Jeremiah 17
1 [Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!
« Le péché de Juda est écrit avec une plume de fer, et avec la pointe d'un diamant. Elle est gravée sur la tablette de leur cœur, et sur les cornes de vos autels.
2 [Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.
Même leurs enfants se souviennent de leurs autels et leurs mâts d'Ashérah près des arbres verts sur les hautes collines.
3 So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.
Ma montagne dans le champ, Je donnerai vos biens et tous vos trésors en pillage, et tes hauts lieux, à cause du péché, dans tout ton territoire.
4 The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”
Vous, même de vous-mêmes, vous abandonnerez l'héritage que je vous ai donné. Je vous ferai servir vos ennemis dans un pays que vous ne connaissez pas, car tu as allumé dans ma colère un feu qui brûlera à jamais. »
5 This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.
Yahvé dit: « Maudit soit l'homme qui se confie en l'homme, s'appuie sur la force de la chair, et dont le cœur s'éloigne de Yahvé.
6 They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.
Car il sera comme un buisson dans le désert, et ne verront pas quand le bien arrive, mais habitera les lieux desséchés du désert, une terre salée inhabitée.
7 But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
« Heureux l'homme qui se confie en Yahvé, et dont la confiance est en Yahvé.
8 Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.
Car il sera comme un arbre planté près des eaux, qui étend ses racines près de la rivière, et n'aura pas peur quand la chaleur viendra, mais sa feuille sera verte, et ne sera pas inquiété l'année de la sécheresse. Il ne cessera pas de donner des fruits.
9 Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
Le cœur est trompeur par-dessus tout. et il est extrêmement corrompu. Qui peut le savoir?
10 But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”
« Moi, Yahvé, je sonde l'esprit. J'essaie le cœur, de rendre à chacun selon ses voies, selon le fruit de ses actions. »
11 [I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.
Comme la perdrix qui s'assied sur des œufs qu'elle n'a pas pondus, ainsi est celui qui obtient des richesses, et non par droit. Au milieu de ses jours, ils le quitteront. A sa fin, il sera un imbécile.
12 Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
Un trône glorieux, placé en haut dès le commencement, est le lieu de notre sanctuaire.
13 You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.
Yahvé, l'espoir d'Israël, tous ceux qui t'abandonnent seront déçus. Ceux qui s'éloignent de moi seront inscrits sur la terre, parce qu'ils ont abandonné Yahvé, la source d'eau vive.
14 Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.
Guéris-moi, Yahvé, et je serai guéri. Sauve-moi, et je serai sauvé; car tu es ma louange.
15 People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]
Voici, ils me demandent, « Où est la parole de Yahvé? Qu'il s'accomplisse maintenant. »
16 Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].
Quant à moi, je ne me suis pas empressé d'être un berger après vous. Je n'ai pas désiré le jour malheureux. Tu sais. Ce qui est sorti de mes lèvres était devant ton visage.
17 Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.
Ne sois pas une terreur pour moi. Tu es mon refuge au jour du malheur.
18 [So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!
Que ceux qui me persécutent soient déçus, mais ne me laisse pas être déçu. Qu'ils soient consternés, mais ne me laissez pas être consterné. Faites venir sur eux le jour du malheur, et les détruire doublement.
19 This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.
Yahvé m'a dit ceci: « Va te tenir à la porte des enfants du peuple, par laquelle les rois de Juda entrent et par laquelle ils sortent, et à toutes les portes de Jérusalem.
20 Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!
Dis-leur: « Écoutez la parole de Yahvé, rois de Juda, tout Juda et tous les habitants de Jérusalem, qui entrez par ces portes:
21 He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!
Yahvé dit: « Prenez garde, ne portez pas de fardeau le jour du sabbat, et ne le faites pas entrer par les portes de Jérusalem.
22 Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,
Ne portez pas de fardeau hors de vos maisons le jour du sabbat. Ne faites pas d'ouvrage, mais sanctifiez le jour du sabbat, comme je l'ai ordonné à vos pères.
23 but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.
Mais ils n'ont pas écouté. Ils n'ont pas prêté l'oreille, mais ils ont raidi leur cou, afin de ne pas entendre et de ne pas recevoir d'instruction.
24 But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,
Si vous m'écoutez attentivement, dit l'Éternel, vous ne ferez entrer aucun fardeau par les portes de cette ville le jour du sabbat, vous sanctifierez le jour du sabbat et vous ne ferez aucun ouvrage.
25 kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.
Alors entreront par les portes de cette ville des rois et des princes assis sur le trône de David, montés sur des chars et sur des chevaux, eux et leurs princes, les hommes de Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, et cette ville subsistera à jamais.
26 And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.
Ils viendront des villes de Juda et des environs de Jérusalem, du pays de Benjamin, de la plaine, de la montagne et du Midi, apportant des holocaustes, des sacrifices, des offrandes, de l'encens et des sacrifices d'action de grâces à la maison de l'Éternel.
27 But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”
Mais si vous ne m'écoutez pas pour sanctifier le jour du sabbat, pour ne pas porter de fardeau et entrer aux portes de Jérusalem le jour du sabbat, j'allumerai un feu dans ses portes, et il dévorera les palais de Jérusalem. Il ne s'éteindra pas. »'"
