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:
Voici ce que dit l’Eternel: "Descends à la maison du roi de Juda, et là parle en ces termes;
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
tu diras: Ecoute la parole de l’Eternel, roi de Juda, qui sièges sur le trône de David, toi et tes serviteurs et ton peuple, vous tous 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).
Voici ce que dit l’Eternel: Pratiquez la justice et l’équité, arrachez celui qu’on dépouille des mains de l’oppresseur, ne faites subir ni avanie ni violence à l’étranger, à l’orphelin et à la veuve, et ne versez point de sang innocent en ce lieu-ci.
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.
Si vraiment vous agissez de cette manière, il entrera encore par les portes de cette maison des rois de la race de David, héritiers de son trône, montés sur des chars et des chevaux, entourés de leurs officiers et de leur 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.”’”
Mais si vous ne tenez pas compte de ces paroles, j’en jure par moi, dit l’Eternel, cette maison deviendra une ruine.
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.
Voici, en effet, ce que dit l’Eternel au sujet du palais' du roi de Juda: Tu équivaux pour moi à Ghilead, au sommet du Liban! Mais, j’en jure, je te rendrai pareil à un désert, à des 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.”
Je ferai appel contre toi à des démolisseurs, tous armés de leurs outils: ils abattront tes plus beaux cèdres et les jetteront au feu.
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 quand, passant près de cette ville, des peuples en foule se demanderont les uns aux autres: "Pourquoi l’Eternel a-t-il traité de la sorte cette grande cité?"
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.”
on leur répondra: "C’Est que ses habitants ont abandonné l’alliance de l’Eternel, leur Dieu; ils se sont prosternés devant d’autres dieux, et ils les ont adorés."
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 le plaignez pas! Pleurez, pleurez celui qui est parti, car il ne reviendra plus et ne reverra pas la terre qui l’a vu naître.
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].
Voici en effet ce que dit l’Eternel au sujet de Challoum, le fils de Josias, roi de Juda, qui a régné à la place de son père Josias et qui a quitté ce lieu-ci: "Il n’y reviendra plus!
12 He will die in that far-away country and will never see his own country again.”
Mais il mourra là où on l’a déporté; il ne reverra plus cette terre!"
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 à l’aide de l’injustice et surélève ses appartements au prix de l’iniquité; qui fait travailler son prochain pour rien, sans lui donner de salaire;
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 maison de belle taille avec des chambres hautes, bien spacieuses"; qui y perce de larges fenêtres, l’orne de lambris de cèdre et de peinture rouge.
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.
Penses-tu être roi parce que tu mets ton orgueil dans le cèdre? Ton père aussi mangeait et buvait, mais il pratiquait la justice et l’équité, et par là il fut heureux;
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 faisait droit au pauvre, au malheureux, et il s’en trouvait bien. Voilà certes, ce qui s’appelle me connaître, dit l’Eternel.
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.”
Mais toi, tu n’as d’yeux ni de coeur que pour ton intérêt, pour verser le sang innocent, pour exercer l’oppression et la violence.
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, voici ce que dit l’Eternel au sujet de Joïakim, fils de Josias, roi de Juda: "On ne conduira pas son deuil en s’écriant: "Hélas! mon frère! et hélas! ma soeur!" On ne conduira pas son deuil en s’écriant: "Hélas, le Maître! et hélas! Sa Majesté!"
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!
C’Est la sépulture d’un âne qu’on lui donnera; on le traînera, on le jettera au loin, hors des 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 sur le Liban, fille de Sion et pousse des cris; dans Basan, fais retentir ta voix, et du haut d’Abarim pousse des cris, car ils sont brisés, tous ceux qui te chérissaient.
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 m’adressais à toi au temps de ta prospérité, mais tu disais: "Je n’écouterai point! "Telle est ton habitude depuis ta jeunesse, de ne pas écouter 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 ceux qui étaient tes guides, le vent les emportera, tes amants iront en exil: oh! alors, tu auras honte et tu rougiras de tous tes méfaits.
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.”
O toi, qui demeures sur le Liban, qui fixes ton nid sur les cèdres, comme tu seras un objet de pitié, lorsque des douleurs viendront t’assaillir, des convulsions comparables à celles d’une femme en travail!
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.
Par ma vie, dit l’Eternel, quand bien même Coniahou, fils de Joïakim, roi de Juda, serait une bague à ma main droite, je t’en arracherais,
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 livrerais aux mains de ceux qui en veulent à ta vie, aux mains de ceux que tu redoutes, aux mains de Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone et aux mains 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, sur une terre étrangère, 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.”
Quant à la terre où leur coeur aspire à revenir, ils n’y reviendront pas.
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.
Est-il donc, cet homme, ce Coniahou, un méprisable morceau de pot cassé, un vase dont personne ne veut? Pourquoi ont-ils été enlevés, lui et sa race, et jetés dans un pays qu’ils ne connaissent pas?
29 [I want] the people in this land to listen carefully to this message from Yahweh.”
Terre, terre, terre, écoute la parole de l’Eternel:
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’Eternel: Inscrivez cet homme comme étant sans postérité, comme un malheureux qui ne réussit à rien au cours de sa vie; car nul de sa race ne parviendra à s’asseoir sur le trône de David ni à régner sur Juda.
