Abdias 1
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Obadiah 1
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| Prophétie d`Abdias. Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l`Éternel, sur Édom: -Nous avons appris une nouvelle de la part de l`Éternel, Et un messager a été envoyé parmi les nations: Levez-vous, marchons contre Édom pour lui faire la guerre! - | The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her. |
| Voici, je te rendrai petit parmi les nations, Tu seras l`objet du plus grand mépris. | See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on. |
| L`orgueil de ton coeur t`a égaré, Toi qui habites le creux des rochers, Qui t`assieds sur les hauteurs, Et qui dis en toi-même: Qui me précipitera jusqu`à terre? | You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth? |
| Quand tu placerais ton nid aussi haut que celui de l`aigle, Quand tu le placerais parmi les étoiles, Je t`en précipiterai, dit l`Éternel. | Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord. |
| Si des voleurs, des pillards, viennent de nuit chez toi, Comme te voilà dévasté! Mais enlèvent-ils plus qu`ils ne peuvent? Si des vendangeurs viennent chez toi, Ne laissent-ils rien à grappiller?... | If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all? |
| Ah! comme Ésaü est fouillé! Comme ses trésors sont découverts! | How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for! |
| Tous tes alliés t`ont chassé jusqu`à la frontière, Tes amis t`ont joué, t`ont dominé, Ceux qui mangeaient ton pain t`ont dressé des pièges, Et tu n`as pas su t`en apercevoir! | All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place. |
| N`est-ce pas en ce jour, dit l`Éternel, Que je ferai disparaître d`Édom les sages, Et de la montagne d`Ésaü l`intelligence? | Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau? |
| Tes guerriers, ô Théman, seront dans l`épouvante, Car tous ceux de la montagne d`Ésaü périront dans le carnage. | And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau. |
| A cause de ta violence contre ton frère Jacob, Tu seras couvert de honte, Et tu seras exterminé pour toujours. | Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever. |
| Le jour où tu te tenais en face de lui, Le jour où des étrangers emmenaient captive son armée, Où des étrangers entraient dans ses portes, Et jetaient le sort sur Jérusalem, Toi aussi tu étais comme l`un d`eux. | Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them. |
| Ne repais pas ta vue du jour de ton frère, du jour de son malheur, Ne te réjouis pas sur les enfants de Juda au jour de leur ruine, Et n`ouvre pas une grande bouche au jour de la détresse! | Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble. |
| N`entre pas dans les portes de mon peuple au jour de sa ruine, Ne repais pas ta vue de son malheur au jour de sa ruine, Et ne porte pas la main sur ses richesses au jour de sa ruine! | Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall. |
| Ne te tiens pas au carrefour pour exterminer ses fuyards, Et ne livre pas ses réchappés au jour de la détresse! | And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble. |
| Car le jour de l`Éternel est proche, pour toutes les nations; Il te sera fait comme tu as fait, Tes oeuvres retomberont sur ta tête. | For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head. |
| Car, comme vous avez bu sur ma montagne sainte, Ainsi toutes les nations boiront sans cesse; Elles boiront, elles avaleront, Et elles seront comme si elles n`avaient jamais été. | For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been. |
| Mais le salut sera sur la montagne de Sion, elle sera sainte, Et la maison de Jacob reprendra ses possessions. | But in Mount Zion some will be kept safe, and it will be holy; and the children of Jacob will take their heritage. |
| La maison de Jacob sera un feu, et la maison de Joseph une flamme; Mais la maison d`Ésaü sera du chaume, Qu`elles allumeront et consumeront; Et il ne restera rien de la maison d`Ésaü, Car l`Éternel a parlé. | And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it. |
| Ceux du midi posséderont la montagne d`Ésaü, Et ceux de la plaine le pays des Philistins; Ils posséderont le territoire d`Éphraïm et celui de Samarie; Et Benjamin possédera Galaad. | And they will take the South, and the lowland, and the country of Ephraim, and Gilead, as their heritage. |
| Les captifs de cette armée des enfants d`Israël Posséderont le pays occupé par les Cananéens jusqu`à Sarepta, Et les captifs de Jérusalem qui sont à Sepharad Posséderont les villes du midi. | And those of the children of Israel who were the first to be taken away as prisoners, will have their heritage among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and those who were taken away from Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will have the towns of the South. |
| Des libérateurs monteront sur la montagne de Sion, Pour juger la montagne d`Ésaü; Et à l`Éternel appartiendra le règne. | And those who have been kept safe will come up from Mount Zion to be judges of the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be the Lord's. |
