Hosea 2
1 “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’
“Ese día llamarás a tus hermanos Ammi, y a tus hermanas Ruhama.
2 Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Condenen a su madre, condénenla porque no es mi esposa y yo no soy su esposo. Pídanle que deje de lucir como una prostituta, y que se quite el maquillaje y las vestiduras provocativas.
3 lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
“De lo contrario la dejaré desnuda, tal como el día en que nació, y la convertiré en un desierto, en un terreno árido, y la dejaré morir de sed.
4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.
No tendré piedad de sus hijos porque son hijos de prostitución.
5 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Pues su madre era un prostituta que los concibió de manera vergonzosa. Ella dijo: ‘Buscaré a mis amantes que me proveen comida y agua, así como la lana, el lino, el aceite de oliva y me dan de beber’.
6 Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she cannot find her way.
“Por eso voy a obstaculizar su camino con arbustos de espinas, y construiré un muro de piedra para detenerla y que no encuentre forma de continuar.
7 She will follow after her lovers, but she will not overtake them; and she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’
Cuando vaya en busca de sus amantes no podrá hallarlos; los buscará pero no los encontrará. Entonces dirá: ‘Volveré a mi ex esposo, porque estaba mejor con él que ahora’.
8 For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
“A ella se le olvidó que yo fui quien le dio grano, vino nuevo y aceite de oliva, así como la plata y el oro que le di en abundancia y que usaron para hacerle un ídolo a Baal.
9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
Así que recuperaré mi grano maduro y mi nuevo vino que di en tiempo de cosecha. Recuperaré mi lana y el lino que le di para cubrir su desnudez.
10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
La dejaré desnuda ante la mirada de sus amantes, y ninguno podrá rescatarla de mi.
11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Pondré fin a sus festividades: sus fiestas, celebraciones de luna nueva, sus días de reposo, y todos sus festivales.
12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.
Destruiré sus viñedos e higueras que decía haber recibido como pago por ser una prostituta. Los convertiré en matorrales y solo los animales salvajes comerán de los frutos que queden.
13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and forgot me,” says the LORD.
Yo la castigaré por todas las veces que le ofreció incienso a Baal, vestida, usando anillos y joyas, buscando a sus amantes, y olvidándose de mi, dice el Señor.
14 “Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
“Miren lo que voy a hacer: Haré que vuelva a mi, la llevaré al desierto, y allí hablaré a su corazón.
15 I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Le devolveré los viñedos y convertiré el Valle de Acor en una puerta de esperanza. Ella me responderá de la misma manera que lo hizo cuando era joven, como cuando salió de Egipto.
16 It will be in that day,” says the LORD, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’
Ese día, dice el Señor, tú me volverás a llamar ‘mi esposo’ y no ‘mi Baal’.
17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
Haré que deje de invocar a los baales, y sus nombres no serán mencionados nunca más.
18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
“En ese momento haré un acuerdo solemne con los animales salvajes y las aves del cielo, así como todo lo que se arrastra sobre el suelo. Voy a deshacerme del arco y la espada; aboliré la guerra de la tierra para que puedas acostarte en paz.
19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
Serás mi esposa para siempre. Te haré mi esposa en bondad y justicia.
20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.
Seré fiel a ti, mi esposa, y tú me reconocerás como el Señor.
21 It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
Ese día, declara el Señor, yo le responderé a los cielos y ellos le responderán a la tierra.
22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
La tierra responderá al grano, y al nuevo vino, y al aceite de oliva y ellos responderán ‘Jezreel’ (Dios muestra).
23 I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘You are My God!’”
Yo la ‘sembraré’ para mi mismo en la tierra. Amaré a Lo-ruhamah (no amada) y a Lo-ammi (no mi pueblo) le diré: ‘tú eres mi pueblo,’ y me dirá: ‘Tú eres mi Dios’”.
