Isaïe 52
1 Réveille-toi, réveille-toi, revêts ta force, Sion! Revêts tes habits de fête, Jérusalem, ville sainte! Car l'incirconcis et l'impur n'entreront plus chez toi désormais.
Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
2 Secoue ta poussière, relève-toi, assieds-toi, Jérusalem; détache les chaînes de ton cou, captive, fille de Sion!
Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
3 Car ainsi parle Yahweh: Vous avez été vendus pour rien, et sans argent vous serez rachetés!
For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
4 Car ainsi parle le Seigneur Yahweh: Mon peuple descendit jadis en Egypte pour y séjourner puis Assur l'opprima sans cause.
For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
5 Et maintenant qu'ai-je à faire ici? — oracle de Yahweh, puisque mon peuple a été enlevé sans droit? Ses tyrans poussent des hurlements, — oracle de Yahweh, et sans cesse, tout le jour, mon nom est outragé.
Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
6 C'est pourquoi mon peuple connaîtra mon nom; oui, il saura en ce jour que c'est moi qui dis: " Me voici! "
For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
7 Qu'ils sont beaux sur les montagnes les pieds du messager, qui publie la bonne nouvelle de la paix; de celui qui annonce le bonheur, qui publie le salut; de celui qui dit à Sion: " Ton Dieu règne! "
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
8 La voix de tes sentinelles! Elles élèvent la voix, elles poussent ensemble des cris d'allégresse, car elles voient de leurs yeux le retour de Yahweh en Sion.
The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
9 Eclatez ensemble en cris de joie, ruines de Jérusalem! Car Yahweh a consolé son peuple, il a racheté Jérusalem.
Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
10 Yahweh a découvert le bras de sa sainteté, aux yeux de toutes les nations; et toutes les extrémités de la terre verront le salut de notre Dieu.
The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
11 Partez, partez, sortez de là; ne touchez rien d'impur! Sortez du milieu d'elle; purifiez-vous; vous qui portez les vases de Yahweh.
Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
12 Car vous ne sortirez pas avec précipitation, et vous ne vous en irez pas en fuyant; car Yahweh marche devant vous, et le Dieu d'Israël est votre arrière garde!
For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
13 Voici que mon Serviteur prospérera; il grandira, il sera exalté, souverainement élevé.
See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
14 De même que beaucoup ont été dans la stupeur en le voyant, — tant il était défiguré, son aspect n'étant plus celui d'un homme, ni son visage celui des enfants des hommes, —
As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
15 ainsi il fera tressaillir des nations nombreuses. Devant lui les rois fermeront la bouche; car ils verront ce qui ne leur avait pas été raconté, et ils apprendront ce qu'ils n'avaient pas entendu.
So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.
