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! Ariel, ville où campa David! Ajoutez année sur année, que les fêtes reviennent tour à tour, et je mettrai Ariel à l'étroit;
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].
Elle ne sera que plaintes et gémissements; mais elle sera pour moi comme un Ariel (Lion de Dieu).
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 contre toi tout à l'entour, je te cernerai avec des postes armés, je dresserai des forts contre toi.
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; tu parleras comme de dessous terre, et ta parole sortira étouffée de la poussière; ta voix montera de la terre comme celle d'un évocateur d'esprits; ta parole sera comme un murmure sortant de la poussière.
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.
Mais la foule de tes ennemis sera comme la poussière menue, et la foule des hommes puissants comme la balle qui s'envole; et cela tout à coup, en un instant.
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.
Tu seras châtiée par l'Éternel des armées, avec des tonnerres, des tremblements de terre et un grand bruit, avec la tempête, le tourbillon et la flamme d'un 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 comme il arrive dans un songe, dans une vision de la nuit, ainsi en sera-t-il de la multitude de toutes les nations qui combattront contre Ariel, de tous ceux qui l'attaqueront, elle et sa forteresse, et qui 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 un homme affamé songe qu'il mange, mais quand il s'éveille, son âme est vide; et comme un homme altéré songe qu'il boit, mais quand il s'éveille, le voici languissant et son âme est altérée; ainsi en sera-t-il de toute la multitude de nations qui combattront 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.
Soyez étonnés et stupéfaits! Soyez aveuglés et éblouis! Ils sont ivres, mais non pas de vin; ils chancellent, mais non par la boisson forte!
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 l'Éternel a répandu sur vous un esprit d'assoupissement; il a fermé vos yeux, - les prophètes; il a voilé 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.”
Aussi toutes les visions sont devenues pour vous comme la parole d'un livre scellé, qu'on donnerait à un homme sachant lire, en lui disant: Lis ceci! et qui répondrait: Je ne puis, car il 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.”
Ou qu'on donnerait à un homme ne sachant pas lire, en lui disant: Lis ceci! et qui répondrait: 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.
Et le Seigneur dit: Puisque ce peuple s'approche de moi de sa bouche, et qu'ils m'honorent de leurs lèvres, mais leur cœur est éloigné de moi; puisque la crainte qu'ils ont de moi n'est qu'un commandement enseigné par 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.
A cause de cela, voici je continuerai à user de prodiges à l'égard de ce peuple, de miracles et de prodiges; la sagesse de ses sages périra, et l'intelligence de ses intelligents disparaîtra.
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 leurs desseins, pour les dérober à l'Éternel, qui font leurs œuvres dans les ténèbres, et qui disent: Qui nous voit, et 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!’”
Pervers que vous êtes, l'argile sera-t-elle estimée à l'égal du potier? tellement que l'ouvrage dise de celui qui l'a fait: Il ne m'a point fait; et que l'œuvre dise de l'ouvrier: 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.
Encore un peu de temps, le Liban ne sera-t-il pas changé en verger, et le verger regardé comme 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 les yeux des aveugles, délivrés de l'obscurité et des ténèbres, 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 débonnaires auront en l'Éternel joie sur joie, et les pauvres d'entre les hommes s'égaieront 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 ne sera plus; le moqueur sera détruit, et ceux qui veillent pour commettre l'iniquité seront retranchés,
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 font condamner un homme par leur parole, qui tendent des pièges à l'homme qui plaide devant les portes, qui perdent le juste par leurs fraudes.
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 l'Éternel qui a racheté Abraham, a dit ainsi à la maison de Jacob: Jacob ne sera plus dans la honte, et sa face 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 au milieu de lui ses fils, l'œuvre de mes mains, il sanctifiera mon nom; il sanctifiera le Saint de Jacob, il révérera 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.”
Et ceux qui avaient l'esprit égaré deviendront entendus, et ceux qui murmuraient apprendront la sagesse.
