Ezekiel 16
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Ezéchiel 16
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| And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, | La parole de l`Éternel me fut adressée, en ces mots: |
| Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways, | Fils de l`homme, fais connaître à Jérusalem ses abominations! |
| And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite. | Tu diras: Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l`Éternel, à Jérusalem: Par ton origine et ta naissance tu es du pays de Canaan; ton père était un Amoréen, et ta mère une Héthienne. |
| As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands. | A ta naissance, au jour où tu naquis, ton nombril n`a pas été coupé, tu n`as pas été lavée dans l`eau pour être purifiée, tu n`as pas été frottée avec du sel, tu n`as pas été enveloppée dans des langes. |
| No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth. | Nul n`a porté sur toi un regard de pitié pour te faire une seule de ces choses, par compassion pour toi; mais tu as été jetée dans les champs, le jour de ta naissance, parce qu`on avait horreur de toi. |
| And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life; | Je passais près de toi, je t`aperçus baignée dans ton sang, et je te dis: Vis dans ton sang! je te dis: Vis dans ton sang! |
| And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing. | Je t`ai multipliée par dix milliers, comme les herbes des champs. Et tu pris de l`accroissement, tu grandis, tu devins d`une beauté parfaite; tes seins se formèrent, ta chevelure se développa. Mais tu étais nue, entièrement nue. |
| Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine. | Je passai près de toi, je te regardai, et voici, ton temps était là, le temps des amours. J`étendis sur toi le pan de ma robe, je couvris ta nudité, je te jurai fidélité, je fis alliance avec toi, dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel, et tu fus à moi. |
| Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil. | Je te lavai dans l`eau, je fis disparaître le sang qui était sur toi, et je t`oignis avec de l`huile. |
| And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk. | Je te donnai des vêtements brodés, et une chaussure de peaux teintes en bleu; je te ceignis de fin lin, et je te couvris de soie. |
| And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck. | Je te parai d`ornements: je mis des bracelets à tes mains, un collier à ton cou, |
| And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. | je mis un anneau à ton nez, des pendants à tes oreilles, et une couronne magnifique sur ta tête. |
| So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful. | Ainsi tu fus parée d`or et d`argent, et tu fus vêtue de fin lin, de soie et d`étoffes brodées. La fleur de farine, le miel et l`huile, furent ta nourriture. Tu étais d`une beauté accomplie, digne de la royauté. |
| You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord. | Et ta renommée se répandit parmi les nations, à cause de ta beauté; car elle était parfaite, grâce à l`éclat dont je t`avais ornée, dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel. |
| But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be. | Mais tu t`es confiée dans ta beauté, et tu t`es prostituée, à la faveur de ton nom; tu as prodigué tes prostitutions à tous les passants, tu t`es livrée à eux. |
| And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear. | Tu as pris de tes vêtements, tu t`es fait des hauts lieux que tu as garnis d`étoffes de toutes couleurs, et tu t`y es prostituée: rien de semblable n`était arrivé et n`arrivera jamais. |
| And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them; | Tu as pris ta magnifique parure d`or et d`argent, que je t`avais donnée, et tu en as fait des simulacres d`hommes, auxquels tu t`es prostituée. |
| And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them. | Tu as pris tes vêtements brodés, tu les en as couverts, et tu as offert à ces simulacres mon huile et mon encens. |
| And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord. | Le pain que je t`avais donné, la fleur de farine, l`huile et le miel, dont je te nourrissais, tu leur as offert ces choses comme des parfums d`une odeur agréable. Voilà ce qui est arrivé, dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel. |
| And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing, | Tu as pris tes fils et tes filles, que tu m`avais enfantés, et tu les leur as sacrifiés pour qu`ils leur servent d`aliment: n`était-ce pas assez de tes prostitutions? |
| That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them? | Tu as égorgé mes fils, et tu les as donnés, en les faisant passer par le feu en leur honneur. |
| And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood. | Au milieu de toutes tes abominations et de tes prostitutions, tu ne t`es pas souvenue du temps de ta jeunesse, lorsque tu étais nue, entièrement nue, et baignée dans ton sang. |
| And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord, | Après toutes tes méchantes actions, -malheur, malheur à toi! dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel, - |
| That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place. | tu t`es bâti des maisons de prostitution, tu t`es fait des hauts lieux dans toutes les places; |
| You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways. | à l`entrée de chaque chemin tu as construit tes hauts lieux, tu as déshonoré ta beauté, tu t`es livrée à tous les passants, tu as multiplié tes prostitutions. |
| And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath. | Tu t`es prostituée aux Égyptiens, tes voisins au corps vigoureux, et tu as multiplié tes prostitutions pour m`irriter. |
| Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways. | Et voici, j`ai étendu ma main contre toi, j`ai diminué la part que je t`avais assignée, je t`ai livrée à la volonté de tes ennemis, les filles des Philistins, qui ont rougi de ta conduite criminelle. |
| And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough. | Tu t`es prostituée aux Assyriens, parce que tu n`étais pas rassasiée; tu t`es prostituée à eux, et tu n`as pas encore été rassasiée. |
| And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enough. | Tu as multiplié tes prostitutions avec le pays de Canaan et jusqu`en Chaldée, et avec cela tu n`as pas encore été rassasiée. |
| How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman; | Quelle faiblesse de coeur tu as eue, dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel, en faisant toutes ces choses, qui sont l`oeuvre d`une maîtresse prostituée! |
| For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment. | Lorsque tu bâtissais tes maisons de prostitution à l`entrée de chaque chemin, lorsque tu faisais tes hauts lieux dans toutes les places, tu n`as pas même été comme la prostituée qui réclame un salaire; |
| The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband! | tu as été la femme adultère, qui reçoit des étrangers au lieu de son mari. |
| They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love. | A toutes les prostituées on paie un salaire; mais toi, tu as fait des dons à tous tes amants, tu les as gagnés par des présents, afin de les attirer à toi de toutes parts dans tes prostitutions. |
| And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them. | Tu as été le contraire des autres prostituées, parce qu`on ne te recherchait pas; et en donnant un salaire au lieu d`en recevoir un, tu as été le contraire des autres. |
| For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord: | C`est pourquoi, prostituée, écoute la parole de l`Éternel! |
| This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them; | Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l`Éternel: Parce que tes trésors ont été dissipés, et que ta nudité a été découverte dans tes prostitutions avec tes amants et avec toutes tes abominables idoles, et à cause du sang de tes enfants que tu leur as donnés, |
| For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all those to whom you have given your love, with all those who were hated by you; I will even make them come together against you on every side, and I will have you uncovered before them so that they may see your shame. | voici, je rassemblerai tous tes amants avec lesquels tu te plaisais, tous ceux que tu as aimés et tous ceux que tu as haïs, je les rassemblerai de toutes parts contre toi, je leur découvrirai ta nudité, et ils verront toute ta nudité. |
| And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling. | Je te jugerai comme on juge les femmes adultères et celles qui répandent le sang, et je ferai de toi une victime sanglante de la fureur et de la jalousie. |
| I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed. | Je te livrerai entre leurs mains; ils abattront tes maisons de prostitution et détruiront tes hauts lieux; ils te dépouilleront de tes vêtements, prendront ta magnifique parure, et te laisseront nue, entièrement nue. |
| And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords. | Ils amèneront la foule contre toi, ils te lapideront et te perceront à coups d`épée; |
| And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment. | ils brûleront tes maisons par le feu, et ils feront justice de toi, aux yeux d`une multitude de femmes. Je ferai cesser ainsi ton impudicité et tu ne donneras plus de salaire. |
| And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer. | J`assouvirai ma colère contre toi, et tu ne seras plus l`objet de ma jalousie; je m`apaiserai, je ne serai plus irrité. |
| Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts. | Parce que tu ne t`es pas souvenue du temps de ta jeunesse, parce que tu m`as provoqué par toutes ces choses, voici, je ferai retomber ta conduite sur ta tête, dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel, et tu ne commettras plus le crime avec toutes tes abominations. |
| See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter. | Voici, tous ceux qui disent des proverbes, t`appliqueront ce proverbe: Telle mère, telle fille! |
| You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. | Tu es la fille de ta mère, qui a repoussé son mari et ses enfants; tu es la soeur de tes soeurs, qui ont repoussé leur mari et leurs enfants. Votre mère était une Héthienne, et votre père un Amoréen. |
| Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, living at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. | Ta grande soeur, qui demeure à ta gauche, c`est Samarie avec ses filles; et ta petite soeur, qui demeure à ta droite, c`est Sodome avec ses filles. |
| Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways. | Tu n`as pas seulement marché dans leurs voies, commis les mêmes abominations, c`était trop peu; tu as été plus corrompue qu`elles dans toutes tes voies. |
| By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done. | Je suis vivant! dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel, Sodome, ta soeur, et ses filles n`ont pas fait ce que vous avez fait, toi et tes filles. |
| Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need. | Voici quel a été le crime de Sodome, ta soeur. Elle avait de l`orgueil, elle vivait dans l`abondance et dans une insouciante sécurité, elle et ses filles, et elle ne soutenait pas la main du malheureux et de l`indigent. |
| They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen. | Elles sont devenues hautaines, et elles ont commis des abominations devant moi. Je les ai fait disparaître, quand j`ai vu cela. |
| And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done. | Samarie n`a pas commis la moitié de tes péchés; tes abominations ont été plus nombreuses que les siennes, et tu as justifié tes soeurs par toutes les abominations que tu as faites. |
| And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you have given the decision for your sisters; through your sins, which are more disgusting than theirs, they are more upright than you: truly, you will be shamed and made low, for you have made your sisters seem upright. | Toi qui condamnais tes soeurs, supporte ton opprobre, à cause de tes péchés par lesquels tu t`es rendue plus abominable qu`elles, et qui les font paraître plus justes que toi; sois confuse, et supporte ton opprobre, puisque tu as justifié tes soeurs. |
| And I will let their fate be changed, the fate of Sodom and her daughters, and the fate of Samaria and her daughters, and your fate with theirs. | Je ramènerai leurs captifs, les captifs de Sodome et de ses filles, les captifs de Samarie et de ses filles, et tes captifs au milieu des leurs, |
| So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you. | afin que tu subisses ton opprobre, et que tu rougisses de tout ce que tu as fait, en étant pour elles un sujet de consolation. |
| And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will go back to their first condition, and Samaria and her daughters will go back to their first condition, and you and your daughters will go back to your first condition. | Tes soeurs, Sodome et ses filles, reviendront à leur premier état, Samarie et ses filles reviendront à leur premier état; et toi et tes filles, vous reviendrez à votre premier état. |
| Was not your sister Sodom an oath in your mouth in the day of your pride, | Ne discourais-tu pas sur ta soeur Sodome, dans le temps de ton orgueil, |
| Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about. | avant que ta méchanceté soit mise à nu, lorsque tu as reçu les outrages des filles de la Syrie et de tous ses alentours, des filles des Philistins, qui te méprisaient de tous côtés! |
| The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord. | Tu portes tes crimes et tes abominations, dit l`Éternel. |
| For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken. | Car ainsi parle le Seigneur, l`Éternel: J`agirai envers toi comme tu as agi, toi qui as méprisé le serment en rompant l`alliance. |
| But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement. | Mais je me souviendrai de mon alliance avec toi au temps de ta jeunesse, et j`établirai avec toi une alliance éternelle. |
| Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not by your agreement. | Tu te souviendras de ta conduite, et tu en auras honte, quand tu recevras tes soeurs, les grandes et les petites; je te les donnerai pour filles, mais non en vertu de ton alliance. |
| And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord: | J`établirai mon alliance avec toi, et tu sauras que je suis l`Éternel, |
| So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord. | Afin que tu te souviennes du passé et que tu rougisses, afin que tu n`ouvres plus la bouche et que tu sois confuse, quand je te pardonnerai tout ce que tu as fait, dit le Seigneur, l`Éternel. |
