< Isaïe 42 >

1 Voici mon serviteur que je soutiens, mon élu [en qui] mon âme trouve son plaisir. Je mettrai mon Esprit sur lui; il fera valoir le jugement à l’égard des nations.
[Yahweh says, “I want you people to know about] my servant, whom I encourage. I have chosen him, and I am pleased with him. I have given him my Spirit, and he will make certain that all the people-groups do what is right/just.
2 Il ne criera pas, et il n’élèvera pas sa voix, et il ne la fera pas entendre dans la rue.
He will not [show his power by] shouting [DOU] or by talking very loudly.
3 Il ne brisera pas le roseau froissé, et n’éteindra pas le lin qui brûle à peine. Il fera valoir le jugement en faveur de la vérité.
He will not get rid of [anyone who is weak like] [MET] a smashed reed, and he will not [end the life of anyone who is helpless like] [MET] someone would extinguish a dimly burning wick [of an oil lamp]. He will faithfully/continually make sure that judges decide cases justly.
4 Il ne se lassera pas, et il ne se hâtera pas, jusqu’à ce qu’il ait établi le juste jugement sur la terre; et les îles s’attendront à sa loi.
He will not become exhausted or discouraged all during the time that he is causing things to be done justly throughout the earth. Even [people living on the islands in] [MTY] the oceans will confidently wait for [him to teach them] his laws.”
5 Ainsi dit Dieu, l’Éternel, qui a créé les cieux et les a déployés, qui a étendu la terre et ses produits, qui donne la respiration au peuple [qui est] sur elle, et un esprit à ceux qui y marchent:
Yahweh our God created the sky and spread it out. He also created the earth and everything on it. He gives breath to all the people on the earth; he causes them to live [DOU]. [And he is the one who says to his special servant],
6 Moi, l’Éternel, je t’ai appelé en justice; et je tiendrai ta main; et je te garderai; et je te donnerai pour [être] une alliance du peuple, pour [être] une lumière des nations,
“I, Yahweh, have chosen you to show people that I always act righteously/fairly. I will grasp your hand and protect you, and I will present you to [my Israeli] people to be the one who will put into effect my agreement with them. [You will be like] a light to the [other] nations.
7 pour ouvrir les yeux aveugles, pour faire sortir de la prison le prisonnier, [et] du cachot ceux qui sont assis dans les ténèbres.
You will enable blind [IDM] people to see, you will free those who are in prison (OR, who are bound [by the guilt of their sins]) [MET] and release those who are in dark dungeons.
8 Je suis l’Éternel: c’est là mon nom; et je ne donnerai pas ma gloire à un autre, ni ma louange à des images taillées.
I am Yahweh; that is my name. I will not allow anyone else to receive the honor that only I deserve. And I will not allow idols to be praised like only I should be praised.
9 Voici, les premières choses sont arrivées, et je déclare les choses nouvelles: avant qu’elles germent, je vous les ferai entendre.
Everything that I have prophesied has happened, and now I will tell about other things that will happen. I will tell you things that will happen before they happen.”
10 Chantez à l’Éternel un cantique nouveau, sa louange du bout de la terre, vous qui descendez sur la mer, et ce qui la remplit, les îles et ceux qui les habitent!
Sing a new song to Yahweh! Sing to praise him throughout the world! All you people who sail across the oceans, and all you creatures that live in the oceans, and all you people who live on islands far away, sing!
11 Que le désert et ses villes élèvent [la voix], les villages qu’habite Kédar! Que les habitants du rocher exultent! Que du haut des montagnes on jette des cris!
You people who live in towns in the desert, sing loudly! You people who live in the Kedar [area in the north of Arabia], you rejoice also! You people in Sela [city in Edom], you also should sing joyfully; shout [to praise him] from the tops of your mountains!
12 Qu’on donne gloire à l’Éternel, et qu’on déclare sa louange dans les îles!
Even people who live on distant islands should honor Yahweh and sing to praise him.
13 L’Éternel sortira comme un homme vaillant, il éveillera la jalousie comme un homme de guerre; il criera, oui, il jettera des cris; contre ses ennemis il se montrera vaillant.
[It will be as though] Yahweh will march out like [SIM] a mighty soldier; he will show that he is very angry. He will shout a battle-cry, and [then] he will defeat all his enemies.
14 Dès longtemps je suis resté tranquille, je me suis tu, je me suis contenu. Je crierai comme une femme qui enfante, je soufflerai et je serai haletant à la fois.
[He will say], “I have remained silent [DOU] for a long time; I have restrained myself [from doing what I need to do]. But now, like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby, I will cry out and gasp and pant.
15 Je dévasterai les montagnes et les collines, et je dessécherai toute leur verdure; je changerai les rivières en îles, et je mettrai à sec les étangs;
I will level off the hills and mountains, and I will cause all the plants and trees to dry up. I will cause the rivers to become small streams, and little islands will appear in them, and I will cause all the pools to become dry.
16 et je ferai marcher les aveugles par un chemin qu’ils n’ont pas connu, par des sentiers qu’ils n’ont pas connus je les conduirai. Je changerai les ténèbres en lumière devant eux, et les chemins tortueux en ce qui est droit. Je leur ferai ces choses, et je ne les abandonnerai pas.
[My people who have been taken to Babylonia are like] [MET] blind people, [but] I will lead them along a road on which they have not walked before, on a road that they have not seen before. They have felt [very helpless, as though] they were walking in the darkness, but I will take away that darkness and I will make smooth the road that is in front of them. Those are the things that I will do for them; I will not abandon them.
17 Ils se retireront en arrière, ils seront couverts de honte, ceux qui mettent leur confiance en une image taillée, qui disent à une image de fonte: Vous êtes nos dieux.
But those who trust in carved idols, and say to images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be completely humiliated/disgraced.”
18 Écoutez, sourds, et vous, aveugles, regardez pour voir.
You [Israeli people who have acted toward God like] deaf [people], listen [to what Yahweh says]! “You [who have been like] [MET] blind [people], look!
19 Qui est aveugle, si ce n’est mon serviteur, et sourd, comme mon messager que j’ai envoyé? Qui est aveugle comme celui en qui je me confie, et aveugle comme le serviteur de l’Éternel,
No people are [RHQ] as blind as my people, who [should have been] serving me. No people are [RHQ] as much like [MET] deaf people as [the Israelis, who should have been] my messengers. No people are [RHQ] as much like [MET] blind people as those whom I chose to serve me.
20 pour voir bien des choses et ne pas y faire attention? Les oreilles ouvertes, il n’entend pas.
You see and know what are the right things to do, but you do not do them. You hear [what I say to you], but you do not pay attention.”
21 L’Éternel a pris plaisir [en lui] à cause de sa justice: il a rendu la loi grande et honorable.
Because Yahweh is righteous, he has honored his glorious laws.
22 Mais c’est ici un peuple pillé et dépouillé; ils sont tous liés dans des fosses, et ils sont cachés dans des prisons; ils sont devenus un butin, et il n’y a personne qui délivre, – une proie, et il n’y a personne qui dise: Restitue!
But [the armies of Babylon have destroyed Jerusalem] and have completely (plundered/taken away) [DOU] all the valuable things, and they have captured Yahweh’s people and taken them away and put them in prison. They have been captured easily, because there was no one to protect them; there was no one to say that they should be allowed to return home.
23 Qui parmi vous prêtera l’oreille à cela? Qui fera attention, et écoutera ce qui est à venir?
Who among you will listen carefully to these things? Who will pay attention from now on?
24 Qui a livré Jacob pour être une proie, et Israël à ceux qui le pillent? N’est-ce pas l’Éternel, celui contre qui nous avons péché? Et ils n’ont pas voulu marcher dans ses voies, et ils n’ont pas écouté sa loi;
Who allowed the valuable possessions of the people of Israel to be stolen [RHQ, DOU]? It was Yahweh, because he is he one against whom we had sinned; we did not conduct our lives like he wanted us to, and we did not obey his laws.
25 et il a versé sur lui l’ardeur de sa colère et la force de la guerre: et elle l’a embrasé de tous côtés, et il ne l’a pas su; et elle l’a brûlé, et il ne l’a pas pris à cœur.
Therefore, he was extremely angry with us, and he caused our soldiers to be destroyed in battles. [It was as though] [MET] he lit a fire around us, but we did not understand [what he was trying to tell us]. [His being angry with us was like] a fire that would burn us up, but we did not pay attention [IDM].

< Isaïe 42 >