Oséias 12
1 Ephraim se apascenta de vento, e segue o vento leste: todo o dia multiplica a mentira e a destruição; e fazem alliança com a Assyria, e o azeite se leva ao Egypto.
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 O Senhor tambem com Judah tem contenda, e fará visitação sobre Jacob segundo os seus caminhos; segundo as suas obras lhe recompensará.
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 No ventre pegou do calcanhar de seu irmão, e pela sua força como principe se houve com Deus.
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
4 Como principe se houve com o anjo, e prevaleceu; chorou, e lhe supplicou: em Beth-el o achou, e ali fallou comnosco,
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.
5 A saber, o Senhor, o Deus dos Exercitos: o Senhor é o seu memorial.
But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
6 Tu, pois, converte-te a teu Deus: guarda a beneficencia e o juizo, e em teu Deus espera sempre.
You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgement, and draw near to your God continually.
7 Na mão do mercador está uma balança enganosa; ama a oppressão.
[As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
8 Ainda diz Ephraim: Comtudo eu estou enriquecido, e tenho adquirido para mim grandes bens: em todo o meu trabalho não acharão em mim iniquidade alguma que seja peccado.
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 Mas eu sou o Senhor teu Deus desde a terra do Egypto: eu ainda te farei habitar em tendas, como nos dias do ajuntamento.
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.
10 E fallarei aos prophetas, e multiplicarei a visão; e pelo ministerio dos prophetas proporei similes.
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
11 Porventura não é Gilead iniquidade? pura vaidade são: em Gilgal sacrificam bois: os seus altares como montões de pedras são nos regos dos campos.
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 Jacob fugiu para o campo da Syria, e Israel serviu por sua mulher, e por sua mulher guardou o gado.
And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
13 Mas o Senhor por um propheta fez subir a Israel do Egypto, e por um propheta foi elle guardado.
And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
14 Ephraim porém mui amargosamente o irou: portanto deixará ficar sobre elle o seu sangue, e o seu Senhor lhe recompensará o seu opprobrio.
Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
