Obadiah 1
1 This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom [people-group]. Yahweh our God has told me this about [the people of] Edom: “I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations, telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom.”
Vision d’Abdias. Voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu à Edom: [Nous avons entendu une nouvelle venant du Seigneur; et il a envoyé un messager vers les nations: Levez-vous, et levons-nous ensemble contre lui pour le combat].
2 And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom: “I will soon cause you to become the weakest and most despised nation [on the earth].
Voici que je t’ai placé très petit parmi les nations, tu es fort méprisable.
3 Your [capital city] is high in the rocky cliffs, and you are very proud; you think that you are safe from being attacked by your enemies [RHQ], but you [IDM] have deceived yourselves.
L’orgueil de ton cœur t’a élevé, toi habitant dans les fentes des rochers, exaltant ton trône; toi qui dis dans ton cœur: Qui me fera descendre à terre?
4 And I tell you that even if [you had wings and] could fly higher than eagles fly, and if you could make your homes among the stars, I would bring you [crashing] down from there.
Si tu t’élèves comme l’aigle, et que parmi les astres tu poses ton nid, je t’en ferai descendre, dit le Seigneur.
5 When thieves break into someone’s house during the night, they certainly [RHQ] steal only the things that they want. And people who pick grapes always [RHQ] leave a few grapes on the vines. But your country will be completely destroyed!
Si des voleurs, si des brigands étaient entrés chez toi durant la nuit, comment aurais-tu gardé le silence? N’auraient-ils pas volé ce qui leur suffisait? Si des vendangeurs étaient entrés chez toi, est-ce qu’ils ne t’auraient pas laissé au moins une grappe de raisin?
6 Everything that is valuable will be taken away. [Your enemies] will find and take away even the valuable things that you have hidden.
Comment les ennemis ont-ils fouillé Esaü, fureté dans ce qu’il avait de caché?
7 All (your allies/nations who promised to help you) will turn against you, and they will force you to leave your country/land. Those with whom you have peace now will trick/deceive you and defeat you. Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you, and [then they will say to you], ‘You are not [RHQ] as clever [as you thought you were]!’
Ils t’ont éconduit jusqu’à la frontière; tous tes alliés se sont joués de toi; les hommes qui vivaient en paix avec toi ont prévalu contre toi; ceux qui mangent ton pain dresseront des embûches sous tes pas; il n’y a pas de prudence en lui.
8 I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom, I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who [thought that they] were wise.
N’est-ce pas en ce jour-là, dit le Seigneur, que je perdrai les sages de l’Idumée et bannirai la prudence de la montagne d’Esaü?
9 The soldiers from Teman [town] will become terrified; all you people who are descendants of Esau will be (wiped out/killed).
Et ils craindront, tes braves du midi, que l’homme de la montagne d’Esaü ne périsse.
10 You acted cruel in a cruel way toward your relatives who are descendants of Jacob, [the twin brother of your ancestor Esau]. So now you will be disgraced forever; you will be completely destroyed.
À cause de tes meurtres et à cause de ton iniquité contre Jacob ton frère, la confusion te couvrira, et tu périras pour jamais.
11 Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem and (cast lots/threw small stones that were marked) to decide what valuable things they would take away; but you were as bad as those foreigners, because you just stood there [and did not help the Israelis].
Au jour que tu t’élevais contre lui, quand des ennemis se rendaient maîtres de son armée, et que des étrangers entraient dans ses portes, et que sur Jérusalem ils jetaient le sort, toi aussi tu étais comme l’un d’entre eux.
12 You should not have (gloated/been happy) about the disaster that the Israelis were experiencing. You should not have been happy when their towns were ruined. You should not have made fun [of them] when they were suffering.
Et tu ne mépriseras pas ton frère en son jour malheureux, au jour de son exil, et tu ne te réjouiras pas sur les fils de Juda au jour de leur ruine; et tu ne parleras pas orgueilleusement au jour de l’angoisse.
13 They are my people, so you should not have entered their [city] gates when they were experiencing those disasters and you should not have laughed at them. And you should not have taken away their [valuable] possessions.
Et tu n’entreras pas dans la porte de mon peuple au jour de leur ruine; et tu ne les mépriseras pas, toi non plus, au milieu de ses maux, au jour de sa désolation; et tu ne seras pas envoyé contre son armée au jour de sa désolation.
14 You should not have stood at crossroads to catch those who were [trying to] escape. You should not have [captured them and] put them into the hands of [their enemies] when they were experiencing those disasters.”
Et tu ne te tiendras pas dans les carrefours, afin de tuer ceux qui fuiront, et tu n’enfermeras pas les restes de ses habitants au jour de la tribulation.
15 “There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge [and punish] all the nations. And you [people of Edom] will experience the same [disasters] that you caused [others to experience]. The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.
Parce que le jour du Seigneur est près d’éclater sur toutes les nations; comme tu as fait, il te sera fait; ce que tu leur as fait, il le fera retomber sur ta tête.
16 [My people in Jerusalem have been punished] because I was very angry with them. [It is as though] [MET] they drank [a cup of very bitter liquid] on Zion, my sacred hill. But [I] will punish [MET] all the other nations even more severely, and cause them to disappear completely.
Car comme vous avez bu sur ma montagne sainte, toutes les nations boiront sans discontinuer; et elles boiront, elles avaleront, et elles seront comme si elles n’étaient point.
17 But some [people in Jerusalem will escape], and Jerusalem will become a very holy/sacred place. Then the descendants of Jacob will [conquer and] possess again the land that truly belongs to them.
Mais sur la montagne de Sion sera le salut et elle sera sainte: la maison de Jacob possédera ceux qui l’avaient possédée.
18 The descendants [MTY] of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like [MET] a fire, and the people [MTY] of Edom will be like [MET] stubble that will be completely burned in that fire. Not one person will remain alive. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.”
Et la maison de Jacob sera un feu, et la maison de Joseph une flamme, et la maison d’Esaü une paille; et ils l’embraseront, et ils la dévoreront, et il n’y aura pas de restes de la maison d’Esaü, parce que le Seigneur a parlé.
19 The Israeli people [who live] in the southern desert are the ones who will capture Edom. And those [who live in] the western foothills will capture the Phoenicia [region] and the areas of Ephraim and Samaria. And people of the tribe of Benjamin will conquer the Gilead [region].
Et ceux qui sont au midi hériteront de la montagne d’Esaü; et ceux qui sont dans les plaines assujettiront les Philistins; et ils posséderont la contrée d’Ephraïm et la contrée de Samarie, et Benjamin possédera Galaad.
20 Those who were (exiled in/forced to go to) [Babylon] will [return to their land] [and] capture the Phoenicia [region] as far north as Zarephath [on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea]. People of Jerusalem who were captured and taken to Sardis, [the capital city of the Lydia region], will capture the towns in the southern desert.
Et les exilés de cette armée des enfants d’Israël posséderont tous les lieux des Chananéens jusqu’à Sarepta; et les exilés de Jérusalem, qui sont sur le Bosphore, posséderont les cités du midi.
21 The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it, and Yahweh will be their king.
Et les libérateurs monteront sur la montagne de Sion pour juger la montagne d’Esaü; et le règne sera au Seigneur.
