Osee 12
1 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.
[Ephraim pascit ventum, et sequitur æstum; tota die mendacium et vastitatem multiplicat: et fœdus cum Assyriis iniit, et oleum in Ægyptum ferebat.
2 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.
Judicium ergo Domini cum Juda, et visitatio super Jacob: juxta vias ejus, et juxta adinventiones ejus reddet ei.
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labors he had power with God.
In utero supplantavit fratrem suum, et in fortitudine sua directus est cum angelo.
4 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.
Et invaluit ad angelum, et confortatus est; flevit, et rogavit eum. In Bethel invenit eum, et ibi locutus est nobiscum.
5 But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
Et Dominus Deus exercituum, Dominus memoriale ejus.
6 You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgment, and draw near to your God continually.
Et tu ad Deum tuum converteris; misericordiam et judicium custodi, et spera in Deo tuo semper.
7 [As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
Chanaan, in manu ejus statera dolosa, calumniam dilexit.
8 And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labors shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.
Et dixit Ephraim: Verumtamen dives effectus sum; inveni idolum mihi: omnes labores mei non invenient mihi iniquitatem quam peccavi.
9 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.
Et ego Dominus Deus tuus ex terra Ægypti: adhuc sedere te faciam in tabernaculis, sicut in diebus festivitatis.
10 And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
Et locutus sum super prophetas, et ego visionem multiplicavi, et in manu prophetarum assimilatus sum.
11 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.
Si Galaad idolum, ergo frustra erant in Galgal bobus immolantes; nam et altaria eorum quasi acervi super sulcos agri.
12 And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
Fugit Jacob in regionem Syriæ, et servivit Israël in uxorem, et in uxorem servavit.
13 And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
In propheta autem eduxit Dominus Israël de Ægypto, et in propheta servatus est.
14 Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
Ad iracundiam me provocavit Ephraim in amaritudinibus suis: et sanguis ejus super eum veniet, et opprobrium ejus restituet ei Dominus suus.]
