Michée 7
1 Quelle douleur pour moi! Je suis là comme après la récolte des fruits, comme au grappillage qui suit la vendange: pas une grappe à manger, pas une figue tendre pouvant plaire à mon goût!
I am very miserable/frustrated! I am like [SIM] someone who is hungry, [who searches for fruit to pick] after all the fruit had been picked and who finds no grapes or figs to eat.
2 Tout homme de bien a disparu de ce pays, il n’est plus de gens intègres. Tous, ils s’embusquent pour verser le sang, ils se prennent l’un l’autre au piège.
[All] the godly people have disappeared from this land; there is not one of them left. [The people who are left] are all murderers [MTY]; [it is as though] everyone is eager to kill his fellow countryman.
3 Pour favoriser celui qui met la main aux mauvaises besognes, le chef demande, le juge se fait payer, le grand dit hautement ce que convoite son âme, et ainsi on ourdit les intrigues.
They [all] use both hands to do what is evil. [Government] officials and judges [all] ask for bribes. Important people tell others what they want, and they plot/scheme together [about how to get it done].
4 Le meilleur d’entre eux est comme un amas d’orties, le plus honnête est pire qu’une haie d’épines. Au jour annoncé par tes voyants, ton châtiment surviendra, alors leur désarroi sera au complet.
[Even] the best people are [as worthless] [SIM] as briers; the people [who are considered by others to be] [IRO] the most honest are worse than clumps of thornbushes. But, [Yahweh] will soon judge them; now is the time that he will punish people, a time when they will be [very] confused [because of being defeated].
5 N’Accordez aucune créance à un ami, aucune confiance à un compagnon! Garde ta bouche close devant la femme qui repose sur ton sein.
[So], do not trust anyone! Do not trust [even] a friend; [even] be careful what you say to your wife whom you love!
6 Car le fils vilipende son père, la fille s’insurge contre sa mère, la bru contre sa belle-mère; chacun a pour ennemis les gens de sa maison.
Boys will despise their fathers, and girls will defy their mothers. Women will defy their mothers-in-law. Your enemies will be those who live in your own houses.
7 Mais moi, je mets mon attente dans le Seigneur, mon espoir dans le Dieu qui assure mon salut, mon Dieu m’entendra.
As for me, I wait for Yahweh [to help me]. I confidently expect that God, my Savior, will answer me [when I pray].
8 N’Exulte pas à mon sujet, ô mon ennemie, car si je suis tombée, je me relève; si je suis confinée dans les ténèbres, l’Eternel est une lumière pour moi.
You who are our enemies, do not gloat/rejoice about [what has happened to] us, [because even] if we have experienced disasters, [those disasters will end and] we will be restored. [Even] if [it is as though] we are sitting in the darkness, Yahweh will be our light.
9 Je supporterai le courroux de l’Eternel car j’ai péché contre lui jusqu’à ce qu’il prenne ma cause en mains et assure mon bon droit; alors il me ramènera à la lumière, je verrai son œuvre de justice.
We must be patient while Yahweh punishes us because we have sinned against him. But later, [it will be as though] he will go to court and defend us, and he will make sure that the judge makes a right decision about us. [It will be as though] he will bring us out into the light, and we will see it when he rescues us.
10 Mon ennemie en sera témoin et sera couverte de honte, elle qui me dit: "Où est l’Eternel, ton Dieu?" Mes yeux se repaîtront de sa vue; déjà je la vois foulée aux pieds comme la boue des rues.
Our enemies will [also] see that, and they will be disgraced because they [ridiculed us], saying “Why is [RHQ] Yahweh, that God of yours, [not helping you]?” But with our own eyes we will see them when they are defeated; we will see them trampled like [SIM] mud in the streets.
11 Il viendra un jour où l’on rebâtira tes murs; ce jour-là, tes limites seront reculées.
[You people of Israel, ] at that time your cities will be rebuilt, and your territory will become larger.
12 En ce jour, on viendra à toi, depuis l’Assyrie jusqu’aux villes de l’Egypte, et depuis l’Egypte jusqu’au fleuve, d’une mer à l’autre mer et d’une montagne à l’autre.
[People from many countries will come to honor you]: people from Assyria and from [near] the [Euphrates] River [in the east] and from Egypt [in the south], from distant seas, and from many mountains.
13 Mais la terre offrira un spectacle de désolation à ses habitants: ce sera le fruit de leurs œuvres.
But [the other countries on] the earth will become desolate because of the [evil] things that their people have done.
14 Conduis, avec ta houlette, le troupeau qui est ton héritage: qu’il occupe, solitaire, une forêt dans une région fertile; qu’il pâture en Basan et en Galaad, comme aux jours antiques!
Yahweh, protect your people like [MET] [a shepherd protects his sheep] by using his walking stick; lead your people [MET] whom you have chosen to belong to you. [Even though some of them] live by themselves in a forest, give them the fertile pastureland in the Bashan and Gilead [regions] that they possessed long ago.
15 Oui, comme à l’époque de ta sortie d’Egypte, je te ferai voir des prodiges.
[Yahweh says/replies], “[Yes], I will perform miracles for you like the miracles that I performed when I rescued your [ancestors] from [being slaves in] Egypt.”
16 Les nations en seront témoins et elles auront honte en dépit de toute leur puissance; elles poseront la main sur leur bouche, leurs oreilles seront frappées de surdité.
[People from many] nations will see [what Yahweh does for you], and they will be ashamed because they do not have any power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears [because they will be very amazed because of what Yahweh does], [and they will not be able to say anything or hear anything].
17 Elles lècheront la poussière comme le serpent, comme les reptiles du sol; elles trembleront au fond de leurs donjons. Craintives, elles accourront vers l’Eternel notre Dieu, et de toi elles auront peur!
[Being very humiliated, ] they will crawl on the ground [MTY] like [SIM] snakes. They will come out of their homes trembling, and stand revering Yahweh our God. They will be very afraid of him, and will tremble in front of him.
18 Quel dieu t’égale Seigneur, toi qui pardonnes les iniquités, qui fais grâce aux offenses, commises par les débris de ton héritage? Toi qui ne gardes pas à jamais ta colère, parce que tu te complais dans la bienveillance?
[Yahweh], there is no [RHQ] God like you; you forgive the sins [DOU] that were committed by the people who have survived, the people who belong to you. You do not remain angry forever; you are very happy [to show us] that you faithfully love [us].
19 Oui, tu nous reprendras en pitié, tu étoufferas nos iniquités, tu plongeras tous nos péchés dans les profondeurs de la mer.
You will again act kindly/compassionately toward us. You will get rid of [the scroll on which you have written] the sins that we have committed [as though you were] trampling it under your feet or throwing it into the deep ocean.
20 Tu témoigneras à Jacob la fidélité, à Abraham la bienveillance, que tu as jurées à nos pères dès les premiers âges.
You will show that you faithfully [do what you promised for us] and faithfully love us, just like you solemnly promised long ago to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob that you would do.
