Osée 8
1 Embouche la trompette! Comme l’aigle, [il fond] sur la maison de l’Éternel, parce qu’ils ont transgressé mon alliance et ont été rebelles à ma loi.
[Yahweh said to me], “Blow [MTY] your trumpet [to warn the people]! My people have rejected the agreement that I made with them, and they have rebelled against [obeying] my laws. Therefore, [their enemies] are swooping down on my people’s country like [SIM] an eagle.
2 Ils me crieront: Mon Dieu, nous te connaissons, [nous], Israël!…
My Israeli people cry out to me, ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’
3 Israël a rejeté le bien, l’ennemi le poursuivra.
But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good, their enemies will pursue them.
4 Ils ont fait des rois, mais non de par moi; ils ont fait des princes, et je ne le savais pas. De leur argent et de leur or ils se sont fait des idoles, afin qu’ils soient retranchés.
The Israel people appointed [their last three] kings, but they did not ask me if I agreed to [what they were doing]. They chose their own leaders without asking if I would approve of them. They used their own silver and gold to make for themselves idols, and doing that led them to be destroyed.
5 Ton veau t’a rejetée, Samarie! Ma colère s’est enflammée contre eux. Jusques à quand seront-ils incapables d’innocence?
You people of Samaria, throw away your [idol that resembles a] calf! I am extremely angry with you people! How long [RHQ] will you [do things that cause] you to be unacceptable to me?
6 Car il est d’Israël, celui-là aussi: un ouvrier l’a fait; il n’est pas Dieu; car le veau de Samarie sera [mis en] pièces!
[Someone in] Israel made that idol for you; [but I am] God and it is not. So that idol of a calf in Samaria must be smashed to pieces.
7 Car ils ont semé le vent, et ils moissonneront le tourbillon. Il n’a pas une tige de blé; elle germerait, qu’elle ne produirait pas de farine; et en produirait-elle, des étrangers la dévoreraient.
[The foolish thing that the people of Israel have done is like] [MET] trying to plant wind; but what they harvest will be like [MET] a whirlwind. So the grain that they planted will have no heads [on the stalks], and as a result [there will be no grain] from which to make flour. And if it did produce good grain, foreigners would [come and] steal it.
8 Israël est dévoré; maintenant, ils seront parmi les nations comme un vase auquel on ne prend pas plaisir.
[The people of] Israel will be defeated [MET] [by their enemies]; they will be [scattered] among other nations and become worthless.
9 Car ils sont montés vers l’Assyrien: un âne sauvage se tient isolé. Éphraïm a fait des présents à des amants.
Like [MET] donkeys that are looking for mates, they have requested [help] from Assyria; they paid money to [the leaders of Assyria] in order to [persuade those leaders to] protect them.
10 Quand même ils ont fait des présents parmi les nations, maintenant je les assemblerai, et ils commenceront à être amoindris sous le fardeau du roi des princes.
But although they have agreed to pay money each year to [the leaders of] those countries, I will soon gather them together [to punish them]. The great King [of Assyria] will cause them to suffer greatly.
11 Car Éphraïm a multiplié les autels pour pécher, [et] les autels seront son péché.
Although [the people of] Israel built many altars to present offerings [to their idols] to take away [their guilt for] sinning, those altars have become places where they commit [more] sins.
12 J’ai écrit pour lui les grandes choses de ma loi; elles sont estimées comme une chose étrange.
I wrote many laws for them, but they disregarded them, saying that [they did not have to obey them because] they were different from laws that they had known previously.
13 Pour sacrifice de mes offrandes, ils offrent de la chair, et ils la mangent; l’Éternel ne les a pas pour agréables. Maintenant, il se souviendra de leur iniquité et visitera leurs péchés. Ils retourneront en Égypte.
They offer sacrifices to me, and they eat [some of] the meat of those sacrifices, [which is what I permitted them to do]. But I, Yahweh, am not pleased with those sacrifices. I remember the evil things that they have done, and I will punish them for the sins that they have committed: I will force them to [go to other countries] [and become slaves like they were] [MET] in Egypt.
14 Mais Israël a oublié celui qui l’a fait; et il bâtit des palais, et Juda multiplie les villes fortes; mais j’enverrai un feu dans leurs villes, et il dévorera leurs palais.
[The people of] Israel have abandoned/forgotten me, the one who created their [nation]; they have built palaces, and [the people of] Judah have built walls around many towns. But I will send a fire that will destroy all their cities and their fortresses.”
