Livre de Judith 16

JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Entonnez un chant à mon Dieu sur les tambourins, chantez le Seigneur avec les cymbales, mêlezpour lui le psaume au cantique, exaltez et invoquez son nom!	1 Then Judith began to sing this thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang after her this song of praise.
2 Car le Seigneur est un Dieu briseur de guerres; il a établi son camp au milieu de son peuple, pourm'arracher de la main de mes adversaires.	2 And Judith said, Begin unto my God with timbrels, sing unto my Lord with cymbals: tune unto him a new psalm: exalt him, and call upon his name.
3 Assur descendit des montagnes du septentrion, il vint avec les myriades de son armée. Leurmultitude obstruait les torrents, leurs chevaux couvraient les collines.	3 For God breaketh the battles: for among the camps in the midst of the people he hath delivered me out of the hands of them that persecuted me.
4 Ils parlaient d'embraser mon pays, de passer mes adolescents au fil de l'épée, de jeter à terre mesnourrissons, de livrer au butin mes enfants et mes jeunes filles au rapt.	4 Assur came out of the mountains from the north, he came with ten thousands of his army, the multitude whereof stopped the torrents, and their horsemen have covered the hills.
5 Mais le Seigneur Tout-Puissant le leur interdit par la main d'une femme.	5 He bragged that he would burn up my borders, and kill my young men with the sword, and dash the sucking children against the ground, and make mine infants as a prey, and my virgins as a spoil.
6 Car leur héros n'est pas tombé devant des jeunes gens, ce ne sont pas des fils de titans qui l'ontfrappé, ni de fiers géants qui l'ont attaqué, mais c'est Judith, fille de Merari, qui l'a désarmé par la beauté de sonvisage.	6 But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a woman.
7 Elle avait déposé son vêtement de deuil pour le réconfort des affligés d'Israël, elle avait oint sonvisage de parfums,	7 For the mighty one did not fall by the young men, neither did the sons of the Titans smite him, nor high giants set upon him: but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her countenance.
8 elle avait emprisonné sa chevelure sous un turban, elle avait mis une robe de lin pour le séduire.	8 For she put off the garment of her widowhood for the exaltation of those that were oppressed in Israel, and anointed her face with ointment, and bound her hair in a tire, and took a linen garment to deceive him.
9 Sa sandale ravit son regard, sa beauté captiva son âme... et le cimeterre lui trancha le cou!	9 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind prisoner, and the fauchion passed through his neck.
10 Les Perses frémirent de son audace et les Mèdes furent confondus de sa hardiesse.	10 The Persians quaked at her boldness, and the Medes were daunted at her hardiness.
11 Alors mes humbles crièrent, et eux prirent peur, mes faibles hurlèrent, et eux furent saisis d'effroi;ils enflèrent leur voix, et eux reculèrent.	11 Then my afflicted shouted for joy, and my weak ones cried aloud; but they were astonished: these lifted up their voices, but they were overthrown.
12 Des enfants de femmelettes les tuèrent, ils les transpercèrent comme des fils de déserteurs. Ilspérirent dans la bataille de mon Seigneur!	12 The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and wounded them as fugatives' children: they perished by the battle of the Lord.
13 Je veux chanter à mon Dieu un cantique nouveau. Seigneur, tu es grand, tu es glorieux, admirabledans ta force, invincible.	13 I will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great and glorious, wonderful in strength, and invincible.
14 Que toute ta création te serve! Car tu as dit et les êtres furent, tu envoyas ton souffle et ils furentconstruits, et personne ne peut résister à ta voix.	14 Let all creatures serve thee: for thou spakest, and they were made, thou didst send forth thy spirit, and it created them, and there is none that can resist thy voice.
15 Les montagnes crouleraient-elles pour se mêler aux flots, les rochers fondraient-ils comme la ciredevant ta face, qu'à ceux qui te craignent tu serais encore propice.	15 For the mountains shall be moved from their foundations with the waters, the rocks shall melt as wax at thy presence: yet thou art merciful to them that fear thee.
16 Certes, c'est peu de chose qu'un sacrifice d'agréable odeur, et moins encore la graisse qui t'estbrûlée en holocauste; mais qui craint le Seigneur est grand toujours.	16 For all sacrifice is too little for a sweet savour unto thee, and all the fat is not sufficient for thy burnt offering: but he that feareth the Lord is great at all times.
17 Malheur aux nations qui se dressent contre ma race! Le Seigneur Tout-Puissant les châtiera au jourdu jugement. Il enverra le feu et les vers dans leurs chairs et ils pleureront de douleur éternellement.	17 Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! the Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgment, in putting fire and worms in their flesh; and they shall feel them, and weep for ever.
18 Quand ils furent arrivés à Jérusalem, tous se prosternèrent devant Dieu et, une fois le peuplepurifié, ils offrirent leurs holocaustes, leurs oblations volontaires et leurs dons.	18 Now as soon as they entered into Jerusalem, they worshipped the Lord; and as soon as the people were purified, they offered their burnt offerings, and their free offerings, and their gifts.
19 Judith voua à Dieu, en anathème, tout le mobilier d'Holopherne donné par le peuple et la draperiequ'elle avait elle-même enlevée de son lit.	19 Judith also dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken out of his bedchamber, for a gift unto the Lord.
20 La population se livra à l'allégresse devant le Temple, à Jérusalem, trois mois durant, et Judith restaavec eux.	20 So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for the space of three months and Judith remained with them.
21 Ce temps écoulé, chacun revint chez soi. Judith regagna Béthulie et y demeura dans son domaine.De son vivant elle devint célèbre dans tout le pays.	21 After this time every one returned to his own inheritance, and Judith went to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was in her time honourable in all the country.
22 Beaucoup la demandèrent en mariage, mais elle ne connut point d'homme tous les jours de sa viedepuis que son mari Manassé était mort et avait été réuni à son peuple.	22 And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.
23 Son renom croissait de plus en plus tandis qu'elle avançait en âge dans la maison de son mari. Elleatteignit 105 ans. Elle affranchit sa servante, puis mourut à Béthulie et fut ensevelie dans la caverne où reposaitson mari Manassé.	23 But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed old in her husband's house, being an hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.
24 La maison d'Israël célébra son deuil durant sept jours. Avant de mourir elle avait réparti ses biensdans la parenté de son mari Manassé et dans la sienne propre.	24 And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.
25 Plus personne n'inquiéta les Israélites du temps de Judith ni longtemps encore après sa mort.	25 And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.