Ézéchiel 26
1 Et il arriva à la onzième année, au premier jour du mois, que la parole du Seigneur me fut adressée, disant:
Almost twelve [after we had been taken to Babylonia], on the first day of the month, Yahweh gave me another message. He said to me,
2 Fils d’un homme, à cause que Tyr a dit de Jérusalem: Très bien: les portes des peuples ont été brisées, elle s’est tournée vers moi; je serai remplie, elle est déserte;
“You human, [the people of] Tyre [city] shouted joyfully and said about Jerusalem, ‘[Jerusalem, ] the city from which many traders/merchants went to many nations, is now destroyed. And now people from all over the world will come to us to buy and sell things. Because Jerusalem has now been ruined, we will prosper!’
3 À cause de cela, voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu: Voilà que moi je suis contre toi, ô Tyr, et je ferai monter vers toi des nations nombreuses, comme la mer fait monter ses flots.
Therefore, this is what [I, ] Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘I am now the enemy of [you people of] Tyre. I will [the armies of] many nations to come and attack your [city], like the waves of the sea beat against the shores.
4 Et ils renverseront les murs de Tyr, et ils détruiront ses tours; j’en raclerai la poussière, et je la rendrai comme une pierre très lisse.
Their soldiers will destroy the walls around Tyre and tear down its towers. Tyre will become a place where people from many nations steal valuable things, [and then the city will be completely destroyed]. Then they will scrape away the rubble and cause the city to become a bare rock.
5 Elle servira à sécher les filets au milieu de la mer; parce que moi j’ai parlé, dit le Seigneur Dieu; et Tyr sera en proie aux nations.
Out in the sea, Tyre will become an island where men spread [their fishing] nets to dry them. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh the Lord, have predicted it.
6 Ses filles aussi qui sont dans la campagne seront tuées par le glaive; et ils sauront que je suis le Seigneur.
The people in small villages on the coast near Tyre will be killed [their enemies’] swords. Then people will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].’
7 Parce que voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu: Voilà que moi j’amènerai à Tyr, de la terre de l’aquilon, Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, roi des rois, avec des chevaux et des chars, et des cavaliers, et une multitude, et un nombreux peuple.
This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, [is going to happen]: ‘From the north, I am going to bring the most powerful king [in the world], King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, [with his army] to attack Tyre. They will bring horses and chariots, and men who ride the horses [and men who drive the chariots]; it will be a huge army.
8 Tes filles qui sont dans la campagne, il les tuera par le glaive; et il t’environnera de fortifications, et il formera un rempart autour, et il élèvera contre toi un bouclier.
[In the battles in the small villages] on the coast, their soldiers will kill [many] people with their swords. [Then] they will set up devices to batter the wall around the city of Tyre, and they will build a dirt ramp up to the top of the wall, and they will all hold up shields [to protect themselves from arrows being shot from the ground].
9 Et il organisera des mantelets et des béliers contre tes murs, et il détruira tes tours avec ses armes.
The king will direct the soldiers who operate the (rams/things) to batter the walls, and who will use their iron bars to tear down the towers in the wall.
10 À cause de l’inondation de ses chevaux tu seras couverte de poussière; au bruit des cavaliers, et des roues, et des chars, tes murailles s’ébranleront, lorsqu’il entrera dans tes portes comme par la brèche d’une ville prise d’assaut.
The king will have a huge number of horses, [the stamping of their hooves will result in] the city being covered with dust. [It will be as though] the walls will tremble because of the noise made by the horses, the [supply] wagons, and the chariots when they enter the city where the walls have been broken down.
11 Sous les sabots de ses chevaux il foulera toutes tes places: il frappera ton peuple du glaive, et tes fameuses statues tomberont à terre.
The horses will trample all of the [of the city] with their hooves. The soldiers will kill the people with their swords; and they will cause your strong pillars to (collapse/fall to the ground).
12 Ils raviront tes richesses, pilleront tes marchandises, et détruiront tes murs; ils renverseront tes maisons magnifiques, et tes pierres, et tes bois, et ta poussière, ils les jetteront au milieu des eaux.
They will take away all the people’s valuable possessions and steal the things that the merchants sell. They will tear down the walls of the houses and destroy their fine houses. Then they will throw into the sea the stones [from the walls] of those houses and the timber and the rubble.
13 Et je ferai cesser la multitude de tes cantiques, et le son de tes harpes ne sera plus entendu.
No longer will you sing noisy songs, and people will not play their harps any more.
14 Et je te rendrai comme une pierre très lisse, et tu serviras à sécher les filets, et tu ne seras plus rebâtie; parce que moi j’ai parlé, dit le Seigneur Dieu.
The enemy soldiers will cause the city to become a bare rock and [only] a place where men spread [their fishing] nets. And the city will never be rebuilt. [Those things will surely happen] because [I], Yahweh the Lord, have [that they will happen].’
15 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu à Tyr: Est-ce qu’au bruit de ta ruine, et au gémissement de tes tués, lorsqu’ils auront été mis à mort au milieu de toi, les îles ne seront pas émues?
This is [also] what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say about [the people of] Tyre: ‘When the wounded [people in Tyre] groan and many people are slaughtered and the city is destroyed, [it will surely be as though] [RHQ] the areas along the coast will tremble.
16 Et tous les princes de la mer descendront de leurs trônes, et ils quitteront les marques de leur grandeur, et ils jetteront leurs habits de diverses couleurs, et ils seront vêtus de stupeur; ils s’assiéront sur la terre, et épouvantés de ta chute soudaine, ils seront dans l’étonnement.
Then all the kings [in the cities] along the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and their embroidered clothes. They will be terrified, and they will sit on the ground, trembling. They will be appalled because of what has happened to the city of Tyre.
17 Et faisant entendre sur toi des lamentations, ils te diront: Comment as-tu péri, toi qui habites sur la mer, ville illustre, qui as été puissante sur la mer, avec tes habitants que tous redoutaient?
Then they will sing a sad song about the city, and they will sing this: “The famous city [APO], in which many [who sailed on] the seas lived, is now destroyed! The people of that city had great power [because they had many ships that sailed] on the seas; they caused all the people who lived near them to be terrified.
18 Désormais les vaisseaux seront frappés de stupeur au jour de ton effroi, et les îles seront troublées dans la mer, parce que personne ne sort de toi.
Now on the day when that city is destroyed, [it is as though the people in] the areas along the coast tremble and the [the people on the] islands in the sea are terrified because of that city being ruined.”’
19 Parce que voici ce que dit le Seigneur Dieu: Lorsque j’aurai fait de toi une ville désolée comme les cités qui ne sont pas habitées, et que j’aurai amené sur toi l’abîme, et que les grandes eaux t’auront couverte;
This is also what [I], Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘When I cause the city [of Tyre] to become desolate/empty, like [other] cities in which people no [longer] live, and when I cause the huge waves of the sea to cover it,
20 Et que je t’aurai précipitée avec ceux qui descendent dans la fosse vers le peuple éternel, et que je t’aurai placée dans une terre très profonde, comme les solitudes anciennes, avec ceux qui sont conduits dans la fosse, afin que tu ne sois pas habitée; mais lorsque j’aurai établi ma gloire dans la terre des vivants,
then I will bring the people of that city down to be with those who have gone down to where the dead people are, people who lived long ago. I will cause them to remain in the place below the earth that is like old/ancient ruins, with those who have gone down to that pit [previously], and they will never return to the earth, to where people are alive.
21 Je te réduirai à rien, et tu ne seras plus; et on te cherchera, et on ne te trouvera plus jamais, dit le Seigneur Dieu.
I will cause them to die in a horrible way (OR, people will be very afraid because of what happens to that city), and that will be the end of (them/their lives). People will search for that city but it will no longer exist. [That is what I, ] Yahweh the Lord, declare [will happen].’”
