Osee Propheta 12

1 Ephraim pascit ventum, et sequitur aestum: tota die mendacium, et vastitatem multiplicat: et foedus cum Assyriis iniit, et oleum in Aegyptum ferebat.

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.

2 Iudicium ergo Domini cum Iuda, et visitatio super Iacob: iuxta vias eius, et iuxta adinventiones eius reddet ei.

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.

3 In utero supplantavit fratrem suum: et in fortitudine sua directus est cum angelo.

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.

4 Et invaluit ad angelum, et confortatus est: flevit, et rogavit eum: in Bethel invenit eum, et ibi locutus est nobiscum.

And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.

5 Et Dominus Deus exercituum, Dominus memoriale eius.

But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.

6 Et tu ad Dominum Deum tuum converteris: misericordiam et iudicium custodi, et spera in Deo tuo semper.

Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.

7 Chanaan, in manu eius statera dolosa, calumniam dilexit.

[As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

8 Et dixit Ephraim: Verumtamen dives effectus sum, inveni idolum mihi: omnes labores mei non invenient mihi iniquitatem, quam peccavi.

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.

9 Et ego Dominus Deus tuus ex Terra Aegypti, adhuc sedere te faciam in tabernaculis, sicut in diebus festivitatis.

But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.

10 Et locutus sum super prophetas, et ego visionem multiplicavi, et in manu prophetarum assimilatus sum.

And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.

11 Si Galaad idolum, ergo frustra errant in Galgal bobus immolantes: nam et altaria eorum quasi acervi super sulcos agri:

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.

12 Fugit Iacob in regionem Syriae, et servivit Israel in uxorem, et in uxore servavit.

And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

13 In propheta autem eduxit Dominus Israel de Aegypto: et in propheta servatus est.

And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.

14 Ad iracundiam me provocavit Ephraim in amaritudinibus suis, et sanguis eius super eum veniet, et opprobrium eius restituet ei Dominus Deus suus.

Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.