Isaïe 29
1 Malheur à Ariel, à Ariel, la ville où David s'est campé; ajoutez année sur année, qu'on égorge des victimes pour les Fêtes.
[This is a message from Yahweh: ] Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where [King] David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.
2 Mais je mettrai Ariel à l'étroit, et [la ville] ne sera que tristesse et que deuil, et elle me sera comme Ariel.
But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, [and when that happens], people will weep and lament [very much]. Your city will become like [MET] an altar [to me] [where people are burned as sacrifices].
3 Car je me camperai en rond contre toi, et je t'assiégerai avec des tours, et je dresserai contre toi des forts.
I will cause your enemies [to come to your city]; they will surround it by [building] towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.
4 Et tu seras abaissée, et tu parleras [comme] de dedans la terre, et ta parole sera basse, [comme si elle sortait] de la poussière, et ta voix, comme [celle] d'un esprit de Python, sortira de la terre, et ta parole marmottera [comme si elle sortait] de la poussière.
Then you will talk [as though you were] buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.
5 Et la multitude de tes étrangers sera comme de la poudre menue; et la multitude des terribles sera comme de la balle qui passe, et cela sera pour un petit moment.
But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away [by the wind]. [It will happen] very suddenly.
6 Elle sera visitée par l'Eternel des armées avec des tonnerres, et avec des tremblements de terre, et avec un grand bruit, tempête, tourbillon, et flamme de feu dévorant.
The Commander of the armies of angels will come [to help you] with thunder and an earthquake and a very loud noise, with a strong wind and a big storm and a fire that will burn up everything.
7 Et la multitude de toutes les nations qui feront la guerre à Ariel, et tous ceux qui combattront contre la [ville], et ceux qui la serreront de près, seront comme un songe d'une vision de nuit.
[Then] the armies of all the nations that will be attacking Jerusalem will quickly disappear like a dream in the night [DOU]. Those who will be attacking Jerusalem will suddenly vanish/disappear.
8 Et il arrivera, que comme celui qui a faim, songe qu'il mange, mais quand il est réveillé, son âme est vide; et comme celui qui a soif, songe qu'il boit, mais quand il est réveillé, il est las, et son âme est altérée, ainsi sera la multitude de toutes les nations qui combattront contre la montagne de Sion.
People who are asleep dream about eating food, [but] when they wake up, they are still hungry. People who are thirsty dream about drinking something, [but] when they wake up they are still thirsty. It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Zion Hill; [they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, ] [they will realize that they have not succeeded].
9 Arrêtez-vous, et vous étonnez; écriez-vous, et criez; Ils se sont enivrés, mais non pas de vin; ils chancellent, mais non pas à cause de la cervoise.
You [people of Jerusalem], be amazed and surprised [about this] [IRO]! Do not believe [what I have said] [SAR]! And continue to be blind [IRO] [about what Yahweh is doing]. You are stupid, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine. You stagger, but not from drinking alcoholic drinks.
10 Car l'Eternel a répandu sur vous un esprit d'un profond dormir; il a bouché vos yeux; il a bandé [ceux de] vos Prophètes, et de vos principaux Voyants.
Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding [and telling you his messages], [it is as though] he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.
11 Et toute vision vous sera comme les paroles d'un livre cacheté qu'on donnerait à un homme de lettres en [lui] disant; Nous te prions, lis ceci; et il répondrait: Je ne saurais, car il est cacheté.
[Yahweh gave me] this vision; [but] for you, it is only words on a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to those who can read [and request that they read it], they will say, “We cannot read it because the scroll is sealed.”
12 Puis si on le donnait à quelqu'un qui ne fût point homme de lettres, en lui disant; nous te prions, lis ceci; il répondrait; je ne sais point lire.
When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we do not know how to read.”
13 C'est pourquoi le Seigneur dit; parce que ce peuple s'approche de moi de sa bouche, et qu'ils m'honorent de leurs lèvres, mais qu'il a éloigné son cœur de moi, et parce que la crainte qu'ils ont de moi est un commandement d'hommes, enseigné [par des hommes];
[So] the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I [desire]. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.
14 A cause de cela, voici, je continuerai de faire à l'égard de ce peuple-ci des merveilles et des prodiges étranges: c'est que la sapience de ses sages périra, et l'intelligence de ses hommes savants disparaîtra.
Therefore, again I will do something to amaze these people; I will perform many miracles. And [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are wise are not really wise, and [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are intelligent are not really intelligent.
15 Malheur à ceux qui veulent aller plus loin que l'Eternel, pour cacher leur conseil, et dont les œuvres sont dans les ténèbres, et qui disent; qui nous voit, et qui nous aperçoit?
Terrible things will happen to those who try to conceal from me, Yahweh, the [evil] things that they plan to do; they do those things in the darkness and they think, ‘Yahweh certainly cannot [RHQ] see us; he cannot [RHQ] know what we are doing!’
16 Ce que vous renversez ne sera-t-il pas réputé comme l'argile d'un potier? même, l'ouvrage dira-t-il de celui qui l'a fait: il ne m'a point fait? et la chose formée dira-t-elle de celui qui l'a formée; il n'y entendait rien?
They are extremely foolish! [They act as though] they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”
17 Le Liban ne sera-t-il pas encore dans très-peu de temps changé en un Carmel? et Carmel ne sera-t-il pas réputé comme une forêt?
Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.
18 Et les sourds entendront en ce jour-là les paroles du livre, et les yeux des aveugles étant délivrés de l'obscurité et des ténèbres, verront.
At that time, deaf people will [be able to hear]; [they will be able to] hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will [be able to see]; [they will be able to] see things when it is gloomy and [even] when it is dark.
19 Et les débonnaires auront joie sur joie en l'Eternel, et les pauvres d'entre les hommes s'égayeront au Saint d'Israël.
Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].
20 Car le terrible prendra fin, et le moqueur sera consumé, et tous ceux qui veillent pour commettre l'iniquité, seront retranchés.
There will be no more people who ridicule [others] and no more arrogant people. And those who plan to do evil things will be executed.
21 Ceux qui font tenir pour coupables les hommes pour une parole, et qui tendent des pièges à celui qui les reprend en la porte, et qui font tomber le juste en confusion.
Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court [persuade judges to] make unjust decisions.
22 C'est pourquoi l'Eternel, qui a racheté Abraham, a dit ainsi touchant la maison de Jacob; Jacob ne sera plus honteux, et sa face ne pâlira plus.
That is why Yahweh, who rescued Abraham, says about the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed; no longer will they show on their faces that they are ashamed.
23 Car quand il verra ses fils être un ouvrage de mes mains au milieu de lui, ils sanctifieront mon Nom; ils sanctifieront, [dis-je], le Saint de Jacob, et redouteront le Dieu d'Israël.
When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.
24 Et ceux dont l'Esprit s'était fourvoyé deviendront prudents; et ceux qui murmuraient apprendront la doctrine.
When that happens, those who have not been able to think well will think clearly, and those who complain [about what I am doing] will accept what I am teaching them.”
