Psalms 88
1 Yahweh God, you who rescues me, all during each day I call out [to you] to help me, and I cry out to you during each night also.
Cantiques. Psaume des fils de Coré. Au maître de chant. A chanter sur le ton plaintif. Cantique d’Héman l’Ezrahite. Yahweh, Dieu de mon salut, quand je crie la nuit devant toi,
2 Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you [for help]!
que ma prière arrive en ta présence, prête l’oreille à mes supplications!
3 I have experienced many troubles/difficulties, and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
Car mon âme est rassasiée de maux, et ma vie touche au schéol. (Sheol h7585)
4 Because I have no more strength, [other people also] consider that I will soon die.
On me compte parmi ceux qui descendent dans la fosse, je suis comme un homme à bout de forces.
5 I am like a corpse that has been abandoned; I am like dead people who lie in their graves, people who have been completely forgotten, because you do not take care of them any more.
je suis comme délaissé parmi les morts, pareil aux cadavres étendus dans le sépulcre, dont tu n’as plus le souvenir, et qui sont soustraits à ta main.
6 [It is as though] you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
Tu m’as jeté au fond de la fosse, dans les ténèbres, dans les abîmes.
7 [It seems like] you are very angry with me, and [it is as though] you have crushed me like [ocean] waves [crash down on people] [MET].
Sur moi s’appesantit ta fureur, tu m’accables de tous tes flots. — Séla.
8 You have caused my friends to (avoid/stay away from) me; I have become repulsive to them. [It is as though] I am in a prison and cannot escape.
Tu as éloigné de moi mes amis, tu m’as rendu pour eux un objet d’horreur; je suis emprisonné sans pouvoir sortir;
9 My eyes cannot see well because I cry very much. Yahweh, every day I call out to you [to help me]; I lift up my hands to you [while I pray].
mes yeux se consument dans la souffrance. Je t’invoque tout le jour, Yahweh, j’étends les mains vers toi.
10 You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!
Feras-tu un miracle pour les morts; ou bien les ombres se lèveront-elles pour te louer? — Séla.
11 Corpses in the grave certainly do not tell about your faithfully loving us [RHQ], and in the place where people are finally destroyed, no one tells about what you faithfully [do for us] [RHQ].
Publie-t-on ta bonté dans le sépulcre, ta fidélité dans l’abîme?
12 No one in the deep dark pit ever sees the miracles that you perform [RHQ], and no one in the place where people have been completely forgotten tells about your being good to us.
Tes prodiges sont-ils connus dans la région des ténèbres et ta justice dans la terre de l’oubli?
13 But [as for me], Yahweh, I cry out to you [to help me]; each morning I pray to you.
Et moi, Yahweh, je crie vers toi, ma prière va au-devant de toi dès le matin.
14 Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]? Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?
Pourquoi, Yahweh, repousses-tu mon âme, me caches-tu ta face?
15 All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am (in despair/very discouraged) because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
Je suis malheureux et moribond depuis ma jeunesse; sous le poids de tes terreurs, je ne sais que devenir.
16 [I feel that] you have crushed me because of your being angry with me; the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me.
Tes fureurs passent sur moi, tes épouvantes m’accablent.
17 [I feel as though] they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are (closing in on/crushing) me from all sides.
Comme des eaux débordées elles m’environnent tout le jour; elles m’assiègent toutes ensemble.
18 You have caused [even] my friends and others whom I love to avoid me, and [it is as though] the only friend that I have is darkness.
Tu as éloigné de moi mes amis et mes proches; mes compagnons, ce sont les ténèbres de la tombe.
