Osee 2

VULGATA	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Dicite fratribus vestris : Populus meus ; et sorori vestræ : Misericordiam consecuta.	1 Protest against your mother, protest! for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her harlotry from before her, her adultery from between her breasts,
2 Judicate matrem vestram, judicate, quoniam ipsa non uxor mea, et ego non vir ejus. Auferat fornicationes suas a facie sua, et adulteria sua de medio uberum suorum ;	2 Or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth; I will make her like the desert, reduce her to an arid land, and slay her with thirst.
3 ne forte expoliem eam nudam, et statuam eam secundum diem nativitatis suæ, et ponam eam quasi solitudinem, et statuam eam velut terram inviam, et interficiam eam siti.	3 I will have no pity on her children, for they are the children of harlotry.
4 Et filiorum illius non miserebor, quoniam filii fornicationum sunt.	4 Yes, their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has acted shamefully. "I will go after my lovers," she said, "who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink."
5 Quia fornicata est mater eorum, confusa est quæ 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.	5 Since she has not known that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, And her abundance of silver, and of gold, which they used for Baal,
6 Propter hoc ecce ego sepiam viam tuam spinis, et sepiam eam maceria, et semitas suas non inveniet.	6 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; I will snatch away my wool and my flax, with which she covers her nakedness.
7 Et sequetur amatores suos, et non apprehendet eos ; et quæret eos, et non inveniet : et dicet : Vadam, et revertar ad virum meum priorem, quia bene mihi erat tunc magis quam nunc.	7 So now I will lay bare her shame before the eyes of her lovers, and no one can deliver her out of my hand.
8 Et hæc nescivit, quia ego dedi ei frumentum, et vinum, et oleum, et argentum multiplicavi ei, et aurum, quæ fecerunt Baal.	8 I will bring an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her solemnities.
9 Idcirco convertar, et sumam frumentum meum in tempore suo, et vinum meum in tempore suo. Et liberabo lanam meam et linum meum, quæ operiebant ignominiam ejus.	9 I will lay waste her vines and fig trees, of which she said, "These are the hire my lovers have given me"; I will turn them into rank growth and wild beasts shall devour them.
10 Et nunc revelabo stultitiam ejus in oculis amatorum ejus ; et vir non eruet eam de manu mea ;	10 I will punish her for the days of the Baals, for whom she burnt incense While she decked herself out with her rings and her jewels, and, in going after her lovers, forgot me, says the LORD.
11 et cessare faciam omne gaudium ejus, solemnitatem ejus, neomeniam ejus, sabbatum ejus, et omnia festa tempora ejus.	11 Therefore, I will hedge in her way with thorns and erect a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
12 Et corrumpam vineam ejus, et ficum ejus, de quibus dixit : Mercedes hæ meæ sunt, quas dederunt mihi amatores mei ; et ponam eam in saltum, et comedet eam bestia agri.	12 If she runs after her lovers, she shall not overtake them; if she looks for them she shall not find them. Then she shall say, "I will go back to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now."
13 Et visitabo super eam dies Baalim, quibus accendebat incensum, et ornabatur in aure sua, et monili suo. Et ibat post amatores suos, et mei obliviscebatur, dicit Dominus.	13 So I will allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart.
14 Propter hoc ecce ego lactabo eam, et ducam eam in solitudinem, et loquar ad cor ejus.	14 From there I will give her the vineyards she had, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. She shall respond there as in the days of her youth, when she came up from the land of Egypt.
15 Et dabo ei vinitores ejus ex eodem loco, et vallem Achor, ad aperiendam spem ; et canet ibi juxta dies juventutis suæ, et juxta dies ascensionis suæ de terra Ægypti.	15 On that day, says the LORD, She shall call me "My husband," and never again "My baal."
16 Et erit in die illa, ait Dominus : vocabit me, Vir meus, et non vocabit me ultra Baali.	16 Then will I remove from her mouth the names of the Baals, so that they shall no longer be invoked.
17 Et auferam nomina Baalim de ore ejus, et non recordabitur ultra nominis eorum.	17 I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, and with the things that crawl on the ground. Bow and sword and war I will destroy from the land, and I will let them take their rest in security.
18 Et percutiam cum eis fœdus in die illa, cum bestia agri, et cum volucre cæli, et cum reptili terræ ; et arcum, et gladium, et bellum conteram de terra, et dormire eos faciam fiducialiter.	18 I will espouse you to me forever: I will espouse you in right and in justice, in love and in mercy;
19 Et sponsabo te mihi in sempiternum ; et sponsabo te mihi in justitia, et judicio, et in misericordia, et in miserationibus.	19 I will espouse you in fidelity, and you shall know the LORD.
20 Et sponsabo te mihi in fide ; et scies quia ego Dominus.	20 On that day I will respond, says the LORD; I will respond to the heavens, and they shall respond to the earth;
21 Et erit in die illa : exaudiam, dicit Dominus, exaudiam cælos, et illi exaudient terram.	21 The earth shall respond to the grain, and wine, and oil, and these shall respond to Jezreel.
22 Et terra exaudiet triticum, et vinum, et oleum, et hæc exaudient Jezrahel.	22 I will sow him for myself in the land, and I will have pity on Lo-ruhama. I will say to Lo-ammi, "You are my people," and he shall say, "My God!"
23 Et seminabo eam mihi in terra, et miserebor ejus quæ fuit Absque misericordia.
24 Et dicam Non populo meo : Populus meus es tu ; et ipse dicet : Deus meus es tu.