Ezekiel 16

1 Yahweh gave me another message. He said,

La parole de l’Eternel me fut adressée en ces termes:

2 “You human, cause the people of Jerusalem to think about their detestable behavior.

"Fils de l’homme, fais connaître à Jérusalem ses abominations.

3 Say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says to you people of Jerusalem: [It is as though you are a woman who] [MET] was born in the country where the Canaan people-group lived. [It is as though] [MET] your father belonged to the Amor people-group and your mother belonged to the Heth people-group.

Tu diras: Ainsi parle le Seigneur Dieu à Jérusalem: Le lieu de ton extraction et ton pays natal, c’est la terre de Canaan; ton père était Amorréen et ta mère Héthéenne.

4 [It is as though] [MET] on the day that you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, and your body was not washed in water, and it was not rubbed with salt or wrapped in strips of cloth, [like Israeli babies always are].

Quant à ta naissance, le jour où tu fus enfantée, ton nombril ne fut pas coupé, tu ne fus pas lavée dans l’eau pour être purifiée, tu ne fus pas saupoudrée de sel ni enveloppée de langes.

5 No one pitied you or acted kindly toward you by doing those things for you. Instead, [it was as though] [MET] you were thrown into a field, because on the day that you were born, you were despised {everyone despised you}.

Nul oeil ne te prit en pitié pour te donner aucun de ces soins, par compassion pour toi; tu fus jetée au milieu des champs par suite de la répulsion que tu inspirais, le jour où tu naquis.

6 Then [it was as though] [MET] I passed by and saw you lying in your own blood and kicking. And while you lay there kicking in your own blood, I said to you, “I want you to remain alive!”

Mais je passai auprès de toi, je te vis t’agiter dans ton sang, et je te dis: "Vis dans ton sang!"

7 [It was as though] I caused you to grow up, like plants in the field grow; you grew up and became tall and became like [MET] a very beautiful jewel. [It was as though] [MET] your breasts (formed/became large), and your hair became long, although you were still naked [DOU].

Je t’ai multipliée comme la végétation des champs, tu as augmenté, grandi, tu as revêtu la plus belle des parures, tes seins se sont affermis, ta chevelure a poussé, mais tu étais nue et dénudée.

8 When I saw you several years later, [it was as though] [MET] I saw that you were old enough to have sex [EUP]. So [it was as though] [MET] I spread the corner of my robe over [to symbolize that I would marry you], with the result that you were no longer naked. I solemnly promised [that I would marry you] and made a marriage agreement with you, and you became my wife. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say.

Et je passai près de toi et vis que tu étais arrivée à l’âge des amours; j’étendis mon vêtement sur toi et couvris ta nudité; je m’engageai à toi par serment et fis alliance avec toi, dit le Seigneur Dieu, et tu fus à moi.

9 [And then it was as though] [MET] I bathed you and washed the blood from you and put ointment on your body.

Je te lavai dans l’eau, je nettoyai le sang qui te recouvrait et je t’oignis d’huile.

10 [It was as though] [MET] I put a fine linen robe on you and gave you other expensive clothes. I put an embroidered dress on you and put leather sandals on your feet.

Je te revêtis de broderies, je te mis des chaussures de tahach, je te ceignis de byssus et te couvris de soie.

11 [It was as though] [MET] I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck. Those things all had nice jewels fastened to them.

Je t’ornai de parures, je te mis des bracelets aux mains, un collier au cou.

12 I put a gold ring in your nose and fastened earrings to your ears and put a beautiful crown on your head.

Je te mis un anneau au nez, des boucles aux oreilles et une couronne magnifique sur la tête.

13 So [it was as though] you wore gold and silver ornaments. You had clothes made from fine (linen/white cloth) and other expensive embroidered material/cloth. You ate [bread made from] fine flour, honey, and olive oil. You became very beautiful, like [MET] a queen.

Tu te paras d’or et d’argent; ton costume était de byssus, de soie et de broderie; tu te nourris de fine fleur de farine, de miel et d’huile; et tu fus belle, très belle, et digne de la royauté.

14 You were very beautiful, with the result that people in other nations heard about you, because they knew that I, Yahweh the Lord, am the one who had caused you to become very beautiful.

Et tu t’es rendue célèbre parmi les nations par ta beauté, qui était parfaite, grâce à l’éclat que j’avais répandu sur toi, dit le Seigneur Dieu!

15 But [it was as though] [MET] you realized that because people knew that you were very beautiful, you could [earn a lot of money by] becoming a prostitute. [It was as though] you had sex with [EUP] every man who came along, and they all enjoyed your beauty.

Mais tu t’es fiée à ta beauté et livrée à la prostitution à la faveur de ta renommée; tu as prodigué tes débauches à tout passant quel qu’il fût.

16 [It was as though] you took some of your clothes to make beautifully decorated shrines, and that is where you had sex with those men. Those things should certainly never occur!

Tu as pris de tes vêtements, tu en as fait des hauts lieux bigarrés et tu t’es prostituée sur eux, ce qui ne devait pas arriver et ne devait pas être.

17 You took the fine gold and silver jewelry that I gave you, and you made male idols for yourself, in order to have sex with them.

Et tu as pris tes belles parures faites de mon or et de mon argent que je t’avais donnés et tu t’es confectionné des simulacres de mâles et tu t’es prostituée à eux.

18 You took some of your embroidered clothes to put on those idols, and you burned oil and incense in front of them [to honor them].

Et tu as pris tes vêtements brodés et tu les en as recouverts et tu as mis devant eux mon huile et mon encens.

19 And the [bread that was made from] fine flour and the olive oil and honey that I gave to you to eat, you offered to be a fragrant sacrifice to those idols. I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that is what happened.

Et mon pain que je t’avais donnéje te nourrissais de fine fleur de farine, d’huile et de mieltu le leur as offert en odeur agréable; oui, il en a été ainsi, dit le Seigneur Dieu.

20 And you even took your sons and daughters who were [as though they were] [MET] my children, and sacrificed them to be food for the idols. That was much worse [RHQ] than your becoming a prostitute.

Et tu as pris tes fils et tes filles que tu m’avais enfantés et tu les leur as sacrifiés en pâture; était-ce trop peu que ta prostitution?

21 You slaughtered [those who were like] [MET] my children, and offered them to be sacrifices to the gods!

Tu as immolé mes fils, tu les as livrés en les faisant passer devant eux.

22 All during the time when you were acting like a prostitute and doing other detestable things, you did not think about the time when [it was as though] you were very young, naked [DOU], lying in your own blood and kicking.

Et au cours de toutes tes abominations, de tes débauches, tu ne t’es pas souvenue des jours de ton enfance, où tu étais nue et dénudée et où tu te roulais dans ton sang.

23 So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that terrible things will happen to you. In addition to all the other wicked things that you did,

Et ensuite après toute ta dépravationmalheur, malheur à toi! dit le Seigneur Dieu,

24 you built a shrine to worship idols in every [city] square/plaza.

tu t’es bâti un tertre et tu t’es fait un haut-lieu sur chaque place.

25 At the beginning of every street you built a shrine, and showed people your beautiful body, offering it to have sex with every man who walked by, becoming a better known prostitute every day.

A l’entrée de chaque chemin tu as édifié ton haut-lieu, tu as souillé ta beauté, tu t’es abandonnée à tout passant, tu as multiplié tes impudicités.

26 [It was as though] [MET] you had sex with men from Egypt who were eager to have sex with you, men who lived near to Israel. You caused me to become very angry because you became more eager to have sex with more and more of them.

Tu t’es prostituée aux enfants de l’Egypte, tes voisins, forts en chair, et tu as multiplié tes débauches pour me courroucer.

27 So I punished [IDM] you and caused your enemies to capture some of your country. I enabled your greedy enemies from Philistia to defeat you; and even they were shocked because of your disgraceful behavior.

Et voici que j’ai étendu ma main sur toi et j’ai réduit ta subsistance, je t’ai livrée à la merci de tes ennemies, les filles des Philistins, confuses de ta conduite infâme.

28 [It was as though] you had sex with soldiers from Assyria, too, because you always wanted more sex. And after that, you still were not satisfied.

Ensuite tu t’es prostituée aux enfants d’Achour, faute d’être assouvie; tu t’es prostituée avec eux, sans en avoir encore assez.

29 So you also had sex [with soldiers from] Babylonia, a country full of merchants/businessmen, but even that did not satisfy you.

Tu as multiplié aussi tes débauches du côté du pays mercantile des Chaldéens, et avec cela non plus tu ne fus pas rassasiée.

30 I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that when you did all those things, acting like [MET] a bold prostitute, you were showing that you were ready to do anything that you wanted to [IDM].

Que ton coeur était languissant, dit le Seigneur Dieu, quand tu commettais tous ces actes, à la façon d’une courtisane sans frein!

31 When you built shrines to worship idols on every street corner and in every city square/plaza, you were not like a prostitute: Prostitutes charge money, but you refused to take money for what you did.

Quand tu bâtissais ton tertre à l’entrée de chaque chemin, ta hauteur sur chaque place, tu n’étais pas comme les courtisanes toujours mécontentes du salaire.

32 You are like [MET] a woman who commits adultery: You prefer to [have sex with] strangers rather than with your husband.

O femme adultère, qui prends des étrangers à la place de ton mari!

33 Prostitutes are paid, but [it is as though] you give gifts to all your lovers; you bribe them to come to you from everywhere to have sex with you.

A toutes les courtisanes on offre un don, et toi, tu as fait des cadeaux à tous tes amants, tu les as achetés afin qu’ils vinssent à toi des alentours pour tes débauches.

34 So although you act like [MET] a prostitute, you are not like other prostitutes: No one needs to request you to have sex [EUP] with them. You are the opposite of other prostitutes; instead of them giving any money to you, you give men money to have sex with you.

II s’est passé pour toi le contraire des autres femmes, car c’est toi qui t’es prostituée, et l’on ne s’est pas prostitué à toi; c’est toi qui payais un salaire et l’on ne t’en a point donné; ç’a été un renversement des choses.

35 Therefore, [you people of] Jerusalem, who are like a prostitute [MET], listen to what I, Yahweh the Lord, am saying about you!

C’Est pourquoi, prostituée, écoute la parole du Seigneur.

36 I say that [what you have done is as though] [MET] you took off your clothes and acted like a prostitute and had sex with men who are not your husband. [What I mean is that you have been worshiping] detestable idols, and you have murdered [MTY] your own children to be sacrifices to them.

Ainsi parle le Seigneur Dieu: "Puisque tes fonds ont été gaspillés, que ta nudité s’est dévoilée dans tes prostitutions avec tes amants et avec toutes tes idoles infâmes, et en raison du sang de tes enfants que tu leur as voués,

37 So [what I am going to do is as though] I will gather those who you think have loved you and those whom you hated. I will gather them around you [to attack you], and [what I will do is as though] I will strip your clothes off you, and they will see you when you are completely naked.

pour tout cela je vais rassembler tous tes amants auxquels tu plaisais, tous ceux que tu aimais avec tous ceux que tu haïssais, je les rassemblerai contre toi de toute part et je leur découvrirai ta nudité, et ils verront toute ta nudité.

38 I will punish you like women who commit adultery and who murder people [MTY] are punished. I will get revenge on you and get rid of you because I am extremely angry with you.

Et je t’infligerai le châtiment des femmes adultères et qui versent le sang, et je ferai de toi un être de sang, de fureur et de jalousie.

39 I will allow [your enemies who you thought] loved you [IRO] to defeat you, and they will tear down your shrines. [It will be as though] they will strip off your fancy clothes and take away your fine jewelry and cause you to be completely naked [DOU].

Je te livrerai entre leurs mains et ils abattront ton tertre et démoliront tes hauts-lieux; ils te dépouilleront de tes vêtements, prendront tes effets d’apparat et te laisseront là nue et dépouillée.

40 They will bring a mob to attack you, and that mob will throw stones at you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Ils feront monter contre toi une multitude et t’accableront de pierres et te perceront de leurs glaives.

41 They will burn down your houses and punish you while many women are watching. I will cause your acting like a prostitute and paying your lovers to have sex with you to end.

Ils consumeront par le feu tes maisons et exécuteront des jugements contre toi sous les yeux de nombreuses femmes; ainsi je mettrai fin à ta prostitution, et dorénavant tu ne donneras plus de salaire non plus.

42 Then I will no longer be angry [DOU] with you. I will stop being jealous [because of your worshiping gods other than me only].

J’Assouvirai ma colère sur toi, et ma jalousie se détournera de toi, je me tiendrai tranquille sans plus me courroucer.

43 You have forgotten [the wonderful things that I did for you] in previous years [MET]. You have caused me to become extremely angry because of all the [evil things] that you have done. In addition to all the other detestable things that you did, you committed many sexual sins. So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I will punish you [IDM] for doing those things.

Parce que tu ne t’es pas rappelé les jours de ta jeunesse et que tu m’as fâché par toutes ces choses, moi aussi, voici que je fais retomber ta conduite sur ta tête, dit le Seigneur Dieu: n’as-tu pas ajouté la bassesse à toutes tes abominations?

44 People who [like to] quote proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “[behave] like their mothers [behave].”

Certes, tous les faiseurs de proverbes t’appliqueront le proverbe que voici: "Telle mère, telle fille!"

45 You are like your mother; [it was as though] she detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who also despised their husbands and their children. [It was as though] [MET] your father belonged to the Amor people-group and your mother belonged to the Heth people-group.

Tu es bien la fille de ta mère, qui a pris en aversion son mari et ses enfants, et la soeur—de tes soeurs, qui ont pris en aversion leurs maris et leurs fils; votre mère est une Hétéenne et votre père un Amorréen.

46 And [it was as though] [MET] your older sister was Samaria, and she and her daughters lived to the north of you, and [it was as though] your younger sister was Sodom, and she and her daughters lived to the south of you.

Ta soeur aînée, c’est Samarie avec ses filles qui demeure à ta gauche, et ta soeur cadette qui demeure à ta droite, c’est Sodome et ses filles.

47 You not only imitated all [DOU] their detestable behavior, but you quickly became more sinful than they were.

Non seulement tu as marché dans leurs voies et pratiqué leurs abominations, mais peu s’en est fallu que tu n’eusses été plus corrompue qu’elles dans toutes tes voies.

48 I, Yahweh the Lord, solemnly declare that as surely as I am alive, [the people who lived in] [MTY] Sodom and other nearby cities never did the detestable things that you [people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah] have done.

Par ma vie, dit le Seigneur Dieu, Sodome ta soeur, elle avec ses filles, n’a pas agi comme tu as agi, toi et tes filles.

49 These are the sins [the people who lived in] Sodom, who were like your sister [MET]: The people who lived there and in nearby cities were arrogant. In spite of having more food to eat than they needed, they refused to help the poor and needy [DOU] people among them.

Or, voici quel a été le crime de Sodome, ta soeur: l’orgueil d’être bien repue et d’avoir toutes ses aises s’est trouvé en elle et en ses filles, et elle n’a pas soutenu la main du pauvre et du nécessiteux.

50 The people of Sodom and nearby cities [MET] were proud and did detestable things in my presence, so I got rid of them when I saw what they had been doing.

Elles ont été hautaines, elles ont commis des abominations devant moi, et je les ai supprimées quand j’ai vu cela.

51 Also, [the people of] Samaria did not commit half as many sins as you have committed. You have done more disgusting things than they have done. You cause the people of Samaria to appear to be good, compared to you.

Mais Samarie n’a pas commis la moitié de tes péchés; tu as accumulé plus d’abominations que celles-là et innocenté tes soeurs par toutes les abominations que tu as faites.

52 Your sins are worse than their sins, so they seem to be less wicked than you are. So I will punish you more than I punished them. As a result, you will be ashamed and disgraced [DOU].

Aussi, porte ta confusion, toi qui as rendu excusable ta soeur; à cause de tes péchés par lesquels tu as dépassé leurs abominations, elles se trouvent plus innocentes que toi, aussi sois honteuse et porte ta confusion, toi qui innocentes tes soeurs.

53 However, [some day] I will [the people of] Sodom and Samaria and the cities near to them [MET] to prosper again. And I will cause you to prosper again, too.

Et j’assurerai leur retour de captivité, le retour de Sodome et de ses filles et le retour de Samarie et de ses filles, et le retour de tes captifs au milieu d’elles,

54 You will be very ashamed [DOU] of the wicked things that you have done, and that will cause the people of those cities to be encouraged.

afin que tu portes ta confusion et que tu rougisses de tout ce que tu as fait, en devenant pour elles un sujet de consolation.

55 [The people of] Sodom and Samaria will prosper again, and you and the people in nearby cities will prosper also.

Oui, tes soeurs, Sodome et ses filles, reviendront à leur état primitif, et Samarie et ses filles reviendront à leur état primitif, et toi et tes filles, vous reviendrez à votre état primitif.

56 You (sneered at/despised) [the people of] Sodom when you were proud,

Est-ce que le nom de Sodome, ta soeur, ne devait pas être une leçon dans ta bouche, au jour de ton orgueil,

57 before it was revealed that you were very wicked. And now [the people of] Edom and [the people of] Philistia all insult you and despise you.

avant que se manifestât ta perversité, comme au temps des outrages des filles d’Aram et de tous ses environs, des filles des Philistins qui te harcelaient de toutes parts?

58 And you are being punished for all your immoral behavior and other detestable things that you do.

Ton infamie et tes abominations, tu les portes, dit l’Eternel.

59 This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: I will continue to punish you like you deserve to be punished, because by rejecting the agreement that I made with you, you have despised that solemn agreement that you promised to obey.

Oui, ainsi parle le Seigneur Dieu, j’agirai envers toi comme tu as agi, toi qui as méprisé le serment et rompu l’alliance.

60 But I will not forget the agreement that I made with you long ago [MET], and I will make an agreement with you that will endure forever.

Mais moi, je me rappellerai l’alliance conclue avec toi aux jours de ton enfance, et j’établirai avec toi une alliance éternelle.

61 Then you will think about what you have done, and you will be ashamed about those things when you welcome [the people of] Sodom and Samaria, cities which are like [MET] older and younger sisters to you people of Jerusalem. I will [put them under your control by] causing them to become like [MET] your daughters, but they will not have the same agreement that I will make with you.

Et tu te rappelleras tes voies et tu seras confuse, quand tu recueilleras tes soeurs, celles qui sont plus âgées que toi et celles qui sont plus jeunes que toi, et que je te les donnerai pour filles, mais non en vertu de ton alliance.

62 I will establish my agreement with you, and you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].

Je rétablirai, moi, mon alliance avec toi, et tu sauras que je suis l’Eternel,

63 Then when I have forgiven you for all your sins, you will think about all the sins that you committed and you will be ashamed, and you will never again [boast about them], because you will be humiliated.’”

afin que tu te souviennes et que tu aies honte, et que tu ne puisses plus ouvrir la bouche, de confusion, quand je t’aurai pardonné tout ce que tu as fait, dit le Seigneur Dieu."