1 D ecid a vuestros hermanos: Ammí, y a vuestras hermanas: Ruhamá.

Say to your brethren, ‘My people,’ And to your sisters, ‘Mercy is shown. ’ God’s Unfaithful People

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;

“Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, 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 expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst.

4 Y no tendré compasión de sus hijos, porque son hijos de prostitución.

“I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry.

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 harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.’

6 P or tanto, he aquí que yo rodearé de espinos su camino, y la cercaré con un muro, y no hallará sus sendas.

“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths.

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 chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.’

8 P ues ella no reconoció que yo le daba el trigo, el vino y el aceite, y que le multipliqué la plata y el oro que ellos usaban para Baal.

For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold— Which they prepared 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 return and take away My grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And will take back My wool and My linen, Given to cover her nakedness.

10 Y ahora descubriré yo su vergüenza 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 shall deliver her from My hand.

11 H aré cesar todo su gozo, sus fiestas, sus lunas nuevas, sus sábados y todas sus solemnidades.

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths— All her appointed feasts.

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 se las comerán las bestias del campo.

“And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’ So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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

I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot,” says the Lord. God’s Mercy on His People

14 P or eso, he aquí que yo la voy a seducir y la llevaré al desierto, y hablaré a su corazón.

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her.

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

I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

16 E n aquel tiempo, dice Jehová, me llamarás Ishí, y nunca más me llamarás Baalí.

“And it shall be, in that day,” Says the Lord, “ 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 from her mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered by their name no more.

18 E n aquel tiempo haré en favor de ellos un pacto con las bestias del campo, con las aves del cielo y con los reptiles de la tierra; y quebraré arco y espada y guerra fuera de la tierra, y haré que reposen seguros.

In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, To make them lie down safely.

19 Y te desposaré conmigo para siempre; te desposaré conmigo en rectitud, justicia, amabilidad y compasión.

“I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy;

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

I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the Lord.

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

“It shall come to pass in that day That I will answer,” says the Lord; “I will answer the heavens, And they shall answer the earth.

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

The earth shall answer With grain, With new wine, And with oil; They shall answer Jezreel.

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

Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth, And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people!’ And they shall say, ‘You are my God!’”