Jérémie 23

1 Maudits soient les pasteurs qui perdent et dispersent les brebis de leur pâturage!

Yahweh declares, “Terrible things will happen to [the leaders] [MET] [of my people—those who are like] shepherds of [the people who are like] my sheep—because they have scattered my people and sent them away, and have not taken care of them.

2 A cause de cela, voici ce que dit le Seigneur sur les pasteurs de mon peuple: Vous avez dispersé et repoussé mes brebis, et vous ne les avez pas visitées. Et moi je vous punirai de vos méchantes œuvres.

So, this is what [I, ] Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli [people worship], say to those leaders: ‘Instead of taking care of my people and [leading them to places where they are safe, like a shepherd does for] his sheep, you have scattered them. So I will punish you for the evil things that you have done.

3 Moi-même je recueillerai les restes de mon peuple sur toute terre où je les ai bannis, et je les rétablirai en leurs pâturages, et ils croîtront et ils se multiplieront.

But later I will gather those who are still alive, from the countries where I have forced them to go. I will bring them back to their own country, where they will have many children, and their number/population will increase.

4 Et je susciterai pour eux des pasteurs qui les mèneront paître, et ils n'auront plus peur, et ils ne trembleront plus, dit le Seigneur.

[Then] I will appoint [other] leaders for my people, leaders who will take care of them. And my people will never be afraid [DOU] of anything again, and none of them will be [like a] lost [sheep].’”

5 Voilà que les jours arrivent, dit le Seigneur, où je susciterai pour David un soleil de justice, et un roi règnera, et il comprendra, et il rendra justice selon le jugement à toute la terre.

Yahweh [also] says, “Some day I will appoint for you a righteous man who will be a descendant of King David. He will be a king who rules wisely. He will do what is just and right throughout the land.

6 De son temps, Juda sera sauvé, et Israël s'abritera dans ses demeures en toute assurance. Et le nom que lui donnera le Seigneur sera Josédec, parmi les prophètes.

At that time, all the Israeli people [DOU] will be saved [from their enemies], and they will be safe. And his name will be ‘Yahweh, the one who vindicates/defends us.’”

7 A cause de cela, voilà que les jours approchent, dit le Seigneur, où ils ne diront plus: Vive le Seigneur, qui a tiré la maison d'Israël de la terre d'Égypte!

Yahweh [also] says that at that time, people [who are solemnly promising to do something] will no longer say, “[I will do it as surely] as Yahweh lives, who rescued the Israeli people from Egypt.”

8 Mais: Vive le Seigneur, qui a rassemblé toute la race d'Israël, et l'a ramenée de la terre du nord et de toutes les contrées où il les avait bannis, et qui les a rétablis dans leur héritage!

Instead, they will say, “[I will do it] as surely as Yahweh lives, who brought [us] Israeli people back to our own land, from the land to the northeast and from all the [other] countries to which he had exiled us.” And they will live in their own land [again].

9 Parmi les prophètes, je suis celui au cœur brisé; tous mes os ont été ébranlés; je suis devenu comme un homme meurtri ou comme un homme pris de vin, à la vue du Seigneur et de la magnificence de sa gloire.

I am very shocked because of the sacred message that Yahweh has spoken about [what will happen to] the [false] prophets; [it is as though] all my bones shake. I stagger like a man who is drunk after drinking a lot of wine.

10 Devant sa face, la terre est en deuil, et les pâturages du désert sont desséchés; et la course de ces hommes est devenue mauvaise, et leur force pareillement.

The land is full of [people who commit] adultery; and [Yahweh] has cursed the land. Even the pastures in the desert are all dried up, because the people do what is evil, and [the false prophets] use their power to do things that are not just/fair.

11 Le prêtre et le prophète se sont souillés; jusque dans mon temple j'ai vu leur corruption.

Yahweh says, “[Yes, even] the priests and the prophets are ungodly; they do wicked things even in my temple.

12 A cause de cela, que leur voie soit glissante et sombre, et ils y trébucheront, et ils y tomberont; car j'amènerai sur eux des maux en l'année où je les visiterai.

Therefore, [it will be as though] the paths that they walk on are slippery. [It will be as though] they are being chased in the darkness, and there they will fall down, because I will cause them to experience disasters at the time that I will punish them. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”

13 Et les prophètes de Samarie, j'ai vu en eux des iniquités; ils ont prophétisé par Baal, et ils ont égaré mon peuple d'Israël.

[Previously] I saw that the prophets in Samaria were doing something that was wrong; they were prophesying, saying that Baal [gave them the messages that they were proclaiming], and they were deceiving my people.

14 Et les prophètes de Jérusalem, j'ai vu en eux des choses horribles; adultères, cheminant dans le mensonge, prenant de toutes mains pour ne point détourner les méchants de leurs voies, ils ont tous été pour moi comme Sodome, et les habitants de Jérusalem comme Gomorrhe.

And [now] I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem doing terrible things. They commit adultery and habitually tell lies. They encourage evil people to continue to do evil things, with the result that the people do not stop sinning. Those prophets are as wicked as the people in Sodom and Gomorrah were.

15 A cause de cela, ainsi dit le Seigneur: Voilà que je vais les nourrir de douleurs, et je les abreuverai d'eau saumâtre, parce que des prophètes de Jérusalem est sortie la souillure de toute la terre.

So, this is what the Commander of the armies of angels says about those [false] prophets: “I will give those prophets bitter things to eat and poison to drink, because it is because of them that this land is filled with [people who do] wicked things.”

16 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur tout-puissant: N'écoutez point les discours des prophètes, parce qu'ils ont des visions vaines; ils parlent selon leur cœur, et non selon la bouche de Dieu.

This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Do not pay any attention to what those [false] prophets say to you, because they are just deceiving you. They tell you about visions that they have thought/created [only] in their own minds, not about visions that I have given them.

17 Ils disent à ceux qui rejettent la parole du Seigneur: La paix sera avec vous; et à ceux qui courent après leurs désirs et après les égarements de leurs cœurs: Il ne vous arrivera rien de mal.

They habitually say to those who hate me, ‘[Yahweh says that] you will have peace.’ And they say to those who stubbornly do what they want to do, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you [because of your doing those things].’

18 Car qui a assisté au conseil du Seigneur? qui a vu sa parole? qui l'a entendue de ses oreilles?

But none of them has ever been in a council [meeting] in heaven in order to listen to a message from me. None of them has paid attention to anything that [I], Yahweh, have said.

19 Voilà un tremblement de terre venu du Seigneur, et sa colère produit ce tremblement; elle viendra frapper les impies.

So, listen to this: I will punish them; it will be [like] a great storm; it will come down [like] a whirlwind, swirling around the heads of those wicked people.

20 Et la colère du Seigneur ne se détournera plus qu'elle n'ait accompli toutes les résolutions de son cœur; et à la fin des jours ils comprendront.

I will not stop being angry until I completely accomplish all that I have planned. In the future, you will understand [all of] this clearly.”

21 Je n'ai point envoyé ces prophètes, et ils ont couru d'eux-mêmes; je ne leur ai rien dit, et d'eux-mêmes ils ont prophétisé.

[Yahweh also says, ] “I have not appointed those prophets, but they run [around telling people their messages]. I did not speak to them, but they [continue to] prophesy.

22 Et s'ils avaient assisté à mon conseil, s'ils avaient entendu mes paroles, je les aurais corrigés, et corrigé mon peuple de ses mauvaises inclinations.

If they had been in my council [meetings], they would have been able to speak messages from me, and they would have caused people to turn away from committing evil things.”

23 Je suis Dieu de près, dit le Seigneur; ne suis-je pas aussi Dieu de loin?

Yahweh [also] says, “Am I a God who is only nearby? No, I am a God who is far away, also.

24 Qui se cachera dans le secret, sans que je le découvre? Est-ce que je ne remplis pas le ciel et la terre? dit le Seigneur.

So, no one can hide in some secret place with the result that I cannot see him. I am everywhere, in heaven and on the earth! [That is what I], Yahweh, say!

25 J'ai entendu ce que disent les prophètes, ce qu'ils prophétisent en mon nom; ils mentent quand ils disent: J'ai eu un songe.

I have heard those prophets prophesy lies, saying that they are telling people messages from me. They say, ‘[Listen to me tell you] the dream that God gave me last night! I [really] had this dream!’

26 Jusques à quand en sera-t-il ainsi du cœur de ces prophètes, qui prophétisent le mensonge, en prophétisant les séductions de leur cœur?

How long will they continue to do this? How long will those lying prophets continue to prophesy things that come only from their own minds?

27 Ils s'imaginent faire oublier ma loi par des songes que chacun se raconte, comme d'autres ont fait oublier mon nom à leurs pères à cause de Baal?

They think that because of the dreams that they tell to each other, people will forget me, like their ancestors forgot about me when they started to worship Baal.

28 Que le prophète qui a eu un songe le raconte; que celui à qui est venue ma parole annonce selon la vérité. Qu'est-ce que la paille auprès du grain? Ainsi en est-il de mes paroles, dit le Seigneur.

Allow those [false] prophets to tell people their dreams, but those who have messages that [really] come from me should proclaim those messages faithfully. I, Yahweh, say [that like] straw and grain are certainly very different, [my messages and the messages from those false prophets are certainly very different].

29 Mes paroles ne sont-elles pas comme le feu, dit le Seigneur, ou comme la hache qui fend un rocher?

[It is as though] my messages [burn] like a fire; they [strike people’s inner beings like] someone strikes a rock with a hammer and smashes it into pieces.

30 Voilà pourquoi je suis contre les prophètes, dit le Seigneur Dieu, qui dérobent mes paroles à leurs frères.

Therefore, [I, ] Yahweh say, 'I oppose all those prophets who steal messages from each other and claim that those messages came from me.

31 Voilà pourquoi je suis contre les prophètes qui prophétisent de la langue et disent les rêves de leur sommeil.

I oppose those prophets who speak their own messages but claim that those messages came from me.

32 Voilà pourquoi je suis contre les prophètes qui prophétisent d'après des songes trompeurs et les racontent, et qui ont égaré mon peuple par leurs mensonges et leurs erreurs; et je ne les avais pas envoyés, et je ne leur avais rien prescrit, et ils ne seront d'aucun secours à ce peuple.

I oppose those prophets who falsely say that I told them something in a vision, but they are [only] telling lies that cause my people to sin. I did not send those prophets. I did not even appoint them [to be prophets]. And they have no messages that will benefit my people at all.' [That is what I, ] Yahweh, declare.”

33 Et si ce peuple, ou le prêtre, ou le prophète demandent quel est le fardeau du Seigneur, dis-leur: Vous êtes ce fardeau, et je vous briserai, dit le Seigneur.

[Yahweh said to me], “If one of those prophets or priests or one of the [other] people asks you, ‘What problem has Yahweh told you about [now]?’, you must reply, ‘You are the problem! And Yahweh says that he will abandon you!’

34 Si le prophète ou quelqu'un des prêtres ou du peuple se sert de ce mot: Le fardeau du Seigneur, je punirai cet homme et sa maison.

And if any prophet or priest or anyone [else falsely] says, ‘[I have] a prophecy from Yahweh,’ I will punish that person and his family.

35 Voici ce que vous direz chacun à votre ami, chacun à votre frère: Qu'a dit le Seigneur? quelle est la parole du Seigneur?

What you should continually ask each other is, ‘[When you spoke to Yahweh, ] what did he reply? What is he saying [to us]?’

36 Mais ne prononcez plus ce mot: Le fardeau du Seigneur; car c'est votre parole qui sera un fardeau pour lui.

But stop saying ‘[I have] a prophecy/message from Yahweh,’ because those who say that are doing it only because they want people to accept their ideas, and by doing that they distort/change the messages that are from our God, the Commander of the armies of angels.

37 C'est pourquoi il faut dire: Le Seigneur Dieu nous a-t-il parlé?

This is what you should ask each prophet: ‘What did Yahweh reply [when you talked to him]? What is he saying [to us]?’

38 Voici donc ce que dit le Seigneur notre Dieu: En punition de ce que vous avez prononcé ce mot: Fardeau du Seigneur, après que j'eus envoyé vers vous, et que je vous eus fait dire: Ne dites plus: Le fardeau du Seigneur;

If he replies, ‘[What I told you] is a prophecy/message from Yahweh,’ you should say to him, ‘You have continued to say, “[I received] a prophecy/message from Yahweh” even though I told you to not claim that you have received prophecies/messages from Yahweh.’

39 A cause de cela, voilà que moi je vous prends et vous brise, vous et cette ville, que j'ai donnée à vous et à vos pères.

So I [, Yahweh, ] will get rid of you [false prophets]. I will expel you from my presence. And I will get rid of this city that I gave to you and to your ancestors.

40 Et je vous marquerai d'un éternel opprobre, d'une honte éternelle qui ne sera jamais oubliée.

I will cause people to make fun of you forever. People will never forget that you were disgraced.”