Jérémie 6
1 Fuyez, enfants de Benjamin, du milieu de Jérusalem, et en Thécoa sonnez de la trompette, et à Beth-Carem élevez des signaux! Car un malheur nous menace du nord, et un grand désastre.
“You people in Jerusalem who are from [the tribe of] Benjamin, flee from this city! Blow the trumpets in Tekoa [city south of Jerusalem]! Send up a [smoke] signal in Beth-Haccherem [town] [to warn the people of the coming danger]! A powerful [army] will come from the north, and they will cause great destruction.
2 Belle et délicate fille de Sion, je vais te détruire!
Jerusalem is [like] a beautiful pasture [full of sheep], but it will soon be destroyed.
3 Sur elle marchent les bergers et leurs troupeaux; ils planteront leurs tentes tout à l'entour, brouteront chacun leur quartier.
[Enemy kings, not] shepherds [MET], will come [with their armies] and set up their tents around the city, and each [king will choose a part of the city for his soldiers to destroy like] [MET] shepherds divide their pastures for their flocks of sheep.
4 « Inaugurez son assaut! Debout! attaquons en plein jour! quel contre-temps pour nous! car le jour baisse, et déjà les ombres du soir s'allongent.
[The kings will tell their troops], “Get ready for the battle. We should attack them before noontime. But [if we arrive there late in the afternoon] when the shadows are becoming long,
5 Allons! escaladons de nuit, et détruisons ses palais! »
we will attack them at night and tear down their fortresses.”
6 Car ainsi parle l'Éternel des armées: Coupez le bois, et contre Jérusalem élevez les terrasses; c'est la ville à punir; elle est tout injustice en son cœur.
Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, says this: “[I will command those soldiers to] cut down the trees [outside Jerusalem] and to build dirt ramps up to the top of the city walls [in order that they can enter the city]. This city must be punished because everyone there continually oppresses others.
7 Comme une fontaine fait jaillir les eaux, ainsi fait-elle jaillir le mal; j'y entends incessamment la violence et la ruine, la douleur et les coups.
[It is as though] the wicked things that the people do pour out of the city like [SIM] water flows out of a spring. [The noise from people doing] violent and destructive actions is heard everywhere. I continually see [people who are] suffering and wounded.
8 Amende-toi, Jérusalem, pour que mon âme ne se détache pas de toi, que je ne te rende pas un désert, un pays inhabité!
Listen to what I am warning you, [you people of] [APO] Jerusalem, because if you do not listen, I will reject you and cause your land to become desolate, a land where no one lives.”
9 Ainsi parle l'Éternel des armées: On grappillera comme une vigne les restes d'Israël. Mets et remets la main comme le vendangeur à sa corbeille!
Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, also says this: “[I will tell your enemies] to cause your country to become as desolate [SIM] as a vineyard from which all the grapes have been completely stripped from the vines. [Their soldiers will seize the possessions of] those who remain in Israel [after the others have been exiled] like [SIM] farmers go to the vines again to pick any grapes [that were (left/not picked)].”
10 A qui parlerai-je, et qui sommerai-je pour qu'on écoute? Voici, leur oreille est incirconcise, et ils ne sauraient entendre. Voici, la parole de l'Éternel a été pour eux une dérision, ils n'ont aucun goût pour elle.
[Then I said, “If I speak to the Israeli people] to warn them, (who will listen to me?/No one will listen to me.) [RHQ] [It is as though] their ears are closed, [and as a result] they cannot hear [what I say]. They scorn Yahweh’s messages; they do not want to listen to them at all.
11 Mais la colère de l'Éternel me pénètre, je suis las de la contenir. Verse-la sur l'enfant dans la rue et sur le cercle des jeunes gens à la fois; car et l'homme et la femme seront pris, le vieillard et l'homme comblé de jours.
So [now] I am extremely angry, like Yahweh is angry, and I cannot restrain it any longer.” [So] Yahweh said [to me], “Tell everyone that you are very angry with them. Tell the children in the streets and the young men who gather together. Tell the men and their wives; tell the very old people [DOU], also.
12 Leurs maisons seront dévolues à d'autres, et leurs champs et leurs femmes aussi;
[Tell the men that] I will give their houses to [their enemies], and I will give their property/fields and their wives to them, also, when I punish [IDM] the people who live in this land.
13 car j'étendrai ma main sur les habitants du pays, dit l'Éternel; car du petit au grand tous sont avides de gain; et du prophète au sacrificateur tous usent de fraudes;
Everyone is trying to get money by tricking others, from the most [important people] to the least [important people]; even the prophets and the priests are trying to deceive [people to get money].
14 et ils traitent la plaie de mon peuple comme chose légère, disant: « Salut! salut! » tandis qu'il n'y a point de salut.
[They act as though the sins of my people are like] [MET] small wounds that they do not need to put bandages on. They continually [greet people by] saying ‘I hope things are going well with you,’ when things are not going well.
15 Ils seront dans l'opprobre, car ils commettent l'abomination; mais ils ne rougissent pas, et ne connaissent pas la honte. Aussi tomberont-ils avec ceux qui tombent, et au jour de mes châtiments ils seront renversés, dit l'Éternel.
They should be [RHQ] ashamed about the disgusting things that they do, but they are not ashamed at all. They do not [even] know how to (blush/show on their faces that they are ashamed). So, they also will be among those who will be killed. They will be destroyed when I punish them.”
16 Ainsi parle l'Éternel: Tenez-vous sur les routes, et regardez, et demandez quels sont les chemins d'autrefois, quelle est la bonne voie, et marchez-y, et vous trouverez du repos pour votre âme!
This is [also] what Yahweh said [to the Israeli people]: “Stand at the crossroads and look [at the people who pass by]. Ask them what was the good behavior [that their ancestors had] long ago. [And when they tell you], behave that way. If you do that, you will find rest for your souls.” But you replied, ‘We do not want to do that!’
17 Mais ils disent: « Nous n'y marcherons point. » Et j'ai mis près de vous des sentinelles [pour vous dire]: Soyez attentifs au son de la trompette! Mais ils disent: « Nous n'y serons point attentifs. »
I sent [my prophets who were like] [MET] watchmen. They said, ‘Listen carefully when we blow the trumpets [to warn you that your enemies are approaching],’ but you said, ‘[No], we do not want to listen.’
18 Aussi, écoutez, nations, apprenez, assemblée des peuples, ce qui en est d'eux.
Therefore, you people in the other nations, listen to this: Pay attention to what is going to happen to the [Israeli people].
19 Terre, entends-le! voici, je ferai arriver sur ce peuple les maux, fruits de ses pensées, car ils ne sont point attentifs à mes paroles, et ils méprisent ma loi.
Listen, all of you! I am going to cause the [Israeli] people to experience disasters. That is what will happen to them because they have refused to listen to what I told them. They have refused to obey my laws.
20 Que me fait cet encens venu de Séba, et ce roseau odorant apporté d'un pays lointain? Vos holocaustes ne me plaisent point, et vos sacrifices ne me sont point agréables.
[You Israeli people], when you burn frankincense that came from [far away in] Sheba, and [when you offer to me] sweet-smelling anointing oil that came from far away, I will not [RHQ] be pleased with your sacrifices. I will not accept the sacrifices that are completely burned on the altar; I am not pleased with [any of] your sacrifices.
21 Aussi, ainsi parle l'Éternel: Voici, je mettrai devant ce peuple des achoppements qui feront tomber à la fois les pères et les fils, le voisin et son ami, et ils périront.
Therefore, I will put obstacles on the roads on which my people will travel. Men and their sons and people’s neighbors and friends will stumble over those obstacles and fall down; everyone will die.”
22 Ainsi parle l'Éternel: Voici venir un peuple de la région du Nord, et une grande nation se lève de l'extrémité de la terre;
Yahweh [also] says this: “You will see a [huge] army marching [towards you] from the north. [An army of] a great nation very far away is preparing [to attack you].
23 ils manient l'arc et le javelot; ils sont cruels et sans pitié; leur voix, comme la mer, gronde, et sur des chevaux ils sont montés, rangés comme un seul homme en bataille contre toi, fille de Sion.
They have bows [and arrows] and spears; they are [very] cruel, and do not act mercifully [to anyone]. As they ride along on their horses, the horses’ feet sound like the roaring of the ocean [waves]; they are riding in battle formation to attack you people of Jerusalem.”
24 Nous en entendons la rumeur, nos mains défaillent, l'anxiété nous saisit, l'angoisse de l'enfantement.
[The people of Jerusalem say], “We have heard reports about the enemy; [so] we are very frightened, with the result that we feel weak. We are very afraid, and worried, like [SIM] women who are about to give birth to babies.
25 Ne sors point dans les champs, et ne va pas sur les chemins, car l'épée de l'ennemi, la terreur est partout!
[So one person says to another], ‘Do not go out into the fields! Do not go on the roads, because the enemy [soldiers] have swords [and they are everywhere]; they are coming from all directions, and we are extremely afraid.’”
26 Fille de mon peuple, ceins le cilice, et roule-toi dans la poussière, prends le deuil comme pour un fils unique, gémis amèrement! car soudain sur nous viendra la destruction.
[So I say], “My dear people, put on (sackcloth/rough clothes) and sit in ashes [to show that you are sorry for your sins]. Mourn and cry very much, like [SIM] [a woman would cry] if her only son had died, because your enemies are very near, and they are going to destroy [everything].”
27 Je t'avais établi sentinelle de mon peuple dans une vedette, pour voir et examiner leurs voies.
[Then Yahweh said to me], “[Jeremiah], I have caused you to become [like] [MET] someone who heats metal very hot [to completely burn the impurities]. You will examine my people’s behavior.
28 Tous ils sont rebelles et réfractaires, calomniateurs, de l'airain et du fer; tous ils sont dépravés.
You will find out that they are very stubborn rebels, they are always slandering others. [Their inner beings] are as hard as bronze or iron; they all [continually] deceive others.
29 Le soufflet est brûlant, par le feu le plomb est consumé, vainement on épure, on épure, les méchants ne sont point séparés:
[A metalworker causes] the bellows to blow very hard to [make the fire very hot to] completely burn up the impurities [MET]. [But just as] a fire does not cause all the waste material to run off, it is impossible to separate [the righteous people from the wicked people, and punish only] the wicked people.
30 on les appelle argent réprouvé, car l'Éternel les a réprouvés.
[I], Yahweh, have rejected them; I say that they are [like] [MET] worthless silver.”
