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 un stylet de fer, avec une pointe de diamant, il est gravé sur la table de leurs cœurs, et aux 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.
Comme ils se souviennent de leurs enfants, ainsi se souviennent-ils de leurs autels et de leurs aschérahs, près des arbres verts, sur les collines élevées.
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.
O ma montagne qui es dans la plaine, je livrerai au pillage tes biens, tous tes trésors, tes hauts lieux, à cause de tes péchés sur 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.”
Tu laisseras en friche, et par ta faute, ton héritage que je t’avais donné; je te ferai servir tes ennemis, dans un pays que tu ne connais pas; car vous avez allumé le feu de ma colère, et il brûle pour 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.
Ainsi parle Yahweh: Maudit soit l’homme qui se confie en l’homme, qui fait de la chair son bras, et dont le cœur se retire de Yahweh!
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.
Il est comme une bruyère dans la lande; il ne jouit pas quand le bonheur arrive; il occupera les lieux brûlés au désert, une terre salée où personne n’habite.
7 But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
Béni soit l’homme qui se confie en Yahweh, et dont Yahweh est la confiance!
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.
Il est comme un arbre planté au bord des eaux, qui pousse ses racines vers le courant; il ne craint pas quand vient la chaleur, et son feuillage reste vert; il ne s’inquiète pas de l’année de la sécheresse, et ne cesse pas de porter du fruit.
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 rusé plus que toute chose et corrompu: qui le connaîtra?
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, Yahweh, qui sonde les cœurs et qui éprouve les reins, et cela pour rendre à chacun selon ses voies, selon le fruit de ses œuvres.
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.
Une perdrix couve des œufs qu’elle n’a pas pondus; tel celui qui acquiert des richesses injustement; au milieu de ses jours il doit les quitter, et à sa fin il n’est qu’un insensé.
12 Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
Trône de gloire, hauteur éternelle, 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.
espoir d’Israël, Yahweh, tous ceux qui t’abandonnent seront confondus! Ceux qui se détournent de moi seront inscrits sur la terre; car ils ont abandonné la source des eaux vives, Yahweh.
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, Yahweh, 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 qu’ils me disent: « Où est la parole de Yahweh? Qu’elle arrive! »
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].
Et moi je n’ai pas refusé d’être pasteur à ta suite; je n’ai pas désiré le jour du malheur, tu le sais; ce qui est sorti de mes lèvres était présent devant ta face.
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 pour moi une cause de ruine; 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 mes persécuteurs soient confondus, et que je ne sois pas confondu moi-même! Qu’ils tremblent, eux, et que moi je ne tremble pas! Amène sur eux le jour du malheur, et brise-les d’une double brèche.
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.
Ainsi m’a parlé Yahweh: Va, et tiens-toi à la porte des fils du peuple, par où entrent et sortent les rois de Judas, 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!
et tu leur diras: Ecoutez la parole de Yahweh, vous, rois de Juda, et tout Juda, et vous tous, 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]!
Ainsi parle Yahweh: Prenez garde à vos âmes, et ne portez pas de fardeaux le jour du sabbat, et n’en 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 faites sortir de vos maisons aucun fardeau le jour du sabbat, et ne faites aucun ouvrage. Et 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.
Ils n’ont pas écouté ni prêté l’oreille; ils ont raidi leur cou pour ne pas écouter; et ne pas recevoir l’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 docilement, — oracle de Yahweh, en ne faisant pas entrer de fardeaux par les portes de cette ville le jour du sabbat, en sanctifiant le jour du sabbat en ne faisant aucun ouvrage ce jour-là,
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 par les portes de cette ville entreront des rois et des princes assis sur le trône de David, montés sur des chars et des chevaux, eux et leurs princes, les hommes de Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem; et cette ville sera habitée 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.
On viendra des villes de Juda et des environs de Jérusalem, du pays de Benjamin, de la Séphéla, de la montagne et du négéb, amener des holocaustes et des sacrifices, des oblations et de l’encens, et apporter des sacrifices d’actions de grâces dans la maison de Yahweh.
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 en sanctifiant le jour du sabbat, en ne portant aucun fardeau, quand vous entrez par les portes de Jérusalem, le jour du sabbat, alors j’allumerai un feu aux portes de la ville, et il dévorera les palais de Jérusalem, et il ne s’éteindra point.
