Jérémie 17
[Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!
[Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.
So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.
The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”
5 Maudit l'homme qui a mis en l'homme son espérance, et appuie sur lui la chair de son bras, quand son cœur s'est éloigné de Dieu.
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.
6 Il sera comme la bruyère dans le désert; il ne verra pas le bien lui venir; il demeurera dans un désert de sel, dans une terre saumâtre et inhabitable.
They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.
7 Béni l'homme qui a mis sa confiance dans le Seigneur, le Seigneur sera son espoir.
But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
8 Il sera comme un arbre croissant au bord des eaux; il enfoncera ses racines dans un terrain humide; il ne craindra rien quand viendra l'ardente chaleur; ses branches touffues l'ombrageront; il ne craindra rien en une année de sécheresse, et il ne cessera de porter des fruits.
Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.
9 Le cœur est profond plus que toute chose, et le cœur, c'est l'homme. Qui le connaîtra?
Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
10 Moi, le Seigneur, qui sonde les cœurs, et qui éprouve les reins pour rétribuer chacun selon ses voies et selon les fruits de ses travaux.
But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”
11 La perdrix a crié, elle rassemble les perdreaux qu'elle n'a point produits; tel est l'homme acquérant sa richesse injustement: au milieu de ses jours ses biens l'abandonneront, et à sa dernière heure il sera insensé.
[I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.
12 Pour nous, un trône de gloire élevé est notre sanctuaire.
Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
13 Vous êtes l'attente d'Israël, Seigneur; que tous ceux qui vous ont abandonné soient confondus; que les rebelles soient inscrits sur la terre, parce qu'ils ont abandonné la fontaine de vie, qui est le Seigneur.
You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.
14 Guérissez-moi, Seigneur, et je serai guéri; sauvez-moi, et je serai sauvé, parce que vous êtes l'objet de ma gloire.
Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.
15 Voilà qu'ils me disent: Où est la parole du Seigneur? Qu'elle vienne!
People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]
16 Pour moi, je ne me suis point lassé de vous suivre, et je n'ai point désiré le jour de l'homme; vous le savez, ce qui sort de mes lèvres est devant vous.
Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].
17 Ne soyez point pour moi un étranger; épargnez-moi quand viendra le jour mauvais.
Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.
18 Qu'ils soient confondus ceux qui me persécutent, et que je ne sois pas confondu; qu'ils soient alarmés, et que je n'aie point d'alarmes; faites venir sur eux les jours mauvais; affligez-moi d'une double affliction.
[So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!
19 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Va, et tiens-toi sur les portes des enfants de ton peuple, celles par où entrent les rois de Juda, et par où ils sortent, sur toutes les portes de Jérusalem,
This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.
20 Et dis-leur: Écoutez la parole du Seigneur, rois de Juda, peuple de la Judée, peuple de Jérusalem, vous tous qui entrez par ces portes;
Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!
21 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Veillez sur vos âmes, ne portez point de fardeaux les jours de sabbat, et ne sortez point des portes de Jérusalem.
He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!
22 N'emportez point de fardeaux hors de vos maisons les jours de sabbat, et ne faites aucune œuvre; sanctifiez le jour du sabbat, comme je l'ai commandé à vos pères:
Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,
23 Et ils n'ont point écouté, et ils ont détourné l'oreille, et ils ont endurci leur tête plus que leurs pères, pour ne point m'obéir et ne point recevoir d'avertissement.
but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.
24 Or ceci arrivera: Si vous êtes dociles, dit le Seigneur, à mon commandement; si vous ne transportez pas de fardeaux par les portes de la ville les jours de sabbat, et si vous sanctifiez les jours de sabbat, en ne faisant aucune œuvre,
But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,
25 Les rois et les princes assis sur le trône de David, ceux qui montent sur des chars traînés par leurs chevaux, eux et leurs princes, les hommes de Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, entreront par les portes de cette ville, et elle sera habitée dans tous les siècles.
kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.
26 Et l'on y viendra des villes de Juda qui entourent Jérusalem, et de la terre de Benjamin, et de la plaine et des montagnes, et des régions du midi, pour apporter des holocaustes et des victimes, des parfums, de la manne et de l'encens, et pour offrir des louanges au Seigneur en son temple,
And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.
27 Et ceci arrivera, si vous êtes indociles à mon commandement de sanctifier les jours de sabbat, de ne point porter de fardeaux et de n'en point faire entrer par les portes de Jérusalem les jours de sabbat: j'allumerai à ces portes un feu qui dévorera les rues de Jérusalem, et ne sera pas éteint.
But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”
