Zacharie 11
1 Liban, ouvre tes portes, et que le feu dévore tes cèdres!
Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.
2 Hurle, cyprès! car le cèdre est tombé, les nobles sont dévastés. Hurlez, chênes de Basan! car la forêt inaccessible est abattue.
Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.
3 Une voix du hurlement des bergers, – car leur magnificence est dévastée; une voix du rugissement des jeunes lions, – car l’orgueil du Jourdain est dévasté.
The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.
4 Ainsi dit l’Éternel, mon Dieu: Pais le troupeau de la tuerie,
This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;
5 que leurs possesseurs tuent, sans passer pour coupables, et dont les vendeurs disent: Béni soit l’Éternel, je me suis enrichi! et leurs bergers ne les épargnent pas.
Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
6 Car je n’épargnerai plus les habitants du pays, dit l’Éternel. Et voici, je ferai tomber les hommes dans les mains l’un de l’autre et dans la main de son roi; et ils écraseront le pays; et je ne délivrerai pas de leur main.
For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.
7 Et je me mis à paître le troupeau de la tuerie, voire même les pauvres du troupeau; et je pris deux bâtons: je nommai l’un Beauté, et je nommai l’autre Liens, et je me mis à paître le troupeau.
So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock.
8 Et je détruisis trois des bergers en un mois, et mon âme fut ennuyée d’eux, et leur âme aussi se dégoûta de moi.
And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.
9 Et je dis: Je ne vous paîtrai pas: que ce qui meurt, meure; et que ce qui périt, périsse; et quant à ce qui reste, qu’ils se dévorent l’un l’autre.
And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.
10 Et je pris mon bâton Beauté, et je le brisai, pour rompre mon alliance, que j’avais faite avec tous les peuples.
And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.
11 Et elle fut rompue en ce jour-là; et les pauvres du troupeau, qui prenaient garde à moi, connurent ainsi que c’était la parole de l’Éternel.
And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.
12 Et je leur dis: Si cela est bon à vos yeux, donnez-[moi] mon salaire: sinon, laissez-le. Et ils pesèrent mon salaire, 30 [pièces] d’argent.
And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.
13 Et l’Éternel me dit: Jette-le au potier, [ce] prix magnifique auquel j’ai été estimé par eux. Et je pris les 30 [pièces] d’argent, et je les jetai au potier, dans la maison de l’Éternel.
And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.
14 Et je brisai mon second bâton Liens, pour rompre la fraternité entre Juda et Israël.
Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.
15 Et l’Éternel me dit: Prends encore les instruments d’un berger insensé.
And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.
16 Car voici, je suscite un berger dans le pays, qui ne visitera pas ce qui va périr, qui ne cherchera pas ce qui est dispersé, qui ne pansera pas ce qui est blessé, et ne nourrira pas ce qui est en bon état; mais il mangera la chair de ce qui est gras, et rompra la corne de leurs pieds.
For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.
17 Malheur au pasteur de néant qui abandonne le troupeau! L’épée [tombera] sur son bras et sur son œil droit. Son bras sera entièrement desséché, et son œil droit sera entièrement obscurci.
A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
