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.
Ha! Ariel! Ariel! cité où campa David! ajoutez année à année, que les fêtes fassent leur révolution,
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 Ariel de près, et il y aura des soupirs et des cris; mais alors j'aurai en elle une 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.
et je te cernerai comme un cercle, et te serrerai de près avec des bataillons, et j'élèverai contre toi des forts;
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.
et du sol où tu tomberas, ta parole sortira, et de la poudre s'élèveront sourdement tes discours, et ta voix sera celle d'un spectre sortant de terre, et de la poussière tu murmureras tes discours.
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 telle la poussière menue, telle sera la foule de tes ennemis, et telle la balle qui s'envole, telle sera la foule des furieux, et cela soudain, tout à coup.
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.
De par l'Éternel des armées il y aura châtiment avec grondement et fracas et grand bruissement, orage et tempête et 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 d'un songe, d'une vision nocturne, ainsi il en sera de la foule de tous les peuples agresseurs d'Ariel, et de tous ceux qui l'assaillent, elle et sa citadelle, et qui la pressent.
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].
Et ce sera comme quand l'affamé songe qu'il mange, et il s'éveille, et il a l'estomac vide; et comme quand l'homme altéré songe qu'il boit, et il s'éveille, et voici, il a soif, et son âme languit: ainsi en sera-t-il de la foule des peuples agresseurs de 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 stupéfaits et étonnés! Aveuglez-vous et soyez aveuglés! ils sont ivres, mais non de vin; ils chancellent, mais non troublés par la cervoise.
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 versa sur vous un esprit d'assoupissement et ferma vos yeux, les Prophètes, et voilà 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 ainsi toute la révélation vous est comme les paroles du livre scellé que l'on donne à un homme sachant lire, en disant: « Lis-le donc! » Mais il répond: « 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.”
et que l'on donne le livre à qui ne sait pas lire, en disant: « Lis-le donc! » Mais il répond: « 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: Parce que ce peuple s'approche de moi de la bouche, et qu'il m'honore des lèvres, tandis que son cœur est éloigné de moi, et que la crainte qu'il a de moi n'est que commandement d'hommes appris,
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.
pour cela, voici, je signalerai ce peuple par des actes insignes et merveilleux, afin que la sagesse de ses sages périsse, et que l'intelligence de ses hommes entendus disparaisse.
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 se cachent pour dérober leurs plans à l'Éternel, afin que leurs œuvres soient dans les ténèbres! et qui disent: Qui nous voit? et qui prend garde à nous?
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!’”
O perversité à vous! l'argile sera-t-elle estimée à l'égal du potier, pour que l'ouvrage dise de l'ouvrier: Il ne m'a pas fait! et que la sculpture dise du sculpteur: Il n'est pas entendu!
17 Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
Voici, encore très peu de temps, et le Liban se transformera en verger, et le verger sera estimé à l'égal de la 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.
Et en ce même jour les sourds entendront les paroles du Livre, et, perçant la nuit et l'obscurité, les yeux des 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].
Alors de plus en plus les misérables se réjouiront de l'Éternel, et les indigents se glorifieront du 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.
parce que le furieux aura fini, que le moqueur sera détruit, et que tous les hommes vigilants pour le crime 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.
eux qui condamnaient un homme en cause, tendaient des pièges à celui qui se défendait aux Portes, et déboutaient le juste par la fraude.
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.
Aussi, ainsi parle à la maison de Jacob l'Éternel, qui sauva Abraham: Maintenant Jacob ne sera plus confus, et son visage 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 ses enfants devenus l'œuvre de mes mains dans son sein, ils sanctifieront mon nom; oui, 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.”
Et ceux dont l'esprit était égaré apprendront la sagesse, et les murmurateurs recevront l'instruction.
