Isaïe 53
1 Qui a ajouté foi à l’annonce qui nous a été faite? Et à qui s’est révélé le bras de Dieu?
Has anyone believed our news? Who has the Lord shown his power to?
2 Il poussait devant lui, pareil à un faible rejeton, à une racine plantée dans un sol brûlé. Il n’avait ni beauté, ni éclat pour attirer nos regards, ni grâce pour nous le rendre aimable.
Like a young shoot he grew up before him, like a root growing up from dry ground. He had no beauty or glory to make us look at him; nothing about his appearance attracted us to him.
3 Méprisé, repoussé des hommes, homme de douleurs, expert en maladies, il était comme un objet dont on détourne le visage, une chose vile dont nous ne tenions nul compte.
People despised him and rejected him. He was a man who really suffered and who experienced the deepest pain. We treated him like someone you turn away from in disgust—we despised him and had no respect for him.
4 Et pourtant ce sont nos maladies dont il était chargé, nos souffrances qu’il portait, alors que nous, nous le prenions pour un malheureux atteint, frappé par Dieu, humilié.
However, he was the one who carried our weaknesses, he was loaded down with our pain—but we assumed he was being hit, beaten, and humiliated by God.
5 Et c’est pour nos péchés qu’il a été meurtri, par nos iniquités qu’il a été écrasé; le châtiment, gage de notre salut, pesait sur lui, et c’est sa blessure qui nous a valu la guérison.
But he was wounded because of our rebellious acts, he was crushed because of our guilt. He experienced the discipline that brings us peace, and his wounds heal us.
6 Nous étions tous comme des brebis errantes, chacun se dirigeant de son côté, et Dieu a fait retomber sur lui notre crime à tous.
All of us have wandered off, just like sheep. Each of us has gone our own way, and the Lord allowed all our guilt to fall on him.
7 Maltraité, injurié, il n’ouvrait pas la bouche; pareil à l’agneau qu’on mène à la boucherie, à la brebis silencieuse devant ceux qui la tondent, il n’ouvrait pas la bouche.
He was persecuted and mistreated, but he didn't say anything. He was led like a lamb to be killed, and in the same way that a sheep about to be sheared is silent, he didn't say a word.
8 Faute de protection et de justice, il a été enlevé. Qui pourrait décrire sa destinée? Car il s’est vu retrancher du pays des vivants, les coups qui le frappaient avaient pour cause les péchés des peuples.
Through force and a death sentence he was killed—who cared what happened to him? He was executed, removed from the land of the living; he was killed because of my people's wickedness.
9 On a mis sa sépulture avec celle des impies, son tombeau avec celui des mauvais riches, quoiqu’il n’eût fait aucun mal et qu’il n’y eût jamais de fraude dans sa bouche.
They buried him as if he was someone evil, giving him a grave among the rich, even though he hadn't done anything wrong, and he hadn't told any lies.
10 Mais Dieu a résolu de le briser, de l’accabler de maladies, voulant que, s’il s’offrait lui-même comme sacrifice expiatoire, il vît une postérité destinée à vivre de longs jours, et que l’œuvre de l’Eternel prospérât dans sa main.
However, it was the Lord's will for him to be crushed and to suffer, for when he gives his life as a guilt offering he will see his descendants, he will have a long life, and what the Lord wants will be achieved through him.
11 Délivré de l’affliction de son âme, il jouira à satiété du bonheur; par sa sagesse le juste, mon serviteur, fera aimer la justice à un grand nombre et prendra la charge de leurs iniquités.
After his suffering, he will see the results and be satisfied. Through his knowledge my servant who does what is right will set many right, and he will bear their sins.
12 C’Est pourquoi je lui donnerai son lot parmi les grands; avec les puissants il partagera le butin, parce qu’il s’est livré lui-même à la mort et s’est laissé confondre avec les malfaiteurs, lui, qui n’a fait que porter le péché d’un grand nombre et qui a intercédé en faveur des coupables.
That's why I'm going to grant him a place among the great, and give him the prize of the victorious, because he poured out his life in death and was counted as one of the rebels. He took on himself the sins of many and asked forgiveness for the rebels.
