Isaïe 52
1 Réveille-toi! réveille-toi! revêts ta parure, ô Sion! revêts tes habits magnifiques, Jérusalem, ville sainte! car désormais ni incirconcis ni impur n'entrera chez toi.
Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
2 Secoue ta poussière, lève-toi, mets-toi sur ton séant, Jérusalem! détache les chaînes de ton col, fille de Sion captive!
Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
3 Car ainsi parle l'Éternel: Vous fûtes vendus pour rien et vous ne serez pas rachetés pour de l'argent.
For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
4 Car ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Éternel: Jadis mon peuple descendit en Egypte pour y séjourner, et l'Assyrien l'opprima sans cause.
For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
5 Et maintenant que me fait-on, dit le Seigneur, d'enlever mon peuple sans cause? Ses tyrans jubilent, dit l'Éternel, et incessamment tout le jour mon nom est outragé.
Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
6 Aussi faut-il que mon peuple sache ce qu'est mon nom; il le faut ce jour-là même; c'est moi qui parle: me voici!
For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
7 Qu'ils sont beaux sur les montagnes les pieds de celui qui apporte une bonne nouvelle, qui proclame la paix, qui annonce du bonheur, qui proclame la délivrance, qui dit à Sion: Ton Dieu règne!
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
8 Écoute la voix de tes sentinelles! ensemble elles élèvent la voix en acclamations; car face à face elles voient revenir l'Éternel en Sion.
The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
9 Éclatez ensemble en acclamations, ruines de Jérusalem! car l'Éternel prend pitié de son peuple, Il rachète Jérusalem.
Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
10 L'Éternel découvre son bras saint aux yeux de toutes les nations, et toutes les extrémités de la terre contemplent le salut de notre Dieu.
The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
11 Partez, partez! quittez ces lieux! ne touchez nul impur! sortez du milieu d'eux! purifiez-vous, porteurs des vases de l'Éternel!
Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
12 Car vous ne partirez pas à la précipitée, et votre départ ne sera pas une fuite, car l'Éternel marche à votre tête, et le Dieu d'Israël ferme votre marche.
For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
13 Voici, mon serviteur prospère, il monte, il s'élève, il arrive à une grande hauteur.
See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
14 Autant plusieurs furent interdits à sa vue, tellement son visage était défiguré plus que celui d'aucun homme, et son aspect, plus qu'aucun enfant des hommes,
As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
15 autant il transportera de joie plusieurs peuples; devant lui des rois se fermeront la bouche, car ils verront ce qui ne leur fut jamais raconté, et ils contempleront ce qui pour eux était inouï.
So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.
