Osee 12
1 But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.
Efraín es apacentado del viento, y sigue al solano; mentira y destrucción aumentan continuamente; porque hicieron alianza con los asirios, y el aceite se lleva a Egipto.
2 And the Lord [has] a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.
Pleito tiene el SEÑOR con Judá para visitar a Jacob conforme a sus caminos; le pagará conforme a sus obras.
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
En el vientre tomó por el calcañar a su hermano, y con su fortaleza venció al ángel.
4 And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and entreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.
Venció al ángel, y prevaleció; lloró, y le rogó; en Bet-el le halló, y allí habló con nosotros.
5 But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
Mas el SEÑOR es Dios de los ejércitos; el SEÑOR es su memorial.
6 You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgement, and draw near to your God continually.
Tú, pues, conviértete a tu Dios; guarda misericordia y juicio, y en tu Dios espera siempre.
7 [As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
Es mercader que tiene en su mano peso falso, amador de opresión.
8 And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.
Y dijo Efraín: Ciertamente yo he enriquecido, he hallado riquezas para mí; nadie hallará en mí iniquidad, ni pecado en todos mis trabajos.
9 But I the Lord your God brought you up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause you to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
Pero yo soy el SEÑOR tu Dios desde la tierra de Egipto; aún te haré morar en tiendas, como en los días de la fiesta.
10 And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
Y hablé por los profetas, y yo aumenté las visiones, y por mano de los profetas puse semejanzas.
11 If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
¿Es Galaad iniquidad? Ciertamente vanidad son; en Gilgal sacrificaron bueyes; y aún son sus altares como montones en los surcos del campo.
12 And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
Mas Jacob huyó a tierra de Aram, y sirvió Israel por su mujer, y por su mujer fue pastor.
13 And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
Y por profeta hizo subir el SEÑOR a Israel de Egipto, y por profeta fue guardado.
14 Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
Enojó Efraín a Dios con amarguras; por tanto, su sangre se derramará sobre él, y su Señor le pagará su oprobio.
