Oseas 12:2

2 Ahora el Señor
presenta cargos contra Judá.
Está a punto de castigar a Jacob
por todos sus caminos engañosos
y cobrarle por todo lo que hizo.

Oseas 12:2 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 12:2

The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah
The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, as well as the ten tribes; for though they had ruled with God, and had been faithful with the saints in the first times of the apostasy of Israel; yet afterwards they sadly degenerated, and fell into idolatry likewise, particularly in the time of Ahaz, in which Hosea prophesied; and therefore the Lord had somewhat against them; nor would he spare them, but reprove them by the prophets, and rebuke them in his providences; bring them to his bar, and lay before them their evils, and threaten them with punishment in case of impenitence, as follows: and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
all the posterity of Jacob, whether Ephraim or Judah; those of the ten tribes, or of the two, who all descended from Jacob: or, "will visit according to his ways" ^F19; if right, and agreeably to the mind and word of God, in a way of grace and mercy; but if wrong, crooked, and perverse, then in a way of punishment; for visiting is used both ways: according to his doings will he recompense him;
as they were good or bad; if good, will reward them with a reward of grace; if bad, with vengeance. The Targum paraphrases it,

``according to his right works.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (wykrdk-dqpl) "ad visitandum juxta vias ejus", Pagninus, Montanus; "visitabit secundum vias ejus", Piscator.

Oseas 12:2 In-Context

1  El pueblo de Israel
se alimenta del viento;
todo el día corre tras el viento del oriente.
Amontonan mentiras y violencia;
hacen una alianza con Asiria
mientras mandan aceite de oliva a fin de comprar el apoyo de Egipto.

2 Ahora el Señor
presenta cargos contra Judá.
Está a punto de castigar a Jacob
por todos sus caminos engañosos
y cobrarle por todo lo que hizo.

3 Aun en la matriz,
Jacob luchó con su hermano;
cuando se hizo hombre,
hasta peleó con Dios.

4 Sí, luchó con el ángel y venció.
Lloró y clamó para que lo bendijera.
Allá en Betel se encontró cara a cara con Dios
y Dios habló con él,

5 ¡el Señor
Dios de los Ejércitos Celestiales,
el Señor
es su nombre!