Livre d'Isaïe 64

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1 Ce serait comme un fagot qui s’enflamme, comme l’eau qui bout sur le feu. Tu ferais connaître ton Nom à tes adversaires, et 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 te voyant accomplir des prodiges jamais vus.	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’a entendu dire, jamais on n’a appris, l’œil n’a jamais vu un Dieu, en dehors de toi, faire de telles choses pour ceux qui se confient 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 venais à la rencontre de ceux qui pratiquaient la justice, qui suivaient tes voies et se souvenaient de toi. Tu t’es mis en colère car nous avons péché; nous avons mal agi, mais nous 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 sommes comme l’impur, et nos mérites ne valent pas mieux qu’un linge souillé: nous sommes tous comme des feuilles mortes et nos péchés comme le vent nous emportent.	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 n’invoque ton nom, nul ne se reprend pour se raccrocher à toi: tu nous as caché ta face, tu nous as livrés au pouvoir de nos péchés.	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 Pourtant, Yahvé, tu es notre père; nous sommes l’argile et tu nous as façonnés, nous sommes tous l’œuvre 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 Ne t’emporte pas davantage, ô Yahvé, ne te rappelle pas constamment nos fautes. Regarde-nous, ne sommes-nous pas tous 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 Or tes villes saintes sont devenues un désert, Sion n’est plus qu’un désert, et Jérusalem une ruine.	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 pères te célébraient, a été dévoré par les flammes; ce que nous avions de plus cher est aujourd’hui en ruines.	10 The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate.
11 Devant tout cela, Yahvé, resteras-tu sans bouger? Vas-tu te taire et nous humilier au dernier point?	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?