Ézéchiel 26
1 La onzième année, le premier du mois, la parole de Yahweh me fut adressée en ces termes:
Almost twelve [after we had been taken to Babylonia], on the first day of the month, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,
2 « Fils de l’homme, parce que Tyr a dit de Jérusalem: Ha! Ha! elle est brisée, la porte des peuples! on se tourne vers moi; je vais me remplir! elle est devenue un désert! —
“You human, [the people of] Tyre [city] shouted joyfully and said about Jerusalem, ‘[Jerusalem, ] the city from which many traders/merchants went to many nations, is now destroyed. And now people from all over the world will come to us to buy and sell things. Because Jerusalem has now been ruined, we will prosper!’
3 à cause de cela ainsi parle le Seigneur Yahweh: Voici que je viens contre toi, Tyr! Je vais faire monter contre toi des nations nombreuses, comme la mer fait monter ses flots.
Therefore, this is what [I, ] Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘I am now the enemy of [you people of] Tyre. I will [the armies of] many nations to come and attack your [city], like the waves of the sea beat against the shores.
4 Elles détruiront les murs de Tyr, et abattront ses tours; je balaierai loin d’elle sa poussière, et je ferai d’elle un rocher nu.
Their soldiers will destroy the walls around Tyre and tear down its towers. Tyre will become a place where people from many nations steal valuable things, [and then the city will be completely destroyed]. Then they will scrape away the rubble and cause the city to become a bare rock.
5 Elle sera, au milieu de la mer, un lieu où l’on étend les filets; car moi j’ai parlé, — oracle du Seigneur Yahweh; elle sera la proie des nations.
Out in the sea, Tyre will become an island where men spread [their fishing] nets to dry them. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh the Lord, have predicted it.
6 Ses filles qui sont sur la terre ferme seront tuées par l’épée, et on saura que je suis Yahweh.
The people in small villages on the coast near Tyre will be killed [their enemies’] swords. Then people will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].’
7 Car ainsi parle le Seigneur Yahweh: Voici que je vais amener du septentrion contre Tyr, Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, le roi des rois, avec des chevaux, des chars, des cavaliers, et une multitude de troupes et un peuple nombreux.
This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, [is going to happen]: ‘From the north, I am going to bring the most powerful king [in the world], King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, [with his army] to attack Tyre. They will bring horses and chariots, and men who ride the horses [and men who drive the chariots]; it will be a huge army.
8 Il tuera par l’épée tes filles sur la terre ferme, il construira contre toi des murs, il élèvera contre toi des terrasses, et dressera contre toi la tortue.
[In the battles in the small villages] on the coast, their soldiers will kill [many] people with their swords. [Then] they will set up devices to batter the wall around the city of Tyre, and they will build a dirt ramp up to the top of the wall, and they will all hold up shields [to protect themselves from arrows being shot from the ground].
9 Il dirigera contre tes murs le choc de ses béliers, et démolira tes tours avec ses crochets.
The king will direct the soldiers who operate the (rams/things) to batter the walls, and who will use their iron bars to tear down the towers in the wall.
10 Telle sera la multitude de ses chevaux que leur poussière te couvrira; au bruit des cavaliers, des roues et des chars, tes murs trembleront, quand il entrera dans tes portes, comme on entre dans une ville forcée.
The king will have a huge number of horses, [the stamping of their hooves will result in] the city being covered with dust. [It will be as though] the walls will tremble because of the noise made by the horses, the [supply] wagons, and the chariots when they enter the city where the walls have been broken down.
11 Du sabot de ses chevaux, il foulera toutes les rues; il tuera ton peuple par l’épée, et tes puissantes colonnes seront jetées par terre.
The horses will trample all of the [of the city] with their hooves. The soldiers will kill the people with their swords; and they will cause your strong pillars to (collapse/fall to the ground).
12 Ils enlèveront tes richesses, pilleront tes marchandises, abattront tes murailles, renverseront tes beaux palais, et jetteront au milieu des eaux tes pierres, ton bois et ta poussière.
They will take away all the people’s valuable possessions and steal the things that the merchants sell. They will tear down the walls of the houses and destroy their fine houses. Then they will throw into the sea the stones [from the walls] of those houses and the timber and the rubble.
13 Je ferai cesser le bruit de tes chansons, et le son de tes cithares ne se fera plus entendre.
No longer will you sing noisy songs, and people will not play their harps any more.
14 Je ferai de toi un rocher nu, tu seras un lieu où l’on étend les filets; tu ne seras plus rebâtie; car moi, Yahweh, j’ai parlé, — oracle du Seigneur Yahweh.
The enemy soldiers will cause the city to become a bare rock and [only] a place where men spread [their fishing] nets. And the city will never be rebuilt. [Those things will surely happen] because [I], Yahweh the Lord, have [that they will happen].’
15 Ainsi parle à Tyr le Seigneur Yahweh: Au bruit de ta chute, quand tes blessés pousseront des gémissements, quand le carnage sévira au milieu de toi, les îles ne trembleront-elles pas?
This is [also] what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say about [the people of] Tyre: ‘When the wounded [people in Tyre] groan and many people are slaughtered and the city is destroyed, [it will surely be as though] [RHQ] the areas along the coast will tremble.
16 Et ils descendront de leurs trônes, tous les princes de la mer; ils quitteront leurs manteaux, et déposeront leurs vêtements brodés; ils se vêtiront d’épouvante, ils s’assoieront sur la terre; ils trembleront à chaque moment, et seront dans la stupeur à cause de toi.
Then all the kings [in the cities] along the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and their embroidered clothes. They will be terrified, and they will sit on the ground, trembling. They will be appalled because of what has happened to the city of Tyre.
17 Et ils prononceront sur toi une complainte, et ils te diront: « Comment as-tu péri, toi qui te dressais au sein des mers, ô toi ville célèbre, qui étais puissante sur la mer, toi et tes habitants, alors qu’ils inspiraient la terreur à tous les habitants de la mer. »
Then they will sing a sad song about the city, and they will sing this: “The famous city [APO], in which many [who sailed on] the seas lived, is now destroyed! The people of that city had great power [because they had many ships that sailed] on the seas; they caused all the people who lived near them to be terrified.
18 Maintenant les îles trembleront au jour de ta chute, et les îles qui sont dans la mer seront épouvantées de ta fin.
Now on the day when that city is destroyed, [it is as though the people in] the areas along the coast tremble and the [the people on the] islands in the sea are terrified because of that city being ruined.”’
19 Car ainsi parle le Seigneur Yahweh: Quand j’aurai fait de toi une ville déserte, comme les villes qui n’ont pas d’habitants; quand j’aurai fait monter sur toi l’abîme, et que les grandes eaux t’auront couverte,
This is also what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘When I cause the city [of Tyre] to become desolate/empty, like [other] cities in which people no [longer] live, and when I cause the huge waves of the sea to cover it,
20 je te ferai descendre avec ceux qui sont descendus dans la fosse, vers les peuples d’autrefois; je te ferai habiter dans les profondeurs de la terre, dans les solitudes éternelles, avec ceux qui sont descendus dans la fosse, pour que tu ne sois plus habitée; et je mettrai un ornement sur la terre des vivants.
then I will bring the people of that city down to be with those who have gone down to where the dead people are, people who lived long ago. I will cause them to remain in the place below the earth that is like old/ancient ruins, with those who have gone down to that pit [previously], and they will never return to the earth, to where people are alive.
21 Je ferai de toi un objet d’épouvante, et tu ne seras plus; on te cherchera, et on ne te trouvera plus jamais, — oracle du Seigneur Yahweh. »
I will cause them to die in a horrible way (OR, people will be very afraid because of what happens to that city), and that will be the end of (them/their lives). People will search for that city but it will no longer exist. [That is what I, ] Yahweh the Lord, declare [will happen].’”
