Osée, 3

1. Et Yahweh me dit :" Va encore, et aime une femme qui est aimée d'un amant et adultère : comme Yahweh aime les en-fants d'Israël, tandis qu'eux se tournent vers d'autres dieux et aiment les gâteaux de raisin. "

1. Again the LORD said to me: Give your love to a woman beloved of a paramour, an adultress; Even as the LORD loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and are fond of raisin cakes.

2. Je l'achetai pour quinze sicles d'argent, un bouler d'orge et un Iéthec d'orge, et je lui dis :

2. So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

3. " Pendant de nombreux jours tu me resteras là, tu ne te prosti-tueras point et tu ne seras à aucun homme, et moi aussi, je ferai de même à ton égard. "

3. Then I said to her: "Many days you shall wait for me; you shall not play the harlot Or belong to any man; I in turn will wait for you."

4. Car pendant de nombreux jours les enfants d'Israël demeureront sans roi et sans chef, sans sacrifice et sans stèle, sans éphod et sans théra-phim.

4. For the people of Israel shall remain many days without king or prince, Without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or household idols.

5. Après cela les enfants d'Israël se convertiront et chercheront de nouveau Yahweh, leur Dieu, et David, leur roi ; ils reviendront en tremblant vers Yahweh et vers sa bonté, à la fin des jours.

5. Then the people of Israel shall turn back and seek the LORD, their God, and David, their king; They shall come trembling to the LORD and to his bounty, in the last days.

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6. The number of the Israelites shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor counted. Whereas they were called, "Lo-ammi," They shall be called, "Children of the living God."

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7. Then the people of Judah and of Israel shall be gathered together; They shall appoint for themselves one head and come up from other lands, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

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8. Say to your brothers, "Ammi," and to your sisters, "Ruhama."