Deutéronome 32
1 Cieux prêtez l'oreille, et je parlerai, et que la terre écoute les paroles de ma bouche.
“Listen to me, [all you who are in the] heavens, and [all you who are on the] earth, listen to what I say [MTY].
2 Ma doctrine distillera comme la pluie; ma parole dégouttera comme la rosée, comme la pluie menue sur l'herbe naissante, et comme la grosse pluie sur l'herbe avancée.
I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
3 Car j'invoquerai le Nom de l'Eternel; attribuez la grandeur à notre Dieu.
I will praise Yahweh [MTY]. And [all you people should] tell others that our God is very great.
4 L'œuvre du Rocher est parfaite; car toutes ses voies sont jugement. Le [Dieu] Fort est vérité, et sans iniquité; il est juste et droit.
He is like a rock [MET] [under which we are protected]; [everything] that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.
5 Ils se sont corrompus envers lui, leur tache n'est pas une [tache] de ses enfants; c'est une génération perverse et revêche.
“But [you Israeli people] have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer [deserve to] be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].
6 Est-ce ainsi que tu récompenses l'Eternel, peuple fou, et qui n'es pas sage? n'est-il pas ton père, qui t'a acquis? il t'a fait, et t'a façonné.
You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, (is this the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you]?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you].) [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.
7 Souviens-toi du temps d'autrefois, considère les années de chaque génération; interroge ton père, et il te l'apprendra; et tes Anciens, et ils te le diront.
“Think about [what happened] long ago; consider what happened to your ancestors. Ask your parents, and they will inform you; ask the older people, and they will tell you.
8 Quand le Souverain partageait les nations, quand il séparait les enfants des hommes les uns des autres, il établit les bornes des peuples selon le nombre des enfants d'Israël.
When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and (assigned to/chose for) each people-group a god/angel.
9 Car la portion de l'Eternel c'est son peuple, et Jacob est le lot de son héritage.
But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; he chose [us, the descendants of] Jacob, to belong to him.
10 Il l'a trouvé dans un pays de désert, et dans un lieu hideux, où il n'y avait que hurlement de désolation; il l'a conduit par des détours, il l'a dirigé, [et] l'a gardé comme la prunelle de son œil.
“He saw [our ancestors] when they were in a desert, wandering in a land (that was desolate/where no people lived). He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
11 Comme l'aigle émeut sa nichée, couve ses petits, étend ses ailes, les accueille, [et] les porte sur ses ailes;
[Yahweh protected his people] just like an eagle encourages its babies [to fly] and flutters over them [MET], spreading its wings and catching them [if they start to fall].
12 L'Eternel seul l'a conduit, et il n'y a point eu avec lui de dieu étranger.
Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.
13 Il l'a fait passer [comme] à cheval par dessus les lieux haut-élevés de la terre, et il a mangé les fruits des champs, et il lui a fait sucer le miel de la roche, et [a fait couler] l'huile des plus durs rochers.
“[After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them], Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew [even] in stony ground.
14 [Il lui a fait manger] le beurre des vaches, et le lait des brebis, et la graisse des agneaux et des moutons nés en Basan, et [la graisse] des boucs, et la fleur du froment, et tu as bu le vin qui était le sang de la grappe.
The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.
15 Mais le droiturier s'est engraissé, et a regimbé; tu t'es fait gras, gros [et] épais; et il a quitté Dieu qui l'a fait, et il a déshonoré le rocher de son salut.
“The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
16 Ils l'ont ému à jalousie par les [dieux] étrangers; ils l'ont irrité par des abominations.
So he abandoned them because they started to worship other/strange gods. Because of their worshiping disgusting idols, he became angry.
17 Ils ont sacrifié aux idoles, qui ne sont point dieux; aux dieux qu'ils n'avaient point connus, [dieux] nouveaux, venus depuis peu, desquels vos pères n'ont point eu peur.
They offered sacrifices to gods who were [really] demons, gods that their ancestors had never known; they offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about, gods whom your ancestors had never revered.
18 Tu as oublié le Rocher qui t'a engendré, et tu as mis en oubli le [Dieu] Fort qui t'a formé.
They forgot [the true] God, the one who protects them [MET], the one who created them and caused them to live.
19 Et l'Eternel l'a vu, et a été irrité, parce que ses fils et ses filles l'ont provoqué à la colère.
“When Yahweh saw that [they had abandoned him], he became angry, so he rejected [the Israeli people, who are like] his sons and daughters.
20 Et il a dit: Je cacherai ma face d'eux, je verrai quelle sera leur fin; car ils [sont] une race perverse, des enfants en qui on ne peut se fier.
He said, ‘They are very wicked/stubborn people, very unfaithful; so I will no longer help them, and then I will watch and see what happens to them.
21 Ils m'ont ému à jalousie par ce qui n'est point le [Dieu] Fort, et ils ont excité ma colère par leurs vanités; ainsi je les émouvrai à jalousie par un [peuple] qui n'est point peuple; et je les provoquerai à la colère par une nation folle.
They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be [jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me]. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send [to attack them an army of] a nation of worthless and foolish people.
22 Car le feu s'est allumé en ma colère, et a brûlé jusqu'au fond des plus bas lieux, et a dévoré la terre et son fruit, et a embrasé les fondements des montagnes. (Sheol h7585)
I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 J'emploierai sur eux toute sorte de maux, et je décocherai sur eux toutes mes flèches.
I will cause them to experience many disasters; [they will feel as though] [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.
24 Ils seront consumés par la famine, et rongés par des charbons ardents, et par une destruction amère; et j'enverrai contr'eux les dents des bêtes, et le venin des serpents qui se traînent sur la poussière.
They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers and because of terrible diseases; I will send wild animals to attack [MTY] them, and poisonous snakes to bite [MTY] them.
25 L'épée venant de dehors les privera les uns des autres; et la frayeur, venant des cabinets [ravagera] le jeune homme et la vierge; l'enfant qui tète, et l'homme décrépit.
Outside [their houses, their enemies] will kill them [MTY] with swords, and in their homes, [their enemies will cause] them to be terrified. Their enemies will kill young men and young women, and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.
26 J'eusse dit: Je les disperserai [dans tous les] coins [de la terre], et j'abolirai leur mémoire d'entre les hommes;
I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries in order that no one would ever remember them.
27 Si je ne craignais l'indignation de l'ennemi, [et] que peut-être il n'arrivât que leurs adversaires ne vinssent à se méconnaître, que peut-être ils ne dissent: Notre main s'est exaltée, et l'Eternel n'a point fait tout ceci.
But [if I did that], their enemies would wrongly boast that they were the ones who had [gotten rid of my people]; they would say, “We [SYN] are the ones who defeated them; it was not Yahweh who has done all these things.”’
28 Car ils sont une nation qui se perd par [ses] conseils, et il n['y a] en eux aucune intelligence.
You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.
29 Ô s'ils eussent été sages! s'ils eussent été avisés en ceci, et s'ils eussent considéré leur dernière fin!
If you were wise, you would understand [why you would be punished]; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
30 Comment un en poursuivrait-il mille, et deux en mettraient-ils en fuite dix mille, si ce n'était que leur rocher les a vendus, et que l'Eternel les a enserrés?
[You would have realized] why 1,000 [of your soldiers] would be defeated by only one [of the enemy soldiers], and why two of your enemies would chase away 10,000 [Israeli soldiers]. [You would realize that this would happen] only if God, the one who always defended you [MET], had allowed your enemies to defeat you, because he had abandoned you.
31 Car leur rocher n'est pas comme notre rocher, et nos ennemis [eux-mêmes] en seront juges.
Your enemies know that their gods are not powerful like Yahweh, our God, [so their gods could not have defeated us Israelis].
32 Car leur vigne est du plant de Sodome, et du terroir de Gomorrhe, [et] leurs grappes sont des grappes de fiel, ils ont des raisins amers.
Your enemies are like [MET] grapevines planted near [the ruins of] Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; the grapes from those vines are bitter and poisonous;
33 Leur vin est un venin de dragon, et du fiel cruel d'aspic.
the wine [from those grapes] is like the poison of snakes [DOU].
34 Cela n'est-il pas serré chez moi, [et] scellé dans mes trésors?
[“Yahweh says], ‘I know [RHQ] [what I have planned to do to the Israeli people and to their enemies], and those plans are so secure [that it as though he locked them up] [MET].
35 La vengeance m'appartient, et la rétribution, au temps que leur pied glissera; car le jour de leur calamité est près, et les choses qui leur doivent arriver se hâtent.
I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done [to my people], at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
36 Mais l'Eternel jugera son peuple, et se repentira en faveur de ses serviteurs, quand il verra que la force s'en sera allée, et qu'il n'y aura rien de reste, rien de serré, ni de délaissé.
“But Yahweh will see that you who are truly his people, who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and he will be merciful to you. And he will see that you are helpless, and that there are very few of you, slaves or free people, who are still alive.
37 Et il dira: Où sont leurs dieux, le rocher vers lequel ils se retiraient?
Then Yahweh will ask his people, ‘Where are the gods that you thought would protect you [MET]?
38 Mangeant la graisse de leurs sacrifices et buvant le vin de leurs aspersions. Qu'ils se lèvent, et qu'ils vous aident, et qu'ils vous servent d'asile.
You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed, and you poured out wine for them to drink. So, they should begin to help you; they should be the ones who will protect you!
39 Regardez maintenant que [c'est] moi, moi-même, et il n'y a point de dieu avec moi; je fais mourir, et je fais vivre; je blesse, et je guéris, et il n'y a personne qui puisse délivrer de ma main.
“But now you will realize that I, only I, am God; there is no other god who is [a real] god. I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live; I can wound people, and I can heal people, and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.
40 Car je lève ma main au ciel, et je dis: Je suis vivant éternellement.
I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare that just as sure as I live forever,
41 Si j'aiguise la lame de mon épée, et si ma main saisit le jugement, je ferai tourner la vengeance sur mes adversaires, et je le rendrai à ceux qui me haïssent.
that when I sharpen my sword, as I [SYN] prepare to punish people, I will get revenge on my enemies; I will pay back those who hate me.
42 J'enivrerai mes flèches de sang, et mon épée dévorera la chair, [j'enivrerai, dis-je, mes flèches] du sang des tués et des captifs, [commençant par] le chef, en vengeance d'ennemi.
I will kill all [of my enemies] with a sword; it will be as though I had arrows that will be covered with their blood. I will kill [MTY] all those whom I capture and cut off their leaders’ heads.’
43 Nations, réjouissez-vous avec son peuple; car il vengera le sang de ses serviteurs, et il fera tourner la vengeance sur ses ennemis, et fera l'expiation de sa terre [et] de son peuple.
“You people of all nations, you as well as his people should praise Yahweh, because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him; and he cleanses his people’s land which has become defiled because of their sins.”
44 Moïse donc vint, et prononça toutes les paroles de ce cantique, le peuple l'écoutant, lui et Josué, fils de Nun.
Joshua and Moses/I recited the words of that song while the Israeli people were listening.
45 Et quand Moïse eut achevé de prononcer toutes ces paroles à tout Israël,
When they/we finished reciting to the Israeli people the words of this song,
46 Il leur dit: Mettez votre cœur à toutes ces paroles que je vous somme aujourd'hui de commander à vos enfants, afin qu'ils prennent garde de faire toutes les paroles de cette Loi.
Moses/I said, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
47 Car ce n'est pas une parole qui vous soit proposée en vain, mais c'est votre vie; et par cette parole vous prolongerez vos jours sur la terre pour laquelle posséder vous allez passer le Jourdain.
These instructions are very important [LIT]. If [you obey] them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to occupy.”
48 En ce même jour-là l'Eternel parla à Moïse, en disant:
On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses/me,
49 Monte sur cette montagne de Habarim, en la montagne de Nébo, qui est au pays de Moab, vis-à-vis de Jéricho; ensuite regarde le pays de Canaan, que je donne en possession aux enfants d'Israël.
“Go to the Abarim Mountain range [here] in the Moab region, across from Jericho. Climb Nebo Mountain, and look [toward the west] to see Canaan land, the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people.
50 Et tu mourras sur la montagne sur laquelle tu montes, et tu seras recueilli vers tes peuples, comme Aaron ton frère est mort sur la montagne de Hor, et a été recueilli vers ses peuples.
You will die on that mountain [EUP, DOU], like your [older] brother Aaron died on Hor Mountain.
51 Parce que vous avez péché contre moi au milieu des enfants d'Israël aux eaux de la contestation de Kadès dans le désert de Tsin; car vous ne m'avez point sanctifié au milieu des enfants d'Israël.
You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israeli people, when you all were at Meribah Springs near Kadesh [town] in the Zin Desert. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israeli people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
52 C'est pourquoi tu verras vis-à-vis de toi le pays, mais tu n'y entreras point, au pays, [dis-je], que je donne aux enfants d'Israël.
[When you are on that mountain where I told you to go], you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people, but you will not enter it.”
