Jérémie 22
1 Ainsi parle l’Éternel: Descends dans la maison du roi de Juda, et là prononce cette parole.
This is another message that Yahweh gave [to me]: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and say this to him:
2 Tu diras: Écoute la parole de l’Éternel, roi de Juda, qui es assis sur le trône de David, toi, tes serviteurs, et ton peuple, qui entrez par ces portes!
‘You are the king of Judah. You are the ruler [MTY], like King David was. You and your officials and your people must listen
3 Ainsi parle l’Éternel: Pratiquez la justice et l’équité; délivrez l’opprimé des mains de l’oppresseur; ne maltraitez pas l’étranger, l’orphelin et la veuve; n’usez pas de violence, et ne répandez point de sang innocent dans ce lieu.
to what Yahweh says: “Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil things. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here [in Jerusalem] [MTY] those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong).
4 Car si vous agissez selon cette parole, les rois assis sur le trône de David entreront par les portes de cette maison, montés sur des chars et sur des chevaux, eux, leurs serviteurs et leur peuple.
If you obey those commands carefully, there will [always] be some descendant of King David who will be ruling here [MTY] [in Jerusalem]. The king and his officials and other people will ride through the gates of the city in chariots and on horses.
5 Mais si vous n’écoutez pas ces paroles, je le jure par moi-même, dit l’Éternel, cette maison deviendra une ruine.
But if you refuse to pay attention to those commands, I, Yahweh, solemnly declare, with myself [MTY] as a witness, that this palace will become a pile of rubble.”’”
6 Car ainsi parle l’Éternel sur la maison du roi de Juda: Tu es pour moi comme Galaad, comme le sommet du Liban; Mais certes, je ferai de toi un désert, Une ville sans habitants.
And this is what Yahweh says about the king’s palace: “[I like] this palace, like I like the forests in the Gilead [region] and the mountains in Lebanon. But I will cause this palace to become a desert, a place that no one lives in.
7 Je prépare contre toi des destructeurs, Chacun avec ses armes; Ils abattront tes plus beaux cèdres, Et les jetteront au feu.
I will summon enemy troops who will destroy this palace; each of their soldiers will use his own tools [to wreck the building]. They will cut into pieces the beautiful big cedar [beams] and throw them into a fire.”
8 Des nations nombreuses passeront près de cette ville, Et elles se diront l’une à l’autre: Pourquoi l’Éternel a-t-il ainsi traité cette grande ville?
People from many nations will walk past [the ruins of] this city and say to each other, “Why did Yahweh destroy this city that was [very] great?”
9 Et l’on répondra: Parce qu’ils ont abandonné L’alliance de l’Éternel, leur Dieu, Parce qu’ils se sont prosternés devant d’autres dieux et les ont servis.
And [other] people will reply, “[He did it] because his people stopped obeying the agreement that they had made with Yahweh their God. Instead, they worshiped [DOU] other gods.”
10 Ne pleurez point celui qui est mort, Et ne vous lamentez pas sur lui; Pleurez, pleurez celui qui s’en va, Car il ne reviendra plus, Il ne reverra plus le pays de sa naissance.
[Yahweh also says, ] “Do not mourn for King [Josiah]; do not cry because he has died. Instead, mourn for [King Jehoahaz, his son], [because] he will be captured and taken to another country, and he will never return to see his own country, [Judah], again.”
11 Car ainsi parle l’Éternel sur Schallum, fils de Josias, roi de Juda, Qui régnait à la place de Josias, son père, Et qui est sorti de ce lieu: Il n’y reviendra plus;
Jehoahaz became king after his father, King Josiah, [died], but Jehoahaz indeed was captured and taken [to Babylonia]. And this is what Yahweh says about him: “He also will never return [to Judah].
12 Mais il mourra dans le lieu où on l’emmène captif, Et il ne verra plus ce pays.
He will die in that far-away country and will never see his own country again.”
13 Malheur à celui qui bâtit sa maison par l’injustice, Et ses chambres par l’iniquité; Qui fait travailler son prochain sans le payer, Sans lui donner son salaire;
[And Yahweh said to me], “Terrible things will happen to [King Jehoahaz’s brother, King Jehoiakim]. He unjustly [forced men to] build his palace. The rooms on the upper level were built [by men who were forced] unjustly [to do that work]; he forced his neighbors to work for nothing; he did not pay them anything.
14 Qui dit: Je me bâtirai une maison vaste, Et des chambres spacieuses; Et qui s’y fait percer des fenêtres, La lambrisse de cèdre, Et la peint en couleur rouge!
He said, ‘I will [force my workers to] build a huge beautiful palace with very large rooms and [many] windows. They will cover the walls with [fragrant] cedar panels/timber and paint them bright red.’”
15 Est-ce que tu règnes, parce que tu as de la passion pour le cèdre? Ton père ne mangeait-il pas, ne buvait-il pas? Mais il pratiquait la justice et l’équité, Et il fut heureux;
But it is certainly not [RHQ] having a beautiful cedar palace that causes a king to be great! Jehoiakim’s father, Josiah, also had [RHQ] plenty of things to eat and drink. But Josiah always did things that are right and just, and that is why God blessed him.
16 Il jugeait la cause du pauvre et de l’indigent, Et il fut heureux. N’est-ce pas là me connaître? Dit l’Éternel.
Josiah acted justly/fairly and helped poor and needy people, so things went well for him. Yahweh says, “That is [RHQ] the way a person should behave who knows me.
17 Mais tu n’as des yeux et un cœur Que pour te livrer à la cupidité, Pour répandre le sang innocent, Et pour exercer l’oppression et la violence.
But [Jehoiakim], you [MTY] are greedy and desire only to obtain things by acting dishonestly. You murder [MTY] innocent people, you oppress poor people, and you treat people cruelly and violently.”
18 C’est pourquoi ainsi parle l’Éternel sur Jojakim, fils de Josias, roi de Juda: On ne le pleurera pas, en disant: Hélas, mon frère! Hélas, ma sœur! On ne le pleurera pas, en disant: Hélas, seigneur! Hélas, sa majesté!
Therefore, this is what Yahweh says about Jehoiakim, the son of King Josiah: “[When he dies], people will not mourn for him. They will not say to each other, ‘It is very sad; we are so sorry!’ The people whom he ruled will not mourn for him, saying, ‘We are sad that our king is dead; we are so sorry that the wonderful things [that happened while he was king are ended].’
19 Il aura la sépulture d’un âne, Il sera traîné et jeté hors des portes de Jérusalem.
[When he dies, people will do to] his corpse what they do to a dead donkey; his [corpse] will be dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gates!
20 Monte sur le Liban, et crie! Élève ta voix sur le Basan! Crie du haut d’Abarim! Car tous ceux qui t’aimaient sont brisés.
[You people of Judah], go to [the mountains in] Lebanon and weep, shout in the [mountains of the] Bashan [region], cry out in [the mountains of] Moab, because all your friends [in those areas] have been destroyed.
21 Je t’ai parlé dans le temps de ta prospérité; Tu disais: Je n’écouterai pas. C’est ainsi que tu as agi dès ta jeunesse; Tu n’as pas écouté ma voix.
When you were prosperous, I warned you, but you replied, ‘We will not pay attention [to what you say].’ You have been acting like that since you were young; you have never obeyed me.
22 Tous tes pasteurs seront la pâture du vent, Et ceux qui t’aiment iront en captivité; C’est alors que tu seras dans la honte, dans la confusion, A cause de toute ta méchanceté.
[So, now I will punish] all your leaders; [it will be as though] they have been blown away by the wind. They will be captured [by your enemies] and taken to another country. When that happens, you will [truly] be ashamed and disgraced because of all the wicked things [that you have done].
23 Toi qui habites sur le Liban, Qui as ton nid dans les cèdres, Combien tu gémiras quand les douleurs t’atteindront, Douleurs semblables à celles d’une femme en travail!
[Now, your king] enjoys living in the cedar rooms in his palace, but [soon] he will be punished, and then he will groan like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby.”
24 Je suis vivant! Dit l’Éternel, Quand Jeconia, fils de Jojakim, roi de Juda, serait Un anneau à ma main droite, Je t’arracherais de là.
Yahweh says this: “Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, as surely as I am alive, [I will punish you]. Even if you were the ring on my finger that shows that I am the king, I would pull you off.
25 Je te livrerai entre les mains de ceux qui en veulent à ta vie, Entre les mains de ceux devant qui tu trembles, Entre les mains de Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, Entre les mains des Chaldéens.
You are afraid of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his huge army, [because] they are wanting to kill you. I will enable them to capture you.
26 Je te jetterai, toi et ta mère qui t’a enfanté, Dans un autre pays où vous n’êtes pas nés, Et là vous mourrez;
I will expel you and your mother [from this land], and you will be taken to another country. Neither of you was born there, but you will both die there.
27 Mais dans le pays où ils auront le désir de retourner, Ils ne retourneront pas.
You will never return to this land that you will very much desire to return to.”
28 Est-il donc un vase méprisé, brisé, ce Jeconia? Est-il un objet auquel on n’attache aucun prix? Pourquoi sont-ils jetés, lui et sa postérité, Lancés dans un pays qu’ils ne connaissent pas?
[Someone said, ] “Jehoiachin will be [RHQ] like a broken pot that is despised and which no one wants. He and his children will be (exiled/forced to go) to a foreign land.
29 Terre, terre, terre, Écoute la parole de l’Éternel!
[I want] the people in this land to listen carefully to this message from Yahweh.”
30 Ainsi parle l’Éternel: Inscrivez cet homme comme privé d’enfants, Comme un homme dont les jours ne seront pas prospères; Car nul de ses descendants ne réussira A s’asseoir sur le trône de David Et à régner sur Juda.
This is what Yahweh says: “[In the record about the kings of Judah, ] write down that [it will be as though] this man [Jehoiachin] had no children, and that he has not been successful during his life, because none of his children/descendants will [ever] become king to rule over [the people of] Judah.”
