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.
[The leaders of] Israel are constantly wavering [about seeking help from other countries]. [Seeking their help is as useless as] [MET] chasing the wind. They pile up their lies and violent acts. [First, ] they make a treaty with Assyria, and [then they] send olive oil to [the rulers of] Egypt [to seek their help].
2 Yavé tiene pleito con Judá. Castigará a Jacob conforme a sus caminos. Le pagará según sus obras.
Yahweh [says that he] will bring accusations against [the leaders of] Judah, and that he will punish [the descendants of] Jacob for what they have done.
3 En el vientre tomó por el talón a su hermano, y en su madurez luchó con ʼElohim.
[When Jacob was] in his mother’s womb, he grabbed his brother [Esau’s] heel [because he wanted to be born first]. When Jacob grew up, he wrestled with God.
4 Luchó con el Ángel y prevaleció. Lloró, y le imploró gracia. En Bet-ʼEl lo encontró, y allí habló con nosotros.
He struggled with [the one who had appeared to him in the form of] an angel, and Jacob defeated him, but [then] he cried and asked the angel to bless him. [Later], God came to Jacob at Bethel and talked with him there.
5 ¡Sí, Yavé es el ʼElohim de las huestes! ¡Yavé es su nombre!
[That was] the Commander of the armies of angels whose name is Yahweh [who talked with him]!
6 Tú, pues, devuélvete hacia tu ʼElohim. Practica la bondad y la justicia, y espera siempre en tu ʼElohim.
But you [people of Israel] must return to your God! You must faithfully love [him], and you must do what is fair/just and always depend on him.
7 Mercader que tiene en su mano balanza falsa es amigo de oprimir.
The merchants [among you] use scales that do not weigh correctly; they love/like to cheat people.
8 Dijo Efraín: Me enriquecí ciertamente. Hallé riqueza para mí. En todas mis labores no hallarán en mí alguna iniquidad que sea pecado.
[The people of] Israel boast, saying “We are [very] rich [DOU]; and we got all that money by our own efforts, and without committing any sin.”
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.
“I am Yahweh your God, [the one who brought your ancestors] out of Egypt. [And some day] I will force you to live in tents again [like your ancestors did] when [they celebrated] the Festival [of Living in Temporary Shelters].
10 Porque también hablé a los profetas. Multipliqué visiones y por medio de los profetas expuse parábolas.
[Many times] I spoke to the prophets, and I gave them many visions, and I gave them parables to tell [to the people].”
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.
[The people of] Gilead [city] are [RHQ] extremely wicked; they are worthless. The people sacrifice bulls in Gilgal [city], but their altars will [soon] become like [SIM] piles of stone [at the edge of] a plowed field.
12 Huyó Jacob a la tierra de Aram. Israel sirvió para adquirir esposa, y por una esposa cuidó ovejas.
[Your ancestor] Jacob fled [from his brother Esau] and went to northwest Mesopotamia. He worked [for his uncle Laban for many years] to get a wife; he took care of [his uncle’s] sheep [to pay] for her.
13 Por medio de un profeta Yavé sacó a Israel de Egipto, y por medio de un profeta fue preservado.
[Many years later, ] Yahweh enabled a prophet to bring the [ancestors of you] people of Israel here from Egypt; that prophet, [Moses], took care of them.
14 Efraín lo provocó a amarga ira. Por tanto, ʼAdonay dejará sobre él la culpa de sangre y hará volver sobre él su oprobio.
[But now the people of] Israel have caused [Yahweh] to become very angry; Yahweh says that they deserve to die because they caused [many others] to die [MTY]; he will pay them back for the sins that they have committed against him and for insulting him.
