Jeremiah 22
1 This is another message that Yahweh gave [to me]: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and say this to him:
Ainsi dit l’Éternel: Descends à la maison du roi de Juda, et prononce là cette parole,
2 ‘You are the king of Judah. You are the ruler [MTY], like King David was. You and your officials and your people must listen
et dis: Écoute la parole de l’Éternel, ô roi de Juda, qui es assis sur le trône de David! toi, et tes serviteurs, et ton peuple, qui entrez par ces portes.
3 to what Yahweh says: “Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil things. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here [in Jerusalem] [MTY] those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong).
Ainsi dit l’Éternel: Pratiquez le jugement et la justice, et délivrez de la main de l’oppresseur celui qui est pillé; et n’opprimez pas, ne violentez pas l’étranger, l’orphelin, et la veuve, et ne versez pas le sang innocent dans ce lieu.
4 If you obey those commands carefully, there will [always] be some descendant of King David who will be ruling here [MTY] [in Jerusalem]. The king and his officials and other people will ride through the gates of the city in chariots and on horses.
Car si en effet vous accomplissez fidèlement cette parole, alors les rois qui sont assis à la place de David sur son trône entreront par les portes de cette maison, montés sur des chars et sur des chevaux, – lui, et ses serviteurs, et son peuple.
5 But if you refuse to pay attention to those commands, I, Yahweh, solemnly declare, with myself [MTY] as a witness, that this palace will become a pile of rubble.”’”
Et si vous n’écoutez pas ces paroles, je jure par moi-même, dit l’Éternel, que cette maison sera réduite en désolation.
6 And this is what Yahweh says about the king’s palace: “[I like] this palace, like I like the forests in the Gilead [region] and the mountains in Lebanon. But I will cause this palace to become a desert, a place that no one lives in.
Car ainsi dit l’Éternel touchant la maison du roi de Juda: Tu es pour moi un Galaad, le sommet du Liban… Si je ne te réduis en désert, en villes inhabitées!
7 I will summon enemy troops who will destroy this palace; each of their soldiers will use his own tools [to wreck the building]. They will cut into pieces the beautiful big cedar [beams] and throw them into a fire.”
Et je préparerai contre toi des destructeurs, chacun avec ses armes, et ils couperont et jetteront au feu l’élite de tes cèdres.
8 People from many nations will walk past [the ruins of] this city and say to each other, “Why did Yahweh destroy this city that was [very] great?”
Et beaucoup de nations passeront près de cette ville, et chacun dira à son compagnon: Pourquoi l’Éternel a-t-il fait ainsi à cette grande ville?
9 And [other] people will reply, “[He did it] because his people stopped obeying the agreement that they had made with Yahweh their God. Instead, they worshiped [DOU] other gods.”
Et on dira: Parce qu’ils ont abandonné l’alliance de l’Éternel leur Dieu, et qu’ils se sont prosternés devant d’autres dieux, et les ont servis.
10 [Yahweh also says, ] “Do not mourn for King [Josiah]; do not cry because he has died. Instead, mourn for [King Jehoahaz, his son], [because] he will be captured and taken to another country, and he will never return to see his own country, [Judah], again.”
Ne pleurez pas celui qui est mort, et ne vous lamentez pas sur lui. Pleurez, pleurez celui qui s’en va, car il ne reviendra plus, ni ne reverra plus le pays de sa naissance!
11 Jehoahaz became king after his father, King Josiah, [died], but Jehoahaz indeed was captured and taken [to Babylonia]. And this is what Yahweh says about him: “He also will never return [to Judah].
Car ainsi dit l’Éternel quant à Shallum, fils de Josias, roi de Juda, qui régna à la place de Josias, son père, [et] qui s’en est allé de ce lieu: Il n’y reviendra plus;
12 He will die in that far-away country and will never see his own country again.”
car il mourra dans le lieu où on l’a transporté, et ne verra plus ce pays.
13 [And Yahweh said to me], “Terrible things will happen to [King Jehoahaz’s brother, King Jehoiakim]. He unjustly [forced men to] build his palace. The rooms on the upper level were built [by men who were forced] unjustly [to do that work]; he forced his neighbors to work for nothing; he did not pay them anything.
Malheur à celui qui bâtit sa maison par l’injustice, et ses chambres hautes par le manque de droiture; qui se sert pour rien de son prochain, et ne lui donne rien pour son travail;
14 He said, ‘I will [force my workers to] build a huge beautiful palace with very large rooms and [many] windows. They will cover the walls with [fragrant] cedar panels/timber and paint them bright red.’”
qui dit: Je me bâtirai une vaste maison et de spacieuses chambres hautes, et qui se la perce de fenêtres, et la lambrisse de cèdre, et la peint en vermillon.
15 But it is certainly not [RHQ] having a beautiful cedar palace that causes a king to be great! Jehoiakim’s father, Josiah, also had [RHQ] plenty of things to eat and drink. But Josiah always did things that are right and just, and that is why God blessed him.
Régneras-tu, parce que tu rivalises avec le cèdre? Ton père n’a-t-il pas mangé et bu, et pratiqué le jugement et la justice? alors il s’est bien trouvé.
16 Josiah acted justly/fairly and helped poor and needy people, so things went well for him. Yahweh says, “That is [RHQ] the way a person should behave who knows me.
Il a jugé la cause de l’affligé et du pauvre; alors cela a bien été. N’est-ce pas là me connaître? dit l’Éternel.
17 But [Jehoiakim], you [MTY] are greedy and desire only to obtain things by acting dishonestly. You murder [MTY] innocent people, you oppress poor people, and you treat people cruelly and violently.”
Car tes yeux et ton cœur ne sont qu’ à ton gain déshonnête, et au sang innocent pour le répandre, et à l’oppression et à la violence pour les faire.
18 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says about Jehoiakim, the son of King Josiah: “[When he dies], people will not mourn for him. They will not say to each other, ‘It is very sad; we are so sorry!’ The people whom he ruled will not mourn for him, saying, ‘We are sad that our king is dead; we are so sorry that the wonderful things [that happened while he was king are ended].’
C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit l’Éternel quant à Jehoïakim, fils de Josias, roi de Juda: On ne se lamentera pas sur lui: Hélas, mon frère! Hélas, [ma] sœur! On ne se lamentera pas sur lui: Hélas, Seigneur! et: Hélas, sa gloire!
19 [When he dies, people will do to] his corpse what they do to a dead donkey; his [corpse] will be dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gates!
Il sera enseveli de l’ensevelissement d’un âne, – traîné et jeté par-delà les portes de Jérusalem.
20 [You people of Judah], go to [the mountains in] Lebanon and weep, shout in the [mountains of the] Bashan [region], cry out in [the mountains of] Moab, because all your friends [in those areas] have been destroyed.
Monte au Liban et crie, et de Basan fais entendre ta voix, et crie [des hauteurs] d’Abarim, parce que tous tes amants sont brisés.
21 When you were prosperous, I warned you, but you replied, ‘We will not pay attention [to what you say].’ You have been acting like that since you were young; you have never obeyed me.
Je t’ai parlé dans le temps de ta prospérité; [mais] tu as dit: Je n’écouterai point. Ceci a été ton chemin dès ta jeunesse, que tu n’as point écouté ma voix.
22 [So, now I will punish] all your leaders; [it will be as though] they have been blown away by the wind. They will be captured [by your enemies] and taken to another country. When that happens, you will [truly] be ashamed and disgraced because of all the wicked things [that you have done].
Tous tes pasteurs seront la pâture du vent, et tes amants iront en captivité; et alors tu seras honteuse et confuse à cause de toute ton iniquité.
23 [Now, your king] enjoys living in the cedar rooms in his palace, but [soon] he will be punished, and then he will groan like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby.”
Habitante du Liban, qui fais ton nid dans les cèdres, combien tu seras un objet de pitié quand les douleurs viendront sur toi, l’angoisse comme celle d’une femme qui enfante!
24 Yahweh says this: “Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, as surely as I am alive, [I will punish you]. Even if you were the ring on my finger that shows that I am the king, I would pull you off.
Je suis vivant, dit l’Éternel, que quand même Conia, fils de Jehoïakim, roi de Juda, serait un cachet à ma main droite, je t’arracherai de là!
25 You are afraid of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his huge army, [because] they are wanting to kill you. I will enable them to capture you.
Et je te livrerai en la main de ceux qui cherchent ta vie, et en la main de ceux dont tu as peur, et en la main de Nebucadretsar, roi de Babylone, et en la main des Chaldéens.
26 I will expel you and your mother [from this land], and you will be taken to another country. Neither of you was born there, but you will both die there.
Et je te jetterai, toi et ta mère qui t’a enfanté, dans un autre pays, où vous n’êtes pas nés; et là vous mourrez.
27 You will never return to this land that you will very much desire to return to.”
Et, dans le pays où ils désirent ardemment de retourner, ils ne retourneront point.
28 [Someone said, ] “Jehoiachin will be [RHQ] like a broken pot that is despised and which no one wants. He and his children will be (exiled/forced to go) to a foreign land.
Cet homme, Conia, est-il un vase d’argile méprisé et mis en pièces? un ustensile auquel on n’a point de plaisir? Pourquoi ont-ils été jetés loin, lui et sa postérité, et lancés dans un pays qu’ils ne connaissent point?
29 [I want] the people in this land to listen carefully to this message from Yahweh.”
Terre, terre, terre, écoute la parole de l’Éternel!
30 This is what Yahweh says: “[In the record about the kings of Judah, ] write down that [it will be as though] this man [Jehoiachin] had no children, and that he has not been successful during his life, because none of his children/descendants will [ever] become king to rule over [the people of] Judah.”
Ainsi dit l’Éternel: Inscrivez cet homme comme privé d’enfants, comme un homme qui ne prospérera pas pendant ses jours; car, de sa semence, nul ne prospérera, assis sur le trône de David, ou dominant encore en Juda.
