Ézéchiel 26
1 Et en l'année onzième, le premier jour du mois, la parole du Seigneur me vint, disant:
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, en punition de ce que Tyr a dit de Jérusalem: C'est bien! elle est brisée, son peuple a péri, son trafic est revenu à moi; elle qui était remplie, la voilà vide;
“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 En punition de cela, ainsi dit le Seigneur: Voilà que je suis contre toi, Tyr, et je conduirai coutre toi maintes nations, comme la mer monte avec 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 Et elles abattront tes remparts, ô Tyr, et elles abattront tes tours; et je vannerai loin d'elle sa poussière, et je ferai d'elle une roche nue.
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 sera au milieu de la mer un lieu à faire sécher les filets; car c'est moi qui ai parlé, dit le Seigneur. Et elle sera livrée en proie aux 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, dans les champs, périront par le glaive, et elles sauront que je suis le Seigneur.
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 Car ainsi dit le Seigneur: Voilà que de l'aquilon je conduis contre toi, Tyr, Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone; il est le roi des rois, avec des chevaux et des chars, et des cavaliers, et un rassemblement de maintes nations.
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 Il fera périr tes filles par le glaive dans les champs; il placera contre toi des gardes avancées; il bâtira autour de toi des forts; il t'enveloppera de palissades; il t'entourera de camps; il lancera devant toi ses javelines.
[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 Il renversera de ses glaives tes remparts et tes tours.
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 À cause de la multitude de ses chevaux, tu seras couverte de poussière par le fracas de ses cavaliers et des roues de ses chars; tes murs seront ébranlés quand il franchira tes portes, comme on franchit dans la plaine l'entrée d'une ville.
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 Les sabots de ses coursiers fouleront toutes tes places, et il passera ton peuple au fil de l'épée, et tout ce qui fait ta force, il le renversera par 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 Et il pillera tes richesses, et il enlèvera tes marchandises; il abattra tes murs; il détruira tes maisons si convoitées, et il jettera au fond de la mer qui te baigne tes pierres, tes bois et ta poussière.
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 Et il fera cesser tes nombreux concerts, et on n'entendra plus la voix de tes harpes.
No longer will you sing noisy songs, and people will not play their harps any more.
14 Et je ferai de toi une roche nue, un lieu à faire sécher les filets, et tu ne seras plus rebâtie; car moi, le Seigneur, j'ai parlé, dit le Seigneur.
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 Car voici ce que dit à Tyr le Seigneur Maître: Les îles ne trembleront-elles pas au bruit de ta chute, quand tes blessés gémiront et que le glaive sera tiré au milieu de toi?
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 Et tous les rois des nations maritimes descendront de leur trône, et ils déposeront leurs mitres de leurs têtes, et ils se dépouilleront de leurs vêtements brodés. Ils seront frappés de stupeur; ils s'asseyeront à terre, et ils craindront de périr, et ils gémiront sur 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 Et ils feront de toi un sujet de lamentation, et ils te diront: Comment as-tu cessé de sillonner la mer, ô ville si célèbre, toi qui inspirais ta crainte à tous ceux qui demeurent sur tes rives?
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 Et les elles trembleront au jour de ta chute.
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 voici ce que dit le Seigneur Maître: Lorsque j'aurai fait de toi une solitude comme des villes qui ne seront plus habitées, quand j'aurai fait passer sur toi l'abîme, et que les grandes eaux te couvriront,
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 Je te précipiterai parmi ceux qui sont tombés dans le gouffre, chez le peuple éternel, et je te placerai au plus profond de la terre, comme en un désert éternel parmi ceux qui sont tombés dans le gouffre, afin que tu ne sois plus habitée; et tu ne reviendras plus sur la terre 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 perdrai, et tu ne subsisteras plus dans les siècles, dit le Seigneur Maître.
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].’”
