Ézéchiel 16

1 Et la parole du Seigneur me vint, disant:

Yahweh gave me another message. He said,

2 Fils de l'homme, fais connaître à Jérusalem ses iniquités;

“You human, cause the people of Jerusalem to think about their detestable behavior.

3 Et dis: Ainsi parle le Seigneur à Jérusalem: Ta racine et ton origine sortent de la terre de Chanaan; ton père était Amorrhéen, et ta mère une fille des Héthéens.

Say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says to you people of Jerusalem: [It is as though you are a woman who] [MET] was born in the country where the Canaan people-group lived. [It is as though] [MET] your father belonged to the Amor people-group and your mother belonged to the Heth people-group.

4 Quant à ta naissance, le jour où tu as été enfantée, tu n'as point lié tes mamelles; tu n'as point été lavée dans l'eau; tu n'as point été salée avec du sel; tu n'as pas été enveloppée de langes.

[It is as though] [MET] on the day that you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, and your body was not washed in water, and it was not rubbed with salt or wrapped in strips of cloth, [like Israeli babies always are].

5 Et mon œil ne s'est point apitoyé sur toi, et je ne t'ai fait aucune de ces choses, et je n'ai rien senti en ta faveur. Et tu as été jetée sur la terre d'un champ, dans la dépravation de ton âme, le jour où tu as été enfantée.

No one pitied you or acted kindly toward you by doing those things for you. Instead, [it was as though] [MET] you were thrown into a field, because on the day that you were born, you were despised {everyone despised you}.

6 Et j'ai passé près de toi, et je t'ai vue souillée de ton sang, et je t'ai dit: Que ta vie vienne de ton sang;

Then [it was as though] [MET] I passed by and saw you lying in your own blood and kicking. And while you lay there kicking in your own blood, I said to you, “I want you to remain alive!”

7 Multiplie-toi! Et je t'ai faite comme l'herbe qui pousse dans les champs; et tu as crû, et tu as grandi, et tu es entrée dans les villes des villes. Et tes mamelles se sont gonflées, et tu es devenue nubile, et tu étais nue et confuse.

[It was as though] I caused you to grow up, like plants in the field grow; you grew up and became tall and became like [MET] a very beautiful jewel. [It was as though] [MET] your breasts (formed/became large), and your hair became long, although you were still naked [DOU].

8 Et j'ai passé près de toi, et je t'ai vue, et voilà que c'était ton temps, le temps où l'on dénoue les ceintures des vierges. Et j'ai étendu sur toi mes ailes, et j'ai caché ta nudité, et je t'ai fait des promesses, et j'ai fait alliance avec toi, dit le Seigneur. Et tu as été à moi.

When I saw you several years later, [it was as though] [MET] I saw that you were old enough to have sex [EUP]. So [it was as though] [MET] I spread the corner of my robe over [to symbolize that I would marry you], with the result that you were no longer naked. I solemnly promised [that I would marry you] and made a marriage agreement with you, and you became my wife. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say.

9 Et je t'ai lavée dans l'eau, et j'ai enlevé le sang qui te souillait, et je t'ai parfumée d'huile.

[And then it was as though] [MET] I bathed you and washed the blood from you and put ointment on your body.

10 Et je t'ai vêtue de robes brodées, et je t'ai chaussée d'hyacinthe, et je t'ai ceinte de fin lin, et je t'ai enveloppée des tissus les plus délicats.

[It was as though] [MET] I put a fine linen robe on you and gave you other expensive clothes. I put an embroidered dress on you and put leather sandals on your feet.

11 Et je t'ai parée de joyaux; je t'ai mis des bracelets et un collier.

[It was as though] [MET] I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck. Those things all had nice jewels fastened to them.

12 Et je t'ai donné un anneau pour tes narines, et je t'ai mis des boucles d'oreilles, et j'ai posé sur ta tête une couronne de gloire.

I put a gold ring in your nose and fastened earrings to your ears and put a beautiful crown on your head.

13 Et tu as été ornée d'or et d'argent, et tes voiles étaient de fin lin, et ils étaient délicatement tissus, et ils étaient brodés. Et tu te nourrissais de fleur de farine, de miel et d'huile, et tu es devenue merveilleusement belle.

So [it was as though] you wore gold and silver ornaments. You had clothes made from fine (linen/white cloth) and other expensive embroidered material/cloth. You ate [bread made from] fine flour, honey, and olive oil. You became very beautiful, like [MET] a queen.

14 Et ta renommée s'est répandue parmi les nations, à cause de ta beauté; car elle était accomplie par la convenance, par le charme que j'avais mis en toi, dit le Seigneur.

You were very beautiful, with the result that people in other nations heard about you, because they knew that I, Yahweh the Lord, am the one who had caused you to become very beautiful.

15 Mais tu t'es confiée en ta beauté, tu t'es prostituée au milieu de ta gloire; et tu t'es livrée à la fornication avec tous les passants.

But [it was as though] [MET] you realized that because people knew that you were very beautiful, you could [earn a lot of money by] becoming a prostitute. [It was as though] you had sex with [EUP] every man who came along, and they all enjoyed your beauty.

16 Et tu as pris tes vêtements; et tu en as fabriqué des idoles; et tu t'es prostituée sur elles, et tu ne peux aller plus loin, et nul ne le pourra.

[It was as though] you took some of your clothes to make beautifully decorated shrines, and that is where you had sex with those men. Those things should certainly never occur!

17 Et tu as pris tes parures de gloire, faites de mon argent et de mon or, et tu en as fabriqué pour toi des images d'hommes auxquelles tu t'es prostituée.

You took the fine gold and silver jewelry that I gave you, and you made male idols for yourself, in order to have sex with them.

18 Et tu as pris tes robes brodées, et tu les en as revêtues; et tu leur as fait offrande de mon huile et de mes parfums,

You took some of your embroidered clothes to put on those idols, and you burned oil and incense in front of them [to honor them].

19 Et de mes pains que je t'avais donnés (car je te nourrissais de fleur de farine, d'huile et de miel); et tu les as posés devant ces idoles en odeur de suavité. Et voici ce qui est advenu, dit le Seigneur.

And the [bread that was made from] fine flour and the olive oil and honey that I gave to you to eat, you offered to be a fragrant sacrifice to those idols. I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that is what happened.

20 Tu as pris tes fils et tes filles que tu avais engendrés, et tu les leur as sacrifiés, pour qu'ils soient consumés par le feu. Et comme si c'était peu de t'être ainsi prostituée,

And you even took your sons and daughters who were [as though they were] [MET] my children, and sacrificed them to be food for the idols. That was much worse [RHQ] than your becoming a prostitute.

21 Tu as égorgé tes enfants pour les livrer à tes idoles, comme des victimes expiatoires.

You slaughtered [those who were like] [MET] my children, and offered them to be sacrifices to the gods!

22 Mais ceci dépasse toute ton infamie: tu ne t'es point souvenue de ta jeunesse, quand tu étais nue et confuse, et que tu vivais souillée dans ton sang.

All during the time when you were acting like a prostitute and doing other detestable things, you did not think about the time when [it was as though] you were very young, naked [DOU], lying in your own blood and kicking.

23 Et voici ce qui est advenu après toutes tes abominations, dit le Seigneur:

So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that terrible things will happen to you. In addition to all the other wicked things that you did,

24 Tu as bâti pour toi une maison de débauche, et tu t'es affichée toi-même sur toutes les places;

you built a shrine to worship idols in every [city] square/plaza.

25 Et à chaque coin de rue tu as bâti tes lieux de prostitution; et tu as souillé ta beauté, tu as livré les membres à tous les passants, tu as multiplié tes débauches,

At the beginning of every street you built a shrine, and showed people your beautiful body, offering it to have sex with every man who walked by, becoming a better known prostitute every day.

26 Et tu t'es prostituée aux fils de l'Égypte, tes voisins, peuple charnu, et tu t'es prostituée de toute manière, au point de provoquer ma colère.

[It was as though] [MET] you had sex with men from Egypt who were eager to have sex with you, men who lived near to Israel. You caused me to become very angry because you became more eager to have sex with more and more of them.

27 Mais je vais étendre la main contre toi; et je déracinerai tes habitudes, et je te livrerai aux âmes qui te haïssent, aux filles des étrangers, qui rougissent elles-mêmes de la voie où tu as commis tes impiétés.

So I punished [IDM] you and caused your enemies to capture some of your country. I enabled your greedy enemies from Philistia to defeat you; and even they were shocked because of your disgraceful behavior.

28 Et tu t'es prostituée avec les filles d'Assur, et même ainsi tu n'as pas été assouvie; tu t'es prostituée, et tu n'as pas été rassasiée.

[It was as though] you had sex with soldiers from Assyria, too, because you always wanted more sex. And after that, you still were not satisfied.

29 Et tu as multiplié tes alliances en la terre des Chaldéens, et tu n'as pas été rassasiée.

So you also had sex [with soldiers from] Babylonia, a country full of merchants/businessmen, but even that did not satisfy you.

30 Comment ferais-je alliance avec ta fille, dit le Seigneur, pendant que tu fais toutes les œuvres d'une femme prostituée? Or tu as triplé, tes débauches en tes filles.

I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that when you did all those things, acting like [MET] a bold prostitute, you were showing that you were ready to do anything that you wanted to [IDM].

31 Tu as bâti une maison de débauche à chaque coin de rue; tu as des lieux de prostitution sur toutes les places. Et tu es devenue comme une prostituée, qui met toujours ses faveurs à plus haut prix.

When you built shrines to worship idols on every street corner and in every city square/plaza, you were not like a prostitute: Prostitutes charge money, but you refused to take money for what you did.

32 Une femme adultère te ressemble; elle prend l'argent que gagne son mari,

You are like [MET] a woman who commits adultery: You prefer to [have sex with] strangers rather than with your husband.

33 Et le donne à tous ceux à qui elle s'est prostituée. De même tu as donné tes salaires à tous tes amants, et tu les as chargés de présents, pour qu'ils vinssent à toi de toutes parts en ta prostitution.

Prostitutes are paid, but [it is as though] you give gifts to all your lovers; you bribe them to come to you from everywhere to have sex with you.

34 Car tu as agi autrement que les autres femmes en ta prostitution, envers ceux à qui tu t'es prostituée: c'est toi qui les as payés, et aucun salaire ne t'a été donné; et voilà comment a tourné ta perversité.

So although you act like [MET] a prostitute, you are not like other prostitutes: No one needs to request you to have sex [EUP] with them. You are the opposite of other prostitutes; instead of them giving any money to you, you give men money to have sex with you.

35 À cause de cela, prostituée, écoute la parole du Seigneur.

Therefore, [you people of] Jerusalem, who are like a prostitute [MET], listen to what I, Yahweh the Lord, am saying about you!

36 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: En punition de ce que tu as prodigué ton argent monnayé, ta honte sera dévoilée dans ta prostitution à tes amants, dans toutes tes pensées, dans tes abominations et dans le sang de tes enfants, que tu as livrés à tes idoles.

I say that [what you have done is as though] [MET] you took off your clothes and acted like a prostitute and had sex with men who are not your husband. [What I mean is that you have been worshiping] detestable idols, and you have murdered [MTY] your own children to be sacrifices to them.

37 À cause de cela, voilà que je vais rassembler contre toi tous les amants à qui tu t'es donnée; et tous ceux que tu as aimés, je les réunirai à ceux que tu haïssais. Et je les placerai en cercle autour de toi, et je leur dévoilerai tes iniquités, et ils verront toute ta honte.

So [what I am going to do is as though] I will gather those who you think have loved you and those whom you hated. I will gather them around you [to attack you], and [what I will do is as though] I will strip your clothes off you, and they will see you when you are completely naked.

38 Et je te punirai comme on punit la femme adultère, et je te plongerai dans le sang de la fureur et de la jalousie.

I will punish you like women who commit adultery and who murder people [MTY] are punished. I will get revenge on you and get rid of you because I am extremely angry with you.

39 Et je te livrerai à leurs mains, et ils démoliront ta maison de débauche, et ils détruiront les lieux où tu te prostituais, et ils te dépouilleront de tes vêtements, et ils te prendront ta parure de gloire, et ils te chasseront nue et confuse;

I will allow [your enemies who you thought] loved you [IRO] to defeat you, and they will tear down your shrines. [It will be as though] they will strip off your fancy clothes and take away your fine jewelry and cause you to be completely naked [DOU].

40 Et ils te feront poursuivre par la populace, et ils te lapideront, et ils t'égorgeront avec leurs glaives.

They will bring a mob to attack you, and that mob will throw stones at you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

41 Et ils brûleront ta maison par le feu, et ils tireront vengeance de toi devant un grand nombre de femmes. Et je te détournerai de la débauche, et je ne te permettrai plus de donner des salaires.

They will burn down your houses and punish you while many women are watching. I will cause your acting like a prostitute and paying your lovers to have sex with you to end.

42 Alors je ne déchaînerai plus ma fureur contre toi, et ma jalousie se détournera de toi, et je me tiendrai en repos, et je n'aurai plus souci de toi.

Then I will no longer be angry [DOU] with you. I will stop being jealous [because of your worshiping gods other than me only].

43 En punition de ce que tu ne t'es point souvenue de ta jeunesse, et que tu m'as contristé par toutes ces choses, voilà que j'ai rétribué toutes tes voies sur ta tête, dit le Seigneur; car tu as mis le comble à tes désordres par ton impiété.

You have forgotten [the wonderful things that I did for you] in previous years [MET]. You have caused me to become extremely angry because of all the [evil things] that you have done. In addition to all the other detestable things that you did, you committed many sexual sins. So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I will punish you [IDM] for doing those things.

44 Toutes ces choses font que l'on dit de toi en proverbe: Telle fut la mère,

People who [like to] quote proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “[behave] like their mothers [behave].”

45 Telle est la fille de la mère; tu es celle qui as répudié son époux et ses enfants, et les sœurs de tes sœurs ont répudié leurs époux et leurs enfants. Ta mère était Héthéenne, et ton père Amorrhéen.

You are like your mother; [it was as though] she detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who also despised their husbands and their children. [It was as though] [MET] your father belonged to the Amor people-group and your mother belonged to the Heth people-group.

46 Samarie est votre sœur aînée; elle et sa fille habitent à ta gauche. Et ta plus jeune sœur, qui habite à ta droite, c'est Sodome et ses filles.

And [it was as though] [MET] your older sister was Samaria, and she and her daughters lived to the north of you, and [it was as though] your younger sister was Sodom, and she and her daughters lived to the south of you.

47 Et tu n'as pas seulement marché comme elles en leurs voies, tu ne t'es pas contentée de leurs abominations; mais encore en tes voies tu les as surpassées.

You not only imitated all [DOU] their detestable behavior, but you quickly became more sinful than they were.

48 Par ma vie, dit le Seigneur, Sodome et ses filles n'ont pas fait comme vous avez fait, toi et tes filles.

I, Yahweh the Lord, solemnly declare that as surely as I am alive, [the people who lived in] [MTY] Sodom and other nearby cities never did the detestable things that you [people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah] have done.

49 Or voici l'iniquité de Sodome, ta sœur; c'est l'orgueil; elle et ses filles nageaient dans la prospérité, dans l'abondance du pain, dans l'excès des plaisirs; elles avaient tout cela, et jamais elles n'ont tendu la main au pauvre ni au mendiant.

These are the sins [the people who lived in] Sodom, who were like your sister [MET]: The people who lived there and in nearby cities were arrogant. In spite of having more food to eat than they needed, they refused to help the poor and needy [DOU] people among them.

50 Elles se sont donc enorgueillies, et elles ont fait des iniquités devant moi, et je les ai détruites comme je l'ai jugé bon.

The people of Sodom and nearby cities [MET] were proud and did detestable things in my presence, so I got rid of them when I saw what they had been doing.

51 Samarie, de son côté, n'a point péché moitié autant que toi; mais tu les as surpassées l'une et l'autre en abominations; et tu as tellement multiplié tes iniquités, que tes sœurs en ont paru justes.

Also, [the people of] Samaria did not commit half as many sins as you have committed. You have done more disgusting things than they have done. You cause the people of Samaria to appear to be good, compared to you.

52 Reçois donc ton châtiment, parce que tu as corrompu tes sœurs par tes péchés que tu as multipliés plus qu'elles; ce qui les a fait paraître plus justes que toi. Rougis donc, et accepte ton ignominie, car tu as justifié tes sœurs.

Your sins are worse than their sins, so they seem to be less wicked than you are. So I will punish you more than I punished them. As a result, you will be ashamed and disgraced [DOU].

53 Et je ferai revenir leurs captifs; je relèverai Sodome et ses filles, je relèverai Samarie et ses filles, et je te relèverai toi-même au milieu d'elles,

However, [some day] I will [the people of] Sodom and Samaria and the cities near to them [MET] to prosper again. And I will cause you to prosper again, too.

54 Afin que tu acceptes ton châtiment et que tu sois confuse de tout ce que tu as fait pour m'irriter.

You will be very ashamed [DOU] of the wicked things that you have done, and that will cause the people of those cities to be encouraged.

55 Et ta sœur Sodome et ses filles seront rétablies comme elles étaient au commencement; et toi-même et tes filles, vous serez rétablies comme vous étiez au commencement.

[The people of] Sodom and Samaria will prosper again, and you and the people in nearby cities will prosper also.

56 Certes, on n'a pas entendu le nom de Sodome, ta sœur, sortir de ta bouche aux jours de ta superbe,

You (sneered at/despised) [the people of] Sodom when you were proud,

57 Avant que tes méchancetés eussent été dévoilées. De même, tu es aujourd'hui un sujet d'opprobre pour les filles de la Syrie et pour les filles de tous ceux qui l'entourent, et pour toutes les filles des Philistins qui forment un cercle autour de toi.

before it was revealed that you were very wicked. And now [the people of] Edom and [the people of] Philistia all insult you and despise you.

58 Quant à tes impiétés et à tes crimes, tu en as porté peine, dit le Seigneur.

And you are being punished for all your immoral behavior and other detestable things that you do.

59 Or voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Comme tu as agi, j'agirai envers toi, puisque tu méprises tes promesses en violant mon alliance.

This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: I will continue to punish you like you deserve to be punished, because by rejecting the agreement that I made with you, you have despised that solemn agreement that you promised to obey.

60 Mais je me souviendrai de l'alliance que j'ai faite avec toi dans ta jeunesse, et je la ferai revivre, et ce sera une alliance éternelle.

But I will not forget the agreement that I made with you long ago [MET], and I will make an agreement with you that will endure forever.

61 Et tu te souviendras de ta voie, et tu seras couverte de honte, lorsque tu recevras tes sœurs aînées et tes sœurs puînées, et je te les donnerai pour que tu les réédifies, mais non par une alliance qui vienne de toi.

Then you will think about what you have done, and you will be ashamed about those things when you welcome [the people of] Sodom and Samaria, cities which are like [MET] older and younger sisters to you people of Jerusalem. I will [put them under your control by] causing them to become like [MET] your daughters, but they will not have the same agreement that I will make with you.

62 Et je ferai revivre mon alliance avec toi, et tu connaîtras que je suis le Seigneur;

I will establish my agreement with you, and you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].

63 Afin que tu te souviennes, et que tu rougisses, sans oser même ouvrir la bouche en face de ta honte, lorsque je t'aurai pardonné tout ce que tu as fait, dit le Seigneur.

Then when I have forgiven you for all your sins, you will think about all the sins that you committed and you will be ashamed, and you will never again [boast about them], because you will be humiliated.’”