Osée 10
1 Israël est une vigne déserte, elle ne fait de fruit que pour elle-même, il a multiplié des autels selon la multiplication de son fruit, selon la bonté de leur pays, ils ont embelli leurs statues.
“Israel was [like a large] healthy/luxuriant vine [MET] that produced [a lot of] grapes. But as the people became richer, they made more altars [at which to worship idols]. As the people prospered, they [built and] decorated sacred pillars [that they worshiped].
2 Il a divisé leur cœur, ils vont être traités en coupables, il abattra leurs autels, il détruira leurs statues.
They are deceitful; [so] now they are guilty and must be punished. [I], Yahweh, will tear down their altars and smash those pillars.
3 Car bientôt ils diront: Nous n'avons point de Roi, parce que nous n'avons point craint l'Eternel; et que nous ferait un Roi?
Then they will say, ‘It is because we did not revere Yahweh that we no [longer] have a king. But [even if we had] a king, he certainly could not [RHQ] do anything to help us.’
4 Ils ont prononcé des paroles, jurant faussement quand ils ont traité alliance; c'est pourquoi le jugement germera sur les sillons des champs, comme le fiel.
They falsely promise [that they will do many things]; they solemnly promise and make agreements, but they do not do what they promise. So people accuse and sue [each other in the courts]; they are like [SIM] poisonous weeds [that grow] in a plowed field.
5 Les habitants de Samarie seront épouvantés à cause des jeunes vaches de Beth-aven: car le peuple mènera deuil sur son idole; et les prêtres de ses idoles, qui s'en étaient réjouis, [mèneront deuil] à cause que sa gloire est transportée loin d'elle.
The people who live in Samaria [city] are worried about [what may happen to the idol that resembles] a calf [that they set up] at Beth-Aven [town]. The people in Samaria will mourn, and the priests there will cry about it [if it is damaged or destroyed]. [Previously] they shouted joyfully about its being very great; but now it will not be great any more.
6 Même elle sera transportée en Assyrie, pour en faire présent au Roi Jareb; Ephraïm recevra de la honte, et Israël sera honteux de son conseil.
It will be taken to Assyria to be a gift for the great King [of Assyria]. [So the people of] Israel will be disgraced, and they will be ashamed because [they trusted in] that idol.
7 Le Roi de Samarie sera retranché, comme l'écume qui est au-dessus de l'eau.
The King of Samaria [and the other people in Samaria] will be gone; they will be like [SIM] a twig [that floats away] on the surface of the water [and disappears].
8 Et les hauts lieux d'Aven, qui sont le péché d'Israël, seront détruits; l'épine et le chardon croîtront sur les autels; et on dira aux montagnes, Couvrez-nous; et aux coteaux: Tombez sur nous.
The altars on the tops of hills [where the people worshiped idols] will be destroyed; those have been the places where the people of Israel sinned greatly. Thorns and weeds will grow and cover those altars. Then the people will plead to the mountains and hills, ‘Fall [down and] cover us [to protect us from God punishing us]!’
9 Israël, tu as péché dès les jours de Guibha; ils s'y sont arrêtés; la bataille qui était contre les pervers, ne les empoigna point à Guibha.
[You people of] Israel, [ever since your ancestors did evil things] at Gibeah, you have continued to sin. [When the people at] [PRS] Gibeah [did evil things], the result was a war [in which thousands of people died].
10 Je les châtierai selon ma volonté, et les peuples seront assemblés contre eux, parce qu'ils se sont attachés aux deux objets de leurs amours.
[So now], when I want to, I will punish the Israeli people. Because of the many sins that they have committed, [the armies of other] nations will gather to attack them, and they will cause the Israeli people to become their slaves.
11 Ephraïm est comme une jeune vache bien dressée, qui aime à fouler [le blé], mais j'ai méprisé la beauté de son cou. Je ferai qu'Ephraïm tirera [la charrue], Juda labourera, Jacob rompra ses mottes.
Israel is [like] [MET] a well-trained (heifer/young cow) that likes to thresh [grain]. [So now you will become slaves]. [It will be as though] I will put a yoke on your neck, and you will be forced to work hard for your enemies in their fields. [You people of] Israel and Judah [will be forced to go to Assyria]; there you [DOU] will pull plows to break up the ground [for planting seeds].
12 Semez-vous à la justice, et vous moissonnerez selon la gratuité; rompez les mottes de terre; car il est temps de rechercher l'Eternel, jusqu'à ce qu'il vienne, et fasse pleuvoir sur vous la justice.
[You plow your fields and plant your seeds] and harvest [your crops] [MET], [but what you need to do is] to act righteously and to faithfully love [me]; you need to repent [MET], because it is time to try to know [me], Yahweh; and if you do that, I will pour out [MET] many blessings on you.
13 Vous avez labouré la méchanceté, et vous avez moissonné la perversité; vous avez mangé le fruit du mensonge, parce que tu as eu confiance en tes voies, à cause de la multitude de tes hommes forts.
You [plant seeds and harvest the crops and eat them]; [but what I consider that you have really done is] that you have planted wicked things and harvested evil things and eaten [MET] the results [IDM] of the lies [that you have told]. [Instead of trusting in me, ] you have (depended on/trusted in) your own power and in your many soldiers.
14 C'est pourquoi un tumulte s'élèvera parmi ton peuple, et on saccagera toutes tes forteresses, comme Salman saccagea Beth-Abel au jour de la bataille, [où] la mère fut écrasée sur les enfants.
As a result, you will [soon] hear the roar of battle, and all your cities that have walls around them will be destroyed, like [SIM] Shalman’s [army] destroyed Beth-Arbel [city] in a battle, and the women [in that city] and their children were bashed to death.
15 Béthel vous fera de même, à cause de la malice de votre méchanceté; le Roi d'Israël sera entièrement exterminé au point du jour.
[You people of] [APO] Bethel [city], that is what will happen to you, because you are very wicked. And when the sun rises [on that day], the King of Israel will be killed [in the battle].”
