Deutéronome 32
1 Cieux, prêtez l’oreille, et je parlerai; et que la terre écoute les paroles de ma bouche!
“Listen to me, [all you who are in the] heavens, and [all you who are on the] earth, listen to what I say [MTY].
2 Que mon enseignement se répande comme la pluie, que ma parole tombe comme la rosée, comme des ondées sur la verdure, comme des gouttes d’eau sur le gazon!
I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
3 Car je veux proclamer le nom de Yahweh: Rendez gloire à notre Dieu!
I will praise Yahweh [MTY]. And [all you people should] tell others that our God is very great.
4 Le Rocher, son œuvre est parfaite, car toutes ses voies sont justes; c’est un Dieu fidèle et sans iniquité; il est juste et droit.
He is like a rock [MET] [under which we are protected]; [everything] that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.
5 Ils ont péché contre lui, non ses enfants, mais leur souillure, une race fausse et perverse.
“But [you Israeli people] have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer [deserve to] be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].
6 Est-ce là ce que vous rendez à Yahweh, peuple insensé et dépourvu de sagesse? N’est-il pas ton père, ton créateur, celui qui t’a fait et qui t’a établi?
You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, (is this the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you]?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you].) [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.
7 Souviens-toi des anciens jours, considérez les années des générations passées! Interroge ton père, et il te l’apprendra, tes vieillards, et ils te le diront.
“Think about [what happened] long ago; consider what happened to your ancestors. Ask your parents, and they will inform you; ask the older people, and they will tell you.
8 Quand le Très-Haut assigna un héritage aux nations, quand il sépara les enfants des hommes, il fixa les limites des peuples, d’après le nombre des enfants d’Israël.
When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and (assigned to/chose for) each people-group a god/angel.
9 Car la portion de Yahweh, c’est son peuple, Jacob est le lot de son héritage.
But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; he chose [us, the descendants of] Jacob, to belong to him.
10 Il l’a trouvé dans une terre déserte, dans une solitude, aux hurlements sauvages; il l’a entouré, il a pris soin de lui, il l’a gardé comme la prunelle de son œil.
“He saw [our ancestors] when they were in a desert, wandering in a land (that was desolate/where no people lived). He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
11 Pareil à l’aigle qui excite sa couvée, et voltige au-dessus de ses petits, Yahweh a déployé ses ailes, il a pris Israël, il l’a porté sur ses plumes;
[Yahweh protected his people] just like an eagle encourages its babies [to fly] and flutters over them [MET], spreading its wings and catching them [if they start to fall].
12 Yahweh seul l’a conduit, nul dieu étranger n’était avec lui.
Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.
13 Il l’a fait monter sur les hauteurs du pays, et Israël a mangé les produits des champs; il lui a fait sucer le miel du rocher, l’huile qui sort de la roche la plus dure,
“[After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them], Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew [even] in stony ground.
14 la crème de la vache et le lait des brebis, avec la graisse des agneaux, des béliers nés en Basan et des boucs, avec la fleur du froment; et tu as bu le sang de la grappe, le vin écumant.
The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.
15 Mais Jésurun est devenu gras, et il a regimbé; — tu es devenu gras, épais, replet! — et il a abandonné le Dieu qui l’avait formé, et méprisé le Rocher de son salut.
“The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
16 Ils ont excité sa jalousie par des dieux étrangers, ils l’ont irrité par des abomination;
So he abandoned them because they started to worship other/strange gods. Because of their worshiping disgusting idols, he became angry.
17 ils ont sacrifié à des démons qui ne sont pas Dieu, à des dieux qu’ils ne connaissaient pas, dieux nouveaux, venus récemment, devant lesquels vos pères n’avaient pas tremblé.
They offered sacrifices to gods who were [really] demons, gods that their ancestors had never known; they offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about, gods whom your ancestors had never revered.
18 Tu as abandonné le Rocher qui t’avait engendré, et oublié le Dieu qui t’avait mis au monde.
They forgot [the true] God, the one who protects them [MET], the one who created them and caused them to live.
19 Yahweh l’a vu, et il en a été indigné, provoqué par ses fils et ses filles.
“When Yahweh saw that [they had abandoned him], he became angry, so he rejected [the Israeli people, who are like] his sons and daughters.
20 Il a dit: « Je leur cacherai ma face, je verrai quelle sera leur fin; car c’est une race perverse, des fils en qui il n’y a pas de bonne foi.
He said, ‘They are very wicked/stubborn people, very unfaithful; so I will no longer help them, and then I will watch and see what happens to them.
21 Ils ont excité ma jalousie par ce qui n’est pas Dieu, ils m’ont irrité par leurs vaines idoles; et moi, j’exciterai leur jalousie par ce qui n’est pas un peuple, je les irriterai par une nation insensée.
They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be [jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me]. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send [to attack them an army of] a nation of worthless and foolish people.
22 Car le feu de ma colère s’est allumé, il brûle jusqu’au fond du séjour des morts; il dévore la terre et ses produits, il embrase les fondements des montagnes. (Sheol h7585)
I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 J’accumulerai sur eux les maux, sur eux j’épuiserai mes flèches.
I will cause them to experience many disasters; [they will feel as though] [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.
24 Ils seront exténués par la faim, consumés par la fièvre et par la peste meurtrière; et j’enverrai encore contre eux la dent des bêtes, avec le venin des reptiles qui rampent dans la poussière.
They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers and because of terrible diseases; I will send wild animals to attack [MTY] them, and poisonous snakes to bite [MTY] them.
25 Au dehors l’épée ravira les enfants, — et au dedans ce sera l’effroi: le jeune homme comme la jeune fille, l’enfant à la mamelle comme le vieillard.
Outside [their houses, their enemies] will kill them [MTY] with swords, and in their homes, [their enemies will cause] them to be terrified. Their enemies will kill young men and young women, and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.
26 Je dirai: « Je les emporterai d’un souffle, je ferai disparaître leur souvenir du milieu des hommes, »
I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries in order that no one would ever remember them.
27 si je ne craignais l’arrogance de l’ennemi, que leurs adversaires ne se méprennent et qu’ils ne disent: « Notre main a été puissante, et ce n’est pas Yahweh qui a fait toutes ces choses. »
But [if I did that], their enemies would wrongly boast that they were the ones who had [gotten rid of my people]; they would say, “We [SYN] are the ones who defeated them; it was not Yahweh who has done all these things.”’
28 Car c’est une nation dénuée de sens, et il n’y a pas d’intelligence en eux.
You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.
29 S’ils étaient sages, ils le comprendraient, ils considéreraient la fin qui les attend.
If you were wise, you would understand [why you would be punished]; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
30 Comment un homme en poursuivrait-il mille, comment deux en feraient-ils fuir dix mille, si leur Rocher ne les avait vendus, si Yahweh ne les avait livrés?
[You would have realized] why 1,000 [of your soldiers] would be defeated by only one [of the enemy soldiers], and why two of your enemies would chase away 10,000 [Israeli soldiers]. [You would realize that this would happen] only if God, the one who always defended you [MET], had allowed your enemies to defeat you, because he had abandoned you.
31 Car leur rocher n’est pas comme notre Rocher, nos ennemis en sont juges.
Your enemies know that their gods are not powerful like Yahweh, our God, [so their gods could not have defeated us Israelis].
32 Mais leur vigne est du plant de Sodome, et des champs de Gomorrhe; leurs raisins sont des raisins vénéneux, et leurs grappes sont amères;
Your enemies are like [MET] grapevines planted near [the ruins of] Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; the grapes from those vines are bitter and poisonous;
33 leur vin, c’est le venin des dragons, c’est le poison mortel des aspics.
the wine [from those grapes] is like the poison of snakes [DOU].
34 Cela n’est-il pas caché près de moi, scellé dans mes trésors?
[“Yahweh says], ‘I know [RHQ] [what I have planned to do to the Israeli people and to their enemies], and those plans are so secure [that it as though he locked them up] [MET].
35 A moi la vengeance et la rétribution, pour le temps où leur pied trébuchera! Car le jour de leur malheur est proche, et leur destin se précipite. »
I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done [to my people], at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
36 Car Yahweh fera droit à son peuple, et il se repentira en faveur de ses serviteurs, quand il verra que leur force est épuisée, et qu’il ne reste plus ni esclave, ni libre.
“But Yahweh will see that you who are truly his people, who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and he will be merciful to you. And he will see that you are helpless, and that there are very few of you, slaves or free people, who are still alive.
37 Il dira: « Où sont leurs dieux, le rocher près duquel ils se réfugiaient,
Then Yahweh will ask his people, ‘Where are the gods that you thought would protect you [MET]?
38 ces dieux qui mangeaient la graisse de leurs victimes, qui buvaient le vin de leurs libations? Qu’ils se lèvent, qu’ils vous secourent, qu’ils vous couvrent de leur protection!...
You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed, and you poured out wine for them to drink. So, they should begin to help you; they should be the ones who will protect you!
39 Voyez maintenant que c’est moi, moi qui suis Dieu, et qu’il n’y a pas de Dieu à côté de moi. C’est moi qui fais mourir et qui fais vivre; j’ai blessé, et c’est moi qui guérirai, et il n’y a personne qui délivre de ma main.
“But now you will realize that I, only I, am God; there is no other god who is [a real] god. I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live; I can wound people, and I can heal people, and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.
40 Oui, je lève ma main vers le ciel, et je dis: Je vis éternellement!
I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare that just as sure as I live forever,
41 Quand j’aiguiserai l’éclair de mon glaive, et que ma main saisira le jugement, je tirerai vengeance de mes ennemis, et je rendrai à ceux qui me haïssent.
that when I sharpen my sword, as I [SYN] prepare to punish people, I will get revenge on my enemies; I will pay back those who hate me.
42 J’enivrerai mes flèches de sang, et mon épée se repaîtra de chair: du sang des tués et des captifs, de la tête chevelue de l’ennemi. »
I will kill all [of my enemies] with a sword; it will be as though I had arrows that will be covered with their blood. I will kill [MTY] all those whom I capture and cut off their leaders’ heads.’
43 Nations, poussez des cris de joie en l’honneur de son peuple! Car Yahweh venge le sang de ses serviteurs, il tire vengeance de ses adversaires, et il fait l’expiation pour sa terre, pour son peuple.
“You people of all nations, you as well as his people should praise Yahweh, because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him; and he cleanses his people’s land which has become defiled because of their sins.”
44 Moïse vint et prononça toutes les paroles de ce cantique aux oreilles du peuple; avec lui était Josué, fils de Nun.
Joshua and Moses/I recited the words of that song while the Israeli people were listening.
45 Lorsqu’il eut achevé d’adresser toutes ces paroles à tout Israël,
When they/we finished reciting to the Israeli people the words of this song,
46 il leur dit: « Prenez à cœur toutes les paroles que je proclame aujourd’hui devant vous, que vous devez prescrire à vos enfants, pour qu’ils mettent soigneusement en pratique toutes les paroles de cette loi.
Moses/I said, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
47 Car ce n’est pas une chose indifférente pour vous; c’est votre vie, et, par l’accomplissement de cette parole, vous prolongerez vos jours sur la terre dont vous allez prendre possession en passant le Jourdain. »
These instructions are very important [LIT]. If [you obey] them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to occupy.”
48 Ce même jour, Yahweh parla à Moïse, en disant:
On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses/me,
49 « Monte sur cette montagne d’Abarim, sur le mont Nébo, au pays de Moab, vis-à-vis de Jéricho, et regarde le pays de Canaan, que je donne aux enfants d’Israël pour être leur propriété.
“Go to the Abarim Mountain range [here] in the Moab region, across from Jericho. Climb Nebo Mountain, and look [toward the west] to see Canaan land, the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people.
50 Tu mourras sur la montagne où tu vas monter, et tu seras réuni à ton peuple, de même qu’Aaron, ton frère, est mort sur la montagne de Hor et a été réuni à son peuple,
You will die on that mountain [EUP, DOU], like your [older] brother Aaron died on Hor Mountain.
51 parce que vous avez péché contre moi au milieu des enfants d’Israël, aux eaux de Mériba de Cadès, dans le désert de Sin, et que vous ne m’avez pas sanctifié au milieu des enfants d’Israël.
You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israeli people, when you all were at Meribah Springs near Kadesh [town] in the Zin Desert. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israeli people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
52 Tu verras le pays en face de toi, mais tu n’y entreras pas, dans ce pays, que je donne aux enfants d’Israël. »
[When you are on that mountain where I told you to go], you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people, but you will not enter it.”
