Michée 2
1 Malheur à ceux qui méditent la vanité et qui préparent le mal sur leurs lits! À la lumière du matin, ils l’exécutent, parce que c’est au pouvoir de leur main.
Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night, planning to do wicked things. You get up at dawn, and you do those things, [as soon as] you are able to do them.
2 Et ils convoitent des champs et les ravissent, et des maisons, et ils s’en emparent; et ils oppriment l’homme et sa maison, l’homme et son héritage.
You want fields [that belong to other people], so you seize them; you also take their houses. You cheat people to get their homes, taking away the property that belongs to their families.
3 C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit l’Éternel: Voici, je médite contre cette famille un mal d’où vous ne pourrez pas retirer vos cous; et vous ne marcherez pas la tête haute, car c’est un temps mauvais.
Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: “I will cause you people to experience disasters, and you will not be able to escape [MTY] from them. You will no [longer] walk around proudly, because when those things happen, it will be a time of much trouble for you.
4 En ce jour-là, on vous prendra pour proverbe, et on se lamentera dans une douloureuse lamentation; on dira: Nous sommes entièrement détruits; il a changé la portion de mon peuple: comme il me l’a ôtée! À celui qui se détourne [de l’Éternel] il a partagé nos champs.
At that time, [your enemies] will make fun of you; they will ridicule you by singing this sad song about you: ‘We are completely ruined; Yahweh is taking our land/fields from us, and he will give it to those who will capture us.’”
5 C’est pourquoi tu n’auras personne qui étende le cordeau pour [faire] un lot dans la congrégation de l’Éternel.
So [when it is the time for the land to be given back to you] people who belong to Yahweh, there will be no one [MTY] who will be able to (cast lots/throw marked stones) to determine which land belongs to whom.
6 Ne prophétisez point, prophétisent-ils. S’ils ne prophétisent pas à ceux-ci, l’ignominie ne s’éloignera pas.
The people [who heard me say that] replied to me, “Do not prophesy such things! Do not say that [Yahweh] is going to humiliate us [by causing us to experience disasters]!”
7 Toi qui es appelée la maison de Jacob: l’Éternel est-il impatient? Sont-ce là ses actes? Mes paroles ne font-elles pas du bien à celui qui marche avec droiture?
But you people [MTY] of Israel should not [RHQ] talk like that! The Spirit of Yahweh will certainly not [RHQ] be patient [with people who say such things]! People who continually do things that are righteous will certainly [RHQ] like/appreciate what I say.
8 Naguère encore mon peuple s’est levé comme un ennemi: vous enlevez le manteau avec la tunique à ceux qui passent en sécurité, qui se détournent de la guerre;
[But Yahweh says], “[Recently] my people have been acting toward me like an enemy. When soldiers return from fighting [against their enemies], you [rich people refuse to return the coats of those poor soldiers who have borrowed money from you] [and given you their coats to guarantee that they will pay back the money that they borrowed from you]. [It is as though] you are waiting to forcefully take their coats off their backs!
9 vous avez chassé les femmes de mon peuple des maisons de leurs délices; de dessus leurs enfants, vous avez ôté ma magnificence, pour toujours.
You have forced women to leave their nice homes, and you have stolen from their children forever the (blessings/good things) that I wanted to give them.
10 Levez-vous et allez-vous-en! car ce n’est pas ici un lieu de repos, à cause de la souillure qui amène la ruine: la ruine est terrible!
[So] get up and leave [here]! This is not a place where you can rest [and be safe/protected], because you have (defiled it/caused it to be a place that I hate); it will be completely destroyed.
11 S’il y a un homme qui marche selon le vent et le mensonge, qui mente, [disant]: Je te prophétiserai au sujet du vin et de la boisson forte! il sera le prophète de ce peuple.
[You people want] a prophet who will lie to you, saying ‘I will preach [that you should drink] plenty of wine and [other] alcoholic drinks!’ That is the [kind of] prophet who [would please] you.”
12 Je te rassemblerai certainement, Jacob, toi, tout entier; je réunirai certainement le résidu d’Israël; je les mettrai ensemble comme le menu bétail de Botsra, comme un troupeau au milieu de son pâturage. Ils bruiront à cause [de la multitude] des hommes.
“[But some day], you descendants of Jacob, you Israeli people who have survived, I will bring you back [from (exile/other countries)], I will gather you together like [SIM] [a shepherd gathers his] sheep from the pasture into a pen [DOU]; there will be many of you in your land/country.
13 Celui qui fait la brèche est monté devant eux; ils ont fait la brèche et ont passé par la porte, et sont sortis par elle, et leur roi est passé devant eux, et l’Éternel est à leur tête.
Your leader will enable them to leave the countries where they have been exiled; he will lead them out of the gates [of their enemies’ cities], [back to your own country]. Your king will lead them; [it is I], Yahweh, who will be their king!”
