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.
Eternel, tu es mon Dieu! Je veux t’exalter et louer ton nom, car tu as accompli des merveilles, parfaitement fidèle aux résolutions prises dès longtemps.
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.
Tu as fait de la ville un monceau de pierres, de la cité fortifiée un amas de ruines; la citadelle des barbares est rayée du nombre des villes, plus jamais elle ne sera 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 des peuples forts te révèrent, les cités de nations puissantes te craignent.
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,
Car tu as été un refuge pour l’humble, un refuge pour le pauvre en sa détresse, un abri contre l’averse, un ombrage contre la chaleur: le souffle des tyrans est comme l’averse battant les murs.
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.
Ainsi que fait la chaleur dans les régions arides, tu domptes l’arrogance des barbares; pareil à la chaleur qui passe par d’épais nuages, le chant triomphal des tyrans s’éteint.
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 l’Eternel-Cebaot donnera à toutes les nations, sur cette montagne, un festin de mets succulents, un festin de vins de choix, de mets pleins de moëlle, de vins vieux 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.
Sur cette même montagne, il déchirera le voile qui enveloppe toutes les nations, la couverture qui s’étend sur tous les peuples.
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!
À jamais il anéantira la mort, et ainsi le Dieu éternel fera sécher les larmes sur tout visage et disparaître de toute la terre l’opprobre de son peuple: c’est l’Eternel qui 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: "Voici notre Dieu en qui nous avons mis notre confiance pour être secourus, voici l’Eternel en qui nous espérions: soyons à la joie et à l’allégresse à cause de son appui."
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 l’Eternel se posera sur cette montagne, et Moab en sera écrasé dans son pays, comme la paille est écrasée dans la fosse 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 fosse, Moab étendra les bras ainsi que fait le nageur pour nager, mais Dieu abattra son orgueil de même que les pièges dressés par 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.
Tes remparts puissants et altiers, il les inclinera, les fera tomber et rouler à terre, en pleine poussière.
