Jérémie 36
1 Voici les paroles de l'écrit que Jérémie envoya de Jérusalem aux anciens de l'émigration, aux prêtres et aux faux prophètes; lettre adressée en Babylone aux captifs et à tout le peuple,
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Après le départ du roi Jéchonias, et de la reine, et des eunuques, et de tout homme libre, et de tout esclave, et de tout artisan de Jérusalem,
Take you a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto you, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
3 Par les mains d'Éléasar, fils de Sapha et de Gamarias, fils d'Helcias, que Sédécias, roi de Juda, envoya au roi de Babylone, disant:
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 Ainsi parle le Seigneur, Dieu d'Israël, sur les captifs que j'ai transportés de Jérusalem:
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
5 Bâtissez des maisons, et habitez-les; plantez des arbres et mangez-en les fruits.
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
6 Prenez des femmes et engendrez des fils et des filles; prenez pour vos fils des femmes, et donnez vos filles à des hommes: multipliez et ne décroissez pas.
Therefore go you, and read in the roll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
7 Et cherchez la paix en la contrée où je vous ai transportés, et priez le Seigneur pour ses peuples; car en leur paix réside votre paix.
It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.
8 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Que les faux prophètes qui sont avec vous, que vos devins ne vous séduisent pas; et n'ayez point confiance aux songes que vous aurez songés.
And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.
9 C'est à tort qu'ils vous prophétisent en mon nom, et je ne les ai pas envoyés.
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
10 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Lorsque les soixante-dix ans seront près d'être révolus en Babylone, je vous visiterai et je confirmerai mes paroles sur vous, en ramenant votre peuple en ce lieu.
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
11 Car j'ai sur vous des pensées de paix, et non de malheur, pour vous donner ces biens.
When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
12 Priez-moi, et je vous exaucerai.
Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
13 Cherchez-moi, et vous me trouverez. Parce que, si vous me cherchez de tout votre cœur,
Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
14 Je me manifesterai à vous,
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the roll wherein you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
15 Parce que vous direz: Le Seigneur a institué pour nous des prophètes en Babylone.
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
16 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and the other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
17 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?
18 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
19 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where all of you be.
20 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
21 Ainsi dit le Seigneur sur Achiab et sur Sédécias: Voilà que je les livrerai aux mains du roi de Babylone, et il les frappera devant vos yeux.
So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22 Et parmi tous les captifs en Babylone, c'est d'eux que l'on se servira pour maudire, disant: Puisse le Seigneur te traiter comme il a traité Sédécias et Achiab, que le roi de Babylone a fait frire dans le feu,
Now the king sat in the winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
23 Parce qu'ils avaient fait l'iniquité en Israël; qu'ils avaient commis des adultères avec les femmes de leurs concitoyens, et dit en mon nom des paroles que je ne leur avais point commandé; et j'en porte témoignage, dit le Seigneur,
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24 Et à Séméi l'Élamite tu diras:
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
25 Je ne t'ai point envoyé en mon nom. Et à Sophonias, fils de Messie, le prêtre, dis encore:
Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
26 Le Seigneur t'a établi prêtre à la place du prêtre Joad, pour que tu sois, dans le temple du Seigneur, le maître de tout faux prophète et de tout homme en délire; et ceux-là, fais-les mettre en prison et au cachot.
But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
27 Et maintenant pourquoi tous ensemble injuriez-vous Jérémie, d'Anathoth, qui prophétisait pour vous?
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28 Ne vous a-t-il pas envoyé une lettre à ce sujet? Dans le cours de ce mois, il vous l'a envoyée à Babylone, disant: Ce sera long; bâtissez donc des maisons et habitez-les; plantez des jardins et manges-en les fruits.
Take you again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
29 Or Sophonie lut la lettre aux oreilles de Jérémie,
And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus says the LORD; You have burned this roll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
30 Et la parole du Seigneur vint à Jérémie, disant:
Therefore thus says the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
31 Envoie-les aux captifs, disant: Ainsi parle le Seigneur sur Jérémie l'Elamite: Puisque Séméi vous a prophétisé sans être envoyé par moi, et qu'il a gagné votre confiance injustement,
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
32 A cause de cela, dit le Seigneur, je visiterai Séméi et sa race, et il n'en restera pas un homme parmi vous, pour voir le bien que je vous ferai; non, ils ne le verront pas.
Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
