Jérémie 11
1 La parole qui fut adressée à Jérémie de la part de Yahweh, en ces termes:
This is [another] message that Yahweh told me:
2 Entendez les paroles de cette alliance, et parlez aux hommes de Juda et aux habitants de Jérusalem.
“Listen to the agreement that I made with [the ancestors of] the people of Jerusalem and [the other cities in] Judah. Then remind them of [that agreement].
3 Et tu leur diras: Ainsi parle Yahweh, Dieu d’Israël: Maudit soit l’homme qui n’écoute pas les paroles de cette alliance,
Then tell them that [I], Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli [people worship], said that I will curse everyone who does not obey what was written in that agreement that I made with them.
4 que j’ai prescrites à vos pères, au jour où je les ai fait sortir de la terre d’Égypte, de la fournaise à fer, en leur disant: Écoutez ma voix et faites ces choses, selon tout ce que je vous commanderai, et vous serez mon peuple, et moi je serai votre Dieu,
It is the same agreement that I made with their ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt. [What happened to them in Egypt was terrible; it was as though they were] living in a hot furnace [MET]. When I brought them out of Egypt, I told them to obey me, and to do everything that I had commanded them to do. [I also told them] that if they obeyed me, they would be my people and I would be their God.
5 afin que j’accomplisse le serment que j’ai fait à vos pères de leur donner un pays où coulent le lait et le miel, comme cela se voit aujourd’hui. Et je répondis: « Oui! Yahweh! »
[Now tell these people that if they obey me], I will do what I promised to do for their ancestors. I will enable them to continue living in this very fertile [IDM] land in which they now live.” I replied, “Yahweh, I hope that what you said will happen.”
6 Et Yahweh me dit: Crie toutes ces paroles dans les villes de Juda et dans les rues de Jérusalem, en disant: Écoutez les paroles de cette alliance et mettez-les en pratique.
Then Yahweh said to me, “Go into the streets of Jerusalem and to the [other] cities in Judah. Proclaim my message to the people. Tell them to listen to the agreement [that I made with their ancestors], and to obey it.
7 Car j’ai instamment averti vos pères depuis le jour où je les ai fait monter du pays d’Égypte jusqu’à ce jour; je les ai sans cesse avertis, en disant: Écoutez ma voix.
When I brought their ancestors out of Egypt, I solemnly pleaded with them many times to obey me, and I am still pleading with them now.
8 Et ils n’ont ni écouté ni prêté l’oreille; chacun d’eux a marché selon l’opiniâtreté de son mauvais cœur. Et j’ai exécuté sur eux toutes les paroles de cette alliance, que je leur avait prescrit d’observer, et qu’ils n’ont pas observée.
But they did not obey me or [even] pay any attention to me. Everyone continued to be stubborn and to do the evil things that they wanted to do. I commanded them to do what was written in the agreement, but they refused. So I punished them in all the ways that I promised that I would.”
9 Yahweh me dit: Il s’est trouvé une conjuration chez les hommes de Juda, et chez les habitants de Jérusalem.
Then Yahweh said to me, “The people of Jerusalem and [the other cities in] Judah are rebelling against me.
10 Ils sont retournés aux iniquités de leurs premiers pères qui ont refusé d’écouter mes paroles, et ils sont allés après d’autres dieux pour les servir. La maison d’Israël et la maison de Juda ont violé mon alliance que j’avais conclue avec leurs pères.
Their ancestors refused to do what I told them to do, and [now] these people have returned to committing the sins that their ancestors committed. They are worshiping other gods. The people of Israel disobeyed the agreement that I made with their ancestors, and [now] the people of Judah have done the same thing.
11 C’est pourquoi ainsi parle Yahweh: Voici que je vais amener sur eux des malheurs, dont ils ne pourront sortir; et, s’ils crient vers moi, je ne les écouterai pas.
So now I, Yahweh, am warning them that I will cause them to experience disasters, and they will not escape them. And when they cry out for me [to help them], I will not pay attention.
12 Et les villes de Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem iront invoquer les dieux auxquels ils offrent de l’encens; mais ces dieux ne les sauveront sûrement pas, au temps de leur malheur.
When that happens, the people in Jerusalem and [other] cities in Judah will [offer sacrifices and] burn incense to their gods and ask for their help, but those gods will not be able to save them when those disasters come to them.
13 Car aussi nombreux que tes villes, sont tes dieux, ô Juda, et aussi nombreux que les rues de Jérusalem, sont les autels que vous avez dressés à une infâme idole, les autels que vous avez dressés pour encenser Baal.
There are more gods in Judah than there are towns in Judah, and the people of Jerusalem have erected as many altars to burn incense [to those gods] as there are streets in Jerusalem.
14 Et toi, n’intercède pas pour ce peuple, et n’élève point en leur faveur de supplication ni de prière; car je n’écouterai point lorsqu’ils m’invoqueront, au temps de leur malheur.
Jeremiah, do not pray for these people, and do not plead with me to rescue them. If you plead with me, I will not pay attention; and if they cry out to me for help when they are in distress, I will not listen to them.”
15 Qu’est-ce que ma bien-aimée a à faire dans ma maison? Des fourberies? Est-ce que les vœux et la chair sacrée enlèveront de dessus toi tes malheurs, que tu puisses te livrer à l’allégresse?
Then Yahweh said, “The people [of Judah] whom I love certainly no longer have [RHQ] a right to come to my temple, because they continually do many evil things. [They think that] continually making sacrifices of meat to me certainly will [RHQ] protect them from disasters, with the result that they will be able to rejoice.
16 Olivier verdoyant, orné de beaux fruits: c’est le nom que t’avait donné Yahweh. Au bruit d’un grand fracas, il y met le feu, et ses rameaux sont brisés.
I previously said that they were like an olive tree full of green leaves with a lot of good olives on it, but [now I will send their enemies to attack] them furiously; [it is as though] I will break off their branches, and [their city] will be destroyed by fire.
17 Yahweh des armées, qui t’avait planté, a décrété le malheur contre toi, à cause du crime de la maison d’Israël et de la maison de Juda, qu’ils ont commis pour m’irriter, en encensant Baal.
[It is as though] the people of Judah and Israel were a beautiful olive tree that I, the Commander of the armies of angels, planted, but [now], by burning incense to [their god] Baal, they have caused me to become [very] angry. So [now] I have decided to destroy them.”
18 Yahweh m’en a informé, et je l’ai su; … alors vous m’avez fait connaître leurs œuvres!
Yahweh revealed to me that [my enemies] were planning to kill me.
19 Moi, j’étais comme un agneau familier, qu’on mène à la boucherie, et je ne savais qu’ils formaient des desseins contre moi: « Détruisons l’arbre avec son fruit! Retranchons-le de la terre des vivants, et qu’on ne se souvienne plus de son nom! »
[Before he did that], I was like a lamb that was being led away to be slaughtered; I did not know what they were planning to do. I did not know that they were saying, “Let’s get rid of this tree and its fruit,” so [I did not know] that they intended to kill me, in order that no one would remember me [MTY].
20 Mais Yahweh des armées juge avec justice; il sonde les reins et les cœurs; je verrai la vengeance que vous tirerez d’eux, car c’est à vous que j’ai confié ma cause.
[Then I prayed], “Commander of the armies of angels, you judge people justly/fairly, and you examine everything that we are thinking [DOU]. Allow me to watch you getting revenge on the people [who want to kill me], because I trust that you will do for me what is right.”
21 C’est pourquoi ainsi parle Yahweh au sujet des hommes d’Anathoth qui en veulent à ta vie et qui disent: « Ne prophétise pas au nom de Yahweh, si tu ne veux mourir de notre main! »
It was the men of [my own town], Anathoth, who wanted to kill me, and they told me that they would kill me if I did not stop prophesying what Yahweh told me to say.
22 C’est pourquoi ainsi parle Yahweh des armées: Je vais les punir; les jeunes hommes mourront par l’épée; leurs fils et leurs filles mourront de faim.
So the Commander of the armies of angels said [about them], “I will punish them. Their young men will be killed in wars, and their children will die because they have no food.
23 Aucun d’eux n’échappera; car j’amènerai le malheur sur les hommes d’Anathoth, l’année où je les visiterai.
I have set a time when I will bring disasters to the people of Anathoth, and when that happens, none of them will remain alive.”
