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.
Éternel, tu es mon Dieu! Je t'exalterai, je célébrerai ton nom; car tu as fait des choses merveilleuses. Tes desseins formés dès longtemps sont sûrs et fidèles.
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 tu as réduit la ville en monceau de pierres, et la cité forte en ruines; la citadelle des étrangers n'est plus une ville; elle ne sera plus 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 les peuples puissants te glorifieront; les cités des nations redoutables te craindront.
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 le refuge du faible, le refuge du pauvre en sa détresse, un abri contre la tempête, un ombrage contre le hâle, quand le souffle des puissants était comme la tempête qui frappe 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.
Tu abats le tumulte des étrangers, comme tombe le hâle dans une terre aride; comme le hâle sous l'ombre d'un nuage, le chant des puissants est rabaissé.
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'Éternel des armées fera pour tous les peuples, sur cette montagne, un banquet de viandes grasses, un banquet de vins conservés, de viandes grasses et mœlleuses, de vins conservés 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 enlèvera, sur cette montagne, le voile qui couvre la face de tous les peuples, la couverture étendue sur 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 jamais; le Seigneur, l'Éternel, essuiera les larmes de tous les visages, et fera disparaître de toute la terre l'opprobre de son peuple; car l'Éternel 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]!”
Et l'on dira, en ce jour-là: Voici, il est notre Dieu; nous avons espéré en lui, et il nous sauve. C'est l'Éternel; nous avons espéré en lui: égayons-nous, et nous réjouissons de 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 l'Éternel reposera sur cette montagne; mais Moab sera foulé sur place, comme on foule la paille dans les eaux du 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.
Là il étendra les mains, comme le nageur les étend pour nager; mais l'Éternel abaissera son orgueil et tout l'effort de ses bras.
12 The high walls [around the cities] in Moab will be torn down; they will be demolished and fall into the dust/dirt.
Et l'Éternel abattra le rempart élevé de tes murailles; il l'abaissera, il le jettera à terre et dans la poussière.
