Amos 4

1 Écoutez cette parole génisses de Basan qui êtes sur la montagne de Samarie, qui opprimez les petits, froissez les indigents, dites à votre seigneur: Donne, afin que nous puissions boire!

You [wealthy women] of Samaria [have grown fat like] [MET] the fat cows of the Bashan [region]. You oppress poor people and you cause needy people to suffer. And you say to your husbands, “Bring us [more wine] to drink!”

2 Le Seigneur, l'Éternel, le jure par sa sainteté: Voici, il vient pour vous un temps où l'on vous enlèvera avec l'hameçon, et votre postérité avec le harpon du pêcheur,

But Yahweh [our] God has said this: “Because I am holy, I solemnly promise this: It will [soon] be the time when you all will be taken [to another country]; [your enemies will take you away as though they are] using sharp hooks [DOU] [to grab you].

3 et par les brèches vous sortirez, chacune en avant, pour aller vous jeter dans les montagnes, dit l'Éternel.

[Your enemies] will drag you out through breaks/holes [in your city walls], and they will throw you outside the city. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!

4 Allez à Béthel! et commettez le crime à Guilgal, nombre de crimes, et tous les matins offrez vos victimes, tous les trois jours vos dîmes!

Go to Bethel and Gilgal [towns where many people worship me] and sin more and more [SAR]! [I say that not because I want you to do it], [but because it is what you have always been doing]! Offer sacrifices on the morning [after you arrive], [and bring me] (a tithe/one tenth) of your crops the next day.

5 Encensez avec du levain en actions de grâces, et proclamez, publiez des offrandes volontaires! car ainsi vous aimez à faire, enfants d'Israël, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel.

Bring offerings of bread to thank me, and [other] offerings that are not required/commanded, and boast about [these offerings that you bring], because that is what you like to do, [but you do it to impress others, not to please me]. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it.

6 Je vous envoyai aussi la famine dans toutes vos villes, et la disette de pain dans tous vos lieux, mais vous ne revîntes pas à moi, dit l'Éternel.

I [am the one who] caused there to be no food in any of your cities and towns [DOU], but you rejected me in spite of that.

7 Je vous refusai aussi la pluie durant trois mois jusqu'à la moisson; et je fis tomber la pluie sur une ville, mais sur l'autre je ne la fis point tomber; un champ fut arrosé, mais le champ où il ne plut pas devint aride;

When it was still three months before [the time of] harvesting [crops], [at the time when your crops needed rain the most], I prevented rain from falling. [Sometimes] I allowed rain to fall on some towns and prevented it from falling on other towns. Rain fell on some fields, but it did not fall on other fields, with the result that [the soil in] those fields [where it did not rain] dried up.

8 et deux, trois villes se portèrent sur une ville pour y trouver de l'eau à boire, et ne se désaltérèrent point; mais vous ne revîntes point à moi, dit l'Éternel.

People would stagger from one town to another town to find water, but they could not even get enough water to drink, but in spite of that, you have not returned to me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!

9 Je frappai vos blés du charbon et de la carie; vos nombreux jardins et vos vignes et vos figuiers et vos oliviers furent dévorés par les sauterelles; mais vous ne revîntes point à moi, dit l'Éternel.

I caused your grain fields to dry up; I caused your gardens and vineyards to be struck/destroyed by (blight/hot winds) and mildew. [I sent] locusts to eat [the leaves on] your fig trees and olive trees, but in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true because I], Yahweh, have said it!

10 J'envoyai parmi vous une peste, telle que celle d'Egypte, je tuai par l'épée vos jeunes gens, laissant emmener vos chevaux; et je fis monter l'infection de vos camps et jusque dans vos narines; mais vous ne revîntes point à moi, dit l'Éternel.

I caused you to experience (plagues/severe sicknesses) like the plagues [that I sent to the people] of Egypt. I caused [many of] your young men to die in battles. I allowed [your enemies] to capture your horses. [Many of your soldiers were killed, ] and I caused your camps to be filled with the smell/stink of their [decaying] corpses. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because] I, Yahweh, have said it!

11 Je fis parmi vous un bouleversement tel que celui que Dieu fit de Sodome et de Gomorrhe, et vous fûtes comme un tison sauvé de l'incendie; mais vous ne revîntes point à moi, dit l'Éternel.

I got rid of many of you, like I got rid of [the people in] Sodom and Gomorrah. [Those of] you who [did not die] were like [SIM] a burning stick that was snatched from a fire [so that it would not burn completely]. But in spite of that, you rejected me. [That is certainly true, because I], Yahweh, have said it!

12 Aussi te ferai-je ces choses, Israël! Or, puisque je veux te faire ces choses, apprête-toi à venir au-devant de ton Dieu, Israël!

So [now], you [people of] Israel, I am going to punish you. Prepare to stand in front of me, your God, [when I judge you]!

13 Car voici, Il forma les montagnes, et Il crée le vent, Il révèle à l'homme ses propres pensées, Il change l'aurore en ténèbres et marche sur les hauteurs de la terre; l'Éternel, Dieu des armées, tel est son nom.

I created the mountains, and [I] created winds. I reveal to humans what I am thinking. I [sometimes] cause the daylight to become dark [like the night]. I [rule over everything]; I [even] walk on the highest mountains on the earth! I am the Commander of the armies of angels!”