Habacuc 2
1 Je me tenais en sentinelle, j'étais debout dans la forteresse, et faisais le guet, pour voir ce qui me serait dit, et ce que je répondrais sur ma plainte.
[After I said that, I said to myself, ] “I will climb up into my watchtower, and stand there at my guard post. I will wait there to find out what Yahweh will say, what he will reply to what I have complained about.”
2 Et l'Eternel m'a répondu, et m'a dit: Ecris la vision, et l'exprime lisiblement sur des tablettes, afin qu'on la lise couramment.
Then Yahweh replied to me, “Write plainly on tablets [what I am revealing to you in] this vision, [and then read it to a messenger] in order that he can run with it [to tell it to] other people.
3 Car la vision [est] encore [différée] jusqu'à un certain temps, et [l'Eternel] parlera de ce qui arrivera à la fin, et il ne mentira point; s'il tarde, attends-le, car il ne manquera point de venir, et il ne tardera point.
In this vision [I will be talking about things that will happen] in the future. Now is not the time when those things will happen, but they certainly will happen, and when they occur, they will occur quickly, and they will not be delayed. Now you [want those things to happen immediately, but] they are not happening. But wait patiently for them [to happen]!
4 Voici, l'âme qui s'élève [en quelqu'un] n'est point droite en lui; mais le juste vivra de sa foi.
Think about the proud [people of Babylonia]! They are certainly not doing what is righteous. But people who are righteous will live because they faithfully [do what I want them to do].
5 Et combien plus l'homme adonné au vin est-il prévaricateur, et l'homme puissant est-il orgueilleux, ne se tenant point tranquille chez soi; qui élargit son âme comme le sépulcre, et qui est insatiable comme la mort, il amasse vers lui toutes les nations, et réunit à soi tous les peuples? (Sheol h7585)
If people [trust in their wealth], they will deceive themselves, and proud people are never able to rest. [It is as though] the greedy people [of Babylonia open their mouths] as wide as the place where dead people are, and they never have enough, like [the place where] dead people go never has enough dead people [PRS]. The [armies of Babylonia] conquer many nations for themselves, and capture all their people. (Sheol h7585)
6 Tous ceux-là ne feront-ils pas de lui un sujet de raillerie et de sentences énigmatiques? Et ne dira-t-on pas: Malheur à celui qui assemble ce qui ne lui appartient point; jusqu'à quand le [fera t-il], et entassera-t-il sur soi de la boue épaisse?
But [soon] all those [whom they have captured] will ridicule [the soldiers from Babylonia]! They will make fun of them, saying, ‘Terrible things will happen to you who have stolen things [from other countries]! You got many things by forcing people to give them to you. [But you certainly will not keep those things] for a long time [RHQ]!’
7 N'y en aura-t-il point qui tout incontinent s'élèveront pour te mordre? Et ne s'en réveillera-t-il point qui te feront courir çà et là, et à qui tu seras en pillage?
Suddenly those whom you (oppressed/treated cruelly) will cause you to tremble, and they will take away all the things that you have stolen from them.
8 Parce que tu as butiné plusieurs nations, tout le reste des peuples te butinera, et à cause aussi des meurtres des hommes, et de la violence [faite] au pays, à la ville, et à tous ses habitants.
You stole things from the people of many nations. You murdered [MTY] people of many people-groups, and you destroyed their land and their cities. So those who are still alive will steal valuable things from you.
9 Malheur à celui qui cherche à faire un gain injuste pour établir sa maison; afin de placer son nid en haut pour être délivré de la griffe du malin.
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who build big houses with money that you got by forcing others to give it to you. You are proud and you think that your houses will be safe because you have built them in places where you can easily defend them.
10 Tu as pris un conseil de confusion pour ta maison en consumant beaucoup de peuples, et tu as péché contre toi-même.
But because you have destroyed others, you have caused your family [MTY] to be shamed/disgraced, and you yourselves will be killed.
11 Car la pierre criera de la paroi, et les nœuds qui sont dans les poutres lui répondront.
[It is as though] the stones in the walls [of your houses] cry out to accuse you, and [it is as though] the beams [in your ceilings] also say the same things.
12 Malheur à celui qui cimente la ville avec le sang, et qui fonde la ville sur l'iniquité.
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who kill people [MTY] in order to build cities, cities that you build by using money that you have gotten by committing crimes.
13 Voici, n'[est]-ce pas de par l'Eternel des armées que les peuples travaillent pour en nourrir abondamment le feu, et que les nations se fatiguent très inutilement?
But the Commander of the armies of angels has [RHQ] declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that [will be destroyed by] fire; they will have worked hard uselessly.
14 Mais la terre sera remplie de la connaissance de la gloire de l'Eternel, comme les eaux comblent la mer.
But [in contrast], like [SIM] the oceans are filled with water, the earth will be filled with [people who] know that Yahweh is very great.
15 Malheur à celui qui fait boire son compagnon en lui approchant sa bouteille, et même l'enivrant, afin qu'on voie leur nudité.
Terrible things will happen to you [people of Babylonia] who cause people who live in nearby countries to become drunk. You force them to drink a lot of wine from wineskins [until they are drunk and then they walk around] naked, in order that you can see that.
16 Tu auras encore plus de déshonneur, que tu n'as eu de gloire; toi aussi bois, et montre ton opprobre; la coupe de la dextre de l'Eternel fera le tour parmi toi, et l'ignominie sera répandue sur ta gloire.
But you are the ones who [soon] will be disgraced instead of being honored. [It will be as though you are forced to] drink [a lot of wine] in order that you will also stagger [around, drunk]. You will drink the wine [that symbolizes that Yahweh will punish you], and he will cause you to be disgraced instead of being greatly respected [any more].
17 Car la violence [faite] au Liban te couvrira; et le dégât fait par les grosses bêtes les rendra tout étonnés, à cause des meurtres des hommes, et de la violence [faite] au pays, à la ville, et à tous ses habitants.
You did violent [PRS] things to [the people in] Lebanon, and you killed the wild animals [there], but you will be punished severely for doing that. You have killed [MTY] many people and you have destroyed their lands and their cities.
18 De quoi sert l'image taillée que son ouvrier l'ait taillée? Ce [n'est que] fonte, et qu'un docteur de mensonge; [de quoi sert-elle], pour que l'ouvrier qui fait des idoles muettes se fie en son ouvrage?
[You people of Babylonia need to know that your] idols are completely [RHQ] useless, because it is people who made them. Statues that have been carved or made in a mold deceive you. Those who trust in idols are trusting in things that they themselves created, things that cannot speak!
19 Malheur à ceux qui disent au bois, réveille-toi; [et] à la pierre muette, réveille-toi; enseignera-t-elle? Voici, elle [est] couverte d'or et d'argent, et toutefois il n'y a aucun esprit au-dedans.
Terrible things will happen to you who say to lifeless idols that are made of wood, ‘Wake up!’ Idols certainly cannot [RHQ] tell you what you should do; they [look nice/beautiful because] they are covered with silver and gold, but they are not alive.
20 Mais l'Eternel est au Temple de sa sainteté; toute la terre, tais-toi, redoutant sa présence.
But Yahweh is in his holy temple; everyone on the earth should be silent in his presence.”
