Osée 8
1 Embouche la trompette! Comme un aigle, [il fond] sur la maison de l'Éternel, parce qu'ils ont violé mon alliance et déserté 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 Ils me crieront: Mon Dieu! nous, Israël, nous te reconnaissons.
My Israeli people cry out to me, ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’
3 Israël a répudié le bien; l'ennemi le poursuivra.
But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good, their enemies will pursue them.
4 Ils ont élu des rois, mais non pas de par moi, et des princes, mais à mon insu. De leur argent et de leur or ils se sont fait des idoles, pour être détruits.
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 Odieux est ton veau, Samarie! Ma colère s'allume contre eux; combien de temps seront-ils incapables d'innocence?
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 Car c'est d'Israël qu'il vient aussi; un sculpteur l'a fait, et ce n'est pas un Dieu. Car il sera mis en pièces, le veau de 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 Car ils sèment du vent, et moissonnent la tempête: ils n'ont point de blé, et le grain ne donne point de farine; en donnât-il, des étrangers la consumeraient.
[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 est consumé; maintenant ils sont parmi les peuples comme un vase dont personne ne fait cas.
[The people of] Israel will be defeated [MET] [by their enemies]; they will be [scattered] among other nations and become worthless.
9 Car ils vont en Assyrie: l'onagre se suffit seul à lui-même, Éphraïm se fait par des dons gagner des amants.
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 Puisqu'ils font répandre leurs dons parmi les peuples, je rassemblerai ceux-ci, qui dans peu les délivreront du fardeau d'être roi, d'être 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 a multiplié ses autels pour pécher, et ces autels sont devenus un péché pour lui.
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 mes lois par milliers; elles sont estimées comme choses étrangères.
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 Ils font des sacrifices de mes offrandes, ils sacrifient la chair et en mangent; l'Éternel n'y prend point de plaisir. Maintenant Il se rappelle leur crime et punit leurs péchés; ils retourneront en Egypte.
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 Et Israël a oublié son créateur et bâti des palais, et Juda a élevé nombre de villes fortes; mais j'enverrai le feu dans leurs villes, et il dévorera leurs palais.
[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.”
