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 burin d’acier de fer, [et] avec une pointe de diamant; il est gravé sur la table de leur cœur, et aux 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.
De sorte que leurs fils se souviendront de leurs autels, et de leurs bocages, 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.
Montagnard, je livrerai par les champs tes richesses [et] tous tes trésors au pillage; tes hauts lieux [sont pleins] de péché dans toutes tes contrées.
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 toi, et [ceux qui sont] avec toi, vous laisserez vacant l'héritage que je t'avais donné, et je ferai que tu seras asservi à tes ennemis, dans un pays que tu ne connais point, parce que vous avez allumé le feu en ma colère; [et] 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 a dit l'Eternel: maudit soit l'homme qui se confie en l'homme, et qui fait de la chair son bras, et dont le cœur se retire de l'Eternel.
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 la bruyère en une lande, et il ne s'apercevra point quand le bien sera venu; mais il demeurera au désert en des lieux secs, en une terre salée et inhabitable.
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 l'Eternel, et duquel l'Eternel 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.
Car il sera comme un arbre planté près des eaux, et qui étend ses racines le long d'une eau courante; quand la chaleur viendra, il ne s'en apercevra point; et sa feuille sera verte, il ne sera point en peine en l'année de la sécheresse, et ne cessera point 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, et désespérément malin par dessus toutes choses; 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.”
Je suis l'Eternel, qui sonde le cœur, et qui éprouve les reins; même pour rendre à chacun selon sa voie, [et] 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.
Celui qui acquiert des richesses, sans observer la justice, est une perdrix [qui] couve ce qu'elle n'a point pondu; il les laissera au milieu de ses jours, et à la fin il sera trouvé 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.
Eternel, qui es l'attente d'Israël, tous ceux qui t'abandonnent seront honteux; ceux qui se détournent de moi, seront écrits en la terre, parce qu'ils ont délaissé la source des eaux vives, l'Eternel.
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.
Eternel, guéris-moi, 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, ceux-ci me disent: où est la parole de l'Eternel? qu'elle vienne présentement!
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 je ne me suis point avancé plus qu'un pasteur après toi, et je n'ai point désiré le jour de l'extrême affliction, tu le sais; et ce qui est sorti de mes lèvres a été devant toi.
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 en effroi, tu es ma retraite au jour du mal.
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, mais que je ne sois point honteux; qu'ils soient épouvantés, mais que je ne sois point épouvanté; amène sur eux le jour du mal, et les accable d'une double plaie.
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'Eternel: va, et tiens-toi debout 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!
Et leur dis: écoutez la parole de l'Eternel, Rois de Juda, et vous tous [hommes] de 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 a dit l'Eternel: prenez garde à vos âmes, et ne portez aucun fardeau le jour du Sabbat, et ne les faites point 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 tirez point hors de vos maisons aucun fardeau le jour du Sabbat, et ne faites aucune œuvre, mais 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'ont point écouté, et n'ont point incliné leur oreille, mais ils ont raidi leur cou, pour n'écouter point, et pour ne recevoir point 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,
Il arrivera donc si vous m'écoutez attentivement, dit l'Eternel pour ne faire passer aucun fardeau par les portes de cette ville le jour du Sabbat, et si vous sanctifiez le jour du Sabbat, tellement que vous ne fassiez aucune œuvre en 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.
Que les Rois et les principaux, ceux qui sont assis sur le trône de David, montés sur des chariots et sur des chevaux, eux et les principaux d'entre eux, les hommes de Juda, et les habitants de Jérusalem, entreront par les portes de cette ville; 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.
On viendra aussi des villes de Juda, et des environs de Jérusalem et du pays de Benjamin, et de la campagne, et des montagnes, et de devers le Midi, et on apportera des holocaustes, des sacrifices, des oblations et de l'encens; on apportera aussi [des sacrifices] d'action de grâces en la maison de l'Eternel.
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 point pour sanctifier le jour du Sabbat, et pour ne porter aucun fardeau, et n'en faire entrer aucun par les portes de Jérusalem le jour du Sabbat, je mettrai le feu à ses portes, il consumera les palais de Jérusalem, et ne sera point éteint.
