Jérémie 5
1 Courez çà et là par les rues de Jérusalem, et regardez et sachez et cherchez dans ses places si vous trouvez un homme, s’il y a quelqu’un qui fasse ce qui est droit, qui cherche la fidélité, et je pardonnerai à la ville.
[Yahweh said to the people of Jerusalem], “Go up and down every street. Search in the marketplaces to find people who do what is fair/right, who try to be faithful to me. [If you find even one person like that], I will forgive [the people of Jerusalem and not destroy] their city.
2 Et s’ils disent: L’Éternel est vivant! en cela même, ils jurent faussement.
But when people there say, ‘I solemnly declare that as surely as Yahweh lives, [I will do what he says],’ they are lying.”
3 Éternel! tes yeux ne [regardent-ils] pas à la fidélité? Tu les as frappés, mais ils n’en ont point ressenti de douleur; tu les as consumés, ils ont refusé de recevoir la correction; ils ont rendu leurs faces plus dures qu’un roc, ils ont refusé de revenir.
Yahweh, you are certainly [RHQ] searching for [people who tell the] truth. You struck/punished your people, but they did not pay any attention. You crushed them, but they ignored what you were telling them to do. They were extremely stubborn [IDM] and refused to return to you.
4 Et j’ai dit: Voilà, ce sont de pauvres gens, ce sont des fous; car ils ne connaissent pas la voie de l’Éternel, le jugement de leur Dieu.
I thought, “[We cannot expect] these [people to act righteously, because they] are poor; they do not have any sense. They do not know the way Yahweh wants them to conduct their lives; they do not know what God requires them to do.
5 Je m’en irai vers les grands, et je leur parlerai; car eux, ils connaissent la voie de l’Éternel, le jugement de leur Dieu; mais ceux-ci, tous ensemble, ont brisé le joug, rompu les liens.
So, I will go and talk to their leaders, because they [surely] know how God wants them to conduct their lives.” But they also have stopped obeying Yahweh [MET], and they will not allow him to lead them.
6 C’est pourquoi un lion de la forêt les frappera, un loup du soir les ravagera; le léopard veille devant leurs villes, quiconque en sort est déchiré; car leurs transgressions sont multipliées, leurs infidélités se sont renforcées.
Because of that, lions will come out of the forests and kill them; wolves from the desert will attack them; leopards that lurk/wait outside their cities will maul anyone who walks outside the cities. [Those things will happen] because the people have sinned very much against God and have turned away from him very frequently.
7 Pourquoi te pardonnerai-je? Tes fils m’ont abandonné, et ils jurent par ce qui n’est pas Dieu; je les ai rassasiés, et ils ont commis adultère, et sont allés en troupe dans la maison de la prostituée.
Yahweh says, “I cannot [RHQ] forgive these people; [even] their children have abandoned me. When they solemnly declare something, they ask their gods [to show that what they say is true]. I gave my people everything that they needed, but they often went to [the shrines of their idols] and committed adultery there.
8 Chevaux bien nourris, ils courent çà et là, chacun hennit après la femme de son prochain.
[Just like] [MET] well-fed male horses neigh, wanting sex with female horses, each of the men desires to have sex with his neighbor’s wife.
9 Ne punirais-je pas de telles choses? dit l’Éternel; et mon âme ne se vengerait-elle pas d’une nation comme celle-là?
(Should I not punish them for this [RHQ]?/I will certainly get revenge on this nation for this!) I will certainly get revenge [RHQ] on this nation whose people behave like that!
10 Montez sur ses murailles, et détruisez! mais ne détruisez pas entièrement; ôtez ses créneaux, car ils ne sont pas à l’Éternel;
[I will say to your enemies], ‘The people [of Judah and Israel are like a vineyard]. Go along the rows in their vineyards and get rid of [most of] the people, but do not kill all of them. These people do not belong to me, [so get rid of them], [like a gardener] [MET] lops/cuts off branches from a vine.
11 car la maison d’Israël et la maison de Juda ont agi très perfidement envers moi, dit l’Éternel.
The people of Israel and Judah have turned away from me completely.’
12 Ils ont renié l’Éternel, et ont dit: Il n’est pas! et le mal ne viendra pas sur nous; nous ne verrons ni l’épée ni la famine,
They have lied about me and said, ‘He will not punish us! He will not cause us to experience disasters! We will not experience wars or famines!
13 et les prophètes seront du vent, et la parole n’est pas en eux: ainsi leur sera-t-il fait.
What [God’s] prophets say is nothing but hot air! They do not have messages [from God]! We would like [the disasters that they predict] to happen to them!’”
14 C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit l’Éternel, le Dieu des armées: Parce que vous avez prononcé cette parole, voici, je ferai que mes paroles dans ta bouche seront du feu, et ce peuple sera le bois, et le [feu] les consumera.
So, this is what Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, has said to me: “Because my people are saying those things, I will give you a message to tell them [MTY] that will be [like] [MET] a fire, and [these people will be like] [MET] wood that the fire will burn up.
15 Voici, je fais venir de loin une nation contre vous, maison d’Israël, dit l’Éternel, une nation puissante, une nation ancienne, une nation dont tu ne sais pas la langue, et dont tu ne comprends pas la parole.
Listen to this, you people of Israel: I will bring [the army of] a distant nation to attack you. It is a very powerful nation that has existed for a long time. They speak a language that you do not know and which you will not be able to understand.
16 Son carquois est comme un sépulcre ouvert, ils sont tous des hommes vaillants.
Their soldiers are all very strong, and the arrows from their quivers [MET] will (send many Israeli men to their graves/cause many Israeli people to die).
17 Elle dévorera ta moisson et ton pain, elle dévorera tes fils et tes filles, elle dévorera ton menu et ton gros bétail, elle dévorera ta vigne et ton figuier, elle détruira par l’épée tes villes fortes sur lesquelles tu te confiais.
They will eat the food that you have harvested from your fields, and eat your bread. They will kill your sons and daughters, and they will kill your flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle]. They will eat your grapes and your figs. They will [also] destroy your cities that have high walls around them and kill the people with their swords.
18 Mais, même en ces jours-là, dit l’Éternel, je ne vous détruirai pas entièrement.
But even when those things happen, I will not get rid of all of you.
19 Et il arrivera que, quand vous direz: Pourquoi l’Éternel, notre Dieu, nous a-t-il fait toutes ces choses? tu leur diras: Comme vous m’avez abandonné et que vous avez servi des dieux étrangers dans votre pays, ainsi vous servirez les étrangers dans un pays qui n’est pas le vôtre.
And when the survivors ask, ‘Why is Yahweh our God doing this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘You rejected him and worshiped foreign gods in your [own] land, so [now] you will become slaves of foreigners in a land that is not your land.’”
20 Annoncez ceci dans la maison de Jacob, et faites-le entendre dans Juda, disant:
[Yahweh said to me], “Proclaim this to the people of Israel and Judah:
21 Écoutez pourtant ceci, peuple insensé et sans intelligence, qui avez des yeux et ne voyez pas, qui avez des oreilles et n’entendez pas.
Listen to this, you people who are foolish and who do not have any sense: You have eyes, but [it is as though] you cannot see; you have ears, but [it is as though] you cannot hear.
22 Ne me craindrez-vous pas, dit l’Éternel, ne tremblerez-vous pas devant moi, qui ai mis le sable pour limite à la mer, statut perpétuel, qu’elle n’outrepassera pas? Ses vagues se soulèvent, mais elles ne prévaudront pas; et elles bruient, mais elles ne l’outrepasseront pas.
Why do you not revere me [RHQ]? You should [RHQ] tremble when you are in my presence! I, Yahweh, am the one who put a barrier along the shores so that the waters of the ocean cannot cross it [and flood the land]. The waves roll and roar, but they cannot go past that barrier.
23 Mais ce peuple-ci a un cœur indocile et rebelle; ils se sont détournés, et s’en sont allés;
But you people [are not like the waves that obey me]. You people are very stubborn and rebellious. You have constantly turned away from me.
24 et ils n’ont pas dit dans leur cœur: Craignons pourtant l’Éternel, notre Dieu, qui donne les pluies en leur temps, la pluie de la première saison et la pluie de la dernière saison, [et] qui nous garde les semaines ordonnées de la moisson.
You do not say to yourselves, ‘We should revere Yahweh our God, the one who sends us rain at the times when we need it, the one who causes the grain to become ripe at the harvest season.’
25 Vos iniquités ont détourné ces choses, et vos péchés ont retenu de vous le bien.
It is because of the wrong things that you have done, that those good things have not happened; it is because of the sins that you have committed that you have been prevented from receiving those blessings.
26 Car il se trouve des méchants parmi mon peuple; ils épient comme l’oiseleur qui se baisse, ils posent des pièges, ils prennent des hommes.
Among my people are wicked people who hide along the roads to ambush/attack people like [SIM] men who hunt birds (put out nets/set traps) to catch them.
27 Comme une cage est pleine d’oiseaux, ainsi leurs maisons sont pleines de fraude; c’est pourquoi ils sont devenus grands et se sont enrichis.
Like [a hunter has] a cage full of birds [that he has captured], their homes are full of things that they have gotten by deceiving others. So now they are [very] rich and powerful.
28 Ils sont devenus gras et luisants, aussi ils débordent de méchancetés; ils ne jugent pas la cause, la cause de l’orphelin, et ils prospèrent; et ils ne font pas droit aux pauvres.
They are big and fat, and there is no limit to the evil things that they have done. They do not try to defend orphans in the courtrooms, and they do not help poor people to get what they have a right to receive.
29 Ne punirais-je pas de telles choses? dit l’Éternel; mon âme ne se vengerait-elle pas d’une nation comme celle-là?
So I will certainly [RHQ] punish them for doing those things. I will certainly [RHQ] (get revenge on their nation/do to their nation what they deserve).
30 Une chose étonnante et horrible est arrivée dans le pays:
Very appalling/horrible and terrible [DOU] things are happening in this country:
31 les prophètes prophétisent avec mensonge, et les sacrificateurs dominent par leur moyen; et mon peuple l’aime ainsi. Et que ferez-vous à la fin?
Prophets speak [only] lies and priests rule by their own authority, and you people like that! But when you [start to] experience disasters, what will you do [RHQ]?”
