Lamentations 2
1 Comment le Seigneur, dans sa colère, a-t-il couvert d'un nuage la fille de Sion? Il a précipité du ciel sur la terre la magnificence d'Israël; il ne s'est plus souvenu de l'escabeau de ses pieds, au jour de sa colère. BETH.
How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.
2 Le Seigneur a détruit sans pitié toutes les demeures de Jacob; il a renversé dans sa fureur les forteresses de la fille de Juda; il les a jetées par terre; il a profané la royauté et ses princes. GHIMEL.
The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.
3 Dans l'ardeur de sa colère, il a brisé toute force d'Israël; il a ramené sa droite en arrière, devant l'ennemi; il a allumé dans Jacob comme un feu ardent qui dévore de tous côtés. DALETH.
In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.
4 Il a bandé son arc comme fait un ennemi; sa droite s'est levée comme celle d'un assaillant; et il a égorgé tout ce qui charmait les yeux; dans la tente de la fille de Sion, il a versé son courroux comme un feu. HÉ.
His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.
5 Le Seigneur a été comme un ennemi, il a détruit Israël; il a détruit tous ses palais, abattu ses citadelles; il a amoncelé sur la fille de Sion douleur sur douleur. VAV.
The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
6 Il a forcé son enclos, comme un jardin; il a détruit son sanctuaire. Yahweh a fait cesser dans Sion solennités et sabbats; dans l'ardeur de sa colère, il a rejeté avec dédain roi et prêtre. ZAÏN.
And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.
7 Le Seigneur a pris en dégoût son autel, en abomination son sanctuaire; il a livré aux mains de l'ennemi les murs de ses citadelles; on a poussé des cris dans la maison de Yahweh, comme en un jour de fête. HETH.
The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.
8 Yahweh a médité de renverser les murs de la fille de Sion; il a étendu le cordeau, il n'a pas retiré sa main qu'il ne les eût détruits; il a mis en deuil le mur et l'avant-mur; ils gisent tristement ensemble. TETH.
It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.
9 Ses portes sont enfoncées en terre, il en a rompu, brisé les barres; son roi et ses princes sont parmi les nations, il n’y a plus de loi; même ses prophètes ne reçoivent plus de vision de Yahweh. JOD.
Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
10 Ils sont assis par terre, en silence, les anciens de la fille de Sion; ils ont jeté de la poussière sur leur tête, ils sont vêtus de sacs; elles inclinent leur tête vers la terre, les vierges de Jérusalem. CAPH.
The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.
11 Mes yeux se consument dans les larmes, mes entrailles sont émues; mon foie se répand sur la terre, à cause de la blessure de la fille de mon peuple, lorsque enfants et nourrissons tombent en défaillance, sur les places de la ville. LAMED.
My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
12 Ils disent à leurs mères: " Où y a-t-il du pain et du vin? " et ils tombent comme frappés du glaive, sur les places de la ville; et leur âme expire sur le sein de leurs mères. MEM.
They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.
13 Que puis-je te dire? Qui trouver de semblable à toi, fille de Jérusalem? A qui te comparer pour te consoler, vierge, fille de Sion? Car ta plaie est grande comme la mer: qui te guérirait? NUN.
What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?
14 Tes prophètes ont eu pour toi de vaines et folles visions; ils ne t'ont pas dévoilé ton iniquité, afin de détourner de toi l'exil; mais ils t'ont donné pour visions des oracles de mensonge et de séduction. SAMECH.
The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.
15 Ils battent des mains à ton sujet, tous ceux qui passent sur le chemin; ils sifflent, ils branlent la tête sur la fille de Jérusalem; " Est-ce là cette ville qu'on appelait la parfaite en beauté la joie de toute la terre? " PHÉ.
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
16 Ils ouvrent la bouche contre toi, tous tes ennemis; ils sifflent, ils grincent des dents, ils disent: " Nous l'avons engloutie! C'est là le jour que nous attendions, nous y sommes arrivés, nous le voyons! " AÏN.
All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
17 Yahweh a exécuté ce qu'il avait résolu; il a accompli sa parole, qu'il avait prononcée dès les jours anciens; il a détruit sans pitié; il a réjoui l'ennemi à ton sujet, il a élevé la corne de tes oppresseurs. TSADÉ.
The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.
18 Leur cœur crie vers le Seigneur! O muraille de la fille de Sion, laisse couler, comme un torrent, tes larmes, le jour et la nuit; ne te donne aucune relâche, que ta prunelle n'ait point de repos! QOPH.
Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.
19 Lève-toi, pousse des cris pendant la nuit, au commencement des veilles; épanche ton cœur comme de l'eau, devant la face du Seigneur! Lève tes mains vers lui pour la vie de tes petits enfants, qui tombent en défaillance à cause de la faim, aux coins de toutes les rues! RESCH.
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
20 " Vois, Yahweh et considère: qui as-tu jamais traité ainsi? Quoi! des femmes mangent le fruit de leurs entrailles, les petits enfants qu'elles chérissent? SIN. Quoi! Ils sont égorgés dans le sanctuaire du Seigneur, le prêtre et le prophète!
Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?
21 " Ils sont couchés par terre dans les rues, l'enfant et le vieillard; mes vierges et mes jeunes hommes sont tombés par l'épée; tu as égorgé au jour de ta colère, tu as immolé sans pitié. THAV.
The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.
22 " Tu as convoqué, comme à un jour de fête, mes terreurs de toutes parts; au jour de la colère de Yahweh, il n'y a eu ni échappé ni fugitif: ceux que j'avais chéris et élevés, mon ennemi les a exterminés! "
As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.
