Amos 5
1 Écoutez cette parole, une complainte que j’élève sur vous, maison d’Israël!
You people [MTY] of Israel, listen to this funeral song that I will sing about you:
2 Elle est tombée, elle ne se relèvera pas, la vierge d’Israël; elle est étendue sur sa terre, il n’y a personne qui la relève.
“You are like [MET] a young woman, but in spite of that, you will certainly be struck down and you will never get up again! You will lie on the ground, abandoned, and there will be no one to help you stand up.”
3 Car ainsi dit le Seigneur, l’Éternel: La ville qui allait en campagne avec 1 000, en aura 100 de reste; et celle qui allait en campagne avec 100, en aura dix de reste, pour la maison d’Israël.
This is what Yahweh the Lord says to the people [MTY] of Israel: [“When your enemies attack you, ] and when 1,000 [of your soldiers] will go [to a battle], there will be only 100 who will survive. When 100 soldiers march out [from a city to fight], there will be only ten who will remain alive.”
4 Car ainsi dit l’Éternel à la maison d’Israël: Cherchez-moi, et vous vivrez;
Yahweh continues to say to the people [MTY] of Israel: “You Israeli people, return to me! If you do that, you will continue to remain alive.
5 et ne cherchez pas Béthel, et n’allez pas à Guilgal, et ne passez pas à Beër-Shéba; car Guilgal ira certainement en captivité, et Béthel sera réduite à rien.
Do not go to Bethel to seek [my help]; do not go to Gilgal [to worship]; do not [even] go to Beersheba, because [your enemies] will drag away [the people of] Gilgal to other countries, and Bethel will be completely destroyed.”
6 Cherchez l’Éternel, et vous vivrez, de peur qu’il n’envahisse comme le feu la maison de Joseph, et ne la dévore, et qu’il n’y ait personne à Béthel qui éteigne.
So, come to Yahweh; if you do that, you will remain alive. If you do not do that, Yahweh will descend on you descendants [MTY] of Joseph like [SIM] a fire; that fire will burn everything in Bethel, and (nothing/no one) will be able to save that town.
7 Vous qui changez en absinthe le droit, et qui couchez par terre la justice,
You people distort what is fair/right and cause [people to think that] it is something that is very bitter; you treat good things as though they are evil.
8 [cherchez-le], lui qui a fait les Pléiades et Orion; qui change en matin l’ombre de la mort, et transforme le jour en ténèbres de la nuit; qui appelle les eaux de la mer, et les verse sur la face de la terre: l’Éternel est son nom.
[Do you know who] created all the groups of stars and put them in their places? [Each morning] he causes the darkness to become the dawn, and [each evening] he causes the daylight to become darkness. He scoops up water from the oceans [to become clouds], and then he dumps the water [from the clouds] onto the earth. The one who does those things is named Yahweh.
9 Il fait lever subitement la destruction sur le fort, et la destruction vient sur la forteresse.
He causes strong [soldiers] to be killed, and causes the (high walls around/fortresses of) cities to be torn down.
10 Ils haïssent celui qui reprend à la porte, et ont en abomination celui qui parle avec intégrité.
[He is the one who will punish you] because you hate those who challenge anyone who tries to make unjust decisions, and you hate those who tell the truth in your courts.
11 C’est pourquoi, parce que vous foulez aux pieds le pauvre, et que vous prenez de lui des charges de blé: vous avez bâti des maisons de pierres de taille, mais vous n’y habiterez pas; vous avez planté des vignes excellentes, et vous n’en boirez pas le vin;
You oppress poor people and force them to pay big taxes. You have built big stone mansions [for yourselves], but you will not be able to live in them. You have planted vineyards, but there will not be any [grapes for you to harvest to make] wine.
12 car je connais vos nombreuses transgressions et vos grands péchés: ils oppriment le juste, prennent des présents, et font fléchir à la porte le droit des pauvres.
I know all of your sins and the terrible crimes that you have committed. You oppress righteous/honest people, and you accept bribes. You do not allow judges to treat poor people justly.
13 C’est pourquoi, en ce temps-ci, le sage gardera le silence, car c’est un temps mauvais.
This is a time when [many people do] evil things, so people who have good sense say nothing [when they hear about such things being done].
14 Recherchez le bien, et non le mal, afin que vous viviez; et ainsi l’Éternel, le Dieu des armées, sera avec vous, comme vous le dites.
In order to remain alive, you must stop doing what is wrong, and start doing what is right. If you do that, the Commander of the armies of angels will be with you like you claim [that he always is].
15 Haïssez le mal, et aimez le bien, et établissez dans la porte le juste jugement; peut-être l’Éternel, le Dieu des armées, usera-t-il de grâce envers le reste de Joseph.
Love what is good, and hate what is evil! Try to cause [judges] in your courts to make decisions that are right/fair! If you do those things, perhaps the Commander of the armies of angels will act mercifully toward [you descendants of] Joseph who are still alive.
16 C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit l’Éternel, le Dieu des armées, le Seigneur: Dans toutes les places, la lamentation! et dans toutes les rues, on dira: Hélas, hélas! Et on appellera le laboureur au deuil, et à la lamentation ceux qui s’entendent aux chants de douleur.
“Because I, Yahweh, [will punish you for your sins], this is what I have solemnly declared: People will be wailing loudly in every street, and people will be very sorrowful in every plaza. Farmers will be summoned to [come and] weep, along with the other official mourners who will wail [for those who have died].
17 Et dans toutes les vignes, la lamentation! car je passerai au milieu de toi, dit l’Éternel.
People will be wailing in your vineyards, because I will punish you [IDM] severely. [That will surely happen because] I, Yahweh, have said it!”
18 Malheur à vous qui désirez le jour de l’Éternel! À quoi vous [servira] le jour de l’Éternel? Il sera ténèbres, et non lumière,
Terrible things will happen to you who desire that it will soon be the day when Yahweh [will punish your enemies], because that will be a day of darkness, not of light.
19 comme si un homme s’enfuyait de devant un lion, et qu’un ours le rencontre; ou qu’il entre dans la maison et appuie sa main contre le mur, et qu’un serpent le morde.
[At that time, ] when you try to run from a lion, you will face a bear. When you run into your house [to be safe], and you put your hand on a wall, it will be bitten by a snake.
20 Le jour de l’Éternel n’est-il pas ténèbres, et non lumière? et profonde obscurité, et non splendeur?
That day, [when he punishes people], will certainly be [RHQ] a very dark day [MET], without even a little bit of light.
21 Je hais, je méprise vos fêtes, et je ne flairerai pas [de bonne odeur] dans vos assemblées solennelles;
[Yahweh says], “I hate your religious celebrations and the times when you gather to worship me; I detest them [DOU].
22 si vous m’offrez des holocaustes et vos offrandes de gâteau, je ne les agréerai pas, et je ne regarderai pas le sacrifice de prospérités de vos bêtes grasses.
Even if you bring me offerings that will be completely burned [on the altar] and offerings of grain, I will no longer accept them. Even if you bring me offerings to renew/maintain fellowship with me, I will not pay any attention to them.
23 Ôte de devant moi le bruit de tes cantiques; et la musique de tes luths, je ne l’écouterai pas.
So, stop singing noisy/loud songs! I will not listen when you play harps.
24 Mais que le jugement roule comme des eaux, et la justice comme un fleuve qui ne tarit pas!
Instead, your continually acting justly/fairly and righteously should be [never stop, ] like [SIM] [the water in] a river that never stops flowing.
25 M’avez-vous offert des sacrifices et des offrandes dans le désert, pendant 40 ans, maison d’Israël?
You Israeli people [MTY], your [ancestors] wandered through the desert for 40 years; and during that time, they never brought any sacrifices and offerings to me!
26 Mais vous avez porté le tabernacle de votre Moloc, et le Kiun de vos images, l’étoile de votre dieu, que vous vous êtes fait;
But they carried the two idols that they had made— the idols of Succoth, the god [that they considered to be] their king, and Kaiwan, [the image of the] star [that they worshiped].
27 et je vous transporterai au-delà de Damas, dit l’Éternel; son nom est le Dieu des armées.
Therefore, now I will force you to go to [a country that is] far beyond Damascus! [That will surely happen because] I, the Commander of the armies of angels, have said it!”
