Oseas 12
1 Efraín se apacienta de viento, y persigue al viento del este. Mentiras y destrucción aumentan continuamente. Además hizo un pacto con Asiria, y lleva el aceite de Egipto.
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 Yavé tiene pleito con Judá. Castigará a Jacob conforme a sus caminos. Le pagará según sus obras.
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 En el vientre tomó por el talón a su hermano, y en su madurez luchó con ʼElohim.
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
4 Luchó con el Ángel y prevaleció. Lloró, y le imploró gracia. En Bet-ʼEl lo encontró, y allí habló con nosotros.
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 ¡Sí, Yavé es el ʼElohim de las huestes! ¡Yavé es su nombre!
But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
6 Tú, pues, devuélvete hacia tu ʼElohim. Practica la bondad y la justicia, y espera siempre en tu ʼElohim.
You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgement, and draw near to your God continually.
7 Mercader que tiene en su mano balanza falsa es amigo de oprimir.
[As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
8 Dijo Efraín: Me enriquecí ciertamente. Hallé riqueza para mí. En todas mis labores no hallarán en mí alguna iniquidad que sea pecado.
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 Sin embargo, desde la tierra de Egipto Yo soy Yavé tu ʼElohim. Aún te haré vivir en tiendas, como en los días de la solemnidad.
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 Porque también hablé a los profetas. Multipliqué visiones y por medio de los profetas expuse parábolas.
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
11 ¿Hay iniquidad en Galaad? Solo son vanidad. En Gilgal sacrificaban becerros, pero sus altares son como pilas de piedras junto a los surcos del campo.
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 Huyó Jacob a la tierra de Aram. Israel sirvió para adquirir esposa, y por una esposa cuidó ovejas.
And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
13 Por medio de un profeta Yavé sacó a Israel de Egipto, y por medio de un profeta fue preservado.
And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
14 Efraín lo provocó a amarga ira. Por tanto, ʼAdonay dejará sobre él la culpa de sangre y hará volver sobre él su oprobio.
Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
