Psaumes 88
1 Cantique. Psaume des fils de Koré. Au chef des chantres. Sur Mahalat Leannot. Maskîl de Hêmân l’Esrahite. Eternel, Dieu de mon salut, jour et nuit je crie, et suis en ta présence.
Yahweh God, you who rescues me, all during each day I call out [to you] to help me, and I cry out to you during each night also.
2 Que ma prière monte jusqu’à toi! Incline l’oreille à ma plainte.
Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you [for help]!
I have experienced many troubles/difficulties, and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
4 Déjà je compte parmi ceux qui sont descendus dans la fosse; je suis tel qu’un homme qui a perdu toute force,
Because I have no more strength, [other people also] consider that I will soon die.
5 qui, abandonné parmi les morts, ressemble aux cadavres couchés dans la tombe, dont tu ne gardes plus aucun souvenir, et qui sont retranchés de ta main.
I am like a corpse that has been abandoned; I am like dead people who lie in their graves, people who have been completely forgotten, because you do not take care of them any more.
6 Tu m’as plongé dans un gouffre profond, en pleines ténèbres, dans les abîmes.
[It is as though] you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
7 Sur moi tu fais peser ta colère, s’écrouler toutes tes vagues. (Sélah)
[It seems like] you are very angry with me, and [it is as though] you have crushed me like [ocean] waves [crash down on people] [MET].
8 Tu as éloigné de moi mes intimes; tu me présentes à eux comme un objet d’horreur: je suis séquestré et ne puis m’évader.
You have caused my friends to (avoid/stay away from) me; I have become repulsive to them. [It is as though] I am in a prison and cannot escape.
9 Mes yeux se consument de misère; chaque jour je t’invoque, Seigneur, je tends les mains vers toi.
My eyes cannot see well because I cry very much. Yahweh, every day I call out to you [to help me]; I lift up my hands to you [while I pray].
10 Est-ce pour les morts que tu fais des miracles? Les ombres se lèveront-elles pour te louer? (Sélah)
You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!
11 Célèbre-t-on ta bonté dans la tombe, ta fidélité dans le séjour de la perdition?
Corpses in the grave certainly do not tell about your faithfully loving us [RHQ], and in the place where people are finally destroyed, no one tells about what you faithfully [do for us] [RHQ].
12 A-t-on connaissance, dans les ténèbres, de tes merveilles, de ta justice dans le pays de l’oubli?
No one in the deep dark pit ever sees the miracles that you perform [RHQ], and no one in the place where people have been completely forgotten tells about your being good to us.
13 Mais moi, c’est vers toi, ô Eternel, que je crie; dès le matin, ma prière va au-devant de toi.
But [as for me], Yahweh, I cry out to you [to help me]; each morning I pray to you.
14 Pourquoi, Seigneur, délaisses-tu mon âme, me dérobes-tu ta face?
Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]? Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?
15 Je suis pauvre et sans souffle dès l’enfance; je porte le poids de tes terreurs, je suis plein de trouble.
All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am (in despair/very discouraged) because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
16 Sur moi tes colères ont passé, tes épouvantes m’ont anéanti.
[I feel that] you have crushed me because of your being angry with me; the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me.
17 Elles m’enveloppent sans relâche comme les flots; ensemble, elles me cernent de toutes parts.
[I feel as though] they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are (closing in on/crushing) me from all sides.
18 Tu as éloigné de moi amis et compagnons; mes intimes sont invisibles comme les ténèbres.
You have caused [even] my friends and others whom I love to avoid me, and [it is as though] the only friend that I have is darkness.
