¹ No te alegres, oh Israel, gozando como los pueblos, pues has fornicado apartándote de tu Dios; amaste salario de ramera por todas las eras de trigo.

² La era y el lagar no los mantendrán; y el mosto les mentirá.

³ No quedarán en la tierra del SEÑOR, sino que volverá Efraín a Egipto, y a Asiria, donde comerán vianda inmunda.

⁴ No derramarán vino al SEÑOR, ni él tomará contentamiento en sus sacrificios; como pan de enlutados les serán a ellos; todos los que coman de él, serán inmundos. Porque su pan por su alma no entrará en la Casa del SEÑOR.

⁵ ¿Qué haréis en el día de la solemnidad, y en el día de la fiesta del SEÑOR?

⁶ Porque, he aquí se fueron ellos a causa de la destrucción; Egipto los recogerá, Menfis los enterrará; espino poseerá por heredad lo deseable de su plata, ortiga crecerá en sus moradas.

⁷ Vinieron los días de la visitación, vinieron los días de la paga; lo conocerá Israel: loco es el profeta, loco es el varón espiritual, a causa de la multitud de tu maldad, y gran odio.

⁸ El atalaya de Efraín para con mi Dios es a saber el profeta, es lazo de cazador en todos sus caminos, odio en la Casa de su Dios.

⁹ Llegaron a lo profundo, se corrompieron, como en los días de Gabaa; ahora se acordará de su iniquidad; visitará su pecado.

¹⁰ Como uvas en el desierto hallé a Israel; como la fruta temprana de la higuera en su principio vi a vuestros padres. Ellos entraron a Baal-peor, y se apartaron para vergüenza, y se hicieron abominables como aquello que amaron.

¹¹ Efraín, como ave volará su gloria desde el nacimiento, aun desde el vientre y desde la concepción.

¹² Y si llegaren a grandes sus hijos, yo los quitaré de entre los hombres, porque ¡ay de ellos también, cuando de ellos me apartare!

¹³ Efraín, según veo, es semejante a Tiro, asentada en lugar delicioso; mas Efraín sacará sus hijos al matador.

¹⁴ Dales, oh SEÑOR, lo que les has de dar; dales matriz que aborte, y enjutos pechos.

¹⁵ Toda la maldad de ellos fue en Gilgal; allí, pues, les tomé aversión: por la malicia de sus obras los echaré de mi Casa; nunca más los amaré; todos sus príncipes son desleales.

¹⁶ Efraín fue herido, su cepa se secó, no hará más fruto; aunque engendren, yo mataré lo deseable de su vientre.

¹⁷ Mi Dios los desechará, porque ellos no le oyeron; y andarán errantes entre los gentiles.

¹ Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

² Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

³ Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

⁴ Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

⁵ Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

⁶ Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

⁷ She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

⁸ The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

⁹ Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

¹¹ The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

¹² God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

¹³ I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

¹⁴ Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹⁵ The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

¹⁶ She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

¹⁷ God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

¹⁸ Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

¹⁹ God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

²⁰ God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

²² It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

²³ Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

²⁴ Abraham said, "I will swear."

²⁵ Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

²⁶ Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

²⁷ Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

²⁸ Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

²⁹ Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

³⁰ He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

³¹ Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

³² So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

³³ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

³⁴ Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.