Jeremiah 52
1 Zedekiah was a son of twenty-one years when he first began to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
Sédécias avait vingt et un ans quand il monta sur le trône, et il régna onze ans à Jérusalem, et sa mère s'appelait Amitaal, et elle était fille de Jérémie, de Lobna.
2 And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, in accord with all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 And so the fury of the Lord was toward Jerusalem, and toward Judah, even until he cast them away from his face. And Zedekiah drew away from the king of Babylon.
4 And it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, he and his entire army, came against Jerusalem. And they besieged it, and they built fortifications against it, on every side.
Dans la neuvième année de son règne, le neuvième année, le dixième jour du mois, Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, vint avec toutes ses forces vers Jérusalem, et ils l'entourèrent de retranchements, et ils bâtirent alentour un mur en grandes pierres de taille.
5 And the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Et la ville fut investie jusqu'à la onzième année du règne de Sédécias,
6 Then, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, a famine gripped the city. And there was no nourishment for the people of the land.
Jusqu'au neuvième jour du mois; et alors la famine prévalut dans la cité, et il n'y avait plus de pain pour le peuple de la terre.
7 And the city was broken, and all the men of war fled, and they departed from the city at night by way of the gate which is between the two walls, and which leads to the king’s garden, while the Chaldeans were besieging the city all around, and they went away by the road that leads to the wilderness.
Une brèche fut faite aux murailles; les hommes de guerre sortirent de nuit par le chemin de la porte, entre les remparts et les forts avancés qu'on avait élevés près du jardin du roi; et les Chaldéens entouraient le reste de la ville, et les fugitifs prirent la route d'Araba.
8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king. And they overtook Zedekiah in the desert which is near Jericho. And all of his companions fled away from him.
Et l'armée des Chaldéens les poursuivit, et ils prirent le roi auprès de Jéricho, et tous ses serviteurs s'étaient dispersés loin de lui.
9 And when they had captured the king, they led him away to the king of Babylon at Riblah, which is in the land of Hamath. And he spoke a judgment against him.
Les Chaldéens firent donc le roi captif et ils le menèrent au roi de Babylone, à Déblatha, et Nabuchodonosor prononça contre lui son arrêt.
10 And the king of Babylon cut the throats of the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the leaders of Judah at Riblah.
Et il égorgea les fils de Sédécias sous ses yeux, et il égorgea tous les princes de Juda en Déblatha.
11 And he plucked out the eyes of Zedekiah, and he bound him with shackles, and the king of Babylon led him away to Babylon, and he placed him in the prison house, even until the day of his death.
Et il arracha les yeux de Sédécias; puis, après l'avoir chargé de chaînes, il l'emmena à Babylone; là il le mit avec les esclaves qui tournaient la meule, jusqu'au jour où il mourut.
12 Then, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, which is the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, arrived. And he was standing before the king of Babylon at Jerusalem.
Et le cinquième mois, le sixième jour du mois, Nabuzardan, chef des cuisines, qui se tenait devant le roi de Babylone, marcha sur Jérusalem.
13 And he set fire to the house of the Lord, and to the house of the king, and to all the houses of Jerusalem. And every great house he burned with fire.
Et il livra aux flammes le temple du Seigneur, le palais du roi et toutes les maisons de la ville, et il mit le feu à toutes les grandes maisons.
14 And the entire army of the Chaldeans, who were with the chief of the military, destroyed the entire wall all around Jerusalem.
Et l'armée des Chaldéens qui étaient avec le chef des cuisines rasa les remparts dont la ville était entourée.
15 Then Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, took away some of the poor people, and some of the rest of the common people, who had remained in the city, and some of the fugitives, who had fled over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16 Yet truly, some of the poor of the land, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, left behind as vinedressers and farmers.
Mais Nabuzardan y laissa les restes du peuple, pour être vignerons et laboureurs.
17 The Chaldeans also broke apart the bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was in the house of the Lord. And they took all the brass of these things to Babylon.
Et les Chaldéens brisèrent les colonnes d'airain et leurs bases et la mer d'airain qui étaient dans le temple du Seigneur, et ils en emportèrent le métal à Babylone,
18 And they took the cooking pots, and the hooks, and the psalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all the bronze vessels that had been used in the ministry.
Avec les couronnes, les coupes et les chaudières, et tous les vases d'airain employés au service du temple.
19 And the chief of the military took the water pots, and the censers, and the pitchers, and the basins, and the lampstands, and the mortars, and the little cups, whatever was gold, for the gold, and whatever was silver, for the silver,
Et il prit aussi les cassolettes et les bassins, et les vases à verser de l'huile, et les chandeliers, et les encensoirs, et les coupes, qui étaient les unes d'or, les autres d'argent;
20 as well as the two pillars, and the one brass sea, and the twelve oxen of brass that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord. There was no weight of brass left behind out of all these vessels.
Et les deux colonnes, et la mer, et les douze bœufs d'airain sous la mer, qu'avait faits le roi Salomon pour le temple du Seigneur. On ne sut pas le poids des vases d'airain.
21 Now concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a cord of twelve cubits encircled it. Moreover, its thickness was four fingers, and the interior was hollow.
Et les colonnes étaient hautes chacune de trente-cinq coudées, et elles étaient, entourées de chaînes longues de douze coudées, épaisses de quatre doigts.
22 And heads of brass were upon both. And the height of one head was five cubits. And little nets with pomegranates were upon the heads all around, all of brass. The second pillar was similar, and the pomegranates.
Et leurs chapiteaux d'airain avaient cinq coudées de haut, et elles étaient entourées d'un filet et de grenades d'airain, et il y avait huit grenades par coudée, et il y avait douze coudées,
23 And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down; and there were one hundred pomegranates in all, surrounded by the little nets.
Et il y avait quatre-vingt-seize grenades sur les côtés, et il y avait en tout cent grenades sur le filet tout autour.
24 And the chief of the military took Seraiah, the first priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three keepers of the vestibule.
Et Nabuzardan prit le premier prêtre, puis le second et les trois gardiens de la voie,
25 He also took from the city one eunuch who was in charge of the men of war, and seven men among those who served before the face of the king, who were found in the city, and a scribe, a leader of the military, who tested the new recruits, and sixty men from the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.
Et un eunuque, chef des gens de guerre, et sept hommes distingués se tenant devant le roi, qui se trouvaient dans la ville, et le scribe des armées, chargé des écritures du peuple de la terre, et soixante hommes de la campagne qui se trouvaient dans la ville.
26 Then Nebuzaradan, the chief of the military, took them, and he led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Et Nabuzardan, cuisinier en chef du roi, les prit et les conduisit au roi de Babylone à Déblatha.
27 And the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah, in the land of Hamath. And Judah was carried away from his land.
Et le roi les fit mettre à mort à Déblatha, en la terre d'Émath.
28 This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred thirty-two souls from Jerusalem;
30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the chief of the military, carried away of the Jews seven hundred forty-five souls. Therefore, all the souls were four thousand six hundred.
31 And it happened that, in the thirty-seventh year of the transmigration of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evilmerodach, the king of Babylon, in the very first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and he brought him out of the prison house.
En la trente-septième année de la captivité de Joakim, roi de Juda, le douzième mois, le vingt-troisième jour du mois, Ulémadachar, roi de Babylone, l'année même où il monta sur le trône, prit la tête de Joakim et lui coupa les cheveux, et le fit sortir de la maison où il était gardé,
32 And he spoke with him for good, and he set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were after him in Babylon.
Et il lui parla avec douceur, et il lui donna un trône plus élevé que les trônes des autres rois qui l'entouraient à Babylone.
33 And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread in his sight always, all the days of his life.
Et il lui fit changer la robe qu'il avait en prison; et il le fit manger en sa présence tous les jours qu'il vécut.
34 And for his meals, a continual provision was allotted to him by the king of Babylon, a measure for every single day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
Et tous les jours, jusqu'à ce qu'il mourût, il régla constamment toute sa dépense.
