اَلتَّثْنِيَة 32

١ 1 «اِنْصِتِي أَيَّتُهَا ٱلسَّمَاوَاتُ فَأَتَكَلَّمَ، وَلْتَسْمَعِ ٱلْأَرْضُ أَقْوَالَ فَمِي.

“Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And you hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

٢ 2 يَهْطِلُ كَٱلْمَطَرِ تَعْلِيمِي، وَيَقْطُرُ كَٱلنَّدَى كَلَامِي. كَٱلطَّلِّ عَلَى ٱلْكَلاءِ، وَكَالْوَابِلِ عَلَى ٱلْعُشْبِ.

My doctrine drops as rain; My sayings flow as dew; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

٣ 3 إِنِّي بِٱسْمِ ٱلرَّبِّ أُنَادِي. أَعْطُوا عَظَمَةً لِإِلَهِنَا.

For I proclaim the Name of YHWH; Ascribe greatness to our God!

٤ 4 هُوَ ٱلصَّخْرُ ٱلْكَامِلُ صَنِيعُهُ. إِنَّ جَمِيعَ سُبُلِهِ عَدْلٌ. إِلَهُ أَمَانَةٍ لَا جَوْرَ فِيهِ. صِدِّيقٌ وَعَادِلٌ هُوَ.

The Rock—His work [is] perfect, For all His ways [are] just; God of steadfastness, and without iniquity; Righteous and upright [is] He.

٥ 5 «أَفْسَدَ لَهُ ٱلَّذِينَ لَيْسُوا أَوْلَادَهُ عَيْبُهُمْ، جِيلٌ أَعْوَجُ مُلْتوٍ.

It has done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not of His sons, A generation perverse and crooked!

٦ 6 أَلرَّبَّ تُكَافِئُونَ بِهَذَا يَا شَعْبًا غَبِيًّا غَيْرَ حَكِيمٍ؟ أَلَيْسَ هُوَ أَبَاكَ وَمُقْتَنِيَكَ، هُوَ عَمِلَكَ وَأَنْشَأَكَ؟

Do you act thus to YHWH, O people foolish and not wise? Is He not your Father—He who bought you? He made you, and establishes you.

٧ 7 اُذْكُرْ أَيَّامَ ٱلْقِدَمِ، وَتَأَمَّلُوا سِنِي دَوْرٍ فَدَوْرٍ. اِسْأَلْ أَبَاكَ فَيُخْبِرَكَ، وَشُيُوخَكَ فَيَقُولُوا لَكَ.

Remember days of old—Understand the years of many generations—Ask your father, and he tells you; Your elderly, and they say to you:

٨ 8 «حِينَ قَسَمَ ٱلْعَلِيُّ لِلْأُمَمِ، حِينَ فَرَّقَ بَنِي آدَمَ، نَصَبَ تُخُومًا لِشُعُوبٍ حَسَبَ عَدَدِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam—He sets up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of God [[or sons of Israel]].

٩ 9 إِنَّ قِسْمَ ٱلرَّبِّ هُوَ شَعْبُهُ. يَعْقُوبُ حَبْلُ نَصِيبِهِ.

For YHWH’s portion [is] His people, Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance.

١٠ 10 وَجَدَهُ فِي أَرْضِ قَفْرٍ، وَفِي خَلَاءٍ مُسْتَوْحِشٍ خَرِبٍ. أَحَاطَ بِهِ وَلَاحَظَهُ وَصَانَهُ كَحَدَقَةِ عَيْنِهِ.

He finds him in a land—a desert, And in a void—a howling wilderness, He turns him around—He causes him to understand—He keeps him as the apple of His eye.

١١ 11 كَمَا يُحَرِّكُ ٱلنَّسْرُ عُشَّهُ وَعَلَى فِرَاخِهِ يَرِفُّ، وَيَبْسُطُ جَنَاحَيْهِ وَيَأْخُذُهَا وَيَحْمِلُهَا عَلَى مَنَاكِبِهِ،

As an eagle wakes up its nest, Flutters over its young ones, Spreads its wings [and] takes them, Carries them on its pinions—

١٢ 12 هَكَذَا ٱلرَّبُّ وَحْدَهُ ٱقْتَادَهُ وَلَيْسَ مَعَهُ إِلَهٌ أَجْنَبِيٌّ.

YHWH alone leads him, And there is no strange god with him.

١٣ 13 أَرْكَبَهُ عَلَى مُرْتَفَعَاتِ ٱلْأَرْضِ فَأَكَلَ ثِمَارَ ٱلصَّحْرَاءِ، وَأَرْضَعَهُ عَسَلًا مِنْ حَجَرٍ، وَزَيْتًا مِنْ صَوَّانِ ٱلصَّخْرِ،

He makes him ride on high places of earth, And he eats increase of the fields, And He makes him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock;

١٤ 14 وَزُبْدَةَ بَقَرٍ وَلَبَنَ غَنَمٍ، مَعَ شَحْمِ خِرَافٍ وَكِبَاشٍ أَوْلَادِ بَاشَانَ، وَتُيُوسٍ مَعَ دَسَمِ لُبِّ ٱلْحِنْطَةِ، وَدَمَ ٱلْعِنَبِ شَرِبْتَهُ خَمْرًا.

Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams of sons of Bashan, And male goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat; And of the blood of the grape you drink wine!

١٥ 15 «فَسَمِنَ يَشُورُونَ وَرَفَسَ. سَمِنْتَ وَغَلُظْتَ وَٱكْتَسَيْتَ شَحْمًا! فَرَفَضَ ٱلْإِلَهَ ٱلَّذِي عَمِلَهُ، وَغَبِيَ عَنْ صَخْرَةِ خَلَاصِهِ.

And Yeshurun waxes fat, and kicks: You have been fat, you have been thick, You have been covered. And he leaves God who made him, And dishonors the Rock of his salvation.

١٦ 16 أَغَارُوهُ بِٱلْأَجَانِبِ، وَأَغَاظُوهُ بِٱلْأَرْجَاسِ.

They make Him zealous with strangers, They make Him angry with abominations.

١٧ 17 ذَبَحُوا لِأَوْثَانٍ لَيْسَتِ ٱللهَ. لِآلِهَةٍ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهَا، أَحْدَاثٍ قَدْ جَاءَتْ مِنْ قَرِيبٍ لَمْ يَرْهَبْهَا آبَاؤُكُمْ.

They sacrifice to the demons, not God, To gods they have not known, New ones—they came from the vicinity; Your fathers have not feared them!

١٨ 18 ٱلصَّخْرُ ٱلَّذِي وَلَدَكَ تَرَكْتَهُ، وَنَسِيتَ ٱللهَ ٱلَّذِي أَبْدَأَكَ.

You forget the Rock that begot you, And neglect God who forms you.

١٩ 19 «فَرَأَى ٱلرَّبُّ وَرَذَلَ مِنَ ٱلْغَيْظِ بَنِيهِ وَبَنَاتِهِ.

And YHWH sees and despises—For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

٢٠ 20 وَقَالَ: أَحْجُبُ وَجْهِي عَنْهُمْ، وَأَنْظُرُ مَاذَا تَكُونُ آخِرَتُهُمْ. إِنَّهُمْ جِيلٌ مُتَقَلِّبٌ، أَوْلَادٌ لَا أَمَانَةَ فِيهِمْ.

And He says: I hide My face from them, I see what their latter end [is]; For they [are] a contrary generation, Sons in whom is no steadfastness.

٢١ 21 هُمْ أَغَارُونِي بِمَا لَيْسَ إِلَهًا، أَغَاظُونِي بِأَبَاطِيلِهِمْ. فَأَنَا أُغِيرُهُمْ بِمَا لَيْسَ شَعْبًا، بِأُمَّةٍ غَبِيَّةٍ أُغِيظُهُمْ.

They have made Me jealous by [what is] not God, They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them jealous by [what is] not a people, I make them angry by a foolish nation.

٢٢ 22 إِنَّهُ قَدِ ٱشْتَعَلَتْ نَارٌ بِغَضَبِي فَتَتَّقِدُ إِلَى ٱلْهَاوِيَةِ ٱلسُّفْلَى، وَتَأْكُلُ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَغَلَّتَهَا، وَتُحْرِقُ أُسُسَ ٱلْجِبَالِ. (Sheol h7585)

For a fire has been kindled in My anger, And it burns to the lowest [part] of Sheol, And consumes earth and its increase, And sets on fire [the] foundations of mountains. (Sheol h7585)

٢٣ 23 أَجْمَعُ عَلَيْهِمْ شُرُورًا، وَأُنْفِذُ سِهَامِي فِيهِمْ،

I heap calamities on them, I consume My arrows on them.

٢٤ 24 إِذْ هُمْ خَاوُونَ مِنْ جُوعٍ، وَمَنْهُوكُونَ مِنْ حُمَّى وَدَاءٍ سَامٍّ، أُرْسِلُ فِيهِمْ أَنْيَابَ ٱلْوُحُوشِ مَعَ حُمَةِ زَوَاحِفِ ٱلْأَرْضِ.

Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat and bitter destruction—I also send the teeth of beasts on them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

٢٥ 25 مِنْ خَارِجٍ ٱلسَّيْفُ يُثْكِلُ، وَمِنْ دَاخِلِ ٱلْخُدُورِ ٱلرُّعْبَةُ. ٱلْفَتَى مَعَ ٱلْفَتَاةِ وَٱلرَّضِيعُ مَعَ ٱلْأَشْيَبِ.

The sword destroys from outside, And out of the inner-chambers—terror, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

٢٦ 26 قُلْتُ: أُبَدِّدُهُمْ إِلَى ٱلزَّوَايَا، وَأُبَطِّلُ مِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ ذِكْرَهُمْ.

I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

٢٧ 27 لَوْ لَمْ أَخَفْ مِنْ إِغَاظَةِ ٱلْعَدُوِّ، مِنْ أَنْ يُنْكِرَ أَضْدَادُهُمْ، مِنْ أَنْ يَقُولُوا: يَدُنَا ٱرْتَفَعَتْ وَلَيْسَ ٱلرَّبُّ فَعَلَ كُلَّ هَذِهِ.

If I do not fear the anger of an enemy, Lest their adversaries know—Lest they say, Our hand is high, And YHWH has not worked all this.

٢٨ 28 «إِنَّهُمْ أُمَّةٌ عَدِيمَةُ ٱلرَّأْيِ وَلَا بَصِيرَةَ فِيهِمْ.

For they [are] a nation lost to counsels, And there is no understanding in them.

٢٩ 29 لَوْ عَقَلُوا لَفَطِنُوا بِهَذِهِ وَتَأَمَّلُوا آخِرَتَهُمْ.

If only they were wise, They would deal wisely [with] this, They would attend to their latter end!

٣٠ 30 كَيْفَ يَطْرُدُ وَاحِدٌ أَلْفًا، وَيَهْزِمُ ٱثْنَانِ رَبْوَةً، لَوْلَا أَنَّ صَخْرَهُمْ بَاعَهُمْ وَٱلرَّبَّ سَلَّمَهُمْ؟

How does one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee, If not that their Rock has sold them, And YHWH has shut them up?

٣١ 31 لِأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ كَصَخْرِنَا صَخْرُهُمْ، وَلَوْ كَانَ أَعْدَاؤُنَا ٱلْقُضَاةَ.

For their rock [is] not as our Rock (And our enemies [are] judges!)

٣٢ 32 لِأَنَّ مِنْ جَفْنَةِ سَدُومَ جَفْنَتَهُمْ، وَمِنْ كُرُومِ عَمُورَةَ. عِنَبُهُمْ عِنَبُ سَمٍّ، وَلَهُمْ عَنَاقِيدُ مَرَارَةٍ.

For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes of gall—They have bitter clusters;

٣٣ 33 خَمْرُهُمْ حُمَةُ ٱلثَّعَابِينِ وَسَمُّ ٱلْأَصْلَالِ ٱلْقَاتِلُ.

The poison of dragons [is] their wine And the fierce venom of cobras.

٣٤ 34 «أَلَيْسَ ذَلِكَ مَكْنُوزًا عِنْدِي، مَخْتُومًا عَلَيْهِ فِي خَزَائِنِي؟

Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

٣٥ 35 لِيَ ٱلنَّقْمَةُ وَٱلْجَزَاءُ. فِي وَقْتٍ تَزِلُّ أَقْدَامُهُمْ. إِنَّ يَوْمَ هَلَاكِهِمْ قَرِيبٌ وَٱلْمُهَيَّآتُ لَهُمْ مُسْرِعَةٌ.

Vengeance and retribution [are] Mine, At the due time—their foot slides; For near is a day of their calamity, And things prepared for them have hastened.

٣٦ 36 لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ يَدِينُ شَعْبَهُ، وَعَلَى عَبِيدِهِ يُشْفِقُ. حِينَ يَرَى أَنَّ ٱلْيَدَ قَدْ مَضَتْ، وَلَمْ يَبْقَ مَحْجُوزٌ وَلَا مُطْلَقٌ،

For YHWH judges His people, And gives comfort over His servants. For He sees the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.

٣٧ 37 يَقُولُ: أَيْنَ آلِهَتُهُمُ، ٱلصَّخْرَةُ ٱلَّتِي ٱلْتَجَأُوا إِلَيْهَا،

And He has said, Where [are] their gods—The rock in which they trusted?

٣٨ 38 ٱلَّتِي كَانَتْ تَأْكُلُ شَحْمَ ذَبَائِحِهِمْ وَتَشْرَبُ خَمْرَ سَكَائِبِهِمْ؟ لِتَقُمْ وَتُسَاعِدْكُمْ وَتَكُنْ عَلَيْكُمْ حِمَايَةً!

Who eat the fat of their sacrifices, [And] drink the wine of their drink-offering? Let them arise and help you, Let it be a hiding place for you!

٣٩ 39 اُنْظُرُوا ٱلْآنَ! أَنَا أَنَا هُوَ وَلَيْسَ إِلَهٌ مَعِي. أَنَا أُمِيتُ وَأُحْيِي. سَحَقْتُ، وَإِنِّي أَشْفِي، وَلَيْسَ مِنْ يَدِي مُخَلِّصٌ.

See, now, that I [am] He, And there is no god besides Me; I put to death and I keep alive; I have struck and I heal; And there is not a deliverer from My hand,

٤٠ 40 إِنِّي أَرْفَعُ إِلَى ٱلسَّمَاءِ يَدِي وَأَقُولُ: حَيٌّ أَنَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ.

For I lift up My hand to the heavens, And have said, I live for all time!

٤١ 41 إِذَا سَنَنْتُ سَيْفِي ٱلْبَارِقَ، وَأَمْسَكَتْ بِٱلْقَضَاءِ يَدِي، أَرُدُّ نَقْمَةً عَلَى أَضْدَادِي، وَأُجَازِي مُبْغِضِيَّ.

If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand lays hold on judgment, I return vengeance to My adversaries, And to those hating Me—I repay!

٤٢ 42 أُسْكِرُ سِهَامِي بِدَمٍ، وَيَأْكُلُ سَيْفِي لَحْمًا. بِدَمِ ٱلْقَتْلَى وَٱلسَّبَايَا، وَمِنْ رُؤُوسِ قُوَّادِ ٱلْعَدُوِّ.

I make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword devours flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

٤٣ 43 «تَهَلَّلُوا أَيُّهَا ٱلْأُمَمُ، شَعْبُهُ، لِأَنَّهُ يَنْتَقِمُ بِدَمِ عَبِيدِهِ، وَيَرُدُّ نَقْمَةً عَلَى أَضْدَادِهِ، وَيَصْفَحُ عَنْ أَرْضِهِ عَنْ شَعْبِهِ».

Sing, O nations, [with] His people, For He avenges the blood of His servants, And He turns back vengeance on His adversaries, And has pardoned His land [and] His people.”

٤٤ 44 فَأَتَى مُوسَى وَنَطَقَ بِجَمِيعِ كَلِمَاتِ هَذَا ٱلنَّشِيدِ فِي مَسَامِعِ ٱلشَّعْبِ، هُوَ وَيَشُوعُ بْنُ نُونَ.

And Moses comes and speaks all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea son of Nun;

٤٥ 45 وَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مُوسَى مِنْ مُخَاطَبَةِ جَمِيعِ إِسْرَائِيلَ بِكُلِّ هَذِهِ ٱلْكَلِمَاتِ،

and Moses finishes to speak all these words to all Israel,

٤٦ 46 قَالَ لَهُمْ: «وَجِّهُوا قُلُوبَكُمْ إِلَى جَمِيعِ ٱلْكَلِمَاتِ ٱلَّتِي أَنَا أَشْهَدُ عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ، لِكَيْ تُوصُوا بِهَا أَوْلَادَكُمْ، لِيَحْرِصُوا أَنْ يَعْمَلُوا بِجَمِيعِ كَلِمَاتِ هَذِهِ ٱلتَّوْرَاةِ.

and says to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you today, that you command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,

٤٧ 47 لِأَنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ أَمْرًا بَاطِلًا عَلَيْكُمْ، بَلْ هِيَ حَيَاتُكُمْ. وَبِهَذَا ٱلْأَمْرِ تُطِيلُونَ ٱلْأَيَّامَ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَنْتُمْ عَابِرُونَ ٱلْأُرْدُنَّ إِلَيْهَا لِتَمْتَلِكُوهَا».

for it [is] not a vain thing for you, for it [is] your life, and by this thing you prolong days on the ground to where you are passing over the Jordan to possess it.”

٤٨ 48 وَكَلَّمَ ٱلرَّبُّ مُوسَى فِي نَفْسِ ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ قَائِلًا:

And YHWH speaks to Moses on this very same day, saying,

٤٩ 49 «اِصْعَدْ إِلَى جَبَلِ عَبَارِيمَ هَذَا، جَبَلِ نَبُو ٱلَّذِي فِي أَرْضِ مُوآبَ ٱلَّذِي قُبَالَةَ أَرِيحَا، وَٱنْظُرْ أَرْضَ كَنْعَانَ ٱلَّتِي أَنَا أُعْطِيهَا لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مُلْكًا،

“Go up to this Mount Abarim, Mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, which [is] on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession;

٥٠ 50 وَمُتْ فِي ٱلْجَبَلِ ٱلَّذِي تَصْعَدُ إِلَيْهِ، وَٱنْضَمَّ إِلَى قَوْمِكَ، كَمَا مَاتَ هَارُونُ أَخُوكَ فِي جَبَلِ هُورٍ وَضُمَّ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ.

and die on the mountain to where you are going up, and be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron has died on Mount Hor and is gathered to his people;

٥١ 51 لِأَنَّكُمَا خُنْتُمَانِي فِي وَسَطِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عِنْدَ مَاءِ مَرِيبَةِ قَادَشَ فِي بَرِّيَّةِ صِينٍ، إِذْ لَمْ تُقَدِّسَانِي فِي وَسَطِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

because you trespassed against Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin, because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the sons of Israel.

٥٢ 52 فَإِنَّكَ تَنْظُرُ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِنْ قُبَالَتِهَا، وَلَكِنَّكَ لَا تَدْخُلُ إِلَى هُنَاكَ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَنَا أُعْطِيهَا لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ».

Indeed, you see the land before [you], but you do not go in there to the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel.”