Oseas 7

1Al curar Yo a Israel, se ha descubierto la iniquidad de Efraím y la perversidad de Samaria: practican la mentira; por dentro hay ladrones, y por fuera roban bandidos.

2No piensan en su corazón que Yo me acuerdo de todas sus maldades. Ahora los rodean sus obras que están ante mi vista.

3Regocijan al rey con sus perversidades, y a los príncipes con sus mentiras.

4Son adúlteros todos, como horno encendido por el hornero; este cesa de atizar (el fuego), mientras se amasa, hasta la fermentación.

5En la fiesta de nuestro rey, los príncipes loquearon tomados de vino; y él tendió su mano a los burladores.

6Porque ellos se acercaron, siendo como horno su corazón mientras le acechaban. Toda la noche durmió su hornero, y a la mañana el (horno) ardió cual llama abrasadora.

7Todos están encendidos como un horno; devoran a sus jueces, todos sus reyes han caído; no hay entre ellos quien clame a Mí.

8Efraím se ha mezclado con los pueblos; Efraím es una torta a la cual no se ha dado vuelta.

9Los extranjeros han devorado su fuerza, y él no se dio cuenta; también las canas se esparcieron sobre él sin que lo advirtiera.

10La soberbia de Israel se manifiesta en su misma cara; pero no se convierten a Yahvé su Dios, y con todo esto no lo buscan.

11Efraím ha venido a ser como una paloma tonta y falta de entendimiento: llaman a Egipto, acuden a Asiria.

12Pero mientras vayan, tenderé sobre ellos mi red; los haré caer cual ave del cielo; los castigaré según lo anunciado en sus asambleas.

13¡Ay de ellos porque se han apartado de Mí! ¡Ruina sobre ellos, por cuanto contra Mí se han rebelado! Yo iba a salvarlos, pero ellos hablaban mentiras de Mí.

14Y no me invocan de corazón cuando gimen sobre sus camas; es por el trigo y el vino por lo que se preocupan; así se apartan de Mí.

15Yo les he enseñado, he dado vigor a sus brazos, pero ellos maquinan contra Mí el mal.

16Vuelven a sacudir el yugo, son como arco engañoso. Sus príncipes caerán a espada, en castigo de la saña de su lengua. Por eso se mofarán de ellos en la tierra de Egipto.

1[Cum sanare vellem Israël, revelata est iniquitas Ephraim, et malitia Samariæ, quia operati sunt mendacium; et fur ingressus est spolians, latrunculus foris.

2Et ne forte dicant in cordibus suis, omnem malitiam eorum me recordatum, nunc circumdederunt eos adinventiones suæ: coram facie mea factæ sunt.

3In malitia sua lætificaverunt regem, et in mendaciis suis principes.

4Omnes adulterantes, quasi clibanus succensus a coquente; quievit paululum civitas a commistione fermenti, donec fermentaretur totum.

5Dies regis nostri: cœperunt principes furere a vino; extendit manum suam cum illusoribus.

6Quia applicuerunt quasi clibanum cor suum, cum insidiaretur eis; tota nocte dormivit coquens eos: mane ipse succensus quasi ignis flammæ.

7Omnes calefacti sunt quasi clibanus, et devoraverunt judices suos: omnes reges eorum ceciderunt; non est qui clamat in eis ad me.

8Ephraim in populis ipse commiscebatur; Ephraim factus est subcinericius panis, qui non reversatur.

9Comederunt alieni robur ejus, et ipse nescivit; sed et cani effusi sunt in eo, et ipse ignoravit.

10Et humiliabitur superbia Israël in facie ejus; nec reversi sunt ad Dominum Deum suum, et non quæsierunt eum in omnibus his.

11Et factus est Ephraim quasi columba seducta non habens cor. Ægyptum invocabant; ad Assyrios abierunt.

12Et cum profecti fuerint, expandam super eos rete meum: quasi volucrem cæli detraham eos; cædam eos secundum auditionem cœtus eorum.

13Væ eis, quoniam recesserunt a me ! vastabuntur, quia prævaricati sunt in me, et ego redemi eos, et ipsi locuti sunt contra me mendacia.

14Et non clamaverunt ad me in corde suo, sed ululabant in cubilibus suis: super triticum et vinum ruminabant; recesserunt a me.

15Et ego erudivi eos, et confortavi brachia eorum, et in me cogitaverunt malitiam.

16Reversi sunt ut essent absque jugo; facti sunt quasi arcus dolosus: cadent in gladio principes eorum, a furore linguæ suæ. Ista subsannatio eorum in terra Ægypti.]

1When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.

2And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

3They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

5The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.

7They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.

8Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.

9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.

10And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all these.

11And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.

12And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their congregation hath heard.

13Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me.

14And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

15And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.

16They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.