Exode 15
1 Alors Moïse et les enfants d’Israël chantèrent l’hymne suivant à l’Éternel. Ils dirent: "Chantons l’Éternel, il est souverainement grand; coursier et cavalier, il les a lancés dans la mer.
Then Moses/I sang this song, and the Israeli people sang with him: “I will sing to Yahweh, because he has triumphed gloriously; He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea!
2 Il est ma force et ma gloire, l’Éternel! Je lui dois mon salut. Voilà mon Dieu, je lui rends hommage; le Dieu de mon père et je le glorifie.
Yahweh is the one who makes me strong, and he is the one I sing about. He is the one who has saved me. He is (my God/God, the one I worship), and I will praise him. He is the one my father worshiped, and I will tell [others] how great he is.
3 L’Éternel est le maître des batailles; Éternel est son nom!
Yahweh is a warrior; Yahweh is his name.
4 Les chars de Pharaon et son armée, il les a précipités dans la mer; l’élite de ses combattants se sont noyés dans la mer des Joncs.
He has thrown the king’s chariots and his army into the sea; His best officers all drowned in the Red Sea (OR, Gulf of Suez).
5 L’Abîme s’est fermé sur eux; au fond du gouffre ils sont tombés comme une pierre.
The [water covered them like] a flood; they sank to the bottom like a stone.
6 Ta droite, Seigneur, est insigne par la puissance; Ta droite, Seigneur, écrase l’ennemi.
O Yahweh, your right arm has awesome power; with that power [MTY], O Yahweh, you have crushed/smashed the enemy into pieces.
7 Par ta souveraine majesté tu renversas tes adversaires; tu déchaînes ton courroux. Il les consume comme du chaume.
You have gloriously defeated your enemies. Because you were angry with them, you have [destroyed them] like a fire burns up straw [SIM].
8 Au souffle de ta face les eaux s’amoncellent, les ondes se dressent comme une digue, les flots se figent au sein de la mer.
You blew on the sea, and the water piled up high; the water stood up like two walls. In the deepest part of the sea [the water] became thick/solid, [as though] it was frozen.
9 Il disait, l’ennemi: 'Courons, atteignons! Partageons le butin! Que mon âme s’en repaisse!" Tirons l’épée, que ma main les extermine!…'
[Our] enemies said, ‘We will pursue them and catch up to them. We will draw our swords and strike them. After we defeat them, we will divide up the spoils. We will take [from them] all we want.’
10 Toi, tu as soufflé, l’océan les a engloutis; ils se sont abîmés comme le plomb au sein des eaux puissantes.
But you blew on them with your breath, and then the sea covered them. They sank like lead/rocks in the big waves.
11 Qui t’égale parmi les forts, Éternel? Qui est, comme toi, paré de sainteté; inaccessible à la louange, fécond en merveilles?
Yahweh, among their gods, there is no god like you [RHQ]! You are glorious, completely different from all that you made. (There is no god like you!/What god is like you?) [RHQ] There is no one who can perform all kinds of miracles [DOU] like you do [RHQ]!
12 Tu as étendu ta droite, la terre les dévore.
When you stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed up [our enemies]
13 Tu guides, par ta grâce, ce peuple que tu viens d’affranchir; tu le diriges, par ta puissance, vers ta sainte demeure.
You faithfully loved the people you rescued; with your power you are leading them to the land that you have set apart.
14 A cette nouvelle, les peuples s’inquiètent, un frisson s’empare des habitants de la Philistée.
The people of [other] nations will hear [what you have done]; and they will tremble. The people in Philistia will be terrified.
15 A leur tour ils tremblent, les chefs d’Édom; les vaillants de Moab sont saisis de terreur, consternés, tous les habitants de Canaan.
The chiefs in Edom will be dismayed. The leaders in Moab will be so afraid, they will shake. All those who live in Canaan will faint.
16 Sur eux pèse l’anxiété, l’épouvante; la majesté de ton bras les rend immobiles comme la pierre, jusqu’à ce qu’il ait passé, ton peuple, Seigneur! Qu’il ait passé, ce peuple acquis par toi;
They will be terrified and fearful because of your great strength [MTY]. But they will be as silent as stones until your people march past them, the people you freed from being slaves in Egypt,
17 Que tu les aies amenés, fixés, sur ce mont, ton domaine, résidence que tu t’es réservée, Seigneur! Sanctuaire, ô mon Dieu! Préparé par tes mains.
to go to [Canaan land]. You will enable them to live [MET] on your hill, at the place that you, O Yahweh, have chosen to be your home, in the (holy place/temple) that you yourself will build.
18 L’Éternel régnera à tout jamais!"
O Yahweh, you will rule forever!
19 Car, les chevaux de Pharaon, chars et cavalerie, s’étant avancés dans la mer, l’Éternel en avait refoulé les eaux sur eux, tandis que les enfants d’Israël marchaient à pied sec au milieu de la mer.
The Israeli people walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground. But when the king’s horses and chariots and horsemen tried to go through the sea, Yahweh caused the water to come back and cover them.”
20 Miryam, la prophétesse, soeur d’Aaron, prit en main un tambourin et toutes les femmes la suivirent avec des tambourins et des instruments de danse.
Then Miriam, who was Aaron’s older sister and a (prophetess/woman who spoke messages that came directly from God), picked up her tambourine,
21 Et Miryam leur fit répéter: "Chantez l’Éternel, il est souverainement grand; coursier et cavalier, il les a lancés dans la mer…"
and she sang this song to Yahweh: “Sing to Yahweh, because he has triumphed gloriously [over his enemies]. He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.”
22 Moïse fit décamper Israël de la plage des joncs et ils débouchèrent dans le désert de Chour, où ils marchèrent trois jours sans trouver d’eau.
Then Moses/I led the Israeli people away from the Red Sea (OR, Gulf of Suez). They/we went to the desert at Shur. They/We walked for three days, but they/we could not find any water.
23 Ils arrivèrent à Mara. Or, ils ne purent boire l’eau de Mara, elle était trop amère; c’est pourquoi on nomma ce lieu Mara.
So they/we [went on and] came to a [place named] Marah. [There was] water [there, but] they/we could not drink it, because it was bitter. That is why they named the place Marah, [which is the Hebrew word that means ‘bitter’].
24 Le peuple murmura contre Moïse, disant: "Que boirons-nous?"
The people complained to Moses/me, saying, “What are we going to drink?”
25 Moïse implora le Seigneur; celui-ci lui indiqua un bois, qu’il jeta dans l’eau et l’eau devint potable. C’Est alors qu’il lui imposa un principe et une loi, c’est alors qu’il le mit à l’épreuve
So Moses/I prayed earnestly to Yahweh. Then Yahweh showed him/me a tree. So he/I cut off [one of the branches] and threw it into the water, and the water became good to drink. There at Marah, Yahweh gave them various laws to direct their lives. He also tested them there, to determine if they would obey him,
26 et il dit: "Si tu écoutes la voix de l’Éternel ton Dieu; si tu t’appliques à lui plaire; si tu-es docile à ses préceptes et fidèle à toutes ses lois, aucune des plaies dont j’ai frappé, l’Égypte ne t’atteindra, car moi, l’Éternel, je te préserverai."
by saying, “I am Yahweh, your God. If you will carefully obey me when I speak [to you], and do those things that I know are right, and pay close attention to all the things that I command you, I will keep you from being afflicted by all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians. Do not forget that I am the one who heals you.”
27 Ils arrivèrent à Élim, là étaient douze sources d’eau et soixante-dix palmiers. Ils y campèrent près des eaux.
[After they/we left Marah], they/we came to a [place named] Elim. There were twelve springs of water and 70 palm trees there. So they/we camped there.
