Amos 4
1 You [wealthy women] of Samaria [have grown fat like] [MET] the fat cows of the Bashan [region]. You oppress poor people and you cause needy people to suffer. And you say to your husbands, “Bring us [more wine] to drink!”
Écoutez cette parole, vaches de Basan, qui êtes sur la montagne de Samarie, vous qui opprimez les faibles, et qui foulez les indigents, vous qui dites à vos maris: « Apportez et buvons! »
2 But Yahweh [our] God has said this: “Because I am holy, I solemnly promise this: It will [soon] be the time when you all will be taken [to another country]; [your enemies will take you away as though they are] using sharp hooks [DOU] [to grab you].
Le Seigneur Yahweh a juré par sa sainteté: Voici que des jours viendront sur vous où l’on vous enlèvera avec des crocs, et votre postérité avec des harpons.
3 [Your enemies] will drag you out through breaks/holes [in your city walls], and they will throw you outside the city. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!
Vous sortirez par les brèches, chacune devant soi, et vous serez jetées en Armon, — oracle de Yahweh.
4 Go to Bethel and Gilgal [towns where many people worship me] and sin more and more [SAR]! [I say that not because I want you to do it], [but because it is what you have always been doing]! Offer sacrifices on the morning [after you arrive], [and bring me] (a tithe/one tenth) of your crops the next day.
Venez à Béthel et péchez, à Galgala, et multipliez vos péchés! Amenez chaque matin vos sacrifices, et tous les trois jours vos dîmes!
5 Bring offerings of bread to thank me, and [other] offerings that are not required/commanded, and boast about [these offerings that you bring], because that is what you like to do, [but you do it to impress others, not to please me]. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it.
Faites fumer l’oblation de louange sans levain; annoncez des dons volontaires, publiez-les! Car c’est cela que vous aimez, enfants d’Israël, — oracle du Seigneur Yahweh.
6 I [am the one who] caused there to be no food in any of your cities and towns [DOU], but you rejected me in spite of that.
Aussi je vous ai procuré la netteté des dents en toutes vos villes, et la disette de pain dans toutes vos demeures; et vous n’êtes pas revenus à moi, — oracle de Yahweh.
7 When it was still three months before [the time of] harvesting [crops], [at the time when your crops needed rain the most], I prevented rain from falling. [Sometimes] I allowed rain to fall on some towns and prevented it from falling on other towns. Rain fell on some fields, but it did not fall on other fields, with the result that [the soil in] those fields [where it did not rain] dried up.
Aussi je vous ai retenu la pluie, lorsqu’il y avait encore trois mois avant la moisson; j’ai fait pleuvoir sur une ville, et je ne faisais pas pleuvoir sur une autre ville; une région était arrosée par la pluie, et une autre région, sur laquelle il ne pleuvait pas, se desséchait.
8 People would stagger from one town to another town to find water, but they could not even get enough water to drink, but in spite of that, you have not returned to me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!
Deux, trois villes couraient à une autre ville, pour boire de l’eau, et ne se désaltéraient pas; et vous n’êtes pas revenus à moi, — oracle de Yahweh.
9 I caused your grain fields to dry up; I caused your gardens and vineyards to be struck/destroyed by (blight/hot winds) and mildew. [I sent] locusts to eat [the leaves on] your fig trees and olive trees, but in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!
Je vous ai frappés par la rouille et la nielle; vos nombreux jardins, vos vignes, vos figuiers et vos oliviers, la sauterelle les a dévorés; et vous n’êtes pas revenus à moi, — oracle de Yahweh.
10 I caused you to experience (plagues/severe sicknesses) like the plagues [that I sent to the people] of Egypt. I caused [many of] your young men to die in battles. I allowed [your enemies] to capture your horses. [Many of your soldiers were killed, ] and I caused your camps to be filled with the smell/stink of their [decaying] corpses. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because] I, Yahweh, have said it!
J’ai envoyé parmi vous la peste, à la manière d’Égypte; j’ai tué par l’épée vos jeunes gens, pendant que vos chevaux étaient capturés; j’ai fait monter la puanteur de votre camp, et elle est arrivée à vos narines; et vous n’êtes pas revenus à moi, — oracle de Yahweh.
11 I got rid of many of you, like I got rid of [the people in] Sodom and Gomorrah. [Those of] you who [did not die] were like [SIM] a burning stick that was snatched from a fire [so that it would not burn completely]. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it!
J’ai causé en vous des bouleversements, comme Dieu a bouleversé Sodome et Gomorrhe, et vous avez été comme un tison arraché de l’incendie; et vous n’êtes pas revenus à moi, — oracle de Yahweh.
12 So [now], you [people of] Israel, I am going to punish you. Prepare to stand in front of me, your God, [when I judge you]!
C’est pourquoi, ainsi te ferai-je, Israël! Puisque je te ferai cela, prépare-toi à la rencontre de ton Dieu, Israël!
13 I created the mountains, and [I] created winds. I reveal to humans what I am thinking. I [sometimes] cause the daylight to become dark [like the night]. I [rule over everything]; I [even] walk on the highest mountains on the earth! I am the Commander of the armies of angels!”
Car c’est lui qui a formé les montagnes, et qui a créé le vent, qui fait connaître à l’homme quelle est sa pensée, qui fait de l’aurore les ténèbres, et qui marche sur les sommets de la terre! Yahweh, le Dieu des armées, est son nom.
