Micah 2
1 Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night, planning to do wicked things. You get up at dawn, and you do those things, [as soon as] you are able to do them.
Malheur à ceux qui méditent l’iniquité et préparent le mal sur leurs couches, pour l’accomplir dès la pointe du jour autant que cela est en leur pouvoir!
2 You want fields [that belong to other people], so you seize them; you also take their houses. You cheat people to get their homes, taking away the property that belongs to their families.
Ils convoitent des champs et les volent, des maisons et s’en emparent. Ils usent de violence envers les hommes et leurs demeures, envers les propriétaires et leurs domaines.
3 Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: “I will cause you people to experience disasters, and you will not be able to escape [MTY] from them. You will no [longer] walk around proudly, because when those things happen, it will be a time of much trouble for you.
Eh bien! dit l’Eternel, voici je médite, moi, contre cette engeance une calamité où vous enfoncerez jusqu’au cou: vous ne marcherez plus la tête haute, car ce sera un temps de malheur.
4 At that time, [your enemies] will make fun of you; they will ridicule you by singing this sad song about you: ‘We are completely ruined; Yahweh is taking our land/fields from us, and he will give it to those who will capture us.’”
En ce jour, on chantera à votre propos une satire, on soupirera une complainte; on dira: "Nous sommes totalement ruinés! L’Héritage de mon peuple passe à d’autres mains. Hélas! Comme on m’en expulse pour le répartir entre les ravisseurs de notre champ!"
5 So [when it is the time for the land to be given back to you] people who belong to Yahweh, there will be no one [MTY] who will be able to (cast lots/throw marked stones) to determine which land belongs to whom.
En vérité il n’y aura personne pour toi qui puisse jeter le cordeau sur un lot de terre dans la Communauté du Seigneur.
6 The people [who heard me say that] replied to me, “Do not prophesy such things! Do not say that [Yahweh] is going to humiliate us [by causing us to experience disasters]!”
"Ne pérorez pas, ainsi pérorent-ils; on ne débite pas de pareils discours; les avanies n’ont pas de fin!"
7 But you people [MTY] of Israel should not [RHQ] talk like that! The Spirit of Yahweh will certainly not [RHQ] be patient [with people who say such things]! People who continually do things that are righteous will certainly [RHQ] like/appreciate what I say.
Est-il permis de parler ainsi, maison de Jacob? L’Eternel manque-t-il de patience? Sont-ce là ses œuvres? Mes paroles ne sont-elles pas bienveillantes pour celui qui marche droit?
8 [But Yahweh says], “[Recently] my people have been acting toward me like an enemy. When soldiers return from fighting [against their enemies], you [rich people refuse to return the coats of those poor soldiers who have borrowed money from you] [and given you their coats to guarantee that they will pay back the money that they borrowed from you]. [It is as though] you are waiting to forcefully take their coats off their backs!
Mais depuis longtemps mon peuple s’érige en ennemi; ceux qui passent en sécurité, comme s’ils revenaient du combat, vous les dépouillez du manteau qui couvre leur vêtement.
9 You have forced women to leave their nice homes, and you have stolen from their children forever the (blessings/good things) that I wanted to give them.
Les femmes de mon peuple, vous les chassez de leurs maisons de plaisance; à leurs enfants vous enlevez pour toujours le lustre qu’ils me doivent.
10 [So] get up and leave [here]! This is not a place where you can rest [and be safe/protected], because you have (defiled it/caused it to be a place that I hate); it will be completely destroyed.
Debout et en route! car ce n’est plus ici une terre de repos: parce qu’elle a été souillée, elle sera une cause de souffrances, de cruelles souffrances.
11 [You people want] a prophet who will lie to you, saying ‘I will preach [that you should drink] plenty of wine and [other] alcoholic drinks!’ That is the [kind of] prophet who [would please] you.”
Qu’un homme se présente, se nourrissant de vent, inventant des mensonges, et qu’il dise: "Je vais te tenir des discours sur le vin et les boissons fortes," voilà un prédicateur pour ce peuple!
12 “[But some day], you descendants of Jacob, you Israeli people who have survived, I will bring you back [from (exile/other countries)], I will gather you together like [SIM] [a shepherd gathers his] sheep from the pasture into a pen [DOU]; there will be many of you in your land/country.
J’Aurai soin de te rassembler tout entier, ô Jacob, de te réunir, ô reste d’Israël! Comme les brebis dans un parc, comme un troupeau dans le pâturage, je les mettrai ensemble: ce sera une multitude bruyante d’hommes.
13 Your leader will enable them to leave the countries where they have been exiled; he will lead them out of the gates [of their enemies’ cities], [back to your own country]. Your king will lead them; [it is I], Yahweh, who will be their king!”
Devant eux marche celui qui brise la clôture; ils la renversent, se précipitent par l’ouverture et sortent: leur roi les précède et l’Eternel est à leur tête.
