Oseas 12
1 Efraín es apacentado del viento, y sigue al solano; mentira y destrucción aumentan continuamente; porque hicieron alianza con los asirios, y el aceite se lleva a Egipto.
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth the east wind; the whole day he increaseth deceit and corruption; and a covenant do they make with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
2 Pleito tiene el SEÑOR con Judá para visitar a Jacob conforme a sus caminos; le pagará conforme a sus obras.
But with Judah also hath the Lord [to hold] a controversy; and to punish Jacob according to his ways, according to his doings will he recompense him.
3 En el vientre tomó por el calcañar a su hermano, y con su fortaleza venció al ángel.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his strength he strove with an angel.
4 Venció al ángel, y prevaleció; lloró, y le rogó; en Bet-el le halló, y allí habló con nosotros.
Yea, he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: in Beth-el he should find him, and there he will speak with us.
5 Mas el SEÑOR es Dios de los ejércitos; el SEÑOR es su memorial.
And the Lord God of hosts, the Eternal One is his memorial.
6 Tú, pues, conviértete a tu Dios; guarda misericordia y juicio, y en tu Dios espera siempre.
Therefore do thou return to thy God: keep goodness and justice, and wait on thy God continually.
7 Es mercader que tiene en su mano peso falso, amador de opresión.
But like a merchant, who hath the balances of deceit in his hand, loving to overreach,
8 Y dijo Efraín: Ciertamente yo he enriquecido, he hallado riquezas para mí; nadie hallará en mí iniquidad, ni pecado en todos mis trabajos.
Did Ephraim say, I am certainly become rich, I have acquired substance unto myself: it is all through my labors; they will find no iniquity in me, that could be sin.
9 Pero yo soy el SEÑOR tu Dios desde la tierra de Egipto; aún te haré morar en tiendas, como en los días de la fiesta.
And I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: I will yet make thee dwell in tents, as in the days of antiquity.
10 Y hablé por los profetas, y yo aumenté las visiones, y por mano de los profetas puse semejanzas.
And I have spoken through the prophets, and I myself have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets have I spoken in similitudes.
11 ¿Es Galaad iniquidad? Ciertamente vanidad son; en Gilgal sacrificaron bueyes; y aún son sus altares como montones en los surcos del campo.
If in Gil'ad there was misfortune, [it is because] there was naught but idolatry; in Gilgal they sacrificed bullocks [to idols]: their altars also are as stone-heaps on the furrows of the fields.
12 Mas Jacob huyó a tierra de Aram, y sirvió Israel por su mujer, y por su mujer fue pastor.
And Jacob fled into the fields of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [the flocks].
13 Y por profeta hizo subir el SEÑOR a Israel de Egipto, y por profeta fue guardado.
And by a prophet did the Lord bring Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he guarded.
14 Enojó Efraín a Dios con amarguras; por tanto, su sangre se derramará sobre él, y su Señor le pagará su oprobio.
[Yet] Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore will his Lord cast his blood-guiltiness upon him, and his reproach will he recompense unto him.
