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 se apacienta del viento, y sigue al solano: mentira y destrucción aumenta continuamente; porque hicieron alianza con los Asirios, y aceite se lleva á Egipto.
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.
Pleito tiene Jehová con Judá para visitar á Jacob conforme á sus caminos: pagarále conforme á sus obras.
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labors he had power with God.
En el vientre tomó por el calcañar á su hermano, y con su fortaleza venció al ángel.
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.
Venció al ángel, y prevaleció; lloró, y rogóle: en Beth-el le halló, y allí habló con nosotros.
5 But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
Mas Jehová es Dios de los ejércitos: Jehová es su memorial.
6 You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgment, and draw near to your God continually.
Tú pues, conviértete á tu Dios: guarda misericordia y juicio, y en tu Dios espera siempre.
7 [As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
[Es] mercader [que] tiene en su mano peso falso, amador de opresión.
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.
Y dijo Ephraim: Ciertamente yo he enriquecido, hallado he riquezas para mí: nadie hallará en mí iniquidad, ni pecado en todos mis trabajos.
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.
Empero yo soy Jehová tu Dios desde la tierra de Egipto: aun te haré morar en tiendas, como en los días de la fiesta.
10 And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
Y hablado he á los profetas, y yo aumenté la profecía, y por mano de los profetas puse semejanzas.
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.
¿Es Galaad iniquidad? Ciertamente vanidad han sido: en Gilgal sacrificaron bueyes: y aun son sus altares como montones en los surcos del campo.
12 And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
Mas Jacob huyó á tierra de Aram, y sirvió Israel por mujer, y por mujer fué pastor.
13 And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
Y por profeta hizo subir Jehová á Israel de Egipto, y por profeta fué guardado.
14 Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
Enojado ha Ephraim [á Dios] con amarguras; por tanto, sus sangres se derramarán sobre él, y su Señor le pagará su oprobio.
