1 Samuel 2
1 Then Hannah prayed, saying, “I rejoice in [what] you, [, have done]. I am strong [MET] because I belong to you. I (laugh at/ridicule) my enemies, because you, Yahweh have rescued me [from being taunted by them].
Et Hanna se mit en prière, et elle dit: Mon cœur se délecte en l’Eternel, mon front s’est relevé grâce au Seigneur; je puis ouvrir la bouche en face de mes ennemis, car j’ai à me réjouir, Seigneur, de ton assistance.
2 There is no one who is holy like you, Yahweh. There is no other god like you. There is no one like you, our God, who can protect us [as though you were putting us beneath] a huge rock [where we can hide from danger].
Nul n’est saint comme l’Eternel, nul ne l’est que toi seul! Aucune Puissance n’égale notre Dieu.
3 [You people who oppose God], stop boasting! Yahweh is a God who knows [everything], and he will evaluate/judge everyone’s actions. So don’t speak so arrogantly!
Cessez, cessez vos paroles arrogantes, les bravades qui s’exhalent de votre bouche; car il dispose de toute science, l’Eternel, et toute œuvre lui est facile.
4 Yahweh, you break the bows/weapons of mighty soldiers, and you give strength to those who stumble [because of being weak].
Par lui, l’arc des forts est brisé, et ceux qui faiblissent sont armés de vigueur;
5 Many people who previously had plenty to eat, now have to work for other people [to earn money] to buy food, but many who were always hungry are not hungry any more. The woman who did not have any children before, now has given birth to many/seven children, and the woman who had many children before, now is very lonely [because they have all died].
Ceux qui vivaient dans l’abondance se font mercenaires, et qui souffrait de la faim en est délivré; tandis que la femme stérile enfante sept fois, la mère féconde est humiliée.
6 Yahweh, you cause some people to die, and you restore some people who are almost dead. For some people, [it seems that they will soon] go to where the dead people are, but you cause them to become healthy again. (Sheol h7585)
L’Eternel fait mourir et fait vivre; il précipite au tombeau, et en retire. (Sheol h7585)
7 Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people and you honor some people.
L’Eternel appauvrit et enrichit, abaisse et relève à son gré.
8 [Sometimes] you lift poor people up so that they are no longer [despondent, sitting in the dust, ] or sitting on heaps of ashes; you cause them to sit next to princes; you cause them to sit on chairs/thrones where people who are highly honored sit. Yahweh, you are the one who laid the foundations of the earth, and you have set the whole world on those foundations.
Il redresse l’humble couché dans la poussière, fait remonter le pauvre du sein de l’abjection, pour les placer à côté des grands et les installer sur un siège d’honneur; car les colonnes de la terre sont à l’Eternel, c’est lui qui en a fait les supports du monde.
9 You will protect your loyal/faithful people [SYN], but you will cause the wicked to die [EUP] and descend to the dark [place where dead people are]. We do not defeat [our enemies] by our own strength;
Il veille sur les pas de ses adorateurs, tandis que les impies périssent dans les ténèbres, car ce n’est pas la force qui fait le vainqueur.
10 Yahweh, you will break into pieces those who oppose you. You will cause thunder in the sky to show that you (oppose/are angry with) them. Yahweh, you will judge [people everywhere, even those who live in] the most remote places on the earth. You will give strength to the king whom you will appoint, and give him great power [over his enemies].”
L’Eternel, ses agresseurs sont foudroyés, quand sur eux, du haut du ciel, Il tonne; l’Eternel juge les sommités de la terre! Et Il donnera la puissance à son roi, et Il exaltera la gloire de son élu.
11 Then Elkanah [and his family] returned to Ramah, but Samuel, the little boy, stayed to help Eli the priest serve Yahweh.
Elkana s’en retourna chez lui à Rama, et le jeune homme resta pour servir le Seigneur, sous les yeux du pontife Héli.
12 Eli’s two [, who were also priests, ] were very wicked. They did not revere (OR, respect/obey) Yahweh.
Or, les fils d’Héli étaient des hommes pervers qui ne s’inquiétaient pas du Seigneur.
13 While the people were boiling the meat from their sacrifices [in the huge pot at the temple], one of Eli’s sons, [would send his servant to come with a large three-pronged fork in his hand].
Voici comme ces prêtres en usaient avec le peuple: chaque fois qu’un individu offrait un sacrifice, le serviteur du prêtre survenait pendant la cuisson de la viande, ayant en main la fourchette à trois dents,
14 [He] would stick the fork into [the meat in] the pot, and whatever meat fastened onto the fork, he would take [and give it] to the priest who sent him. Eli’s sons did this to all the Israeli people who came to Shiloh [to offer sacrifices].
qu’il piquait dans la marmite, la chaudière, la casserole ou le pot; et tout ce qu’amenait la fourchette, le prêtre se l’appropriait. Telle était leur pratique envers tout Israélite qui venait sacrifier à Silo.
15 Furthermore, before the fat [on the meat] was [cut off and] and burned [as a sacrifice to Yahweh], the servant of the priest would [sometimes] come to the man who was making the sacrifice and say to him, “Give me some meat [now to take] to the priest for him to roast! He wants raw meat; he does not want boiled meat.”
Bien mieux: avant qu’on fît fumer la graisse des victimes, le serviteur du prêtre venait dire à l’offrant: "Donne de la viande à rôtir pour le prêtre, car il n’accepte de toi que de la viande crue et non cuite."
16 If the man said to the servant, “Let the priests [cut off and] burn the fat first; then you can take what you want,” the servant would reply, “No, give it to me now; if you do not give it to me, I will take it forcefully!”
Que si l’homme disait: "On doit d’abord faire fumer les parties grasses, tu prendras après ce qu’il te plaira", on lui répondait: "Non, donne tout de suite, sinon je prendrai de force!"
17 Yahweh considered that the young [sons of Eli] were committing a very great sin, because they were treating very disrespectfully the offerings that were being given to Yahweh.
Le péché de ces jeunes gens était très grave aux yeux de l’Eternel, en ce qu’ils avilissaient le culte du Seigneur.
18 As for Samuel, who was still a very young boy, he continued to do work for Yahweh, wearing a little sacred linen vest [like the Supreme Priest wore].
Pour le jeune Samuel, il faisait le service devant le Seigneur, vêtu d’un éphod de lin,
19 Each year his mother made a [new] little robe for him and took it to him when she went up [to Shiloh] with her husband to offer a sacrifice.
outre un petit manteau que sa mère lui faisait et lui apportait tous les ans, lorsqu’elle venait là avec son mari pour le sacrifice annuel.
20 Then Eli would [ask God to] bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh.” Then Elkanah and his family would return home.
Et Héli bénissait Elkana et sa femme en disant: "Que l’Eternel t’accorde par cette femme une nouvelle postérité, en échange de l’enfant qui a été voué au Seigneur!" et ils s’en retournaient à la maison.
21 And Yahweh was very kind to Hannah, and enabled her to give birth to three [other] sons and two daughters. Their son Samuel grew up while he was doing work for Yahweh [in the Sacred Tent].
De fait, le Seigneur se souvint de Hanna, laquelle conçut et enfanta trois fils et deux filles, tandis que le jeune Samuel grandissait en présence du Seigneur.
22 Eli became very old. He often heard about all the [evil] things that his sons were doing to the Israeli people. He heard that they [sometimes] (slept with/had sex with) the women who worked at the entrance to the tent where [God] spoke to [his people].
Or, Héli était très vieux, et il entendait parler de la conduite de ses fils envers tout Israël, et comme quoi ils abusaient des femmes qui venaient faire leurs dévotions à l’entrée de la tente d’assignation.
23 He said to them, “(It is terrible that you do such things!/Why do you do such things?) [RHQ] Many people keep telling me about the evil things that you do.
Et il leur dit: "Pourquoi faites-vous de pareilles choses? Car j’entends les fâcheux propos dont vous êtes l’objet de la part de tout ce peuple.
24 My sons, stop it! The reports [about you] that the people who belong to Yahweh tell others are terrible [EUP]!
Cessez donc, mes enfants; car il n’est pas beau, le bruit que j’entends courir sur vous parmi le peuple du Seigneur.
25 If one person sins against another person, God can (intercede/act as a referee) between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, no one can [RHQ] (intercede/act as a referee) between them!” But Eli’s sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided [that someone should] them.
Si un homme offense un autre homme, le juge en fait justice; mais si c’est Dieu lui-même qu’il offense, qui intercédera pour lui?…" Mais ils n’écoutaient point leur père; aussi Dieu résolut de les faire mourir.
26 The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people.
Cependant le jeune Samuel grandissait et gagnait de plus en plus la faveur de Dieu et celle des hommes.
27 One day, a prophet came to Eli and told him, “This is what Yahweh has told me: ‘When your ancestors were slaves of the king of Egypt, I appeared to Aaron.
Un homme de Dieu vint trouver Héli et lui dit: "Ainsi parle l’Eternel: Quoi! Je me suis manifesté à tes pères, alors qu’ils étaient en Egypte, soumis à la maison de Pharaon,
28 From all the tribes of the Israeli people, I chose him [and his male descendants] to be priests for me. I appointed them to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear a sacred apron [as they worked] for me. And I declared that they could take [and eat some of the meat] that the Israeli people burned [on the altar].
et je les ai choisis entre toutes les tribus d’Israël pour être mes pontifes, pour monter sur mon autel, pour m’offrir l’encens et porter l’éphod devant moi, et j’ai donné à ta famille une part de tous les sacrifices des enfants d’Israël;
29 So why do you show disrespect for the sacrifices and offerings that I commanded [the people to bring] to me [RHQ]? You are honoring your sons more than you are honoring me, by allowing them to get fat from eating the best parts of all the sacrifices that the Israeli people bring to me!’
et maintenant vous foulez aux pieds mes sacrifices et mes offrandes, que j’avais ordonnés pour le sanctuaire! Et tu honores tes fils plus que moi! Et vous vous engraissez du meilleur des offrandes d’Israël, des dons de mon peuple!
30 “Therefore, this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], declares: ‘I definitely promised that Aaron and his descendants would continue to serve [IDM] me forever.’ But now I declare this: ‘It will not continue like that! I will honor those who honor me, but I will despise those who despise me.
Eh bien! Ainsi parle l’Eternel, Dieu d’Israël: J’Avais décidé que ta famille et celle de ton père fonctionneraient devant moi à perpétuité; et maintenant, dit le Seigneur, loin de moi cette pensée! Car j’honore qui m’honore, et qui m’outrage sera livré au mépris.
31 Listen carefully! There will soon be a time when I will cause all the strong [young men] in your family to die. The result will be that no men in your family will [live long enough to] become old men.
Oui, un temps viendra où je couperai court à ta force et à celle de ta famille, de manière que nul n’y vieillira.
32 You will be distressed and envious as you see the blessings that I will give to [the other people in] Israel. And [I repeat that] no men in your family will ever live long enough to become old men.
Tu connaîtras les angoisses domestiques au milieu des prospérités d’Israël, et jamais, dans ta famille, on n’atteindra à la vieillesse.
33 There is one of your descendants whom I will spare, and not prevent him from serving me as a priest. But he will become blind, and then he will always be sad and grieving. But all your other descendants will die violently.
Je ne retrancherai pas tous les tiens du service de mon autel, et cela pour que tes yeux se consument et que ton âme se désole, en voyant tout espoir de ta race s’éteindre à l’âge d’homme.
34 And your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will both die on the same day. And that will prove to you [that all that I have said will come true/happen].
Je t’en donne pour présage ce qui arrivera à tes deux fils, Hophni et Phinéas: tous deux mourront le même jour.
35 ‘have chosen another man to be my priest. He is one who will serve me faithfully: He will do everything I want [DOU] him to do. And I will enable him to have many descendants [IDM] who will be priests and will always serve me by helping the king whom I will choose.
Et je m’instituerai un prêtre fidèle, qui se conduira selon mon cœur et dans mon esprit; et je lui édifierai une maison durable, qui fonctionnera devant mon oint constamment.
36 All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, “Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may [earn some money to] buy some food.”’”
Et ceux qui resteront alors de ta famille viendront se jeter à ses pieds pour une pièce d’argent, pour un morceau de pain, en disant: De grâce, admets-moi à quelque service sacerdotal, pour que j’aie du pain à manger!"
