Esaïe 14
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Isaiah 14
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| Car l`Éternel aura pitié de Jacob, Il choisira encore Israël, Et il les rétablira dans leur pays; Les étrangers se joindront à eux, Et ils s`uniront à la maison de Jacob. | For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob. |
| Les peuples les prendront, et les ramèneront à leur demeure, Et la maison d`Israël les possédera dans le pays de l`Éternel, Comme serviteurs et comme servantes; Ils retiendront captifs ceux qui les avaient faits captifs, Et ils domineront sur leurs oppresseurs. | And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters. |
| Et quand l`Éternel t`aura donné du repos, Après tes fatigues et tes agitations, Et après la dure servitude qui te fut imposée, | And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you, |
| Alors tu prononceras ce chant sur le roi de Babylone, Et tu diras: Eh quoi! le tyran n`est plus! L`oppression a cessé! | That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off; |
| L`Éternel a brisé le bâton des méchants, La verge des dominateurs. | The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord; |
| Celui qui dans sa fureur frappait les peuples, Par des coups sans relâche, Celui qui dans sa colère subjuguait les nations, Est poursuivi sans ménagement. | He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule. |
| Toute la terre jouit du repos et de la paix; On éclate en chants d`allégresse, | All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. |
| Les cyprès même, les cèdres du Liban, se réjouissent de ta chute: Depuis que tu es tombé, personne ne monte pour nous abattre. | Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe. |
| Le séjour des morts s`émeut jusque dans ses profondeurs, Pour t`accueillir à ton arrivée; Il réveille devant toi les ombres, tous les grands de la terre, Il fait lever de leurs trônes tous les rois des nations. | The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats. |
| Tous prennent la parole pour te dire: Toi aussi, tu es sans force comme nous, Tu es devenu semblable à nous! | They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are? |
| Ta magnificence est descendue dans le séjour des morts, Avec le son de tes luths; Sous toi est une couche de vers, Et les vers sont ta couverture. | Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them. |
| Te voilà tombé du ciel, Astre brillant, fils de l`aurore! Tu es abattu à terre, Toi, le vainqueur des nations! | How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies! |
| Tu disais en ton coeur: Je monterai au ciel, J`élèverai mon trône au-dessus des étoiles de Dieu; Je m`assiérai sur la montagne de l`assemblée, A l`extrémité du septentrion; | For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north. |
| Je monterai sur le sommet des nues, Je serai semblable au Très Haut. | I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High. |
| Mais tu as été précipité dans le séjour des morts, Dans les profondeurs de la fosse. | But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts. |
| Ceux qui te voient fixent sur toi leurs regards, Ils te considèrent attentivement: Est-ce là cet homme qui faisait trembler la terre, Qui ébranlait les royaumes, | Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms? |
| Qui réduisait le monde en désert, Qui ravageait les villes, Et ne relâchait point ses prisonniers? | Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house. |
| Tous les rois des nations, oui, tous, Reposent avec honneur, chacun dans son tombeau. | All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house, |
| Mais toi, tu as été jeté loin de ton sépulcre, Comme un rameau qu`on dédaigne, Comme une dépouille de gens tués à coups d`épée, Et précipités sur les pierres d`une fosse, Comme un cadavre foulé aux pieds. | But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot. |
| Tu n`es pas réuni à eux dans le sépulcre, Car tu as détruit ton pays, tu as fait périr ton peuple: On ne parlera plus jamais de la race des méchants. | As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man. |
| Préparez le massacre des fils, A cause de l`iniquité de leurs pères! Qu`ils ne se relèvent pas pour conquérir la terre, Et remplir le monde d`ennemis! - | Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places. |
| Je me lèverai contre eux, Dit l`Éternel des armées; J`anéantirai le nom et la trace de Babylone, Ses descendants et sa postérité, dit l`Éternel. | For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord. |
| J`en ferai le gîte du hérisson et un marécage, Et je la balaierai avec le balai de la destruction, Dit l`Éternel des armées. | And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies. |
| L`Éternel des armées l`a juré, en disant: Oui, ce que j`ai décidé arrivera, Ce que j`ai résolu s`accomplira. | The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected: |
| Je briserai l`Assyrien dans mon pays, Je le foulerai aux pieds sur mes montagnes; Et son joug leur sera ôté, Et son fardeau sera ôté de leurs épaules. | To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end. |
| Voilà la résolution prise contre toute la terre, Voilà la main étendue sur toutes les nations. | This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations. |
| L`Éternel des armées a pris cette résolution: qui s`y opposera? Sa main est étendue: qui la détournera? | For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back? |
| L`année de la mort du roi Achaz, cet oracle fut prononcé: | In the year of the death of King Ahaz this word came to the prophet: |
| Ne te réjouis pas, pays des Philistins, De ce que la verge qui te frappait est brisée! Car de la racine du serpent sortira un basilic, Et son fruit sera un dragon volant. | Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake. |
| Alors les plus pauvres pourront paître, Et les malheureux reposer en sécurité; Mais je ferai mourir ta racine par la faim, Et ce qui restera de toi sera tué. | And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword. |
| Porte, gémis! ville, lamente-toi! Tremble, pays tout entier des Philistins! Car du nord vient une fumée, Et les rangs de l`ennemi sont serrés. - | Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line. |
| Et que répondra-t-on aux envoyés du peuple? -Que l`Éternel a fondé Sion, Et que les malheureux de son peuple y trouvent un refuge. | What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people. |
