Amos 8
1 Ainsi me fit voir le Seigneur Yahweh, et voici une corbeille de fruits mûrs.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Et il dit: " Que vois-tu, Amos? " Je répondis: " Une corbeille de fruits mûrs. " Et Yahweh me dit: " La fin est venue pour mon peuple d'Israël; je ne lui pardonnerai pas plus longtemps.
He asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A basket of [very] ripe fruit.” He said, “That indicates that it almost the end for my Israeli people. I will not change my mind again about punishing them.
3 Les chants du palais seront des hurlements en ce jour-là, — oracle du Seigneur Yahweh. Il y aura de nombreux cadavres, en tout lieu on les jette en silence. "
[Soon, ] instead of singing in the temple, they will be wailing. There will be corpses everywhere [HYP]. So, remain silent (OR, Everyone will be silent). [These things will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it!”
4 Écoutez ceci, vous qui engloutissez le pauvre, et qui voudriez faire disparaître les humbles du pays,
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 en disant: " Quand la nouvelle lune sera-t-elle passée, afin que nous puissions vendre du froment, et le sabbat, pour que nous ouvrions nos magasins à blé, en diminuant l'épha et en grossissant le sicle, en faussant la balance pour tromper?
You habitually say, “We wish that [RHQ] the new moon [festival] would end soon, in order that [restrictions on doing business during the festival will be ended] and we can sell grain. We wish that the Sabbath would end soon, in order that we will again be permitted to sell our wheat”— and [when you sell it], you charge a big price for it, and you cheat people by using scales that do not weigh correctly.
6 Nous achèterons pour de l'argent les misérables, et les pauvres à cause d'une paire de sandales, et nous vendrons la criblure du froment? "
You sell wheat that you have swept up from the floor, and as a result it is mixed with dirt. Those who are needy and poor [DOU] and who do not have money [to buy things], you cause them to become your slaves by buying them with the [small amount of] silver [with which you could buy] a pair of sandals!
7 Yahweh l'a juré par l'orgueil de Jacob: Je n'oublierai pas jusqu'à la fin toutes leurs actions.
Yahweh has declared, “Although you are very proud of [being descendants] [MTY] of Jacob, I solemnly declare that I will not forget the [evil things] that you have done.
8 A cause de cela, la terre ne tremblera-t-elle pas, et tous ses habitants ne seront-ils pas dans le deuil? Elle montera tout entière comme le Nil, elle se soulèvera et s'affaissera, comme le Nil d'Egypte.
[Because of those evil things], your country will certainly [RHQ] soon be shaken, and all of you will mourn. [It will be as though] it will repeatedly rise and fall like [SIM] the Nile [River] that gets full of water [and overflows it banks] and then settles back into its riverbed.
9 Il arrivera en ce jour-là, — oracle du Seigneur Yahweh, je ferai coucher le soleil en plein midi, et j'envelopperai la terre de ténèbres en un jour serein.
On the day [when I punish my people], I will cause the sun to set at noontime, and the [entire] earth will be dark in the daytime.
10 Je changerai vos fêtes en deuil, et tous vos chants de joie en lamentations; je mettrai le sac sur tous les reins, et je rendrai chauve toute tête; je mettrai le pays comme en un deuil de fils unique, et sa fin sera comme un jour amer.
I will cause your [religious] celebrations to become times when you mourn; instead of singing, everyone will be weeping. Because of what I [will do], all of you will wear rough sackcloth and shave your heads [to show that you are sorrowing]. I will cause that time to be like when people mourn after an only son [has died]. All of you will be extremely sad all of that day.”
11 Voici que des jours viennent, — oracle du Seigneur Yahweh, et j'enverrai une faim sur la terre, non une faim de pain, et non une soif d'eau, mais d'entendre les paroles de Yahweh.
And Yahweh our God says this: “It will [soon] be the time when I will cause something to be very scarce [MET] throughout the country. But it will not be a time when there is no food or water; it will instead be a time when there will be no messages from me for anyone to hear.
12 Et ils erreront d'une mer à l'autre, et du septentrion à l'orient; ils iront de côté et d'autre pour chercher la parole de Yahweh, et ils ne la trouveront pas.
People will stagger from the [Dead] Sea to the [Mediterranean] Sea, and wander from the north to the east, searching for a message from me, but there will not be any.
13 En ces jours-là seront épuisés les belles vierges et les jeunes hommes, par la soif.
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Ceux qui jurent par le péché de Samarie et disent: " Par la vie de ton Dieu, ô Dan! Par la voie de Bersabée! " tomberont et ne se relèveront pas.
Those who (make oaths/solemnly promise to do something) using the names of their shameful gods of Samaria, and those who solemnly promise to do something [using the name of] the god of Dan, and those who solemnly promise to do something [using the name of] the god of Beersheba, will all die; and they will never live again.”
