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 as la justice pour toi, Éternel, quand je plaide contre toi, cependant je dois te prendre à partie. Pourquoi la voie des impies est-elle heureuse, pourquoi les perfides infidèles vivent-ils tranquilles?
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 as plantés, ils ont pris racine, ils croissent, et portent du fruit. Tu es près de leur bouche, et loin de leur cœur.
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, Éternel, tu me connais, tu me vois, et tu éprouves ce que mon cœur est pour toi. Entraîne-les comme des brebis à la tuerie, et dévoue-les pour la journée du carnage.
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 le pays sera-t-il dans le deuil, et l'herbe de toute la campagne sera-t-elle desséchée? A cause de la méchanceté des habitants, les quadrupèdes et les oiseaux ont disparu. Car ils disent: Il ne verra pas notre fin.
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 tu cours avec des piétons et qu'ils te fatiguent, comment lutteras-tu avec des cavaliers? Et tu as de l'assurance dans un pays en paix! mais que feras-tu dans [les bois, ] l'orgueil 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 même tes frères et la maison de ton père, même eux te haïssent, même eux ils crient après toi: Il a assez vécu! Ne les crois pas, quand même ils te diraient 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 quitté ma maison, j'ai fait abandon de mon héritage; j'ai livré l'amour de mon âme aux mains 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.
Mon héritage a été envers moi comme un lion dans la forêt; il pousse contre moi ses rugissements, c'est pourquoi je le hais.
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 pour moi une bête farouche, une hyène; aussi les bêtes farouches le cerneront. Sus! rassemblez toutes les bêtes des champs, amenez-les à la curée!
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.
Des bergers nombreux dévastent ma vigne, foulent mon domaine, font de mon délicieux domaine un désert inculte.
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 en fait une désolation; désolé, il est en deuil de moi; tout le pays est désolé, parce que personne n'est rentré en lui-même.
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.
Franchissant toutes les collines du désert, les dévastateurs arrivent, car l'épée de l'Éternel dévore le pays d'un bout à l'autre bout; il n'y a de salut pour rien de ce qui est 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].”
Ils ont semé du froment, et ils moissonnent des ronces: ils se sont épuisés, et ils n'ont aucun profit. Soyez donc confus de vos récoltes à cause de la colère de l'Éternel qui s'est allumée! »
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 prononce l'Éternel sur tous mes méchants voisins, qui se sont attaqués à mon héritage que j'ai donné en propre à mon peuple d'Israël. Voici, je vais les arracher de leur pays, et je vais arracher la maison de 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.
Mais, après que je les aurai arrachés, je reprendrai pitié d'eux, et je les ramènerai chacun dans son héritage, et 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.
Et, s'ils apprennent les voies de mon peuple, de telle sorte qu'ils jurent par mon nom, « par la vie de l'Éternel! » de même qu'ils enseignèrent à mon peuple à jurer par Baal, ils feront partie de l'édifice 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 n'obéissent pas, j'extirperai un tel peuple, je l'extirperai et le détruirai, dit l'Éternel.
