| 1 Palabra del Señor a Oseas, hijo de Beerí, en los tiempos de Ozías, Jotán, Ajaz y Ezequías, reyes de Judá, y de Jeroboán, hijo de Joás, rey de Israel. | 1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel. |
| 2 Comienzo de lo que dijo el Señor por medio de Oseas. Dijo el Señor a Oseas: «Ve, despósate con una mujer | ligada a la prostitución | y acepta los hijos de su prostitución, | porque el país no hace sino prostituirse, | apartándose del Señor». | 2 The beginning of the Lord’s conversation with Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take to yourself a wife of fornications, and make for yourself sons of fornications, because, by fornicating, the land will fornicate away from the Lord.” |
| 3 Él fue y se desposó con Gómer, hija de Diblaín, que concibió y dio a luz un hijo. | 3 And he went out and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son. |
| 4 El Señor le dijo: «Ponle de nombre Yezrael, pues dentro de poco pediré cuentas a la descendencia de Jehú por los crímenes de Yezrael, y pondré fin a la monarquía de la casa de Israel. | 4 And the Lord said to him: “Call his name Jezreel because, after a little while, I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put the kingdom of the house of Israel to rest. |
| 5 Aquel día quebraré el arco de Israel en el valle de Yezrael». | 5 And in that day, I will crush the stronghold of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.” |
| 6 Ella volvió a concebir y dio a luz una hija. Y el Señor le dijo: «Ponle de nombre “No compadecida”, | porque ya no tendré más compasión | de la casa de Israel | ni los soportaré más. | 6 And after a while, she conceived and bore a daughter. And he said to him: “Call her name, Without Mercy, for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them. |
| 7 Pero tendré compasión de la casa de Judá | y los salvaré por obra del Señor su Dios. | No los salvaré por medio del arco, | de la espada y la guerra, | con caballos y caballeros». | 7 Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. And I will not save them by bow and sword and battle and horses and horsemen.” |
| 8 Apenas había destetado a «No compadecida» cuando ella concibió y dio a luz un hijo. | 8 And she weaned her, who was called Without Mercy. And she conceived and bore a son. |
| 9 Y el Señor le dijo: «Ponle de nombre “No mi pueblo”, | porque ni vosotros sois mi pueblo, | ni yo existo para vosotros». | 9 And he said: “Call his name, Not My People, for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. |
| 10 And the number of the sons of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which is without measure and cannot be numbered. And in the place where it will be said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ this will happen: it will be said to them, ‘You are the sons of the living God.’ |
| 11 And the sons of Judah, and the sons of Israel, will be gathered together. And they will place over themselves one head, and they will rise up from the earth, for great is the day of Jezreel.” |
