Jonah 3
1 Then Yahweh said to Jonah again,
Et la parole du Seigneur vint à Jonas pour la seconde fois, disant
2 “Go to that great city of Nineveh, and tell them the message that I gave you [previously].”
Lève-toi, et pars pour Ninive, la grande ville, et proclame dans ses murs la prédiction que Je t'ai déjà prescrit de proclamer.
3 So [this time] Jonah obeyed Yahweh, and he went to Nineveh. That city was so big that a person [had to walk] for three days to completely [go through] it.
Et Jonas se leva; et il s'en alla à Ninive, comme lui avait dit le Seigneur. Or la ville de Ninive était grande de trois jours de marche.
4 On the first day [after] Jonah [arrived], he [began walking] through the city. He was proclaiming (OR, At the end of that day he started proclaiming) to the people, “Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed {[God] will destroy Nineveh}!”
Et Jonas commença par entrer dans la ville et par faire environ un jour de marche, et il cria, et il dit: Encore trois jours, et Ninive sera détruite!
5 The people of Nineveh believed God’s [message]. They [all] decided that everyone should begin (fasting/abstaining from food). So [everyone], including important people and unimportant people, [did that]. They [also] put on coarse cloth, [to show that they were sorry for having sinned].
Et les hommes de Ninive crurent en Dieu, et ils proclamèrent un jeûne, et ils se ceignirent de cilices, depuis le grand jusqu'au petit.
6 The King of Nineveh heard [what the people were doing]. [So] he took off his royal robes, and [he also] put on coarse cloth. He left his palace, and sat down where there were [cold] ashes, [to show that he also was sorry for having sinned].
Et la parole de Jonas arriva au roi de Ninive, et il se leva de son trône, et il ôta sa robe, et il se ceignit d'un cilice, et il s'assit sur la cendre.
7 Then he sent messengers to proclaim to [the people in] Nineveh: “My advisors and I have decreed that no one may eat or drink anything. Do not even allow your animals to eat or drink.
Et il fut proclamé, et il fut dit en Ninive de la part du roi et de la part de ses grands, ce qui suit: Que ni hommes, ni bêtes, ni bœufs, ni brebis ne mangent, ne paissent, ne boivent même de l'eau.
8 Instead, every person must put on coarse cloth. [Put coarse cloth on] your animals, [too]. Then everyone must pray fervently to God. And everyone must stop doing evil actions/things, and stop acting violently [toward others].
Et les hommes et les bêtes furent couverts de cilices, et les hommes crièrent sans relâche au Seigneur. Et chacun revint de sa voie coupable et de l'iniquité de ses mains, disant:
9 Perhaps, [if everyone does that], God may change his mind and be merciful [to us], and stop being very angry with us, with the result that we will not die.”
Qui sait si le Seigneur ne Se repentira pas, et s'Il ne calmera pas les transports de Sa colère, pour que nous ne périssions point?
10 When they [all did that], God saw what they were doing, and he saw that they had stopped doing evil things. So [he pitied them, and] he did not get rid of them as he had threatened to do.
Et Dieu vit leurs œuvres; Il vit qu'ils revenaient de leurs voies coupables; et Dieu Se repentit du mal qu'Il avait voulu leur faire, et Il ne le leur fit pas.
