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Jeremiah 18
Louis Segond 1910 · Berean Standard Bible
La parole qui fut adressée à Jérémie de la part de l’Éternel, en ces mots:
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Lève-toi, et descends dans la maison du potier;
“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.”
Je descendis dans la maison du potier,
So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.
Le vase qu’il faisait ne réussit pas,
But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
Et la parole de l’Éternel me fut adressée, en ces mots:
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ne puis-je pas agir envers vous comme ce potier, maison d’Israël?
“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
Soudain je parle, sur une nation, sur un royaume,
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
Mais si cette nation, sur laquelle j’ai parlé, revient de sa méchanceté,
But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
Et soudain je parle, sur une nation, sur un royaume,
And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
Mais si cette nation fait ce qui est mal à mes yeux,
and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
Parle maintenant aux hommes de Juda et aux habitants de Jérusalem, et dis:
Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
Mais ils disent: C’est en vain!
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
C’est pourquoi ainsi parle l’Éternel:
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
La neige du Liban abandonne-t-elle le rocher des champs?
Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
Cependant mon peuple m’a oublié, il offre de l’encens à des idoles;
Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
Ils ont fait de leur pays, un objet de désolation, d’éternelle moquerie;
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
Pareil au vent d’orient, je les disperserai devant l’ennemi;
I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
Et ils ont dit:
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
Le mal sera-t-il rendu pour le bien?
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
C’est pourquoi livre leurs enfants à la famine,
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Qu’on entende des cris sortir de leurs maisons,
Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
Et toi, Éternel, tu connais tous leurs complots pour me faire mourir;
But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.