Jérémie 23
1 Malheur aux pasteurs qui détruisent et dispersent le troupeau de ma pâture! dit l’Éternel.
Yahweh declares, “Terrible things will happen to [the leaders] [MET] [of my people—those who are like] shepherds of [the people who are like] my sheep—because they have scattered my people and sent them away, and have not taken care of them.
2 C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit l’Éternel, le Dieu d’Israël, quant aux pasteurs qui paissent mon peuple: Vous avez dispersé mon troupeau, et vous les avez chassés, et vous ne les avez pas visités; voici, je visite sur vous l’iniquité de vos actions, dit l’Éternel.
So, this is what [I, ] Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli [people worship], say to those leaders: ‘Instead of taking care of my people and [leading them to places where they are safe, like a shepherd does for] his sheep, you have scattered them. So I will punish you for the evil things that you have done.
3 Et moi, je rassemblerai le reste de mon troupeau de tous les pays où je les aurai chassés, et je les ferai retourner à leurs pâturages, et ils fructifieront et multiplieront.
But later I will gather those who are still alive, from the countries where I have forced them to go. I will bring them back to their own country, where they will have many children, and their number/population will increase.
4 Et je susciterai sur eux des pasteurs qui les paîtront; et ils ne craindront plus, et ne seront pas effrayés, et il n’en manquera aucun, dit l’Éternel.
[Then] I will appoint [other] leaders for my people, leaders who will take care of them. And my people will never be afraid [DOU] of anything again, and none of them will be [like a] lost [sheep].’”
5 Voici, les jours viennent, dit l’Éternel, et je susciterai à David un Germe juste; et il régnera en roi, et prospérera, et exercera le jugement et la justice dans le pays.
Yahweh [also] says, “Some day I will appoint for you a righteous man who will be a descendant of King David. He will be a king who rules wisely. He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
6 Dans ses jours Juda sera sauvé et Israël demeurera en sécurité; et c’est ici le nom dont on l’appellera: L’Éternel notre justice.
At that time, all the Israeli people [DOU] will be saved [from their enemies], and they will be safe. And his name will be ‘Yahweh, the one who vindicates/defends us.’”
7 C’est pourquoi, voici, des jours viennent, dit l’Éternel, où l’on ne dira plus: L’Éternel est vivant, qui a fait monter les fils d’Israël du pays d’Égypte,
Yahweh [also] says that at that time, people [who are solemnly promising to do something] will no longer say, “[I will do it as surely] as Yahweh lives, who rescued the Israeli people from Egypt.”
8 mais: L’Éternel est vivant, qui a fait monter et qui a ramené la semence de la maison d’Israël du pays du nord, et de tous les pays où je les avais chassés; et ils habiteront en leur terre.
Instead, they will say, “[I will do it] as surely as Yahweh lives, who brought [us] Israeli people back to our own land, from the land to the northeast and from all the [other] countries to which he had exiled us.” And they will live in their own land [again].
9 À cause des prophètes, mon cœur est brisé au-dedans de moi; tous mes os tremblent; je suis comme un homme ivre, et comme un homme que le vin a surmonté, à cause de l’Éternel, et à cause de ses paroles saintes.
I am very shocked because of the sacred message that Yahweh has spoken about [what will happen to] the [false] prophets; [it is as though] all my bones shake. I stagger like a man who is drunk after drinking a lot of wine.
10 Car le pays est rempli d’adultères, car le pays est en deuil à cause de l’exécration; les pâturages du désert sont desséchés; leur course est mauvaise, et leur force est injuste.
The land is full of [people who commit] adultery; and [Yahweh] has cursed the land. Even the pastures in the desert are all dried up, because the people do what is evil, and [the false prophets] use their power to do things that are not just/fair.
11 Car, tant le prophète que le sacrificateur sont profanes; même dans ma maison j’ai trouvé leur iniquité, dit l’Éternel.
Yahweh says, “[Yes, even] the priests and the prophets are ungodly; they do wicked things even in my temple.
12 C’est pourquoi leur chemin leur sera comme des lieux glissants dans les ténèbres; ils y seront poussés, et ils y tomberont; car je ferai venir du mal sur eux, en l’année de leur visitation, dit l’Éternel.
Therefore, [it will be as though] the paths that they walk on are slippery. [It will be as though] they are being chased in the darkness, and there they will fall down, because I will cause them to experience disasters at the time that I will punish them. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
13 Et dans les prophètes de Samarie j’ai vu de la folie; ils ont prophétisé par Baal, et ont fait errer mon peuple Israël.
[Previously] I saw that the prophets in Samaria were doing something that was wrong; they were prophesying, saying that Baal [gave them the messages that they were proclaiming], and they were deceiving my people.
14 Et dans les prophètes de Jérusalem j’ai vu des choses horribles, commettre adultère et marcher dans le mensonge; ils fortifient les mains de ceux qui font le mal, en sorte qu’aucun ne revienne de son iniquité; ils me sont tous comme Sodome, et ses habitants, comme Gomorrhe.
And [now] I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem doing terrible things. They commit adultery and habitually tell lies. They encourage evil people to continue to do evil things, with the result that the people do not stop sinning. Those prophets are as wicked as the people in Sodom and Gomorrah were.
15 C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit l’Éternel des armées quant aux prophètes: Voici, je leur fais manger de l’absinthe et leur fais boire de l’eau de fiel; car c’est des prophètes de Jérusalem que l’impiété s’est répandue par tout le pays.
So, this is what the Commander of the armies of angels says about those [false] prophets: “I will give those prophets bitter things to eat and poison to drink, because it is because of them that this land is filled with [people who do] wicked things.”
16 Ainsi dit l’Éternel des armées: N’écoutez pas les paroles des prophètes qui vous prophétisent; ils vous entraînent à des choses vaines, ils disent la vision de leur cœur, non [celle qui sort] de la bouche de l’Éternel.
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Do not pay any attention to what those [false] prophets say to you, because they are just deceiving you. They tell you about visions that they have thought/created [only] in their own minds, not about visions that I have given them.
17 Ils disent continuellement à ceux qui me méprisent: L’Éternel dit: Vous aurez la paix. Et à tous ceux qui marchent dans l’obstination de leur cœur ils disent: Il ne viendra point de mal sur vous.
They habitually say to those who hate me, ‘[Yahweh says that] you will have peace.’ And they say to those who stubbornly do what they want to do, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you [because of your doing those things].’
18 Car qui s’est tenu dans le conseil secret de l’Éternel, en sorte qu’il ait vu et entendu sa parole? Qui a été attentif à sa parole, et a écouté?
But none of them has ever been in a council [meeting] in heaven in order to listen to a message from me. None of them has paid attention to anything that [I], Yahweh, have said.
19 Voici, une tempête de l’Éternel, la fureur, est sortie; et une tempête tourbillonnante fondra sur la tête des méchants.
So, listen to this: I will punish them; it will be [like] a great storm; it will come down [like] a whirlwind, swirling around the heads of those wicked people.
20 La colère de l’Éternel ne retournera pas jusqu’à ce qu’il ait exécuté et accompli les pensées de son cœur. À la fin des jours vous le comprendrez avec intelligence.
I will not stop being angry until I completely accomplish all that I have planned. In the future, you will understand [all of] this clearly.”
21 Je n’ai pas envoyé ces prophètes, et ils ont couru; je ne leur ai pas parlé, et ils ont prophétisé;
[Yahweh also says, ] “I have not appointed those prophets, but they run [around telling people their messages]. I did not speak to them, but they [continue to] prophesy.
22 mais, s’ils s’étaient tenus dans mon conseil secret et avaient fait entendre mes paroles à mon peuple, ils les auraient détournés de leur mauvaise voie et de l’iniquité de leurs actions.
If they had been in my council [meetings], they would have been able to speak messages from me, and they would have caused people to turn away from committing evil things.”
23 Suis-je un Dieu de près, dit l’Éternel, et non un Dieu de loin?
Yahweh [also] says, “Am I a God who is only nearby? No, I am a God who is far away, also.
24 Un homme se cachera-t-il dans quelque cachette où je ne le voie pas? dit l’Éternel. N’est-ce pas moi qui remplis les cieux et la terre? dit l’Éternel.
So, no one can hide in some secret place with the result that I cannot see him. I am everywhere, in heaven and on the earth! [That is what I], Yahweh, say!
25 J’ai entendu ce que les prophètes disent, prophétisant le mensonge en mon nom, disant: J’ai eu un songe, j’ai eu un songe!
I have heard those prophets prophesy lies, saying that they are telling people messages from me. They say, ‘[Listen to me tell you] the dream that God gave me last night! I [really] had this dream!’
26 Jusques à quand [cela] sera-t-il dans le cœur des prophètes qui prophétisent le mensonge et qui sont des prophètes de la tromperie de leur cœur,
How long will they continue to do this? How long will those lying prophets continue to prophesy things that come only from their own minds?
27 qui pensent faire oublier mon nom à mon peuple par leurs songes que chacun raconte à son compagnon, comme leurs pères ont oublié mon nom pour Baal?
They think that because of the dreams that they tell to each other, people will forget me, like their ancestors forgot about me when they started to worship Baal.
28 Que le prophète qui a un songe récite le songe, et que celui qui a ma parole énonce ma parole en vérité. Qu’est-ce que la paille à côté du froment? dit l’Éternel.
Allow those [false] prophets to tell people their dreams, but those who have messages that [really] come from me should proclaim those messages faithfully. I, Yahweh, say [that like] straw and grain are certainly very different, [my messages and the messages from those false prophets are certainly very different].
29 Ma parole n’est-elle pas comme un feu, dit l’Éternel, et comme un marteau qui brise le roc?
[It is as though] my messages [burn] like a fire; they [strike people’s inner beings like] someone strikes a rock with a hammer and smashes it into pieces.
30 C’est pourquoi, voici, dit l’Éternel, j’en veux aux prophètes qui volent mes paroles chacun à son prochain.
Therefore, [I, ] Yahweh say, 'I oppose all those prophets who steal messages from each other and claim that those messages came from me.
31 Voici, dit l’Éternel, j’en veux aux prophètes qui usent de leur langue, et disent: Il dit.
I oppose those prophets who speak their own messages but claim that those messages came from me.
32 Voici, dit l’Éternel, j’en veux à ceux qui prophétisent des songes faux, et qui les récitent, et font errer mon peuple par leurs mensonges et par leurs vanteries; et moi je ne les ai pas envoyés, et je ne leur ai pas donné de commandement; et ils ne profiteront de rien à ce peuple, dit l’Éternel.
I oppose those prophets who falsely say that I told them something in a vision, but they are [only] telling lies that cause my people to sin. I did not send those prophets. I did not even appoint them [to be prophets]. And they have no messages that will benefit my people at all.' [That is what I, ] Yahweh, declare.”
33 Et si ce peuple, ou un prophète, ou un sacrificateur, t’interroge, disant: Quel est l’oracle de l’Éternel? tu leur diras: Quel oracle? Je vous abandonnerai, dit l’Éternel.
[Yahweh said to me], “If one of those prophets or priests or one of the [other] people asks you, ‘What problem has Yahweh told you about [now]?’, you must reply, ‘You are the problem! And Yahweh says that he will abandon you!’
34 Et quant au prophète, et au sacrificateur, et au peuple qui dit: Oracle de l’Éternel, – je punirai cet homme-là et sa maison.
And if any prophet or priest or anyone [else falsely] says, ‘[I have] a prophecy from Yahweh,’ I will punish that person and his family.
35 Ainsi vous direz, chacun à son compagnon et chacun à son frère: Qu’a répondu l’Éternel, et qu’a dit l’Éternel?
What you should continually ask each other is, ‘[When you spoke to Yahweh, ] what did he reply? What is he saying [to us]?’
36 Et vous ne ferez plus mention de l’oracle de l’Éternel, car la parole de chacun lui sera pour oracle; car vous avez perverti les paroles du Dieu vivant, de l’Éternel des armées, notre Dieu.
But stop saying ‘[I have] a prophecy/message from Yahweh,’ because those who say that are doing it only because they want people to accept their ideas, and by doing that they distort/change the messages that are from our God, the Commander of the armies of angels.
37 Ainsi tu diras au prophète: Que t’a répondu l’Éternel, et qu’a dit l’Éternel?
This is what you should ask each prophet: ‘What did Yahweh reply [when you talked to him]? What is he saying [to us]?’
38 Et si vous dites: Oracle de l’Éternel; – à cause de cela, ainsi dit l’Éternel: Parce que vous dites cette parole: Oracle de l’Éternel, et que j’ai envoyé vers vous, disant: Ne dites pas: Oracle de l’Éternel;
If he replies, ‘[What I told you] is a prophecy/message from Yahweh,’ you should say to him, ‘You have continued to say, “[I received] a prophecy/message from Yahweh” even though I told you to not claim that you have received prophecies/messages from Yahweh.’
39 – à cause de cela, voici, je vous oublierai entièrement, et je vous rejetterai loin de ma face, vous et la ville que j’ai donnée à vous et à vos pères;
So I [, Yahweh, ] will get rid of you [false prophets]. I will expel you from my presence. And I will get rid of this city that I gave to you and to your ancestors.
40 et je ferai venir sur vous un opprobre éternel, et une éternelle confusion, et elle ne sera point oubliée.
I will cause people to make fun of you forever. People will never forget that you were disgraced.”
