Isaiah 22
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Jerusalem, about the valley where [Yahweh showed me] this vision. Why is everyone foolishly running up to their [flat] rooftops?
Prophétie sur la vallée des visions. Qu'as-tu donc, que tu sois tout entière montée sur les toits,
2 Everyone in the city [seems to] be shouting. [There are a lot of] corpses [in the city], [but they] were not killed by [their enemies’] swords. They did not die in battles; [instead, they died from diseases and hunger].
Ville bruyante, pleine de clameurs, cité joyeuse? Tes morts n'ont pas été frappés par l'épée, ils ne sont pas tués en combattant.
3 All the leaders of the city fled. [But then] they were captured because they did not have bows [and arrows to defend themselves]. Your [soldiers tried to] flee while the enemy [army] was still far away, but they also were captured.
Tous ses chefs s'étaient enfuis ensemble, devant les archers; ils sont faits prisonniers; tous ceux des siens que l'on trouve, sont faits prisonniers ensemble, quand ils s'enfuyaient au loin.
4 That is why I said, “Allow me to cry alone; do not try to comfort me [about my people being slaughtered].”
C'est pourquoi je dis: Détournez les yeux de moi, que je pleure amèrement! N'insistez pas pour me consoler du désastre de la fille de mon peuple.
5 The Commander of the armies of angels has [chosen] a time when there will be a great uproar, [soldiers] marching, and people being terrified in the valley [where I received this] vision. [It will be a time when our city] walls will be battered down and [the people’s] cries [for help] will be heard in the mountains.
Car c'est un jour de trouble, de destruction et de consternation, le jour du Seigneur, l'Éternel des armées, dans la vallée des visions. On démolit la muraille, des cris de détresse retentissent sur la montagne.
6 The armies from Elam and Kir [in Media] will attack, driving chariots and carrying shields.
Élam porte le carquois, avec des chars pleins d'hommes et des cavaliers; Kir découvre le bouclier.
7 Our beautiful valleys will be filled with [our enemies’] chariots and the men who drive the chariots will stand outside [our city] gates.
Les plus belles vallées sont remplies de chars, et les cavaliers se rangent en bataille devant les portes.
8 The walls that protect [the cities in] Judah will fall down. You [people of Jerusalem] will run to get the weapons [that are stored in the building called] “the Hall of the Forest”.
Le voile de Juda est levé, et en ce jour tu portes tes regards vers les armes du palais de la forêt.
9 You will see that there are many breaks/holes in the walls of Jerusalem. You will store water in the lower pool [in the city].
Vous voyez les brèches nombreuses faites à la ville de David, et vous amassez les eaux du bas étang;
10 You will inspect the houses in Jerusalem, and [some of] them you will tear down to use the stones to repair the [city] wall.
Vous comptez les maisons de Jérusalem, vous démolissez les maisons pour fortifier la muraille;
11 Between the walls [of the city] you will build a reservoir to [store] water from the old pool. But you will never request help from the one who made the city; you have never depended on Yahweh, who planned this city long ago.
Vous faites aussi un réservoir entre les deux murailles pour les eaux du vieil étang. Mais vous ne regardez pas à Celui qui a fait ceci, vous ne voyez pas Celui qui l'a préparé dès longtemps.
12 The Commander of the armies of angels told you to weep and mourn; he told you to shave your heads and to wear rough sackcloth to show that you were sorry for the sins that you had committed.
Et tandis que le Seigneur, l'Éternel des armées, vous appelait en ce jour à pleurer, à gémir, à vous raser la tête et à ceindre le sac,
13 But instead of doing that, you were happy and celebrating; you slaughtered cattle and sheep, [in order to cook their] meat and eat it and drink wine. You said, “Let’s eat and drink [all that we want to], because [it is possible that] we will die tomorrow!”
Voici de l'allégresse et de la joie; on tue des bœufs, on égorge des moutons, on mange de la chair, et on boit du vin: Mangeons et buvons, car demain nous mourrons!
14 [So] the Commander of the armies of angels revealed this to me: “I will never forgive my people for sinning like this!”
Mais voici ce que l'Éternel des armées m'a fait entendre: Jamais cette iniquité ne vous sera pardonnée, que vous n'en mouriez, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel des armées.
15 The Commander of the armies of angels said this [to me]: “Go to Shebna, the official who supervises the workers in the palace, and give this message to him:
Ainsi a dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel des armées: Va, rends-toi vers ce favori du roi, vers Shebna, le préfet du palais:
16 '[Who do you think you are?] Who gave you the authority to build a beautiful tomb where you will be buried, chiseling it out of the rocky cliff high above this valley?
Qu'as-tu ici et qui as-tu ici, que tu te sois creusé ici un tombeau? Il se creuse un tombeau sur la hauteur; il se taille une demeure dans le roc!
17 You [think that you are] [IRO] a great man, but Yahweh is about to hurl you away. [It will be as though] he will seize you,
Voici, l'Éternel va te lancer au loin, comme avec un bras vigoureux; il t'enveloppera de toutes parts;
18 and roll/crumple you into a ball and throw you away into a large distant land. You will die [and be buried] there, and your beautiful chariots will stay there [in the hands of your enemies]. And [because of what happens to you], your master, [the king], will be [very] ashamed/disgraced.
Il te fera rouler, rouler comme une boule, vers un pays large et spacieux. Là tu mourras, là iront tes chars magnifiques, ô honte de la maison de ton seigneur!
19 Yahweh will force you to quit working in the palace; you will be demoted from your important position.
Je te chasserai de ton poste, et tu seras ôté de ta place!
20 Then I will summon Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who has served serve me [well], to replace you.
En ce jour-là, j'appellerai mon serviteur Éliakim, fils de Hilkija;
21 I will allow him to wear your robe, and to fasten your sash around him, and I will give to him the authority that you had. He will be like [MET] a father to the people of Jerusalem and [all the other] towns in Judah.
Je le vêtirai de ta tunique, et le ceindrai de ta ceinture; je mettrai ton autorité entre ses mains, et il sera le père des habitants de Jérusalem et de la maison de Juda.
22 I will give to him authority [MTY] over [what happens in] the palace where King David [lived]; when he decides something [MET], no one will be able to oppose it; when he refuses to do something, no one will be able to force him to do it.
Je mettrai sur son épaule la clef de la maison de David; il ouvrira, et nul ne fermera; il fermera, et nul n'ouvrira.
23 I will cause his family to be greatly respected, because I will put him firmly in his position [as supervisor of the workers in the palace], like [SIM] a nail that is firmly hammered into a wall.
Je le fixerai comme un clou en lieu sûr; il sera comme un trône de gloire pour la maison de son père.
24 Others will enable him to have much responsibility, with the result that all the members of his family, even the most insignificant ones, will be honored.'”
Toute la gloire de la maison de son père, les rejetons grands et petits, reposeront sur lui; tous les petits ustensiles, depuis la vaisselle des bassins, jusqu'à tous les instruments de musique.
25 [But] the Commander of the armies of angels also says, “[Shebna is like] [MET] a peg that is firmly fastened to the wall. But there will be a time when I will [remove him from his position]; he will lose his power/influence, and everything that he promoted [MET] will fail. [That will surely happen] because [I], Yahweh, have said it.”
En ce jour-là, dit l'Éternel des armées, le clou fixé dans un lieu sûr cédera; il sera coupé, il tombera, et la charge qu'il portait sera retranchée. Car l'Éternel a parlé.
