Osea 2

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Et erit numerus filiorum Israel quasi arena maris, quae sine mensura est et non numerabitur. Et erit: in loco, ubi dicebatur eis: “Non populus meus vos”, dicetur eis: “Filii Dei viventis”.	1 “Say to your brothers, ‘You are my people,’ and to your sister, ‘You have obtained mercy.’
2 Et congregabuntur filii Iudae et filii Israel pariter et ponent sibimet caput unum et ascendent de terra, quia magnus dies Iezrahel.	2 Judge your mother, judge: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her fornications from before her face and her adulteries from between her breasts.
3 Dicite fratribus vestris: “Populus meus” et sororibus vestris: “Misericordiam consecuta”.	3 Otherwise, I may expose her nakedness and set her as on the day of her birth, and I may establish her as a wilderness and set her as an impassable land, and I may execute her with thirst.
4 Contendite adversum matrem vestram; contendite, quoniam ipsa non uxor mea, et ego non vir eius; auferat fornicationes suas a facie sua et adulteria sua de medio uberum suorum,	4 And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of fornications.
5 ne forte exspoliem eam nudam et statuam eam secundum diem nativitatis suae et ponam eam quasi solitudinem et statuam eam velut terram aridam et interficiam eam siti.	5 For their mother has been fornicating; she who conceived them has been brought to ruin. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
6 Et filiorum illius non miserebor, quoniam filii fornicationum sunt,	6 Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths.
7 quia fornicata est mater eorum, turpiter egit, quae concepit eos; quia dixit: “Vadam post amatores meos, qui dant panes mihi et aquas meas, lanam meam et linum meum, oleum meum et potum meum”.	7 And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not obtain them, and she will seek them, but she will not find them, and she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, because it was to some extent better for me then, than it is now.’
8 Propter hoc ecce ego saepiam viam tuam spinis et saepiam eam maceria, et semitas suas non inveniet;	8 And she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and that I increased her silver and gold, which they made into Baal.
9 et sequetur amatores suos et non apprehendet eos; et quaeret eos et non inveniet et dicet: “Vadam et revertar ad virum meum priorem, quia bene mihi erat tunc magis quam nunc”.	9 For this reason, I will turn back, and I will take away my grain in its time and my wine in its time, and I will set free my wool and my flax, which had covered her disgrace.
10 Et haec nescivit quia ego dedi ei frumentum et vinum et oleum et argentum multiplicavi ei et aurum, quae fecerunt Baal.	10 And now, I will reveal her foolishness by the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from my hand.
11 Idcirco convertar et sumam frumentum meum in tempore suo et vinum meum in tempore suo; et auferam lanam meam et linum meum, quae operiebant pudenda eius,	11 And I will cause all her joy to cease: her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her feast dates.
12 et nunc revelabo ignominiam eius in oculis amatorum eius, et nullus est qui eruat eam de manu mea.	12 And I will corrupt her vines and her fig trees, about which she said, ‘These rewards, they are mine, my lovers have given them to me.’ And I will place her in a narrow forest, and the beasts of the field will devour her.
13 Et cessare faciam omne gaudium eius, sollemnitatem eius, neomeniam eius, sabbatum eius et omnia festa tempora eius;	13 And I will inflict on her the days of the Baals, for whom she burned incense, and ornamented herself with earrings and necklace, and went after her lovers, and forgot about me,” says the Lord.
14 et corrumpam vineam eius et ficum eius, de quibus dixit: “Mercedes hae meae sunt, quas dederunt mihi amatores mei”. Et ponam eas in saltum, et comedet illas bestia agri.	14 “Because of this, behold, I will attract her, and I will lead her into the wilderness, and I will speak to her heart.
15 Et visitabo super eam dies Baalim, quibus accendebat incensum et ornabatur inaure sua et monili suo et ibat post amatores suos, sed mei obliviscebatur, dicit Dominus.	15 And I will give to her, from the same place, her vinedressers, and the valley of Achor as a passage of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, and as in the days of her ascension from the land of Egypt.
16 Propter hoc ecce ego lactabo eam et ducam eam in solitudinem et loquar ad cor eius;	16 And it will be in that day,” says the Lord, “that she will call me, ‘My Husband,’ and she will no longer call me, ‘My Baal.’
17 et dabo ei vineas eius ex eodem loco et vallem Achor, portam spei, et respondebit ibi iuxta dies iuventutis suae et iuxta dies ascensionis suae de terra Aegypti.	17 And I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and she will no longer remember their name.
18 Et erit: in die illa, ait Dominus, vocabis me: “Vir meus” et non vocabis me ultra: “Baal meus”.	18 And in that day, I will strike a deal with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creatures of the earth. And I will crush the bow and the sword, and I will wipe away war from the earth. And I will let them sleep securely.
19 Et auferam nomina Baalim de ore eius, et non recordabitur ultra nominis eorum.	19 And I will betroth you to me forever, and I will betroth you to me in justice and judgment, and in mercy and compassion.
20 Et percutiam eis foedus in die illa cum bestia agri et cum volucre caeli et cum reptili terrae; et arcum et gladium et bellum conteram de terra et cubare eos faciam confidenter.	20 And I will wed you to me in faith, and you will know that I am the Lord.
21 Et sponsabo te mihi in sempiternum; et sponsabo te mihi in iustitia et iudicio et in misericordia et miserationibus.	21 And this will happen in that day: I will listen closely,” says the Lord. “I will hear the heavens, and they will hear the earth.
22 Et sponsabo te mihi in fide, et cognosces Dominum.	22 And the land will pay attention to the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and these will hear Jezreel.
23 Et erit: in illa die exaudiam, dicit Dominus, exaudiam caelos, et illi exaudient terram;	23 And I will plant her for me in the land, and I will have mercy on her, though she had been called Without Mercy.
24 et terra exaudiet triticum et vinum et oleum, et haec exaudient Iezrahel.	24 And I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’ ”
25 Et seminabo eam mihi in terram et miserebor eius, quae fuit “Absque misericordia”;
26 et dicam “Non populo meo”: “Populus meus tu”; et ipse dicet: “Deus meus es tu” ”.