Joël, 2

1. Et Yahweh fit venir un grand poisson pour engloutir Jonas; et Jonas fut dans les entrailles du poisson trois jours et trois nuits.

1. Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming;

2. Et des entrailles du poisson Jonas pria Yahweh, son Dieu.

2. Yes, it is near, a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and somberness! Like dawn spreading over the mountains, a people numerous and mighty! Their like has not been from of old, nor will it be after them, even to the years of distant generations.

3. Il dit : De la détresse où j'étais, j'ai invoqué Yahweh, et Il m'a répondu ; du ventre du schéol, j'ai crié: vous avez entendu ma voix.

3. Before them a fire devours, and after them a flame enkindles; Like the garden of Eden is the land before them, and after them a desert waste; from them there is no escape.

4. Vous m'aviez jeté dans l'abîme, au coeur des mers, et l'onde m'environnait; tous vos flots et toutes vos vagues ont passé sur moi.

4. Their appearance is that of horses; like steeds they run.

5. Et moi, je disais : je suis chassé de devant vos yeux ; pourtant je contemplerai encore votre saint temple.

5. As with the rumble of chariots they leap on the mountaintops; As with the crackling of a fiery flame devouring stubble; Like a mighty people arrayed for battle.

6. Les eaux m'avaient enserré jusqu'à l'âme, l'abîme m'environnait, l'algue encerclait ma tête.

6. Before them peoples are in torment, every face blanches.

7. J'étais descendu jusqu'aux racines des montagnes ; les verrous de la terre étaient tirés sur moi pour toujours ! Et vous avez fait remonter ma vie de la fosse, Yahweh, mon Dieu !

7. Like warriors they run, like soldiers they scale the wall; They advance, each in his own lane, without swerving from their paths.

8. Quand mon âme défaillait en mol, je me suis souvenu de Yahweh ; et ma prière est parvenue jusqu'à vous, à votre saint temple.

8. No one crowds another, each advances in his own track; Though they fall into the ditches, they are not checked.

9. Ceux qui s'attachent à des vanités futiles abandonnent l'auteur de leur grâce.

9. They assault the city, they run upon the wall, they climb into the houses; In at the windows they come like thieves.

10. Mais moi, aux accents de louange, Je votre offrirai un sacrifice ; le voeu que j'ai fait, je l'accomplirai. A Yahweh est le salut !

10. Before them the earth trembles, the heavens shake; The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withhold their brightness.

11. Yahweh parla au poisson, et le poisson vomit Jonas sur la terre.

11. The LORD raises his voice at the head of his army; For immense indeed is his camp, yes, mighty, and it does his bidding. For great is the day of the LORD, and exceedingly terrible; who can bear it?

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12. Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;

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13. Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment.

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14. Perhaps he will again relent and leave behind him a blessing, Offerings and libations for the LORD, your God.

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15. Blow the trumpet in Zion! proclaim a fast, call an assembly;

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16. Gather the people, notify the congregation; Assemble the elders, gather the children and the infants at the breast; Let the bridegroom quit his room, and the bride her chamber.

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17. Between the porch and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep, And say, "Spare, O LORD, your people, and make not your heritage a reproach, with the nations ruling over them! Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

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18. Then the LORD was stirred to concern for his land and took pity on his people.

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19. The LORD answered and said to his people: See, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be filled with them; No more will I make you a reproach among the nations.

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20. No, the northerner I will remove far from you, and drive him out into a land arid and waste, With his van toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea; And his foulness shall go up, and his stench shall go up.

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21. Fear not, O land! exult and rejoice! for the LORD has done great things.

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22. Fear not, beasts of the field! for the pastures of the plain are green; The tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their yield.

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23. And do you, O children of Zion, exult and rejoice in the LORD, your God! He has given you the teacher of justice: he has made the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as before.

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24. The threshing floors shall be full of grain and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

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25. And I will repay you for the years which the locust has eaten, The grasshopper, the devourer, and the cutter, my great army which I sent among you.

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26. You shall eat and be filled, and shall praise the name of the LORD, your God, Because he has dealt wondrously with you; my people shall nevermore be put to shame.

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27. And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel; I am the LORD, your God, and there is no other; my people shall nevermore be put to shame.