Ezekiel 16

1 Yahweh gave me another message. He said,

La parole de l'Eternel me fut aussi [adressée], en disant:

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

Fils d'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.

Et dis: ainsi a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel à Jérusalem: tu as tiré ton extraction et ta naissance du pays des Cananéens; ton père était Amorrhéen, et ta mère, Héthienne.

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].

Et quant à ta naissance, le jour que tu naquis ton nombril ne fut point coupé, tu ne fus point lavée dans l'eau, pour être nettoyée; tu ne fus point salée de sel, ni emmaillotée.

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}.

Il n'y a point eu d'œil qui ait eu pitié de toi, pour te faire aucune de ces choses, en ayant compassion de toi; mais tu fus jetée sur le dessus d'un champ, parce qu'on avait horreur de toi le jour que 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!”

Et passant auprès de toi je te vis gisante par terre dans ton sang, et je te dis: vis dans ton sang; et je te redis [encore]: 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 fait croître par millions, comme croît l'herbe d'un champ; et tu crûs et tu devins grande, tu parvins à une parfaite beauté; ton corps se forma et tu devins nubile, mais tu étais abandonnée et sans habits.

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 auprès de toi, et je te regardai, et voici ton âge était l'âge d'être mariée: et j'étendis sur toi le pan de ma robe, et je couvris ta nudité; et je te jurai, et j'entrai en alliance avec toi, dit le Seigneur l'Eternel, et tu devins mienne.

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

Et je te lavai dans l'eau, et en t'y plongeant j'ôtai le sang de dessus toi, 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 vêtis de broderie, je te chaussai [de peaux de couleur] d'hyacinthe, je te ceignis de fin lin, et je 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 te parai d'ornements, je mis des bracelets en tes mains, et un collier à ton 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 mis une bague sur ton front, des pendants à tes oreilles, et une couronne de gloire sur ta 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 fus donc parée d'or et d'argent, et ton vêtement était de fin lin, de soie, et de broderie; tu mangeas la fleur du froment, et le miel, et l'huile; et tu devins extrêmement belle, et tu prospéras jusques à régner.

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 ta renommée se répandit parmi les nations à cause de ta beauté, car elle était parfaite, à cause de ma magnificence que j'avais mise sur toi, dit le Seigneur l'Eternel.

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 confiée en ta beauté, et tu t'es prostituée à cause de ta renommée, et tu t'es abandonnée à tout passant pour être à lui.

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!

Et tu as pris de tes vêtements, et t'en es fait des hauts lieux de diverses couleurs, tels qu'il n'y en a point, ni n'y en aura [de semblables], et tu t'y es prostituée.

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 bagues magnifiques, faites de mon or et de mon argent, que je t'avais donné, et tu t'en es fait des images d'un mâle, et tu as commis fornication avec elles.

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 de broderie, et les en as couvertes: et tu as mis mon huile de senteurs et mon parfum devant elles.

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 donné, la fleur du froment, et l'huile, et le miel que je t'avais donné à manger, tu as mis cela devant elle en sacrifice de bonne odeur; il a été fait ainsi, dit le Seigneur l'Eternel.

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.

Tu as aussi pris tes fils et tes filles que tu m'avais enfantés, et tu les leur as sacrifiés pour être consumés. Est-ce peu de chose, ce qui est procédé de tes adultères;

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

Que tu aies égorgé mes fils, et que tu les aies livrés pour les faire passer [par le feu], à l'honneur de ces [idoles]?

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 parmi toutes tes abominations et tes adultères, tu ne t'es point ressouvenue du temps de ta jeunesse, quand tu étais sans habits et toute découverte, et gisante par terre 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 il est arrivé après toute ta malice, (Malheur, Malheur à toi! dit le Seigneur l'Eternel.)

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

Que tu t'es bâti un lieu éminent, et t'es fait des hauts lieux par toutes les places.

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 chaque bout de chemin tu as bâti un haut lieu, et tu as rendu ta beauté abominable, et tu t'es prostituée à tout passant, et tu as multiplié tes adultères.

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 abandonnée aux enfants d'Egypte, tes voisins qui ont une taille avantageuse; et tu as multiplié tes adultères pour m'irriter.

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, j'ai étendu ma main sur toi, et j'ai diminué ton état, et je t'ai abandonnée à la volonté de celles qui te haïssaient, [savoir] des filles des Philistins, lesquelles ont honte de ton train qui n'est que méchanceté.

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.

Tu t'es aussi abandonnée aux enfants des Assyriens, parce que tu n'étais pas encore assouvie; et après avoir commis adultère avec eux, tu n'as point encore été assouvie.

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

Mais tu as multiplié tes adultères dans le pays de Canaan jusques en Caldée, et tu n'as point encore pour cela été assouvie.

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].

O! que ton cœur [est] lâche, dit le Seigneur l'Eternel, d'avoir fait toutes ces choses-là, qui sont les actions d'une insigne prostituée.

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.

De t'être bâti un lieu éminent à chaque bout de chemin, et d'avoir fait ton haut lieu dans toutes les places. Et encore n'as-tu pas fait comme les femmes débauchées, en ce que tu n'as point tenu compte du salaire.

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

Femme adultère, tu prends des étrangers au lieu 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.

On donne un salaire à toutes les prostituées, mais toi tu as donné à tous tes adultères les présents, que ton mari t'avait fait et tu leur as fait des présents, afin que de toutes parts ils vinssent vers toi, pour se plonger avec toi dans le crime.

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.

Et il t'est arrivé dans tes fornications tout le contraire de ce qui arrive aux [autres] femmes, car personne ne te recherchant pour commettre adultère tu as donné des présents, et aucun présent ne t'a été donné; tu as donc agi tout au contraire [des autres femmes de mauvaise vie].

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, ô adultère, écoute la parole de l'Eternel:

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 a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel: parce que ton venin s'est répandu, et que dans tes excès tu t'es abandonnée à ceux que tu aimais, et à tes abominables idoles, et que tu as mis à mort tes enfants, lesquels tu leur as donnés;

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.

A cause de cela voici, je vais assembler tous tes adultères, avec lesquels tu as pris tes plaisirs, et tous ceux que tu as aimés, avec tous ceux que tu as haïs; même je les assemblerai de toutes parts contre toi, et je découvrirai ta honte à leurs yeux et ils verront ton infamie.

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 te jugerai comme on juge les femmes adultères, et celles qui répandent le sang; et je te livrerai pour être mise à mort selon ma fureur et ma 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, dis-je, entre leurs mains; et ils détruiront tes lieux éminents, et démoliront tes hauts lieux; ils te dépouilleront de tes vêtements, et emporteront tes bagues dont tu te parais, et te laisseront sans habits et toute découverte.

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.

Et on fera monter contre toi un amas de gens qui t'assommeront de pierres, et qui te perceront avec leurs épées.

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.

Puis ils mettront le feu à tes maisons, et feront ces exécutions sur toi en la présence de plusieurs femmes, et je te garderai bien de t'abandonner, et même tu ne donneras plus de salaires.

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].

Et je satisferai ma fureur sur toi, tellement que ma jalousie se retirera de toi; et je serai en repos, et ne me courroucerai plus.

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 point souvenue du temps de ta jeunesse, et que tu m'as provoqué par toutes ces choses-là; à cause de cela voici, j'ai fait tomber la peine de tes crimes sur ta tête, dit le Seigneur l'Eternel; et tu n'as pas fait cette réflexion dans toutes tes abominations.

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

Voici, tous ceux qui usent de proverbe feront un proverbe de toi, en disant: telle qu'[est] la mère, telle [est] sa 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] la fille de ta mère, qui a dédaigné son mari et ses enfants; et tu [es] la sœur de chacune de tes sœurs, qui ont dédaigné leurs maris et leurs enfants; votre mère était Héthienne, et votre père était Amorrhéen.

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.

Et ta grande sœur c'est Samarie, avec les villes de son ressort, laquelle se tient à ta gauche; et ta petite sœur qui se tient à ta droite, c'est Sodome avec les villes de son ressort.

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

Et tu n'as pas [seulement] marché dans leurs voies, et fait selon leurs abominations, comme si c'eût été fort peu de chose, mais tu t'es corrompue plus 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.

Je suis vivant dit le Seigneur l'Eternel, que Sodome ta sœur, elle ni les villes de son ressort, n'ont point fait comme tu as fait, toi et les villes de ton ressort.

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.

Voici, ç'a été ici l'iniquité de Sodome ta sœur, l'orgueil, l'abondance de pain, et une molle oisiveté; elle a eu de quoi, elle et les villes de son ressort, mais elle n'a point assisté l'affligé, et le pauvre.

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 se sont élevées, et ont commis abomination devant moi, et je les ai exterminées, comme j'ai vu [qu'il était à propos de faire].

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.

Et quant à Samarie, elle n'a pas péché la moitié autant que toi; car tu as multiplié tes abominations plus qu'elles, et tu as justifié tes sœurs par toutes les abominations que tu as commises.

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].

C'est pourquoi aussi porte ta confusion, toi qui as jugé chacune de tes sœurs, à cause de tes péchés, par lesquels tu as été rendue plus abominable qu'elles; elles sont plus justes que toi; c'est pourquoi aussi sois honteuse, et porte ta confusion, vu que tu as justifié tes sœurs.

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.

Quand je ramènerai leurs captifs, les captifs, [dis-je], de Sodome, et des villes de son ressort, et les captifs de Samarie, et des villes de son ressort, [je ramènerai] aussi les captifs de ta captivité parmi 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 sois confuse à cause de tout ce que tu as fait, et que tu les consoles.

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

Quand ta sœur Sodome, et les villes de son ressort, retourneront à leur état précédent; [et] quand Samarie, et les villes de son ressort, retourneront à leur état précédent, aussi toi, et les villes de ton ressort, retournerez à votre état précédent.

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

Or ta bouche n'a point fait mention de ta sœur Sodome au jour de tes fiertés.

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 ta méchanceté fût découverte; comme elle le fut au temps de l'opprobre des filles de Syrie, et de toutes celles d'alentour, [savoir] les filles des Philistins, qui te pillèrent de tous côtés.

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

Tu portes sur toi ton énormité et tes abominations, 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.

Car ainsi a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel: je te ferai comme tu as fait, quand tu as méprisé l'exécration du serment, en violant 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 pourtant je me souviendrai de l'alliance que j'ai traitée avec toi dans les jours de ta jeunesse, 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 souviendras de tes voies, et en seras confuse, lorsque tu recevras tes sœurs, tant tes plus grandes, que tes plus petites, et je te les donnerai pour filles; mais non pas selon 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].

Car j'établirai 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 [de ta vie passée], que tu en sois honteuse, et que tu n'ouvres plus la bouche, à cause de ta confusion, après que j'aurai été apaisé envers toi, pour tout ce que tu auras fait, dit le Seigneur l'Eternel.