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?
Seigneur, vous êtes juste; aussi je me défendrai devant vous; je vous demanderai justice. Pourquoi la voie des impies est-elle prospère? pourquoi ceux qui vous ont répudié sont-ils florissants?
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.
Vous les avez plantés, et ils ont pris racine; ils ont engendré, et ils ont produit des fruits. Vous êtes près de leur bouche, et loin de leurs reins.
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!
Et vous, Seigneur, vous me connaissez, vous avez devant vous éprouvé mon cœur; purifiez-les pour le jour de leur 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)!”
Jusques à quand la terre sera-t-elle en deuil avec des pâturages et des champs desséchés par la malice de ceux qui l'habitent? Les oiseaux et le bétail ont été détruits, parce que les hommes ont dit: Dieu ne verra point. nos voies.
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]?
Tes pieds courent, et te voilà énervé; comment feras-tu donc pour combattre des cavaliers et te confier dans une terre de paix? Que feras-tu contre les débordements 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!
Tes frères eux-mêmes et la maison de ton père t'ont méprisé; ils ont eux- mêmes crié contre toi, ils se sont donc unis à ceux qui te poursuivaient par derrière; ne te fie pas à eux, quoiqu'ils te disent de belles 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; j'ai renoncé à mon héritage; j'ai livré aux mains de ses ennemis celle qui était ma bien-aimée et ma vie.
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.
Mon héritage est devenu contre moi comme le lion dans une forêt; il a rugi contre moi; à cause de cela je l'ai pris 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].
Mon héritage est-il pour moi un antre d'hyène ou l'enceinte d'une caverne? Allez, rassemblez toutes les bêtes fauves de la terre, et qu'elles viennent dévorer mon héritage.
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.
Maints pasteurs ont ravagé ma vigne; ils ont souillé mon partage; ils ont fait de ma part bien-aimée un désert sans chemin.
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.
Elle a été livrée au ravage et à la dévastation. Toute la terre a été frappée de ruine à cause de moi, parce que nul homme n'a souci de moi en son cœur.
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.
Ceux qui la dévastaient sont venus par toutes les voies du désert, parce que le glaive du Seigneur va dévorer la terre d'une extrémité à l'autre; il n'est plus de paix pour aucune chair.
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].”
Semez des froments, et vous récolterez des chardons; leur part d'héritage ne leur rapportera rien; soyez confondus à cause de votre orgueil et de vos outrages à la face du Seigneur.
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.
Car ainsi parle le Seigneur contre tous les méchants voisins qui touchent à mon héritage, que j'ai distribué à mon peuple d'Israël: Voilà que je vais les arracher de leur terre, et je rejetterai Juda du milieu d'eux.
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.
Et voici ce qui arrivera: après les avoir bannis, je changerai, et j'aurai pitié d'eux, et je les ferai rentrer dans leurs demeures, chacun dans son héritage et chacun dans son champ.
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.
Et ceci arrivera encore: s'ils s'instruisent, s'ils apprennent la voie de mon peuple, et à jurer en mon nom: Vive le Seigneur! comme ils avaient enseigné mon peuple à jurer par le nom de Baal, ils seront édifiés 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.”
Et s'il est une de ces nations qui ne se convertisse pas, je la détruirai, et elle sera perdue à jamais.
