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.
ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
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.
BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
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.
GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
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.
DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation 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.
HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
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.
VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
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.
ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
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.
HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
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.
TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found 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.
JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
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.
CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets 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.
LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
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.
MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
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.
NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
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.
SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, 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.
PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, 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.
AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
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.
SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
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.
COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
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!
RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into such a vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary 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.
SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown 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! "
THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.
