Oseas 4
1 ¡Oíd la palabra de Yahvé, oh hijos de Israel! Pues Yahvé entra en juicio con los habitantes del país, porque no hay verdad ni misericordia, y no hay conocimiento de Dios en la tierra.
You Israeli people, listen to this message from Yahweh! He is accusing you people who live in this country, [saying] “The people are not faithfully [doing what pleases me], they are not kind [to others], and they do not [even] know me!
2 Perjuran, y mienten, matan, roban y adulteran, hacen violencia, y un homicidio sigue a otro.
Everywhere in this land they curse [others], they murder [others], they steal, and they commit adultery. They act violently toward others and commit one murder after another.
3 Por esto el país está de luto, y desfallecen cuantos en él habitan, juntamente con las bestias del campo y las aves del cielo. Hasta los peces de la mar desaparecen.
It is because of their doing those things that there is no rain [MTY], the land has become dry, the people are mourning, and the people are dying [from hunger]. Even the wild animals and the birds and the fish in the sea are dying.
4 Pero nadie se ponga a contender y nadie reprenda; porque tu pueblo es como aquellos que se querellan contra el sacerdote.
But no one should accuse someone else and say it is his fault. It is you priests whom I am accusing.
5 Tropezarás en pleno día, y también el profeta tropezará contigo de noche; y Yo haré perecer a tu madre.
So I will punish [MTY] you priests, night and day, and I will punish the prophets with you. I am going to destroy [Israel, the nation that is like] [MET] a mother to you.
6 Mi pueblo perece por falta de conocimiento. Por haber rechazado tú el conocimiento, Yo te rechazaré a ti para que no seas mi sacerdote. Por haber olvidado tú la ley de tu Dios, me olvidaré Yo de tus hijos.
It is because my people do not know [about me] that they will be destroyed. And their not knowing about me is because you priests have refused [to teach them about me]; so I will no longer allow you to be my priests. You have forgotten the things that I taught you, so I will forget [to bless] your children.
7 Cuanto más se multiplicaron, tanto más pecaron contra Mí; por lo cual trocaré su gloria en ignominia.
As there are more and more priests, they have sinned against me more and more. So I will no longer allow them to be honored; instead, I will cause them to be disgraced.
8 Comen los pecados de mi pueblo, y las iniquidades de este le gustan.
The priests get food from [the offerings that the] people [bring in order to be forgiven for having sinned], [so] the priests want the people to sin more and more [in order that the people will bring them more and more offerings].
9 Por eso el pueblo y los sacerdotes tendrán la misma suerte. Los castigaré por su conducta y haré recaer sobre ellos sus obras.
The priests [are as sinful] as the [other] people, and I will punish [all of] them for what they have done; I will pay them back for the [evil] things that they have done.
10 Comerán, y no se saciarán; fornicarán y no se multiplicarán, por cuanto han dejado de servir a Yahvé.
[The priests] will eat, but they will still be hungry; they will have sex with prostitutes, but they will not have any children, because they have abandoned [me], Yahweh,
11 Fornicación, vino y mosto quitan el buen sentido.
and they are devoting themselves to sleeping with prostitutes, and to [drinking] old wine and new wine, which results in their not being able to think clearly.”
12 Mi pueblo consulta a sus leños, y su palo le da revelaciones; porque el espíritu de fornicación los ha extraviado, se prostituyen apartándose de su Dios.
“[You] my people request wooden idols [to tell you what you should do]! Like prostitutes who have left/abandoned their husbands,
13 Ofrecen sacrificios sobre las cimas de los montes, y queman incienso sobre los collados, bajo las encinas, los álamos y los terebintos; porque es grata su sombra. Por eso fornican vuestras hijas y adulteran vuestras nueras.
you have abandoned [me] your God, and you are chasing after [other gods] on the tops of hills and mountains; you burn incense under oak [trees], poplar [trees], and other trees where there is nice/pleasing shade. So your daughters have become prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law have committed adultery.
14 Sin embargo no castigaré a vuestras hijas fornicarias, ni a vuestras nueras adúlteras, por cuanto ellos mismos van aparte con las prostitutas, y ofrecen sacrificios con las hieródulas; así el pueblo que no entiende corre hacia su perdición.
But it is not [only] your daughters [whom I will punish] for having become prostitutes, and it is not [only] your daughters-in-law whom I will punish for committing adultery, because the men also are having sex with prostitutes, and they offer sacrifices with the prostitutes [who search for men at the] shrines [of the idols]. [They are all] foolish people, and they will [all] be ruined.
15 Si tú, oh Israel, fornicas, al menos no se haga culpable Judá. No vayáis a Gálgala, ni subáis a Betaven; ni juréis (diciendo): «¡Vive Yahvé!»
You Israeli [people] have abandoned me like [MET] those who commit adultery have abandoned their spouses. But do not cause [the people of] Judah to sin [also]. Do not go to Gilgal or go up to Beth-Aven [towns] [to worship idols there]. Do not make solemn promises [there, saying ‘Just as surely] as Yahweh lives, [I will do what I am promising].’
16 Porque Israel se extravió como una vaca indómita; mas ahora los apacentará Yahvé cual corderos en lugar espacioso.
You [people of Israel] are as stubborn as [SIM] a young cow. So there is no way [RHQ] that [I], Yahweh, will [provide food for them] [like a shepherd provides food for his] lambs [by leading them] to a nice meadow.
17 Efraím no se separa de los ídolos. ¡Déjale!
The people of Israel have chosen to worship idols [MET], [so] allow them [to do what they want to do].
18 Terminada su embriaguez se entregan a la fornicación; sus príncipes aman sobre todo la ignominia.
When their rulers finish drinking [their wine], they go to find prostitutes; they love their disgraceful behavior.
19 El viento los tiene envueltos en sus alas; y quedarán avergonzados a causa de sus sacrificios.
But they will disappear [as though] [MET] they were blown away by a whirlwind. They will become [very] ashamed because of their offering sacrifices [to idols].”
