Osée 2:7
La Bible du Semeur
7 Oui, leur mère s’est adonnée ╵à la prostitution,
la femme qui les a conçus ╵s’est couverte de honte,
puisqu’elle a affirmé : ╵« Moi, j’irai après mes amants
qui me fournissent ╵mon pain, mon eau,
mon lin, ma laine,
mon huile et mes boissons. »
Hosea 2:7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 Yes, their mother has prostituted herself;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers,[a]
who give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”(A)
Footnotes
- 2:7 My lovers: even though Israel had experienced the Lord as the God of the desert, covenant and conquest, the people were inclined to turn to the local fertility deities, the Baals, who were believed to be responsible for agricultural success. They easily forgot that the Lord provides them with everything (v. 10; cf. Dt 7:13), and thus prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods.
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