Livre d'Isaïe 64

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 comme le feu enflamme des bindilles, comme le feu fait bouillir l'eau -- pour faire connaître ton nomà tes adversaires, devant ta face les nations trembleraient	1 I wish that you would rend the heavens, and then descend! The mountains would flow away before your face.
2 quand tu ferais des prodiges inattendus. (Tu es descendu: devant ta face les montagnes ont étéébranlées.)	2 They would melt, as if thoroughly burned by fire. The waters would burn with fire, so that your name might be made known to your enemies, so that the nations would be stirred up before your face.
3 Jamais on n'avait ouï dire, on n'avait pas entendu, et l'oeil n'avait pas vu un Dieu, toi excepté, agirainsi en faveur de qui a confiance en lui.	3 When you will perform miracles, we will not be able to withstand them. You descended, and the mountains flowed away before your presence.
4 Tu as rencontré celui qui, plein d'allégresse, pratique la justice; en suivant tes voies, ils sesouviendront de toi. Voici que toi, tu t'es irrité, et nous avons péché. Nous sommes à jamais dans tes voies etnous serons sauvés.	4 From ages past, they have not heard it, and they have not perceived it with the ears. Apart from you, O God, the eye has not seen what you have prepared for those who await you.
5 Tous, nous étions comme des êtres impurs, et nos bonnes actions comme du linge souillé. Tous, nousnous flétrissons comme des feuilles mortes, et nos fautes nous emportent comme le vent.	5 You have met with those who rejoice in doing justice. By your ways, they will remember you. Behold, you have been angry, for we have sinned. In this, we have continued, but we will be saved.
6 Plus personne pour invoquer ton nom, pour se réveiller en s'attachant à toi, car tu nous as caché taface et tu nous as livrés au pouvoir de nos fautes.	6 And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.
7 Et pourtant, Yahvé, tu es notre père, nous sommes l'argile, tu es notre potier, nous sommes tousl'oeuvre de tes mains.	7 There is no one who calls upon your name, who rises up and holds fast to you. You have concealed your face from us, and you have crushed us with the hand of our own iniquity.
8 Yahvé, ne t'irrite pas à l'excès, ne garde pas à jamais le souvenir de la faute. Vois donc, nous sommestous ton peuple.	8 And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.
9 Tes villes saintes sont devenues un désert, Sion est devenue un désert, Jérusalem, un lieu désolé.	9 Do not be so angry, O Lord, and no longer call to mind our iniquity. Behold, consider that we are all your people.
10 Notre Temple saint et magnifique, où nos ancêtres te louaient, est devenu la proie du feu. Tout ceque nous aimions est devenu ruine.	10 The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate.
11 Peux-tu rester insensible à tout cela, Yahvé? Te taire serait nous humilier à l'excès.	11 The house of our sanctification and of our glory, where our fathers praised you, has been completely consumed by fire, and all our admirable things have been turned into ruins.
	12 Should you restrain yourself, O Lord, concerning these things? Should you remain silent, and afflict us vehemently?