Psaumes 88
1 Cantique. Psaume. Pour les fils de Coré. Au chef de musique, sur Mahalath-Leannoth. Pour instruire. D’Héman, l’Ezrakhite. Éternel, Dieu de mon salut! j’ai crié de jour [et] de nuit devant toi.
Yahweh God, you who rescues me, all during each day I call out [to you] to help me, and I cry out to you during each night also.
2 Que ma prière vienne devant toi, incline ton oreille à mon cri.
Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you [for help]!
I have experienced many troubles/difficulties, and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
4 Je suis compté parmi ceux qui descendent dans la fosse, je suis comme un homme qui n’a pas de force,
Because I have no more strength, [other people also] consider that I will soon die.
5 Gisant parmi les morts, comme les tués qui sont couchés dans le sépulcre, desquels tu ne te souviens plus, et qui sont retranchés de ta main.
I am like a corpse that has been abandoned; I am like dead people who lie in their graves, people who have been completely forgotten, because you do not take care of them any more.
6 Tu m’as mis dans une fosse profonde, dans des lieux ténébreux, dans des abîmes.
[It is as though] you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
7 Ta fureur s’est appesantie sur moi, et tu m’as accablé de toutes tes vagues. (Sélah)
[It seems like] you are very angry with me, and [it is as though] you have crushed me like [ocean] waves [crash down on people] [MET].
8 Tu as éloigné de moi ceux de ma connaissance, tu m’as mis en abomination auprès d’eux; je suis enfermé, et je ne puis sortir.
You have caused my friends to (avoid/stay away from) me; I have become repulsive to them. [It is as though] I am in a prison and cannot escape.
9 Mon œil se consume d’affliction; j’ai crié à toi, Éternel, tous les jours; j’ai étendu mes mains vers toi.
My eyes cannot see well because I cry very much. Yahweh, every day I call out to you [to help me]; I lift up my hands to you [while I pray].
10 Feras-tu des merveilles pour les morts? ou les trépassés se lèveront-ils pour te célébrer? (Sélah)
You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!
11 Racontera-t-on ta bonté dans le sépulcre, ta fidélité dans l’abîme?
Corpses in the grave certainly do not tell about your faithfully loving us [RHQ], and in the place where people are finally destroyed, no one tells about what you faithfully [do for us] [RHQ].
12 Connaîtra-t-on tes merveilles dans les ténèbres, et ta justice dans le pays de l’oubli?
No one in the deep dark pit ever sees the miracles that you perform [RHQ], and no one in the place where people have been completely forgotten tells about your being good to us.
13 Mais moi, Éternel! je crie à toi, et dès le matin ma prière te prévient.
But [as for me], Yahweh, I cry out to you [to help me]; each morning I pray to you.
14 Éternel! pourquoi as-tu rejeté mon âme, [et] me caches-tu ta face?
Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]? Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?
15 Je suis affligé et expirant dès ma jeunesse; je porte tes terreurs, je ne sais où j’en suis.
All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am (in despair/very discouraged) because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
16 Les ardeurs de ta colère ont passé sur moi, tes frayeurs m’ont anéanti;
[I feel that] you have crushed me because of your being angry with me; the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me.
17 Elles m’ont environné comme des eaux tout le jour, elles m’ont entouré toutes ensemble.
[I feel as though] they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are (closing in on/crushing) me from all sides.
18 Tu as éloigné de moi amis et compagnons; ceux de ma connaissance [me sont] des ténèbres.
You have caused [even] my friends and others whom I love to avoid me, and [it is as though] the only friend that I have is darkness.
