Jérémie 20
1 Et Pashkhur, fils d’Immer, le sacrificateur (et il était premier intendant dans la maison de l’Éternel), entendit Jérémie prophétiser ces choses.
Pashhur, the son of Immer, was a priest who supervised the temple guards. He heard those things that I had prophesied.
2 Et Pashkhur frappa Jérémie le prophète, et le mit au bloc à la porte haute de Benjamin, dans la maison de l’Éternel.
[So he arrested me]. Then he [commanded guards to] whip me and fasten my feet in (stocks/a wooden frame) at the Benjamin Gate of Yahweh’s temple.
3 Et il arriva, le lendemain, que Pashkhur tira Jérémie du bloc; et Jérémie lui dit: L’Éternel n’appelle pas ton nom Pashkhur, mais Magor-Missabib.
The next day, when Pashhur released me, I said to him, “Pashhur, Yahweh is giving you a new name. From now on, your name will be ‘Surrounded by Terror’,
4 Car ainsi dit l’Éternel: Voici, je te ferai [être] une terreur pour toi et pour tous ceux qui t’aiment; et ils tomberont par l’épée de leurs ennemis, et tes yeux le verront; et je livrerai tout Juda en la main du roi de Babylone, et il les transportera à Babylone, et les frappera de l’épée.
because Yahweh says this [to you]: ‘I will cause you and your friends to be terrified. You will watch them being killed by your enemies’ swords. I will enable the [army of the] king of Babylon to capture the people of Judah. Those soldiers will take some of the people to Babylon, and they will kill others with their swords.
5 Et je livrerai toutes les richesses de cette ville et tout son travail, et tout ce qu’elle a de précieux, et tous les trésors des rois de Juda, je les livrerai en la main de leurs ennemis; et ils les pilleront, et les prendront, et les emporteront à Babylone.
And I will enable their soldiers to take away [other things in] Jerusalem. They will take to Babylon all the very valuable things that belonged to your kings.
6 Et toi, Pashkhur, et tous ceux qui habitent dans ta maison, vous irez en captivité; et tu iras à Babylone, et là tu mourras, et là tu seras enterré, toi et tous ceux qui t’aiment, auxquels tu as prophétisé le mensonge.
And [as for] you, Pashhur, they will take you and all your family to Babylon. You and your family and all your friends who have prophesied things that are lies will die there and be buried there.’”
7 Tu m’as entraîné, ô Éternel! et j’ai été entraîné; tu m’as saisi, et tu as été le plus fort; je suis un objet de dérision tout le jour, chacun se moque de moi.
[One day I said this to Yahweh]: “Yahweh, [when you chose me to be a prophet, ] deceived me, and I allowed you to deceive me. You insisted that I [become a prophet] and you are stronger than I am. And now everyone [HYP] ridicules me. They make fun of me all the day.
8 Car toutes les fois que je parle, je crie, je proclame la violence et la dévastation; car la parole de l’Éternel m’a été à opprobre et à moquerie tout le jour.
When I tell [people your messages], I shout saying, ‘[Yahweh is going to cause you to experience] violence and destruction!’ So because I tell them those messages from you, they insult me and scoff at me all day long.
9 Et j’ai dit: Je ne ferai plus mention de lui, et je ne parlerai plus en son nom; mais elle a été dans mon cœur comme un feu brûlant, renfermé dans mes os; je fus las de [la] retenir, et je ne l’ai pu.
But if I would say, ‘I will never mention Yahweh or say anything about him, [MTY]’ [it would be as though] your message would burn in my inner being like [SIM] a fire; it would be like a fire in my bones. Sometimes I try to remain silent and not proclaim your messages, but I am not able to do that.
10 Car j’ai entendu les diffamations de plusieurs: la terreur de tous côtés! Rapportez, et nous rapporterons! Tous mes familiers guettaient ma chute [disant]: Peut-être se laissera-t-il séduire; et nous prévaudrons contre lui, et nous nous vengerons sur lui.
I hear many people whispering [about me], saying ‘[He is the man who proclaims that there will be things that cause us to] be terrified everywhere. We must tell [the authorities what he is saying]! We must denounce him!’ [Even] my best friends are waiting for me to say something that is wrong. [They are saying], ‘Perhaps we can cause him to say something wrong, and if he does, we will be able to discredit him.’
11 Mais l’Éternel est avec moi comme un homme puissant; c’est pourquoi mes persécuteurs trébucheront, et ne prévaudront pas; ils seront fort honteux, car ils n’ont pas réussi: confusion éternelle qui ne sera point oubliée!
But [you], Yahweh, are helping me like [SIM] a strong warrior, so [it is as though] you will cause those who persecute me to stumble, and they will not defeat me. They will be completely disgraced because of being unable to defeat me; and other people will never forget that they were disgraced.
12 Éternel des armées, qui éprouves le juste, [et] qui vois les reins et le cœur! fais que je voie ta vengeance sur eux; car à toi j’ai découvert ma cause.
Commander of the armies of angels, you examine [all] those who are righteous; you know [all that is in] their inner beings and what they think. Allow me to see you getting revenge on those [who want to harm me], because I trust that you will do for me what is right.”
13 Chantez à l’Éternel, louez l’Éternel! car il a délivré l’âme du pauvre de la main des méchants.
Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh! He rescues [poor and] needy people, from those [SYN] who are wicked.
14 Maudit le jour où je naquis! Que le jour où ma mère m’enfanta ne soit point béni!
But I hope/desire that the day that I was born will be cursed. I do not want [anyone to] celebrate that day.
15 Maudit l’homme qui annonça des nouvelles à mon père, disant: Un enfant mâle t’est né, et qui le combla de joie!
And [as for] that man who brought to my father the news, and caused him to be very happy, by saying “[You wife] has given birth to a son for you”, I hope/desire that he [also] will be cursed.
16 Que cet homme-là soit comme les villes que l’Éternel a renversées sans s’en repentir! Qu’il entende des cris le matin, et des clameurs au temps de midi!
Allow him to be destroyed like the cities that Yahweh destroyed [long ago], without acting mercifully [toward them]. Cause that man to hear the people wailing in the morning, and [to hear the enemy soldiers shout their] battle cries at noon.
17 parce qu’il ne m’a pas fait mourir dès le ventre. Ou ma mère, que n’a-t-elle pas été mon sépulcre! et son ventre, que ne m’a-t-il toujours porté!
[I want that to happen to him] because he did not kill me before I was born. I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb, and that my mother’s body would have been [like] [MET] my grave.
18 Pourquoi suis-je sorti du ventre, pour voir le trouble et l’affliction, et pour que mes jours se consument dans l’opprobre?
I have continually experienced much trouble and sorrow, and I am disgraced now when I am about to die; why was it necessary [RHQ] for me to me born?
