Oseas 9
1 Oh Israel, no te alegres ni te regocijes como otros pueblos, porque te prostituiste al abandonar a tu ʼElohim, y amaste salario de prostituta en todas las eras del trigo.
[You people of] Israel, do not shout joyfully [during your festivals] like [people of other] nations do! [I say that] because you have (not been faithful to/abandoned) me, your God. At every place where the people thresh grain you have [presented gifts to your idols like men] pay money to prostitutes.
2 La era y el lagar no los alimentarán, y el mosto les fallará.
[But soon] there will not be enough grain [MTY, PRS] and wine [MTY, PRS] for you.
3 No vivirán en la tierra de Yavé. Efraín se volverá a Egipto, y en Asiria comerán manjar impuro.
And you people will not remain in the land that I, Yahweh, [gave to your ancestors]. You will be [captured and] taken to [Assyria], [where you will become slaves like your ancestors were] in Egypt; and in Assyria you will be forced to eat food that Yahweh has forbidden you to eat.
4 No ofrecerán a Yavé libaciones de vino, ni sus holocaustos le serán aceptos. Serán para ellos como pan de duelo. Todos los que lo coman quedarán impuros. Su pan será para ellos mismos, pero no entrará en la Casa de Yavé.
You Israelis will not [be able to] give wine offerings to him, or bring sacrifices to him. None of your other sacrifices will please him; they will be unacceptable to him, like [SIM] food that is touched by people at funerals, and everyone who eats that food will become unacceptable to him. They will be permitted to eat that food themselves, but they will not [be permitted to] bring it into the temple.
5 ¿Qué harán el día de la solemnidad, el día de la fiesta de Yavé?
At that time you will not [RHQ] be able to celebrate the feasts and sacred festivals.
6 Si escapan a causa de la calamidad, Egipto los recogerá, y Menfis los sepultará. La codicia de su plata la heredará la ortiga, y en sus tiendas crecerán espinos.
And even if you escape and are not killed [by the Assyrians], you will be captured by [the army of] Egypt, and you will [die and] be buried in Memphis, [the capital of Egypt]. Briers will [grow up and] cover your treasures of silver, and thorns will grow in your [ruined] tents/houses.
7 Llegan los días del castigo, Llegan los días de la retribución. Que lo sepa Israel: A causa de la magnitud de tu pecado, A causa de tu gran maldad y de tu gran odio, El profeta enloqueció. El hombre inspirado es insensato.
It is now the time for Yahweh to punish you, to pay you back for all the sins that you have committed. You people will [soon] know that. You have [committed] very many sins, and you very much hate Yahweh. You consider that the prophets are foolish, and you think that those who proclaim messages from him are crazy.
8 El vidente de Efraín profetiza sin contar con su ʼElohim. Es trampa de cazador en todos sus caminos, odio en la Casa de su ʼElohim.
My God appointed [me and the other] prophets to be [like] [MET] watchmen [to warn] you people of Israel, but everywhere that we go, [it is as though] people set traps for us and people are hostile [to us, even] in the temple of our God.
9 Se corrompieron grandemente, como en los días de Gabaa. Pero Él se acuerda de su culpa y castigará su pecado.
The sins that the Israeli people have committed are as awful as [what the men of] Gibeah did long ago; [so] God will not forget the wicked things that they have done; he will punish the Israelis for [all] those sins.
10 Como uvas en el desierto hallé a Israel. Como la fruta temprana de la higuera encontré a sus antepasados. Pero ellos fueron a Baal-peor y se apartaron para vergüenza. Fueron tan repugnantes como aquello que amaron.
[Yahweh says], “When I first started [to do things to help] Israel, it seemed to me as though [SIM] I had found grapes in the desert. Your ancestors were [delightful], like [SIM] the first figs that grow on fig trees [each year]. But when they came to Peor [Mountain], they worshiped that disgusting idol Baal, and they became as disgusting as the idol that they loved.
11 Como ave volará la gloria de Efraín. No habrá parto, ni embarazo, ni concepción.
The things that cause Israel to be great will disappear like [SIM] a bird that flies away; [most of their women will] not become pregnant [DOU] or give birth to children.
12 Y aunque críen a sus hijos, los quitaré de en medio de los hombres. ¡Ay de ellos en verdad, cuando Yo me aparte de ellos!
Even if their children are born and start to grow up, I will cause all of them to die [while they are still young]. Terrible things will happen to them when I abandon them!
13 Según observé, Efraín es otra Tiro plantada en la pradera, pero Efraín entregará sus hijos al verdugo.
I have seen Israel become beautiful and prosperous like Tyre [city] was [before it was destroyed], but now the people of Israel will [be forced to] take their children to be slaughtered [by their enemies].”
14 Dales, oh Yavé, lo que les vas a dar. Dales una matriz que aborte y pechos resecos.
Yahweh, [I do not know] [RHQ] what I should ask for my people. So I ask that you do this one thing: Cause the women who are pregnant to have miscarriages and unable [to nurse their babies].
15 Toda su maldad ocurrió en Gilgal. Allí, pues, les tomé aversión por la perversidad de sus hechos los eché de mi Casa. Ya no los amaré más. Todos sus gobernantes son desleales.
[Yahweh says], “Because of all the wicked things that my people did at Gilgal, that is where I started to hate them. [And now], because of [all] the sinful things that they have done, I will expel them from my country. I will not love them any longer; all their leaders rebel [against me].
16 Herido está Efraín. Su raíz está seca y no da fruto. Aunque engendre, mataré lo deseable de sus órganos internos.
Israel is like [MET] a grapevine that is dried up; [like a vine] [MET] whose roots are withered and that produces no fruit. Even if the [women of Israel] give birth to [more] children, I will cause those children, whom they love, to die.
17 Mi ʼElohim los desechará, porque ellos no lo escucharon, yandarán errantes entre las naciones.
The people of Israel have not obeyed me, their God, so I will reject them. [As a result], they will wander among the [other] nations, [searching for a place to live].”
