Hosea 4
1 You Israeli people, listen to this message from Yahweh! He is accusing you people who live in this country, [saying] “The people are not faithfully [doing what pleases me], they are not kind [to others], and they do not [even] know me!
Écoutez la parole de l’Éternel, fils d’Israël, car l’Éternel a un débat avec les habitants du pays; car il n’y a pas de vérité, et il n’y a pas de bonté, et il n’y a pas de connaissance de Dieu dans le pays:
2 Everywhere in this land they curse [others], they murder [others], they steal, and they commit adultery. They act violently toward others and commit one murder after another.
exécration, et mensonge, et meurtre, et vol, et adultère; la violence déborde, et le sang touche le sang.
3 It is because of their doing those things that there is no rain [MTY], the land has become dry, the people are mourning, and the people are dying [from hunger]. Even the wild animals and the birds and the fish in the sea are dying.
C’est pourquoi le pays sera dans le deuil; et tous ceux qui y habitent seront languissants, avec les bêtes des champs, et avec les oiseaux des cieux; et même les poissons de la mer seront ôtés.
4 But no one should accuse someone else and say it is his fault. It is you priests whom I am accusing.
Toutefois que nul ne conteste, que nul ne reprenne; or ton peuple est comme ceux qui contestent avec le sacrificateur.
5 So I will punish [MTY] you priests, night and day, and I will punish the prophets with you. I am going to destroy [Israel, the nation that is like] [MET] a mother to you.
Et tu broncheras de jour, et le prophète aussi avec toi bronchera de nuit: et je détruirai ta mère.
6 It is because my people do not know [about me] that they will be destroyed. And their not knowing about me is because you priests have refused [to teach them about me]; so I will no longer allow you to be my priests. You have forgotten the things that I taught you, so I will forget [to bless] your children.
Mon peuple est détruit, faute de connaissance; car toi, tu as rejeté la connaissance, et je te rejetterai afin que tu n’exerces plus la sacrificature devant moi. Car tu as oublié la loi de ton Dieu, et moi j’oublierai tes fils.
7 As there are more and more priests, they have sinned against me more and more. So I will no longer allow them to be honored; instead, I will cause them to be disgraced.
Selon qu’ils se sont accrus, ainsi ils ont péché contre moi. Je changerai leur gloire en ignominie.
8 The priests get food from [the offerings that the] people [bring in order to be forgiven for having sinned], [so] the priests want the people to sin more and more [in order that the people will bring them more and more offerings].
Ils mangent le péché de mon peuple, et leur âme désire son iniquité.
9 The priests [are as sinful] as the [other] people, and I will punish [all of] them for what they have done; I will pay them back for the [evil] things that they have done.
Et comme le peuple, ainsi sera le sacrificateur. Et je visiterai sur eux leurs voies, et je leur rendrai leurs actions;
10 [The priests] will eat, but they will still be hungry; they will have sex with prostitutes, but they will not have any children, because they have abandoned [me], Yahweh,
et ils mangeront et ne seront pas rassasiés; ils se prostitueront, mais ne s’étendront pas, car ils ont cessé de prendre garde à l’Éternel.
11 and they are devoting themselves to sleeping with prostitutes, and to [drinking] old wine and new wine, which results in their not being able to think clearly.”
La fornication, et le vin, et le moût, ôtent le sens.
12 “[You] my people request wooden idols [to tell you what you should do]! Like prostitutes who have left/abandoned their husbands,
Mon peuple interroge son bois, et son bâton est son oracle, car l’esprit de fornication égare; et il se prostitue, se soustrayant à son Dieu.
13 you have abandoned [me] your God, and you are chasing after [other gods] on the tops of hills and mountains; you burn incense under oak [trees], poplar [trees], and other trees where there is nice/pleasing shade. So your daughters have become prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law have committed adultery.
Ils offrent des sacrifices sur les sommets des montagnes, et font fumer de l’encens sur les collines, sous le chêne et le peuplier et le térébinthe, parce que leur ombre est bonne. C’est pourquoi vos filles se prostituent et vos belles-filles commettent l’adultère.
14 But it is not [only] your daughters [whom I will punish] for having become prostitutes, and it is not [only] your daughters-in-law whom I will punish for committing adultery, because the men also are having sex with prostitutes, and they offer sacrifices with the prostitutes [who search for men at the] shrines [of the idols]. [They are all] foolish people, and they will [all] be ruined.
Je ne punirai pas vos filles pour s’être prostituées, ni vos belles-filles pour avoir commis l’adultère; car ils se sont séparés eux-mêmes avec les prostituées, et sacrifient avec des femmes consacrées à la prostitution; et le peuple qui n’a pas d’intelligence court à sa perte.
15 You Israeli [people] have abandoned me like [MET] those who commit adultery have abandoned their spouses. But do not cause [the people of] Judah to sin [also]. Do not go to Gilgal or go up to Beth-Aven [towns] [to worship idols there]. Do not make solemn promises [there, saying ‘Just as surely] as Yahweh lives, [I will do what I am promising].’
Si tu te prostitues, ô Israël, que Juda ne se rende pas coupable! N’allez pas à Guilgal, et ne montez pas à Beth-Aven, et ne jurez pas: L’Éternel est vivant!
16 You [people of Israel] are as stubborn as [SIM] a young cow. So there is no way [RHQ] that [I], Yahweh, will [provide food for them] [like a shepherd provides food for his] lambs [by leading them] to a nice meadow.
Car Israël est revêche comme une génisse rétive. Maintenant l’Éternel les paîtra comme un agneau dans un lieu spacieux.
17 The people of Israel have chosen to worship idols [MET], [so] allow them [to do what they want to do].
Éphraïm s’est attaché aux idoles: laisse-le faire.
18 When their rulers finish drinking [their wine], they go to find prostitutes; they love their disgraceful behavior.
Leurs orgies se sont avilies; ils se livrent à la fornication; leurs chefs ont ardemment aimé l’ignominie.
19 But they will disappear [as though] [MET] they were blown away by a whirlwind. They will become [very] ashamed because of their offering sacrifices [to idols].”
Le vent a enserré [Éphraïm] dans ses ailes, et ils sont honteux à cause de leurs sacrifices.
