Abdias 1
1 Vision d'Abdias. Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Éternel, sur l'Idumée: Nous avons ouï un message de par l'Éternel, et un héraut parmi les peuples est envoyé: « Debout! Faisons une levée contre elle pour l'attaquer! »
This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom [people-group]. Yahweh our God has told me this about [the people of] Edom: “I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations, telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom.”
2 Voici, je te rendrai chétive parmi les nations, tu seras livrée à un mépris extrême.
And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom: “I will soon cause you to become the weakest and most despised nation [on the earth].
3 L'orgueil de ton cœur t'a séduite, parce que tu habites les gorges des rochers, ta haute demeure; elle dit en son cœur: Qui me jetterait par terre?
Your [capital city] is high in the rocky cliffs, and you are very proud; you think that you are safe from being attacked by your enemies [RHQ], but you [IDM] have deceived yourselves.
4 Quand pareille à l'aigle tu élèverais ton aire, quand parmi les étoiles tu la placerais, de là je te précipiterai, dit l'Éternel.
And I tell you that even if [you had wings and] could fly higher than eagles fly, and if you could make your homes among the stars, I would bring you [crashing] down from there.
5 Des voleurs t'ont-ils envahie, ou bien des pillards nocturnes? Comme tu es ruinée! Mais enlèvent-ils plus que ce qui leur suffit? Des vendangeurs t'ont-ils envahie? Mais ne laissent-ils rien à grappiller?
When thieves break into someone’s house during the night, they certainly [RHQ] steal only the things that they want. And people who pick grapes always [RHQ] leave a few grapes on the vines. But your country will be completely destroyed!
6 Comme Ésaü est fouillé, et ses trésors visités!
Everything that is valuable will be taken away. [Your enemies] will find and take away even the valuable things that you have hidden.
7 Jusqu'à la frontière tu es repoussée par tous tes alliés, tu es trompée, dupée par tes amis, tes commensaux; ils tendent un piège sous tes pas; il n'y a plus d'intelligence en toi.
All (your allies/nations who promised to help you) will turn against you, and they will force you to leave your country/land. Those with whom you have peace now will trick/deceive you and defeat you. Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you, and [then they will say to you], ‘You are not [RHQ] as clever [as you thought you were]!’
8 En ce même jour, dit l'Éternel, n'ôterai-je pas de l'Idumée les sages, et des montagnes d'Ésaü l'intelligence?
I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom, I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who [thought that they] were wise.
9 Et tes héros, Théman, seront dans l'épouvante, pour que tous ils soient exterminés de la montagne d'Ésaü à cause du carnage.
The soldiers from Teman [town] will become terrified; all you people who are descendants of Esau will be (wiped out/killed).
10 A cause de l'outrage que tu fis à ton frère Jacob tu seras couvert d'ignominie, et exterminé à jamais!
You acted cruel in a cruel way toward your relatives who are descendants of Jacob, [the twin brother of your ancestor Esau]. So now you will be disgraced forever; you will be completely destroyed.
11 Le jour où tu te tenais en face de lui, le jour où des étrangers emmenèrent captifs ses bataillons, et où des inconnus entrèrent dans ses portes, et tirèrent Jérusalem au sort; toi aussi tu fus comme l'un d'eux.
Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem and (cast lots/threw small stones that were marked) to decide what valuable things they would take away; but you were as bad as those foreigners, because you just stood there [and did not help the Israelis].
12 Ne repais pas ta vue de la journée de ton frère, de sa journée de misère, et que les enfants de Juda ne te réjouissent pas au jour de leur ruine, et ne dilate pas ta bouche au jour du désastre.
You should not have (gloated/been happy) about the disaster that the Israelis were experiencing. You should not have been happy when their towns were ruined. You should not have made fun [of them] when they were suffering.
13 N'entre pas dans les portes de mon peuple au jour de sa défaite, toi non plus ne repais pas ta vue de son malheur au jour de sa défaite, et ne porte pas la main sur ses richesses au jour de sa défaite.
They are my people, so you should not have entered their [city] gates when they were experiencing those disasters and you should not have laughed at them. And you should not have taken away their [valuable] possessions.
14 Et ne te tiens pas au carrefour pour massacrer ses fugitifs, et ne livre pas ses réchappés au jour du désastre!
You should not have stood at crossroads to catch those who were [trying to] escape. You should not have [captured them and] put them into the hands of [their enemies] when they were experiencing those disasters.”
15 Car elle est proche la journée de l'Éternel sur tous les peuples: ce que tu as fait, te sera fait; tes actes retomberont sur ta tête.
“There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge [and punish] all the nations. And you [people of Edom] will experience the same [disasters] that you caused [others to experience]. The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.
16 En effet, comme vous avez bu le calice sur ma montagne sainte, ainsi le boiront tous les peuples à perpétuité; ils le boiront, épuiseront, et ils seront comme s'ils n'eussent pas été.
[My people in Jerusalem have been punished] because I was very angry with them. [It is as though] [MET] they drank [a cup of very bitter liquid] on Zion, my sacred hill. But [I] will punish [MET] all the other nations even more severely, and cause them to disappear completely.
17 Mais sur la montagne de Sion il y aura un refuge, et elle sera sainte, et la maison de Jacob reprendra ses possessions.
But some [people in Jerusalem will escape], and Jerusalem will become a very holy/sacred place. Then the descendants of Jacob will [conquer and] possess again the land that truly belongs to them.
18 Et la maison de Jacob sera un feu, et la maison de Joseph une flamme, et la maison d'Ésaü le chaume, et ils l'embraseront et la consumeront, et il n'y aura point de survivants de la maison d'Ésaü, car l'Éternel a prononcé.
The descendants [MTY] of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like [MET] a fire, and the people [MTY] of Edom will be like [MET] stubble that will be completely burned in that fire. Not one person will remain alive. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.”
19 Et ceux du midi posséderont la montagne d'Ésaü, et ceux de Séphéla la Philistie, et ils posséderont la campagne d'Éphraïm et la campagne de Samarie, et Benjamin Galaad.
The Israeli people [who live] in the southern desert are the ones who will capture Edom. And those [who live in] the western foothills will capture the Phoenicia [region] and the areas of Ephraim and Samaria. And people of the tribe of Benjamin will conquer the Gilead [region].
20 Et les captifs de cette armée des enfants d'Israël, emmenés par les Cananéens jusqu'à Tsarpath, et les captifs de Jérusalem en état de dispersion soumettront les villes du midi,
Those who were (exiled in/forced to go to) [Babylon] will [return to their land] [and] capture the Phoenicia [region] as far north as Zarephath [on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea]. People of Jerusalem who were captured and taken to Sardis, [the capital city of the Lydia region], will capture the towns in the southern desert.
21 et il montera des sauveurs sur la montagne de Sion pour juger la montagne d'Ésaü, et à l'Éternel sera l'empire.
The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it, and Yahweh will be their king.
