Hosea 2

1 Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

Decid a vuestros hermanos, Ammi, y vuestras hermanas, Ruhama:

2 Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

Pleitead con vuestra madre, pleitead; porque ella no es mi mujer, ni yo su marido; quite, pues, sus fornicaciones de su rostro, y sus adulterios de entre sus pechos;

3 For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

para que yo no la despoje desnuda, y la haga tornar como el día en que nació, y la ponga como un desierto, y la deje como tierra seca, y la mate de sed.

4 And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

Ni tendré misericordia de sus hijos, porque son hijos de fornicaciones.

5 For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

Porque su madre fornicó; la que los engendró fue avergonzada; porque dijo: Iré tras mis amantes, que me dan mi pan y mi agua, mi lana y mi lino, mi aceite y mi bebida.

6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

Por tanto, he aquí yo cerco tu camino con espinas, y la cercaré con seto, y no hallará sus caminos.

7 And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

Y seguirá a sus amantes, y no los alcanzará; los buscará, y no los hallará. Entonces dirá: Iré, y me volveré a mi primer marido; porque mejor me iba entonces que ahora.

8 For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

Y ella no reconoció que yo le daba el trigo, y el vino, y el aceite, y que les multipliqué la plata y el oro con que hicieron a Baal.

9 So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.

Por tanto yo tornaré, y tomaré mi trigo a su tiempo, y mi vino a su sazón, y quitaré mi lana y mi lino que había dado para cubrir su desnudez.

10 And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.

Y ahora descubriré yo su locura delante de los ojos de sus amantes, y nadie la librará de mi mano.

11 And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

Y haré cesar todo su gozo, su fiesta, su nueva luna y su sábado, y todas sus festividades.

12 And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.

Y haré talar su vid y su higuera, de la que ha dicho: Mi salario me son, que me han dado mis amantes. Y las reduciré a un matorral, y las comerán las bestias del campo.

13 And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

Y visitaré sobre ella los tiempos de los baales, a los cuales incensaba, y se adornaba de sus zarcillos y de sus joyeles, y se iba tras sus amantes olvidada de mí, dice el SEÑOR.

14 For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

Por tanto he aquí, yo la induciré, y la llevaré al desierto, y hablaré a su corazón.

15 And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Y le daré sus viñas desde allí, y el valle de Acor por puerta de esperanza; y allí cantará como en los tiempos de su juventud, y como en el día de su subida de la tierra de Egipto.

16 And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;

Y será que en aquel tiempo, dice el SEÑOR, me llamarás marido mío, y nunca más me llamarás Baali.

17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

Porque quitaré de su boca los nombres de los baales, y nunca más serán mentados por su nombre.

18 And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.

Y haré por ellos concierto en aquel tiempo con las bestias del campo, y con las aves del cielo, y con las serpientes de la tierra; y quebraré arco, y espada, y batalla de la tierra, y los haré dormir seguros.

19 And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.

Y te desposaré conmigo para siempre; te desposaré conmigo en justicia, juicio, misericordia, y miseraciones.

20 I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.

Y te desposaré conmigo en fe, y conocerás al SEÑOR.

21 And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;

Y será que en aquel tiempo responderé, dice el SEÑOR, yo responderé a los cielos, y ellos responderán a la tierra;

22 And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;

y la tierra responderá al trigo, al vino, y al aceite, y ellos responderán a Jezreel.

23 And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.

Y la sembraré para mí en la tierra, y tendré misericordia de Lo-ruhama; y diré a Lo-ammi: pueblo mío tú; y él dirá: Dios mío.