1 ¶ When I was healing Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they worked deceit; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.

ESTANDO yo curando á Israel, descubrióse la iniquidad de Ephraim, y las maldades de Samaria; porque obraron engaño: y viene el ladrón, y el salteador despoja de fuera.

2 A nd they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

Y no dicen en su corazón que tengo en la memoria toda su maldad: ahora los rodearán sus obras; delante de mí están.

3 T hey make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies.

Con su maldad alegran al rey, y á los príncipes con sus mentiras.

4 T hey are all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker who shall cease from waking after he has kneaded the dough until it is leavened.

Todos ellos adúlteros; son como horno encendido por el hornero, el cual cesará de avivar después que esté hecha la masa, hasta que esté leuda.

5 I n the day of our king the princes have made him sick with a wineskin; he stretched out his hand with the scorners.

El día de nuestro rey los príncipes lo hicieron enfermar con vasos de vino: extendió su mano con los escarnecedores.

6 F or they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Porque aplicaron su corazón, semejante á un horno, á sus artificios: toda la noche duerme su hornero; á la mañana está encendido como llama de fuego.

7 T hey are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen; there is no one among them that calls unto me.

Todos ellos arden como un horno, y devoraron á sus jueces: cayeron todos sus reyes: no hay entre ellos quien á mí clame.

8 ¶ Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Ephraim se envolvió con los pueblos; Ephraim fué torta no vuelta.

9 S trangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand.

Comieron extraños su sustancia, y él no lo supo; y aun vejez se ha esparcido por él, y él no lo entendió.

10 A nd the pride of Israel shall testify to his face, and they have not returned to the LORD their God, nor have they sought him with all this.

Y la soberbia de Israel testificará contra él en su cara: y no se tornaron á Jehová su Dios, ni lo buscaron con todo esto.

11 E phraim also was like a deceived dove, without understanding; they shall call to Egypt, they shall go to Assyria.

Y fué Ephraim como paloma incauta, sin entendimiento: llamarán á Egipto, acudirán al Asirio.

12 W hen they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them according to what has been heard in their congregations.

Cuando fueren, extenderé sobre ellos mi red, hacerlos he caer como aves del cielo; castigarélos conforme á lo que se ha oído en sus congregaciones.

13 W oe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction upon them! because they have rebelled against me; though I have ransomed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Ay de ellos! porque se apartaron de mí: destrucción sobre ellos, porque contra mí se rebelaron; yo los redimí, y ellos hablaron contra mí mentiras.

14 A nd they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds; they congregated themselves for the wheat and the wine, and they rebelled against me.

Y no clamaron a mí con su corazón cuando aullaron sobre sus camas, para el trigo y el mosto se congregaron, rebeláronse contra mí.

15 T hough I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they imagine evil against me.

Y yo los ceñi, esforcé sus brazos, y contra mí pensaron mal.

16 T hey returned, but not to the most High; they were like a deceitful bow; their princes fell by the sword for the arrogance of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Tornáronse, mas no al Altísimo: fueron como arco engañoso: cayeron sus príncipes á cuchillo por la soberbia de su lengua: éste será su escarnio en la tierra de Egipto.