Zacharie 11
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Zechariah 11
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| Liban, ouvre tes portes, Et que le feu dévore tes cèdres! | Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars. |
| Gémis, cyprès, car le cèdre est tombé, Ceux qui s`élevaient sont détruits! Gémissez, chênes de Basan, Car la forêt inaccessible est renversée! | Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down. |
| Les bergers poussent des cris lamentables, Parce que leur magnificence est détruite; Les lionceaux rugissent, Parce que l`orgueil du Jourdain est abattu. | The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste. |
| Ainsi parle l`Éternel, mon Dieu: Pais les brebis destinées à la boucherie! | This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death; |
| Ceux qui les achètent les égorgent impunément; Celui qui les vend dit: Béni soit l`Éternel, car je m`enrichis! Et leurs pasteurs ne les épargnent pas. | Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them. |
| Car je n`ai plus de pitié pour les habitants du pays, Dit l`Éternel; Et voici, je livre les hommes Aux mains les uns des autres et aux mains de leur roi; Ils ravageront le pays, Et je ne délivrerai pas de leurs mains. | For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands. |
| Alors je me mis à paître les brebis destinées à la boucherie, assurément les plus misérables du troupeau. Je prix deux houlettes: j`appelai l`une Grâce, et j`appelai l`autre Union. Et je fis paître les brebis. | So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock. |
| J`exterminerai les trois pasteurs en un mois; mon âme était impatiente à leur sujet, et leur âme avait aussi pour moi du dégoût. | And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me. |
| Et je dis: Je ne vous paîtrai plus! Que celle qui va mourir meure, que celle qui va périr périsse, et que celles qui restent se dévorent les unes les autres! | And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food. |
| Je pris ma houlette Grâce, et je la brisai, pour rompre mon alliance que j`avais traitée avec tous les peuples. | And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken. |
| Elle fut rompue ce jour-là; et les malheureuses brebis, qui prirent garde à moi, reconnurent ainsi que c`était la parole de l`Éternel. | And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord. |
| Je leur dis: Si vous le trouvez bon, donnez-moi mon salaire; sinon, ne le donnez pas. Et ils pesèrent pour mon salaire trente sicles d`argent. | And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver. |
| L`Éternel me dit: Jette-le au potier, ce prix magnifique auquel ils m`ont estimé! Et je pris les trente sicles d`argent, et je les jetai dans la maison de l`Éternel, pour le potier. | And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord. |
| Puis je brisai ma seconde houlette Union, pour rompre la fraternité entre Juda et Israël. | Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken. |
| L`Éternel me dit: Prends encore l`équipage d`un pasteur insensé! | And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep. |
| Car voici, je susciterai dans le pays un pasteur qui n`aura pas souci des brebis qui périssent; il n`ira pas à la recherche des plus jeunes, il ne guérira pas les blessées, il ne soignera pas les saines; mais il dévorera la chair des plus grasses, et il déchirera jusqu`aux cornes de leurs pieds. | For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken. |
| Malheur au pasteur de néant, qui abandonne ses brebis! Que l`épée fonde sur son bras et sur son oeil droit! Que son bras se dessèche, Et que son oeil droite s`éteigne! | A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark. |
