Ézéchiel 26

1 II arriva dans la onzième année, le premier du mois, que la parole de l’Eternel me fut adressée en ces termes:

Almost twelve [after we had been taken to Babylonia], on the first day of the month, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,

2 "Fils de l’homme, parce que Tyr s’est écriée au sujet de Jérusalem: Ah! Elle est brisée, celle qui était la porte des nations! Mon tour est venu: je vais être comblée, puisqu’elle est ruinée,

“You human, [the people of] Tyre [city] shouted joyfully and said about Jerusalem, ‘[Jerusalem, ] the city from which many traders/merchants went to many nations, is now destroyed. And now people from all over the world will come to us to buy and sell things. Because Jerusalem has now been ruined, we will prosper!’

3 c’est pourquoi, ainsi parle le Seigneur Dieu: Voici que je m’en prends à toi, Tyr; je soulèverai contre toi des nations nombreuses comme la mer soulève ses vagues.

Therefore, this is what [I, ] Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘I am now the enemy of [you people of] Tyre. I will [the armies of] many nations to come and attack your [city], like the waves of the sea beat against the shores.

4 Elles détruiront les remparts de Tyr et démoliront ses tours; je la dénuderai de sa poussière et je ferai d’elle une roche aride.

Their soldiers will destroy the walls around Tyre and tear down its towers. Tyre will become a place where people from many nations steal valuable things, [and then the city will be completely destroyed]. Then they will scrape away the rubble and cause the city to become a bare rock.

5 Elle deviendra un étendoir à filets au milieu de la mer, car c’est moi qui parle, dit le Seigneur Dieu, et elle sera une proie pour les nations.

Out in the sea, Tyre will become an island where men spread [their fishing] nets to dry them. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh the Lord, have predicted it.

6 Et ses filles qui sont dans la campagne seront massacrées par le glaive; ainsi ils sauront que je suis l’Eternel.

The people in small villages on the coast near Tyre will be killed [their enemies’] swords. Then people will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].’

7 Oui, ainsi parle le Seigneur Dieu, je vais, du Nord, amener contre Tyr Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, le roi des rois, avec des chevaux, des chars, des cavaliers, une grande multitude et un peuple nombreux.

This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, [is going to happen]: ‘From the north, I am going to bring the most powerful king [in the world], King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, [with his army] to attack Tyre. They will bring horses and chariots, and men who ride the horses [and men who drive the chariots]; it will be a huge army.

8 Tes filles qui sont dans la campagne, il les fera périr par l’épée, et contre toi il élèvera des retranchements, jettera des redoutes et dressera des boucliers.

[In the battles in the small villages] on the coast, their soldiers will kill [many] people with their swords. [Then] they will set up devices to batter the wall around the city of Tyre, and they will build a dirt ramp up to the top of the wall, and they will all hold up shields [to protect themselves from arrows being shot from the ground].

9 Les coups de son bélier, il les assénera sur tes remparts, et tes tours, il les brisera par ses armes.

The king will direct the soldiers who operate the (rams/things) to batter the walls, and who will use their iron bars to tear down the towers in the wall.

10 Grâce à la multitude de ses chevaux, il te couvrira de leur poussière; du bruit des cavaliers, des roues et des chars tes murailles trembleront, quand il entrera par tes portes comme on entre dans une ville éventrée.

The king will have a huge number of horses, [the stamping of their hooves will result in] the city being covered with dust. [It will be as though] the walls will tremble because of the noise made by the horses, the [supply] wagons, and the chariots when they enter the city where the walls have been broken down.

11 Sous les sabots de ses chevaux il foulera toutes tes rues, ta population, il la tuera par l’épée, et les monuments de ta puissance tomberont à terre.

The horses will trample all of the [of the city] with their hooves. The soldiers will kill the people with their swords; and they will cause your strong pillars to (collapse/fall to the ground).

12 Ils pilleront tes richesses, feront main basse sur tes marchandises; ils démoliront tes murailles et abattront tes maisons de plaisance; tes pierres, tes bois et ta poussière, ils les jetteront dans l’eau.

They will take away all the people’s valuable possessions and steal the things that the merchants sell. They will tear down the walls of the houses and destroy their fine houses. Then they will throw into the sea the stones [from the walls] of those houses and the timber and the rubble.

13 Je mettrai fin à la rumeur de tes chants, et le son de tes harpes ne se fera plus entendre.

No longer will you sing noisy songs, and people will not play their harps any more.

14 Je ferai de toi une roche aride, tu deviendras un étendoir à filets. Tu ne seras plus rebâtie, car c’est moi, l’Eternel, qui parle, dit le Seigneur Dieu."

The enemy soldiers will cause the city to become a bare rock and [only] a place where men spread [their fishing] nets. And the city will never be rebuilt. [Those things will surely happen] because [I], Yahweh the Lord, have [that they will happen].’

15 Ainsi parle le Seigneur Dieu à Tyr: "Certes, au bruit de ta chute, aux gémissements des mourants, quand s’accomplira la tuerie au milieu de toi, les îles trembleront.

This is [also] what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say about [the people of] Tyre: ‘When the wounded [people in Tyre] groan and many people are slaughtered and the city is destroyed, [it will surely be as though] [RHQ] the areas along the coast will tremble.

16 Ils descendront de leurs trônes, tous les princes de la mer, ils ôteront leurs manteaux et dépouilleront leurs vêtements brodés; ils se vêtiront d’épouvante, s’asseoiront à terre, frissonneront à tout instant et seront atterrés à cause de toi.

Then all the kings [in the cities] along the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and their embroidered clothes. They will be terrified, and they will sit on the ground, trembling. They will be appalled because of what has happened to the city of Tyre.

17 Ils entonneront sur toi une complainte et te diront: "Comme tu as péri, toi si populeuse grâce aux mers, ville illustre, si puissante sur les flots, toi et tes habitants, qui inspiraient la terreur à tous les voisins!

Then they will sing a sad song about the city, and they will sing this: “The famous city [APO], in which many [who sailed on] the seas lived, is now destroyed! The people of that city had great power [because they had many ships that sailed] on the seas; they caused all the people who lived near them to be terrified.

18 Maintenant les côtes tremblent au jour de ta chute, et les îles qui sont dans la mer sont épouvantées de ta fin.

Now on the day when that city is destroyed, [it is as though the people in] the areas along the coast tremble and the [the people on the] islands in the sea are terrified because of that city being ruined.”’

19 Car, ainsi parle le Seigneur Dieu, lorsque je ferai de toi une ville ruinée, pareille aux villes qui ne sont plus habitées, lorsque je soulèverai contre toi les ondes de l’abîme et que te couvriront les eaux profondes,

This is also what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘When I cause the city [of Tyre] to become desolate/empty, like [other] cities in which people no [longer] live, and when I cause the huge waves of the sea to cover it,

20 alors je te précipiterai avec ceux qui sont descendus dans la fosse, auprès des gens des temps antiques, et je te confinerai dans les régions souterraines, dans les ruines éternelles, auprès de ceux qui sont descendus dans la fosse, afin que tu cesses d’être habitée, tandis que je répandrai de la beauté au pays des vivants.

then I will bring the people of that city down to be with those who have gone down to where the dead people are, people who lived long ago. I will cause them to remain in the place below the earth that is like old/ancient ruins, with those who have gone down to that pit [previously], and they will never return to the earth, to where people are alive.

21 Je te réduirai à néant et c’en sera fini de toi: l’on te cherchera et plus jamais l’on ne te trouvera", dit le Seigneur Dieu."

I will cause them to die in a horrible way (OR, people will be very afraid because of what happens to that city), and that will be the end of (them/their lives). People will search for that city but it will no longer exist. [That is what I, ] Yahweh the Lord, declare [will happen].’”