Oseas 7
1 Estando yo curando a Israel, descubrióse la iniquidad de Efraím, y las maldades de Samaria; porque obraron engaño; y el ladrón viene: despoja el salteador de fuera.
Should I desire to heal Israel, then would the iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria be laid open; for they commit falsehood; and the thief entereth [secretly], and the troop of robbers is spread abroad without.
2 Y no dicen en su corazón, que tengo en la memoria toda su maldad: ahora pues los rodearán sus obras: delante de mi presencia están.
And they never think in their own heart that I remember all their wickedness: though now their own doings are all round about them; before my face are they present.
3 Con su maldad alegran al rey, y a los príncipes con sus mentiras.
With their wickedness they make the king glad, and with their lies the princes.
4 Todos ellos adúlteros, como horno encendido por el hornero: el cual cesará de despertar después que esté hecha la masa, hasta que esté leuda.
They are all adulterers, as an oven well heated by the baker: [when] he that stirreth [the fire] resteth awhile from kneading the dough, until it be leavened.
5 El día de nuestro rey los príncipes le hicieron enfermar con cuero de vino: extendió su mano con los burladores.
On the day of our king's [entering on his rule] the princes are made sick with the fumes of wine: [the king] joineth his hand with scorners.
6 Porque aplicaron, como horno, su corazón asechando: toda la noche duerme su hornero: a la mañana está su horno encendido como llama de fuego.
For they make ready their heart for their tricky deeds, like the oven, the baker whereof sleepeth all the night, while in the morning it gloweth as a flaming fire.
7 Todos ellos hierven como un horno; y comieron a sus jueces: cayeron todos sus reyes: no hay entre ellos quien clame a mí.
They are all hot as an oven, they devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
8 Efraím se envolvió con los pueblos: Efraím fue torta no vuelta.
Ephraim mixeth himself indeed among the nations: Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 Comieron extraños su sustancia, y él no lo supo; y aun vejez se ha esparcido por él, y él no lo entendió.
Strangers devour his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on his [head], yet he knoweth not.
10 Y la soberbia de Israel testificará contra él en su cara; y no se tornaron a Jehová su Dios, ni le buscaron con todo esto.
And humbled was the pride of Israel before his own face; but they did not return to the Lord their God, and sought him not, notwithstanding all this.
11 Y fue Efraím como paloma, engañada sin entendimiento: llamarán a Egipto, irán al Asur.
And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: Egypt did they call hither, to Assyria did they go.
12 Cuando fueren, extenderé sobre ellos mi red, hacerlos he caer como aves del cielo: castigarlos he conforme a lo que se ha oído en sus congregaciones.
As they go, so will I spread out my net over them; as the fowls of the heaven will I bring them down: I will chastise them, as it hath been announced to their congregation.
13 ¡Ay de ellos! porque se apartaron de mí: destrucción sobre ellos; porque se rebelaron contra mí: yo los redemí, y ellos hablaron contra mí mentiras.
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me; destruction shall come unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I desired to redeem them, they yet spoke lies against me.
14 Y no clamaron a mí con su corazón, cuando aullaron sobre sus camas: para el trigo y el mosto se congregaron: se rebelaron contra mí.
And they cried not unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: for corn and new wine they assemble themselves, and they rebel against me.
15 Y yo los ceñí, esforcé sus brazos, y contra mí pensaron mal.
And I desired to instruct and to strengthen their arms; yet would they devise evil against me.
16 Tornáronse, mas no al Altísimo: fueron como arco engañoso: cayeron sus príncipes a cuchillo por la soberbia de su lengua: este será su escarnio en la tierra de Egipto.
They never return upward: they are like a deceitful bow: by the sword shall their princes fall because of the rage of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
