Jonah 4
1 But this displeased Jonah and he became very angry.
Cela déplut fort à Jonas, et il fut irrité.
2 So Jonah prayed to Yahweh and said, “Ah, Yahweh, is this not just what I said when I was back in my own country? That is why I acted first and tried to flee to Tarshish—because I knew that you are a gracious God, compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in covenant faithfulness, and you hold back from sending disaster.
Il implora l’Éternel, et il dit: Ah! Éternel, n’est-ce pas ce que je disais quand j’étais encore dans mon pays? C’est ce que je voulais prévenir en fuyant à Tarsis. Car je savais que tu es un Dieu compatissant et miséricordieux, lent à la colère et riche en bonté, et qui te repens du mal.
3 Therefore now, Yahweh, I beg you, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Maintenant, Éternel, prends-moi donc la vie, car la mort m’est préférable à la vie.
4 Yahweh said, “Is it good that you are so angry?”
L’Éternel répondit: Fais-tu bien de t’irriter?
5 Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made a shelter and sat under it in the shade so that he could see what might become of the city.
Et Jonas sortit de la ville, et s’assit à l’orient de la ville, là il se fit une cabane, et s’y tint à l’ombre, jusqu’à ce qu’il vît ce qui arriverait dans la ville.
6 Yahweh God prepared a plant and made it grow up over Jonah so that it might be a shade over his head to relieve his distress. Jonah was very glad because of the plant.
L’Éternel Dieu fit croître un ricin, qui s’éleva au-dessus de Jonas, pour donner de l’ombre sur sa tête et pour lui ôter son irritation. Jonas éprouva une grande joie à cause de ce ricin.
7 But God prepared a worm at sunrise the next morning. It attacked the plant and the plant withered.
Mais le lendemain, à l’aurore, Dieu fit venir un ver qui piqua le ricin, et le ricin sécha.
8 It came about that when the sun rose the next morning, God prepared a hot east wind. Also, the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he became faint. Then Jonah wished that he might die. He said to himself, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Au lever du soleil, Dieu fit souffler un vent chaud d’orient, et le soleil frappa la tête de Jonas, au point qu’il tomba en défaillance. Il demanda la mort, et dit: La mort m’est préférable à la vie.
9 Then God said to Jonah, “Is it good that you are so angry about the plant?” Then Jonah said, “It is good that I am angry, even to death.”
Dieu dit à Jonas: Fais-tu bien de t’irriter à cause du ricin? Il répondit: Je fais bien de m’irriter jusqu’à la mort.
10 Yahweh said, “You have had compassion for the plant, for which you have not labored, nor did you make it grow. It grew up in a night and died in a night.
Et l’Éternel dit: Tu as pitié du ricin qui ne t’a coûté aucune peine et que tu n’as pas fait croître, qui est né dans une nuit et qui a péri dans une nuit.
11 So as for me, should I not have compassion for Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand people who do not know the difference between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?”
Et moi, je n’aurais pas pitié de Ninive, la grande ville, dans laquelle se trouvent plus de cent vingt mille hommes qui ne savent pas distinguer leur droite de leur gauche, et des animaux en grand nombre!
