Abdias 1
1 La vision d’Abdias. – Ainsi dit le Seigneur, l’Éternel, touchant Édom. Nous avons entendu une rumeur de par l’Éternel, et un ambassadeur a été envoyé parmi les nations: Levez-vous! et levons-nous contre lui pour la guerre.
This is a message that Yahweh our God gave to me, Obadiah, about the Edom [people-group]. Yahweh our God has told me this about [the people of] Edom: “I, Yahweh, have sent a messenger to other nations, telling them to prepare to go and attack Edom.”
2 Voici, je t’ai fait petit parmi les nations; tu es fort méprisé.
And Yahweh says this to the people of Edom: “I will soon cause you to become the weakest and most despised nation [on the earth].
3 L’arrogance de ton cœur t’a séduit, toi qui demeures dans les creux du rocher, ta haute habitation; [toi] qui dis dans ton cœur: Qui me fera descendre par terre?
Your [capital city] is high in the rocky cliffs, and you are very proud; you think that you are safe from being attacked by your enemies [RHQ], but you [IDM] have deceived yourselves.
4 Si tu t’élèves comme l’aigle, et que parmi les étoiles tu mettes ton nid, je te ferai descendre de là, dit l’Éternel.
And I tell you that even if [you had wings and] could fly higher than eagles fly, and if you could make your homes among the stars, I would bring you [crashing] down from there.
5 Si des voleurs, si des pillards de nuit venaient chez toi (comme tu es ruiné!) voleraient-ils plus que ce qui leur suffit? Si des vendangeurs venaient chez toi, ne laisseraient-ils pas des grappillages?
When thieves break into someone’s house during the night, they certainly [RHQ] steal only the things that they want. And people who pick grapes always [RHQ] leave a few grapes on the vines. But your country will be completely destroyed!
6 Comme Ésaü est fouillé! comme ses choses cachées sont mises à découvert!
Everything that is valuable will be taken away. [Your enemies] will find and take away even the valuable things that you have hidden.
7 Tous tes alliés t’ont poussé à la frontière; ceux qui étaient en paix avec toi t’ont trompé, ils ont prévalu contre toi; [ceux qui mangeaient] ton pain ont mis un piège sous toi. Il n’y a pas d’intelligence en lui!
All (your allies/nations who promised to help you) will turn against you, and they will force you to leave your country/land. Those with whom you have peace now will trick/deceive you and defeat you. Those who eat meals with you now are planning to trap you, and [then they will say to you], ‘You are not [RHQ] as clever [as you thought you were]!’
8 N’est-ce pas en ce jour-là, dit l’Éternel, que je détruirai du milieu d’Édom les sages, et de la montagne d’Ésaü, l’intelligence?
I, Yahweh, declare that at the time that I destroy Edom, I will punish the men who live in those cliffs who [thought that they] were wise.
9 Et tes hommes forts, ô Théman, seront terrifiés, afin que chacun soit retranché de la montagne d’Ésaü par le carnage.
The soldiers from Teman [town] will become terrified; all you people who are descendants of Esau will be (wiped out/killed).
10 À cause de la violence [faite] à ton frère Jacob, la honte te couvrira, et tu seras retranché pour toujours.
You acted cruel in a cruel way toward your relatives who are descendants of Jacob, [the twin brother of your ancestor Esau]. So now you will be disgraced forever; you will be completely destroyed.
11 Au jour où tu te tins vis-à-vis, au jour où des étrangers emportaient ses richesses, et où des forains entraient dans ses portes et jetaient le sort sur Jérusalem, toi aussi tu étais comme l’un d’eux.
Foreigners entered the gates of Jerusalem and (cast lots/threw small stones that were marked) to decide what valuable things they would take away; but you were as bad as those foreigners, because you just stood there [and did not help the Israelis].
12 Mais tu n’aurais pas dû regarder le jour de ton frère, le jour de son désastre; et tu n’aurais pas dû te réjouir au sujet des fils de Juda, au jour de leur destruction, et tu n’aurais pas dû ouvrir ta bouche toute grande au jour de la détresse.
You should not have (gloated/been happy) about the disaster that the Israelis were experiencing. You should not have been happy when their towns were ruined. You should not have made fun [of them] when they were suffering.
13 Tu n’aurais pas dû entrer dans la porte de mon peuple, au jour de leur calamité; ni regarder, toi non plus, sa misère, au jour de sa calamité; et tu n’aurais pas dû porter [la main] sur ses richesses au jour de sa calamité;
They are my people, so you should not have entered their [city] gates when they were experiencing those disasters and you should not have laughed at them. And you should not have taken away their [valuable] possessions.
14 et tu n’aurais pas dû te tenir au carrefour pour exterminer ses réchappés, et tu n’aurais pas dû livrer ceux des siens qui étaient demeurés de reste au jour de la détresse.
You should not have stood at crossroads to catch those who were [trying to] escape. You should not have [captured them and] put them into the hands of [their enemies] when they were experiencing those disasters.”
15 Car le jour de l’Éternel est proche, contre toutes les nations: comme tu as fait, il te sera fait; ta récompense retombera sur ta tête.
“There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge [and punish] all the nations. And you [people of Edom] will experience the same [disasters] that you caused [others to experience]. The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.
16 Car, comme vous avez bu sur ma montagne sainte, toutes les nations boiront continuellement; et elles boiront, et elles avaleront, et elles seront comme si elles n’avaient pas été.
[My people in Jerusalem have been punished] because I was very angry with them. [It is as though] [MET] they drank [a cup of very bitter liquid] on Zion, my sacred hill. But [I] will punish [MET] all the other nations even more severely, and cause them to disappear completely.
17 Et sur la montagne de Sion il y aura délivrance; et elle sera sainte, et la maison de Jacob possédera ses possessions.
But some [people in Jerusalem will escape], and Jerusalem will become a very holy/sacred place. Then the descendants of Jacob will [conquer and] possess again the land that truly belongs to them.
18 Et la maison de Jacob sera un feu, et la maison de Joseph, une flamme; et la maison d’Ésaü sera du chaume; et elles y mettront le feu et la dévoreront; et il n’y aura pas de reste de la maison d’Ésaü, car l’Éternel a parlé.
The descendants [MTY] of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like [MET] a fire, and the people [MTY] of Edom will be like [MET] stubble that will be completely burned in that fire. Not one person will remain alive. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it.”
19 Et ceux du midi posséderont la montagne d’Ésaü, et ceux du pays plat, les Philistins; et [les fils d’Israël] posséderont la campagne d’Éphraïm et la campagne de Samarie; et Benjamin [possédera] Galaad.
The Israeli people [who live] in the southern desert are the ones who will capture Edom. And those [who live in] the western foothills will capture the Phoenicia [region] and the areas of Ephraim and Samaria. And people of the tribe of Benjamin will conquer the Gilead [region].
20 Et les captifs de cette armée des fils d’Israël [posséderont] ce qui appartenait aux Cananéens jusqu’à Sarepta, et les captifs de Jérusalem, qui [avaient été] à Sepharad, posséderont les villes du midi.
Those who were (exiled in/forced to go to) [Babylon] will [return to their land] [and] capture the Phoenicia [region] as far north as Zarephath [on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea]. People of Jerusalem who were captured and taken to Sardis, [the capital city of the Lydia region], will capture the towns in the southern desert.
21 Et des sauveurs monteront sur la montagne de Sion pour juger la montagne d’Ésaü. Et le royaume sera à l’Éternel.
The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it, and Yahweh will be their king.
