Jeremías 9
Bible du Rabbinat (Zadoc Kahn)
1Ah! Qui me transportera dans le désert, dans un refuge de voyageurs? Je voudrais laisser là mon peuple, m'en aller loin de lui; car ils sont tous dissolus, c'est une bande de traîtres.
2Comme un arc, ils tendent leur langue pour le mensonge; ce n'est pas par la loyauté qu'ils sont devenus maîtres dans le pays; car ils vont de méfait en méfait, et moi, ils ne veulent pas me connaître, dit l'Eternel.
3Soyez en garde l'un contre l'autre! Ne mettez votre confiance dans aucun frère! Car tout frère s'applique à tromper, et tout ami colporte des calomnies;
4ils se dupent les uns les autres et parlent sans franchise; ils ont habitué leur langue à dire des mensonges, ils s'ingénient à faire le mal.
5Tu habites au sein de la fausseté; par suite de leur fausseté, ils se refusent à me connaître, dit l'Eternel.
6C'est pourquoi ainsi parle l'Eternel-Cebaot: "Je vais les passer au creuset et les éprouver; car comment puis-je agir autrement à l'égard de la fille de mon peuple?
7Leur langue est une flèche acérée ; on ne profère que fausseté: des lèvres on parle amicalement à son prochain, mais dans l'intérieur du coeur on lui tend un piège.
8Se peut-il que je ne sévisse pas contre eux pour de tels excès, dit l'Eternel, et mon âme n'usera-t-elle pas de représailles contre un peuple pareil?"
9Je veux éclater en sanglots et en plaintes à cause des montagnes et en lamentations à cause des prairies du désert, car elles sont dévastées par le feu, personne ne les traverse plus; elles n'entendent plus le bruit des troupeaux; des oiseaux du ciel aux animaux, tout est en fuite, tout a disparu.
10Je réduirai Jérusalem en monceaux de ruines, en repaire de chacals; je réduirai les villes de Juda en solitudes inhabitées.
11Quel est l'homme assez sage pour le comprendre? Et à qui la bouche de l'Eternel l'a-t-elle révélé, pour qu'il le communique? Pourquoi ce pays est-il ruiné, dévasté comme le désert où personne ne passe?
12L'Eternel l'a dit: C'est parce qu'ils ont abandonné la loi que je leur avais proposée, parce qu'ils n'ont pas écouté mes ordres et ne les ont pas suivis,
13pour s'abandonner aux penchants de leur coeur ainsi qu'aux Baal, que leurs pères leur avaient fait connaître.
14C'est pourquoi ainsi parle l'Eternel-Cebaot, le Dieu d'Israël: "Voici, je vais leur donner, aux gens de ce peuple, des plantes vénéneuses à manger et des eaux empoisonnées à boire,
15puis, je les disperserai parmi des peuples qui leur étaient inconnus, à eux et à leurs ancêtres, et je déchaînerai contre eux le glaive jusqu'à leur complet anéantissement."
16Ainsi parle l'Eternel-Cebaot: "Avisez-y et appelez les pleureuses: qu'elles viennent! Mandez les femmes expertes aux lamentations: qu'elles viennent!"
17Qu'en toute hâte elles entonnent des complaintes sur nous, pour que nos yeux ruissellent de larmes, que nos paupières fondent en eau!
18Car on entend une clameur plaintive s'élever de Sion: "Quel désastre nous avons subi! Que notre confusion est extrême! Nous devons quitter notre pays, on a jeté bas nos demeures!"
19Oui, écoutez, ô femmes, la parole de l'Eternel, et puissent vos oreilles recueillir ce que dit sa bouche! Apprenez à vos filles les lamentations, enseignez-vous mutuellement les complaintes.
20Car la mort est montée par nos fenêtres, elle a pénétré dans nos palais, faisant disparaître des rues les enfants, les jeunes gens des places publiques.
21Annonce ceci, dit l'Eternel: Les cadavres humains joncheront le sol comme le fumier, comme derrière le moissonneur les javelles que personne ne ramasse.
22Ainsi parle l'Eternel: "Que le sage ne se glorifie pas de sa sagesse, que le vaillant ne se glorifie par de sa vaillance, que le riche ne se glorifie pas de sa richesse!
23Que celui qui se glorifie se glorifie uniquement de ceci: d'être assez intelligent pour me comprendre et savoir que je suis l'Eternel, exerçant la bonté, le droit et la justice sur la terre, que ce sont ces choses-là auxquelles je prends plaisir", dit l'Eternel.
24Voici, des jours vont venir, dit l'Eternel, où je sévirai contre tous ceux qui sont circoncis sans l'être,
25contre l'Egypte et Juda, contre Edom, contre les fils d'Ammon et Moab, et contre tous les habitants du désert qui se taillent les coins de la barbe; car si tous ces peuples sont incirconcis, toute la maison d'Israël a, elle, le coeur incirconcis.
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Reina-Valera 1909
1¡OH si mi cabeza se tornase aguas, y mis ojos fuentes de aguas, para que llore día y noche los muertos de la hija de mi pueblo!
2¡Oh quién me diese en el desierto un mesón de caminantes, para que dejase mi pueblo, y de ellos me apartase! Porque todos ellos son adúlteros, congregación de prevaricadores.
3E hicieron que su lengua, como su arco, tirase mentira; y no se fortalecieron por verdad en la tierra: porque de mal en mal procedieron, y me han desconocido, dice Jehová.
4Guárdese cada uno de su compañero, ni en ningún hermano tenga confianza: porque todo hermano engaña con falacia, y todo compañero anda con falsedades.
5Y cada uno engaña á su compañero, y no hablan verdad: enseñaron su lengua á hablar mentira, se ocupan de hacer perversamente.
6Tu morada es en medio de engaño; de muy engañadores no quisieron conocerme, dice Jehová.
7Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: He aquí que yo los fundiré, y los ensayaré; porque ¿cómo he de hacer por la hija de mi pueblo?
8Saeta afilada es la lengua de ellos; engaño habla; con su boca habla paz con su amigo, y dentro de sí pone sus asechanzas.
9¿No los tengo de visitar sobre estas cosas? dice Jehová. ¿De tal gente no se vengará mi alma?
10Sobre los montes levantaré lloro y lamentación, y llanto sobre las moradas del desierto; porque desolados fueron hasta no quedar quien pase, ni oyeron bramido de ganado: desde las aves del cielo y hasta las bestias de la tierra se trasportaron, y se fueron.
11Y pondré á Jerusalem en montones, por morada de culebras; y pondré las ciudades de Judá en asolamiento, que no quede morador.
12¿Quién es varón sabio que entienda esto? ¿y á quién habló la boca de Jehová, para que pueda declararlo? ¿Por qué causa la tierra ha perecido, ha sido asolada como desierto, que no hay quien pase?
13Y dijo Jehová: Porque dejaron mi ley, la cual dí delante de ellos, y no obedecieron á mi voz, ni caminaron conforme á ella;
14Antes se fueron tras la imaginación de su corazón, y en pos de los Baales que les enseñaron sus padres:
15Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: He aquí que á este pueblo yo les daré á comer ajenjos, y les daré á beber aguas de hiel.
16Y los esparciré entre gentes que no conocieron ellos ni sus padres; y enviaré espada en pos de ellos, hasta que yo los acabe.
17Así dice Jehová de los ejércitos: Considerad, y llamad plañideras que vengan; y enviad por las sabias que vengan:
18Y dense prisa, y levanten llanto sobre nosotros, y córranse nuestros ojos en lágrimas, y nuestros párpados en aguas se destilen.
19Porque voz de endecha fué oída de Sión: ¡Cómo hemos sido destruídos! en gran manera hemos sido confundidos. ¿Por qué dejamos la tierra? ¿por qué nos han echado de sí nuestras moradas?
20Oid pues, oh mujeres, palabra de Jehová, y vuestro oído reciba la palabra de su boca; y enseñad endechas á vuestras hijas, y cada una á su amiga, lamentación.
21Porque la muerte ha subido por nuestras ventanas, ha entrado en nuestros palacios; para talar los niños de las calles, los mancebos de las plazas.
22Habla: Así ha dicho Jehová: Los cuerpos de los hombres muertos caerán como estiércol sobre la haz del campo, y como manojo tras el segador, que no hay quien lo recoja.
23Así dijo Jehová: No se alabe el sabio en su sabiduría, ni en su valentía se alabe el valiente, ni el rico se alabe en sus riquezas.
24Mas alábese en esto el que se hubiere de alabar: en entenderme y conocerme, que yo soy Jehová, que hago misericordia, juicio, y justicia en la tierra: porque estas cosas quiero, dice Jehová.
25He aquí que vienen días, dice Jehová, y visitaré sobre todo circuncidado, y sobre todo incircunciso:
26A Egipto, y á Judá, y á Edom, y á los hijos de Ammón y de Moab, y á todos los arrinconados en el postrer rincón, que moran en el desierto; porque todas las gentes tienen prepucio, y toda la casa de Israel tiene prepucio en el corazón.
King James Version
1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
7Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
25Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
World English Bible
1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says the LORD.
4“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
5Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD.
7Therefore the LORD of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
8Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
9Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
11“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
12Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
13The LORD says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
15Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
17The LORD of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
18Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
21For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
22Speak, “The LORD says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”
23The LORD says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
24But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says the LORD.
25“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”