Psaumes 68
1 Psaume de Cantique, de David, [donné] au maître chantre. Que Dieu se lève, et ses ennemis seront dispersés, et ceux qui le haïssent s'enfuiront de devant lui.
God, arise and scatter your enemies, and cause those who hate you to run away from you.
2 Tu les chasseras comme la fumée est chassée [par le vent]; comme la cire se fond devant le feu, [ainsi] les méchants périront devant Dieu.
Like [wind] blows smoke away, chase your enemies away. Like wax melts when it is near a fire, cause wicked people to (disappear/be destroyed).
3 Mais les justes se réjouiront et s'égayeront devant Dieu, et tressailliront de joie.
But righteous people should be joyful; they should rejoice when they are in God’s presence; they should be happy, and be very joyful.
4 Chantez à Dieu, psalmodiez son Nom, exaltez celui qui est monté sur les cieux; son Nom, est l'Eternel; et égayez-vous en sa présence.
Sing to God; sing to praise him; sing a song (OR, make a road) for him who rides on the clouds; his name is Yahweh; be glad when you are in his presence.
5 Il est le père des orphelins, et le juge des veuves; Dieu est dans la demeure de sa Sainteté.
God, who lives in his sacred temple, is [like] [MET] a father to [those who are] orphans, and he is the one who protects widows.
6 Dieu fait habiter en famille ceux qui étaient seuls; il délivre ceux qui étaient enchaînés, mais les revêches demeurent en une terre déserte.
For those who have no one to live with, he provides families [to live with]. He frees prisoners and enables them to be successful, but those who rebel [against him] will be forced to live in a very hot and dry land.
7 Ô Dieu! Quand tu sortis devant ton peuple, quand tu marchais par le désert; (Sélah)
God, you led your people out [of Egypt], and then you marched with them through the desert.
8 La terre trembla, et les cieux répandirent leurs eaux à cause de la présence de Dieu, ce mont de Sinaï [trembla] à cause de la présence de Dieu, du Dieu d'Israël.
After you did that, because when you, the God [worshiped by us] Israeli people, appeared to us at Sinai [Mountain], the earth shook, and rain poured down from the sky.
9 Ô Dieu! tu as fait tomber une pluie abondante sur ton héritage; et quand il était las, tu l'as rétabli.
You caused plenty of rain to fall [on your land], [and so] you enabled good crops to grow again on the land that you gave [to us Israelis].
10 Ton troupeau s'y est tenu. Tu accommodes de tes biens celui qui est affligé, ô Dieu!
Your people built homes there; and because you were good to them, you provided [food] for those who were poor.
11 Le Seigneur a donné de quoi parler; les messagers de bonnes nouvelles ont été une grande armée.
The Lord gave a message, and many women took that message to other places.
12 Les Rois des armées s'en sont fuis, ils s'en sont fuis, et celle qui se tenait à la maison a partagé le butin.
[They proclaimed], “Many kings and their armies are running away [from our army]!” [When our army brought back to their homes] the things that they captured, the women who were at home divided up those things [among themselves and among their families].
13 Quand vous auriez couché entre les chenets arrangés, [vous serez comme] les ailes d'un pigeon couvert d'argent, et dont les ailes sont [comme] la couleur jaune du fin or.
Even those women who were in the pens [taking care of] the sheep [received some of those things]; they got statues of doves whose wings were covered with silver and whose feathers were covered with pure yellow gold.
14 Quand le Tout-puissant dissipa les Rois en cet [héritage], il devint blanc, comme la neige qui est en Tsalmon.
When Almighty [God] scattered the [enemy] kings [and their armies], [the number of weapons that they abandoned there] seemed like there had been a snowstorm on Zalmon (OR, a black) [Mountain].
15 La montagne de Dieu est un mont de Basan; une montagne élevée, un mont de Basan.
There is a very high mountain in the Bashan [region], a mountain which has many peaks.
16 Pourquoi lui insultez-vous, montagnes dont le sommet est élevé? Dieu a désiré cette montagne pour y habiter, et l'Eternel y demeurera à jamais.
But the [people who live near] that mountain should not [RHQ] envy those who live near [Zion], the mountain on which God chose to live! Yahweh will live there forever!
17 La chevalerie de Dieu [se compte par] vingt-mille, par des milliers redoublés; le Seigneur est au milieu d'eux; c'est un Sinaï en Sainteté.
[After we defeated all our enemies], [it was as though] the Lord, surrounded by many thousands of strong chariots, descended from Sinai [Mountain] and came into the sacred temple [in Jerusalem].
18 Tu es monté en haut, tu as mené captifs les prisonniers, tu as pris des dons [pour les distribuer] entre les hommes, et même entre les rebelles, afin qu'ils habitent [dans le lieu] de l'Eternel Dieu.
He ascended the sacred mountain [where his temple is], and took with him many people who had been captured [in battles]; and received gifts from the enemies [whom he had defeated]. He received gifts even from those who had rebelled against him, and Yahweh our God will live there [in his sacred temple] forever.
19 Béni soit le Seigneur, qui tous les jours nous comble de ses biens; le [Dieu] Fort est notre délivrance; (Sélah)
Praise the Lord, who [helps us] carry our heavy loads every day; he is the one who saves/rescues us.
20 Le [Dieu] Fort nous est un [Dieu] Fort pour nous délivrer, et les issues de la mort sont à l'Eternel le Seigneur.
Our God is the God who saves us; He is Yahweh, our Lord, the one who (allows us to escape/prevents us) from being killed [in battles].
21 Certainement Dieu écrasera la tête de ses ennemis, le sommet de la tête chevelue de celui qui marche dans ses vices.
But God will smash the heads of his enemies, the skulls of those who continue to behave sinfully.
22 Le Seigneur a dit: je ferai retourner [les miens] de Basan, je les ferai retourner du fond de la mer.
The Lord said, “I will bring back the [corpses of those who were killed in] Bashan, and I will bring back those who sank deep in the ocean [and drowned].
23 Afin que ton pied et la langue de tes chiens s'enfoncent dans le sang des ennemis, [dans le sang] de chacun d'eux.
I will do that in order that you may wash your feet in their blood, and your dogs can [also] lap up some of your enemies’ blood.”
24 Ô Dieu! Ils ont vu tes démarches dans le lieu saint, les démarches de mon [Dieu] Fort, mon Roi.
God, many people see you march triumphantly into your sacred temple, [celebrating that you have defeated your enemies]. You [march like] a king does, and a large crowd walks with you.
25 Les chantres allaient devant, ensuite les joueurs d'instruments, [et] au milieu les jeunes filles, jouant du tambour.
The singers are in front, and the people who play stringed instruments are at the rear, and young women who are beating their tambourines are between them.
26 Bénissez Dieu dans les assemblées, [bénissez] le Seigneur, vous qui êtes de la source d'Israël.
[They are all singing], “You Israeli people, praise God when you gather together; praise Yahweh, all you who are descendants of Jacob!”
27 Là Benjamin le petit a dominé sur eux; les principaux de Juda ont été leur accablement de pierres: [là ont dominé] les principaux de Zabulon, [et] les principaux de Nephthali.
First come [the people of the tribe of] Benjamin, the smallest [tribe], and following them come the leaders of [the tribe of] Judah and their group, and following them come the leaders of [the tribes of] Zebulun and Naphtali.
28 Ton Dieu a ordonné ta force. Donne force, ô Dieu; c'est toi qui nous as fait ceci.
God, show people that you are very powerful; show people the power with which you have helped us previously.
29 Dans ton Temple, à Jérusalem, les Rois t'amèneront des présents.
Show that power from your temple in Jerusalem, where kings bring gifts to you.
30 Tance rudement les bêtes sauvages des roseaux, l'assemblée des forts taureaux, et les veaux des peuples, [et] ceux qui se montrent parés de lames d'argent. Il a dissipé les peuples qui ne demandent que la guerre.
Rebuke [your enemies, such as those in Egypt who are like] wild hippopotamuses/animals that live in the reeds; and [powerful nations that are like] bulls that are among their calves [MET]; rebuke/trample them until they bow down and give you gifts of silver. Scatter the people who enjoy making wars.
31 De grands Seigneurs viendront d'Egypte; Cus se hâtera d'étendre ses mains vers Dieu.
Then people will bring gifts of bronze (OR, of cloth) to you from Egypt; the people in Ethiopia will lift up their hands [to praise you].
32 Royaumes de la terre, chantez à Dieu, psalmodiez au Seigneur; (Sélah)
[You people who are citizens of] kingdoms/countries all over the world, sing to God! Sing praises to the Lord!
33 [Psalmodiez] à celui qui est monté dans les cieux des cieux qui sont d'ancienneté; voilà, il fait retentir de sa voix un son véhément.
Sing to the God, the one who rides across the sky, the sky that [he created] long ago. Listen as he shouts with a very powerful voice.
34 Attribuez la force à Dieu; sa magnificence est sur Israël, et sa force est dans les nuées.
Proclaim that God is very powerful; he is the king that rules over Israel, and in the skies [he also shows that] he is powerful.
35 Ô Dieu! Tu es redouté à cause de tes Sanctuaires. Le [Dieu] Fort d'Israël est celui qui donne la force et la puissance à son peuple; Béni soit Dieu!
God is awesome as he comes out of his sacred temple; he is the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship]. He makes [DOU] his people very powerful. Praise God!
