Isaïe 25
1 Yahvé, tu es mon Dieu. Je t'exalte! Je louerai ton nom, car tu as fait des choses merveilleuses, des choses prévues depuis longtemps, en toute fidélité et vérité.
Yahweh, you are my God; I will honor you and praise you [MTY]. You do wonderful things; you said long ago that you would do those things, and now you have done them like you said that you would.
2 Car tu as fait d'une ville un monceau, d'une ville fortifiée une ruine, d'un palais d'étrangers une ville qui n'existe plus. Elle ne sera jamais bâtie.
[Sometimes] you have caused cities to become heaps of rubble, cities that had strong walls around them. You have caused palaces in foreign countries to disappear; they will never be rebuilt.
3 C'est pourquoi un peuple fort te glorifiera. Une ville de nations puissantes te craindra.
Therefore, people in powerful nations will declare that you are very great, and people in nations [whose leaders are] ruthless/cruel will revere you.
4 Car tu as été un refuge pour le pauvre, une forteresse pour l'indigent dans sa détresse, un abri contre la tempête, une ombre contre la chaleur, quand le souffle des redoutables est comme une tempête contre la muraille.
Yahweh, you are [like] [SIM] a strong tower where poor people can (find refuge/be safe), a place where needy people can go when they are distressed. [You are like] [MET] a place where people can find refuge in a storm and where they can be shaded from the hot sun. Ruthless/Cruel [people] oppress us; they are like [SIM] a storm beating against a wall,
5 Comme la chaleur d'un lieu sec, tu feras tomber le bruit des étrangers; comme la chaleur à l'ombre d'un nuage, tu feras tomber le chant des redoutables.
and like [SIM] [the intense] heat in the desert. [But] you cause the roaring of people in foreign nations to cease. Like the air cools when a cloud comes overhead, you stop ruthless/cruel [people] from singing songs boasting about their being very great.
6 Dans cette montagne, l'Éternel des armées fera à tous les peuples un festin de viandes de choix, un festin de vins de choix, de viandes de choix pleines de mœlle, de vins de choix bien raffinés.
Here in Jerusalem, the Commander of the armies of angels will prepare a wonderful feast for all the people [of the world]. It will be a banquet with plenty of good meat and fine well-aged [DOU] wine.
7 Il détruira dans cette montagne la surface de la couverture qui recouvre tous les peuples, et le voile qui s'étend sur toutes les nations.
[People here are] sad; their being sad is [like] a dark cloud that hangs over them, like they experience when someone dies. But Yahweh will enable them to quit being sad.
8 Il a englouti la mort pour toujours! Le Seigneur Yahvé essuiera les larmes de tous les visages. Il enlèvera l'opprobre de son peuple de toute la terre, car Yahvé l'a dit.
He will get rid of death forever! Yahweh our God will cause people to no longer mourn because someone has died. And he will stop other people insulting and making fun of his land and [us] his people. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it!
9 En ce jour-là, on dira: « Voici notre Dieu! Nous l'avons attendu, et il nous a sauvés! C'est Yahvé! Nous l'avons attendu. Nous nous réjouirons et nous nous réjouirons de son salut! »
At that time, [people] will proclaim, “Yahweh is our God! We trusted in him, and he rescued us! Yahweh, in whom we trusted, has done it; we should rejoice because of his saving/rescuing [us]!”
10 Car la main de Yahvé s'arrêtera sur cette montagne. Moab sera foulé à sa place, comme on foule la paille dans l'eau du fumier.
Yahweh [MTY] will protect and bless Jerusalem. [But] he will crush [the people in the land of] Moab; they will be like [SIM] straw that is trampled in the manure [and left to rot].
11 Il étendra ses mains au milieu d'elle, comme celui qui nage étend ses mains pour nager, mais son orgueil sera humilié avec l'art de ses mains.
Yahweh will push down the people of Moab like [SIM] a swimmer pushes [the water] with his hands. He will cause them to cease being proud, and he will show that all the things that they have done are worthless.
12 Il a abattu la haute forteresse de tes murs, il l'a abaissée, il l'a ramenée à terre, jusqu'à la poussière.
The high walls [around the cities] in Moab will be torn down; they will be demolished and fall into the dust/dirt.
