Lamentations 2

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1 ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.	1 Hélas! Le Seigneur dans sa colère, a mis en ténèbres la fille de Sion. Du ciel il a précipité sur terre la splendeur d’Israël. Il n’a plus vu au jour de sa colère, que c’était là l’estrade sous ses pieds.
2 BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.	2 Yahvé a détruit sans pitié, toutes les demeures de Jacob. Dans sa fureur Il a renversé les forteresses de la fille de Juda. Il a jeté à terre, il a déshonoré son roi et ses princes.
3 GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.	3 Emporté par sa colère, il a brisé toute la force d’Israël. Il lui a tiré le bras en arrière, quand il voulait frapper l’ennemi; il a allumé dans Jacob un feu, et la flamme a dévoré de tous côtés.
4 DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.	4 Il a massacré tous ceux qu’on aimait dans les tentes de la fille de Sion; il a déversé sa colère comme un feu.
5 HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.	5 Yahvé s’est présenté en ennemi, il a ruiné Israël, détruisant tous ses palais, renversant ses forteresses; il a multiplié pour la fille de Juda, deuils et lamentations.
6 VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.	6 Il a forcé la clôture de son jardin: il a démoli son Sanctuaire. Yahvé a fait cesser dans Sion, les fêtes et les sabbats. De colère il n’a plus voulu voir le roi ni le prêtre.
7 ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.	7 Yahvé s’est dégoûté de son autel: il a pris en horreur son Sanctuaire, il a fait tomber aux mains de l’ennemi, les murs de son palais; quel vacarme dans la maison de Yahvé! C’était pour eux un jour de fête.
8 HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turn away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.	8 Yahvé a renversé, il l’avait décidé, les remparts de la fille de Sion. Sa main a étendu le cordeau, il l’a ramenée quand tout était détruit. Jour de deuil pour le mur et l’avant-mur, tous deux sont dans un triste état.
9 TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.	9 Ses portes sont là enterrées, les barres en sont tombées, brisées. Son roi et ses chefs sont en pays païen, il n’y a plus de loi. Plus rien ne vient aux prophètes: pas une vision qui soit de Yahvé.
10 JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.	10 Les anciens de la fille de Sion assis par terre, se taisent; ils ont jeté la poussière sur leur tête, ils se sont habillés de sacs; et les vierges de Jérusalem, la tête baissée, regardent vers le sol.
11 CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.	11 Les larmes épuisaient mes yeux, mes intérieurs se défaisaient et mon foie se répandait à terre à voir les plaies de mon peuple, lorsque les petits, les enfants, défaillaient sur les places de la ville.
12 LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.	12 Ils disaient à leurs mères: “Où sont le pain et le vin?” Ils défaillaient, comme blessés à mort; sur les places de la ville, et sur le sein de leur mère, ils rendaient l’âme.
13 MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?	13 Que dirai-je de toi, qui est comme toi, fille de Jérusalem? Qui voudra te sauver et te consoler, vierge, fille de Sion? Ta blessure est énorme comme la mer, qui pourrait te guérir?
14 NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.	14 Tes prophètes avaient des visions: ce n’étaient qu’illusions, ils te mentaient. Ils n’ont pas dévoilé ton péché pour t’épargner un exil; ils t’ont donné des visions creuses, des mensonges où tu t’es laissé prendre.
15 SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”	15 Celui qui passe sur le chemin, quand il te voit frappe dans ses mains; on siffle, on secoue la tête: “Oui, c’est la fille de Jérusalem; n’était-ce pas la ville toute en beauté, la joie de toute la terre?”
16 PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”	16 Tous tes ennemis ouvrent la bouche contre toi, ils sifflent et grincent des dents: “Nous l’avons engloutie, disent-ils, c’est le jour que nous attendions! C’est fait, cela s’est fait sous nos yeux!”
17 AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.	17 Yahvé l’avait décidé, il l’a réalisé; il a accompli sa parole. Depuis longtemps il avait averti: il a détruit sans pitié. Tu as fait la joie de tes ennemis quand il a fait triompher tes rivaux.
18 SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.	18 Crie donc vers Yahvé, gémis, fille de Sion; que tes larmes de jour et de nuit coulent comme un torrent Ne t’arrête pas, ne retiens pas la source de tes larmes.
19 COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.	19 Lève-toi et crie dans la nuit dès le début des rondes; laisse s’épancher ton coeur, appelle, frappe chez le Seigneur. Élève tes mains vers lui pour le salut de tes petits.
20 RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into a such vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?	20 “Ô Yahvé, regarde et pense un moment: À qui en as-tu jamais fait voir de pareilles? Des femmes ont mangé leurs nourrissons, leurs petits enfants au berceau. Prêtres et prophètes ont été égorgés dans le Sanctuaire du Seigneur.
21 SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.	21 Enfants et vieillards, on les voit étendus sur le sol des rues; mes vierges et mes jeunes sont tombés sous l’épée. Tu as égorgé au jour de ta colère, tu as massacré sans pitié.
22 THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.	22 Tu as invité à la fête tous ceux qu’autour de moi je redoutais. Quand est venue la colère de Yahvé, il n’y a eu ni rescapé, ni fuyard; mon ennemi a exterminé ceux que j’avais bercés et nourris.”