Psaumes 42
1 Au chef des chantres. Cantique des fils de Koré. Comme une biche soupire après des courants d’eau, Ainsi mon âme soupire après toi, ô Dieu!
Deer pant, desiring to drink water from a stream [when there is a drought] (OR, [when they are being pursued by hunters].) In the same way [SIM], God, I need you very much.
2 Mon âme a soif de Dieu, du Dieu vivant: Quand irai-je et paraîtrai-je devant la face de Dieu?
I desire to have fellowship with [MET] you, the all-powerful God. [I wonder], “When will I be able to go [back to the temple in Israel] and worship in your presence again?”
3 Mes larmes sont ma nourriture jour et nuit, Pendant qu’on me dit sans cesse: Où est ton Dieu?
Every day and every night I cry; [it is as though] the only thing I have to drink is my tears; and while I do that, my enemies are continually asking me, “Why does your god not [help you]?”
4 Je me rappelle avec effusion de cœur Quand je marchais entouré de la foule, Et que je m’avançais à sa tête vers la maison de Dieu, Au milieu des cris de joie et des actions de grâces D’une multitude en fête.
I am very distressed [IDM] as I remember when I went with the crowd of people to the temple [in Jerusalem], leading them as we walked along; we were all shouting joyfully and singing to thank God [for what he had done]; we were a large group who were celebrating.
5 Pourquoi t’abats-tu, mon âme, et gémis-tu au-dedans de moi? Espère en Dieu, car je le louerai encore; Il est mon salut et mon Dieu.
So [I say to] myself, “(Why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!) [RHQ] I confidently expect God [to help me], and again I will praise him, my God, the one who saves me.”
6 Mon âme est abattue au-dedans de moi: Aussi c’est à toi que je pense, depuis le pays du Jourdain, Depuis l’Hermon, depuis la montagne de Mitsear.
[But now, Yahweh], I am very discouraged [IDM], so I think about you, even from where the Jordan [River] gushes out from the bottom of Hermon [Mountain] and from Mizar Mountain.
7 Un flot appelle un autre flot au bruit de tes ondées; Toutes tes vagues et tous tes flots passent sur moi.
But here, the great sorrow that I feel is like water that you send down [MET]; [it is like] a waterfall that tumbles down and floods over me.
8 Le jour, l’Éternel m’accordait sa grâce; La nuit, je chantais ses louanges, J’adressais une prière au Dieu de ma vie.
Yahweh shows me each day that he faithfully loves me, and each night I sing to him and pray to him, the God who causes me to live.
9 Je dis à Dieu, mon rocher: Pourquoi m’oublies-tu? Pourquoi dois-je marcher dans la tristesse, Sous l’oppression de l’ennemi?
I say to God, [who is like] an [overhanging] rock [under which I can hide] [MET], “It seems that you have forgotten me. I (mourn/cry) constantly because my enemies act cruelly toward me” [RHQ].
10 Mes os se brisent quand mes persécuteurs m’outragent, En me disant sans cesse: Où est ton Dieu?
They make fun of me constantly; they continually ask, “Why does your god not help you?” [RHQ] And when they insult me [like that], [it is like] wounds that I feel even in my bones.
11 Pourquoi t’abats-tu, mon âme, et gémis-tu au-dedans de moi? Espère en Dieu, car je le louerai encore; Il est mon salut et mon Dieu.
But [I think, ] “(Why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!) [RHQ] I will confidently expect God [to help me], and I will praise him again, my God, the one who saves me.”
