How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his
anger, and cast down from heaven How hath the Lord covered the
daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven
unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool
in the day of his anger! ['Al... [ Continuer la lecture ]
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not
pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the
daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath
polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
IL A POLLUÉ LE ROYAUME - en le livrant entre les... [ Continuer la lecture ]
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath
drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against
Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. IL A COUPÉ
... TOUTE LA CORNE D'ISRAËL. Les cornes sont maintenant portées en
Orient comme ornement sur... [ Continuer la lecture ]
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as
an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the
tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
IL A PLIÉ SON ARC COMME UN ENNEMI - (Ésaïe 63:10, "Par conséquent,
il a été transformé pour être... [ Continuer la lecture ]
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath
swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and
hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. LE
SEIGNEUR ÉTAIT COMME UN ENNEMI - (Jérémie 30:14, "I t'ai blessé
par la blessure d'un ennemi "). D... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a
garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath
caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and
hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
SON TABERNACLE - plutôt,... [ Continuer la lecture ]
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he
hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;
they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a
solemn feast.
ILS ONT FAIT DU BRUIT DANS LA MAISON DU SEIGNEUR, COMME AU JOUR D'UNE
FÊTE SOLE... [ Continuer la lecture ]
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:
he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from
destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they
languished together.
IL A ALLONGÉ UNE LIGNE. Les Orientaux ont utilisé une ligne de
mesure n... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her
bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no
more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
SES PORTES SONT ENFONCÉES DANS LE SOL. Ses portes ne peuvent
s'opposer à l'entrée de l'ennemi dans la vil... [ Continuer la lecture ]
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep
silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.
LES ANCIENS ... S'ASSOIENT SUR LE SOL - (Job 2:12 - Job 2:13). Les
«anciens»... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is
poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my
people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of
the city.
MON FOIE EST DÉVERSÉ SUR LA TERRE - i: e., comme on pensait que le
foie était le sièg... [ Continuer la lecture ]
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned
as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured
out into their mothers' bosom. QUAND ILS SE SONT ÉVANOUIS COMME DES
BLESSÉS - la famine est aussi mortelle que l'épée (Jérémie 52:6).
QUAND LEUR ÂME A ÉTÉ VER... [ Continuer la lecture ]
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken
to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I
may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great
like the sea: who can heal thee?
QUE DOIS-JE PRENDRE POUR TÉMOIGNER EN VOTRE NOM? Que pui... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they
have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but
have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
TES PROPHÈTES ONT VU DES CHOSES VAINES ET INSENSÉES POUR TOI. "Tes
prophètes", pas ceux de Dieu (Jérémie... [ Continuer la lecture ]
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their
head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men
call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? FRAPPEZ
DANS LEURS MAINS - par dérision (Job 27:23; 24:37 ).
WAG ... HEAD - (2 Rois 19:21; Psaume 44:14... [ Continuer la lecture ]
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and
gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is
the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. Pour la
transposition des lettres hébraïques (Pe et `Ayin) dans l'ordre des
versets, voir Introduc... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let
tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let
not the apple of thine eye cease.
LEUR CŒUR A CRIÉ AU SEIGNEUR, MURAILLE DE LA FILLE DE SION -
(Lamentations 2:8). Le mur est personnifié. «Leur cœur» -
c'est-... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out
thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands
toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger
in the top of every street.
CRIER DANS LA NUIT - (Psaume 119:147, "J'ai empêché l'aube du... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the
women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest
and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? LES FEMMES
DOIVENT-ELLES MANGER LEURS FRUITS - comme cela était menacé
(Lévitique 26:29 ; Deutéronome 28:53... [ Continuer la lecture ]
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins
and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the
day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
LES JEUNES ET LES VIEUX GISENT PAR TERRE DANS LES RUES - (2
Chroniques 36:17, "Les Chaldéens. .. a tué leu... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that
in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I
have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. TU AS APPELÉ
COMME UN JOUR SOLENNEL MES TERREURS - tu as invoqué mes ennemis
contre moi de tous bords, co... [ Continuer la lecture ]