Jeremiah 23
1 Yahweh declares, “Terrible things will happen to [the leaders] [MET] [of my people—those who are like] shepherds of [the people who are like] my sheep—because they have scattered my people and sent them away, and have not taken care of them.
Malheur aux pasteurs qui perdent et dispersent les brebis de mon pâturage, — oracle de Yahweh!
2 So, this is what [I, ] Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli [people worship], say to those leaders: ‘Instead of taking care of my people and [leading them to places where they are safe, like a shepherd does for] his sheep, you have scattered them. So I will punish you for the evil things that you have done.
C'est pourquoi ainsi parle Yahweh, Dieu d'Israël, touchant les pasteurs qui paissent mon peuple: Vous avez dispersé mes brebis, vous les avez chassées, vous n'en avez pas pris soin; voici que je vais prendre soin, contre vous, de la méchanceté de vos actions, — oracle de Yahweh.
3 But later I will gather those who are still alive, from the countries where I have forced them to go. I will bring them back to their own country, where they will have many children, and their number/population will increase.
Et moi je rassemblerai le reste de mes brebis, de tous les pays où je les aurai chassées, et je les ramènerai dans leur pâturage; elles croîtront et se multiplieront.
4 [Then] I will appoint [other] leaders for my people, leaders who will take care of them. And my people will never be afraid [DOU] of anything again, and none of them will be [like a] lost [sheep].’”
Et je susciterai sur elles des pasteurs qui les paîtront; elles n'auront plus ni crainte ni terreur, et il n'en manquera plus aucune, — oracle de Yahweh!
5 Yahweh [also] says, “Some day I will appoint for you a righteous man who will be a descendant of King David. He will be a king who rules wisely. He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
Voici que des jours viennent, — oracle de Yahweh, où je susciterai à David un germe juste; il régnera en roi et il sera sage, et il fera droit et justice dans le pays.
6 At that time, all the Israeli people [DOU] will be saved [from their enemies], and they will be safe. And his name will be ‘Yahweh, the one who vindicates/defends us.’”
Dans ses jours, Juda sera sauvé, Israël habitera en assurance, et voici le nom dont on l'appellera: Yahweh-notre-justice.
7 Yahweh [also] says that at that time, people [who are solemnly promising to do something] will no longer say, “[I will do it as surely] as Yahweh lives, who rescued the Israeli people from Egypt.”
C'est pourquoi voici que des jours viennent, — oracle de Yahweh, où l'on ne dira plus: " Yahweh est vivant, lui qui a fait monter les enfants d'Israël du pays d'Egypte, " —
8 Instead, they will say, “[I will do it] as surely as Yahweh lives, who brought [us] Israeli people back to our own land, from the land to the northeast and from all the [other] countries to which he had exiled us.” And they will live in their own land [again].
mais " Yahweh est vivant, lui qui a fait monter et fait revenir la race de la maison d'Israël du pays du septentrion et de tous les pays où je les avais chassés; " et ils habiteront sur leur sol.
9 I am very shocked because of the sacred message that Yahweh has spoken about [what will happen to] the [false] prophets; [it is as though] all my bones shake. I stagger like a man who is drunk after drinking a lot of wine.
Aux prophètes. Mon cœur est brisé au-dedans de moi, tous mes os tremblent; je suis comme un homme ivre, comme un homme pris de vin, en présence de Yahweh et en présence de sa parole sainte,
10 The land is full of [people who commit] adultery; and [Yahweh] has cursed the land. Even the pastures in the desert are all dried up, because the people do what is evil, and [the false prophets] use their power to do things that are not just/fair.
Car le pays est rempli d'adultères; car, à cause de la malédiction, le pays est en deuil; les pâturages du désert sont desséchés. L'objet de leur course est le mal; leur force est l'injustice,
11 Yahweh says, “[Yes, even] the priests and the prophets are ungodly; they do wicked things even in my temple.
Prophètes et prêtres eux-mêmes sont des profanes, et dans ma maison même j'ai trouvé leur méchanceté, — oracle de Yahweh.
12 Therefore, [it will be as though] the paths that they walk on are slippery. [It will be as though] they are being chased in the darkness, and there they will fall down, because I will cause them to experience disasters at the time that I will punish them. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
Aussi leur chemin sera pour eux comme des lieux glissants dans les ténébres; ils seront poussés, ils y tomberont; car j'amènerai sur eux le malheur l'année où je les visiterai, — oracle de Yahweh.
13 [Previously] I saw that the prophets in Samaria were doing something that was wrong; they were prophesying, saying that Baal [gave them the messages that they were proclaiming], and they were deceiving my people.
Dans les prophètes de Samarie, j'ai vu de la sottise: ils prophétisaient par Baal, et ils égaraient mon peuple d'Israël;
14 And [now] I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem doing terrible things. They commit adultery and habitually tell lies. They encourage evil people to continue to do evil things, with the result that the people do not stop sinning. Those prophets are as wicked as the people in Sodom and Gomorrah were.
et dans les prophètes de Jérusalem, j'ai vu l'horreur: ils commettent l'adultère et marchent dans le mensonge; ils affermissent les mains des méchants, afin qu'aucun d'eux ne revienne de sa méchanceté. Ils sont tous pour moi comme Sodome, et les habitants de Jérusalem comme Gomorrhe.
15 So, this is what the Commander of the armies of angels says about those [false] prophets: “I will give those prophets bitter things to eat and poison to drink, because it is because of them that this land is filled with [people who do] wicked things.”
C'est pourquoi ainsi parle Yahweh des armées touchant les prophètes: Je vais leur faire manger de l'absinthe et leur faire boire des eaux empoisonnées! car c'est des prophètes de Jérusalem que la profanation est venue dans tout le pays.
16 This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Do not pay any attention to what those [false] prophets say to you, because they are just deceiving you. They tell you about visions that they have thought/created [only] in their own minds, not about visions that I have given them.
Ainsi parle Yahweh des armées: N'écoutez pas les paroles des prophètes qui vous prophétisent. Ils vous entraînent à la vanité, ils disent les visions de leur propre cœur, et non ce qui sort de la bouche de Yahweh.
17 They habitually say to those who hate me, ‘[Yahweh says that] you will have peace.’ And they say to those who stubbornly do what they want to do, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you [because of your doing those things].’
Ils disent à ceux qui me méprisent: " Yahweh a dit: Vous aurez la paix; " et à tous ceux qui marchent dans la perversersité de leur cœur ils disent: " Il ne vous arrivera aucun mal. "
18 But none of them has ever been in a council [meeting] in heaven in order to listen to a message from me. None of them has paid attention to anything that [I], Yahweh, have said.
Mais qui a assisté au conseil de Yahweh pour voir et entendre sa parole? Qui a été attentif à sa parole et l'a entendue?
19 So, listen to this: I will punish them; it will be [like] a great storm; it will come down [like] a whirlwind, swirling around the heads of those wicked people.
Voici que la tempête de Yahweh, la fureur, va éclater; l'orage tourbillonne, il fond sur la tête des impies.
20 I will not stop being angry until I completely accomplish all that I have planned. In the future, you will understand [all of] this clearly.”
La colère de Yahweh ne retournera pas en arrière qu'elle n'ait agi et réalisé les desseins de son cœur; à la fin des temps vous en aurez la pleine intelligence.
21 [Yahweh also says, ] “I have not appointed those prophets, but they run [around telling people their messages]. I did not speak to them, but they [continue to] prophesy.
Je n'ai pas envoyé ces prophètes, et ils courent! Je ne leur ai point parlé, et ils prophétisent!
22 If they had been in my council [meetings], they would have been able to speak messages from me, and they would have caused people to turn away from committing evil things.”
S'ils avaient assisté à mon conseil, ils auraient fait entendre mes paroles à mon peuple; ils les auraient ramenés de leur voie mauvaise, de la méchanceté de leurs actions.
23 Yahweh [also] says, “Am I a God who is only nearby? No, I am a God who is far away, also.
Ne suis-je un Dieu que de près, — oracle de Yahweh, et ne suis-je pas aussi un Dieu de loin?
24 So, no one can hide in some secret place with the result that I cannot see him. I am everywhere, in heaven and on the earth! [That is what I], Yahweh, say!
Un homme peut-il se cacher dans des cachettes sans que je le voie — oracle de Yahweh? Est-ce que le ciel et la terre je ne les remplis pas, moi — oracle de Yahweh?
25 I have heard those prophets prophesy lies, saying that they are telling people messages from me. They say, ‘[Listen to me tell you] the dream that God gave me last night! I [really] had this dream!’
J'ai entendu ce que disent ces prophètes qui prophétisent en mon nom des mensonges, en disant: " J'ai eu un songe; j'ai eu un songe! "
26 How long will they continue to do this? How long will those lying prophets continue to prophesy things that come only from their own minds?
Jusques à quand?... Veulent-ils, ces prophètes, qui prophétisent le mensonge, ces prophètes de l'imposture de leur cœur,
27 They think that because of the dreams that they tell to each other, people will forget me, like their ancestors forgot about me when they started to worship Baal.
pensent-ils faire oublier mon nom à mon peuple, pour les rêves qu'ils se racontent les uns aux autres, comme leurs pères ont oublié mon nom pour Baal?
28 Allow those [false] prophets to tell people their dreams, but those who have messages that [really] come from me should proclaim those messages faithfully. I, Yahweh, say [that like] straw and grain are certainly very different, [my messages and the messages from those false prophets are certainly very different].
Que le prophète qui a eu un songe raconte ce songe; que celui qui a ma parole rapporte fidèlement ma parole. Qu'a de commun la paille avec le froment, — oracle de Yahweh?
29 [It is as though] my messages [burn] like a fire; they [strike people’s inner beings like] someone strikes a rock with a hammer and smashes it into pieces.
Ma parole n'est-elle pas comme un feu, — oracle de Yahweh, comme un marteau qui brise le roc?
30 Therefore, [I, ] Yahweh say, 'I oppose all those prophets who steal messages from each other and claim that those messages came from me.
C'est pourquoi, voici que je viens à ces prophètes qui se dérobent mes paroles les uns aux autres.
31 I oppose those prophets who speak their own messages but claim that those messages came from me.
Voici que je viens à ces prophètes, — oracle de Yahweh, qui agitent leur langue et qui disent: " Oracle de Yahweh! "
32 I oppose those prophets who falsely say that I told them something in a vision, but they are [only] telling lies that cause my people to sin. I did not send those prophets. I did not even appoint them [to be prophets]. And they have no messages that will benefit my people at all.' [That is what I, ] Yahweh, declare.”
Voici que je viens à ceux qui prophétisent des songes menteurs, — oracle de Yahweh, qui les racontent, qui égarent mon peuple par leurs mensonges et par leur extravagance. Je ne les ai point envoyés, et je ne leur ai rien commandé; ils ne servent de rien à ce peuple; — oracle de Yahweh.
33 [Yahweh said to me], “If one of those prophets or priests or one of the [other] people asks you, ‘What problem has Yahweh told you about [now]?’, you must reply, ‘You are the problem! And Yahweh says that he will abandon you!’
Quand ce peuple, ou des prophètes, ou un prêtre t'interrogent en ces termes: " Quel est le fardeau de Yahweh? " tu leur répondras: " C'est vous qui êtes le fardeau, et je vous rejetterai, " — oracle de Yahweh.
34 And if any prophet or priest or anyone [else falsely] says, ‘[I have] a prophecy from Yahweh,’ I will punish that person and his family.
Et le prophète, le prêtre ou l'homme du peuple qui dira: " Fardeau de Yahweh, " je visiterai cet homme et sa maison.
35 What you should continually ask each other is, ‘[When you spoke to Yahweh, ] what did he reply? What is he saying [to us]?’
Voici comment vous parlerez l'un à l'autre et chacun à son frère: " Qu'a répondu Yahweh? " et " Qu'a dit Yahweh? "
36 But stop saying ‘[I have] a prophecy/message from Yahweh,’ because those who say that are doing it only because they want people to accept their ideas, and by doing that they distort/change the messages that are from our God, the Commander of the armies of angels.
Mais vous ne répéterez plus: " Fardeau de Yahweh! " Car le fardeau de chacun sera sa parole, parce que vous tordez les paroles du Dieu vivant, de Yahweh des armées, notre Dieu.
37 This is what you should ask each prophet: ‘What did Yahweh reply [when you talked to him]? What is he saying [to us]?’
Tu parleras ainsi au prophète: " Que t'a répondu Yahweh? qu'a dit Yahweh? "
38 If he replies, ‘[What I told you] is a prophecy/message from Yahweh,’ you should say to him, ‘You have continued to say, “[I received] a prophecy/message from Yahweh” even though I told you to not claim that you have received prophecies/messages from Yahweh.’
Mais si vous dites: " Fardeau de Yahweh, " alors Yahweh parle ainsi: Parce que vous dites ce mot: " Fardeau de Yahweh, " après que j'ai envoyé vers vous pour vous dire: " Ne dites plus: Fardeau de Yahweh, "
39 So I [, Yahweh, ] will get rid of you [false prophets]. I will expel you from my presence. And I will get rid of this city that I gave to you and to your ancestors.
à cause de cela, voici que je vous oublierai entièrement et que je vous rejetterai de devant ma face, vous et la ville que j'avais donnée à vous et à vos pères;
40 I will cause people to make fun of you forever. People will never forget that you were disgraced.”
et je ferai venir sur vous un opprobre éternel, une honte éternelle, qui ne s'oublieront jamais.
