Jeremiah 22
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Jérémie 22
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| This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word, | Ainsi parle l`Éternel: Descends dans la maison du roi de Juda, et là prononce cette parole. |
| And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors. | Tu diras: Écoute la parole de l`Éternel, roi de Juda, qui es assis sur le trône de David, toi, tes serviteurs, et ton peuple, qui entrez par ces portes! |
| This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place. | Ainsi parle l`Éternel: Pratiquez la justice et l`équité; délivrez l`opprimé des mains de l`oppresseur; ne maltraitez pas l`étranger, l`orphelin et la veuve; n`usez pas de violence, et ne répandez point de sang innocent dans ce lieu. |
| For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people | Car si vous agissez selon cette parole, les rois assis sur le trône de David entreront par les portes de cette maison, montés sur des chars et sur des chevaux, eux, leurs serviteurs et leur peuple. |
| But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste. | Mais si vous n`écoutez pas ces paroles, je le jure par moi-même, dit l`Éternel, cette maison deviendra une ruine. |
| For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled. | Car ainsi parle l`Éternel sur la maison du roi de Juda: Tu es pour moi comme Galaad, comme le sommet du Liban; Mais certes, je ferai de toi un désert, Une ville sans habitants. |
| And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire. | Je prépare contre toi des destructeurs, Chacun avec ses armes; Ils abattront tes plus beaux cèdres, Et les jetteront au feu. |
| And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town? | Des nations nombreuses passeront près de cette ville, Et elles se diront l`une à l`autre: Pourquoi l`Éternel a-t-il ainsi traité cette grande ville? |
| And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods. | Et l`on répondra: Parce qu`ils ont abandonné L`alliance de l`Éternel, leur Dieu, Parce qu`ils se sont prosternés devant d`autres dieux et les ont servis. |
| Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth. | Ne pleurez point celui qui est mort, Et ne vous lamentez pas sur lui; Pleurez, pleurez celui qui s`en va, Car il ne reviendra plus, Il ne reverra plus le pays de sa naissance. |
| For this is what the Lord has said about Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will never come back there again: | Car ainsi parle l`Éternel sur Schallum, fils de Josias, roi de Juda, Qui régnait à la place de Josias, son père, Et qui est sorti de ce lieu: Il n`y reviendra plus; |
| But death will come to him in the place where they have taken him away prisoner, and he will never see this land again. | Mais il mourra dans le lieu où on l`emmène captif, Et il ne verra plus ce pays. |
| A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work; | Malheur à celui qui bâtit sa maison par l`injustice, Et ses chambres par l`iniquité; Qui fait travailler son prochain sans le payer, Sans lui donner son salaire; |
| Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red. | Qui dit: Je me bâtirai une maison vaste, Et des chambres spacieuses; Et qui s`y fait percer des fenêtres, La lambrisse de cèdre, Et la peint en couleur rouge! |
| Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him? | Est-ce que tu règnes, parce que tu as de la passion pour le cèdre? Ton père ne mangeait-il pas, ne buvait-il pas? Mais il pratiquait la justice et l`équité, Et il fut heureux; |
| He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord. | Il jugeait la cause du pauvre et de l`indigent, Et il fut heureux. N`est-ce pas là me connaître? dit l`Éternel. |
| But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts. | Mais tu n`as des yeux et un coeur Que pour te livrer à la cupidité, Pour répandre le sang innocent, Et pour exercer l`oppression et la violence. |
| So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! | C`est pourquoi ainsi parle l`Éternel sur Jojakim, fils de Josias, roi de Juda: On ne le pleurera pas, en disant: Hélas, mon frère! hélas, ma soeur! On ne le pleurera pas, en disant: Hélas, seigneur! hélas, sa majesté! |
| They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem. | Il aura la sépulture d`un âne, Il sera traîné et jeté hors des portes de Jérusalem. |
| Go up to Lebanon and give a cry; let your voice be loud in Bashan, crying out from Abarim; for all your lovers have come to destruction | Monte sur le Liban, et crie! Élève ta voix sur le Basan! Crie du haut d`Abarim! Car tous ceux qui t`aimaient sont brisés. |
| My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice. | Je t`ai parlé dans le temps de ta prospérité; Tu disais: Je n`écouterai pas. C`est ainsi que tu as agi dès ta jeunesse; Tu n`as pas écouté ma voix. |
| All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing. | Tous tes pasteurs seront la pâture du vent, Et ceux qui t`aiment iront en captivité; C`est alors que tu seras dans la honte, dans la confusion, A cause de toute ta méchanceté. |
| O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth! | Toi qui habites sur le Liban, Qui as ton nid dans les cèdres, Combien tu gémiras quand les douleurs t`atteindront, Douleurs semblables à celles d`une femme en travail! |
| By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off; | Je suis vivant! dit l`Éternel, Quand Jeconia, fils de Jojakim, roi de Juda, serait Un anneau à ma main droite, Je t`arracherais de là. |
| And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans. | Je te livrerai entre les mains de ceux qui en veulent à ta vie, Entre les mains de ceux devant qui tu trembles, Entre les mains de Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, Entre les mains des Chaldéens. |
| I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you. | Je te jetterai, toi et ta mère qui t`a enfanté, Dans un autre pays où vous n`êtes pas nés, Et là vous mourrez; |
| But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back. | Mais dans le pays où ils auront le désir de retourner, Ils ne retourneront pas. |
| Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them? | Est-il donc un vase méprisé, brisé, ce Jeconia? Est-il un objet auquel on n`attache aucun prix? Pourquoi sont-ils jetés, lui et sa postérité, Lancés dans un pays qu`ils ne connaissent pas? - |
| O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord! | Terre, terre, terre, Écoute la parole de l`Éternel! |
| The Lord has said, Let this man be recorded as having no children, a man who will not do well in all his life: for no man of his seed will do well, seated on the seat of the kingdom of David and ruling again in Judah. | Ainsi parle l`Éternel: Inscrivez cet homme comme privé d`enfants, Comme un homme dont les jours ne seront pas prospères; Car nul de ses descendants ne réussira A s`asseoir sur le trône de David Et à régner sur Juda. |
