Ezekiel 16

1 Yahweh gave me another message. He said,

Et la parole du Seigneur me fut adressée, disant:

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

Fils d’un 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 tu diras: Voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu à Jérusalem: Ta racine et ta génération sont de la terre de Chanaan; ton père était Amorrhéen, et ta mère Céthéenne.

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 tu es née, au jour de ta venue au monde, on n’a pas coupé le conduit par où tu étais nourrie dans le sein de ta mère, tu n’as pas été lavée de l’eau salutaire, ni lavée avec le 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}.

Aucun œil, ayant pitié de toi n’a cherché à te faire une seule de ces choses; mais tu as été jetée sur la face de la terre, en mépris de ton âme, le jour que tu es née.

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!”

Or, passant près de toi, je te vis foulée aux pieds dans ton sang, et je dis, lorsque tu étais ainsi dans ton sang: Vis; je te dis encore: Malgré ton sang, vis.

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 verdure des champs, et tu as crû, et tu as grandi, et tu es entrée en âge de prendre les parures de ton sexe; tes seins se sont formés, avec les autres signes de la puberté; mais tu étais nue et pleine de confusion.

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 j’ai passé près de toi, et je t’ai vue, et voici que ton temps était le temps d’être aimée; et j’ai étendu mon vêtement sur toi, et j’ai couvert ton ignominie: et je t’ai juré fidélité, et j’ai fait une alliance avec toi, dit le Seigneur Dieu, et tu es devenue 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.

Et je t’ai lavée dans l’eau, et je t’ai purifiée de tes souillures, et je t’ai ointe 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.

Et je t’ai revêtue de diverses couleurs, et je t’ai donné une chaussure d’hyacinthe; et je t’ai ceinte de byssus, et je t’ai parée des vêtements les plus fins.

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.

Et je t’ai parée d’une belle parure, j’ai mis des bracelets à tes mains et un collier autour de 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.

Et j’ai mis un anneau au-dessus de ta bouche, et des boucles à tes oreilles, et une couronne d’éclat 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.

Et tu as été ornée d’or et d’argent, et vêtue de byssus et d’un tissu de plusieurs fils et de couleurs variées; tu t’es nourrie de farine la plus pure, de miel et d’huile, tu es devenue extrêmement belle; et tu es parvenue à 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 ton nom est allé jusque chez les nations, à cause de ta beauté; parce que tu étais parfaire par l’éclat que j’avais mis en 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, ayant confiance en ta beauté, tu as forniqué à la faveur de ton nom, tu t’es abandonnée à tout passant, afin d’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 prenant de tes vêtements, tu en as fait l’ornement de tes hauts lieux, après les avoir cousus d’un côté et de l’autre, et là tu y as forniqué comme il ne s’est pas fait, et comme il ne se fera pas.

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 les vases de ta gloire, faits de mon or et de mon argent, que je t’ai donnés; et tu en as fait des images d’hommes, et tu as forniqué 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 couleurs variées, et tu les en a couvertes; et mon huile et mes parfums, tu les a apposés 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 le pain que je t’ai donné, la plus pure farine, et l’huile et le miel dont je t’ai nourrie, tu les as mis en leur présence, en odeur de suavité, et cela a été fait, 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’as engendrés, et tu les leur as immolés pour être dévorés. Est-ce qu’elle est sans importance, ta fornication?

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

Tu as immolé mes enfants et tu les leur as livrés, en les consacrant.

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, après toutes tes abominations et tes fornications, tu ne t’es pas souvenue des jours de ta jeunesse, quand tu étais nue, pleine de confusion, foulée aux pieds 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 qu’après toute la malice (malheur, malheur à toi, dit le Seigneur Dieu),

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

Tu as bâti pour toi un lieu de prostitution, et tu as préparé pour toi une maison de débauche sur toutes les places publiques.

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.

À toute entrée de la voie tu as dressé le signe de ta prostitution; et tu as rendu ta beauté abominable, et tu t’es livrée à tout passant, et tu as multiplié tes fornications.

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.

Et tu as forniqué avec les fils de l’Egypte, tes voisins d’une haute stature; et tu as multiplié ta fornication 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 voilà que moi j’étendrai ma main sur toi, et j’écarterai ta justification, et je te livrerai aux âmes des filles des Philistins, qui te haïssent, qui rougissent de ta voie criminelle.

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.

Et tu as forniqué avec les fils des Assyriens, parce que tu n’étais pas encore assouvie; et après que tu as ainsi forniqué, tu n’as pas été encore rassasiée.

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

Et tu as multiplié ta fornication dans la terre de Chanaan avec les Chaldéens; et tu n’as pas encore été 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].

Avec quoi purifierai-je ton cœur, dit le Seigneur Dieu, lorsque tu fais les œuvres d’une prostituée, et d’une impudente?

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.

Parce que tu t’es formé un lieu de débauche à la tête de toute voie, et tu l’es fait un haut lieu sur toute place publique; et tu n’as pas été comme une prostituée, augmentant son prix par dédain pour celui qui lui est offert,

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

Mais comme une femme adultère, qui préfère des étrangers à son 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.

À toutes les prostituées on donne des récompenses; mais toi tu as donné des récompenses à tous tes amants, et tu leur faisais beaucoup de présents, afin qu’ils vinssent de toutes parts pour forniquer avec toi.

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 est arrivé en toi dans tes fornications le contraire de la coutume des autres femmes; et après toi il n’y aura pas de fornication, car par cela même que tu as donné des récompenses, et que tu n’as pas reçu de récompenses, il est arrivé en toi le contraire des autres.

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

À cause de cela, femme de mauvaise vie, 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.

Voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu: Parce que ton argent a été dissipé, et que ton ignominie s’est révélée dans tes fornications avec tes amants et avec tes idoles abominables, et dans le sang de tes enfants que 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.

Voilà que moi j’assemblerai tous tes amants, auxquels tu t’es prostituée, et tous ceux que tu as aimés avec tous ceux que tu haïssais; et je les assemblerai contre toi de toutes parts, et je mettrai à nu ton ignominie devant eux, et ils verront toute ta turpitude.

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 qui ont répandu le sang; et je livrerai ton sang à la fureur et à la 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].

Et je te livrerai à leurs mains et ils détruiront ta maison de débauche, et ils renverseront ta maison de prostitution, et ils te dépouilleront de tes vêtements, et ils enlèveront les ornements de ta gloire, et ils te laisseront nue et pleine d’ignominie;

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 ils amèneront contre toi une multitude, et ils t’accableront de pierres, et ils t’égorgeront avec 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.

Et ils mettront le feu à tes maisons, et ils exerceront contre toi des jugements aux yeux d’un très grand nombre de femmes; et tu cesseras de forniquer, et tu ne donneras plus de récompenses.

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].

Alors s’apaisera mon indignation contre toi, et ma jalousie se retirera de toi, et je me tiendrai en paix, et je ne m’irriterai 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 pas souvenue des jours de ta jeunesse, et que tu m’as provoqué en tout ceci; c’est pourquoi moi aussi j’ai mis tes voies sur ta tête, dit le Seigneur Dieu; et je ne t’ai pas traitée selon tes crimes dans toutes tes abominations.

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

Voilà que quiconque dit ordinairement des proverbes se servira de celui-ci contre toi en disant: Comme est la mère, ainsi 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.

Toi, tu es vraiment la fille de ta mère qui a abandonné son mari et ses enfants; et tu es la sœur de tes sœurs, qui ont abandonné leurs maris et leurs enfants; votre mère était Céthéenne, et votre père 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 sœur aînée est Samarie, elle et ses filles, qui habitent à ta gauche; mais ta sœur puînée, qui habite à ta droite, est Sodome et ses filles.

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

Mais tu n’as pas même marché dans leurs voies, et quant à leurs crimes, tu n’en as pas fait moins qu’elles; tu as fait des choses presque plus criminelles, 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 vis, moi, dit le Seigneur Dieu, Sodome ta sœur, elle et ses filles, n’ont pas fait comme tu as fait, 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.

Voici quelle a été l’iniquité de Sodome ta sœur: l’orgueil, l’excès de nourriture, l’abondance, et l’oisiveté d’elle et de ses filles; et elles ne tendaient pas la main à l’indigent et au 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.

Et elles se sont élevées, et elles ont fait des abominations devant moi; et je les ai détruites comme tu as vu.

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 Samarie n’a pas commis la moitié de tes péchés; mais tu les as surpassées par tes crimes, et tu as justifié tes sœurs par toutes tes 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].

Porte donc aussi ta confusion, toi qui as surpassé tes sœurs par les péchés, agissant plus criminellement qu’elles: car elles ont été justifiées par toi; sois donc confondue, et porte ton ignominie, toi qui 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.

Et je les ferai retourner en les rétablissant par le retour de Sodome avec ses filles, et par le retour de Samarie et de ses filles, et je te ferai retourner 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 ton ignominie, et que tu sois confondue de tout ce que tu as fait, de manière à les consoler.

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

Ta sœur Sodome et ses filles retourneront à leur ancien état. Samarie et ses filles retourneront à leur ancien état; et toi et tes filles, vous retournerez à votre ancien état.

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

Mais le nom même de Sodome, ta sœur, n’a pas été entendu sortir de 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 qu’eût été révélée ta méchanceté, comme elle l’a été en ce temps où tu es devenue l’opprobre des filles de Syrie et de toutes les filles de la Palestine qui t’environnent de toutes parts.

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

Tu as porté ton crime et ton ignominie, dit le Seigneur Dieu.

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.

Parce que voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu: Je te ferai comme tu as fait, toi qui as méprisé un serment, afin de rendre vaine une 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.

Et moi je me souviendrai de mon alliance avec toi aux 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 tu seras confondue, lorsque tu recevras avec toi tes sœurs aînées et tes sœurs puînées; et je te les donnerai pour filles, mais non par une alliance qui vienne de toi.

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].

Et moi j’établirai mon alliance avec toi; et tu sauras que je suis le Seigneur,

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 sois confondue, et qu’il n’y ait plus lieu pour toi d’ouvrir la bouche, à cause de ta confusion, lorsque je t’aurai pardonné tout ce que tu as fait, dit le Seigneur Dieu.