Oseas 12
1 Efraím es apacentado del viento, y sigue al solano; mentira y destrucción aumenta continuamente; porque hicieron alianza con los Asirios, y aceite se lleva a Egipto.
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.
2 Pleito tiene Jehová con Judá, para visitar a Jacob conforme a sus caminos: pagarle ha conforme a sus obras.
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.
3 En el vientre tomó por el calcañar a su hermano; y con su fortaleza venció al ángel:
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
4 Y venció al ángel, y prevaleció: lloró, y rogóle: en Bet-el le halló, y allí habló con nosotros.
And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.
5 Mas Jehová es Dios de los ejércitos, Jehová es su memorial.
But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
6 Tú pues a tu Dios te convierte, guarda misericordia y juicio, y en tu Dios espera siempre.
Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.
7 Mercader que tiene en su mano peso falso, amador de opresión.
[As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
8 Y dijo Efraím: Ciertamente yo he enriquecido: hallado he riquezas para mí: nadie hallará en mí iniquidad, ni pecado en todos mis trabajos.
And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.
9 Yo pues soy Jehová tu Dios desde la tierra de Egipto, aun te haré morar en tiendas, como en los días de la fiesta.
But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
10 Y hablé a los profetas, y yo aumenté la profecía; y por mano de los profetas puse semejanzas.
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
11 ¿Galaad no es iniquidad? Ciertamente vanidad han sido: en Galaad sacrificaron bueyes; y aun sus altares como montones en los surcos del campo.
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.
12 Y Jacob huyó en la tierra de Aram, y sirvió Israel por su mujer, y por su mujer fue pastor.
And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
13 Y por profeta hizo subir Jehová a Israel de Egipto, y por profeta fue guardado.
And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
14 Enojó Efraím a Dios con amarguras: por tanto sus sangres se derramarán sobre él, y su Señor le pagará su vergüenza.
Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
