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Bible Crampon 1923
Il retint les eaux dressées comme un monceau. 14 Il les conduisit le jour par la nuée,
et toute la nuit par un feu brillant. 15 Il fendit les rochers dans le désert,
et il donna à boire comme des flots abondants. 16 Du rocher il fit jaillir des ruisseaux,
et couler l’eau par torrents. 17 Mais ils continuèrent de pécher contre lui,
de se révolter contre le Très-Haut dans le désert. 18 Ils tentèrent Dieu dans leur cœur,
en demandant de la nourriture selon leur convoitise. 19 Ils parlèrent contre Dieu et dirent :
« Dieu pourra-t-il dresser une table dans le désert ? 20 Voici qu’il a frappé le rocher, et des eaux ont coulé,
et des torrents se sont répandus ;
pourra-t-il aussi nous donner du pain
ou bien procurer de la viande à son peuple ? » 21 Yahweh entendit et il fut irrité,
un feu s’alluma contre Jacob,
et la colère s’éleva contre Israël, 22 parce qu’ils n’avaient pas eu foi en Dieu
et n’avaient pas espéré en son secours. 23 Cependant il commanda aux nuées d’en haut,
et il ouvrit les portes du ciel ; 24 il fit pleuvoir sur eux la manne pour les nourrir,
et leur donna le froment du ciel. 25 Chacun mangea le pain des forts,
Il leur envoya de la nourriture à satiété. 26 Il fit souffler dans le ciel le vent d’orient,
il amena par sa puissance le vent du midi ; 27 il fit pleuvoir sur eux la viande comme de la poussière,
et les oiseaux ailés comme le sable des mers. 28 Il les fit tomber au milieu de leur camp,
autour de leurs tentes. 29 Ils mangèrent et se rassasièrent à l’excès ;
Dieu leur donna ce qu’ils avaient désiré. 30 Ils n’avaient pas encore satisfait leur convoitise,
et leur nourriture était encore à leur bouche, 31 quand la colère de Dieu s’éleva contre eux ;
il frappa de mort les mieux repus,
il abattit les jeunes hommes d’Israël. 32 Après tout cela, ils péchèrent encore,
et n’eurent pas foi dans ses prodiges. 33 Alors il dissipa leurs jours comme un souffle,
et leurs années par une fin soudaine. 34 Quand il les frappait de mort, ils le cherchaient,
ils revenaient, empressés à retrouver Dieu, 35 ils se rappelaient que Dieu était leur rocher,
et le Dieu Très-Haut leur libérateur. 36 Mais ils le trompaient par leurs paroles,
et leur langue lui mentait ; 37 leur cœur n’était pas ferme avec lui,
ils n’étaient pas fidèles à son alliance. 38 Mais lui est miséricordieux :
il pardonne le péché et ne détruit pas ;
souvent il retint sa colère,
et ne se livra pas à toute sa fureur. 39 Il se souvenait qu’ils n’étaient que chair,
un souffle qui s’en va et ne revient plus. 40 Que de fois ils se révoltèrent contre lui dans le désert,
ils l’irritèrent dans la solitude ! 41 Ils ne cessèrent de tenter Dieu
et de provoquer le Saint d’Israël. 42 Ils ne se souvinrent plus de sa puissance,
du jour où il les délivra de l’oppresseur, 43 où il montra ses prodiges en Égypte,
ses actions merveilleuses dans les campagnes de Tanis. 44 Il changea leurs fleuves en sang,
et ils ne purent boire à leurs ruisseaux. 45 Il envoya contre eux le moucheron qui les dévora,
et la grenouille qui les fit périr. 46 Il livra leurs récoltes à la sauterelle,
le produit de leur travail à ses essaims. 47 Il détruisit leurs vignes par la grêle,
et leurs sycomores par les grêlons. 48 Il abandonna leur bétail à la grêle,
et leurs troupeaux aux coups de la foudre. 49 Il déchaîna contre eux le feu de son courroux,
la fureur, la rage et la détresse,
toute une armée d’anges de malheur. 50 Il donna libre carrière à sa colère,
il ne sauva pas leur âme de la mort,
il livra leur vie à la destruction. 51 Il frappa tous les premiers-nés en Égypte,
les prémices de la force sous les tentes de Cham. 52 Il fit partir son peuple comme des brebis,
il les mena comme un troupeau dans le désert. 53 Il les dirigea sûrement, sans qu’ils eussent rien à craindre,
et la mer engloutit leurs ennemis. 54 Il les fit arriver jusqu’à sa frontière sainte,
jusqu’à la montagne que sa droite a conquise. 55 Il chassa les nations devant eux,
leur assigna par le sort leur part d’héritage,
et fit habiter dans leurs tentes les tribus d’Israël. 56 Cependant ils ont encore tenté et provoqué le Dieu Très-Haut,
et ils n’ont pas observé ses ordonnances. 57 Ils se sont détournés et ont été infidèles comme leurs pères,
ils se sont détournés comme un arc trompeur. 58 Ils l’ont irrité par leurs hauts lieux,
ils ont excité sa jalousie par leurs idoles. 59 Dieu entendit et s’indigna,
il prit Israël en grande aversion. 60 Il dédaigna la demeure de Silo,
la tente où il habitait parmi les hommes. 61 Il livra sa force à la captivité,
et sa majesté aux mains de l’ennemi. 62 Il abandonna son peuple au glaive,
et il s’indigna contre son héritage. 63 Le feu dévora ses jeunes hommes,
et ses vierges n’entendirent point le chant nuptial. 64 Ses prêtres tombèrent par l’épée,
et ses veuves ne se lamentèrent point. 65 Le Seigneur se réveilla, comme un homme endormi,
pareil au guerrier subjugué par le vin. 66 Il frappa ses ennemis par derrière,
il leur infligea une honte éternelle. 67 Mais il prit en aversion la tente de Joseph,
et il répudia la tribu d’Ephraïm. 68 Il choisit la tribu de Juda,
la montagne de Sion qu’il aimait. 69 Et il bâtit son sanctuaire comme les hauteurs du ciel,
comme la terre qu’il a fondée pour toujours. 70 Il choisit David, son serviteur,
et le tira des bergeries ; 71 Il le prit derrière les brebis mères,
pour paître Jacob, son peuple,
et Israël, son héritage. 72 Et David les guida dans la droiture de son cœur,
et il les conduisit d’une main habile.
World English Bible (avec deutérocanoniques)
Section: A contemplation by Asaph.
1 Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, 3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. 5 For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; 6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, 7 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments, 8 and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal,whose spirit was not steadfast with God. 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law. 11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them. 12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. 15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. 18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. 19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?” 21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, 22 because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation. 23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. 24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. 25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. 26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind. 27 He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas. 28 He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations. 29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. 30 They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, 31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel. 32 For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works. 33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. 34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
They returned and sought God earnestly. 35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer. 36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. 38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.
Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath. 39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again. 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert! 41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42 They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; 43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, 44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. 45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. 48 He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. 50 He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, 51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. 52 But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53 He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. 55 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies, 57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
They were twisted like a deceitful bow. 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. 59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel, 60 so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men, 61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand. 62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance. 63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. 64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep. 65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. 66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. 67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim, 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. 69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever. 70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; 71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. 72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
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