Deuteronomy 32
1 “Listen to me, [all you who are in the] heavens, and [all you who are on the] earth, listen to what I say [MTY].
Cieux, prêtez l'oreille, et je parlerai; et que la terre écoute les paroles de ma bouche.
2 I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
Ma doctrine coulera comme la pluie; ma parole tombera comme la rosée; comme des ondées sur la verdure, comme des pluies abondantes sur l'herbe.
3 I will praise Yahweh [MTY]. And [all you people should] tell others that our God is very great.
Car je proclamerai le nom de l'Éternel. Célébrez la grandeur de notre Dieu!
4 He is like a rock [MET] [under which we are protected]; [everything] that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.
L'œuvre du Rocher est parfaite; car toutes ses voies sont la justice même. C'est un Dieu fidèle et sans iniquité; il est juste et droit.
5 “But [you Israeli people] have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer [deserve to] be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].
Ils ont agi à son égard d'une manière honteuse et perverse, ses enfants dégénérés, race fausse et tortueuse.
6 You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, (is this the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you]?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you].) [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.
Est-ce ainsi que vous récompensez l'Éternel, peuple insensé et sans sagesse? N'est-il pas ton père, qui t'a formé, qui t'a fait et t'a affermi?
7 “Think about [what happened] long ago; consider what happened to your ancestors. Ask your parents, and they will inform you; ask the older people, and they will tell you.
Souviens-toi des jours d'autrefois; considère les années, d'âge en âge; interroge ton père, et il te l'apprendra, tes vieillards, et ils te le diront.
8 When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and (assigned to/chose for) each people-group a god/angel.
Quand le Très-Haut donnait leur lot aux nations, quand il séparait les enfants des hommes, il fixa les limites des peuples selon le nombre des enfants d'Israël;
9 But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; he chose [us, the descendants of] Jacob, to belong to him.
Car la portion de l'Éternel, c'est son peuple; Jacob est le lot de son héritage.
10 “He saw [our ancestors] when they were in a desert, wandering in a land (that was desolate/where no people lived). He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
Il le trouva dans un pays désert, dans une solitude, où il n'y avait que hurlements de désolation; il l'entoura, il prit soin de lui; il le garda comme la prunelle de son œil;
11 [Yahweh protected his people] just like an eagle encourages its babies [to fly] and flutters over them [MET], spreading its wings and catching them [if they start to fall].
Comme l'aigle qui réchauffe son nid et couve ses petits; qui étend ses ailes, les prend, et les porte sur ses plumes.
12 Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.
L'Éternel seul l'a conduit, et il n'y a point eu avec lui de dieu étranger.
13 “[After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them], Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew [even] in stony ground.
Il l'a fait passer à cheval sur les lieux élevés de la terre; et Israël a mangé les produits des champs; et il lui a fait sucer le miel de la roche et l'huile des plus durs rochers,
14 The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.
Le beurre des vaches et le lait des brebis, avec la graisse des agneaux, des béliers nés à Bassan et des boucs, avec la fine fleur du froment. Et tu as bu le vin généreux, le sang de la grappe.
15 “The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
Mais Jeshurun (Israël) s'est engraissé, et a regimbé. Tu es devenu gras, gros et épais. Il a abandonné le Dieu qui l'a fait, et a méprisé le Rocher de son salut.
16 So he abandoned them because they started to worship other/strange gods. Because of their worshiping disgusting idols, he became angry.
Ils ont excité sa jalousie par des dieux étrangers; ils l'ont irrité par des abominations;
17 They offered sacrifices to gods who were [really] demons, gods that their ancestors had never known; they offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about, gods whom your ancestors had never revered.
Ils ont sacrifié à des idoles, qui ne sont point Dieu; à des dieux qu'ils ne connaissaient point, dieux nouveaux venus depuis peu, et que vos pères n'ont point redoutés.
18 They forgot [the true] God, the one who protects them [MET], the one who created them and caused them to live.
Tu as abandonné le Rocher qui t'a engendré, et tu as oublié le Dieu qui t'a formé.
19 “When Yahweh saw that [they had abandoned him], he became angry, so he rejected [the Israeli people, who are like] his sons and daughters.
L'Éternel l'a vu, et il a rejeté, dans son indignation, ses fils et ses filles;
20 He said, ‘They are very wicked/stubborn people, very unfaithful; so I will no longer help them, and then I will watch and see what happens to them.
Et il a dit: Je cacherai d'eux ma face, je verrai quelle sera leur fin; car ils sont une race perverse, des enfants en qui l'on ne peut se fier.
21 They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be [jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me]. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send [to attack them an army of] a nation of worthless and foolish people.
Ils ont excité ma jalousie par ce qui n'est point Dieu, ils m'ont irrité par leurs vanités; moi aussi j'exciterai leur jalousie par ce qui n'est point un peuple, je les irriterai par une nation insensée.
22 I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
Car le feu s'est embrasé dans ma colère; il a brûlé jusqu'au Sépulcre souterrain, il a dévoré la terre et son fruit, et enflammé les fondements des montagnes. (Sheol h7585)
23 I will cause them to experience many disasters; [they will feel as though] [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.
J'amasserai sur eux des maux, je tirerai contre eux toutes mes flèches;
24 They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers and because of terrible diseases; I will send wild animals to attack [MTY] them, and poisonous snakes to bite [MTY] them.
Ils seront consumés par la faim, et dévorés par la fièvre et par un fléau amer; et j'enverrai contre eux la dent des bêtes, avec le venin des animaux rampants dans la poussière.
25 Outside [their houses, their enemies] will kill them [MTY] with swords, and in their homes, [their enemies will cause] them to be terrified. Their enemies will kill young men and young women, and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.
L'épée détruira au-dehors, et la frayeur au-dedans, frappant et le jeune homme et la vierge, l'enfant qui tète aussi bien que l'homme blanc de vieillesse.
26 I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries in order that no one would ever remember them.
J'aurais dit: Je les disperserai, j'abolirai leur mémoire d'entre les hommes;
27 But [if I did that], their enemies would wrongly boast that they were the ones who had [gotten rid of my people]; they would say, “We [SYN] are the ones who defeated them; it was not Yahweh who has done all these things.”’
Si je ne craignais le sarcasme de l'ennemi, et que leurs adversaires ne s'y méprennent, et ne disent: Notre main a été élevée, et ce n'est point l'Éternel qui a fait tout ceci.
28 You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.
Car c'est une nation dépourvue de jugement, et il n'y a en eux aucune intelligence.
29 If you were wise, you would understand [why you would be punished]; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
Oh! s'ils étaient sages! Ils considéreraient ceci, ils réfléchiraient à ce qui leur arrivera à la fin.
30 [You would have realized] why 1,000 [of your soldiers] would be defeated by only one [of the enemy soldiers], and why two of your enemies would chase away 10,000 [Israeli soldiers]. [You would realize that this would happen] only if God, the one who always defended you [MET], had allowed your enemies to defeat you, because he had abandoned you.
Comment un en poursuivrait-il mille, et deux en mettraient-ils en fuite dix mille, si ce n'était que leur rocher les a vendus, et que l'Éternel les a livrés?
31 Your enemies know that their gods are not powerful like Yahweh, our God, [so their gods could not have defeated us Israelis].
Car leur rocher n'est pas comme notre Rocher, et nos ennemis en sont juges.
32 Your enemies are like [MET] grapevines planted near [the ruins of] Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; the grapes from those vines are bitter and poisonous;
Car leur vigne est du plant de Sodome et du terroir de Gomorrhe; leurs raisins sont des raisins vénéneux, ils ont des grappes amères;
33 the wine [from those grapes] is like the poison of snakes [DOU].
Leur vin est un venin de dragons, et un cruel poison d'aspics.
34 [“Yahweh says], ‘I know [RHQ] [what I have planned to do to the Israeli people and to their enemies], and those plans are so secure [that it as though he locked them up] [MET].
Cela n'est-il pas serré auprès de moi, scellé dans mes trésors?
35 I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done [to my people], at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
La vengeance m'appartient, et la rétribution, pour le temps où leur pied chancellera; car le jour de leur calamité est proche, et les choses qui doivent leur arriver se hâtent.
36 “But Yahweh will see that you who are truly his people, who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and he will be merciful to you. And he will see that you are helpless, and that there are very few of you, slaves or free people, who are still alive.
Car l'Éternel tirera satisfaction de son peuple, et aura pitié de ses serviteurs, quand il verra que leur force s'en est allée, et qu'il n'y reste rien de ce qu'on enferme ou de ce qu'on délaisse.
37 Then Yahweh will ask his people, ‘Where are the gods that you thought would protect you [MET]?
Il dira: Où sont leurs dieux, le rocher en qui ils se confiaient,
38 You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed, and you poured out wine for them to drink. So, they should begin to help you; they should be the ones who will protect you!
Qui mangeaient la graisse de leurs sacrifices et buvaient le vin de leurs libations? Qu'ils se lèvent, qu'ils vous aident, qu'ils vous servent de retraite.
39 “But now you will realize that I, only I, am God; there is no other god who is [a real] god. I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live; I can wound people, and I can heal people, and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.
Voyez maintenant que c'est moi, moi-même, et qu'il n'y a point d'autre Dieu que moi. Je fais mourir et je fais vivre, je blesse et je guéris, et il n'y a personne qui puisse délivrer de ma main.
40 I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare that just as sure as I live forever,
Car je lève ma main vers les cieux, et je dis: Je suis vivant éternellement!
41 that when I sharpen my sword, as I [SYN] prepare to punish people, I will get revenge on my enemies; I will pay back those who hate me.
Si j'aiguise la lame de mon épée, et que ma main saisisse le jugement, je rendrai la vengeance à mes adversaires, et la rétribution à ceux qui me haïssent.
42 I will kill all [of my enemies] with a sword; it will be as though I had arrows that will be covered with their blood. I will kill [MTY] all those whom I capture and cut off their leaders’ heads.’
J'enivrerai mes flèches de sang, et mon épée dévorera la chair; j'enivrerai mes flèches du sang des tués et des captifs, de la tête des chefs de l'ennemi.
43 “You people of all nations, you as well as his people should praise Yahweh, because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him; and he cleanses his people’s land which has become defiled because of their sins.”
Chantez de joie, nations, son peuple! car il vengera le sang de ses serviteurs, il rendra la vengeance à ses adversaires, et fera l'expiation pour sa terre, pour son peuple.
44 Joshua and Moses/I recited the words of that song while the Israeli people were listening.
Moïse vint donc, lui et Josué, fils de Nun, et prononça toutes les paroles de ce cantique aux oreilles du peuple.
45 When they/we finished reciting to the Israeli people the words of this song,
Et quand Moïse eut achevé de prononcer toutes ces paroles à tout Israël,
46 Moses/I said, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
Il leur dit: Appliquez votre cœur à toutes les paroles que je vous somme aujourd'hui de prescrire à vos enfants, afin qu'ils prennent garde à faire selon toutes les paroles de cette loi.
47 These instructions are very important [LIT]. If [you obey] them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to occupy.”
Car ce n'est pas une parole vaine pour vous, mais c'est votre vie; et par cette parole vous prolongerez vos jours sur la terre que vous allez posséder en passant le Jourdain.
48 On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses/me,
En ce même jour, l'Éternel parla à Moïse en disant:
49 “Go to the Abarim Mountain range [here] in the Moab region, across from Jericho. Climb Nebo Mountain, and look [toward the west] to see Canaan land, the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people.
Monte sur cette montagne d'Abarim, sur le mont Nébo, qui est au pays de Moab, en face de Jérico; et regarde le pays de Canaan, que je donne en possession aux enfants d'Israël.
50 You will die on that mountain [EUP, DOU], like your [older] brother Aaron died on Hor Mountain.
Or tu mourras sur la montagne où tu montes, et tu seras recueilli vers tes peuples, comme Aaron ton frère est mort sur la montagne de Hor, et a été recueilli vers ses peuples;
51 You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israeli people, when you all were at Meribah Springs near Kadesh [town] in the Zin Desert. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israeli people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
Parce que vous avez péché contre moi, au milieu des enfants d'Israël, aux eaux de la contestation de Kadès, au désert de Tsin; parce que vous ne m'avez point sanctifié au milieu des enfants d'Israël.
52 [When you are on that mountain where I told you to go], you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people, but you will not enter it.”
Car tu verras le pays devant toi, mais tu n'entreras point dans le pays que je donne aux enfants d'Israël.
