Jérémie 9
1 Oh! que ma tête devienne eau, et mes yeux une fontaine de larmes! et je pleurerai le jour et la nuit le carnage de mon peuple.
I wish that my head was [like] [MET] a spring of water, and that my eyes were [like] a fountain of tears. Then I would cry night and day for all of my people who have been killed [by our enemies].
2 Oh! qu'on me donne au désert l'étape du voyageur! et je quitterai mon peuple, et m'en irai loin d'eux, car ce sont tous des adultères, un amas d'infidèles.
I wish that I could leave my people and forget them, and go and live in a shack/shelter in the desert, because they have not remained faithful [MET] [to Yahweh]; they are a mob of people who deceive others.
3 Ils arment leur langue, comme un arc, du mensonge, et ce n'est pas par la vérité qu'ils règnent dans le pays, car ils vont de malice en malice, et ils ne me connaissent pas, dit l'Éternel.
[Yahweh replied to me], “They use their tongues [to tell] [MET] lies like people shoot [arrows] with bows. It is because they tell lies that they have become more powerful in this land, and they do not know me.
4 Gardez-vous les uns des autres, et ne vous fiez à aucun de vos frères, car tous les frères cherchent à se supplanter, et chaque ami va calomniant.
Do not trust your neighbors and [even] your brothers! They all are as deceitful [as Jacob was]. They slander [each other] and tell lies [about each other].
5 Chacun trompe son ami, et ne parle pas vrai; ils forment leur langue à proférer le mensonge, ils prennent de la peine pour faire le mal.
They deceive their friends and never tell the truth. They lie continually and, because of that, they have become skilled liars; they do one oppressive thing after another, and are unable to stop doing it.
6 Tu habites au sein de la fausseté; c'est par fausseté qu'ils refusent de me connaître, dit l'Éternel.
They habitually lie and deceive [each other], and no one will admit/say that I am God.
7 Aussi, ainsi parle l'Éternel des armées: Je veux les passer par le creuset et les soumettre à l'épreuve. Et, que faire d'autre à cause de la fille de mon peuple?
Therefore [I], the Commander of the armies of angels, say this: Listen carefully to what I say: I will [cause my people to experience great afflictions, ] [like a metalworker puts metal in a hot fire] [MET] to completely burn out the impure bits. Because of all [the evil things] that my people have done, there is absolutely nothing else [RHQ] that I can do.
8 Leur langue est un dard meurtrier, elle profère le mensonge; de leur bouche ils disent paix! à leur prochain, et dans leur cœur ils lui dressent des embûches.
What they say [MTY] [injures people like] [MET] poisoned arrows do. They say to their neighbors, ‘I hope things will go well for you,’ while they are planning to kill them.
9 Pour toutes ces choses ne les punirai-je pas, dit l'Éternel, et d'une telle nation mon âme ne se vengera-t-elle pas?
Should I not punish them for doing that [RHQ]? Yes, I should certainly (get revenge on/give what they deserve to) [the people of] a nation that does things like that!”
10 Sur les montagnes j'élève ma plainte et mes pleurs, et sur les pacages du désert, mes lamentations, car ils sont brûlés, personne ne les parcourt plus, on n'y entend plus la voix des troupeaux, et les oiseaux du ciel et les bêtes ont fui, sont partis.
So, I will weep and wail for [the people who live in] the mountains and in the (pastures/places where the livestock eat the grass), because those areas will be desolate, and no one will live there. There will be no cattle there to call to each other, and all the birds and wild animals will have fled [to other places].
11 Et je ferai de Jérusalem un monceau de pierres, un gîte des chacals, et des villes de Juda je ferai un désert sans habitants.
[Yahweh also says], “I will cause Jerusalem to become a heap of ruins, and [only] jackals/wolves will live there. I will destroy the towns of Judah, with the result that they will be completely deserted; no one will live there.”
12 S'il y a quelque sage, qu'il comprenne ces choses! s'il en est un à qui l'Éternel ait parlé, qu'il le déclare!… Pourquoi ce pays est-il ruiné, brûlé comme un désert où personne ne passe?
[I said], “Only people who are very wise [RHQ] can understand these things. Only those who have been taught by Yahweh can [RHQ] explain these things to others. The wise people are [RHQ] the only ones who can explain why the land will be completely ruined with the result that everyone [RHQ] will be afraid to travel through it.”
13 L'Éternel a dit: C'est pour avoir abandonné ma loi que j'avais mise devant eux, pour n'avoir pas obéi à ma voix, et ne l'avoir pas suivie,
Yahweh replied, “[These things will happen] because my people have rejected my laws which I gave to them; they have not obeyed me or my instructions.
14 et pour avoir marché selon l'obstination de leur cœur et à la suite des Baals, comme leurs pères le leur ont enseigné.
Instead, they have stubbornly done the things that they wanted to do. They have worshiped the idols that represent the god Baal, which is what their ancestors did.
15 C'est pourquoi, ainsi parle l'Éternel des armées, Dieu d'Israël: Voici, je nourrirai ce peuple d'absinthe, et l'abreuverai d'eaux vénéneuses,
So now listen to what [I], the Commander of the armies of angels, the God of the Israelis, say: [What I will do will be like] [MET] giving these people bitter things to eat and poison to drink:
16 et je les disséminerai parmi des peuples inconnus à eux et à leurs pères, et j'enverrai derrière eux l'épée, jusqu'à ce que je les aie exterminés.
I will scatter them to many nations which neither they nor their ancestors have known [anything about]; I will [enable their enemies to] strike them with swords until I have destroyed them.”
17 Ainsi parle l'Éternel des armées: Cherchez, et appelez les pleureuses, et qu'elles viennent! et envoyez vers les habiles, et qu'elles arrivent!
This is also what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “Think [about what is happening], [then] summon those women who mourn [when someone has died].
18 qu'elles se hâtent et élèvent sur nous leurs complaintes, pour que les larmes tombent de nos yeux, et que l'eau coule de nos paupières!
Tell them to come quickly and start to wail, with the result that tears will stream down from your(pl) eyes.
19 Car une voix plaintive part de Sion: « Quelle désolation est la nôtre! Nous sommes au dernier degré de la honte, car il nous faut quitter le pays, car ils ont renversé nos demeures. »
Listen to [the people of] Jerusalem crying/lamenting, saying, ‘We have been ruined/destroyed! We have experienced a terrible disaster! Now we are very ashamed, because our houses have been destroyed [by our enemies], and we [are being forced to] leave our land.’”
20 Femmes, écoutez la parole de l'Éternel, et que votre oreille donne accès à la parole de sa bouche! Enseignez à vos filles des lamentations, et que la femme enseigne des complaintes à sa compagne!
You women, listen to what Yahweh says [MTY]. Pay attention to his words [DOU]. Teach your daughters to wail. Teach each other how to sing funeral songs,
21 Car la mort entre par nos fenêtres, elle monte dans nos palais, et vient arracher les enfants de la rue, et les jeunes gens des places.
because people will be dying [PRS] in your houses and in palaces. There will be no more children playing in the streets, there will be no more young men [gathering] in the city squares/marketplaces.
22 Dis: Tel est l'arrêt de l'Éternel: les cadavres des hommes tomberont comme du fumier sur un champ, et comme la gerbe derrière le moissonneur, laquelle personne ne relève.
There will be corpses scattered across the fields like dung; their dead bodies will lie there like [SIM] grain that has been cut by reapers/farmers, and there will be no one [still alive] to bury them.
23 Ainsi parle l'Éternel: Que le sage ne se glorifie pas de sa sagesse, et que le fort ne se glorifie pas de sa force, et que le riche ne se glorifie pas de sa richesse;
Yahweh says this: “Wise men should not boast about their being wise, strong men should not boast about their being strong; and rich people should not boast about their being rich.
24 mais si l'on se glorifie, que ce soit d'avoir l'intelligence et de me connaître; car je suis l'Éternel qui fais grâce, droit et justice dans le pays, car c'est à cela que je prends plaisir, dit l'Éternel.
Instead, those who want to boast should boast about their knowing me and about understanding that I am Yahweh, that I am kind and just and righteous, that I faithfully love [people], and that I am delighted with [people who act] that way.
25 Voici, des jours viennent, dit l'Éternel, où je châtierai tous les circoncis avec les incirconcis,
There will be a time when I will punish all those people of Egypt and of the Moab people-group and of the Edom [people-group] and of the Ammon [people-group], all those people who live close to desert areas (OR, who cut their hair short [to please their gods]) far from Judah, all those people who have [changed their bodies by] circumcising them [MET] but who have not [changed] their inner beings. I will punish the people of Judah also, because they have not changed their inner beings, [either].”
26 l'Egypte et Juda, Edom et les fils d'Ammon, et Moab, et tous ceux qui se rasent les tempes, et ceux qui habitent le désert, car toutes les nations sont incirconcises, et toute la maison d'Israël a le cœur incirconcis.
