Daniel 11
1 Or moi, dès la première année de Darius le Mède, je me prêtais à ce qu’il devint fort et puissant.
And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.
2 Et maintenant je vous annoncerai la vérité. Voici qu’il y aura encore trois rois en Perse, et le quatrième s’enrichira de très grandes richesses par-dessus tous les autres; et lorsqu’il sera devenu puissant par ses richesses, il animera tous les peuples contre le royaume de la Grèce.
And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece.
3 Mais il s’élèvera un roi fort, et il dominera avec une grande puissance, et il fera ce qui lui plaira.
And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure.
4 Et lorsqu’il sera affermi, son royaume sera brisé, et sera partagé vers les vents du ciel, mais non pas entre ses descendants, ni selon la puissance avec laquelle il aura dominé; car son royaume sera déchiré et passera à des étrangers outre ceux-là.
And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his.
5 Et le roi du midi se fortifiera, et un de ses princes prévaudra sur lui, et il dominera par sa puissance, car grande sera sa domination.
And the king of the south will be strong, but one of his captains will be stronger than he and will be ruler; and his rule will be a great rule.
6 Et, après des années accomplies, ils feront alliance; et la fille du roi du midi viendra vers le roi de l’aquilon pour faire amitié; mais elle n’acquerra pas la force du bras, et sa race ne subsistera pas; et elle sera livrée, elle et les jeunes hommes qui l’ont amenée, et ceux qui la soutenaient en ces temps-là.
And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times.
7 Et il s’élèvera du germe de ses racines un plant; et il viendra avec une armée, et entrera dans la province du roi de l’aquilon, et il les maltraitera, et il s’en rendra le maître.
But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them:
8 Et de plus, il emmènera captifs en Egypte leurs dieux, et leurs images taillées au ciseau comme aussi les vases précieux d’argent et d’or; celui-là prévaudra contre le roi de l’aquilon.
And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north.
9 Et le roi du midi entrera dans son royaume, puis il reviendra dans son propre pays.
And he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will go back to his land.
10 Mais ses fils seront irrités et assembleront une multitude de très nombreuses armées; et l’un deux viendra, se hâtant et se répandant partout; et il reviendra, et il s’animera, et il combattra contre ses forces.
And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place.
11 Et irrité, le roi du midi sortira et combattra contre le roi de l’aquilon; il préparera une très grande multitude de troupes, et une multitude sera livrée en sa main.
And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand.
12 Et il prendra la multitude, et son cœur s’élèvera; et il abattra beaucoup de milliers; mais il ne prévaudra pas.
And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong.
13 Car le roi de l’aquilon reviendra, et préparera une multitude beaucoup plus grande qu’auparavant; et à la fin des temps et des années, il viendra se hâtant avec une grande armée et des forces immenses.
And again the king of the north will get together an army greater than the first; and he will make an attack on him at the end of years, with a great army and much wealth.
14 Et dans ces temps-là, un grand nombre s’élèveront contre le roi du midi; et aussi les fils des prévaricateurs de ton peuple s’élèveront, afin qu’ils accomplissent la vision, et ils tomberont.
In those times, a number will take up arms against the king of the south: and the children of the violent among your people will be lifting themselves up to make the vision come true; but it will be their downfall.
15 Et le roi de l’aquilon viendra, et il formera un rempart, et il prendra des villes très fortifiées; et les bras du midi ne pourront soutenir l’attaque, et ses hommes d’élite s’élèveront pour résister, et ils n’auront pas de force.
So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so.
16 Et venant sur lui, il fera selon qu’il lui plaira, et il n’y aura personne qui tienne devant sa face; et il s’arrêtera dans la terre illustre, et elle sera détruite par ses mains.
And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction.
17 Et il posera sa face pour venir s’emparer de tout son royaume; il fera des conditions justes avec lui, il lui donnera une fille de ses femmes, afin de renverser son royaume; mais il ne réussira pas, et elle ne sera pas pour lui.
And it will be his purpose to come with the strength of all his kingdom, but in place of this he will make an agreement with him; and he will give him the daughter of women to send destruction on it; but this will not take place or come about.
18 Et il tournera sa face vers les îles, et il en prendra beaucoup; et il arrêtera le prince de son opprobre, et son opprobre retombera sur lui.
After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him.
19 Et il tournera sa face vers la terre de son empire, et il se heurtera, et il tombera, et on ne le trouvera pas.
Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.
20 Et il s’élèvera à sa place un homme très vil et indigne de la majesté royale; et en peu de jours il sera brisé, non dans la fureur ni dans un combat.
Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.
21 Et il s’élèvera à sa place un prince méprisé, et l’honneur royal ne lui sera pas rendu; et il viendra en secret, et il obtiendra le royaume par la fraude.
And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.
22 Et les bras du combattant seront vaincus devant sa face, et brisés, aussi bien que le chef de l’alliance.
And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate.
23 Or, après l’amitié faite, il emploiera la fraude contre lui; et il montera, et il triomphera avec un peuple peu nombreux.
And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force,
24 Et il entrera dans les villes riches et opulentes, et il fera ce que n’ont pas fait ses pères et les pères de ses pères: il dissipera leurs rapines, leur butin, leurs richesses, et il formera des desseins contre les villes les plus fortes; et cela jusqu’à un temps,
Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time.
25 Et sa force et son cœur s’animeront contre le roi du midi, avec une grande armée; et le roi du midi sera excité au combat par des secours nombreux et très puissants; et ils ne résisteront pas, parce qu’il se formera contre lui des complots,
And he will put in motion his power and his strength against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will go to war with a very great and strong army: but he will be forced to give way, because of their designs against him;
26 Ceux qui mangent le pain avec lui le briseront; et son armée sera accablée, et il tombera une très grande quantité de tués,
And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword.
27 Et le cœur des deux rois sera porté à mal faire; et à une même table ils parleront le mensonge; et ils ne réussiront pas, parce que la fin est pour un autre temps encore.
And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed.
28 Et il retournera dans son pays avec de grandes richesses; et son cœur sera contre l’alliance sainte; et il agira, et il retournera dans son pays.
And he will go back to his land with great wealth; and his heart will be against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure and go back to his land.
29 Au temps marqué, il retournera, et il viendra vers le midi; mais sa dernière expédition ne sera pas semblable à la première.
At the time fixed he will come back and come into the south; but in the later time it will not be as it was before.
30 Et viendront contre lui des trirèmes et des Romains; et il sera frappé, et il retournera, et il sera indigné contre l’alliance du sanctuaire, et il agira, et il retournera, et il formera des desseins même contre ceux qui ont abandonné l’alliance du sanctuaire.
For those who go out from the west will come against him, and he will be in fear and will go back, full of wrath against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure: and he will go back and be united with those who have given up the holy agreement.
31 Et des bras armés par lui se lèveront, et souilleront le sanctuaire de la force, et feront cesser le sacrifice perpétuel, et ils ajouteront à l’abomination la désolation.
And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.
32 Et contre l’alliance, les impies useront d’une feinte trompeuse; mais le peuple connaissant son Dieu prévaudra et agira.
And those who do evil against the agreement will be turned to sin by his fair words: but the people who have knowledge of their God will be strong and do well.
33 Et les savants parmi le peuple instruiront bien des gens, et ils tomberont sous le glaive, dans la flamme, en captivité, et par un brigandage de plusieurs jours.
And those who are wise among the people will be the teachers of the mass of the people: but they will come to their downfall by the sword and by the flame, being made prisoners and undergoing loss for a long time.
34 Et lorsqu’ils seront tombés, ils seront soulagés par un très petit secours, et beaucoup se joindront à eux frauduleusement.
Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.
35 Et d’entre ces savants, plusieurs succomberont, afin qu’ils passent par le feu, qu’ils soient purifiés, et qu’ils deviennent blancs jusqu’au temps déterminé, parce qu’il y aura encore un autre temps.
And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.
36 Et le roi agira selon sa volonté, et il s’élèvera et se glorifiera, contre tout dieu; et contre le Dieu des dieux il parlera avec arrogance, et il prospérera, jusqu’à ce que le courroux de Dieu contre son peuple soit accompli; car la décision a été prise.
And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.
37 Et il comptera pour rien le Dieu de ses pères; et il sera livré à la concupiscence des femmes, et il n’aura souci d’aucun des dieux, parce qu’il s’élèvera contre toutes choses,
He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.
38 Mais il vénérera en son lieu le dieu Maozim, et il honorera le dieu que ses pères ont ignoré, avec de l’or et de l’argent, et des pierres précieuses, et d’autres choses précieuses.
But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.
39 Et il fera en sorte de fortifier Maozim avec un dieu étranger qu’il a connu, et il multipliera leur gloire, et il leur donnera la puissance sur un grand nombre; et il partagera la terre gratuitement.
And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.
40 Et, au temps marqué, le roi du midi combattra contre lui; et comme une tempête viendra contre lui le roi de l’aquilon, avec des chars et des cavaliers, et une grande flotte; et il entrera dans ses terres et les détruira, et passera au-delà.
And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters.
41 Et il entrera dans la terre glorieuse, et beaucoup de terres seront ruinées; or celles-là seules seront sauvées de sa main: Edom et Moab, et le commencement des fils d’Ammon.
And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon.
42 Et il étendra sa main sur les terres, et la terre d’Egypte n’échappera pas.
And his hand will be stretched out on the countries: and the land of the south will not be safe from him.
43 Et il se rendra maître des trésors d’or et d’argent, et de toutes les choses précieuses de l’Egypte: il passera aussi au travers de la Libye et de l’Ethiopie.
But he will have power over the stores of gold and silver, and over all the valued things of the south: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.
44 Et des bruits venant de l’orient et de l’aquilon le troubleront; et il viendra avec une grande multitude, afin de briser et de tuer un très grand nombre.
But he will be troubled by news from the east and from the north; and he will go out in great wrath, to send destruction on, and put an end to, great numbers.
45 Et il plantera son tabernacle à Apadno entre des mers sur une montagne illustre et sainte; et il viendra jusqu’à son sommet, et personne ne le secourra.
He will put the tents of his great house between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain: but he will come to his end with no helper.
