Oseas 9

Reina-Valera 1960

Castigo de la persistente infidelidad de Israel

9 No te alegres, oh Israel, hasta saltar de gozo como los pueblos, pues has fornicado apartándote de tu Dios; amaste salario de ramera en todas las eras de trigo. ²La era y el lagar no los mantendrán, y les fallará el mosto. ³No quedarán en la tierra de Jehová, sino que volverá Efraín a Egipto y a Asiria, donde comerán vianda inmunda.

⁴No harán libaciones a Jehová, ni sus sacrificios le serán gratos; como pan de enlutados les serán a ellos; todos los que coman de él serán inmundos. Será, pues, el pan de ellos para sí mismos; ese pan no entrará en la casa de Jehová.

⁵¿Qué haréis en el día de la solemnidad, y en el día de la fiesta de Jehová? ⁶Porque he aquí se fueron ellos a causa de la destrucción. Egipto los recogerá, Menfis los enterrará. La ortiga conquistará lo deseable de su plata, y espino crecerá en sus moradas.

⁷Vinieron los días del castigo,^(A) vinieron los días de la retribución; e Israel lo conocerá. Necio es el profeta, insensato es el varón de espíritu, a causa de la multitud de tu maldad, y grande odio. ⁸Atalaya es Efraín para con mi Dios; el profeta es lazo de cazador en todos sus caminos, odio en la casa de su Dios. ⁹Llegaron hasta lo más bajo en su corrupción, como en los días de Gabaa;^(B) ahora se acordará de su iniquidad, castigará su pecado.

¹⁰Como uvas en el desierto hallé a Israel; como la fruta temprana de la higuera en su principio vi a vuestros padres. Ellos acudieron a Baal-peor,^(C) se apartaron para vergüenza, y se hicieron abominables como aquello que amaron. ¹¹La gloria de Efraín volará cual ave, de modo que no habrá nacimientos, ni embarazos, ni concepciones. ¹²Y si llegaren a grandes sus hijos, los quitaré de entre los hombres, porque ¡ay de ellos también, cuando de ellos me aparte! ¹³Efraín, según veo, es semejante a Tiro, situado en lugar delicioso; pero Efraín sacará sus hijos a la matanza. ¹⁴Dales, oh Jehová, lo que les has de dar; dales matriz que aborte, y pechos enjutos.

¹⁵Toda la maldad de ellos fue en Gilgal; allí, pues, les tomé aversión; por la perversidad de sus obras los echaré de mi casa; no los amaré más; todos sus príncipes son desleales.

¹⁶Efraín fue herido, su raíz está seca, no dará más fruto; aunque engendren, yo mataré lo deseable de su vientre. ¹⁷Mi Dios los desechará, porque ellos no le oyeron; y andarán errantes entre las naciones.

Hosea 9

Good News Translation

Hosea Announces Punishment for Israel

9 People of Israel, stop celebrating your festivals like pagans. You have turned away from your God and have been unfaithful to him. All over the land you have sold yourselves like prostitutes to the god Baal and have loved the grain you thought he paid you with! ²But soon you will not have enough grain and olive oil, and there will be no wine. ³The people of Israel will not remain in the Lord's land, but will have to go back to Egypt and will have to eat forbidden food^[a] in Assyria. ⁴In those foreign lands they will not be able to make wine offerings to the Lord or bring their sacrifices to him. Their food will defile everyone who eats it, like food eaten at funerals. It will be used only to satisfy their hunger; none of it will be taken as an offering to the Lord's Temple. ⁵And when the time comes for the appointed festivals in honor of the Lord, what will they do then? ⁶When the disaster comes and the people are scattered, the Egyptians will gather them up—gather them for burial there at Memphis! Their treasures of silver and the places where their homes once stood will be overgrown with weeds and thorn bushes.

⁷^(A)The time for punishment has come, the time when people will get what they deserve. When that happens, Israel will know it! “This prophet,” you say, “is a fool. This inspired man is insane.” You people hate me so much because your sin is so great. ⁸God has sent me as a prophet to warn his people Israel. Yet wherever I go, you try to trap me like a bird. Even in God's Temple the people are the prophet's enemies. ⁹^(B)They are hopelessly evil in what they do, just as they were at Gibeah.^[b] God will remember their sin and punish them for it.

Israel's Sin and Its Consequences

¹⁰^(C)The Lord says, “When I first found Israel, it was like finding grapes growing in the desert. When I first saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But when they came to Mount Peor, they began to worship Baal and soon became as disgusting as the gods they loved. ¹¹Israel's greatness will fly away like a bird, and there will be no more children born to them, no more women pregnant, no more children conceived. ¹²But even if they did bring up children, I would take them away and not leave one alive. When I abandon these people, terrible things will happen to them.”

¹³Lord, I can see their children being hunted down^[c] and killed. ¹⁴What shall I ask you to do to these people? Make their women barren! Make them unable to nurse their babies!

The Lord's Judgment on Israel

¹⁵The Lord says, “All their evildoing began in Gilgal. It was there that I began to hate them. And because of the evil they have done, I will drive them out of my land. I will not love them any more; all their leaders have rebelled against me. ¹⁶The people of Israel are like a plant whose roots have dried up and which bears no fruit. They will have no children, but even if they did, I would kill the children so dear to them.”

The Prophet Speaks about Israel

¹⁷The God I serve will reject his people, because they have not listened to him. They will become wanderers among the nations.

Footnotes

Hosea 9:3 The Law of Moses prohibited the eating of certain foods as being ritually unclean (see Lv 11).
Hosea 9:9 At this city some Israelites of the tribe of Benjamin raped a Levite's concubine; this caused a civil war that almost wiped out the Benjaminites (see Jg 19–21).
Hosea 9:13 Probable text being hunted down; Hebrew unclear.

Hosea 9

New International Version

Punishment for Israel

9 Do not rejoice, Israel;
    do not be jubilant^(A) like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful^(B) to your God;
    you love the wages of a prostitute^(C)
    at every threshing floor.
²Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
    the new wine^(D) will fail them.
³They will not remain^(E) in the Lord’s land;
    Ephraim will return to Egypt^(F)
    and eat unclean food in Assyria.^(G)
⁴They will not pour out wine offerings^(H) to the Lord,
    nor will their sacrifices please^(I) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;^(J)
    all who eat them will be unclean.^(K)
This food will be for themselves;
    it will not come into the temple of the Lord.^(L)

⁵What will you do^(M) on the day of your appointed festivals,^(N)
    on the feast days of the Lord?
⁶Even if they escape from destruction,
    Egypt will gather them,^(O)
    and Memphis^(P) will bury them.^(Q)
Their treasures of silver^(R) will be taken over by briers,
    and thorns^(S) will overrun their tents.
⁷The days of punishment^(T) are coming,
    the days of reckoning^(U) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins^(V) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,^(W)
    the inspired person a maniac.^(X)
⁸The prophet, along with my God,
    is the watchman over Ephraim,^[a]
yet snares^(Y) await him on all his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.^(Z)
⁹They have sunk deep into corruption,^(AA)
    as in the days of Gibeah.^(AB)
God will remember^(AC) their wickedness
    and punish them for their sins.^(AD)

¹⁰“When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit^(AE) on the fig^(AF) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,^(AG)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol^(AH)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.
¹¹Ephraim’s glory^(AI) will fly away like a bird^(AJ)—
    no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.^(AK)
¹²Even if they rear children,
    I will bereave^(AL) them of every one.
Woe^(AM) to them
    when I turn away from them!^(AN)
¹³I have seen Ephraim,^(AO) like Tyre,
    planted in a pleasant place.^(AP)
But Ephraim will bring out
    their children to the slayer.”^(AQ)

¹⁴Give them, Lord—
what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
and breasts that are dry.^(AR)

¹⁵“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,^(AS)
    I hated them there.
Because of their sinful deeds,^(AT)
    I will drive them out of my house.
I will no longer love them;^(AU)
    all their leaders are rebellious.^(AV)
¹⁶Ephraim^(AW) is blighted,
    their root is withered,
    they yield no fruit.^(AX)
Even if they bear children,
    I will slay^(AY) their cherished offspring.”

¹⁷My God will reject^(AZ) them
because they have not obeyed^(BA) him;
they will be wanderers among the nations.^(BB)

Footnotes

Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God

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