Isaïe 25
1 O Éternel! Tu es mon Dieu; Je t’exalterai, je célébrerai ton nom, Car tu as fait des choses merveilleuses; Tes desseins conçus à l’avance se sont fidèlement accomplis.
Yahweh, you are my God; I will honor you and praise you [MTY]. You do wonderful things; you said long ago that you would do those things, and now you have done them like you said that you would.
2 Car tu as réduit la ville en un monceau de pierres, La cité forte en un tas de ruines; La forteresse des barbares est détruite, Jamais elle ne sera rebâtie.
[Sometimes] you have caused cities to become heaps of rubble, cities that had strong walls around them. You have caused palaces in foreign countries to disappear; they will never be rebuilt.
3 C’est pourquoi les peuples puissants te glorifient, Les villes des nations puissantes te craignent.
Therefore, people in powerful nations will declare that you are very great, and people in nations [whose leaders are] ruthless/cruel will revere you.
4 Tu as été un refuge pour le faible, Un refuge pour le malheureux dans la détresse, Un abri contre la tempête, Un ombrage contre la chaleur; Car le souffle des tyrans Est comme l’ouragan qui frappe une muraille.
Yahweh, you are [like] [SIM] a strong tower where poor people can (find refuge/be safe), a place where needy people can go when they are distressed. [You are like] [MET] a place where people can find refuge in a storm and where they can be shaded from the hot sun. Ruthless/Cruel [people] oppress us; they are like [SIM] a storm beating against a wall,
5 Comme tu domptes la chaleur dans une terre brûlante, Tu as dompté le tumulte des barbares; Comme la chaleur est étouffée par l’ombre d’un nuage, Ainsi ont été étouffés les chants de triomphe des tyrans.
and like [SIM] [the intense] heat in the desert. [But] you cause the roaring of people in foreign nations to cease. Like the air cools when a cloud comes overhead, you stop ruthless/cruel [people] from singing songs boasting about their being very great.
6 L’Éternel des armées prépare à tous les peuples, sur cette montagne, Un festin de mets succulents, Un festin de vins vieux, De mets succulents, pleins de mœlle, De vins vieux, clarifiés.
Here in Jerusalem, the Commander of the armies of angels will prepare a wonderful feast for all the people [of the world]. It will be a banquet with plenty of good meat and fine well-aged [DOU] wine.
7 Et, sur cette montagne, il anéantit le voile qui voile tous les peuples, La couverture qui couvre toutes les nations;
[People here are] sad; their being sad is [like] a dark cloud that hangs over them, like they experience when someone dies. But Yahweh will enable them to quit being sad.
8 Il anéantit la mort pour toujours; Le Seigneur, l’Éternel, essuie les larmes de tous les visages, Il fait disparaître de toute la terre l’opprobre de son peuple; Car l’Éternel a parlé.
He will get rid of death forever! Yahweh our God will cause people to no longer mourn because someone has died. And he will stop other people insulting and making fun of his land and [us] his people. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it!
9 En ce jour l’on dira: Voici, c’est notre Dieu, en qui nous avons confiance, Et c’est lui qui nous sauve; C’est l’Éternel, en qui nous avons confiance; Soyons dans l’allégresse, et réjouissons-nous de son salut!
At that time, [people] will proclaim, “Yahweh is our God! We trusted in him, and he rescued us! Yahweh, in whom we trusted, has done it; we should rejoice because of his saving/rescuing [us]!”
10 Car la main de l’Éternel repose sur cette montagne; Et Moab est foulé sur place, Comme la paille est foulée dans une mare à fumier.
Yahweh [MTY] will protect and bless Jerusalem. [But] he will crush [the people in the land of] Moab; they will be like [SIM] straw that is trampled in the manure [and left to rot].
11 Au milieu de cette mare, il étend ses mains, Comme le nageur les étend pour nager; Mais l’Éternel abat son orgueil, Et déjoue l’artifice de ses mains.
Yahweh will push down the people of Moab like [SIM] a swimmer pushes [the water] with his hands. He will cause them to cease being proud, and he will show that all the things that they have done are worthless.
12 Il renverse, il précipite les fortifications élevées de tes murs, Il les fait crouler à terre, jusque dans la poussière.
The high walls [around the cities] in Moab will be torn down; they will be demolished and fall into the dust/dirt.
