Michée 7
1 Malheureux! je suis comme quand les fruits sont cueillis, que l'on grappille après la vendange! Point de raisin à manger, de ces figues hâtives que désire mon âme.
I am very miserable/frustrated! I am like [SIM] someone who is hungry, [who searches for fruit to pick] after all the fruit had been picked and who finds no grapes or figs to eat.
2 Les bons sont disparus du pays; parmi les hommes plus de gens de bien! ils épient tous le sang à verser; chacun cherche à prendre son frère au piège.
[All] the godly people have disappeared from this land; there is not one of them left. [The people who are left] are all murderers [MTY]; [it is as though] everyone is eager to kill his fellow countryman.
3 Pour le mal on a des mains pour le bien faire; le magistrat demande et le juge est vénal, et le grand exprime le désir de son âme, et eux prévariquent.
They [all] use both hands to do what is evil. [Government] officials and judges [all] ask for bribes. Important people tell others what they want, and they plot/scheme together [about how to get it done].
4 Le meilleur d'entre eux est comme un buisson d'épines, le plus droit pire qu'une haie. Le jour de tes sentinelles, ton châtiment viendra; alors ils seront dans la perplexité.
[Even] the best people are [as worthless] [SIM] as briers; the people [who are considered by others to be] [IRO] the most honest are worse than clumps of thornbushes. But, [Yahweh] will soon judge them; now is the time that he will punish people, a time when they will be [very] confused [because of being defeated].
5 Ne vous fiez pas à l'ami, ne comptez pas sur l'intime, contre la femme couchée dans ton sein garde les portes de ta bouche.
[So], do not trust anyone! Do not trust [even] a friend; [even] be careful what you say to your wife whom you love!
6 Car le fils méprise son père, la fille s'insurge contre sa mère, la bru contre sa belle-mère; l'homme a pour ennemis les gens de sa maison.
Boys will despise their fathers, and girls will defy their mothers. Women will defy their mothers-in-law. Your enemies will be those who live in your own houses.
7 « Mais moi de mes yeux je cherche l'Éternel, j'attends mon Dieu sauveur; mon Dieu m'entendra.
As for me, I wait for Yahweh [to help me]. I confidently expect that God, my Savior, will answer me [when I pray].
8 Ne te réjouis pas, mon ennemie, à mon sujet! Si je suis tombée, je me relèverai; si je suis assise dans les ténèbres, l'Éternel sera ma lumière.
You who are our enemies, do not gloat/rejoice about [what has happened to] us, [because even] if we have experienced disasters, [those disasters will end and] we will be restored. [Even] if [it is as though] we are sitting in the darkness, Yahweh will be our light.
9 Je me soumets au courroux de l'Éternel, parce que j'ai péché contre lui, jusqu'à ce qu'il soutienne ma querelle, et défende ma cause, et me produise à la lumière, et que sa justice réjouisse mes regards.
We must be patient while Yahweh punishes us because we have sinned against him. But later, [it will be as though] he will go to court and defend us, and he will make sure that the judge makes a right decision about us. [It will be as though] he will bring us out into the light, and we will see it when he rescues us.
10 Et mon ennemie le verra, et la honte couvrira celle qui me disait: Où est l'Éternel, ton Dieu? Elle réjouira mes regards; alors elle sera foulée comme la boue dés rues. »
Our enemies will [also] see that, and they will be disgraced because they [ridiculed us], saying “Why is [RHQ] Yahweh, that God of yours, [not helping you]?” But with our own eyes we will see them when they are defeated; we will see them trampled like [SIM] mud in the streets.
11 Le jour de la restauration de tes murs, ce jour-là tes limites seront reculées.
[You people of Israel, ] at that time your cities will be rebuilt, and your territory will become larger.
12 C'est le jour où vers toi on accourra, de l'Assyrie aux villes d'Egypte, et de l'Egypte au fleuve, de la mer à la mer, et des montagnes aux montagnes.
[People from many countries will come to honor you]: people from Assyria and from [near] the [Euphrates] River [in the east] and from Egypt [in the south], from distant seas, and from many mountains.
13 Et la terre sera ravagée à cause de ses habitants, à cause des fruits de leurs œuvres.
But [the other countries on] the earth will become desolate because of the [evil] things that their people have done.
14 « Fais paître ton peuple avec ta houlette, le troupeau qui t'appartient et doit habiter solitaire, dans la forêt au milieu du Carmel. Qu'ils paissent en Basan et Galaad, comme aux jours d'autrefois. »
Yahweh, protect your people like [MET] [a shepherd protects his sheep] by using his walking stick; lead your people [MET] whom you have chosen to belong to you. [Even though some of them] live by themselves in a forest, give them the fertile pastureland in the Bashan and Gilead [regions] that they possessed long ago.
15 « Comme aux jours de ta sortie du pays d'Egypte je te ferai voir des merveilles! »
[Yahweh says/replies], “[Yes], I will perform miracles for you like the miracles that I performed when I rescued your [ancestors] from [being slaves in] Egypt.”
16 Les peuples le verront et auront honte de toute leur puissance, ils mettront la main sur la bouche, leurs oreilles seront assourdies.
[People from many] nations will see [what Yahweh does for you], and they will be ashamed because they do not have any power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears [because they will be very amazed because of what Yahweh does], [and they will not be able to say anything or hear anything].
17 Ils mordront la poussière comme le serpent, comme les reptiles de la terre; ils quitteront éperdus leurs forts; à l'Éternel notre Dieu ils viendront tout tremblants, et seront craintifs devant toi.
[Being very humiliated, ] they will crawl on the ground [MTY] like [SIM] snakes. They will come out of their homes trembling, and stand revering Yahweh our God. They will be very afraid of him, and will tremble in front of him.
18 Qui est un Dieu, comme toi, pardonnant le crime et passant le péché au reste de ton héritage? Il ne garde pas sa colère à jamais, car Il se plaît à la clémence.
[Yahweh], there is no [RHQ] God like you; you forgive the sins [DOU] that were committed by the people who have survived, the people who belong to you. You do not remain angry forever; you are very happy [to show us] that you faithfully love [us].
19 De nouveau Il prendra pitié de nous, Il mettra nos crimes sous ses pieds, et Tu jetteras au fond de la mer tous nos péchés.
You will again act kindly/compassionately toward us. You will get rid of [the scroll on which you have written] the sins that we have committed [as though you were] trampling it under your feet or throwing it into the deep ocean.
20 Tu montreras à Jacob ta fidélité, et à Abraham la grâce que tu as jurée à nos pères dès les jours d'autrefois.
You will show that you faithfully [do what you promised for us] and faithfully love us, just like you solemnly promised long ago to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob that you would do.
