Ézéchiel 26
1 La onzième année, le premier jour du mois, la parole de l'Éternel me fut adressée en ces mots:
Almost twelve [after we had been taken to Babylonia], on the first day of the month, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,
2 Fils de l'homme, parce que Tyr a dit sur Jérusalem: « Ah! ah! elle est brisée la porte des peuples, c'est vers moi qu'on afflue, je me remplirai, elle est déserte! »
“You human, [the people of] Tyre [city] shouted joyfully and said about Jerusalem, ‘[Jerusalem, ] the city from which many traders/merchants went to many nations, is now destroyed. And now people from all over the world will come to us to buy and sell things. Because Jerusalem has now been ruined, we will prosper!’
3 pour cela, ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Éternel: Voici, j'en veux à toi, Tyr, et je fais avancer contre toi des peuples nombreux, comme la mer fait avancer ses vagues;
Therefore, this is what [I, ] Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘I am now the enemy of [you people of] Tyre. I will [the armies of] many nations to come and attack your [city], like the waves of the sea beat against the shores.
4 et ils détruiront les murs de Tyr, et démoliront ses tours, et j'en balaierai sa terre, et en ferai un roc nu.
Their soldiers will destroy the walls around Tyre and tear down its towers. Tyre will become a place where people from many nations steal valuable things, [and then the city will be completely destroyed]. Then they will scrape away the rubble and cause the city to become a bare rock.
5 Elle deviendra un lieu à étendre les filets, au sein de la mer; car c'est moi qui parle, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel; et elle sera la proie des peuples,
Out in the sea, Tyre will become an island where men spread [their fishing] nets to dry them. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh the Lord, have predicted it.
6 et ses filles qui sont sur la terre seront tuées par l'épée; et ils sauront que je suis l'Éternel.
The people in small villages on the coast near Tyre will be killed [their enemies’] swords. Then people will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].’
7 Car ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Éternel: Voici, j'amène contre Tyr Nébucadnézar, roi de Babel, depuis le septentrion roi des rois, avec des chevaux et des chars, et des cavaliers, et une multitude, et un peuple nombreux.
This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, [is going to happen]: ‘From the north, I am going to bring the most powerful king [in the world], King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, [with his army] to attack Tyre. They will bring horses and chariots, and men who ride the horses [and men who drive the chariots]; it will be a huge army.
8 Il tuera par l'épée tes filles qui sont sur la terre, et il dressera contre toi des tours, et construira contre toi des terrasses, et lèvera contre toi le bouclier.
[In the battles in the small villages] on the coast, their soldiers will kill [many] people with their swords. [Then] they will set up devices to batter the wall around the city of Tyre, and they will build a dirt ramp up to the top of the wall, and they will all hold up shields [to protect themselves from arrows being shot from the ground].
9 Et il portera ses coups devant lui contre tes murs, et démolira tes tours avec ses machines.
The king will direct the soldiers who operate the (rams/things) to batter the walls, and who will use their iron bars to tear down the towers in the wall.
10 Il te couvrira de la poussière soulevée par ses nombreux chevaux; au bruit de la cavalerie et des roues et des chars, tes murs seront ébranlés, quand il pénétrera dans tes portes, comme on pénètre dans une ville par la brèche.
The king will have a huge number of horses, [the stamping of their hooves will result in] the city being covered with dust. [It will be as though] the walls will tremble because of the noise made by the horses, the [supply] wagons, and the chariots when they enter the city where the walls have been broken down.
11 Du sabot de ses chevaux il foulera toutes tes rues; il massacrera ton peuple avec l'épée, et tes statues tutélaires tomberont sur la terre.
The horses will trample all of the [of the city] with their hooves. The soldiers will kill the people with their swords; and they will cause your strong pillars to (collapse/fall to the ground).
12 Et ils feront leur proie de tes richesses, et pilleront tes marchandises, et démoliront tes murailles, et abattront tes maisons de plaisance, et jetteront au sein des eaux tes pierres, et tes bois, et ta terre.
They will take away all the people’s valuable possessions and steal the things that the merchants sell. They will tear down the walls of the houses and destroy their fine houses. Then they will throw into the sea the stones [from the walls] of those houses and the timber and the rubble.
13 Et je ferai cesser le bruissement de tes chants, et le son de tes luths ne sera plus entendu.
No longer will you sing noisy songs, and people will not play their harps any more.
14 Je ferai de toi un roc nu, et tu deviendras un lieu à étendre les filets. Tu ne seras plus relevée, car c'est moi, l'Éternel, qui ai parlé, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel.
The enemy soldiers will cause the city to become a bare rock and [only] a place where men spread [their fishing] nets. And the city will never be rebuilt. [Those things will surely happen] because [I], Yahweh the Lord, have [that they will happen].’
15 Ainsi parle à Tyr le Seigneur, l'Éternel: Voici, au fracas de ta chute, aux gémissements des blessés, au massacre qui sera fait dans ton sein, les îles sont tremblantes,
This is [also] what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say about [the people of] Tyre: ‘When the wounded [people in Tyre] groan and many people are slaughtered and the city is destroyed, [it will surely be as though] [RHQ] the areas along the coast will tremble.
16 et tous les princes de la mer descendent de leurs trônes, et jettent leurs manteaux, et se dépouillent de leurs vêtements brochés; d'épouvante ils s'enveloppent et s'assoient sur la terre; ils sont consternés de ta ruine et dans la stupeur à ta vue,
Then all the kings [in the cities] along the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and their embroidered clothes. They will be terrified, and they will sit on the ground, trembling. They will be appalled because of what has happened to the city of Tyre.
17 et ils élèvent sur toi une complainte et te disent: Comment as-tu péri, toi le rendez-vous des mers, ville illustre, qui étais puissante sur la mer, toi et tes habitants, qui inspiraient la terreur à tous tes voisins!
Then they will sing a sad song about the city, and they will sing this: “The famous city [APO], in which many [who sailed on] the seas lived, is now destroyed! The people of that city had great power [because they had many ships that sailed] on the seas; they caused all the people who lived near them to be terrified.
18 Maintenant au jour de ta chute les îles tremblent, et les îles de la mer sont consternées de ta fin.
Now on the day when that city is destroyed, [it is as though the people in] the areas along the coast tremble and the [the people on the] islands in the sea are terrified because of that city being ruined.”’
19 Car ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Éternel: Quand je ferai de toi une ville en ruines, pareille aux villes qui ne sont plus habitées, quand je soulèverai contre toi les flots afin que les grandes eaux te recouvrent,
This is also what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘When I cause the city [of Tyre] to become desolate/empty, like [other] cities in which people no [longer] live, and when I cause the huge waves of the sea to cover it,
20 alors je te précipiterai vers ceux qui sont descendus dans la fosse, vers le peuple de jadis, et te placerai dans les régions souterraines, dans une solitude éternelle, près de ceux qui sont descendus dans la fosse, afin que tu ne sois plus habitée; tandis que je mettrai de la gloire sur la terre des vivants.
then I will bring the people of that city down to be with those who have gone down to where the dead people are, people who lived long ago. I will cause them to remain in the place below the earth that is like old/ancient ruins, with those who have gone down to that pit [previously], and they will never return to the earth, to where people are alive.
21 Je ferai de toi un terrible exemple de destruction; c'en est fait de toi! on te cherchera, mais on ne te retrouvera jamais, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel.
I will cause them to die in a horrible way (OR, people will be very afraid because of what happens to that city), and that will be the end of (them/their lives). People will search for that city but it will no longer exist. [That is what I, ] Yahweh the Lord, declare [will happen].’”
