Jérémie 17
1 Le péché de Juda est écrit avec un style de fer, une pointe de diamant; il est gravé sur la table de leur cœur et aux cornes de leurs autels.
[Yahweh said, “It is as though a list of] the sins [committed by the people of] Judah is engraved with an iron chisel, or engraved using the fine point of a very hard stone, on the altars [where they worship idols]. And [it is as though] this list is engraved on their inner beings!
2 Comme ils pensent à leurs enfants, ainsi pensent-ils à leurs autels, et à leurs Aschères près des arbres verdoyants et sur les collines élevées.
[Even] their children are happy to go to the altars [to worship their gods], and to the poles [that represent the goddess] Asherah [at which their parents worshiped], shrines that are underneath all the big trees and on [all] the high hills.
3 O ma montagne, qui es dans la campagne! je donnerai ton bien, tous tes trésors en pillage, et tes hauts lieux, à cause de tes péchés commis dans toutes tes limites.
So, I will allow your enemies to capture [Zion], your holy hill, and all your wealth and your (treasures/valuable things), and [even] the shrines on all those hills, because of the sins that you people have committed throughout your land.
4 Et tu auras, et par ta faute, à laisser là ton héritage que je te donnai; et je t'asservirai à tes ennemis dans un pays que tu ne connais pas, car vous avez allumé le feu de ma colère, et il brûlera toujours.
The [wonderful] land that I gave to you will no longer belong to you. I will tell your enemies to take you to a land that you do not know about, and you will become their slaves. [I will do that] because I am extremely angry [with you]; my being angry is [like] a fire that will burn forever.”
5 Ainsi parle l'Éternel: Maudit soit l'homme qui se confie dans l'homme, et qui prend la chair pour son appui, et dont le cœur déserte l'Éternel!
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “[I] will curse/condemn those who trust in human beings [to help them], those who rely on their own strength and turn away from me.
6 Il est comme un homme nu dans un désert, et ne voit point le bonheur arriver; il habite les lieux brûlés du désert, une terre salée et inhabitée.
They are like [dry] bushes in the desert, they are people who will not experience any good things. Those people will live in the barren desert in a salty area, where nothing grows.
7 Béni soit l'homme qui se confie dans l'Éternel, et dont l'Éternel est la confiance!
But I am pleased with those who trust in [me], Yahweh, and who confidently expect [me to take care of them].
8 Il est comme un arbre planté près des eaux; il pousse ses racines vers le courant, et ne craint pas quand la chaleur vient, et son feuillage est vert, et dans l'année de sécheresse il n'est point inquiet, et il ne cesse de porter du fruit.
Those people are like [SIM] fruit trees that have been planted along a riverbank, trees that have roots that go down into the [wet ground beside] the water. They are trees whose leaves remain green when it becomes hot, trees that continue to bear fruit when there are many months in which there is no rain.
9 Rien n'est plus tortueux que le cœur, et il est méchant; qui peut le connaître?
Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
10 Moi, l'Éternel, je sonde le cœur, j'éprouve les reins, et cela pour rendre à chacun selon ses voies, selon le fruit de ses œuvres.
But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”
11 Une perdrix qui couve des œufs qu'elle n'a point pondus, tel est l'homme qui se crée une richesse sans la droiture: à la moitié de ses jours il devra la quitter, et à sa fin il se trouvera être un insensé.
[I, Jeremiah, agree, because I know that] people who become rich by doing things that are unjust are like birds that hatch eggs that they (did not lay/stole from another nest). So, when those people have lived only half of the years [that they expect to live], their wealth will disappear. Then [other people will realize that] those rich people have been foolish.
12 Le lieu de mon Sanctuaire est un trône de gloire et de majesté dès le commencement.
Yahweh, your temple is [like] a glorious throne that is still on a high hill.
13 Espoir d'Israël, ô Éternel, quiconque t'abandonne, sera confondu. – « Ceux qui me quittent, seront inscrits sur la poussière, car ils abandonnent la source des eaux vives, l'Éternel. »
You are the one whom [we] Israeli people confidently expect [to bless us], and all those who turn away from you will be disgraced. Their names will be written [only] in the dust, [and will soon disappear], because they have abandoned you, [who are like] [MET] a fountain where people obtain fresh water.
14 Guéris-moi, Éternel, et je serai guéri; sauve-moi, et je serai sauvé, car tu es ma gloire.
Yahweh, [please] heal me, because [if you heal me], I will truly be healed. [If you] rescue me, I will truly be safe, because you are the [only] one whom I praise.
15 Voici, ils me disent: Où est la parole de l'Éternel? qu'elle se réalise donc!
People often ridicule me and say, “You tell us messages that you say came from Yahweh, but (why have the things that you predicted not happened?/those predictions have not come true!)” [RHQ]
16 Et moi, je n'ai point évité de te suivre comme pasteur, et je n'ai point désiré le jour du malheur, tu le sais; ce qui est sorti de mes lèvres, est découvert à tes regards.
Yahweh, you [appointed me to take care of your people like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; I have not abandoned that work, and you know that I have not [previously] wanted this time of disaster [to come to people who ridicule me]. And you know everything that I have said [MTY] [to your people].
17 Ne sois point mon effroi, toi, mon refuge au jour du malheur.
Do not cause me to be terrified! When disasters come/occur, you are the one to whom I will go to be safe.
18 Confonds mes persécuteurs, mais ne me confonds pas; atterre-les, mais ne m'atterre pas! Fais venir sur eux le jour du malheur, brise-les à coups redoublés!
[So now], cause those who (persecute me/cause me to suffer) to be ashamed and dismayed, but do not [do things to me that will] cause me to be ashamed and dismayed. Cause them to be terrified! Do to them many things that will completely destroy them!
19 Ainsi me parla l'Éternel: Va, et te place à la porte des fils du peuple, par laquelle entrent et sortent les rois de Juda, et à toutes les portes de Jérusalem,
This is what Yahweh said to me: “Go to the city gates in Jerusalem. [First] go to the gate where the kings of Judah go in and out of the city, and [then] go to each of the [other] gates.
20 et dis-leur: Écoutez la parole de l'Éternel, rois de Juda, et tout Juda, et vous tous les habitants de Jérusalem, qui passez par ces portes!
Say to the people [at each gate], ‘You kings of Judah and everyone [else] who is living in Jerusalem and all [you other people of] Judah who enter these gates, listen to this message from Yahweh!
21 Ainsi parle l'Éternel: Prenez garde à vous pour l'amour de vos âmes, et ne portez point de fardeaux le jour du repos, et ne les faites pas passer par les portes de Jérusalem;
He says, “Listen to this warning carefully! [Stop doing work] on (Sabbath/our rest) days! Stop carrying loads through these gates [on those days]!
22 et ne transportez aucun fardeau hors de vos maisons le jour du repos, et ne faites aucune œuvre; mais sanctifiez le jour du repos, ainsi que je le prescrivis à vos pères.
Do not carry loads out of your houses or do any [other] work on Sabbath days! Instead, cause Sabbath days to be (holy/set apart for me). I commanded your ancestors to do that,
23 Cependant ils n'obéirent pas, et ne prêtèrent pas l'oreille, mais roidirent leur col, pour ne point écouter et ne point recevoir la correction.
but they did not listen to me or obey me. When I did things to correct them, they stubbornly [IDM] refused to pay attention to what I said or to accept it.
24 Mais si vous m'obéissez, dit l'Éternel, en ne portant point de fardeaux par les portes de cette ville le jour du repos, et si vous sanctifiez le jour du repos en ne faisant aucune œuvre ce jour-là, alors,
But I say that if you obey me, and if you do not carry loads through these gates [on Sabbath days] or do any other work on Sabbath days, and if you dedicate the Sabbath days to me,
25 par les portes de cette ville entreront les rois et les princes assis sur le trône de David, montés sur des chars et des chevaux, eux et leurs princes, les hommes de Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, et cette ville sera habitée éternellement,
kings of Judah [MTY] and [their] officials will [continue to] go in and out of these gates. There will [always] be someone who is a descendant of [MTY] [King] David ruling [here] [MTY] in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates, riding in chariots and on horses, and there will be people living in this city forever.
26 et l'on viendra des villes de Juda, et des alentours de Jérusalem, et du pays de Benjamin et du Bas-Pays, et de la montagne et du Midi, offrir des holocaustes, des victimes, et des offrandes et de l'encens, et offrir des actions de grâces dans la maison de l'Éternel.
And people will come [to Jerusalem] bringing offerings to be completely burned [on the altar] and [other] offerings. They will bring to the temple grain offerings and incense and offerings to thank [me]. People will bring those offerings from the towns in Judah and the villages near Jerusalem and from the land [where the tribe] of Benjamin [lives] and from the western foothills and from the desert in the south.
27 Mais si vous ne m'obéissez pas, en sanctifiant le jour du repos, et en ne portant aucun fardeau, et en n'entrant point dans les portes de Jérusalem le jour du repos, j'allumerai un feu aux portes de la ville, afin qu'il dévore les palais de Jérusalem et ne s'éteigne point.
But if you do not pay attention to what I say, and if you refuse to dedicate the Sabbath days to me, and if you [continue to] carry loads through these gates into the city on Sabbath days, I will burn these gates completely. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”’”
