Michée 1
1 La parole de l'Éternel qui fut adressée à Michée, de Moréseth, dans les temps de Jotham, d'Achaz et d'Ézéchias, rois de Juda, laquelle lui fut révélée touchant Samarie et Jérusalem.
[I am] Micah. I am from [the town of] Moresheth [in Judah]. Yahweh gave me these [messages in] visions about Samaria and Jerusalem during the time when Jotham, [and then] Ahaz, and [then] Hezekiah, were the kings of Judah.
2 Écoutez, vous tous les peuples! sois attentive, ô terre avec tout ce qui y est! et que le Seigneur, l'Éternel, soit témoin contre vous, qu'il soit témoin, le Seigneur, de son saint temple!
You people everywhere on the earth, pay attention to this [DOU]! Yahweh our God is accusing you from his holy temple [in heaven].
3 Car voici, l'Éternel va sortir de son séjour et descendre et s'avancer sur les hauteurs de la terre;
He will come down [from heaven] and walk on the tops of the highest mountains.
4 et les montagnes se dissoudront sous ses pas, et les vallées se fondront, comme la cire en présence du feu, comme des eaux versées sur une pente:
[It will be as though] the mountains will melt under his [feet] like [SIM] wax [melts] in front of a fire, and like [SIM] water [disappears] when it rushes/flows down into a valley.
5 tout cela, pour le crime de Jacob et le péché de la maison d'Israël! D'où vient le crime de Jacob? n'est-ce pas de Samarie? et d'où les hauts lieux de Juda? n'est-ce pas de Jérusalem?
Those things will happen because of the terrible sins [DOU] that the people [MTY] of Israel, [the descendants of] Jacob, have committed. But it was [RHQ] [the people of] Samaria [city who persuaded all the people of] Israel to sin, and it was [RHQ] because the people of Jerusalem [set up altars to worship their gods] that [the other people of] Judah [were persuaded to worship idols on] their hilltops.
6 Aussi ferai-je de Samarie un tas de pierres dans un champ, une plantation de vigne, et précipiterai-je ses pierres dans la vallée, et mettrai-je ses fondements à nu;
So Yahweh will cause Samaria to become a heap [of rubble/ruins]; [it will be only] a field for planting vineyards. He will cause the stones of its [buildings] to roll down into the valley, and the foundations [of the buildings] will be uncovered.
7 et toutes ses images seront brisées, et tout le salaire de ses prostitutions brûlé au feu; et je saccagerai toutes ses idoles; car avec le salaire de ses prostitutions elle les a rassemblées et elles redeviendront salaire de prostitution.
All the idols in Samaria will be smashed, and the gifts [given to prostitutes at the temples of their idols] will be destroyed in a fire. And because people paid prostitutes there, [their enemies will take away those idols and sell them] to get money to pay to prostitutes [in other countries].
8 C'est pourquoi je gémis et me lamente, je vais sans chaussure ni vêtement; je me lamente comme le chacal et suis lugubre comme l'autruche.
Because [Samaria will be destroyed], I will weep and wail. I will walk around (barefoot/without any sandals on my feet) and naked. I will howl like a jackal/wolf and screech like an owl,
9 Mortel, en effet, est le coup qui la frappe, car il atteint jusques à Juda, pénètre jusqu'aux portes de mon peuple, à Jérusalem.
because Samaria will be completely destroyed [MET]; nothing can save that city. But the same thing will happen to Judah! [It is as though the enemy army] has [already] reached the city gates of Jerusalem, [the main city where] my people [live].
10 A Gath n'en dites rien! et à Acco ne pleurez pas! à Beth-léaphra je me roule dans la poudre!
Do not tell that to [our enemies] in Gath [city in Philistia]! Do not cry, [lest the people there find out what is happening]! [Instead, just] roll in the dirt in Beth-Leaphrah [because the name of that town means ‘house of dust].’
11 Émigre, habitante de Saphir, nue et honteuse! L'habitante de Tsaanan n'ose sortir; le deuil de Bethetsel vous prive de son abri.
You people who live in Shaphir [town, whose name means ‘beautiful],’ naked and ashamed, you will be taken [to another country]. [You people in] Beth-Ezel [town] should mourn, [because] no one from Zaanan [town, whose name means ‘one who goes out],’ will go out to help you.
12 Car l'habitante de Maroth est inquiète de son salut, car de par l'Éternel la calamité est parvenue aux portes de Jérusalem.
[The name of] Maroth [town sounds like ‘bitterness];’ everyone there is anxiously waiting for good things to happen to them, but good things will not happen to them; instead, terrible things are about to happen to them, and it will soon happen at the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Attelle ton char aux coursiers, habitante de Lachis! tu fus un principe de péché pour la fille de Sion, car en toi se sont trouvées les défections d'Israël.
You people of Lachish [city, whose name sounds like ‘team],’ hitch your horses to pull the chariots [in which you can ride to flee from your enemies]. The Israeli people rebelled against Yahweh, and you (imitated them/did the same evil things that they did), and that caused the people of Jerusalem [IDM] to start sinning, too.
14 Tu devras pour cela renoncer à Moréseth-Gath; les maisons d'Achsib seront une déception pour les rois d'Israël.
[You people of Judah], send a farewell gift to [the people] of Moresheth [town], [because their enemies will soon destroy it]. [The name of the town Aczib means ‘deception],’ and the kings of Israel [will soon find out that the people of that town] will deceive them.
15 Je ramènerai contre toi le conquérant, habitante de Marésa, la gloire d'Israël fuira jusques à Adullam.
[The name of your town of] Mareshah [means ‘conqueror],’ and Yahweh will [soon] send someone to conquer your town. [It will be necessary for] the great/glorious leaders of Israel to go [and hide in the cave at] Adullam [city].
16 Rase ta tête, coupe ta chevelure à cause de tes enfants chéris! rends-toi aussi chauve que le vautour; car ils s'en vont loin de toi captifs.
[You people of Judah], shave your heads [while you will be mourning], because your children whom you love will [soon] be (exiled/forced to leave you and go to another country).
