Jérémie 5
1 Parcourez les rues de Jérusalem et regardez, informez-vous; cherchez sur ses places publiques si vous y trouvez un homme, s’il en est un qui pratique la justice, et qui recherche la fidélité, et je ferai grâce à la ville.
[Yahweh said to the people of Jerusalem], “Go up and down every street. Search in the marketplaces to find people who do what is fair/right, who try to be faithful to me. [If you find even one person like that], I will forgive [the people of Jerusalem and not destroy] their city.
2 Même quand ils disent: « Yahweh est vivant! » c’est pour le mensonge qu’ils jurent.
But when people there say, ‘I solemnly declare that as surely as Yahweh lives, [I will do what he says],’ they are lying.”
3 Yahweh, vos yeux ne cherchent -ils pas la fidélité? Vous les avez frappés, et ils n’ont pas eu de douleur; vous les avez exterminés, et ils n’ont pas voulu recevoir l’instruction; ils ont endurci leur face plus que le roc; ils ont refusé de revenir.
Yahweh, you are certainly [RHQ] searching for [people who tell the] truth. You struck/punished your people, but they did not pay any attention. You crushed them, but they ignored what you were telling them to do. They were extremely stubborn [IDM] and refused to return to you.
4 Et moi, je disais: Ce ne sont que les petits. Ils agissent en insensés, car ils ne savent pas la voie de Yahweh, la loi de leur Dieu.
I thought, “[We cannot expect] these [people to act righteously, because they] are poor; they do not have any sense. They do not know the way Yahweh wants them to conduct their lives; they do not know what God requires them to do.
5 J’irai donc vers les grands et je leur parlerai; car eux, ils savent la voie de Yahweh, La loi de leur Dieu… Mais eux aussi, ils ont tous ensemble brisé le joug, rompu les liens!
So, I will go and talk to their leaders, because they [surely] know how God wants them to conduct their lives.” But they also have stopped obeying Yahweh [MET], and they will not allow him to lead them.
6 C’est pourquoi le lion de la forêt les a frappés, le loup du désert les ravage; la panthère est aux aguets devant leurs villes, tout homme qui en sort est déchiré; car leurs transgressions sont nombreuses, et leurs révoltes se sont accrues.
Because of that, lions will come out of the forests and kill them; wolves from the desert will attack them; leopards that lurk/wait outside their cities will maul anyone who walks outside the cities. [Those things will happen] because the people have sinned very much against God and have turned away from him very frequently.
7 Pour quelle raison te ferais-je grâce? Tes fils m’ont abandonné, et ils jurent par ce qui n’est pas Dieu. Je les ai rassasiés, et ils ont été adultères; ils vont par troupes dans la maison de la prostituée.
Yahweh says, “I cannot [RHQ] forgive these people; [even] their children have abandoned me. When they solemnly declare something, they ask their gods [to show that what they say is true]. I gave my people everything that they needed, but they often went to [the shrines of their idols] and committed adultery there.
8 Étalons bien repus, vagabonds, chacun d’eux hennit à la femme de son prochain.
[Just like] [MET] well-fed male horses neigh, wanting sex with female horses, each of the men desires to have sex with his neighbor’s wife.
9 Et je ne les punirais pas pour ces crimes! — oracle de Yahweh; et d’une nation telle que celle-là je ne me vengerais pas!
(Should I not punish them for this [RHQ]?/I will certainly get revenge on this nation for this!) I will certainly get revenge [RHQ] on this nation whose people behave like that!
10 Escaladez ses murs et détruisez, mais non pas entièrement; enlevez ses sarments, car ils ne sont pas à Yahweh!
[I will say to your enemies], ‘The people [of Judah and Israel are like a vineyard]. Go along the rows in their vineyards and get rid of [most of] the people, but do not kill all of them. These people do not belong to me, [so get rid of them], [like a gardener] [MET] lops/cuts off branches from a vine.
11 Car elles m’ont été tout à fait infidèles, la maison d’Israël et la maison de Juda, — oracle de Yahweh.
The people of Israel and Judah have turned away from me completely.’
12 Ils ont renié Yahweh et dit: « Il n’est pas, et le malheur ne viendra pas sur nous; nous ne verrons ni l’épée, ni la famine.
They have lied about me and said, ‘He will not punish us! He will not cause us to experience disasters! We will not experience wars or famines!
13 Les prophètes ne sont que du vent, et personne ne parle en eux: qu’il leur soit fait ainsi à eux-mêmes! »
What [God’s] prophets say is nothing but hot air! They do not have messages [from God]! We would like [the disasters that they predict] to happen to them!’”
14 C’est pourquoi ainsi parle Yahweh, le Dieu des armées: Parce que vous dites cette parole-là, voici que je mets ma parole dans ta bouche comme un feu, et ce peuple sera comme du bois et ce feu les dévorera.
So, this is what Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, has said to me: “Because my people are saying those things, I will give you a message to tell them [MTY] that will be [like] [MET] a fire, and [these people will be like] [MET] wood that the fire will burn up.
15 Me voici qui amène sur vous une nation qui vient de loin, maison d’Israël, — oracle de Yahweh; c’est une nation forte, c’est une nation antique, une nation dont tu ne connais pas la langue, et tu n’entends pas ce qu’elle dit.
Listen to this, you people of Israel: I will bring [the army of] a distant nation to attack you. It is a very powerful nation that has existed for a long time. They speak a language that you do not know and which you will not be able to understand.
16 Son carquois est un sépulcre ouvert; ils sont tous des héros.
Their soldiers are all very strong, and the arrows from their quivers [MET] will (send many Israeli men to their graves/cause many Israeli people to die).
17 Elle dévorera ta moisson et ton pain; elle dévorera tes fils et tes filles; elle dévorera tes brebis et tes bœufs; elle dévorera ta vigne et ton figuier; elle détruira par l’épée tes villes fortes dans lesquelles tu te confies.
They will eat the food that you have harvested from your fields, and eat your bread. They will kill your sons and daughters, and they will kill your flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle]. They will eat your grapes and your figs. They will [also] destroy your cities that have high walls around them and kill the people with their swords.
18 Mais même en ces jours-là, — oracle du Yahweh, je ne vous détruirai pas entièrement.
But even when those things happen, I will not get rid of all of you.
19 Et quand vous direz: « Pour quelle raison Yahweh, notre Dieu, nous a-t-il fait toutes ces choses? » Tu leur diras: « Comme vous m’avez abandonné, pour servir dans votre pays un dieu étranger, ainsi vous servirez des étrangers dans un pays qui n’est pas à vous. »
And when the survivors ask, ‘Why is Yahweh our God doing this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘You rejected him and worshiped foreign gods in your [own] land, so [now] you will become slaves of foreigners in a land that is not your land.’”
20 Annoncez ceci dans la maison de Jacob, et publiez-le dans Juda, en ces termes:
[Yahweh said to me], “Proclaim this to the people of Israel and Judah:
21 Écoutez donc ceci, peuple insensé et sans cœur! Ils ont des yeux et ne voient point, des oreilles et ils n’entendent point!
Listen to this, you people who are foolish and who do not have any sense: You have eyes, but [it is as though] you cannot see; you have ears, but [it is as though] you cannot hear.
22 Ne me craindrez-vous pas, — oracle de Yahweh; ne tremblerez-vous pas devant moi, moi qui ai mis le sable pour limite à la mer, borne éternelle, qu’elle ne franchira pas? Ses flots s’agitent, et ils sont impuissants; ils mugissent, et ils ne la dépassent pas.
Why do you not revere me [RHQ]? You should [RHQ] tremble when you are in my presence! I, Yahweh, am the one who put a barrier along the shores so that the waters of the ocean cannot cross it [and flood the land]. The waves roll and roar, but they cannot go past that barrier.
23 Mais ce peuple a un cœur indocile et rebelle; ils se retirent et s’en vont.
But you people [are not like the waves that obey me]. You people are very stubborn and rebellious. You have constantly turned away from me.
24 Ils ne disent pas dans leur cœur: « Craignons Yahweh notre Dieu lui qui donne la pluie, celle de la première saison, et celle de l’arrière-saison en son temps, et qui nous garde les semaines destinées à la moisson. »
You do not say to yourselves, ‘We should revere Yahweh our God, the one who sends us rain at the times when we need it, the one who causes the grain to become ripe at the harvest season.’
25 Vos iniquités ont dérangé cet ordre; vos péchés vous privent de ces biens.
It is because of the wrong things that you have done, that those good things have not happened; it is because of the sins that you have committed that you have been prevented from receiving those blessings.
26 Car il se trouve des pervers dans mon peuple; ils épient comme l’oiseleur qui se baisse, ils dressent des pièges et prennent des hommes.
Among my people are wicked people who hide along the roads to ambush/attack people like [SIM] men who hunt birds (put out nets/set traps) to catch them.
27 Comme une cage est pleine d’oiseaux, ainsi leurs maisons sont pleines de fraude; aussi deviennent-ils puissants et riches;
Like [a hunter has] a cage full of birds [that he has captured], their homes are full of things that they have gotten by deceiving others. So now they are [very] rich and powerful.
28 Ils s’engraissent, ils reluisent. Ils dépassent même la mesure du mal; ils ne font pas justice, justice à l’orphelin… et ils prospèrent!… Ils ne font pas droit aux malheureux.
They are big and fat, and there is no limit to the evil things that they have done. They do not try to defend orphans in the courtrooms, and they do not help poor people to get what they have a right to receive.
29 Et je ne punirais pas ces crimes! — oracle de Yahweh; et d’une nation telle que celle-là je ne me vengerais pas!…
So I will certainly [RHQ] punish them for doing those things. I will certainly [RHQ] (get revenge on their nation/do to their nation what they deserve).
30 Des choses abominables, horribles, se font dans le pays.
Very appalling/horrible and terrible [DOU] things are happening in this country:
31 Les prophètes prophétisent en mentant, les prêtres gouvernent d’accord avec eux! Et mon peuple l’aime ainsi! Et que ferez-vous au terme de tout cela?
Prophets speak [only] lies and priests rule by their own authority, and you people like that! But when you [start to] experience disasters, what will you do [RHQ]?”
