Livre d'Isaïe 51

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Ecoutez-moi, vous qui êtes en quête de justice, vous qui cherchez Yahvé. Regardez le rocher d'où l'onvous a taillés et la fosse d'où l'on vous a tirés.	1 Listen to me, you who follow what is just and who seek the Lord. Pay attention to the rock from which you have been hewn, and to the walls of the pit from which you have been dug.
2 Regardez Abraham votre père et Sara qui vous a enfantés. Il était seul quand je l'ai appelé, mais je l'aibéni et multiplié.	2 Pay attention to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone, and I blessed him, and I multiplied him.
3 Oui, Yahvé a pitié de Sion, il a pitié de toutes ses ruines; il va faire de son désert un Eden et de sasteppe un jardin de Yahvé; on y trouvera la joie et l'allégresse, l'action de grâces et le son de la musique.	3 Therefore, the Lord will console Zion, and he will console all its ruins. And he will turn her desert into a place of delights, and her wilderness into a garden of the Lord. Gladness and rejoicing will be found in her, thanksgiving and a voice of praise.
4 Ecoute-moi bien, mon peuple, ô ma nation, tends l'oreille vers moi. Car une loi va sortir de moi, et jeferai de mon droit la lumière des peuples.	4 Pay attention to me, my people, and listen to me, my tribes. For a law will go forth from me, and my judgment will rest as a light for the nations.
5 Soudain ma justice approche, mon salut paraît, mon bras va punir les peuples. Les îles mettront enmoi leur espoir et compteront sur mon bras.	5 My just one is near. My savior has gone forth. And my arms will judge the people. The islands will hope in me, and they will patiently wait for my arm.
6 Levez les yeux vers le ciel, regardez en bas vers la terre; oui, les cieux se dissiperont comme lafumée, la terre s'usera comme un vêtement et ses habitants mourront comme de la vermine. Mais mon salut seraéternel et ma justice demeurera intacte.	6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth below. For the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will be worn away like a garment, and its inhabitants will pass away in like manner. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will not fail.
7 Ecoutez-moi, vous qui connaissez la justice, peuple qui mets ma loi dans ton coeur. Ne craignez pasles injures des hommes, ne vous laissez pas effrayer par leurs outrages.	7 Listen to me, you who know what is just, my people who have my law in their heart. Do not be afraid of disgrace among men, and do not dread their blasphemies.
8 Car la teigne les rongera comme un vêtement, et les mites les dévoreront comme de la laine. Mais majustice subsistera éternellement et mon salut de génération en génération.	8 For the worm will consume them like a garment, and the moth will devour them like wool. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will be from generation to generation.
9 Eveille-toi, éveille-toi! revêts-toi de force, bras de Yahvé. Eveille-toi comme aux jours d'autrefois,des générations de jadis. N'est-ce pas toi qui as fendu Rahab, transpercé le Dragon?	9 Rise up, Rise up! Clothe yourself in strength, O arm of the Lord! Rise up as in the days of antiquity, as in generations long past. Have you not struck the arrogant one and wounded the dragon?
10 N'est-ce pas toi qui as desséché la mer, les eaux du Grand Abîme? Qui as fait du fond de la mer unchemin, pour que passent les rachetés?	10 Have not you dried up the sea, the waters of the great abyss, and turned the depths of the sea into a road, so that the delivered could cross over it?
11 Ceux que Yahvé a libérés reviendront, ils arriveront à Sion criant de joie, portant avec eux une joieéternelle; la joie et l'allégresse les accompagneront, la douleur et les plaintes cesseront.	11 And now, those who have been redeemed by the Lord will return. And they will arrive in Zion, praising. And everlasting rejoicing will be upon their heads. They will take hold of gladness and rejoicing. Anguish and mourning will flee away.
12 C'est moi, je suis celui qui vous console; qui es-tu pour craindre l'homme mortel, le fils d'hommevoué au sort de l'herbe?	12 It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?
13 Tu oublies Yahvé, ton créateur, qui a tendu les cieux et fondé la terre, et tu ne cesses de tremblertout le jour devant la fureur de l'oppresseur, lorsqu'il se met à détruire. Où donc est la fureur de l'oppresseur?	13 And have you forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who extended the heavens, and who founded the earth? And have you been in constant dread, all day long, at the face of his fury, of the one who afflicted you and who had prepared to destroy you? Where is the fury of the oppressor now?
14 Le désespéré va bientôt être libéré, il ne mourra pas dans la basse-fosse, il ne manquera plus de pain.	14 Advancing quickly, he will arrive to be revealed, and he will not kill unto utter destruction, nor will his bread fail.
15 Je suis Yahvé ton Dieu, qui brasse la mer pour faire mugir ses flots, dont le nom est Yahvé Sabaot.	15 But I am the Lord, your God, who stirs up the sea, and who makes the waves swell. The Lord of hosts is my name.
16 J'ai mis mes paroles en ta bouche, à l'ombre de ma main je t'ai caché, pour tendre les cieux et pourfonder la terre, pour dire à Sion: "Tu es mon peuple."	16 I have placed my words in your mouth, and I have protected you in the shadow of my hand, so that you might plant the heavens, and found the earth, and so that you might say to Zion, “You are my people.”
17 Réveille-toi, réveille-toi, debout! Jérusalem. Toi qui as bu de la main de Yahvé la coupe de sacolère. C'est un calice, une coupe de vertige que tu as bue, que tu as vidée.	17 Lift up, Lift up! Arise, O Jerusalem! You drank, from the hand of the Lord, the cup of his wrath. You drank, even to the bottom of the cup of deep sleep. And you were given to drink, all the way to the dregs.
18 Personne ne la guide, aucun des fils qu'elle a enfantés; personne ne lui prend la main, aucun des filsqu'elle a élevés.	18 There is no one who can uphold her, out of all the sons whom she has conceived. And there is no one who would take her by the hand, out of all the sons whom she has raised.
19 Ce double malheur qui t'est arrivé, qui t'en plaindra? Le pillage et la ruine, la famine et l'épée, quit'en consolera?	19 There are two things which have happened to you. Who will be saddened over you? There is devastation and destruction, and famine and sword. Who will console you?
20 Tes fils gisent sans force au coin de toutes les rues, comme l'antilope prise au filet, ivres de la fureurde Yahvé, de la menace de ton Dieu.	20 Your sons have been cast out. They have slept at the head of all the roads, and they have been ensnared like a gazelle. They have been filled by the indignation of the Lord, by the rebuke of your God.
21 C'est pourquoi, écoute ceci, malheureuse, ivre, mais non de vin:	21 Therefore, listen to this, O poor little ones, and you who have been inebriated, but not by wine.
22 Ainsi parle ton Seigneur Yahvé, ton Dieu, défenseur de ton peuple: Voici que je te retire de la mainla coupe de vertige, le calice, la coupe de ma fureur. Tu n'y boiras plus jamais.	22 Thus says your Sovereign, the Lord, and your God, who will fight on behalf of his people: Behold, I have taken the cup of deep sleep from your hand. You shall no longer drink from the bottom of the cup of my indignation.
23 Je la mettrai dans la main de tes tortionnaires, de ceux qui te disaient: A terre! que nous passions! ettu faisais de ton dos un passage, un chemin pour qu'ils y passent.	23 And I will set it in the hand of those who have humiliated you, and who have said to your soul: “Bow down, so that we pass over.” And you placed your body on the ground, as a path for them to pass over.