Amos 8
1 Le Seigneur, l’Éternel, m’envoya cette vision. Voici, c’était une corbeille de fruits.
Yahweh showed me [in a vision] a basket full of ripe fruit.
2 Il dit: Que vois-tu, Amos? Je répondis: Une corbeille de fruits. Et l’Éternel me dit: La fin est venue pour mon peuple d’Israël; Je ne lui pardonnerai plus.
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 En ce jour-là, les chants du palais seront des gémissements, Dit le Seigneur, l’Éternel; On jettera partout en silence une multitude de cadavres.
[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 dévorez l’indigent, Et qui ruinez les malheureux du pays!
[It is as though] you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
5 Vous dites: Quand la nouvelle lune sera-t-elle passée, Afin que nous vendions du blé? Quand finira le sabbat, afin que nous ouvrions les greniers? Nous diminuerons l’épha, nous augmenterons le prix, Nous falsifierons les balances 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 Puis nous achèterons les misérables pour de l’argent, Et le pauvre pour une paire de souliers, 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 L’Éternel l’a juré par la gloire de Jacob: Je n’oublierai jamais aucune de leurs œuvres.
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 Le pays, à cause d’elles, ne sera-t-il pas ébranlé, Et tous ses habitants ne seront-ils pas dans le deuil? Le pays montera tout entier comme le fleuve, Il se soulèvera et s’affaissera comme le fleuve d’Égypte.
[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 En ce jour-là, dit le Seigneur, l’Éternel, Je ferai coucher le soleil à midi, Et j’obscurcirai la terre en plein jour;
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 en lamentations, Je couvrirai de sacs tous les reins, Et je rendrai chauves toutes les têtes; Je mettrai le pays dans le deuil comme pour un fils unique, Et sa fin sera comme un jour d’amertume.
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, les jours viennent, dit le Seigneur, l’Éternel, Où j’enverrai la famine dans le pays, Non pas la disette du pain et la soif de l’eau, Mais la faim et la soif d’entendre les paroles de l’Éternel.
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 Ils seront alors errants d’une mer à l’autre, Du septentrion à l’orient, Ils iront çà et là pour chercher la parole de l’Éternel, 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 ce jour, les belles jeunes filles et les jeunes hommes mourront de soif.
At that time, even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint because of being very thirsty.
14 Ils jurent par le péché de Samarie, Et ils disent: Vive ton Dieu, Dan! Vive la voie de Beer-Schéba! Mais ils tomberont, et ne se relèveront plus.
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.”
