Jeremiah 12
1 Yahweh, whenever I tell you that I am unhappy [about what is happening to me], you [always] act justly/fairly. So now allow me to ask about one more thing [that I do not understand]: Why are wicked people [often] very prosperous? Why do things go very well for dishonest/wicked people?
Tu es trop équitable, ô Eternel, pour que je récrimine contre toi. Cependant je voudrais te parler justice: Pourquoi la voie des méchants est-elle prospère? Pourquoi vivent-ils en sécurité, tous ces auteurs de perfidies?
2 You allow them to prosper like [MET] trees that grow tall and bear [a lot of] fruit. They [always] say [MTY] good things about you, but their hearts are [really] far from you.
Tu les plantes, et ils prennent racine; ils croissent et portent des fruits. Tu es près de leur bouche et loin' de leur coeur.
3 But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being. You see what I [do] and you are able to know what I am thinking. So drag away those [wicked] people, like [people drag away] sheep that they are going to butcher. Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
Mais moi, ô Eternel, tu me connais, tu m’observes, tu as éprouvé mon coeur qui t’est fidèle. Entraîne-les comme des brebis destinées à la boucherie, réserve-les pour le jour de l’égorgement!
4 This land is [RHQ] becoming very dry and even the grass is withering. The wild animals and the birds have [all] died because the people are [very] wicked. [All that has happened] because the people have said, “Yahweh does not know what we are doing (OR, what will happen to us)!”
Jusqu’à quand la terre sera-t-elle en deuil et l’herbe dé tous les champs desséchée? C’Est le crime de ses habitants qui a fait périr bêtes et oiseaux, car ils disaient: "Il ne peut prévoir notre avenir!"
5 [Then to show me that I needed to be prepared to endure even greater difficulties, Yahweh said to me], [“It is as though] you have become exhausted from racing against men; so how will you be able to race against horses? If you [stumble and] fall when you are running on open/bare/smooth ground, what will happen to you when you are running through the thornbushes near the Jordan [River]?
Si, luttant de vitesse avec des piétons, ils arrivent à te fatiguer, comment rivaliserais-tu avec des coursiers? Si tu te sens en sûreté sur un sol paisible, que feras-tu dans les massifs du Jourdain?
6 [Already] your brothers and [other members of] your own family oppose you. They (plot against/plan to do evil things to) you and they say bad things about you. So even if they say nice things about you, do not trust them!
Car tes frères mêmes et la maison de ton père, oui, ceux-là mêmes te trahissent, ceux-là mêmes crient à plein gosier après toi; ne te fie pas à eux, quand ils t’adresseront de bonnes paroles.
7 I have abandoned my [Israeli] people, the people whom I chose to belong to me. I have allowed their enemies to conquer the Israeli people, whom I love.
J’Ai abandonné ma maison, délaissé mon domaine, et ce que mon âme a de plus cher, je l’ai livré au pouvoir de ses ennemis.
8 My people have become to me like [SIM] a lion in the forest. [It is as though] they roar at me like a lion, so now I hate them.
La nation qui constituait mon héritage est devenue à mon égard comme un lion dans la forêt; elle a donné de la voix contre moi, c’est pourquoi je l’ai prise en haine.
9 My chosen people have [RHQ] become like speckled hawks that are surrounded by vultures [waiting to eat their flesh after they are dead]. Tell all the wild animals to come and eat [the flesh of their corpses].
La nation qui constituait mon héritage est devenue à mon égard comme un vautour aux serres puissantes; c’est pourquoi les vau—tours font cercle autour d’elle: "Allez, rassemblez toutes les bêtes des champs! Amenez-les pour se repaître!"
10 Many rulers [from other countries have come with their armies and] devastated/destroyed my people [whom I care for like a farmer takes care of his] vineyard. They have caused my beautiful land to become a barren desert where no one lives.
De nombreux pâtres ont ravagé ma vigne, piétiné mon champ, fait du domaine qui formait mes délices un désert sauvage.
11 They have caused it to become completely empty; [it is as though] I hear the land crying sadly/mournfully. The whole land is desolate, and no one (worries about/pays any attention to) it.
On l’a changé en ruine; il est en deuil sous mes yeux, complètement dévasté. Tout le pays est dévasté, car il n’est personne qui prenne ces choses à coeur.
12 The soldiers [of our enemies] have marched across all the barren hilltops. But [I], Yahweh, am using those armies [MTY] to punish your land from one end to the other, and no one will escape.
Sur toutes les hauteurs dénudées dans le désert se sont précipités les envahisseurs, car l’Eternel brandit une épée qui dévore le pays d’une extrémité à l’autre: il n’est de salut pour aucune créature.
13 [It is as though] my people planted wheat, but now they are harvesting thorns. They have become very tired [because of much hard work], but they have gained nothing [from all that work]. They will be very disappointed because their harvests [will be very small], [and that will happen] because [I], Yahweh, am extremely angry [with them].”
Ils ont semé du blé, et ce sont des épines qu’ils moissonnent; ils s’épuisent sans aucun profit. Rougissez donc des moissons que vous obtenez à cause de l’ardente colère de l’Eternel.
14 This is [also] what Yahweh said to me: “[I will punish] the evil nearby nations that have been trying to take away the land that I gave to my Israeli people, and I will force them to leave their own land. But I will throw the people of Judah out of their land, also.
Ainsi parle l’Eternel: "Quant à tous mes mauvais voisins qui attentent à l’héritage que j’ai donné en possession à mon peuple, à Israël, voici, je vais les déraciner de leur pays, puis j’arracherai du milieu d’eux la maison de Juda.
15 But later I will act mercifully toward those nations again, and I will bring them back to their own lands again. Each [clan] will come back to its own land.
Mais après les avoir ainsi déracinés, je me reprendrai à avoir pitié d’eux, et je les réintégrerai chacun dans son domaine, chacun dans son pays.
16 And if the people [of the other nations whose armies have invaded Israel] learn the [religious] customs of my people, and if they learn that I [am listening] when they solemnly promise that they will do something good, like they taught my people to believe that [their god] Baal [was listening] when they made solemn promises, I will cause them to become prosperous, and they also will be my people.
Que si alors ils ont soin d’adopter les habitudes de mon peuple, jurant par mon nom: "Vive l’Eternel!" tout comme ils avaient accoutumé mon peuple à jurer par Baal, ils seront établis solidement au milieu de mon peuple.
17 But I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
Mais s’ils refusent d’obéir, je les déracinerai, ces peuples, je les déracinerai et les ferai périr, dit l’Eternel."
