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 style de fer, avec une pointe de diamant; il est gravé sur la table de leur cœur, et sur les cornes de leurs 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 leurs fils se souviennent de leurs autels et de leurs ashères auprès 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 les champs, ton bien, tous tes trésors, je les livrerai au pillage, – tes hauts lieux, à cause de [ton] péché dans tous tes confins.
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.”
Et, à cause de toi-même, tu délaisseras ton héritage que je t’avais donné, et je t’asservirai à tes ennemis dans un pays que tu ne connais pas; car vous avez allumé un feu dans ma colère; il brûlera à toujours.
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 dit l’Éternel: Maudit l’homme qui se confie en l’homme, et qui fait de la chair son bras, et dont le cœur se retire de l’Éternel!
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.
Et il sera comme un dénué dans le désert, et il ne verra pas quand le bien arrivera, mais il demeurera dans des lieux secs au désert, dans un pays de sel et inhabité.
7 But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
Béni l’homme qui se confie en l’Éternel, et de qui l’Éternel 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 sera comme un arbre planté près des eaux; et il étendra ses racines vers le courant; et il ne s’apercevra pas quand la chaleur viendra, et sa feuille sera [toujours] verte; et dans l’année de la sécheresse il ne craindra pas, et il ne cessera 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 trompeur par-dessus tout, et incurable; qui le connaît?
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, l’Éternel, je sonde le cœur, j’éprouve les reins; et [cela] pour 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 couve ce qu’elle n’a pas pondu, celui qui acquiert des richesses, et non avec droiture, les laissera au milieu de ses jours, et, à sa fin, il sera un insensé.
12 Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
Le lieu de notre sanctuaire est un trône de gloire, un lieu haut élevé dès le commencement.
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.
Attente d’Israël, Éternel! tous ceux qui t’abandonnent seront honteux. Ceux qui se retirent de moi seront écrits sur la terre, car ils ont délaissé la source des eaux vives, l’Éternel.
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, Éternel! et je serai guéri; sauve-moi, et je serai sauvé; car c’est toi qui 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, ceux-ci me disent: Où est la parole de l’Éternel? Qu’elle vienne donc!
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].
Mais moi, je ne me suis pas hâté de cesser d’être pasteur en te suivant, et je n’ai pas désiré le mauvais jour, tu le sais; ce qui est sorti de mes lèvres a été 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 me sois point une épouvante: tu es mon refuge au mauvais jour.
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 honteux, et que moi, je ne sois pas honteux; qu’ils aient peur, et que moi, je n’aie pas peur; fais venir sur eux le jour de malheur, et ruine-les d’une double ruine.
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 dit l’Éternel: Va, et tiens-toi dans la porte des fils du peuple, par laquelle entrent les rois de Juda et par laquelle ils sortent, et dans 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 dis-leur: Écoutez la parole de l’Éternel, 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 dit l’Éternel: Prenez garde à vos âmes, et ne portez pas de fardeau le jour du sabbat, ni n’en faites passer 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,
Et ne portez pas de fardeau hors de vos maisons, le jour du sabbat, et ne faites aucune œuvre, et sanctifiez le jour du sabbat, comme j’ai commandé 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’écoutèrent pas, et n’inclinèrent pas leur oreille; mais ils roidirent leur cou, pour ne pas écouter et pour 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,
Et il arrivera, si vous m’ écoutez attentivement, dit l’Éternel, pour ne pas faire passer de fardeau par les portes de cette ville, le jour du sabbat, et pour sanctifier le jour du sabbat, pour ne faire aucune œuvre 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.
qu’alors entreront par les portes de cette ville les rois et les 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 sera habitée à toujours;
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.
et on viendra des villes de Juda, et des environs de Jérusalem, et du pays de Benjamin, et du pays plat, et de la montagne, et du midi, apportant des holocaustes, et des sacrifices, et des offrandes de gâteau, et de l’encens, et apportant des actions 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, et pour ne pas porter de fardeau en entrant par les portes de Jérusalem le jour du sabbat, j’allumerai un feu dans ses portes, et il dévorera les palais de Jérusalem, et ne sera pas éteint.
