Zacharie 2
1 Et je levai les yeux, et je regardai; et voici un homme, et dans sa main un cordeau à mesurer.
Then I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line/tape.
2 Et je dis: Où vas-tu? Et il me dit: [Je vais] pour mesurer Jérusalem, pour voir quelle est sa largeur et quelle est sa longueur.
I asked him, “Where are you going?” He replied, “[I am going] to measure Jerusalem, to determine how wide it is and how long it is.”
3 Et voici, l’ange qui parlait avec moi sortit, et un autre ange sortit à sa rencontre,
Then the angel who had been talking to me started to leave, and another angel walked toward him.
4 et lui dit: Cours, parle à ce jeune homme, disant: Jérusalem sera habitée comme les villes ouvertes, à cause de la multitude des hommes et du bétail [qui seront] au milieu d’elle.
That other angel said to him, “Run and tell that young man that [some day] there will be very many people and livestock in Jerusalem, with the result that there will be too many to live inside the city walls; many will [live outside] the walls.
5 Et moi, je lui serai, dit l’Éternel, une muraille de feu tout autour, et je serai [sa] gloire au milieu d’elle.
And Yahweh says that he [himself] will be [like] [MET] a wall of fire around [the city], and he will be there with his glory.”
6 Ho, Ho! fuyez donc du pays du nord, dit l’Éternel, car je vous ai dispersés aux quatre vents des cieux, dit l’Éternel.
Yahweh declares [to the people who were exiled to Babylonia], “Run! Flee from Babylonia [MTY], the country east [of Israel], and flee in all directions from the places where I caused you to be scattered!
7 Ho! échappe-toi, Sion, toi qui habites chez la fille de Babylone!
You people [who previously lived in] Jerusalem and who [now] live in Babylon, flee from there!
8 Car ainsi dit l’Éternel des armées: Après la gloire, il m’a envoyé vers les nations qui ont fait de vous leur proie; car celui qui vous touche, touche la prunelle de son œil.
The [armies of the] nations that [attacked you and] took away your valuable possessions have attacked those who are very precious to the Commander of the armies of angels [IDM]. So he says this about me: ‘After I have honored him and sent him to [rebuke] the nations,
9 Car voici, je secoue ma main sur elles, et elles seront la proie de ceux qui les servaient; et vous saurez que l’Éternel des armées m’a envoyé.
[it is as though] I will strike them with my fist, with the result that those who were their slaves will [now] take back their possessions from those who caused them to become slaves.’ And when that happens, you will know that the Commander of the armies of angels is the one who sent me.”
10 Exulte, et réjouis-toi, fille de Sion! car voici, je viens et je demeurerai au milieu de toi, dit l’Éternel.
Yahweh says, “[You people of] Jerusalem [APO], shout and be happy, [because] I will be coming [to you] and I will live among you!”
11 Et beaucoup de nations se joindront à l’Éternel en ce jour-là, et elles me seront pour peuple, et je demeurerai au milieu de toi; et tu sauras que l’Éternel des armées m’a envoyé à toi.
At that time, [people of] many nations will be united to Yahweh and will become his people. He will live among [all of] you; and you will know that the Commander of the armies of angels [is the one who] sent me to you.
12 Et l’Éternel possédera Juda [comme] sa part sur la terre sainte, et il choisira encore Jérusalem.
[The people of] Judah will be a very special part of his sacred country, and Jerusalem will again be the city that he has chosen.
13 Que toute chair fasse silence devant l’Éternel, car il s’est réveillé de sa demeure sainte.
Everyone, [everywhere, ] should be silent in the presence of Yahweh, because he [again] will come [down] from the sacred place where he lives in heaven [to do great things for us].
