Apocalypse 9

JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Et le cinquième Ange sonna... Alors je vis un astre qui du ciel avait chu sur la terre. On lui remitla clef du puits de l'Abîme?	1 Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. It was given the key for the passage to the abyss.
2 Il ouvrit le puits de l'Abîme et il en monta une fumée, comme celle d'une immense fournaise - lesoleil et l'atmosphère en furent obscurcis --	2 It opened the passage to the abyss, and smoke came up out of the passage like smoke from a huge furnace. The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the passage.
3 et, de cette fumée, des sauterelles se répandirent sur la terre; on leur donna un pouvoir pareil àcelui des scorpions de la terre.	3 Locusts came out of the smoke onto the land, and they were given the same power as scorpions of the earth.
4 On leur dit d'épargner les prairies, toute verdure et tout arbre, et de s'en prendre seulement auxhommes qui ne porteraient pas sur le front le sceau de Dieu.	4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or any tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 On leur donna, non de les tuer, mais de les tourmenter durant cinq mois. La douleur qu'ellesprovoquent ressemble à celle d'une piqûre de scorpion.	5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torment them for five months; the torment they inflicted was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person.
6 En ces jours-là, les hommes rechercheront la mort sans la trouver, ils souhaiteront mourir et lamort les fuira!	6 During that time these people will seek death but will not find it, and they will long to die but death will escape them.
7 Or ces sauterelles, à les voir, font penser à des chevaux équipés pour la guerre; sur leur tête ondirait des couronnes d'or, et leur face rappelle des faces humaines;	7 The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
8 leurs cheveux, des chevelures de femmes, et leurs dents, des dents de lions;	8 and they had hair like women's hair. Their teeth were like lions' teeth,
9 leur thorax, des cuirasses de fer, et le bruit de leurs ailes, le vacarme de chars aux multipleschevaux se ruant au combat;	9 and they had chests like iron breastplates. The sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots racing into battle.
10 elles ont une queue pareille à des scorpions, avec un dard; et dans leur queue se trouve leurpouvoir de torturer les hommes durant cinq mois.	10 They had tails like scorpions, with stingers; with their tails they had power to harm people for five months.
11 A leur tête, comme roi, elles ont l'Ange de l'Abîme; il s'appelle en hébreu: "Abaddôn", et engrec: "Apollyôn."	11 They had as their king the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon.
12 Le premier "Malheur" a passé, voici encore deux "Malheurs" qui le suivent...	12 The first woe has passed, but there are two more to come.
13 Et le sixième Ange sonna... Alors j'entendis une voix venant des quatre cornes de l'autel d'orplacé devant Dieu;	13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the [four] horns of the gold altar before God,
14 elle dit au sixième Ange portant trompette: "Relâche les quatre Anges enchaînés sur le grandfleuve Euphrate."	14 telling the sixth angel who held the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the banks of the great river Euphrates."
15 Et l'on relâcha les quatre Anges qui se tenaient prêts pour l'heure et le jour et le mois et l'année,afin d'exterminer le tiers des hommes.	15 So the four angels were released, who were prepared for this hour, day, month, and year to kill a third of the human race.
16 Leur armée comptait 200.000.000 de cavaliers: on m'en précisa le nombre.	16 The number of cavalry troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.
17 Tels m'apparurent en vision les chevaux et leurs cavaliers: ceux-ci portent des cuirasses de feu,d'hyacinthe et de soufre; quant aux chevaux, leur tête est comme celle du lion, et leur bouche crache feu et fuméeet soufre.	17 Now in my vision this is how I saw the horses and their riders. They wore red, blue, and yellow breastplates, and the horses' heads were like heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.
18 Alors le tiers des hommes fut exterminé par ces trois fléaux: le feu, la fumée et le soufre vomisde la bouche des chevaux.	18 By these three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that came out of their mouths a third of the human race was killed.
19 Car la puissance des chevaux réside en leur bouche; elle réside aussi dans leur queue: cesqueues, en effet, ainsi que des serpents, sont munies de têtes dont elles se servent pour nuire.	19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like snakes, with heads that inflict harm.
20 Or les hommes échappés à l'hécatombe de ces fléaux ne renoncèrent même pas aux oeuvres deleurs mains: ils ne cessèrent d'adorer les démons, ces idoles d'or, d'argent, de bronze, de pierre et de bois,incapables de voir, d'entendre ou de marcher.	20 The rest of the human race, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, to give up the worship of demons and idols made from gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
21 Ils n'abandonnèrent ni leurs meurtres, ni leurs sorcelleries, ni leurs débauches, ni leurs rapines.	21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic potions, their unchastity, or their robberies.