Isaïe 17
1 Oracle sur Damas. Voici, Damas ne sera plus une ville, Elle ne sera qu’un monceau de ruines.
[I received] this message [from Yahweh] about Damascus [the capital of Syria]: “Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city; it will be [only] a heap of ruins!
2 Les villes d’Aroër sont abandonnées, Elles sont livrées aux troupeaux; Ils s’y couchent, et personne ne les effraie.
The towns near Aroer [city] will be abandoned. Flocks [of sheep] will [eat grass in the streets and] lie down there, and there will be no one to chase them away.
3 C’en est fait de la forteresse d’Éphraïm, Et du royaume de Damas, et du reste de la Syrie: Il en sera comme de la gloire des enfants d’Israël, Dit l’Éternel des armées.
The cities in Israel will not have walls around them [to protect them]. The power of the kingdom of Damascus will be ended, and the few people who will remain in Damascus will be disgraced like the people in Israel were disgraced.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
4 En ce jour, la gloire de Jacob sera affaiblie, Et la graisse de sa chair s’évanouira.
“At that time, Israel will become insignificant. It will be [like] [MET] a fat person who has become very thin.
5 Il en sera comme quand le moissonneur récolte les blés, Et que son bras coupe les épis; Comme quand on ramasse les épis, Dans la vallée de Rephaïm.
The entire land will be like [SIM] a field where the harvesters have cut all the grain; there will be nothing left, like [SIM] the fields in the Rephaim Valley after all the crops have been harvested.
6 Il en restera un grappillage, comme quand on secoue l’olivier, Deux, trois olives, au haut de la cime, Quatre, cinq, dans ses branches à fruits, Dit l’Éternel, le Dieu d’Israël.
Only a few of the Israeli people will remain [MET], like [SIM] the few olives that remain on the top of a tree after the workers have caused all the other olives to fall [to the ground]. [There will be only] two or three olives in the top branches, [or] four or five olives on the other branches.” [That is what] the Commander of the armies of angels says.
7 En ce jour, l’homme regardera vers son créateur, Et ses yeux se tourneront vers le Saint d’Israël;
[Then], at that time, [you] people [of Israel] will (turn for help to/look up to) God, your creator, the Holy One of Israel.
8 Il ne regardera plus vers les autels, Ouvrage de ses mains, Et il ne contemplera plus ce que ses doigts ont fabriqué, Les idoles d’Astarté et les statues du soleil.
You will no [longer] seek to get help from your idols or worship the idols that you have made with your own hands [DOU]. You will never again bow down in front of the poles [where you worship the goddess] Asherah. You will never again worship at the shrines [that you have built for burning incense].
9 En ce jour, ses villes fortes seront Comme des débris dans la forêt et sur la cime des montagnes, Abandonnés devant les enfants d’Israël: Et ce sera un désert.
The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people-groups abandoned (OR, like the forests that the [Canaan people-group] abandoned) when the Israelis [attacked them long ago]. No one will live there.
10 Car tu as oublié le Dieu de ton salut, Tu ne t’es pas souvenu du rocher de ton refuge. Aussi tu as fait des plantations d’agrément, Tu as planté des ceps étrangers;
[That will happen] because you have stopped worshiping God who is [like] [MET] a huge rock under which you can be safe. You have forgotten that he is the one who can hide/protect you. So, [now] you plant very nice grapevines and [even] plant very expensive ones that come from other countries.
11 Lorsque tu les plantas, tu les entouras d’une haie, Et bientôt tu les fis venir en fleurs. Mais la récolte a fui, au moment de la jouissance: Et la douleur est sans remède.
[But] even if they sprout leaves on the day that you plant them, and even if they produce blossoms on that same morning, at harvest time, there will not be any grapes for you to pick. All that you will get is a lot of agony/misery.
12 Oh! Quelle rumeur de peuples nombreux! Ils mugissent comme mugit la mer. Quel tumulte de nations! Elles grondent comme grondent les eaux puissantes.
Listen! [The armies of] many nations will roar like the sea roars. It will sound like the noise of crashing waves.
13 Les nations grondent comme grondent les grandes eaux… Il les menace, et elles fuient au loin, Chassées comme la balle des montagnes au souffle du vent, Comme la poussière par un tourbillon.
But even though their loud roaring will be like the sound of crashing waves, when Yahweh rebukes them, they will run far away. They will flee like [SIM] chaff on the hills scatters when the wind [blows], like tumbleweeds scatter when a windstorm blows.
14 Quand vient le soir, voici, c’est une ruine soudaine; Avant le matin, ils ne sont plus! Voilà le partage de ceux qui nous dépouillent, Le sort de ceux qui nous pillent.
And, even though you people of Israel will be terrified, in the morning [your enemies] will all be gone/dead. That is what will happen to those who invade our land and [then] steal our possessions.
