Livre de Zacharie 11

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1 Ouvre tes portes, Liban, que le feu dévore tes cèdres!	1 Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume your cedars.
2 Que le cyprès se lamente car le cèdre est tombé; des arbres magnifiques ont été saccagés. Lamentez-vous chênes de Bashan, car la forêt impénétrable est détruite.	2 Howl, you fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the magnificent have been devastated. Howl, you oaks of Bashan, because the secure forest passage has been cut down.
3 Écoutez la plainte des bergers, car leur belle prairie est saccagée, écoutez le rugissement des petits lions, car la gloire du Jourdain est détruite.	3 The voice of the howling of the shepherds: for their magnificence has been devastated. The voice of the roaring of the lions: because the arrogance of the Jordan has been devastated.
4 Voici ce que dit Yahvé mon Dieu: Prends soin de ces brebis qu’on égorge.	4 Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,
5 Leurs acheteurs les abattent sans être inquiétés, leurs vendeurs disent: “Béni soit Yahvé, je me suis enrichi!” et leurs pasteurs ne s’occupent pas d’elles.	5 which those who possessed them cut down, and they did not feel sorrow, and they sold them, saying: “Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy. Even their shepherds did not spare them.”
6 (Oui, je n’épargnerai plus les habitants du pays, parole de Yahvé. Je vais livrer chaque homme aux mains de son prochain, aux mains de son roi; ils écraseront le pays et je ne les délivrerai pas de leurs mains.”)	6 And so, I will no longer spare the inhabitants upon the earth, says the Lord. Behold, I will deliver men, each one into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king. And they will cut down the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.
7 Alors je me fais pasteur de ces brebis destinées aux marchands de brebis; je prends deux bâtons, j’appelle le premier: “bienveillance” et l’autre: “union”, et je m’occupe des brebis.	7 And I will pasture the flock of the slaughter, because of this, O poor of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs: the one I called Handsome, and the other I called Rope, and I pastured the flock.
8 Le premier mois je fais disparaître les trois pasteurs, mais ensuite je perds patience avec les brebis et elles se dégoûtent de moi.	8 And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning me.
9 Alors je décide: Je ne m’occuperai plus de vous. Que celles qui doivent mourir meurent, que celles qui doivent disparaître disparaissent, et que celles qui restent se déchirent entre elles.	9 And I said: I will not pasture you. Whatever dies, let it die. And whatever is cut down, let it be cut down. And let the rest of them devour, each one the flesh of his neighbor.
10 Après quoi je prends mon bâton “bienveillance” et je le brise: c’est la rupture de l’accord que Yahvé avait passé avec les autres peuples.	10 And I took my staff, which was called Handsome, and I tore it apart, so as to invalidate my pact, which I had struck with all of the people.
11 Ce jour-là donc il est rompu et les marchands de brebis qui m’observent comprennent que c’est une parole de Yahvé.	11 And it became invalid in that day. And so they understood, just like the poor of the flock who stay close to me, that this is the word of the Lord.
12 Je leur dis: “Si cela vous semble bon, donnez-moi mon salaire, sinon, peu importe.” Et ils pèsent trente pièces d’argent qu’ils me donnent comme salaire.	12 And I said to them: If it is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins.
13 Alors Yahvé me dit: “Jette dans le trésor cette si belle somme à laquelle ils m’ont estimé.” Je prends donc les trente pièces d’argent et je les jette dans le trésor du Temple de Yahvé.	13 And the Lord said to me: Cast it towards the statuary, the handsome price at which I have been valued by them. And I took the thirty silver coins, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, towards the statuary.
14 Ensuite je brise mon deuxième bâton “union”, et c’est la fraternité entre Juda et Israël qui est rompue.	14 And I cut short my second staff, which was called Rope, so that I might dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 Yahvé me dit encore: “Prends l’allure d’un berger sans cervelle.	15 And the Lord said to me: Still they are to you the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
16 Car c’est le genre de berger que je donne maintenant à ce pays; il ne s’inquiétera pas de la brebis qui manque, il n’ira pas chercher celle qui s’est égarée, il ne soignera pas celle qui est blessée, il ne portera pas celle qui n’arrive pas à suivre, mais il dévorera la chair des bêtes grasses ou leur arrachera les sabots.”	16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs.
17 Malheur à ce pasteur de rien qui délaisse son troupeau! Que l’épée le blesse au bras et à l’œil droit, que son bras devienne sec, et son œil droit aveugle.	17 O shepherd and idol, abandoning the flock, with a sword upon his arm and over his right eye: his arm will be withered by drought, and his right eye will be obscured by darkness.