Deuteronomy 28
1 “So then, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all of his commandments, which I instruct to you this day, the Lord your God will cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which exist upon the earth.
“Si escuchares atentamente la voz de Yahvé, tu Dios, observando y practicando sus mandamientos que yo hoy te prescribo, Yahvé, tu Dios, te ensalzará sobre todos los pueblos de la tierra.
2 And all these blessings shall come to you and take hold of you, but only if you listen to his precepts.
Y vendrán sobre ti y te alcanzarán todas estas bendiciones, con tal que obedezcas la voz de Yahvé, Dios tuyo.
3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field.
Bendito serás en la ciudad, y bendito en el campo.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep.
Será bendito el fruto de tu seno, el fruto de tu tierra, el fruto de tus bestias, las crías de tus vacas y de tus ovejas.
5 Blessed shall be your barns, and blessed your storehouses.
Benditos serán tu canasto y tu artesa.
6 Blessed shall you be entering and departing.
Bendito serás en tu entrada, y bendito en tu salida.
7 The Lord will grant that your enemies, who rise up against you, will fall down in your sight. They will come against you by one way, and they will flee from your face by seven ways.
Yahvé derribará delante de ti a tus enemigos que contra ti se levanten. Saldrán contra ti por un solo camino, y por siete caminos huirán de tu vista.
8 The Lord will send forth a blessing upon your cellars, and upon all the works of your hands. And he will bless you in the land that you shall receive.
Yahvé ordenará a la bendición que venga sobre tus graneros y sobre todas las empresas de tu mano; y te bendecirá en la tierra que Yahvé, tu Dios, va a darte.
9 The Lord will raise you up as a holy people for himself, just as he swore to you, if you will keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways.
Yahvé te constituirá por pueblo santo suyo, como te ha jurado, si guardas los mandamientos de Yahvé, tu Dios, y andas por sus caminos;
10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord has been invoked over you, and they shall fear you.
y todos los pueblos de la tierra verán que el nombre de Yahvé ha sido invocado sobre ti y te temerán.
11 The Lord will cause you to be abundant in every good thing: in the fruit of your womb, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, which the Lord swore to your fathers that he would give to you.
Yahvé te dará, para bien tuyo, abundancia del fruto de tu seno, del fruto de tu ganado y del fruto de tu suelo, sobre la tierra que Yahvé juró a tus padres darte.
12 The Lord will open his excellent treasury, the heavens, so that it may distribute rain in due time. And he will bless all the works of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you yourself will borrow nothing from anyone.
Yahvé abrirá su benéfico tesoro, los cielos, para dar a tu tierra la lluvia a tiempo, y para bendecir toda obra de tu mano, de modo que tú prestarás a muchos pueblos sin tomarles prestado.
13 And the Lord will appoint you as the head, and not as the tail. And you shall be always above, and not beneath. But only if you will listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I entrust to you this day, and will keep and do them,
Te pondrá Yahvé por cabeza, y no por cola; estarás solamente encima, y jamás debajo, si obedeces los mandamientos de Yahvé, tu Dios, que yo hoy te ordeno para que los guardes y pongas en práctica;
14 and will not turn aside from them, neither to the right, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.
y si no te apartas de ninguna de las cosas que hoy te prescribo, ni a la derecha, ni a la izquierda, siguiendo a otros dioses para servirles.
15 But if you are not willing to listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I instruct to you this day, all these curses shall come to you, and take hold of you.
Pero si no escuchares la voz de Yahvé, tu Dios, y si no observas ni practicas todos sus mandamientos y todas sus leyes que hoy te intimo, vendrán sobre ti y te alcanzarán todas estas maldiciones:
16 Cursed shall you be in the city, cursed in the field.
Maldito serás en la ciudad, y maldito en el campo.
17 Cursed shall be your barn, and cursed your storehouses.
Malditos serán tu canasto y tu artesa.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.
Maldito será el fruto de tu seno, el fruto de tu tierra, las crías de tus vacas y las de tus ovejas.
19 Cursed shall you be entering, and cursed departing.
MaIdito serás en tu entrada, y maldito en tu salida.
20 The Lord will send famine and hunger upon you, and a rebuke upon all the works that you do, until he quickly crushes and perishes you, because of your very wicked innovations, by which you have forsaken me.
Yahvé enviará sobre ti la maldición, la consternación y la amenaza en todo cuanto emprendas, hasta que seas destruido, y hasta que perezcas en breve, a causa de la maldad de tus obras, por las cuales me has abandonado.
21 May the Lord join a pestilence to you, until he consumes you from the land, which you shall enter so as to possess.
Yahvé hará que se te pegue la peste, hasta acabar contigo en la tierra adónde vas a entrar para poseerla.
22 May the Lord strike you with destitution, with fever and cold, with burning and heat, and with polluted air and rot, and may he pursue you until you perish.
Yahvé te herirá de consunción, de fiebre, de inflamación, de ardor y de sequía, de tizón y de añublo, que te perseguirán hasta que perezcas.
23 May the heavens which are above you be of brass, and may the ground upon which you tread be of iron.
Tu cielo sobre tu cabeza será de bronce, y tu tierra bajo tus pies, de hierro.
24 May the Lord give you dust instead of rain upon your land, and may ashes descend from heaven over you, until you have been wiped away.
En vez de lluvia Yahvé dará a tu tierra polvo y ceniza, que caerán sobre ti desde el cielo hasta que seas destruido.
25 May the Lord hand you over to fall before your enemies. May you go forth against them by one way, and flee by seven ways, and may you be scattered across all the kingdoms of the earth.
Yahvé hará que seas derrotado delante de tus enemigos. Saldrás contra ellos por un solo camino, y por siete caminos huirás delante de ellos y serás objeto de horror para todos los reinos de la tierra.
26 And may your carcass be food for all the flying things of the air and the wild beasts of the land, and may there be no one to drive them away.
Tu cadáver servirá de pasto a todas las aves del cielo y a las bestias de la tierra, y no habrá quien las espante.
27 May the Lord strike you with the ulcer of Egypt, and may he strike the part of your body, through which the dung goes out, with disease as well as itch, so much so that you are unable to be cured.
Yahvé te herirá con la úlcera de Egipto, con hemorroides, con sarna y tina, de que no podrás curarte.
28 May the Lord strike you with frenzy and blindness and a madness of the mind.
Yahvé te herirá con locura, con ceguera y con turbación de espíritu.
29 And may you grope at midday, just as a blind man is accustomed to grope in darkness, and may your paths not be straight. And at all times may you suffer slander and be oppressed with violence, and may you have no one who may free you.
Andarás a tientas en pleno día como anda palpando el ciego en las tinieblas. No tendrás éxito en tus caminos, sino que todos los días serás oprimido y despojado sin que haya quien te libre.
30 May you take a wife, though another sleeps with her. May you build a house, but not live within it. May you plant a vineyard, and not gather its vintage.
Te desposarás con una mujer, y otro la poseerá; edificarás una casa, y no habitarás en ella; plantarás una viña y no la disfrutarás.
31 May your ox be immolated before you, though you do not eat from it. May your donkey be seized in your sight, and not restored to you. May your sheep be given to your enemies, and may there be no one who may help you.
Tu buey será degollado delante de tus ojos, y tú no comerás de él; tu asno será robado en tu presencia, y no te será restituido; tus ovejas caerán en manos de tus enemigos, sin que haya quien las libre.
32 May your sons and your daughters be handed over to another people, as your eyes watch and languish at the sight of them throughout the day, and may there be no strength in your hand.
Tus hijos y tus hijas serán dados a otro pueblo, y viéndolo tus ojos desfallecerán por ellos todo el día, y tu mano no podrá hacer nada.
33 May a people you do not know eat the fruits of your land and of all your labors. And may you continually suffer from slander and oppression every day.
El fruto de tu tierra y todo el producto de tu trabajo, lo comerá un pueblo que tú no conoces; siempre serás oprimido y maltratado.
34 And may you be stupefied at the terror of the things your eyes will see.
Te volverás loco a causa de lo que verán tus ojos.
35 May the Lord strike you with a very grievous ulcer in the knees and in the legs, and may you be unable to attain health, from the sole of the foot to the top of the head.
Yahvé te herirá con úlceras malignas en las rodillas y en las piernas, y no podrás curarte desde la planta del pie hasta la coronilla de la cabeza.
36 May the Lord lead you and your king, whom you will have appointed over yourself, into a nation which you and your fathers have not known. And there you will serve foreign gods, of wood and of stone.
Yahvé te transportará a ti y al rey que pongas sobre ti, a un pueblo desconocido de ti y de tus padres; y allá servirás a otros dioses, a leño y piedra.
37 And you will become nothing but a proverb and a fable to all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you.
Y vendrás a ser un objeto de espanto, de proverbio y de befa entre todos los pueblos adonde Yahvé te llevará.
38 You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.
Echarás mucha semilla en el campo, y recogerás poco, porque lo devorará la langosta.
39 You will dig and plant a vineyard, but you will not drink the wine, nor gather anything at all from it. For it will be devastated by worms.
Plantarás viñas y las labrarás, pero no beberás vino ni vendimiarás, porque lo comerá el gusano.
40 You will have olive trees in all your borders, but you will not be anointed with the oil. For the olives will fall off and perish.
Tendrás olivos en todos tus términos, mas no te ungirás con aceite, pues tus aceitunas se caerán.
41 You will conceive sons and daughters, and you will not enjoy them. For they will be led into captivity.
Engendrarás hijos e hijas, pero no serán para ti, porque irán al cautiverio.
42 Rot will consume all the trees, as well as the fruits of your land.
Todos tus árboles y los frutos de tu tierra serán consumidos por los insectos.
43 The new arrival who lives with you in the land will ascend over you, and be higher. But you will descend, and be lower.
El extranjero que habita en medio de ti se elevará cada vez más sobre ti, en tanto que tú caerás cada vez más abajo.
44 He will lend to you, and you will not lend to him. He will be as the head, and you will be as the tail.
Él te prestará a ti, mas tú no le prestarás a él; él será cabeza, y tú serás cola.
45 And all these curses shall come to you, and shall pursue you, and shall take hold of you, until you pass away, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and you would not serve his commandments and ceremonies, which he has instructed to you.
Todas estas maldiciones vendrán sobre ti, te perseguirán y te alcanzarán hasta que seas destruido, por no haber escuchado la voz de Yahvé, tu Dios, ni guardado sus mandamientos y leyes que Él te ha prescrito;
46 And there will be the signs and portents with you, and with your offspring, forever.
y quedarán en ti, como señal y portento, y también en tu descendencia, para siempre.
47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God, with gladness and a joyful heart, over the abundance of all things.
Por cuanto no serviste a Yahvé, tu Dios, con alegría y buen corazón a pesar de que abundaba todo,
48 You will serve your enemy, whom the Lord will send to you, in hunger and thirst and nakedness, and in destitution of all things. And he will place an iron yoke upon your neck, until he has crushed you.
servirás a tus enemigos que Yahvé enviará contra ti, en hambre, en sed, en desnudez y todo género de miserias. Él pondrá sobre tu cuello un yugo de hierro, hasta aniquilarte.
49 The Lord will lead over you a nation from far away, even from the furthest parts of the earth, like an eagle flying with great force, whose language you are not able to understand:
Yahvé hará venir contra ti, desde lejos, desde los cabos de la tierra, con la rapidez del águila, una nación cuya lengua no entiendes,
50 a very insolent nation, which will show no deference to elders, nor take pity on little ones.
gente de aspecto feroz, que no tendrá respeto al anciano ni compasión del niño.
51 And he will devour the fruit of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, until you have passed away, without leaving behind you wheat, or wine, or oil, or herds of oxen, or flocks of sheep: until he utterly destroys you.
Devorará el fruto de tu ganado y el fruto de tu tierra, hasta que seas destruido; pues no te dejará trigo, ni vino, ni aceite, ni las crías de tus vacas y ovejas, hasta exterminarte.
52 And he will crush you in all your cities. And your strong and lofty walls, in which you trusted, will be destroyed throughout all your land. You will be besieged within your gates throughout all your land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
Te sitiará en todas las ciudades de tu país entero, hasta que caigan tus altas y fuertes murallas en que confiabas; te sitiará en todas tus ciudades, en todo el país que Yahvé, tu Dios, te habrá dado.
53 And you will eat the fruit of your womb, and the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the Lord your God will give to you, due to the anguish and devastation with which your enemy will oppress you.
En la angustia y estrechez a que te reducirán tus enemigos, comerás el fruto de tu seno, la carne de tus hijos y de tus hijas que Yahvé, tu Dios, te habrá concedido.
54 The man who is pampered and very self-indulgent among you will vie with his own brother, and with the wife who lies at his bosom,
El hombre más delicado y más regalado de entre vosotros mirará con malos ojos a su hermano, a la mujer de su corazón, y al resto de sus hijos que le queden,
55 lest he give to them from the flesh of his sons, which he will eat. For he has nothing else due to the siege and the destitution, with which your enemies will devastate you within all your gates.
pues no quiere dar a ninguno de ellos de la carne de sus hijos que él comerá, por no quedarle nada en la angustia y estrechez a que te reducirán tus enemigos en todas tus ciudades.
56 The tender and pampered woman, who would not walk upon the soil, nor step firmly with her foot due to her very great softness and tenderness, will vie with her husband, who lies at her bosom, over the flesh of son and of daughter,
La mujer más delicada y más regalada de entre vosotros, que por ternura y delicadeza nunca probó poner la planta de su pie en el suelo, mirará con malos ojos al marido de su corazón, a su hijo y a su hija,
57 and over the filth of the afterbirth, which goes forth from between her thighs, and over the children who are born in the same hour. For they will eat them secretly, due to the scarcity of all things during the siege and the devastation, with which your enemy will oppress you within your gates.
a las secundinas salidas de su seno y a los hijos que habrá dado a luz, pues, por falta de todo, los comerá ocultamente, en la angustia y en la estrechez a que te reducirán tus enemigos en tus ciudades.
58 If you will not keep and do all the words of this law, which have been written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible name, that is, the Lord your God,
Si no cuidas de poner en práctica todas las palabras de esta Ley, escritas en este libro, y si no temes este nombre glorioso y terrible de Yahvé, tu Dios,
59 then the Lord will increase your plagues, and the plagues of your offspring, plagues great and long-lasting, infirmities very grievous and continuous.
acrecentará Yahvé extraordinariamente las plagas contra ti y tu posteridad, plagas grandes y duraderas, enfermedades malignas y continuas.
60 And he will turn back upon you all the afflictions of Egypt, which you fear, and these will cling to you.
Hará venir de nuevo sobre ti todas las plagas de Egipto que tanto te horrorizaron, y se te pegarán.
61 In addition, the Lord will lead over you all the diseases and plagues that are not written in the volume of this law, until he crushes you.
Yahvé hará venir sobre ti también todas las enfermedades y todas las plagas que no están escritas en el libro de esta Ley, hasta que seas destruido.
62 And you will remain few in number, though you were before like the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
Y después de haber sido numerosos como las estrellas del cielo, quedaréis muy pocos en número, por cuanto no has escuchado la voz de Yahvé, tu Dios.
63 And just as before, when the Lord rejoiced over you, doing good for you and multiplying you, so shall he rejoice, scattering and overturning you, so as to take you away from the land, which you shall enter in order to possess.
Y así como Yahvé tenía placer en vosotros para haceros bien y para multiplicaros, de la misma manera tendrá placer en aniquilaros y destruiros. Y seréis arrancados de la tierra adonde tú vas para poseerla.
64 The Lord will disperse you among all the peoples, from the heights of the earth to its furthest limits. And there you will serve foreign gods of wood and of stone, which you and your fathers did not know.
Te esparcirá Yahvé por entre todos los pueblos, de un cabo de la tierra hasta el otro cabo de la tierra; y allí servirás a otros dioses que ni tú ni tus padres conocisteis, a leño y piedra.
65 Similarly, you will not have tranquility, even within those nations, nor will there be any rest for the steps of your feet. For the Lord will give to you in that place a fearful heart, and failing eyes, and a life consumed with grieving.
Y entre esos pueblos no encontrarás reposo ni descanso para la planta de tu pie; pues allí te dará Yahvé un corazón tembloroso, ojos decaídos y un alma abatida.
66 And your life will be as if it were hanging before you. You will be afraid night and day, and you will not have confidence in your own life.
Tu vida estará ante ti como pendiente de un hilo, tendrás miedo de noche y de día, y no confiarás de tu vida.
67 In the morning you will say, ‘Who will grant evening to me?’ and at evening, ‘Who will grant morning to me?’ because of the dread of your heart, with which you will be terrified, and because of those things that you will see with your eyes.
A la mañana dirás: ¡Ojalá que fuera la tarde!, y a la tarde dirás: ¡Ojalá que fuera la mañana!, a causa del miedo que agita tu corazón y a causa de lo que tus ojos verán.
68 The Lord will lead you back into Egypt with a fleet of ships, along the way, about which he said to you that you would not see it again. In that place, you will be put up for sale as men and women servants to your enemies, but there will be no one willing to buy you.”
Y Yahvé te volverá a llevar en navíos a Egipto, por el camino del cual te dijo: No volverás más a verlo; y allí os ofreceréis en venta a vuestros enemigos, por esclavos y esclavas, y no habrá quien os compre.”
