1 D ecid a vuestros hermanos: Ammi; y a vuestras hermanas: Ruhama.

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’

2 C ontended con vuestra madre, contended; porque ella no es mi mujer, ni yo su marido; aparte, pues, sus fornicaciones de su rostro, y sus adulterios de entre sus pechos;

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

3 n o sea que yo la despoje y desnude, la ponga como el día en que nació, la haga como un desierto, la deje como tierra seca, y la mate de sed.

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

4 N i tendré misericordia de sus hijos, porque son hijos de prostitución.

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

5 P orque su madre se prostituyó; la que los dio a luz se deshonró, porque dijo: Iré tras mis amantes, que me dan mi pan y mi agua, mi lana y mi lino, mi aceite y mi bebida.

For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; 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 P or tanto, he aquí yo rodearé de espinos su camino, y la cercaré con seto, y no hallará sus caminos.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

7 S eguirá a sus amantes, y no los alcanzará; los buscará, y no los hallará. Entonces dirá: Iré y me volveré a mi primer marido; porque mejor me iba entonces que ahora.

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

8 Y ella no reconoció que yo le daba el trigo, el vino y el aceite, y que le multipliqué la plata y el oro que ofrecían a Baal.

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

9 P or tanto, yo volveré y tomaré mi trigo a su tiempo, y mi vino a su sazón, y quitaré mi lana y mi lino que había dado para cubrir su desnudez.

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

10 Y ahora descubriré yo su locura delante de los ojos de sus amantes, y nadie la librará de mi mano.

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

11 H aré cesar todo su gozo, sus fiestas, sus nuevas lunas y sus días de reposo, y todas sus festividades.

I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

12 Y haré talar sus vides y sus higueras, de las cuales dijo: Mi salario son, salario que me han dado mis amantes. Y las reduciré a un matorral, y las comerán las bestias del campo.

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

13 Y la castigaré por los días en que incensaba a los baales, y se adornaba de sus zarcillos y de sus joyeles, y se iba tras sus amantes y se olvidaba de mí, dice Jehová.

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

14 P ero he aquí que yo la atraeré y la llevaré al desierto, y hablaré a su corazón.

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

15 Y le daré sus viñas desde allí, y el valle de Acor por puerta de esperanza; y allí cantará como en los tiempos de su juventud, y como en el día de su subida de la tierra de Egipto.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16 E n aquel tiempo, dice Jehová, me llamarás Ishi, y nunca más me llamarás Baali.

It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’

17 P orque quitaré de su boca los nombres de los baales, y nunca más se mencionarán sus nombres.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

18 E n aquel tiempo haré para ti pacto con las bestias del campo, con las aves del cielo y con las serpientes de la tierra; y quitaré de la tierra arco y espada y guerra, y te haré dormir segura.

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

19 Y te desposaré conmigo para siempre; te desposaré conmigo en justicia, juicio, benignidad y misericordia.

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

20 Y te desposaré conmigo en fidelidad, y conocerás a Jehová.

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

21 E n aquel tiempo responderé, dice Jehová, yo responderé a los cielos, y ellos responderán a la tierra.

It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

22 Y la tierra responderá al trigo, al vino y al aceite, y ellos responderán a Jezreel.

and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.

23 Y la sembraré para mí en la tierra, y tendré misericordia de Lo-ruhama; y diré a Lo-ammi: Tú eres pueblo mío, y él dirá: Dios mío.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”