Isaïe 29
1 Malheur à Ariel, à Ariel, la cité où David demeura! Ajoutez année à année, que les fêtes se succèdent;
[This is a message from Yahweh: ] Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where [King] David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.
2 mais j’enserrerai Ariel; et il y aura soupir et gémissement; et elle me sera comme un Ariel.
But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, [and when that happens], people will weep and lament [very much]. Your city will become like [MET] an altar [to me] [where people are burned as sacrifices].
3 Et je camperai comme un cercle contre toi, et je t’assiégerai au moyen de postes [armés], et j’élèverai contre toi des forts;
I will cause your enemies [to come to your city]; they will surround it by [building] towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.
4 et, humiliée, tu parleras depuis la terre, et ta parole sortira sourdement de la poussière, et ta voix, sortant de la terre, sera comme celle d’un évocateur d’esprits; et ta parole s’élèvera de la poussière comme un murmure.
Then you will talk [as though you were] buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.
5 Et la multitude de tes ennemis sera comme une fine poussière, et la multitude des hommes terribles comme la balle menue qui passe; et [cela] arrivera en un moment, subitement.
But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away [by the wind]. [It will happen] very suddenly.
6 Tu seras visitée de par l’Éternel des armées avec tonnerre et tremblement de terre et une grande voix, avec tourbillon et tempête, et une flamme de feu dévorant.
The Commander of the armies of angels will come [to help you] with thunder and an earthquake and a very loud noise, with a strong wind and a big storm and a fire that will burn up everything.
7 Et la multitude de toutes les nations qui font la guerre à Ariel, et tous ceux qui combattent contre elle et contre ses remparts, et qui l’enserrent, seront comme un songe d’une vision de nuit.
[Then] the armies of all the nations that will be attacking Jerusalem will quickly disappear like a dream in the night [DOU]. Those who will be attacking Jerusalem will suddenly vanish/disappear.
8 Et ce sera comme celui qui rêve ayant faim, et voici, il mange, et il se réveille, et son âme est vide, – et comme celui qui rêve ayant soif, et voici, il boit, et il se réveille, et voici, il est las et son âme est altérée: ainsi il arrivera à la multitude de toutes les nations qui font la guerre contre la montagne de Sion.
People who are asleep dream about eating food, [but] when they wake up, they are still hungry. People who are thirsty dream about drinking something, [but] when they wake up they are still thirsty. It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Zion Hill; [they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, ] [they will realize that they have not succeeded].
9 Soyez étonnés et soyez stupéfaits! aveuglez-vous et soyez aveugles! Ils sont enivrés, mais non de vin; ils chancellent, mais non par la boisson forte.
You [people of Jerusalem], be amazed and surprised [about this] [IRO]! Do not believe [what I have said] [SAR]! And continue to be blind [IRO] [about what Yahweh is doing]. You are stupid, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine. You stagger, but not from drinking alcoholic drinks.
10 Car l’Éternel a répandu sur vous un esprit de profond sommeil; il a bandé vos yeux; les prophètes et vos chefs, les voyants, il les a couverts.
Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding [and telling you his messages], [it is as though] he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.
11 Et la vision de tout vous sera comme les paroles d’un livre scellé qu’on donne à quelqu’un qui sait lire, en disant: Lis ceci, je te prie; et il dit: Je ne puis, car il est scellé;
[Yahweh gave me] this vision; [but] for you, it is only words on a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to those who can read [and request that they read it], they will say, “We cannot read it because the scroll is sealed.”
12 et on donne le livre à celui qui ne sait pas lire, en disant: Lis ceci, je te prie; et il dit: Je ne sais pas lire.
When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we do not know how to read.”
13 Et le Seigneur dit: Parce que ce peuple s’approche de moi de sa bouche, et qu’ils m’honorent de leurs lèvres, et que leur cœur est éloigné de moi, et que leur crainte de moi est un commandement d’hommes enseigné,
[So] the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I [desire]. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.
14 c’est pourquoi, voici, j’agirai encore merveilleusement, et je ferai une œuvre merveilleuse envers ce peuple: la sagesse de ses sages périra, et l’intelligence de ses intelligents se cachera.
Therefore, again I will do something to amaze these people; I will perform many miracles. And [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are wise are not really wise, and [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are intelligent are not really intelligent.
15 Malheur à ceux qui cachent profond, loin de l’Éternel, [leur] conseil, et dont les actions sont dans les ténèbres, et qui disent: Qui nous voit, et qui nous connaît?
Terrible things will happen to those who try to conceal from me, Yahweh, the [evil] things that they plan to do; they do those things in the darkness and they think, ‘Yahweh certainly cannot [RHQ] see us; he cannot [RHQ] know what we are doing!’
16 Vos perversités!… Le potier sera-t-il estimé comme l’argile, pour que la chose faite dise de celui qui l’a faite: Il ne m’a pas faite? et que ce qui est formé dise de celui qui l’a formé: Il n’a pas d’intelligence?
They are extremely foolish! [They act as though] they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”
17 N’y a-t-il pas encore très peu de temps, et le Liban sera converti en un champ fertile, et le champ fertile sera réputé une forêt?
Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
18 Et en ce jour-là les sourds entendront les paroles du livre, et les yeux des aveugles, [délivrés] de l’obscurité et des ténèbres, verront;
At that time, deaf people will [be able to hear]; [they will be able to] hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will [be able to see]; [they will be able to] see things when it is gloomy and [even] when it is dark.
19 et les débonnaires augmenteront leur joie en l’Éternel, et les pauvres d’entre les hommes s’égaieront dans le Saint d’Israël.
Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].
20 Car l’homme violent ne sera plus, et le moqueur aura pris fin; et tous ceux qui veillent pour l’iniquité seront retranchés,
There will be no more people who ridicule [others] and no more arrogant people. And those who plan to do evil things will be executed.
21 [ceux] qui tiennent un homme coupable pour un mot, qui tendent des pièges à ceux qui reprennent à la porte, et qui font fléchir [le droit] du juste par des choses futiles.
Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court [persuade judges to] make unjust decisions.
22 C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit à la maison de Jacob l’Éternel qui racheta Abraham: Maintenant Jacob ne sera plus honteux, et maintenant sa face ne sera plus pâle;
That is why Yahweh, who rescued Abraham, says about the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed; no longer will they show on their faces that they are ashamed.
23 car quand il verra ses enfants, l’œuvre de mes mains au milieu de lui, ils sanctifieront mon nom, et ils sanctifieront le Saint de Jacob, et ils craindront le Dieu d’Israël;
When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.
24 et ceux qui errent en esprit auront de l’intelligence, et les désobéissants apprendront la bonne doctrine.
When that happens, those who have not been able to think well will think clearly, and those who complain [about what I am doing] will accept what I am teaching them.”
