Isaiah 17
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Damascus [the capital of Syria]: “Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city; it will be [only] a heap of ruins!
Oracle sur Damas. Voici Damas retirée du nombre des villes; elle ne sera plus qu’un monceau de ruines!
2 The towns near Aroer [city] will be abandoned. Flocks [of sheep] will [eat grass in the streets and] lie down there, and there will be no one to chase them away.
Les villes d’Aroër sont abandonnées, elles sont livrées aux troupeaux, ils s’y reposent, et personne ne les chasse.
3 The cities in Israel will not have walls around them [to protect them]. The power of the kingdom of Damascus will be ended, and the few people who will remain in Damascus will be disgraced like the people in Israel were disgraced.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
La forteresse sera ôtée à Ephraïm, et la royauté à Damas; il en sera du reste de la Syrie comme de la gloire des enfants d’Israël, — oracle de Yahweh des armées.
4 “At that time, Israel will become insignificant. It will be [like] [MET] a fat person who has become very thin.
Et il arrivera en ce jour-là: La gloire de Jacob sera flétrie, et la graisse de son corps sera amaigrie.
5 The entire land will be like [SIM] a field where the harvesters have cut all the grain; there will be nothing left, like [SIM] the fields in the Rephaim Valley after all the crops have been harvested.
Il en sera comme lorsque le moissonneur rassemble les gerbes, et que son bras coupe les épis; il en sera comme lorsqu’on ramasse les épis, dans la vallée de Raphaïm.
6 Only a few of the Israeli people will remain [MET], like [SIM] the few olives that remain on the top of a tree after the workers have caused all the other olives to fall [to the ground]. [There will be only] two or three olives in the top branches, [or] four or five olives on the other branches.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
Il restera un grappillage, comme lorsqu’on secoue l’olivier, deux, trois olives au haut de la cime, quatre, cinq aux branches de l’arbre, — oracle de Yahweh, le Dieu d’Israël.
7 [Then], at that time, [you] people [of Israel] will (turn for help to/look up to) God, your creator, the Holy One of Israel.
En ce jour-là, l’homme regardera vers celui qui l’a fait, et ses yeux contempleront le Saint d’Israël.
8 You will no [longer] seek to get help from your idols or worship the idols that you have made with your own hands [DOU]. You will never again bow down in front of the poles [where you worship the goddess] Asherah. You will never again worship at the shrines [that you have built for burning incense].
Il ne regardera plus vers les autels, œuvre de ses mains; il ne contemplera plus ce que ses doigts ont façonné, les aschérahs et les piliers du Soleil.
9 The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people-groups abandoned (OR, like the forests that the [Canaan people-group] abandoned) when the Israelis [attacked them long ago]. No one will live there.
En ce jour-là, ses villes fortes seront comme les villes abandonnées dans les bois et les montagnes, qui furent abandonnées devant les enfants d’Israël; ce sera un désert.
10 [That will happen] because you have stopped worshiping God who is [like] [MET] a huge rock under which you can be safe. You have forgotten that he is the one who can hide/protect you. So, [now] you plant very nice grapevines and [even] plant very expensive ones that come from other countries.
Car tu as oublié le Dieu de ton salut, tu ne t’es pas souvenu du Rocher de ta force. C’est pourquoi tu plantes des plantations agréables, et tu y mets des ceps de l’étranger.
11 [But] even if they sprout leaves on the day that you plant them, and even if they produce blossoms on that same morning, at harvest time, there will not be any grapes for you to pick. All that you will get is a lot of agony/misery.
Le jour ou tu les plantes, tu les entoures d’une clôture, et, le lendemain matin, tu fais fleurir tes semences; et la moisson t’échappe au jour de la maladie et de la douleur mortelle!
12 Listen! [The armies of] many nations will roar like the sea roars. It will sound like the noise of crashing waves.
Oh! Rumeur de peuples nombreux! Ils mugissent comme mugissent les mers! Grondement des nations! Elles grondent comme grondent les eaux puissantes.
13 But even though their loud roaring will be like the sound of crashing waves, when Yahweh rebukes them, they will run far away. They will flee like [SIM] chaff on the hills scatters when the wind [blows], like tumbleweeds scatter when a windstorm blows.
Les nations grondent comme grondent les grandes eaux. Mais il les menace: elles fuient au loin; elles sont dispersées, comme la paille des hauteurs au souffle du vent, comme un tourbillon de poussière devant l’ouragan.
14 And, even though you people of Israel will be terrified, in the morning [your enemies] will all be gone/dead. That is what will happen to those who invade our land and [then] steal our possessions.
Au temps du soir, voici la consternation; avant le matin, ils ne sont plus. Voilà le partage de ceux qui nous pillent, et le sort de ceux qui nous dépouillent.
