Isaiah 66
1 Yahweh [also] said this: “[All of] heaven is [like] my throne, and the whole earth is [like] my footstool. So you could certainly not [RHQ] build a house [that would be adequate] for me to live in and rest!
Ainsi parle Yahweh: Le ciel est mon trône, et la terre est l’escabeau de mes pieds: quelle est la maison que vous me bâtiriez, et quel serait le lieu de mon repos?
2 I [MTY] have created everything; all things exist because I made them. [That is true because I], Yahweh, have said it. The people I am [most] pleased with are those who are humble, who [patiently endure it when they] (suffer/are afflicted), and who tremble when they hear me [rebuking them].
Toutes ces choses, ma main les a faites, et toutes ces choses sont arrivées ainsi a l’existence, — oracle de Yahweh. Voici celui que je regarde: celui qui est humble, qui a le cœur brisé et qui tremble à ma parole.
3 You have enjoyed [continually] doing the things that you want to do: [Some of] you slaughter oxen [to sacrifice them to me], but you also bring human sacrifices [to your idols]! You sacrifice lambs [to me], but you kill dogs [to offer them to your gods]. You offer grain to me, but you also bring pigs’ blood [to your idols]. You burn incense [to me], but you also praise your idols. You enjoy doing those disgusting things.
Celui qui immole un bœuf tue un homme; celui qui sacrifie une brebis égorge un chien; celui qui présente une oblation offre du sang de porc; celui qui fait brûler l’encens bénit une idole. Comme ils choisissent leurs voies, et que leur âme se complaît dans leurs abominations,
4 When I called [out to you], you did not answer. When I spoke, you did not pay attention. You did [many] things that I say are evil; you chose [to do] things that I did not like. So [now] I will punish you by causing you to experience the things that you are [very] afraid of.”
moi aussi je choisirai leur infortune, et je ferai venir sur eux ce qu’ils redoutent, parce que j’ai appelé, et personne n’a répondu; j’ai parlé, et ils n’ont pas entendu; ils ont fait ce qui est mal à mes yeux, et ils ont choisi ce qui me déplaît.
5 But you people who tremble when you hear what Yahweh says, listen to what he says [now]: “Some of your people hate you and reject you because you belong to me. They make fun of you, and they say, ‘Yahweh should show his glorious power! We want to see him [do something to cause] you to be truly happy.’ But [some day] those people will be [very] disgraced.”
Ecoutez la parole de Yahweh, vous qui tremblez à sa parole: Ils ont dit, vos frères qui vous haïssent et vous repoussent à cause de mon nom: « Que Yahweh montre sa gloire, afin que nous voyions votre joie! » Mais ils seront confondus.
6 [At that time], you will listen to the noise in the city. You will hear the shouting in the temple. It will be the sound of Yahweh shouting while he is punishing his enemies!
Un fracas, un tumulte monte de la ville, une clameur monte du temple! C’est la voix de Yahweh, qui paie à ses ennemis leur salaire.
7 No one [RHQ] ever heard that a woman gave birth to a baby when she was just starting to have birth pains.
Avant d’être en travail, elle a enfanté; avant que les douleurs lui vinssent, elle a mis au monde un enfant mâle.
8 Certainly no one [RHQ] ever heard about such a thing happening, and no one has ever seen it happen. [Similarly], no one ever [RHQ] heard that a nation was created in one instant, not even in one day. But Jerusalem is like [MET] [a woman who] gives birth to children as soon as she starts to have birth pains.
Qui a jamais entendu rien de pareil, qui a jamais rien vu de semblable? Un pays naît-il en un jour, une nation est-elle enfantée d’un seul coup, que Sion, à peine en travail, ait mis au monde ses fils?
9 Women certainly do not [RHQ] bring infants to the time when they are ready to be born and then do not allow them to be born. [Similarly, he will do for Jerusalem] [MET] [what he has promised to do]: [He will cause Jerusalem to be full of people again]. [That will happen because] Yahweh has said it.
Ouvrirais-je le sein, et ne ferais-je pas enfanter? dit Yahweh; ou bien moi qui fais naître, fermerais-je le sein? dit ton Dieu.
10 You people in [APO] Jerusalem, rejoice! And all you people who love Jerusalem should also be happy. You people who were sad because of [what happened to Jerusalem], you should now be glad.
Réjouissez-vous avec Jérusalem, et soyez dans l’allégresse à cause d’elle, vous tous qui l’aimez! Tressaillez de joie avec elle, vous tous qui pleuriez sur elle,
11 [You people in Jerusalem] will [have everything that you need] like [MET] a baby that gets all it needs from its mother’s breasts. You will enjoy all the abundant and glorious things [MET] in the city.
afin que vous soyez allaités et rassasiés à la mamelle de ses consolations, afin que vous savouriez avec délices la plénitude de sa gloire!
12 Yahweh has promised, “I will cause Jerusalem to be full of valuable things that come from other nations; those things will pour into Jerusalem; it will be like [SIM] a big flood. I will take care of the people of Jerusalem like women care for the babies that they nurse.
Car ainsi parle Yahweh: Je vais faire couler sur elle la paix comme un fleuve, et la gloire des nations comme un torrent qui déborde; et vous serez allaités, portés sur le sein, caressés sur les genoux.
13 I will comfort you people in Jerusalem like [MET] mothers comfort their children.”
Comme un homme que sa mère console, ainsi je vous consolerai, et vous serez consolés dans Jérusalem.
14 When you see [those things happen], you [SYN] will rejoice. Your [old] bones will become strong [again] like [SIM] grass [that grows quickly/well in the springtime]. [When that happens, everyone] will know that Yahweh has power [MTY] to help those who worship and obey him, but that he is angry with his enemies.
Vous le verrez, et votre cœur sera dans la joie, et vos os reprendront vigueur comme l’herbe. Et la main de Yahweh se fera connaître à ses serviteurs; et son indignation à ses ennemis.
15 Yahweh will come down with flames of fire, and his chariots [will come down] like [SIM] a whirlwind; he will be extremely angry, and he will punish [his enemies] by burning them in a fire.
Car voici que Yahweh vient dans le feu, et son char est semblable à l’ouragan, pour déverser sa colère en embrasement et ses menaces en flammes de feu.
16 [It is as though] [MET] Yahweh has a [big] sword, and he will judge and execute many people.
Car Yahweh exerce le jugement par le feu; et par son épée, contre toute chair; et nombreux seront ceux que Yahweh aura percés.
17 Yahweh says, “Some of you people purify/bathe yourselves and [then] go to a garden to worship your gods. You eat the meat of pigs and lizards and mice, [and other things that I have forbidden you to eat]. So I will get rid of you [for doing that].
Ceux qui se sanctifient et se purifient pour aller dans les jardins, derrière celui qui se tient au milieu, ceux qui mangent de la chair de porc, des mets abominables et des souris, périront tous ensemble, — oracle de Yahweh,
18 I know [all] the [evil] things that you think and do. [It is now time] for me to gather together the people who live in all nations and who speak all languages, and to show them that I am very great.
Moi, je connais leurs œuvres et leurs pensées! Le temps est venu de rassembler toutes les nations et toutes les langues. Elles viendront et verront ma gloire,
19 I will put a mark on them, and those whom I have spared will go to various [distant] countries: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal, Javan, and to distant islands. I will send them to proclaim to nations that have never heard about me that I am very great and glorious.
et je ferai un prodige au milieu d’eux. Et j’enverrai de leurs réchappés vers les nations, à Tarsis, à Phul et à Lud, qui tirent de l’arc, à Tubal et à Javan, vers les îles lointaines, qui n’ont jamais entendu parler de moi, et qui n’ont pas vu ma gloire; et ils publieront ma gloire parmi les nations.
20 Then they will bring back here your relatives [who have been (exiled/forced to go to other countries)], to be like [SIM] an offering to me. They will come on horses, in chariots, on mules, and on camels. They will come to [Zion, ] my sacred hill in Jerusalem. That will be like [SIM] the offerings that [my] Israeli people used to bring in the correct manner to the temple.
Et ils ramèneront tous vos frères du milieu de toutes les nations, en offrande à Yahweh, sur des chevaux, sur des chars, en litière, sur des mulets et des dromadaires, vers ma montagne sainte, à Jérusalem, dit Yahweh, comme les enfants d’Israël apportent l’offrande dans un vase pur à la maison de Yahweh.
21 [I solemnly promise that] I will appoint some of them to be priests, and others to do other work in my temple. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.
Et j’en prendrai même parmi eux pour prêtres et pour lévites, dit Yahweh.
22 I [also] promise that just like the new heaven and the new earth will last forever, you will always have descendants, and you [MTY] will always be honored.
Car comme les nouveaux cieux et la nouvelle terre, que je vais créer, subsisteront devant moi, — oracle de Yahweh, ainsi subsisteront votre postérité et votre nom.
23 At every festival to celebrate the Sabbath [each week] and the new moon [each month], everyone will [come and] worship me. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.
De nouvelle lune en nouvelle lune, et de sabbat en sabbat, toute chair viendra se prosterner devant moi, dit Yahweh.
24 Then they will go out [of Jerusalem] and look at the corpses of those who rebelled against me. The maggots in those corpses will never die, the fire will never stop burning them, and everyone [who sees their corpses] will detest them.”
Et quand ils sortiront, ils verront les cadavres des hommes qui se sont révoltés contre moi; car leur ver ne mourra point, et leur feu ne s’éteindra point, et ils seront en horreur à toute chair.
