Amos 7
1 Yahweh our God showed me [in a vision] that he was going to send locusts [to destroy our crops]. It was going to happen right after the king’s share of the hay had been harvested/cut and before the rest of the hay was ready to be harvested.
Voici ce que me montra le Seigneur Dieu dans une vision: il était occupé à créer des sauterelles, dans la saison où le regain commence à pousser, le regain venant à la suite de la fenaison du roi.
2 [And in the vision I saw] those locusts come, and they ate everything that was green. Then I cried out, “Yahweh our Lord, please forgive us! We Israeli people are very helpless; (how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?/we will not be able to survive!)”
Quand elles eurent achevé de dévorer l’herbe des champs, je m’écriai: "Seigneur Dieu, de grâce, pardonne! Comment Jacob pourrait-il subsister? II est si chétif!"
3 So Yahweh changed his mind and said, “That will not happen.”
L’Eternel se laissa fléchir en cette occurrence: "Cela ne sera pas!" dit l’Eternel.
4 Then this is what Yahweh our Lord showed me [in another vision]: He was calling to a fire to [come and] punish [his people]. [In the vision I saw that] the fire dried up the ocean and also burned [everything on] the land.
Voici ce que me montra le Seigneur Dieu dans une vision: il proclamait, le Seigneur Dieu, le châtiment par le feu; celui-ci dévorait les profondeurs de l’abîme, puis il dévorait la campagne.
5 Then I cried out again, “Yahweh our Lord, I plead with you, please stop this! We Israeli people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive [RHQ]?”
Je m’écriai: "Seigneur Dieu, de grâce, arrête-toi! Comment Jacob pourrait-il subsister? II est si chétif!"
6 So Yahweh changed his mind again, and said, “That also will not happen.”
L’Eternel se laissa fléchir en cette occurrence: "Cela aussi ne sera pas!" dit le Seigneur Dieu.
7 Then Yahweh showed me [another vision]. I saw him standing beside a wall. [It was very straight because] it had been built using a (plumb line/cord with a weight on one end to determine if walls are vertically straight). Yahweh had the plumb line in his hand.
Voici ce qu’il me fit voir: le Seigneur était debout sur un mur bien aligné, tenant un niveau en sa main.
8 Yahweh asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A plumb line.” Then Yahweh said, “Look, I am going to use a plumb line among my Israeli people, [to show that they are like a wall that is not straight]. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.
L’Eternel me dit: "Que vois-tu, Amos?" Je répondis: "Un niveau." Le Seigneur reprit: "Je vais passer le niveau au milieu de mon peuple Israël, je n’aurai plus d’indulgence pour lui.
9 The places on hills where [the descendants of] [MTY] Isaac worship [idols] will be destroyed. And the other important shrines in Israel will also be destroyed. And I will enable [your enemies] to attack your people with swords and they will get rid of [King] Jeroboam and all his descendants.”
Ruinés seront les hauts-lieux d’Isaac, détruits les sanctuaires d’Israël, et je me dresserai contre la maison de Jéroboam avec le glaive."
10 Then Amaziah, the priest at Bethel, sent [a message] to Jeroboam, the King of Israel. In the message he said, “Amos is plotting against you among the Israeli people [MTY]. [I am worried that] the people of this country will not be able to refute his words.
Alors Amacia, prêtre de Béthel, envoya à Jéroboam, roi d’Israël, le message que voici: "Amos conspire contre toi, en pleine maison d’Israël; ce pays n’est pas en état de supporter tous ses discours.
11 This is what he is saying: ‘Jeroboam will soon be killed by [someone using] a sword, and the people of Israel will be (exiled/forced to leave their land and go to another country).’”
Car voici ce qu’a dit Amos: Jéroboam périra par le glaive, et Israël ira en exil, chassé de son territoire."
12 Then Amaziah [came to me and] said, “You prophet, get out of here! Go back to the country of Judah! Earn money to [buy food to be able] to live there, and do your prophesying there!
Puis Amacia dit à Amos: "Voyant, va-t-en! Hâte-toi de retourner en la terre de Juda; là mange ton pain et là fais le prophète.
13 Do not prophesy any more here at Bethel, because this is where the national temple, the king’s temple, is!”
Mais à Béthel tu ne saurais continuer à prophétiser; car c’est un sanctuaire royal et un établissement de la dynastie."
14 I replied to Amaziah, “I was [previously] not a prophet, and my father was not a prophet; I was a shepherd. I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.
Amos répondit à Amacia: "Je ne suis, dit-il, ni prophète ni fils de prophète, je suis un simple pâtre et un pinceur de sycomore.
15 But Yahweh took me away from taking care of my sheep, and he said to me, ‘Go to Israel and prophesy to my people there!’
Mais l’Eternel m’a pris de derrière le troupeau, et il m’a dit: Va, prophétise à mon peuple Israël!
16 You said to me, ‘Do not prophecy saying terrible things will happen to [the people of] Israel; stop saying those things!’
Or, maintenant, écoute la parole de l’Eternel: Tu dis, toi: Tu n’as pas à prophétiser contre Israël, ni à te répandre en discours contre la maison d’Isaac.
17 Therefore listen to what Yahweh says about you: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this city, and your sons and daughters will be killed by [your enemies’] swords. Others will measure your land and divide it up [among themselves]; and you yourself will die in a foreign country. And the people of Israel will certainly be forced to leave their country and go (into exile/to live in another country).’”
Eh bien! Ainsi parle l’Eternel: Ta femme se prostituera dans la ville, tes fils et tes filles tomberont sous le glaive, ton domaine sera partagé au cordeau, tandis que toi, tu mourras sur un sol impur, et qu’Israël ira en exil, chassé de son pays."
