1 L’année de la mort du roi Ozias, je vis le Seigneur assis sur un trône haut et surélevé; les pans de son manteau remplissaient le Sanctuaire. | 1 In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple. |
2 Des séraphins se tenaient au-dessus de lui; chacun d’eux avait six ailes; de deux ailes ils se couvraient la face, de deux ailes ils se couvraient les pieds, de deux ailes ils volaient. | 2 Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they hew. |
3 Ils se criaient l’un à l’autre: “Saint, saint, saint, Yahvé Sabaot! Toute la terre est remplie de sa Gloire.” | 3 And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory. |
4 Cette acclamation faisait trembler les poteaux du portail: le Temple se remplit de fumée. | 4 And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. |
5 Alors je dis: “Malheur à moi, je suis perdu! Oui, je suis un homme aux lèvres impures, je vis au milieu d’un peuple aux lèvres impures, et mes yeux ont vu le roi, Yahvé Sabaot!” | 5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts. |
6 L’un des séraphins vola vers moi. Dans sa main il tenait un charbon ardent qu’il avait pris sur l’autel avec des pincettes. | 6 And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar. |
7 Il me toucha la bouche et me dit: “Regarde, ce charbon a touché tes lèvres, ta faute est effacée, ton péché est pardonné.” | 7 And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed. |
8 Alors j’entendis la voix du Seigneur: “Qui enverrai-je, disait-il, qui ira pour nous?” Je répondis: “Me voici, envoie-moi!” | 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me. |
9 Alors le Seigneur me dit: “Va! Tu diras à ce peuple: Écoutez, écoutez donc sans comprendre! Regardez, regardez toujours sans rien voir! | 9 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not. |
10 Tu vas endurcir le cœur de ce peuple, boucher ses oreilles et obscurcir ses yeux; que surtout ses yeux ne voient pas, que ses oreilles n’entendent pas… sinon son cœur comprendrait, il se convertirait et serait guéri.” | 10 Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them. |
11 Je répondis: “Jusqu’à quand Seigneur?” Le Seigneur me dit: “Jusqu’à ce que les villes soient détruites, inhabitées, les maisons sans personne, les champs dévastés et ravagés, | 11 And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate. |
12 jusqu’à ce que Yahvé en ait chassé les hommes et que la terre reste à l’abandon. | 12 And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth. |
13 S’il en restait encore un dixième, il serait brûlé à son tour comme la souche du térébinthe et du chêne lorsqu’ils sont abattus. De la souche, pourtant, sortira une race sainte.” | 13 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed. |