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The Redemption of Israel
1 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
4 I have no wrath.
Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
5 Or let them lay hold of my protection,
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me.”
6 In days to come Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
8 Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them;
he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:
when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
10 For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
12 In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel.
13 And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Chapter themes
Ce jour-là — Ce jour-là
L'épée de l'Éternel — sa dure, grande et forte épée
Le léviathan — contre le léviathan
Le serpent tortueux — ce serpent tortueux
Le monstre vaincu — Il tuera le monstre
Dans la mer — qui est dans la mer
Entonnez un cantique — entonnez à son intention un cantique
La vigne excellente — sur la vigne excellente
Moi, l'Éternel — Moi l'Eternel
Dieu, le gardien — je suis son gardien
Il arrose la vigne — je l'arrose à chaque instant
Plus de colère — Il n'y a pas de colère en moi
Ronces et épines — si je trouve des ronces et des buissons épineux à combattre
Prendre Dieu pour refuge — prenne pour refuge
Faire la paix avec Dieu — qu'on ne fasse la paix avec moi
Une punition mesurée — C'est avec mesure
Le peuple sanctionné — que tu l'as sanctionné de l'exil
Le souffle impétueux — l'Eternel l'a emporté par son souffle impétueux
La faute expiée — C'est ainsi que la faute de Jacob a été expiée
Les pierres des autels — quand il rend toutes les pierres des autels pareilles à des pierres de chaux
Les poteaux sacrés — les poteaux sacrés… ne se relèvent plus
Les piliers du soleil — les piliers consacrés au soleil
La ville fortifiée dévastée — la ville fortifiée est solitaire
Le veau y broute — Le veau vient y brouter, il s'y couche et mange les branches.
Les rameaux desséchés — Quand les rameaux sèchent, on les casse et des femmes viennent y mettre le feu
Un peuple sans intelligence — C'était un peuple dépourvu d'intelligence
Le Créateur sans compassion — celui qui l'a fait n'a pas eu compassion de lui, celui qui l'a façonné ne lui a pas fait grâce
Le battage du pays — l'Eternel procédera à un battage depuis le cours de l'Euphrate jusqu'au torrent d'Egypte
Ramassés un à un — et vous serez ramassés un à un, Israélites!
Notes and references
27:1 [Jer. 47:6]
27:1 Ps. 74:14
27:1 Ps. 74:14
27:1 ch. 51:9; Ezek. 29:3
27:2 ch. 5:7
Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine
27:2 [ch. 26:1]
27:4 [ch. 10:17 ]
27:6 ch. 37:31; Hos. 14:5, 6
Hebrew In those to come
27:7 Hos. 6:1, 2
27:7 See ch. 37:36-38
27:7 ch. 37:18, 19
27:8 [ Jer. 10:24 ]
Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
27:8 [ Jer. 18:17 ]
Or wind
27:9 [ch. 22:14]
Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin