Jérémie 22
1 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Va et descends dans le palais du roi de Juda, et là tu diras ces paroles.
This is another message that Yahweh gave [to me]: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and say this to him:
2 Tu diras: Écoute la parole du Seigneur, roi de Juda, qui t'assieds sur le trône de David; écoute-la, que ta maison l'écoute et ton peuple, et ceux qui entrent par tes portes.
‘You are the king of Judah. You are the ruler [MTY], like King David was. You and your officials and your people must listen
3 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Rendez équitablement la justice et délivrez l'homme dépouillé des mains du spoliateur; n'opprimez ni l'étranger, ni l'orphelin, ni la veuve; ne péchez pas, ne versez pas le sang innocent en ce lieu.
to what Yahweh says: “Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil things. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here [in Jerusalem] [MTY] those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong).
4 Car si vous faites selon cette parole, les rois assis sur le trône de David, et ceux qui montent à cheval ou sur des chars, et leurs serviteurs, et leur peuple, continueront d'entrer par ces portes.
If you obey those commands carefully, there will [always] be some descendant of King David who will be ruling here [MTY] [in Jerusalem]. The king and his officials and other people will ride through the gates of the city in chariots and on horses.
5 Que si vous ne faites pas selon cette parole, par moi-même, je l'ai juré, dit le Seigneur, cette maison sera livrée à la désolation.
But if you refuse to pay attention to those commands, I, Yahweh, solemnly declare, with myself [MTY] as a witness, that this palace will become a pile of rubble.”’”
6 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur, touchant la maison du roi de Juda: Galaad, tu es pour moi comme la tête du Liban; or je ferai de toi un désert, et tes villes ne seront plus habitées.
And this is what Yahweh says about the king’s palace: “[I like] this palace, like I like the forests in the Gilead [region] and the mountains in Lebanon. But I will cause this palace to become a desert, a place that no one lives in.
7 Et je conduirai contre toi un exterminateur armé de sa hache; et ils abattront tes plus beaux cèdres, et ils les jetteront au feu.
I will summon enemy troops who will destroy this palace; each of their soldiers will use his own tools [to wreck the building]. They will cut into pieces the beautiful big cedar [beams] and throw them into a fire.”
8 Et les gentils traverseront cette ville, et chacun dira à son voisin: Pourquoi le Seigneur a-t-il ainsi traité cette grande cité?
People from many nations will walk past [the ruins of] this city and say to each other, “Why did Yahweh destroy this city that was [very] great?”
9 Et on leur répondra: En punition de ce qu'ils ont abandonné l'alliance du Seigneur leur Dieu, et adoré des dieux étrangers, et qu'ils les ont servis.
And [other] people will reply, “[He did it] because his people stopped obeying the agreement that they had made with Yahweh their God. Instead, they worshiped [DOU] other gods.”
10 Ne pleurez point celui qui est mort; ne vous lamentez pas sur lui; pleurez autrement celui qui sortira; car il ne reviendra plus, et ne verra plus la terre de sa patrie.
[Yahweh also says, ] “Do not mourn for King [Josiah]; do not cry because he has died. Instead, mourn for [King Jehoahaz, his son], [because] he will be captured and taken to another country, and he will never return to see his own country, [Judah], again.”
11 Or voici ce qu'a dit le Seigneur sur Sellum, fils de Josias, lorsque, régnant à la place de son père, il sortit de ce lieu: Il ne reviendra plus ici;
Jehoahaz became king after his father, King Josiah, [died], but Jehoahaz indeed was captured and taken [to Babylonia]. And this is what Yahweh says about him: “He also will never return [to Judah].
12 Mais il mourra au lieu où je l'ai transporté, et il ne verra plus cette terre.
He will die in that far-away country and will never see his own country again.”
13 O toi qui te bâtis une maison sans justice, et de grands appartements sans équité, qui travailles avec l'aide de ton voisin gratuitement, et ne lui payes point son salaire;
[And Yahweh said to me], “Terrible things will happen to [King Jehoahaz’s brother, King Jehoiakim]. He unjustly [forced men to] build his palace. The rooms on the upper level were built [by men who were forced] unjustly [to do that work]; he forced his neighbors to work for nothing; he did not pay them anything.
14 Tu t'es bâti une maison symétrique, avec un étage aéré, percé de fenêtres, revêtu de cèdres, peint en vermillon;
He said, ‘I will [force my workers to] build a huge beautiful palace with very large rooms and [many] windows. They will cover the walls with [fragrant] cedar panels/timber and paint them bright red.’”
15 Est-ce que tu règneras parce que tu es violent comme Achaz, ton aïeul? De tels princes ne mangeront pas, ils ne boiront pas. Il eût mieux valu pour toi rendre la justice et le jugement.
But it is certainly not [RHQ] having a beautiful cedar palace that causes a king to be great! Jehoiakim’s father, Josiah, also had [RHQ] plenty of things to eat and drink. But Josiah always did things that are right and just, and that is why God blessed him.
16 Mais ils n'ont point su ce qu'ils devaient faire, ils n'ont point rendu justice à l'humble, ni rendu justice à l'indigent; n'est-ce point là me méconnaître? dit le Seigneur.
Josiah acted justly/fairly and helped poor and needy people, so things went well for him. Yahweh says, “That is [RHQ] the way a person should behave who knows me.
17 Voilà que tes yeux ni ton cœur ne sont bons; ils vont après les convoitises et après le sang innocent, pour le répandre, après les iniquités et les meurtres, pour les commettre.
But [Jehoiakim], you [MTY] are greedy and desire only to obtain things by acting dishonestly. You murder [MTY] innocent people, you oppress poor people, and you treat people cruelly and violently.”
18 A cause de cela, voici ce que dit le Seigneur sur Joakim, fils de Josias, roi de Juda, et sur cet homme: On ne se frappera pas la poitrine, disant: Ah! frère; on ne le pleurera point, disant: Hélas! Seigneur.
Therefore, this is what Yahweh says about Jehoiakim, the son of King Josiah: “[When he dies], people will not mourn for him. They will not say to each other, ‘It is very sad; we are so sorry!’ The people whom he ruled will not mourn for him, saying, ‘We are sad that our king is dead; we are so sorry that the wonderful things [that happened while he was king are ended].’
19 Il aura la sépulture d'un âne, il sera jeté en lambeaux hors de la porte de Jérusalem.
[When he dies, people will do to] his corpse what they do to a dead donkey; his [corpse] will be dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gates!
20 Monte sur le Liban et crie; fais entendre ta voix vers le Basan; crie encore du côté de la mer; tous tes amants ont été broyés.
[You people of Judah], go to [the mountains in] Lebanon and weep, shout in the [mountains of the] Bashan [region], cry out in [the mountains of] Moab, because all your friends [in those areas] have been destroyed.
21 Je t'ai parlé quand tu chancelais, et tu as dit: Je n'écouterai pas; telle a été ta voie depuis ta jeunesse, tu n'as pas écouté ma parole.
When you were prosperous, I warned you, but you replied, ‘We will not pay attention [to what you say].’ You have been acting like that since you were young; you have never obeyed me.
22 Tous tes pasteurs se relieront de vent, et tes amants seront emmenés captifs; et alors tu seras confondue et tu rougiras de tous ceux qui t'auront aimée.
[So, now I will punish] all your leaders; [it will be as though] they have been blown away by the wind. They will be captured [by your enemies] and taken to another country. When that happens, you will [truly] be ashamed and disgraced because of all the wicked things [that you have done].
23 O toi qui résides sur le Liban, qui as fait ton nid parmi les cèdres, tu gémiras quand viendront sur toi des maux comme ceux de l'enfantement.
[Now, your king] enjoys living in the cedar rooms in his palace, but [soon] he will be punished, and then he will groan like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby.”
24 Par ma vie, dit le Seigneur, quand même, ô Jéchonias, fils de Joakim, roi de Juda, tu serais l'anneau de ma main droite, je t'en arracherai!
Yahweh says this: “Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, as surely as I am alive, [I will punish you]. Even if you were the ring on my finger that shows that I am the king, I would pull you off.
25 Et je te livrerai à ceux qui en veulent à ta vie, à ceux dont tu crains le visage, aux mains des Chaldéens,
You are afraid of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his huge army, [because] they are wanting to kill you. I will enable them to capture you.
26 Et je te rejetterai, toi et la mère qui t'a enfanté, en une terre où tu n'es point né; et vous y mourrez.
I will expel you and your mother [from this land], and you will be taken to another country. Neither of you was born there, but you will both die there.
27 Mais pour la terre que leurs âmes désirent, ils n'y reviendront jamais.
You will never return to this land that you will very much desire to return to.”
28 Jéchonias a été sans honneur, comme un vase inutile; il a été rejeté et banni en une terre qu'il ne connaissait pas.
[Someone said, ] “Jehoiachin will be [RHQ] like a broken pot that is despised and which no one wants. He and his children will be (exiled/forced to go) to a foreign land.
29 Terre, terre, écoute la parole du Seigneur,
[I want] the people in this land to listen carefully to this message from Yahweh.”
30 Inscris cet homme; c'est un roi détrôné; il n'aura point de rejeton assis sur le trône de David, ni de prince pour régner en Juda.
This is what Yahweh says: “[In the record about the kings of Judah, ] write down that [it will be as though] this man [Jehoiachin] had no children, and that he has not been successful during his life, because none of his children/descendants will [ever] become king to rule over [the people of] Judah.”
