The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 48

1. Then Elijah arose, the prophet like fire. His word burned like a torch.
2. He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal made them few in number.
3. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens. He brought down fire three times.
4. How you were glorified, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is like yours?
5. You raised up a dead man from death, from Hades, by the word of the Most High.
6. You brought down kings to destruction, and honorable men from their sickbeds.
7. You heard rebuke in Sinai, and judgments of vengeance in Horeb.
8. You anointed kings for retribution, and prophets to succeed after you.
9. You were taken up in a tempest of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.
10. You were recorded for reproofs in their seasons, to pacify anger, before it broke out into wrath, to turn the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
11. Blessed are those who saw you, and those who have been beautified with love; for we also shall surely live.
12. Elijah was wrapped in a whirlwind. Elisha was filled with his spirit. In his days he was not moved by the fear of any ruler, and no one brought him into subjection.
13. Nothing was too hard for him. When he was buried, his body prophesied.
14. As in his life he did wonders, so his works were also marvelous in death.
15. For all this the people didn’t repent. They didn’t depart from their sins, until they were carried away as a plunder from their land, and were scattered through all the earth. The people were left very few in number, but with a ruler from the house of David.
16. Some of them did that which was right, but some multiplied sins.
17. Hezekiah fortified his city, and brought water into its midst. He tunneled through rock with iron, and built cisterns for water.
18. In his days Sennacherib invaded, and sent Rabshakeh, and departed. He lifted up his hand against Zion, and boasted great things in his arrogance.
19. Then their hearts and their hands were shaken, and they were in pain, as women in labor.
20. But they called upon the Lord who is merciful, spreading out their hands to him. The Holy One quickly heard them out of Heaven, and delivered them by the hand of Isaiah.
21. He struck the camp of the Assyrians, and his angel utterly destroyed them.
22. For Hezekiah did that which was pleasing to the Lord, and was strong in the ways of his ancestor David, which Isaiah the prophet commanded, who was great and faithful in his vision.
23. In his days the sun went backward. He prolonged the life of the king.
24. He saw by an excellent spirit what would come to pass in the future; and he comforted those who mourned in Zion.
25. He showed the things that would happen through the end of time, and the hidden things before they came.

1. Ensuite se leva Elie, prophète semblable au feu, et sa parole était enflammée comme un flambeau.
2. Il fit venir la famine sur Israël, et, par son zèle, il le réduisit à un petit nombre.
3. Par la parole du Seigneur, il ferma le ciel ; de même, il en fit trois fois tomber le feu.
4. Combien tu t’es rendu glorieux, ô Elie, par tes prodiges, et qui pourrait se vanter d’être semblable à toi ?
5. Toi qui as fait lever un cadavre du sein de la mort, et du schéol, par la parole du Très-Haut ;
6. toi qui as précipité des rois dans la ruine, et d’illustres personnages de leur couche dans la mort ;
7. toi qui as entendu sur le Sinaï des remontrances, et sur l’Horeb des arrêts de vengeance ;
8. toi qui as sacré des rois pour exercer la vengeance, et des prophètes pour te succéder ;
9. toi qui fus enlevé dans un tourbillon de flamme, et dans un char aux chevaux de feu ;
10. toi qui as été désigné dans de sévères écrits pour des temps à venir, comme devant apaiser la colère avant qu’elle s’enflamme, ramener le cœur du père vers l’enfant, et rétablir les tribus d’Israël.
11. Heureux ceux qui te verront, et qui seront parés de l’amour de Dieu ! Car, nous aussi, nous serons certainement en vie.
12. Lorsque Elie eu été enveloppé dans le tourbillon, Elisée fut rempli de son esprit. Durant ses jours, il ne fut ébranlé par aucun prince, et personne ne le domina.
13. Rien ne lui fut impossible, et son corps, couché dans le tombeau, fit des miracles.
14. Pendant sa vie, il fit des prodiges, et, dans sa mort, il opéra des merveilles.
15. Malgré tout cela, le peuple ne se repentit point, et ne s’éloigna pas du péché, jusqu’à ce qu’il fût emmené loin de son pays, et dispersé par toute la terre. Il ne resta qu’un petit peuple, avec un chef de la maison de David.
16. Parmi ceux-ci, quelques-uns firent ce qui est agréable à Dieu, et d’autres multiplièrent les transgressions.
17. Ezéchias fortifia sa ville, et amena dans son enceinte le Gihon ; avec le fer, il creusa le rocher, et construisit des réservoirs pour les eaux.
18. De son temps Sennachérib monta, et envoya Rabsacès ; celui-ci partit, et leva la main contre Sion, et se vanta dans sa jactance.
19. Alors leurs cœurs et leurs mains tremblèrent, et ils furent dans la douleur comme les femmes qui enfantent.
20. Ils invoquèrent le Seigneur miséricordieux, étendant leurs mains vers lui, et le Saint les entendit aussitôt du ciel, et les délivra par le ministère d’Isaïe.
21. Il frappa l’armée des Assyriens, et son ange les extermina.
22. Car Ezéchias fit ce qui est agréable au Seigneur, et se tint ferme dans les voies de David, son père, que lui recommanda Isaïe le prophète, grand et véridique dans ses visions.
23. Pendant ses jours, le soleil rétrograda, et Isaïe prolongea la vie du roi.
24. Sous une puissante inspiration, il vit les temps à venir, et consola les affligés dans Sion. Il annonça ce qui doit arriver jusqu’à la fin des temps, et les choses cachées avant leur accomplissement.

1. [Et surrexit Elias propheta quasi ignis, et verbum ipsius quasi facula ardebat.
2. Qui induxit in illos famem: et irritantes illum invidia sua pauci facti sunt: non enim poterant sustinere præcepta Domini.
3. Verbo Domini continuit cælum, et dejecit de cælo ignem ter.
4. Sic amplificatus est Elias in mirabilibus suis. Et quis potest similiter sic gloriari tibi?
5. qui sustulisti mortuum ab inferis de sorte mortis, in verbo Domini Dei:
6. qui dejecisti reges ad pernicem, et confregisti facile potentiam ipsorum, et gloriosos de lecto suo:
7. qui audis in Sina judicium, et in Horeb judicia defensionis:
8. qui ungis reges ad pœnitentiam, et prophetas facis successores post te:
9. qui receptus es in turbine ignis, in curru equorum igneorum:
10. qui scriptus es in judiciis temporum, lenire iracundiam Domini, conciliare cor patris ad filium, et restituere tribus Jacob.
11. Beati sunt qui te viderunt, et in amicitia tua decorati sunt.
12. Nam nos vita vivimus tantum: post mortem autem non erit tale nomen nostrum.]
13. [Elias quidem in turbine tectus est, et in Eliseo completus est spiritus ejus: in diebus suis non pertimuit principem, et potentia nemo vicit illum:
14. nec superavit illum verbum aliquod, et mortuum prophetavit corpus ejus.
15. In vita sua fecit monstra, et in morte mirabilia operatus est.]
16. [In omnibus istis non pœnituit populus, et non recesserunt a peccatis suis, usque dum ejecti sunt de terra sua, et dispersi sunt in omnem terram:
17. et relicta est gens perpauca, et princeps in domo David.
18. Quidam ipsorum fecerunt quod placeret Deo: alii autem multa commiserunt peccata.
19. Ezechias munivit civitatem suam, et induxit in medium ipsius aquam: et fodit ferro rupem, et ædificavit ad aquam puteum.
20. In diebus ipsius ascendit Sennacherib, et misit Rabsacen, et sustulit manum suam contra illos: et extulit manum suam in Sion, et superbus factus est potentia sua.
21. Tunc mota sunt corda et manus ipsorum: et doluerunt quasi parturientes mulieres.
22. Et invocaverunt Dominum misericordem, et expandentes manus suas extulerunt ad cælum: et Sanctus, Dominus Deus, audivit cito vocem ipsorum.
23. Non est commemoratus peccatorum illorum, neque dedit illos inimicis suis: sed purgavit eos in manu Isaiæ sancti prophetæ.
24. Dejecit castra Assyriorum, et contrivit illos angelus Domini:
25. nam fecit Ezechias quod placuit Deo, et fortiter ivit in via David patris sui, quam mandavit illi Isaias, propheta magnus, et fidelis in conspectu Dei.
26. In diebus ipsius retro rediit sol, et addidit regi vitam.
27. Spiritu magno vidit ultima, et consolatus est lugentes in Sion usque in sempiternum.
28. Ostendit futura, et abscondita antequam evenirent.]