Osée 8
1 Ils seront frappés au sein d'un coup rapide contre terre, ou comme l'aigle s'abattant sur la maison du Seigneur, parce qu'ils ont transgressé Mon alliance et péché contre 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 Et ils crieront vers Moi, en disant: Ô Dieu, nous Te reconnaissons!
My Israeli people cry out to me, ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’
3 Israël a pris en haine le bien; ils M'ont poursuivi comme un ennemi.
But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good, their enemies will pursue them.
4 Ils ont fait pour eux, et non pour Moi, des rois qui ont régné, sans Me les faire connaître; avec leur argent et leur or, ils se sont fabriqué des idoles, et c'est pour cela qu'ils ont été exterminés.
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 Répudie ton veau, Samarie; Ma colère est exaspérée contre eux: jusques à quand sera-t-il impossible qu'ils soient purifiés
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 en Israël? C'est un artisan qui l'a fait; il n'est point Dieu; c'est pourquoi ton veau t'a égaré, Samarie.
[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 Ils ont semé du grain éventé, et leur destruction en fera la récolte. Ils n'ont pas une gerbe dont on puisse faire de la farine, et s'il y en a, les étrangers la mangeront.
[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 a été dévoré; il est maintenant parmi les nations comme un vase inutile,
[The people of] Israel will be defeated [MET] [by their enemies]; they will be [scattered] among other nations and become worthless.
9 parce qu'ils sont allés aux Assyriens. Éphraïm a refleuri contre lui-même; ils ont aimé les présents.
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 Et c'est pourquoi ils seront livrés aux gentils; alors Je les recevrai, et ils cesseront en peu de temps d'oindre des rois et 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 avait multiplié les autels; mais ceux qu'il a aimés étaient des autels de 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'avais écrit pour lui une multitude de préceptes; mais ces lois ont été réputés par lui comme étrangères, même les autels qu'il aime.
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 Aussi quand ils immoleront une victime et en mangeront les chairs, le Seigneur ne les agréera pas. Alors Il Se souviendra de leur iniquité, et tirera vengeance de leurs crimes. Ils seront retournés en Égypte, et ils mangeront des viandes impures chez les Assyriens.
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 Tel Israël aussi a oublié son Créateur, et ils ont planté des bois sacrés, et Juda a multiplié les villes fortifiées; mais sur ces villes J'enverrai la flamme, et elles seront dévorées jusqu'aux fondations.
[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.”
