1. Le Seigneur, l'Eternel, m'envoya cette vision. Voici, il formait des sauterelles, Au moment où le regain commençait à croître; C'était le regain après la coupe du roi.
2. Et comme elles dévoraient entièrement l'herbe de la terre, Je dis: Seigneur Eternel, pardonne donc! Comment Jacob subsistera-t-il? Car il est si faible!
3. L'Eternel se repentit de cela. Cela n'arrivera pas, dit l'Eternel.
4. Le Seigneur, l'Eternel, m'envoya cette vision. Voici, le Seigneur, l'Eternel, proclamait le châtiment par le feu; Et le feu dévorait le grand abîme Et dévorait le champ.
5. Je dis: Seigneur Eternel, arrête donc! Comment Jacob subsistera-t-il? Car il est si faible!
6. L'Eternel se repentit de cela. Cela non plus n'arrivera pas, dit le Seigneur, l'Eternel.
7. Il m'envoya cette vision. Voici, le Seigneur se tenait sur un mur tiré au cordeau, Et il avait un niveau dans la main.
8. L'Eternel me dit: Que vois-tu, Amos? Je répondis: Un niveau. Et le Seigneur dit: Je mettrai le niveau au milieu de mon peuple d'Israël, Je ne lui pardonnerai plus;
9. Les hauts lieux d'Isaac seront ravagés; Les sanctuaires d'Israël seront détruits, Et je me lèverai contre la maison de Jéroboam avec l'épée.
10. Alors Amatsia, prêtre de Béthel, fit dire à Jéroboam, roi d'Israël: Amos conspire contre toi au milieu de la maison d'Israël; le pays ne peut supporter toutes ses paroles.
11. Car voici ce que dit Amos: Jéroboam mourra par l'épée, et Israël sera emmené captif loin de son pays.
12. Et Amatsia dit à Amos: Homme à visions, va-t-en, fuis dans le pays de Juda; manges-y ton pain, et là tu prophétiseras.
13. Mais ne continue pas à prophétiser à Béthel, car c'est un sanctuaire du roi, et c'est une maison royale.
14. Amos répondit à Amatsia: Je ne suis ni prophète, ni fils de prophète; mais je suis berger, et je cultive des sycomores.
15. L'Eternel m'a pris derrière le troupeau, et l'Eternel m'a dit: Va, prophétise à mon peuple d'Israël.
16. Ecoute maintenant la parole de l'Eternel, toi qui dis: Ne prophétise pas contre Israël, et ne parle pas contre la maison d'Isaac.
17. A cause de cela, voici ce que dit l'Eternel: Ta femme se prostituera dans la ville, tes fils et tes filles tomberont par l'épée, ton champ sera partagé au cordeau; et toi, tu mourras sur une terre impure, et Israël sera emmené captif loin de son pays.
1. This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.
2. And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
3. The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
4. This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
5. Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
6. The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.
7. This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.
8. And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:
9. And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.
10. Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.
11. For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.
12. And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:
13. But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.
14. Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:
15. And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.
16. Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.
17. So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.
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