Hosea 4
1 You Israeli people, listen to this message from Yahweh! He is accusing you people who live in this country, [saying] “The people are not faithfully [doing what pleases me], they are not kind [to others], and they do not [even] know me!
Écoutez la parole de l'Éternel, enfants d'Israël! car l'Éternel fait le procès aux habitants du pays; car il n'y a ni vérité, ni amour, ni connaissance de Dieu dans le pays.
2 Everywhere in this land they curse [others], they murder [others], they steal, and they commit adultery. They act violently toward others and commit one murder after another.
On jure et l'on ment, l'on est homicide, et voleur et adultère; ils font des violences; au meurtre succède le meurtre.
3 It is because of their doing those things that there is no rain [MTY], the land has become dry, the people are mourning, and the people are dying [from hunger]. Even the wild animals and the birds and the fish in the sea are dying.
Aussi, le pays est en deuil, et tous ses habitants dans la langueur, et les bêtes des champs et les oiseaux des Cieux, même les poissons de la mer disparaissent.
4 But no one should accuse someone else and say it is his fault. It is you priests whom I am accusing.
Mais que nul ne conteste, et que nul ne reprenne! car ton peuple est comme ceux qui contestent contre les sacrificateurs.
5 So I will punish [MTY] you priests, night and day, and I will punish the prophets with you. I am going to destroy [Israel, the nation that is like] [MET] a mother to you.
Ainsi tu tomberas de jour, et avec toi le prophète aussi tombera de nuit, et je détruirai ta mère.
6 It is because my people do not know [about me] that they will be destroyed. And their not knowing about me is because you priests have refused [to teach them about me]; so I will no longer allow you to be my priests. You have forgotten the things that I taught you, so I will forget [to bless] your children.
Mon peuple est détruit faute d'avoir la connaissance… Et toi, puisque tu dédaignes la connaissance, je te dédaignerai aussi, et tu ne seras plus mon sacrificateur, et puisque tu oublies la loi de ton Dieu, j'oublierai aussi tes enfants.
7 As there are more and more priests, they have sinned against me more and more. So I will no longer allow them to be honored; instead, I will cause them to be disgraced.
Plus ils s'accroissent, plus ils pèchent contre moi: je changerai leur gloire en ignominie.
8 The priests get food from [the offerings that the] people [bring in order to be forgiven for having sinned], [so] the priests want the people to sin more and more [in order that the people will bring them more and more offerings].
Du péché de mon peuple ils tirent leur subsistance, et de son crime ils sont avides.
9 The priests [are as sinful] as the [other] people, and I will punish [all of] them for what they have done; I will pay them back for the [evil] things that they have done.
Aussi en sera-t-il du peuple comme du sacrificateur, et je les châtierai de leur conduite et je leur rendrai ce qu'ils ont fait.
10 [The priests] will eat, but they will still be hungry; they will have sex with prostitutes, but they will not have any children, because they have abandoned [me], Yahweh,
Ils mangeront et ne seront point rassasiés; ils seront impudiques et ne se multiplieront pas, car ils abandonnent le culte de l'Éternel.
11 and they are devoting themselves to sleeping with prostitutes, and to [drinking] old wine and new wine, which results in their not being able to think clearly.”
L'impudicité et le vin et le moût ôtent le sens.
12 “[You] my people request wooden idols [to tell you what you should do]! Like prostitutes who have left/abandoned their husbands,
Mon peuple interroge son bois, et c'est son bâton qui l'avise, car l'esprit d'impudicité les a séduits; adultères, ils désertent leur Dieu.
13 you have abandoned [me] your God, and you are chasing after [other gods] on the tops of hills and mountains; you burn incense under oak [trees], poplar [trees], and other trees where there is nice/pleasing shade. So your daughters have become prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law have committed adultery.
Sur les cimes des montagnes ils sacrifient, et sur les collines ils encensent, sous le chêne et le peuplier et le térébinthe, parce que l'ombrage en est beau; c'est pourquoi vos filles sont impudiques et vos brus adultères.
14 But it is not [only] your daughters [whom I will punish] for having become prostitutes, and it is not [only] your daughters-in-law whom I will punish for committing adultery, because the men also are having sex with prostitutes, and they offer sacrifices with the prostitutes [who search for men at the] shrines [of the idols]. [They are all] foolish people, and they will [all] be ruined.
Je ne saurais punir vos filles de s'être prostituées, ni vos brus d'avoir commis adultère; car eux-mêmes vont à l'écart avec des prostituées et sacrifient avec des courtisanes, et le peuple insensé court à sa perte.
15 You Israeli [people] have abandoned me like [MET] those who commit adultery have abandoned their spouses. But do not cause [the people of] Judah to sin [also]. Do not go to Gilgal or go up to Beth-Aven [towns] [to worship idols there]. Do not make solemn promises [there, saying ‘Just as surely] as Yahweh lives, [I will do what I am promising].’
Si tu es impudique, ô Israël, que Juda ne se rende pas coupable! ne venez point à Guilgal! et ne montez point à Bethaven, et ne jurez point par la vie de l'Éternel!
16 You [people of Israel] are as stubborn as [SIM] a young cow. So there is no way [RHQ] that [I], Yahweh, will [provide food for them] [like a shepherd provides food for his] lambs [by leading them] to a nice meadow.
Car telle une génisse indocile, telle Israël est indocile; maintenant l'Éternel les laissera paître comme des agneaux dans un pays ouvert.
17 The people of Israel have chosen to worship idols [MET], [so] allow them [to do what they want to do].
Éphraïm s'est alliée aux idoles: laisse-la faire!
18 When their rulers finish drinking [their wine], they go to find prostitutes; they love their disgraceful behavior.
sitôt qu'est enlevée la table où ils boivent, ils se livrent aux impudicités; leurs princes ont pour l'infamie un amour singulier.
19 But they will disappear [as though] [MET] they were blown away by a whirlwind. They will become [very] ashamed because of their offering sacrifices [to idols].”
Le vent l'emporte de ses ailes, et ils sont confus de leurs sacrifices.
