Jérémie 49
1 Et tous les chefs de l'armée, Joanan, Azarias, fils de Maasie, et tout le peuple, du petit au grand, allèrent trouver Jérémie le prophète, et ils lui dirent:
Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?
2 Que notre appel à la compassion soit devant ta face. Prie le Seigneur ton Dieu pour les restes de notre peuple; car de beaucoup que nous étions, nous sommes restés fort peu, comme tu le vois de tes yeux.
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
3 Et que le Seigneur ton Dieu nous fasse connaître la voie où nous devons marcher, et la parole qu'il nous faut accomplir.
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
4 Et Jérémie leur dit: J'ai entendu, voilà que je prierai pour vous le Seigneur mon Dieu, selon vos paroles; et la parole que me répondra le Seigneur Dieu, je vous la ferai connaître, et je ne vous en cacherai aucune chose.
Why do you boast of your valleys— your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’
5 Et ils dirent: Que le Seigneur soit entre nous un témoin juste et vrai, si nous n'agissons selon toute parole que le Seigneur nous enverra.
Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.
6 Qu'elle nous annonce du bien ou du mal, la voix du Seigneur, vers qui nous t'envoyons, nous l'écouterons, afin qu'il en aille mieux pour nous, parce que nous aurons écouté la voix du Seigneur notre Dieu.
Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
7 Et dix jours après la parole du Seigneur vint à Jérémie.
Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
8 Et il appela Joanan, et les chefs de l'armée, et tout le peuple, du petit au grand;
Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.
9 Et il leur dit: Voici ce que dit le Seigneur:
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?
10 Si vous demeurez en cette terre, je vous réédifierai, et ne vous abattrai pas; je vous planterai et ne vous arracherai pas, parce que je mets un terme aux maux que je vous ai faits.
But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
11 N'ayez plus peur du roi de Babylone, que vous craignez, n'ayez plus peur de lui, dit le Seigneur; car je suis avec vous pour vous délivrer et vous sauver de leurs mains.
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
12 Et je vous ferai miséricorde, et j'aurai compassion de vous, et je vous ramènerai en votre terre.
For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
13 Et si vous dites: Nous ne demeurerons pas en cette terre pour ne plus entendre la voix du Seigneur.
For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
14 Nous irons en Égypte, et nous ne verrons pas la guerre, et nous n'entendrons pas le son des trompettes, et nous ne manquerons pas de pain, et nous demeurerons en cette terre.
I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: “Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!”
15 Si vous dites cela, écoutez la parole du Seigneur: Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Si vous tournez votre face vers l'Égypte, si vous y entrez pour y demeurer,
“For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.
16 Ceci adviendra: le glaive que vous craignez vous trouvera en Égypte, et la famine, dont l'aspect vous donne tant d'inquiétude, marchera derrière vous et vous atteindra en Égypte, et vous y mourrez.
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,”
17 Et tous les Hébreux et tous les prosélytes qui auront tourné leur face vers l'Égypte pour y demeurer périront par le glaive ou par la famine, et aucun d'eux n'échappera aux maux que j'amènerai sur eux.
“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
18 Car voici ce que dit le Seigneur: De même que ma colère est tombée sur les habitants de Jérusalem, ainsi ma colère tombera goutte à goutte si vous entrez en Égypte; et vous serez en abomination, vous serez assujettis, maudits, outragés, et vous ne verrez plus cette terre.
As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
19 Voici ce que vous dit le Seigneur, ô restes de Juda: N'entrez pas en Égypte, et maintenant sachez
Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
20 Que vous avez agi avec malice en vos âmes, quand vous m'avez envoyé, disant: Prie pour nous le Seigneur, et nous nous conduirons selon tout ce que le Seigneur te dira.
Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
21 Et vous avez entendu la parole du Seigneur qu'il m'a envoyée pour vous.
At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
22 Et vous périrez par le glaive et la famine dans le lieu où vous voulez aller pour vous y établir.
Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor.
How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,”
“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!
They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’
Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.
Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.
Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,”
“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.
I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
I will set My throne in Elam, and destroy its king and officials,”
“Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,”
