Jérémie 8
1 En ce temps-là, dit l’Éternel, on sortira de leurs sépulcres les os des rois de Juda, et les os de ses princes, et les os des sacrificateurs, et les os des prophètes, et les os des habitants de Jérusalem,
Yahweh says, “At the time [that your corpses are scattered on the ground], [your enemies will] break open the graves of your kings and [other] officials who lived in Judah, and the graves of your priests and prophets and other people who lived there.
2 et on les étendra devant le soleil, et devant la lune, et devant toute l’armée des cieux, qu’ils ont aimés, et qu’ils ont servis, et après lesquels ils ont marché, et qu’ils ont recherchés, et devant lesquels ils se sont prosternés: ils ne seront pas recueillis, et ne seront pas enterrés; ils seront du fumier sur la face du sol.
They will take out their bones [from their graves] and [dishonor them by] scattering them on the ground under the sun and the moon and the stars— those are the gods which my people loved and served and worshiped. No one will gather up their bones and bury them [again]; they will remain scattered on the ground like dung.
3 Et tout le résidu choisira la mort plutôt que la vie, ceux qui restent de cette méchante famille dans tous les lieux où j’aurai chassé ceux qui sont de reste, dit l’Éternel des armées.
And all the people of this wicked nation [who are still alive and] whom I have exiled to other countries will say, ‘We would prefer to die than to continue to stay alive [here in these countries].’ [That will be true because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
4 Et tu leur diras: Ainsi dit l’Éternel: Est-ce qu’on tombe, et qu’on ne se relève pas? Est-ce qu’on se détourne, et qu’on ne revient pas?
[Yahweh said to me, “Jeremiah], tell the people that this is what [I], Yahweh, am saying to them: ‘When people fall down, they get up again, do they not [RHQ]? When people are going along a road and find out that they are walking on the wrong road, they go back [and find the correct road], do they not [RHQ]?
5 Pourquoi ce peuple de Jérusalem s’est-il détourné par un égarement continuel? Ils tiennent ferme à la tromperie, ils refusent de revenir.
[Yes, they do], so why do these people [of Judah] continue [trusting in those idols that have deceived them]? They continue turning away from me, [even though I have warned them].
6 J’ai fait attention, et j’ai écouté: ils ne parlent pas droitement, il n’y a personne qui se repente de son iniquité, disant: Qu’ai-je fait? Tous ils retournent à leur course, comme le cheval qui se précipite dans la bataille.
I have listened carefully [DOU] [to what they say], but they do not say what they should say. Not one of them is sorry for having sinned. No one says, “I have done [RHQ] wicked things.” They are [sinning and] doing what they want to as fast as [SIM] a horse that is running into a battle.
7 Même la cigogne dans les cieux connaît sa saison; et la tourterelle, et l’hirondelle, et la grue, prennent garde au temps où elles doivent venir, mais mon peuple ne connaît pas le jugement de l’Éternel.
All the birds [that fly south for the (winter/cold season)] know the time that they need to fly south, and they all return at the right time the following year. But my people [are not like those birds]! They do not know what [I], Yahweh, require them to do.
8 Comment dites-vous: Nous sommes sages, et la loi de l’Éternel est avec nous? – Mais voici, la plume menteuse des scribes [en] a fait une fausseté.
Your men who teach you [the laws that Moses wrote] have been saying false things [about those laws]. [So], why [RHQ] do they [continue] saying, “We are [very] wise [because] we have the laws of Yahweh”?
9 Les sages sont couverts de honte, ils ont peur, et sont pris; voici, ils ont méprisé la parole de l’Éternel, et quelle sagesse ont-ils?
Those teachers, who think that [IRO] they are wise, will be ashamed/disgraced and dismayed when they are taken [to other countries by their enemies] because they sinned by rejecting what I told them. Truly, they were not [RHQ] very wise to do that!
10 C’est pourquoi je donnerai leurs femmes à d’autres, leurs champs à ceux qui les posséderont; car depuis le petit jusqu’au grand, ils sont tous adonnés au gain déshonnête; depuis le prophète jusqu’au sacrificateur, tous usent de fausseté.
So, I will give their wives to other men; I will give their fields to [the enemy soldiers] who conquer them. All the people, including those who are important and those who are not important, deceive [others] in order to obtain their possessions. Even [my] prophets and my priests do that.
11 Et ils ont pansé la plaie de la fille de mon peuple légèrement, disant: Paix, paix! et il n’y avait point de paix.
[They act as though the sins of my people] are not serious, [like] [MET] wounds that do not need to be cleaned and bandaged. They tell the people that everything will go well with them, [but that is not true]; things will not go well with them.
12 Avaient-ils honte, parce qu’ils avaient commis l’abomination? Ils n’ont eu même aucune honte, et ils ne savent pas ce que c’est que d’être confus; c’est pourquoi ils tomberont parmi ceux qui tombent; au temps de leur visitation ils trébucheront, dit l’Éternel.
They should be [RHQ] ashamed when they do disgusting things [RHQ], but they do not even know how to show on their faces that they are ashamed [about their sins]. So, [they will be killed, and] their corpses [also] will lie among the corpses of others who have been slaughtered [by their enemies]. They will be killed when I punish them.
13 Je les ôterai entièrement, dit l’Éternel. Il n’y a pas de raisins sur la vigne, et pas de figues sur le figuier, et la feuille est flétrie; et je les livrerai à ceux qui passeront sur eux.
I will [allow their enemies to] take away the figs and grapes that the people would have harvested from their fields. Their fruit trees will all wither. They will not receive [all] the blessings that I prepared for them. [This will certainly happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.’”
14 Pourquoi sommes-nous là assis? Assemblez-vous, et entrons dans les villes fortes, et là nous garderons le silence; car l’Éternel, notre Dieu, nous a réduits au silence et nous a fait boire de l’eau de fiel, car nous avons péché contre l’Éternel.
[Then the people will say], “(Why should we wait here [in these small towns]?/We should not wait here [in these small towns].) [RHQ]! We should go to the cities that have high walls around them, [but even if we do that] we will be killed there, because Yahweh our God has decided that we must be destroyed; [it is as though] [MET] he has given us a cup of poison to drink, because we sinned against him.
15 On attend la paix, et il n’y a rien de bon, – le temps de la guérison, et voici l’épouvante.
We hoped/desired that things would go well for us, but things have not gone well. We hoped that bad things would not happen to us any more, but only things that terrify us [are happening to us].
16 De Dan nous avons entendu le ronflement de ses chevaux; au bruit des hennissements de ses puissants [coursiers] tout le pays a tremblé; ils sont venus, et ont dévoré le pays et ce qu’il contient, la ville et ceux qui y habitent.
People [far north in Israel] in [the city of] Dan can already hear the snorting of the horses of their enemies [who are preparing to attack us]. [It is as though] the entire land [of Judah] is shaking as their army approaches; they are coming to destroy our land and everything in it, the people and the cities.”
17 Car voici, j’envoie au milieu de vous des serpents, des vipères, contre lesquels il n’y a point de charmes, et ils vous mordront, dit l’Éternel.
[Yahweh says], “I will send [those enemy soldiers to Judah], and they will be like [MET] poisonous snakes among you. No one will be able to stop them from attacking you [MET]; they will attack you like snakes do, [and kill you].”
18 Ô ma consolation dans ma douleur! Mon cœur est languissant au-dedans de moi.
I grieve very much [for the people of Judah], and my grieving does not end. I am very sad [IDM].
19 Voici, la voix du cri de la fille de mon peuple [vient] d’un pays lointain: L’Éternel n’est-il pas dans Sion? Son Roi n’est-il pas au milieu d’elle? Pourquoi m’ont-ils provoqué par leurs images taillées, par les vanités de l’étranger?
Throughout our land, the people ask, “Has Yahweh abandoned Jerusalem? Is [he], our city’s king, no longer there?” [Yahweh replies], “Why do the people cause me to become very angry by [worshiping] idols and foreign gods?” [RHQ]
20 La moisson est passée, l’été est fini, et nous ne sommes pas sauvés.
[The people say], “The harvest [season] is finished, the (summer/hot season) has ended, [and we hoped that we would receive blessings from Yahweh], but he has not rescued us [from our enemies].”
21 Je suis brisé de la ruine de la fille de mon peuple; je mène deuil, l’épouvante m’a saisi.
I cry because my people have been crushed. I mourn, and I am completely dismayed.
22 N’y a-t-il point de baume en Galaad? N’y a-t-il point là de médecin? Car pourquoi n’a-t-on pas appliqué un appareil de pansement à la fille de mon peuple?
[I ask], “Surely there is [RHQ] medicinal balm in the Gilead [region]! Surely there are [RHQ] doctors there!” But my people have been badly wounded [in their spirits], and nothing can heal them.
