Jeremiah 6
1 “You people in Jerusalem who are from [the tribe of] Benjamin, flee from this city! Blow the trumpets in Tekoa [city south of Jerusalem]! Send up a [smoke] signal in Beth-Haccherem [town] [to warn the people of the coming danger]! A powerful [army] will come from the north, and they will cause great destruction.
Fils de Benjamin, fuyez du milieu de Jérusalem, et sonnez de la trompette à Thekoa, et élevez un signal sur Beth-Hakkérem! car du nord apparaît le mal, et une grande ruine.
2 Jerusalem is [like] a beautiful pasture [full of sheep], but it will soon be destroyed.
La belle et la délicate, la fille de Sion, je la détruis.
3 [Enemy kings, not] shepherds [MET], will come [with their armies] and set up their tents around the city, and each [king will choose a part of the city for his soldiers to destroy like] [MET] shepherds divide their pastures for their flocks of sheep.
Les pasteurs et leurs troupeaux viennent contre elle; ils dressent leurs tentes contre elle tout à l’entour; ils broutent chacun son quartier.
4 [The kings will tell their troops], “Get ready for the battle. We should attack them before noontime. But [if we arrive there late in the afternoon] when the shadows are becoming long,
Préparez le combat contre elle; levez-vous, et montons en plein midi. Malheur à nous! car le jour baisse, car les ombres du soir s’allongent.
5 we will attack them at night and tear down their fortresses.”
Levez-vous, et montons de nuit, et détruisons ses palais.
6 Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, says this: “[I will command those soldiers to] cut down the trees [outside Jerusalem] and to build dirt ramps up to the top of the city walls [in order that they can enter the city]. This city must be punished because everyone there continually oppresses others.
Car ainsi dit l’Éternel des armées: Coupez des arbres, et élevez des terrasses contre Jérusalem: c’est la ville qui doit être visitée; tout est oppression au milieu d’elle.
7 [It is as though] the wicked things that the people do pour out of the city like [SIM] water flows out of a spring. [The noise from people doing] violent and destructive actions is heard everywhere. I continually see [people who are] suffering and wounded.
Comme un puits fait couler ses eaux, ainsi elle fait sourdre son iniquité; on entend en elle la violence et la dévastation; il y a devant moi continuellement souffrance et blessure.
8 Listen to what I am warning you, [you people of] [APO] Jerusalem, because if you do not listen, I will reject you and cause your land to become desolate, a land where no one lives.”
Reçois instruction, ô Jérusalem, de peur que mon âme ne se détache de toi, de peur que je ne fasse de toi une désolation, une terre inhabitée.
9 Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, also says this: “[I will tell your enemies] to cause your country to become as desolate [SIM] as a vineyard from which all the grapes have been completely stripped from the vines. [Their soldiers will seize the possessions of] those who remain in Israel [after the others have been exiled] like [SIM] farmers go to the vines again to pick any grapes [that were (left/not picked)].”
Ainsi dit l’Éternel des armées: On grappillera entièrement, comme une vigne, le reste d’Israël. Remets, comme le vendangeur, ta main dans les paniers.
10 [Then I said, “If I speak to the Israeli people] to warn them, (who will listen to me?/No one will listen to me.) [RHQ] [It is as though] their ears are closed, [and as a result] they cannot hear [what I say]. They scorn Yahweh’s messages; they do not want to listen to them at all.
À qui parlerai-je, et qui avertirai-je, pour qu’ils entendent? Voici, leur oreille est incirconcise, et ils ne peuvent prêter attention; voici, la parole de l’Éternel est en opprobre parmi eux, ils n’y trouvent point de plaisir.
11 So [now] I am extremely angry, like Yahweh is angry, and I cannot restrain it any longer.” [So] Yahweh said [to me], “Tell everyone that you are very angry with them. Tell the children in the streets and the young men who gather together. Tell the men and their wives; tell the very old people [DOU], also.
Et je suis plein de la fureur de l’Éternel, je suis las de la retenir. Verse-la sur les petits enfants dans la rue, et sur l’assemblée des jeunes gens réunis; car et l’homme et la femme seront pris, le vieillard et celui qui est comblé de jours.
12 [Tell the men that] I will give their houses to [their enemies], and I will give their property/fields and their wives to them, also, when I punish [IDM] the people who live in this land.
Et leurs maisons passeront à d’autres, les champs et les femmes également; car j’étendrai ma main sur les habitants du pays, dit l’Éternel;
13 Everyone is trying to get money by tricking others, from the most [important people] to the least [important people]; even the prophets and the priests are trying to deceive [people to get money].
car, depuis le petit d’entre eux jusqu’au grand, ils sont tous adonnés au gain déshonnête, et, depuis le prophète jusqu’au sacrificateur, tous usent de fausseté.
14 [They act as though the sins of my people are like] [MET] small wounds that they do not need to put bandages on. They continually [greet people by] saying ‘I hope things are going well with you,’ when things are not going well.
Et ils ont pansé la plaie de la fille de mon peuple légèrement, disant: Paix, paix! et il n’y avait point de paix.
15 They should be [RHQ] ashamed about the disgusting things that they do, but they are not ashamed at all. They do not [even] know how to (blush/show on their faces that they are ashamed). So, they also will be among those who will be killed. They will be destroyed when I punish them.”
Avaient-ils honte, parce qu’ils avaient commis l’abomination? Ils n’ont eu même aucune honte, ils n’ont même pas connu la confusion; c’est pourquoi ils tomberont parmi ceux qui tombent; au temps où je les visiterai, ils trébucheront, dit l’Éternel.
16 This is [also] what Yahweh said [to the Israeli people]: “Stand at the crossroads and look [at the people who pass by]. Ask them what was the good behavior [that their ancestors had] long ago. [And when they tell you], behave that way. If you do that, you will find rest for your souls.” But you replied, ‘We do not want to do that!’
Ainsi dit l’Éternel: Tenez-vous sur les chemins, et regardez, et enquérez-vous touchant les sentiers anciens, quelle est la bonne voie; et marchez-y, et vous trouverez du repos pour vos âmes. Mais ils ont dit: Nous n’y marcherons pas.
17 I sent [my prophets who were like] [MET] watchmen. They said, ‘Listen carefully when we blow the trumpets [to warn you that your enemies are approaching],’ but you said, ‘[No], we do not want to listen.’
J’ai aussi établi sur vous des sentinelles: soyez attentifs à la voix de la trompette. Mais ils ont dit: Nous n’y serons pas attentifs.
18 Therefore, you people in the other nations, listen to this: Pay attention to what is going to happen to the [Israeli people].
C’est pourquoi, écoutez, nations; et toi, assemblée, sache ce qui est au milieu d’eux.
19 Listen, all of you! I am going to cause the [Israeli] people to experience disasters. That is what will happen to them because they have refused to listen to what I told them. They have refused to obey my laws.
Écoute, terre: Voici, je fais venir un mal sur ce peuple, le fruit de leurs pensées; car ils n’ont pas été attentifs à mes paroles, et ma loi, ils l’ont rejetée.
20 [You Israeli people], when you burn frankincense that came from [far away in] Sheba, and [when you offer to me] sweet-smelling anointing oil that came from far away, I will not [RHQ] be pleased with your sacrifices. I will not accept the sacrifices that are completely burned on the altar; I am not pleased with [any of] your sacrifices.
À quoi me sert que l’encens vienne de Sheba, et le doux roseau du pays lointain? Vos holocaustes ne me sont pas agréables, et vos sacrifices ne me plaisent pas.
21 Therefore, I will put obstacles on the roads on which my people will travel. Men and their sons and people’s neighbors and friends will stumble over those obstacles and fall down; everyone will die.”
C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit l’Éternel: Voici, je mets devant ce peuple des pierres d’achoppement, et les pères et les fils ensemble trébucheront contre elles, le voisin et son compagnon périront.
22 Yahweh [also] says this: “You will see a [huge] army marching [towards you] from the north. [An army of] a great nation very far away is preparing [to attack you].
Ainsi dit l’Éternel: Voici, un peuple vient du pays du nord, et une grande nation se réveille des extrémités de la terre.
23 They have bows [and arrows] and spears; they are [very] cruel, and do not act mercifully [to anyone]. As they ride along on their horses, the horses’ feet sound like the roaring of the ocean [waves]; they are riding in battle formation to attack you people of Jerusalem.”
Ils saisissent l’arc et le javelot; ils sont cruels, et ils n’ont pas de compassion; leur voix bruit comme la mer, et ils sont montés sur des chevaux, préparés comme un homme pour la guerre, contre toi, fille de Sion.
24 [The people of Jerusalem say], “We have heard reports about the enemy; [so] we are very frightened, with the result that we feel weak. We are very afraid, and worried, like [SIM] women who are about to give birth to babies.
Nous en avons entendu la rumeur; nos mains sont devenues lâches, la détresse nous a saisis, l’angoisse comme celle d’une femme qui enfante.
25 [So one person says to another], ‘Do not go out into the fields! Do not go on the roads, because the enemy [soldiers] have swords [and they are everywhere]; they are coming from all directions, and we are extremely afraid.’”
Ne sortez pas dans les champs, et n’allez point par le chemin; car l’épée de l’ennemi, la terreur est partout.
26 [So I say], “My dear people, put on (sackcloth/rough clothes) and sit in ashes [to show that you are sorry for your sins]. Mourn and cry very much, like [SIM] [a woman would cry] if her only son had died, because your enemies are very near, and they are going to destroy [everything].”
Fille de mon peuple, ceins-toi d’un sac, et roule-toi dans la cendre; mène deuil comme pour un fils unique, [fais] une lamentation amère, car le dévastateur est venu subitement sur nous.
27 [Then Yahweh said to me], “[Jeremiah], I have caused you to become [like] [MET] someone who heats metal very hot [to completely burn the impurities]. You will examine my people’s behavior.
Je t’ai établi comme un essayeur au milieu de mon peuple, une forteresse, afin que tu connaisses et que tu éprouves leur voie.
28 You will find out that they are very stubborn rebels, they are always slandering others. [Their inner beings] are as hard as bronze or iron; they all [continually] deceive others.
Ils sont tous des rebelles entre les rebelles; ils marchent dans la calomnie; ils sont de l’airain et du fer; ils sont tous des corrupteurs.
29 [A metalworker causes] the bellows to blow very hard to [make the fire very hot to] completely burn up the impurities [MET]. [But just as] a fire does not cause all the waste material to run off, it is impossible to separate [the righteous people from the wicked people, and punish only] the wicked people.
Le soufflet brûle, le plomb est consumé par le feu, on affine, on affine en vain: les mauvais n’ont point été ôtés.
30 [I], Yahweh, have rejected them; I say that they are [like] [MET] worthless silver.”
On les nommera: Argent réprouvé; car l’Éternel les a rejetés.
