< Deuteronomy 9 >
1 “You people of Israel, listen to me! You will soon [HYP] cross the Jordan [River]. In the land that you will enter, there are large cities that have very high walls [around them] that [seem to] [HYP] extend up to the sky. There are people-groups in that land that are more numerous and more powerful than you are.
Ecoute Israël: Tu passeras aujourd’hui le Jourdain, afin que tu possèdes des nations très grandes et plus fortes que toi, des villes immenses et fortifiées jusqu’au ciel,
2 Those people are very tall and strong. [Some of them] are giants who are descendants of Anak. You know about them, and you have heard people say that no one [RHQ] can defeat the descendants of Anak.
Un peuple grand et d’une très haute stature, les enfants d’Enac, que toi-même tu as vus et entendus, auxquels nul ne peut résister en face.
3 But I want you to know that Yahweh our God will go ahead of you. He will be like a raging/roaring fire. While you advance, he will defeat and destroy them. As a result, you will quickly be able to expel some of them and kill the others, which is what Yahweh promised that you would do.
Tu sauras donc aujourd’hui que le Seigneur ton Dieu lui-même passera devant toi, feu dévorant et consumant, qui les brisera, les détruira, et les exterminera soudain devant ta face, comme il t’a dit.
4 “After Yahweh our God has expelled them for you, do not say to yourselves, ‘It is because we are righteous that Yahweh has enabled us to capture this land.’ The truth is that it is because the people in that land are wicked that Yahweh will expel them as you advance.
Ne dis point en ton cœur, lorsque le Seigneur ton Dieu les aura détruits en ta présence: C’est à cause de ma justice, que le Seigneur m’a introduit dans cette terre pour la posséder, puisque c’est à cause de leurs impiétés que ces nations ont été détruites.
5 [I say again that] it is not because you are righteous or because you do things that are righteous that you will enter and capture that land. It is because those people-groups are very wicked that Yahweh our God will expel them as you advance, and because he intends to do what he vowed to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would do.
Car ce n’est pas à cause de ta justice, et de l’équité de ton cœur, que tu entreras dans leurs terres pour les posséder; mais c’est parce que ces nations ont agi d’une manière impie, que, toi entrant, elles seront détruites, et afin que le Seigneur accomplît sa parole, qu’il donna avec serment à tes pères Abraham, Isaac et Jacob.
6 I want you to know that it is not because you are righteous that Yahweh our God is giving you this good/fertile land. I say that because [you are not righteous]; you are a very stubborn [IDM] people.”
Sache donc que ce n’est pas a cause de ta justice, que le Seigneur ton Dieu t’a donné cette terre excellente en possession, puisque tu es un peuple d’un cou très roide.
7 “Never forget what your ancestors did in the desert that caused Yahweh our God to become angry. From the day that we left Egypt until the day that we arrived here, you and your ancestors have continually rebelled against him.
Souviens-toi, et n’oublie pas comment tu as provoqué au courroux le Seigneur ton Dieu dans le désert. Depuis le jour que tu es sorti de l’Egypte jusqu’à ce lieu-ci, tu as toujours lutté contre le Seigneur.
8 Even at Sinai [Mountain] your ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry. Because he was very angry, he was ready to get rid of [all of] them.
Car à Horeb même, tu l’as provoqué; aussi, irrité, il a voulu te détruire,
9 When I climbed the mountain to receive from him the stone tablets on which he had written the Ten Commandments that he was giving to them, I stayed there 40 days and nights, and [during that time] I did not eat or drink anything.
Quand je montai sur la montagne, pour recevoir les tables de pierre, les tables de l’alliance que fit le Seigneur avec vous; et je demeurai constamment sur cette montagne pendant quarante jours et quarante nuits, ne mangeant point de pain et ne buvant point d’eau!
10 Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written [the commandments] with his own fingers. They were the words/commandments that he had spoken to your ancestors from the fire on that mountain, when they were gathered together [at the bottom of the mountain].
Le Seigneur me donna alors les deux tables de pierre, écrites du doigt de Dieu, et contenant toutes les paroles qu’il vous dit sur la montagne, du milieu du feu, quand l’assemblée du peuple fut réunie.
11 “At the end of those 40 days and nights, Yahweh gave me those two stone tablets on which he had written those commandments.
Et lorsque furent passés les quarante jours et autant de nuits, le Seigneur me donna les deux tables de pierre, les tables de l’alliance,
12 But then he said to me, ‘Go down the mountain immediately, because [the people whom you are leading], the people whom you led out of Egypt, have committed a terrible sin! They have very quickly done what I commanded them not to do. They have made for themselves a metal statue [of a calf to worship].’
Et il me dit: Lève-toi, et descends vite d’ici, parce que ton peuple que tu as retiré de l’Egypte a abandonné aussitôt la voie que tu lui as montrée, et ils se sont fait une idole de fonte.
13 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘I have been watching these people, and I see that they are very stubborn.
Et de nouveau le Seigneur me dit: Je vois que ce peuple est d’un cou roide;
14 So do not try to stop me. I am going to destroy all of them, with the result that no one anywhere will remember (their names [MTY]/that they ever existed). Then I will enable you to become [the ancestor of] a nation that will be more numerous and more powerful than they are.’
Laisse-moi, que je le brise, et que j’efface son nom de dessous le ciel, et que je t’établisse sur une nation plus grande et plus forte que celle-ci.
15 So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying in my hands the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were [written]. Fire was burning all over the mountain.
Or, lorsque je descendis de la montagne ardente, tenant les deux tables de l’alliance dans l’une et l’autre main,
16 I looked, and I was shocked to see that your ancestors had committed a [great] sin against Yahweh. They very quickly had begun to do what Yahweh our God had commanded them not to do. They had [requested Aaron to] make for them [a metal image of] a calf [to worship].
Et lorsque j’eus vu que vous aviez péché contre le Seigneur votre Dieu, que vous aviez fait pour vous un veau de fonte, et que vous aviez abandonné sitôt sa voie qu’il vous avait montrée,
17 So while they were watching, I lifted up those two stone tablets and threw them [on the ground], and they broke into pieces.
Je jetai les tables de mes mains, et je les brisai en votre présence.
18 Then I (prostrated myself/lay) on the ground in Yahweh’s presence as I had done before, and I did not eat or drink anything for 40 days and nights. I did that because your ancestors had sinned against Yahweh and caused him to become very angry.
Puis, je me prosternai devant le Seigneur, comme auparavant, ne mangeant point de pain pendant quarante jours et quarante nuits, et ne buvant pas d’eau, à cause de tous vos péchés que vous aviez commis contre le Seigneur, et parce que vous l’aviez provoqué au courroux;
19 I was afraid/worried that because Yahweh was very angry with them, he would get rid of all of them. [But again I prayed that he would not do that], and again he listened to me [and answered my prayer].
Car j’ai craint son indignation et sa colère, par laquelle, excité contre vous, il a voulu vous détruire. Mais le Seigneur m’exauça encore cette fois.
20 Yahweh was also very angry with Aaron [for making that golden calf] and was ready to kill Aaron. But at the same time I prayed for Aaron also, [and Yahweh answered my prayer].
Contre Aaron aussi extrêmement irrité, il voulut le briser, mais je l’en détournai également par mes prières.
21 Your ancestors had sinned by [requesting Aaron to] make [a metal statue of] a calf. So I took that statue and [I melted it] in a fire and crushed it and ground it into very tiny pieces [HYP]. Then I threw those tiny pieces into the stream that flowed down the mountain.
Quant au péché que vous aviez fait, c’est-à-dire le veau, le prenant, je le brûlai au feu, puis le brisant en morceaux, et le réduisant entièrement en poudre, je le jetai dans le torrent qui descend de la montagne.
22 Your ancestors also caused Yahweh to become very angry [by what they did] at [places which they named] Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
À l’embrasement aussi, à la tentation et aux Sépulcres de la concupiscence, vous avez provoqué le Seigneur;
23 And when we were at Kadesh-Barnea, Yahweh said to your ancestors, ‘Go up and capture the land that I am about to give to you!’ But they rebelled against him. They did not trust him, and they did not obey what he told [MTY] them to do.
Et quand il vous envoya de Cadesbarné, disant: Montez et possédez la terre que je vous ai donnée, vous méprisâtes le commandement du Seigneur votre Dieu, vous ne crûtes pas en lui, et vous ne voulûtes pas écouter sa voix;
24 Your ancestors rebelled against Yahweh from the first day that I knew them, [in Egypt].
Mais vous avez été toujours rebelles, depuis le jour que j’ai commencé à vous connaître.
25 So, [as I said], I lay on the ground in Yahweh’s presence for 40 days and nights, because Yahweh had said that he would get rid of your ancestors.
Je me tins donc prosterné devant le Seigneur quarante jours et quarante nuits, durant lesquels je le conjurais avec supplication de ne point vous détruire, comme il en avait menacé;
26 And I prayed to Yahweh, saying, ‘Lord God, these people belong to you; do not destroy them. They are people whom you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your very great power. [DOU, MTY]
Et, priant, je dis: Seigneur Dieu, ne détruisez point votre peuple, et votre héritage, que vous avez racheté par votre grandeur, ceux que vous avez retirés de l’Égypte par une main puissante.
27 Do not forget [what you promised to] Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Please ignore these stubborn and wicked people and the sin that they have committed.
Souvenez-vous de vos serviteurs Abraham, Isaac et Jacob; ne considérez point la dureté de ce peuple, ni son impiété, ni son péché;
28 If you do not do that, [and if you get rid of them], the people of Egypt will [hear about it and] say that you were not able to bring them into the land that you promised to give to them. They will say that you took them into the desert only to kill them there because you hated them.
De peur que les habitants de la terre, de laquelle vous nous avez retirés, ne disent: Le Seigneur ne pouvait les introduire dans la terre qu’il leur avait promise, et il les haïssait; c’est pour cela qu’il les a retirés de l’Egypte, afin de les faire mourir dans le désert.
29 [Do not forget that] they are your people. [You chose them to] belong to you. You brought them out [from Egypt] by your very great power [DOU, MTY].’”
Ils sont votre peuple et votre héritage; ce sont eux que vous avez retirés de l’Egypte par votre grande puissance et par votre bras étendu.