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.
Fuyez, enfants de Benjamin, du milieu de Jérusalem! Sonnez de la trompette à Thékoa, et élevez un signal vers Beth-Kérem; car de l'Aquilon un mal est imminent, une grande ruine!
2 Jerusalem is [like] a beautiful pasture [full of sheep], but it will soon be destroyed.
La belle, 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.
Vers elle viennent des bergers et leurs troupeaux; ils plantent contre elle des tentes à l'entour; ils dévorent 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! Allons! montons en plein midi. Hélas! le jour décline; les ombres du soir s'étendent.
5 we will attack them at night and tear down their fortresses.”
Allons! montons de nuit, et ruinons 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 a dit l'Éternel des armées: Abattez les arbres, élevez des terrasses contre Jérusalem. C'est ici la ville qui doit être châtiée. Il n'y a qu'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 sourdre ses eaux, ainsi fait-elle jaillir sa malice. On n'entend continuellement en elle, devant moi, que violence et ruine; on n'y voit que douleurs et que plaies.
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.”
Jérusalem, reçois l'instruction, de peur que mon âme ne se détache de toi; de peur que je ne fasse de toi un désert, 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 a dit l'Éternel des armées: On grappillera comme une vigne les restes d'Israël. Remets, comme un vendangeur, ta main aux 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.
A qui parlerai-je, et qui sommerai-je, pour qu'ils écoutent? Voici, leur oreille est incirconcise, et ils ne peuvent entendre; voici la parole de l'Éternel est pour eux un opprobre; ils n'y prennent 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 rempli de la fureur de l'Éternel, et je suis las de la contenir. Répands-la sur l'enfant dans la rue, et sur l'assemblée des jeunes gens aussi; car tant l'homme que la femme seront pris, le vieillard et celui qui est chargé 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 aussi; 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 plus petit d'entre eux jusqu'au plus grand, chacun s'adonne au gain déshonnête; et du prophète au sacrificateur, tous se conduisent faussement.
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 pansent à la légère la plaie de la fille de mon peuple, disant: Paix, paix! et il n'y a 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.”
Sont-ils confus d'avoir commis des abominations? Ils n'en ont même aucune honte, et ils ne savent ce que c'est que de rougir. C'est pourquoi ils tomberont parmi ceux qui tombent; quand je les visiterai, ils seront renversés, 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 a dit l'Éternel: Tenez-vous sur les chemins, et regardez, et enquérez-vous des sentiers d'autrefois, quel est le bon chemin; et marchez-y, et vous trouverez le repos de vos âmes! Et ils répondent: Nous n'y marcherons point.
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.’
Et j'ai établi sur vous des sentinelles: Soyez attentifs au son de la trompette! Et ils répondent: Nous n'y serons point attentifs.
18 Therefore, you people in the other nations, listen to this: Pay attention to what is going to happen to the [Israeli people].
Vous donc, nations, écoutez! Assemblée des peuples, sachez ce qui leur arrivera!
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, c'est le fruit de leurs pensées; car ils n'ont point été attentifs à mes paroles, et ils ont rejeté ma loi.
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.
Qu'ai-je à faire de l'encens qui vient de Shéba, du roseau aromatique d'un pays éloigné? Vos holocaustes ne me plaisent pas, et vos sacrifices ne me sont point agréables.
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 a dit l'Éternel: Voici, je vais mettre devant ce peuple des pierres d'achoppement, contre lesquelles tomberont ensemble pères et fils, voisins et amis, et ils 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 a dit l'Éternel: Voici, un peuple vient du pays du Nord, une grande nation se lève 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 prendront l'arc et le javelot; ils sont cruels et n'ont pas de pitié; leur voix gronde comme la mer, et, montés sur des chevaux, ils sont rangés comme un seul homme en bataille 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 entendons le bruit; nos mains deviennent lâches; l'angoisse nous saisit, une douleur comme de celle 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 aux champs, et n'allez point par les chemins! Car l'épée de l'ennemi, la frayeur 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! Prends le deuil comme pour un fils unique, et fais une lamentation très amère; car le destructeur vient 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 en observateur au milieu de mon peuple, comme une forteresse, afin que tu connaisses et sondes 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.
Tous sont rebelles et plus que rebelles, des calomniateurs, de l'airain et du fer.
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.
Ils sont tous dénaturés. Le soufflet est brûlé; le plomb est consumé par le feu; c'est en vain que l'on fond et refond: les méchants ne sont point séparés.
30 [I], Yahweh, have rejected them; I say that they are [like] [MET] worthless silver.”
On les appellera un argent réprouvé; car l'Éternel les réprouve.
