Isaïe 15
1 L’oracle touchant Moab. Car, dans la nuit où elle est dévastée, Ar de Moab est détruite, car, dans la nuit où elle est dévastée, Kir de Moab est détruite: …
[I received] this message [from Yahweh] about the Moab [people-group]: In one night [two of your important cities], Ar and Kir, will be destroyed.
2 Il est monté à Baïth et à Dibon, aux hauts lieux, pour pleurer; Moab hurle sur Nebo et sur Médeba; toutes les têtes sont chauves, toute barbe est coupée.
The people of Dibon, [your capital city, ] will go to their temple to mourn/weep; they will go to [their shrines] on the hilltops to weep. They will wail because of [what happened to] Nebo and Medeba [towns in the south]; they will all shave the hair of their heads, and the men will cut off their beards [to show that they are grieving].
3 Dans ses rues, ils ont ceint le sac; sur ses toits et dans ses places tout gémit, se fondant en pleurs;
In the streets people will wear rough sackcloth, and on their [flat] rooftops and in the [city] plazas everyone will wail, with tears streaming down their faces.
4 et Hesbon pousse des cris, et Elhalé: leur voix est entendue jusqu’à Jahats. C’est pourquoi les gens armés de Moab crient, son âme tremble en lui.
[The people of] Heshbon [city] and Elealeh [towns in the north of Moab] will cry out; people as far away as Jahaz [town in the south] will hear them wailing. Therefore the soldiers of Moab will tremble and cry out and they will be very afraid [IDM].
5 Mon cœur pousse des cris au sujet de Moab; ses fugitifs [vont] jusqu’à Tsoar, [jusqu’à] Églath-Shelishija; car ils montent la montée de Lukhith en pleurant, et sur le chemin de Horonaïm ils élèvent un cri de ruine.
I feel very sorry for [the people of] Moab; they will flee to Zoar and Eglath-Shelishiyah [towns in the far south]. They will cry as they walk up to Luhith [town]. All along the road to Horonaim [town] people will mourn because their country has been destroyed.
6 Car les eaux de Nimrim seront des désolations; car l’herbage est desséché, l’herbe verte a péri, la verdure n’est plus.
The water in Nimrim [Valley] will have dried up. The grass there will be withered; the green plants will [all] be gone, and there will be nothing left that is green.
7 C’est pourquoi, les biens qu’ils ont acquis, et leur réserve, ils les portent au ruisseau des saules.
The people will pick up their possessions and carry them across Willows Brook.
8 Car un cri environne la frontière de Moab: son hurlement [se fait entendre] jusqu’à Églaïm, et le hurlement jusqu’à Beër-Élim.
Throughout the country of Moab, [people] will be crying; people as far away as Eglaim [in the south] and Beer-Elim [in the north] will hear them wailing.
9 Car les eaux de Dimon sont pleines de sang; car je ferai venir encore davantage sur Dimon: le lion sur les réchappés de Moab et sur ce qui reste du pays.
The stream near Dimon will become red from the blood [of people who have been killed], but I will cause the people of Moab to experience even more [trouble]: Lions will attack those who [are trying to] escape from Moab and will [also] attack the people who remain in that country.
