Zechariah 11
1 [You people of] [APO] Lebanon [should] open your gates, [because you will not be able to stop] fire from burning your cedar [trees]!
Liban, ouvre tes portes, Et que le feu dévore tes cèdres!
2 Your cypress/pine [trees] [APO] should [also] wail because the cedar [trees] have been cut down. Those glorious/great trees have been destroyed. The oak trees in the Bashan [region] should also wail, because the other trees in the forest have been cut down.
Gémis, cyprès, car le cèdre est tombé, Ceux qui s’élevaient sont détruits! Gémissez, chênes de Basan, Car la forêt inaccessible est renversée!
3 And listen to the shepherds crying because the fertile pastures have been ruined. Listen to the lions roar; they roar because the delightful forest [where they live] near the Jordan [River] has been ruined.
Les bergers poussent des cris lamentables, Parce que leur magnificence est détruite; Les lionceaux rugissent, Parce que l’orgueil du Jourdain est abattu.
4 This is what Yahweh my God said [to me]: “[I want you to] become a shepherd for a flock [of sheep that are about] to be slaughtered.
Ainsi parle l’Éternel, mon Dieu: Pais les brebis destinées à la boucherie!
5 The people who are going to buy the sheep will kill the sheep, and they will not be punished. Those who are selling the sheep say, ‘[I] praise Yahweh, [because] I will become rich!’ Even the shepherds do not feel sorry for the sheep.
Ceux qui les achètent les égorgent impunément; Celui qui les vend dit: Béni soit l’Éternel, car je m’enrichis! Et leurs pasteurs ne les épargnent pas.
6 And similarly, I no longer feel sorry for the people of this country. I am going to allow many of them [HYP] to be captured by other people or by their king. Those who capture them will ruin this country, and I will not rescue any [of the people].”
Car je n’ai plus de pitié pour les habitants du pays, Dit l’Éternel; Et voici, je livre les hommes Aux mains les uns des autres et aux mains de leur roi; Ils ravageront le pays, Et je ne délivrerai pas de leurs mains.
7 So I became the shepherd of a flock [of sheep that were about] to be slaughtered [for their meat to be sold] to the dealers. [I took good care of the sheep, even the ones that were the weakest sheep. Then] I took two [shepherds’] /walking sticks). I named the one [staff] ‘Kindness’ and the other [staff] ‘Union’. And I took good care of the sheep.
Alors je me mis à paître les brebis destinées à la boucherie, assurément les plus misérables du troupeau. Je pris deux houlettes: j’appelai l’une Grâce, et j’appelai l’autre Union. Et je fis paître les brebis.
8 But the three shepherds [who had been working with me] detested me, and I became impatient with them. Within one month I (dismissed/got rid of) those shepherds.
J’exterminai les trois pasteurs en un mois; mon âme était impatiente à leur sujet, et leur âme avait aussi pour moi du dégoût.
9 So I said [to the dealers], “I will no [longer] be the shepherd. I will allow the ones that are dying to die. I will allow the ones that are getting lost to get lost. And I will not prevent those that remain from destroying each other.”
Et je dis: Je ne vous paîtrai plus! Que celle qui va mourir meure, que celle qui va périr périsse, et que celles qui restent se dévorent les unes les autres!
10 Then I took the staff that I had named ‘Kindness’ and I broke it. [That showed that Yahweh] was annulling/canceling the agreement that he had made with all the people-groups.
Je pris ma houlette Grâce, et je la brisai, pour rompre mon alliance que j’avais traitée avec tous les peuples.
11 So that agreement was ended immediately. And the men who bought and sold sheep who were watching me knew [by seeing what I was doing] that I was giving them a message from Yahweh.
Elle fut rompue ce jour-là; et les malheureuses brebis, qui prirent garde à moi, reconnurent ainsi que c’était la parole de l’Éternel.
12 I told them, “If you think it is what you should do, pay me [for taking care of the sheep]. If you do not think that is what you should do, do not pay me.” So they paid me [only] 30 pieces of silver.
Je leur dis: Si vous le trouvez bon, donnez-moi mon salaire; sinon, ne le donnez pas. Et ils pesèrent pour mon salaire trente sicles d’argent.
13 Then Yahweh said to me, “[That is a ridiculously small amount of money that they have paid you]! [So] throw it to the man who makes clay pots!” So I took the silver to the temple of Yahweh, and I threw it in the chest where the offerings/money is kept.
L’Éternel me dit: Jette-le au potier, ce prix magnifique auquel ils m’ont estimé! Et je pris les trente sicles d’argent, et je les jetai dans la maison de l’Éternel, pour le potier.
14 Then I broke my second staff, [the one that I named] ‘Union’. That [indicated that] Judah and Israel would no longer be united.
Puis je brisai ma seconde houlette Union, pour rompre la fraternité entre Juda et Israël.
15 Then Yahweh said to me, “Take again the things that a foolish shepherd uses,
L’Éternel me dit: Prends encore l’équipage d’un pasteur insensé!
16 because I am going to appoint a new king for the people, [one who will not take care of my people. He will be like a foolish shepherd]: [MET] He will not take care of those who are dying, those who are very young, those who have been injured, or those who do not have enough food. Instead, he will [treat them very cruelly, like a shepherd who would] [MET] kill and eat the best sheep and tear off their hoofs.
Car voici, je susciterai dans le pays un pasteur qui n’aura pas souci des brebis qui périssent; il n’ira pas à la recherche des plus jeunes, il ne guérira pas les blessées, il ne soignera pas les saines; mais il dévorera la chair des plus grasses, et il déchirera jusqu’aux cornes de leurs pieds.
17 But terrible things will happen to that foolish/useless king who abandons the people [MET] over whom he rules. [His enemies] will strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. [The result will be that] he will have no strength in his arm, and his right eye will become completely blind.”
Malheur au pasteur de néant, qui abandonne ses brebis! Que l’épée fonde sur son bras et sur son œil droit! Que son bras se dessèche, Et que son œil droit s’éteigne!
