the hearing of all the people.
11 Car j'ai sur vous des pensées de paix, et non de malheur, pour vous donner ces biens.
Now Micaiah son of Gemariah son of Shaphan heard all of Yahweh's words in the scroll.
12 Priez-moi, et je vous exaucerai.
He went down to the house of the king, to the secretary's room. Look, all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Akbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the officials.
13 Cherchez-moi, et vous me trouverez. Parce que, si vous me cherchez de tout votre cœur,
Then Micaiah reported to them all the words that he had heard that Baruch read aloud in the hearing of the people.
14 Je me manifesterai à vous,
So all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah son of Shelemiah son of Cushi, to Baruch. Jehudi said to Baruch, “Take the scroll in your hand, the scroll from which you were reading in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to the officials.
15 Parce que vous direz: Le Seigneur a institué pour nous des prophètes en Babylone.
Then they said to him, “Sit down and read this in our hearing.” So Baruch read the scroll.
16 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
It happened that when they heard all these words, each man turned in fear to the one next to him and said to Baruch, “We must certainly report all of these words to the king.”
17 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you come to write all these words at Jeremiah's dictation?”
18 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Baruch said to them, “He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on this scroll.”
19 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, hide yourself, and Jeremiah, too. Do not let anyone know where you are.”
20 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
So they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, and they went to the king in the courtyard and they reported everything in the hearing of the king.
21 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. Jehudi took it from the room of Elishama the secretary. Then he read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.
22 Et parmi tous les captifs en Babylone, c'est d'eux que l'on se servira pour maudire, disant: Puisse le Seigneur te traiter comme il a traité Sédécias et Achiab, que le roi de Babylone a fait frire dans le feu,
Now the king was staying in the winter house in the ninth month, and a brazier was burning in front of him.
23 Parce qu'ils avaient fait l'iniquité en Israël; qu'ils avaient commis des adultères avec les femmes de leurs concitoyens, et dit en mon nom des paroles que je ne leur avais point commandé; et j'en porte témoignage, dit le Seigneur,
It happened that as Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut it off with a knife and throw it into the fire in the brazier until all of the scroll was destroyed.
24 Et à Séméi l'Élamite tu diras:
But neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words were frightened, nor did they tear their clothes.
25 Je ne t'ai point envoyé en mon nom. Et à Sophonias, fils de Messie, le prêtre, dis encore:
Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah had even urged the king not to burn the scroll, but he did not listen to them.
26 Le Seigneur t'a établi prêtre à la place du prêtre Joad, pour que tu sois, dans le temple du Seigneur, le maître de tout faux prophète et de tout homme en délire; et ceux-là, fais-les mettre en prison et au cachot.
Then the king commanded Jerahmeel, a relative, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but Yahweh had hidden them.
27 Et maintenant pourquoi tous ensemble injuriez-vous Jérémie, d'Anathoth, qui prophétisait pour vous?
Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, saying,
28 Ne vous a-t-il pas envoyé une lettre à ce sujet? Dans le cours de ce mois, il vous l'a envoyée à Babylone, disant: Ce sera long; bâtissez donc des maisons et habitez-les; plantez des jardins et manges-en les fruits.
“Go back, take another scroll for yourself, and write in it all the words that were on the original scroll, the one that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned.
29 Or Sophonie lut la lettre aux oreilles de Jérémie,
Then you must say this to Jehoiakim king of Judah: 'You burned that scroll, saying, “Why have you written on it, 'The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, for he will destroy both man and beast in it'?”'”
30 Et la parole du Seigneur vint à Jérémie, disant:
Therefore Yahweh says this concerning you, Jehoiakim king of Judah: “No descendant of yours will ever sit on the throne of David. As for you, your corpse will be thrown out into the heat of day and the frost of night.
31 Envoie-les aux captifs, disant: Ainsi parle le Seigneur sur Jérémie l'Elamite: Puisque Séméi vous a prophétisé sans être envoyé par moi, et qu'il a gagné votre confiance injustement,
For I will punish you, your descendants, and your servants for the iniquity of you all. I will bring on you, on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on every person in Judah all the disasters with which I have threatened you with, but to which you paid no attention.”
32 A cause de cela, dit le Seigneur, je visiterai Séméi et sa race, et il n'en restera pas un homme parmi vous, pour voir le bien que je vous ferai; non, ils ne le verront pas.
So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch son of Neriah the scribe. Baruch wrote on it at Jeremiah's dictation all the words that had been in the scroll burned by Jehoiakim king of Judah. Furthermore, many other similar words were added to this scroll.
