Daniel 11
1 And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.
Et moi, dans la première année de Darius le Mède, je me tenais auprès de lui pour l'aider et le fortifier.
2 And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece.
Maintenant je t'annoncerai la vérité: Voici, il y aura encore trois rois en Perse; puis le quatrième possédera de plus grandes richesses que tous les autres; et quand il sera devenu fort par ses richesses, il soulèvera tout contre le royaume de Javan.
3 And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure.
Mais il s'élèvera un roi vaillant, qui dominera avec une grande puissance, et fera ce qu'il voudra.
4 And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his.
Et dès qu'il se sera élevé, son royaume se brisera et sera divisé vers les quatre vents des cieux, mais il ne passera point à sa postérité, et n'aura pas la même puissance qu'il a exercée; car son royaume sera déchiré et donné à d'autres qu'à ceux-là.
5 And the king of the south will be strong, but one of his captains will be stronger than he and will be ruler; and his rule will be a great rule.
Et le roi du midi deviendra fort, mais l'un de ses chefs deviendra plus fort que lui et dominera, et sa domination sera une grande domination.
6 And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times.
Et au bout de quelques années ils s'allieront, et la fille du roi du midi viendra vers le roi du nord pour rétablir l'accord. Mais elle ne conservera pas la force du bras, et son bras ne subsistera point; et elle sera livrée, elle et ceux qui l'auront amenée, avec son père et celui qui l'aura soutenue dans ces temps-là.
7 But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them:
Mais un rejeton de ses racines s'élèvera pour le remplacer. Il viendra à l'armée, il entrera dans les forteresses du roi du nord, il agira contre eux, et il sera puissant.
8 And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north.
Et même il transportera en Égypte leurs dieux, avec leurs images de fonte et avec leurs vases précieux d'or et d'argent; puis il se tiendra pendant quelques années éloigné du roi du nord.
9 And he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will go back to his land.
Celui-ci marchera contre le royaume du midi, et il retournera dans son pays.
10 And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place.
Mais ses fils entreront en guerre et rassembleront une grande multitude de troupes; l'un d'eux s'avancera et se répandra comme un torrent; il passera et reviendra, et il portera la guerre jusqu'à la forteresse du roi du midi.
11 And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand.
Et le roi du midi sera irrité; il sortira et combattra contre lui, contre le roi du nord. Et celui-ci mettra sur pied une grande multitude, mais la multitude sera livrée en sa main.
12 And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong.
Cette multitude s'enorgueillira, et le cœur du roi s'élèvera; il fera tomber des milliers, mais il n'en sera pas fortifié.
13 And again the king of the north will get together an army greater than the first; and he will make an attack on him at the end of years, with a great army and much wealth.
Car le roi du nord reviendra et rassemblera une multitude plus nombreuse; et au bout de quelque temps, de quelques années, il viendra avec une grande armée et un grand appareil.
14 In those times, a number will take up arms against the king of the south: and the children of the violent among your people will be lifting themselves up to make the vision come true; but it will be their downfall.
En ce temps-là, plusieurs s'élèveront contre le roi du midi, et des hommes violents de ton peuple s'élèveront, afin d'accomplir la vision, mais ils succomberont.
15 So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so.
Et le roi du nord viendra, il élèvera des terrasses et prendra les villes fortes; et les bras du midi, ni son peuple d'élite ne pourront résister. Il n'y aura point de force pour résister.
16 And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction.
Et celui qui sera venu contre lui fera tout ce qu'il voudra, et il n'y aura personne qui lui résiste; et il s'arrêtera dans le pays de gloire, ayant la destruction dans sa main.
17 And it will be his purpose to come with the strength of all his kingdom, but in place of this he will make an agreement with him; and he will give him the daughter of women to send destruction on it; but this will not take place or come about.
Et il concevra le dessein de venir avec la force de tout son royaume, et fera un accord avec le roi du midi, et il lui donnera sa fille pour la perdre; mais cela ne lui réussira pas et ne sera pas pour lui.
18 After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him.
Puis il tournera sa face vers les îles et en prendra plusieurs. Mais un capitaine mettra fin à l'opprobre qu'il lui attirait; il fera retomber sur lui son opprobre.
19 Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.
Et il tournera sa face vers les forteresses de son pays, mais il chancellera, il tombera, et on ne le trouvera plus.
20 Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.
Et un autre sera établi à sa place, qui fera passer l'exacteur dans l'ornement du royaume; et en peu de jours il sera brisé, et ce ne sera ni par la colère, ni dans la bataille.
21 And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.
A sa place il s'élèvera un homme méprisé, auquel on ne donnera pas l'honneur de la royauté; mais il viendra inopinément, et il s'emparera de la royauté par des flatteries.
22 And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate.
Et les forces qui submergent seront submergées devant lui et seront brisées, aussi bien que le prince son allié.
23 And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force,
Et après l'accord fait avec lui, il usera de tromperie, et il montera, et il aura le dessus avec peu de gens.
24 Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time.
Il viendra à l'improviste dans les lieux les plus fertiles de la province, et il fera ce que n'avaient pas fait ses pères, ni les pères de ses pères; il leur distribuera le butin, les dépouilles et les richesses; et il formera des desseins contre les forteresses, et cela pour un temps.
25 And he will put in motion his power and his strength against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will go to war with a very great and strong army: but he will be forced to give way, because of their designs against him;
Puis il réveillera sa force et son courage contre le roi du midi, avec une grande armée. Et le roi du midi s'engagera dans la guerre avec une grande et très forte armée, mais il ne subsistera pas, parce qu'on formera contre lui des complots.
26 And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword.
Et ceux qui mangent les mets de sa table le briseront; son armée s'écoulera comme un torrent, et beaucoup d'hommes tomberont blessés à mort.
27 And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed.
Et les deux rois chercheront dans leur cœur à se nuire; et à la même table ils parleront avec fausseté. Mais cela ne réussira pas, car la fin ne viendra qu'au temps marqué.
28 And he will go back to his land with great wealth; and his heart will be against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure and go back to his land.
Il retournera dans son pays avec de grandes richesses; son cœur se déclarera contre l'alliance sainte, et il agira contre elle, puis il retournera dans son pays.
29 At the time fixed he will come back and come into the south; but in the later time it will not be as it was before.
Au temps marqué, il reviendra et marchera contre le midi; mais cette dernière fois ne sera pas comme la précédente.
30 For those who go out from the west will come against him, and he will be in fear and will go back, full of wrath against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure: and he will go back and be united with those who have given up the holy agreement.
Des navires de Kittim viendront contre lui, et il perdra courage; il s'en retournera, et il sera irrité contre l'alliance sainte et il agira contre elle, il retournera et s'entendra avec ceux qui abandonnent l'alliance sainte.
31 And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.
Et des forces se lèveront de sa part, elles profaneront le sanctuaire, la forteresse, et feront cesser le sacrifice continuel, et mettront l'abomination qui cause la désolation.
32 And those who do evil against the agreement will be turned to sin by his fair words: but the people who have knowledge of their God will be strong and do well.
Il séduira par des flatteries les prévaricateurs de l'alliance; mais le peuple de ceux qui connaissent leur Dieu prendra courage et agira.
33 And those who are wise among the people will be the teachers of the mass of the people: but they will come to their downfall by the sword and by the flame, being made prisoners and undergoing loss for a long time.
Et ceux du peuple qui seront intelligents en instruiront plusieurs; mais il y en aura qui tomberont par l'épée et par la flamme, par la captivité et par le pillage, pendant un certain temps.
34 Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.
Et lorsqu'ils seront renversés, ils seront un peu secourus; et plusieurs se joindront à eux par hypocrisie.
35 And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.
Et parmi les intelligents, quelques-uns seront renversés, afin qu'il y en ait qui soient éprouvés, purifiés et blanchis, jusqu'au temps de la fin, car elle ne viendra qu'au temps marqué.
36 And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.
Le roi fera tout ce qu'il voudra; et il s'enorgueillira et s'élèvera au-dessus de tout dieu; il proférera des choses étranges contre le Dieu des dieux; et il prospérera jusqu'à ce que la colère soit consommée, car ce qui est décrété sera exécuté.
37 He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.
Il n'aura égard ni aux dieux de ses pères, ni à l'amour des femmes; il n'aura égard à aucun dieu; car il s'élèvera au-dessus de tout.
38 But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.
Mais, à la place, il honorera le dieu des forteresses. Il honorera avec de l'or, de l'argent, des pierres précieuses et avec les choses les plus désirables, un dieu que n'ont pas connu ses pères.
39 And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.
Et il agira ainsi dans les remparts des forteresses avec un dieu étranger: à ceux qui le reconnaîtront, il multipliera la gloire; il les fera dominer sur plusieurs et leur partagera le pays en récompense.
40 And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters.
Et au temps de la fin, le roi du midi se heurtera contre lui; et le roi du nord fondra sur lui comme une tempête, avec des chars et des cavaliers et beaucoup de navires.
41 And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Il entrera dans les terres, se répandra comme un torrent et passera. Il entrera dans le pays de gloire; et plusieurs pays succomberont, mais ceux-ci échapperont de sa main: Édom et Moab et les principaux des enfants d'Ammon.
42 And his hand will be stretched out on the countries: and the land of the south will not be safe from him.
Il étendra sa main sur les pays, et le pays d'Égypte n'échappera point.
43 But he will have power over the stores of gold and silver, and over all the valued things of the south: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.
Il se rendra maître des trésors d'or et d'argent et de toutes les choses précieuses de l'Égypte. Les Libyens et les Éthiopiens seront à sa suite.
44 But he will be troubled by news from the east and from the north; and he will go out in great wrath, to send destruction on, and put an end to, great numbers.
Mais des nouvelles de l'orient et du nord viendront le troubler; et il sortira avec une grande fureur pour détruire et exterminer beaucoup de gens.
45 He will put the tents of his great house between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain: but he will come to his end with no helper.
Il dressera les tentes de son palais entre les mers, vers la montagne glorieuse et sainte. Puis il viendra à sa fin, et personne ne lui donnera de secours.
