Hosea 7

DOUAI-RHEIMS	EL LIBRO DEL PUEBLO DE DIOS
1 When 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.	1 Cuando yo quería sanar a Israel, se reveló la culpa de Efraím, las maldades de Samaría. Sí, ellos obran de mala fe; el ladrón penetra en la casa, mientras una banda despoja afuera.
2 And 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.	2 Y no se detienen a pensar que yo me acuerdo de toda su maldad. Ahora los rodean sus malas acciones y ellas están delante de mi rostro.
3 They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.	3 Con su perfidia, ellos entretienen al rey, y con sus mentiras, a los príncipes.
4 They 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.	4 ¡Son todos adúlteros! Se parecen a un horno encendido, que el panadero deja de avivar desde que se amasa la pasta hasta que ha fermentado.
5 The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.	5 En la fiesta de nuestro rey, los príncipes se enervan bajo los ardores del vino; él tiende la mano a esos burlones.
6 Because 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.	6 Porque ellos se acercaron encubiertamente, aunque su corazón es como un horno. Toda la noche se adormece su furor, y a la mañana se enciende como una llama de fuego.
7 They 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.	7 Todos ellos se inflaman como un horno y devoran a sus jefes. ¡Así han caído sus reyes uno tras otro, pero nadie entre ellos clama hacia mí!
8 Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.	8 Efraím se mezcla con los pueblos, es un pastel cocido a medias.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.	9 Los extranjeros han devorado su vigor, y él no lo sabe. También le han salido canas, y él no lo sabe.
10 And 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.	10 La arrogancia de Israel atestigua contra él, pero ellos no vuelven al Señor, su Dios; a pesar de todo esto, no lo buscan.
11 And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.	11 Efraím es como una paloma ingenua, falta de discernimiento: apelan a Egipto, se van hacia Asiria.
12 And 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.	12 Pero allí donde vayan, yo tenderé sobre ellos mi red; los haré caer como pájaros del cielo, los atraparé apenas se oiga que están reunidos.
13 Woe 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.	13 ¡Ay de ellos, porque han huido lejos de mí! ¡Sobre ellos la devastación, porque se han rebelado contra mí! ¡Sí, yo quiero rescatarlos, pero ellos dicen mentiras contra mí!
14 And 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.	14 No gritaron hacia mí de corazón, cuando se lamentaban en sus lechos. Por trigo y vino nuevo se hacen incisiones y se han obstinado contra mí.
15 And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.	15 Yo mismo los dirigí, fortalecí sus brazos, pero ellos traman el mal contra mí.
16 They 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.	16 Se vuelven, pero no hacia lo alto, son como un arco fallido. Sus jefes caerán bajo la espada, por la insolencia de su lenguaje: esto hará que se rían de ellos en Egipto.