Isaiah 29
1 [This is a message from Yahweh: ] Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where [King] David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.
Malheur à Ariel, à Ariel, à la cité où David a dressé sa tente! Ajoutez année à année, que les solennités parcourent leur cycle,
2 But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, [and when that happens], people will weep and lament [very much]. Your city will become like [MET] an altar [to me] [where people are burned as sacrifices].
et je serrerai de près Ariel, et il n'y aura que plaintes et gémissements! Mais elle sera pour moi comme Ariel
3 I will cause your enemies [to come to your city]; they will surround it by [building] towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.
je camperai tout autour de toi, je t'environnerai de postes armés, et j'établirai contre toi des retranchements.
4 Then you will talk [as though you were] buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.
Tu seras abaissée; c'est de la terre que s'élèvera ta voix, et de la poussière que se feront entendre tes sourds accents; ta voix sortira de terre, comme celle d'un spectre, et ta parole montera de la poussière comme un murmure. —
5 But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away [by the wind]. [It will happen] very suddenly.
Et la multitude de tes ennemis sera comme une fine poussière, et la multitude des guerriers comme la paille qui s'envole.
6 The Commander of the armies of angels will come [to help you] with thunder and an earthquake and a very loud noise, with a strong wind and a big storm and a fire that will burn up everything.
Et il arrivera que soudain, en un instant, tu seras visitée, par Yahweh des armées avec fracas, tonnerre et grand bruit, tourbillon, tempête et flamme de feu dévorant.
7 [Then] the armies of all the nations that will be attacking Jerusalem will quickly disappear like a dream in the night [DOU]. Those who will be attacking Jerusalem will suddenly vanish/disappear.
Et il en sera comme d'un songe, vision de la nuit, de la multitude de toutes les nations qui combattront contre Ariel, et de tous ceux qui combattront contre elle et sa forteresse et la serreront de près.
8 People who are asleep dream about eating food, [but] when they wake up, they are still hungry. People who are thirsty dream about drinking something, [but] when they wake up they are still thirsty. It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Zion Hill; [they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, ] [they will realize that they have not succeeded].
Comme celui qui a faim rêve qu'il mange, et, à son réveil, son âme est vide; et comme un homme qui a soif rêve qu'il boit, et, à son réveil, il est épuisé et toujours altéré; ainsi il en sera de la multitude de toutes les nations, qui marchent contre la montagne de Sion.
9 You [people of Jerusalem], be amazed and surprised [about this] [IRO]! Do not believe [what I have said] [SAR]! And continue to be blind [IRO] [about what Yahweh is doing]. You are stupid, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine. You stagger, but not from drinking alcoholic drinks.
Etonnez-vous et soyez dans la stupeur! Aveuglez-vous et soyez aveuglés! Ils sont ivres, mais pas de vin; ils chancellent, mais pas de liqueurs fortes.
10 Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding [and telling you his messages], [it is as though] he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.
Car Yahweh a répandu sur vous un esprit de léthargie; il a fermé vos yeux — les prophètes; il a jeté un voile sur vos têtes — les voyants.
11 [Yahweh gave me] this vision; [but] for you, it is only words on a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to those who can read [and request that they read it], they will say, “We cannot read it because the scroll is sealed.”
Et toute vision est devenue pour vous comme les paroles d'un livre scellé. On le présente à un homme qui sait lire, en disant: " Lis cela! " et il dit: " Je ne puis, car ce livre est scellé. "
12 When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we do not know how to read.”
On le présente à un homme qui ne sait pas lire, en disant: " Lis cela! " et il dit: " Je ne sais pas lire. "
13 [So] the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I [desire]. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.
Le Seigneur dit: Puisque ce peuple s'approche en paroles et m'honore des lèvres, tandis qu'il tient son cœur éloigné de moi, et que le culte qu'il me rend est un précepte appris des hommes,
14 Therefore, again I will do something to amaze these people; I will perform many miracles. And [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are wise are not really wise, and [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are intelligent are not really intelligent.
à cause de cela, je continuerai à user de prodiges, avec ce peuple, de prodiges étranges. Et la sagesse de ses sages périra, et l'intelligence de ses docteurs s'obscurcira.
15 Terrible things will happen to those who try to conceal from me, Yahweh, the [evil] things that they plan to do; they do those things in the darkness and they think, ‘Yahweh certainly cannot [RHQ] see us; he cannot [RHQ] know what we are doing!’
Malheur à ceux qui cachent profondément à Yahweh le secret de leurs desseins, dont l'œuvre s'accomplit dans les ténèbres, et qui disent: " Qui nous voit, qui nous connaît? "
16 They are extremely foolish! [They act as though] they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”
Quelle folie! Le potier sera-t-il donc estimé pour de l'argile, que l'œuvre dise de l'ouvrier: " Il ne m'a point faite; " et que le vase dise du potier: " Il n'y entend rien? "
17 Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
Est-ce que dans un peu de temps, le Liban ne sera pas changé en verger, et le verger ne sera pas réputé une forêt?
18 At that time, deaf people will [be able to hear]; [they will be able to] hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will [be able to see]; [they will be able to] see things when it is gloomy and [even] when it is dark.
En ce jour-là, les sourds entendront les paroles du livre, et, sortant des ténèbres et de l'obscurité, les aveugles verront.
19 Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].
Les humbles se réjouiront de plus en plus en Yahweh, et les plus pauvres tressailliront dans le Saint d'Israël.
20 There will be no more people who ridicule [others] and no more arrogant people. And those who plan to do evil things will be executed.
Car l'oppresseur aura disparu, et le moqueur aura péri, et tous ceux qui méditent l'iniquité seront exterminés,
21 Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court [persuade judges to] make unjust decisions.
ceux qui condamnent un homme pour un mot, qui tendent des pièges à celui qui les confond à la porte, et qui perdent le juste par leurs mensonges.
22 That is why Yahweh, who rescued Abraham, says about the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed; no longer will they show on their faces that they are ashamed.
C'est pourquoi ainsi parle Yahweh à la maison de Jacob, lui qui a racheté Abraham: Jacob n'aura plus désormais à rougir, et son front désormais ne pâlira plus.
23 When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.
Car, lorsqu'il verra, lui et ses enfants, l'œuvre de mes mains au milieu d'eux, ils sanctifieront mon nom, ils sanctifieront le Saint de Jacob, et ils révéreront le Dieu d'Israël.
24 When that happens, those who have not been able to think well will think clearly, and those who complain [about what I am doing] will accept what I am teaching them.”
Ceux qui avaient l'esprit égaré apprendront la sagesse, et ceux qui murmuraient recevront l'instruction.
