Isaiah 25
1 Yahweh, you are my God; I will honor you and praise you [MTY]. You do wonderful things; you said long ago that you would do those things, and now you have done them like you said that you would.
Yahweh, vous êtes mon Dieu, je vous exalterai; je louerai votre nom, car vous avez fait des choses merveilleuses; vos desseins formés de loin sont fidèles et fermes.
2 [Sometimes] you have caused cities to become heaps of rubble, cities that had strong walls around them. You have caused palaces in foreign countries to disappear; they will never be rebuilt.
Car vous avez fait de la ville un monceau de pierres, et de la cité fortifiée une ruine; la citadelle des barbares n’est plus une ville, elle ne sera jamais rebâtie.
3 Therefore, people in powerful nations will declare that you are very great, and people in nations [whose leaders are] ruthless/cruel will revere you.
C’est pourquoi un peuple puissant vous glorifiera; la cité des nations terribles vous révèrera.
4 Yahweh, you are [like] [SIM] a strong tower where poor people can (find refuge/be safe), a place where needy people can go when they are distressed. [You are like] [MET] a place where people can find refuge in a storm and where they can be shaded from the hot sun. Ruthless/Cruel [people] oppress us; they are like [SIM] a storm beating against a wall,
Vous avez été une forteresse pour le faible, une forteresse pour le pauvre dans sa détresse, un abri contre l’orage, un ombrage contre l’ardeur du soleil. Car le souffle des tyrans est comme l’ouragan qui bat une muraille.
5 and like [SIM] [the intense] heat in the desert. [But] you cause the roaring of people in foreign nations to cease. Like the air cools when a cloud comes overhead, you stop ruthless/cruel [people] from singing songs boasting about their being very great.
Comme l’ardeur du soleil sur une terre aride, vous abattez l’insolence des barbares; comme l’ardeur du soleil par l’ombrage d’un nuage, le chant de triomphe des oppresseurs est étouffé.
6 Here in Jerusalem, the Commander of the armies of angels will prepare a wonderful feast for all the people [of the world]. It will be a banquet with plenty of good meat and fine well-aged [DOU] wine.
Et Yahweh des armées préparera, pour tous les peuples sur cette montagne, un festin de viandes grasses, un festin de vins pris sur la lie, de viandes grasses et pleines de mœlle, de vins pris sur la lie et clarifiés.
7 [People here are] sad; their being sad is [like] a dark cloud that hangs over them, like they experience when someone dies. But Yahweh will enable them to quit being sad.
Et il déchirera sur cette montagne le voile qui voilait tous les peuples, et la couverture qui couvrait toutes les nations,
8 He will get rid of death forever! Yahweh our God will cause people to no longer mourn because someone has died. And he will stop other people insulting and making fun of his land and [us] his people. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it!
Il détruira la mort pour toujours. Le Seigneur Yahweh essuiera les larmes sur tous les visages, il ôtera l’opprobre de son peuple de dessus toute la terre; car Yahweh a parlé.
9 At that time, [people] will proclaim, “Yahweh is our God! We trusted in him, and he rescued us! Yahweh, in whom we trusted, has done it; we should rejoice because of his saving/rescuing [us]!”
On dira en ce jour-là: « Voici notre Dieu; en qui nous espérions pour être sauvés; c’est Yahweh, en qui nous avons espéré; livrons-nous à l’allégresse et réjouissons-nous en son salut.
10 Yahweh [MTY] will protect and bless Jerusalem. [But] he will crush [the people in the land of] Moab; they will be like [SIM] straw that is trampled in the manure [and left to rot].
Car la main de Yahweh reposera sur cette montagne; mais Moab sera foulé sur place, comme est foulée la paille dans la mare à fumier.
11 Yahweh will push down the people of Moab like [SIM] a swimmer pushes [the water] with his hands. He will cause them to cease being proud, and he will show that all the things that they have done are worthless.
Dans cette fange, il étendra ses mains, comme le nageur les étend pour nager; mais Yahweh rabaissera son orgueil, malgré tout l’effort de ses mains;
12 The high walls [around the cities] in Moab will be torn down; they will be demolished and fall into the dust/dirt.
Le rempart élevé de tes murs, il l’abattra, il le renversera, il le jettera à terre, dans la poussière. »
