Osée 7

1Quand j’ai voulu guérir Israël, alors s’est révélée l’iniquité d’Éphraïm, et la méchanceté de Samarie ; car ils pratiquent le mensonge ; le voleur pénètre dans la maison, le brigand se répand au dehors.

2Et ils ne disent pas en leurs cœurs que je me souviens de toute leur méchanceté. Maintenant leurs forfaits les entourent, ils sont là devant moi.

3Ils égaient le roi par leur méchanceté, et les princes par leurs mensonges.

4Ils sont tous adultères, pareils à un four allumé par le boulanger, qui cesse d’attiser le feu, depuis qu’il a pétri la pâte jusqu’à ce qu’elle soit levée.

5Au jour de notre roi, les princes se rendent malades par la chaleur du vin ; il a étendu sa main avec les moqueurs.

6Car, dans leur complot, ils ont mis leurs cœurs comme dans un four. Leur boulanger a dormi toute la nuit ; le matin, il a été embrasé comme une flamme ardente.

7Tous sont chauffés comme un four, et ils dévorent leurs juges. Tous leur rois sont tombés, sans qu’aucun d’eux ait crié vers moi.

8Éphraïm se mêle avec les peuples ; Éphraïm est un gâteau qu’on n’a pas retourné.

9Des étrangers ont dévoré sa force, et il ne le sait pas ; des cheveux blancs parsèment sa tête, et il ne le sait pas.

10L’orgueil d’Éphraïm témoigne contre lui ; ils ne reviennent pas à Yahweh, leur Dieu, et ils ne le recherchent pas, malgré tout cela.

11Ephraïm est devenu comme une colombe, simple et sans intelligence ; ils invoquent l’Égypte, ils vont en Assyrie.

12Pendant qu’ils y vont, j’étends sur eux mon filet ; je les ferai tomber comme les oiseaux du ciel, je les châtierai comme on l’a annoncé dans leur assemblée.

13Malheur à eux, car ils ont fui loin de moi ! Ruine sur eux, car ils m’ont été infidèles ! Et moi, je voudrais les sauver ; mais eux disent contre moi des mensonges.

14Ils ne crient point vers moi dans leur cœur, quand ils se lamentent sur leurs couches. Ils se tourmentent au sujet du froment et du vin nouveau, se détournant de moi.

15Moi, je les instruisais et je fortifiais leurs bras, et ils méditent le mal contre moi.

16Ils se tournent, mais non pas en haut ; ils sont comme un arc trompeur ; leurs chefs tomberont par l’épée à cause de la fureur de leurs langues ; et cela fera rire d’eux au pays d’Égypte.

1[Cum sanare vellem Israël, revelata est iniquitas Ephraim, et malitia Samariæ, quia operati sunt mendacium; et fur ingressus est spolians, latrunculus foris.

2Et ne forte dicant in cordibus suis, omnem malitiam eorum me recordatum, nunc circumdederunt eos adinventiones suæ: coram facie mea factæ sunt.

3In malitia sua lætificaverunt regem, et in mendaciis suis principes.

4Omnes adulterantes, quasi clibanus succensus a coquente; quievit paululum civitas a commistione fermenti, donec fermentaretur totum.

5Dies regis nostri: cœperunt principes furere a vino; extendit manum suam cum illusoribus.

6Quia applicuerunt quasi clibanum cor suum, cum insidiaretur eis; tota nocte dormivit coquens eos: mane ipse succensus quasi ignis flammæ.

7Omnes calefacti sunt quasi clibanus, et devoraverunt judices suos: omnes reges eorum ceciderunt; non est qui clamat in eis ad me.

8Ephraim in populis ipse commiscebatur; Ephraim factus est subcinericius panis, qui non reversatur.

9Comederunt alieni robur ejus, et ipse nescivit; sed et cani effusi sunt in eo, et ipse ignoravit.

10Et humiliabitur superbia Israël in facie ejus; nec reversi sunt ad Dominum Deum suum, et non quæsierunt eum in omnibus his.

11Et factus est Ephraim quasi columba seducta non habens cor. Ægyptum invocabant; ad Assyrios abierunt.

12Et cum profecti fuerint, expandam super eos rete meum: quasi volucrem cæli detraham eos; cædam eos secundum auditionem cœtus eorum.

13Væ eis, quoniam recesserunt a me ! vastabuntur, quia prævaricati sunt in me, et ego redemi eos, et ipsi locuti sunt contra me mendacia.

14Et non clamaverunt ad me in corde suo, sed ululabant in cubilibus suis: super triticum et vinum ruminabant; recesserunt a me.

15Et ego erudivi eos, et confortavi brachia eorum, et in me cogitaverunt malitiam.

16Reversi sunt ut essent absque jugo; facti sunt quasi arcus dolosus: cadent in gladio principes eorum, a furore linguæ suæ. Ista subsannatio eorum in terra Ægypti.]

1When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.

2And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

3They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

5The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.

7They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.

8Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.

9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.

10And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all these.

11And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.

12And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their congregation hath heard.

13Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me.

14And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

15And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.

16They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.