2 Samuel 12
1 Yahweh envoya Nathan vers David; et Nathan vint à lui et lui dit: « Il y avait dans une ville deux hommes, l'un riche et l'autre pauvre.
And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.
2 Le riche avait des brebis et des bœufs en très grand nombre,
The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;
3 et le pauvre n'avait rien, si ce n'est une petite brebis qu'il avait achetée; il l'élevait et elle grandissait chez lui avec ses enfants, mangeant de son pain, buvant de sa coupe et dormant sur son sein, et elle était pour lui comme une fille.
But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.
4 Une visite arriva chez l'homme riche; et le riche s'abstint de prendre de ses brebis ou de ses bœufs, pour préparer un repas au voyageur qui était venu chez lui; il prit la brebis du pauvre et l'apprêta pour l'homme qui était venu chez lui. »
Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.
5 La colère de David s'enflamma violemment contre cet homme, et il à Nathan: « Aussi vrai que Yahweh est vivant! l'homme qui a fait cela mérite la mort;
And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:
6 et il rendra quatre fois la brebis, pour avoir fait une pareille chose et pour avoir été sans pitié. »
And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.
7 Et Nathan dit à David: « Tu es cet homme-là! Ainsi parle Yahweh, le Dieu d'Israël: Je t'ai oint pour roi sur Israël, et je t'ai délivré de la main de Saül;
And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;
8 je t'ai donné la maison de ton maître, et j'ai mis sur ton sein les femmes de ton maître; et je t'ai donné la maison d'Israël et de Juda, et, si cela était trop peu, j'y aurais encore ajouté ceci ou cela.
I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.
9 Pourquoi as-tu méprisé la parole de Yahweh, en faisant ce qui est mal à ses yeux? Tu as frappé par l'épée Urie le Héthéen; tu as pris sa femme pour en faire ta femme, et tu l'as tué par l'épée des fils d'Ammon.
Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10 Et maintenant, l'épée ne s'éloignera jamais de ta maison, parce que tu m'as méprisé et que tu as pris la femme d'Urie le Héthéen, pour en faire ta femme.
So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
11 Ainsi parle Yahweh: Voici que je vais faire lever, de ta maison même, le malheur sur toi, et je prendrai sous tes yeux tes femmes pour les donner à ton voisin, et il couchera avec tes femmes à la vue de ce soleil.
The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
12 Car toi, tu as agi en secret; et moi, je ferai cela en présence de tout Israël et à la face du soleil. »
You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.
13 David dit à Nathan: « J'ai péché contre Yahweh. » Et Nathan dit à David: « Yahweh a pardonné ton péché, tu ne mourras point.
And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
14 Mais, parce que tu as fait, par cette action, mépriser Yahweh par ses ennemis, le fils qui t'est né mourra. »
But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
15 Et Nathan s'en alla dans sa maison. Yahweh frappa l'enfant que la femme d'Urie avait enfanté à David, et il devint gravement malade.
Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.
16 David pria Dieu pour l'enfant, et jeûna; et, étant entré dans sa chambre, il passa la nuit couché par terre.
So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.
17 Les anciens de sa maison insistèrent auprès de lui pour le faire lever de terre; mais il ne voulut point et ne mangea pas avec eux.
And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.
18 Le septième jour, l'enfant mourut. Les serviteurs de David craignaient de lui annoncer que l'enfant était mort, car ils disaient: « Lorsque l'enfant vivait encore, nous lui avons parlé, et il n'a pas écouté notre voix; comment lui dirons-nous: L'enfant est mort? Il fera pis encore. »
And then on the seventh day the child's death took place. And David's servants were in fear of giving him the news of the child's death: for they said, Truly, while the child was still living he gave no attention when we said anything to him: what will he do to himself if we give him word that the child is dead?
19 David s'aperçut que ses serviteurs parlaient tout bas entre eux, et David comprit que l'enfant était mort. David dit à ses serviteurs: « L'enfant est donc mort? » Ils dirent: « Il est mort. »
But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is.
20 Alors David, s'étant levé de terre, se baigna, s'oignit et changea de vêtements; puis il alla dans la maison de Yahweh et se prosterna. Revenu chez lui, il demanda qu'on lui servît à manger, et il mangea.
Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.
21 Ses serviteurs lui dirent: « Qu'est-ce que tu fais là? Lorsque l'enfant vivait, tu jeûnais et tu pleurais, et maintenant que l'enfant est mort, tu te lèves et tu manges du pain! »
Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.
22 Il dit: « Quand l'enfant vivait encore, je jeûnais et je pleurais, car je disais: Qui sait? Yahweh aura peut-être pitié de moi, et l'enfant vivra?
And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?
23 Maintenant qu'il est mort, pourquoi jeûnerais-je? Puis-je encore le faire revenir? J'irai vers lui; mais il ne reviendra pas vers moi. »
But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.
24 David consola Bethsabée, sa femme; il s'approcha d'elle et coucha avec elle, et elle enfanta un fils, qu'il appela Salomon; et Yahweh l'aima,
And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.
25 et il envoya dire par l'intermédiaire de Nathan, le prophète, qui lui donna le nom de Jedidiah, à cause de Yahweh.
And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.
26 Joab, qui assiégeait Rabba des fils d'Ammon, s'empara de la ville royale;
Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.
27 et Joab envoya des messagers à David pour lui dire: « J'ai assiégé Rabba et je me suis déjà emparé de la ville des eaux.
And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.
28 Maintenant, rassemble le reste du peuple, viens camper contre la ville et prends-la, de peur que je ne prenne moi-même la ville, et qu'on ne l'appelle de mon nom. »
So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.
29 David rassembla tout le peuple et, ayant marché sur Rabba, il l'attaqua, et s'en rendit maître.
Then David got all the people together and went to Rabbah and made war on it and took it.
30 Il enleva la couronne de leur roi de dessus sa tête: son poids était d'un talent d'or; et il y avait sur elle une pierre précieuse, et elle fut mise sur la tête de David. Et il emporta de la ville un très grand butin.
And he took the crown of Milcom from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it were stones of great price; and it was put on David's head. And he took a great store of goods from the town.
31 Quant au peuple qui s'y trouvait, il l'en fit sortir et le mit aux scies, aux pics de fer et aux haches de fer, et il les fit passer au moule à briques; il traita de même toutes les villes des fils d'Ammon. Puis David retourna à Jérusalem avec tout le peuple.
And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
