Habakkuk 2
1 [After I said that, I said to myself, ] “I will climb up into my watchtower, and stand there at my guard post. I will wait there to find out what Yahweh will say, what he will reply to what I have complained about.”
Je me tiendrai en sentinelle à mon poste, et je me placerai sur la forteresse, et j'observerai pour voir ce qu'il me dira, et ce que je devrai répondre à ma plainte.
2 Then Yahweh replied to me, “Write plainly on tablets [what I am revealing to you in] this vision, [and then read it to a messenger] in order that he can run with it [to tell it to] other people.
Et l'Éternel me répondit, et dit: Écris la vision, et grave-la sur des tablettes, afin qu'on la lise couramment;
3 In this vision [I will be talking about things that will happen] in the future. Now is not the time when those things will happen, but they certainly will happen, and when they occur, they will occur quickly, and they will not be delayed. Now you [want those things to happen immediately, but] they are not happening. But wait patiently for them [to happen]!
Car c'est une vision qui est encore pour un temps déterminé. Elle tend vers la fin, et elle ne mentira pas. Si elle diffère, attends-la; car elle arrivera certainement, elle ne tardera point.
4 Think about the proud [people of Babylonia]! They are certainly not doing what is righteous. But people who are righteous will live because they faithfully [do what I want them to do].
Voici, l'âme de celui qui s'élève n'est pas droite en lui; mais le juste vivra par sa foi.
5 If people [trust in their wealth], they will deceive themselves, and proud people are never able to rest. [It is as though] the greedy people [of Babylonia open their mouths] as wide as the place where dead people are, and they never have enough, like [the place where] dead people go never has enough dead people [PRS]. The [armies of Babylonia] conquer many nations for themselves, and capture all their people. (Sheol h7585)
Et de plus, le vin est perfide, l'homme arrogant ne se tient pas tranquille; il élargit son âme comme le Sépulcre, il est insatiable comme la mort; il rassemble vers lui toutes les nations, et s'assujettit tous les peuples. (Sheol h7585)
6 But [soon] all those [whom they have captured] will ridicule [the soldiers from Babylonia]! They will make fun of them, saying, ‘Terrible things will happen to you who have stolen things [from other countries]! You got many things by forcing people to give them to you. [But you certainly will not keep those things] for a long time [RHQ]!’
Tous ceux-là ne feront-ils pas à son sujet des proverbes, des railleries et des énigmes? On dira: Malheur à celui qui accumule ce qui n'est pas à lui, - jusqu'à quand? - et qui entasse sur soi des gages!
7 Suddenly those whom you (oppressed/treated cruelly) will cause you to tremble, and they will take away all the things that you have stolen from them.
Ne se lèveront-ils pas soudain, ceux qui te mordront? Ne se réveilleront-ils pas pour te tourmenter? Et tu deviendras leur proie.
8 You stole things from the people of many nations. You murdered [MTY] people of many people-groups, and you destroyed their land and their cities. So those who are still alive will steal valuable things from you.
Parce que tu as pillé beaucoup de nations, tout le reste des peuples te pillera, à cause du meurtre des hommes et de la violence faite au pays, à la ville et à tous ses habitants.
9 Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who build big houses with money that you got by forcing others to give it to you. You are proud and you think that your houses will be safe because you have built them in places where you can easily defend them.
Malheur à celui qui amasse pour sa maison des gains injustes, afin de placer son nid dans un lieu élevé, pour échapper à l'atteinte de la calamité!
10 But because you have destroyed others, you have caused your family [MTY] to be shamed/disgraced, and you yourselves will be killed.
C'est pour l'opprobre de ta maison que tu as pris conseil, en détruisant des peuples nombreux, et que tu as péché contre ton âme.
11 [It is as though] the stones in the walls [of your houses] cry out to accuse you, and [it is as though] the beams [in your ceilings] also say the same things.
Car de la muraille la pierre crie, et de la charpente la poutre lui répond.
12 Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who kill people [MTY] in order to build cities, cities that you build by using money that you have gotten by committing crimes.
Malheur à celui qui bâtit des villes avec le sang, et fonde des cités sur l'iniquité!
13 But the Commander of the armies of angels has [RHQ] declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that [will be destroyed by] fire; they will have worked hard uselessly.
Voici, n'est-ce pas par la volonté de l'Éternel des armées que les peuples travaillent pour le feu, et que les nations se lassent pour le néant?
14 But [in contrast], like [SIM] the oceans are filled with water, the earth will be filled with [people who] know that Yahweh is very great.
Car la terre sera remplie de la connaissance de la gloire de l'Éternel, comme le fond de la mer des eaux qui le couvrent.
15 Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who cause people who live in nearby countries to become drunk. You force them to drink a lot of wine from wineskins [until they are drunk and then they walk around] naked, in order that you can see that.
Malheur à celui qui fait boire son prochain, à toi qui lui verses ta fureur et qui l'enivres, afin de voir sa nudité!
16 But you are the ones who [soon] will be disgraced instead of being honored. [It will be as though you are forced to] drink [a lot of wine] in order that you will also stagger [around, drunk]. You will drink the wine [that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you], and he will cause you to be disgraced instead of being greatly respected [any more].
Tu seras rassasié de honte plutôt que de gloire. Bois aussi, toi, et découvre-toi! La coupe de la droite de l'Éternel fera le tour jusqu'à toi, et l'ignominie sera sur ta gloire!
17 You did violent [PRS] things to [the people in] Lebanon, and you killed the wild animals [there], but you will be punished severely for doing that. You have killed [MTY] many people and you have destroyed their lands and their cities.
Car la violence faite au Liban retombera sur toi, et la dévastation qui épouvante les bêtes, à cause du meurtre des hommes et de la violence faite au pays, à la ville et à tous ses habitants.
18 [You people of Babylonia need to know that your] idols are completely [RHQ] useless, because it is people who made them. Statues that have been carved or made in a mold deceive you. Those who trust in idols are trusting in things that they themselves created, things that cannot speak!
A quoi sert l'image taillée, pour que le sculpteur la taille? A quoi sert l'image de fonte, docteur de mensonge, pour que l'ouvrier qui l'a faite place en elle sa confiance, en fabriquant des idoles muettes?
19 Terrible things will happen to you who say to lifeless idols that are made of wood, ‘Wake up!’ Idols certainly cannot [RHQ] tell you what you should do; they [look nice/beautiful because] they are covered with silver and gold, but they are not alive.
Malheur à celui qui dit au bois: Réveille-toi! et à la pierre muette: Lève-toi! Enseignera-t-elle? Voici, elle est couverte d'or et d'argent, et il n'y a aucun esprit au-dedans d'elle!
20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple; everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence.”
Mais l'Éternel est dans le temple de sa sainteté. Que toute la terre se taise en sa présence!
