Deteronòm 9
1 “Koute O Israël! Nou travèse lòtbò Jourdain an jodi a pou antre nan peyi a, e pou deplase nasyon ki pi gran e pi pwisan ke nou yo; gran vil yo byen fòtifye jis rive nan syèl yo.
Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
2 Yon pèp ki gran e wo, fis a Anak yo jeyan yo, ke nou konnen e te tande yo di: ‘Kilès ki kab kanpe devan fis Anak yo?’
a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
3 Pou sa, konnen ke jodi a, se SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an, ki ap travèse devan nou tankou yon dife devoran. Li va detwi yo e Li va donte yo devan nou pou nou kapab chase yo sòti e detwi yo byen vit, jis jan ke SENYÈ a te pale nou an.
Know therefore today that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you.
4 “Pa di nan kè nou, lè SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an, fin chase yo deyò devan nou, ‘Se akoz ladwati mwen, SENYÈ a te mennen mwen antre pou posede peyi sa a.’ Paske se akoz mechanste a nasyon sila yo ke SENYÈ a ap fè yo deplase devan nou.
Don’t say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land;” because the LORD drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
5 Se pa akoz ladwati nou, ni kè dwat nou, ki fè nou ap vin posede peyi a, men akoz mechanste a nasyon sila yo ke SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an, ap chase yo devan nou, e pou konfime pawòl la ke SENYÈ a te fè avèk zansèt nou yo, Abraham, Isaac, ak Jacob.
Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6 “Pou sa, byen konnen ke se pa akoz ladwati nou ke SENYÈ a ap bannou bon peyi sa a pou posede, paske nou se yon pèp tèt di.
Know therefore that the LORD your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 “Sonje, pa bliye jan nou te pwovoke SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an, a lakòlè nan dezè a. Depi jou ke nou te kite peyi Égypte la jiskaske lè nou te rive nan kote sa a, nou tap fè rebèl kont SENYÈ a.
Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
8 Menm nan Horeb, nou te pwovoke SENYÈ a lakòlè. SENYÈ a te tèlman fache avèk nou ke Li te prèt pou detwi nou.
Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.
9 “Lè mwen te monte nan mòn nan pou resevwa tablo wòch yo, tablo akò ke SENYÈ a te fè avèk nou an, alò, mwen te rete sou mòn nan pandan karant jou ak karant nwit. Mwen pa t manje pen ni bwè dlo.
When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 SENYÈ a te ban mwen de tab wòch ki te ekri ak dwèt Bondye. Sou yo te tout pawòl ke SENYÈ a te pale avèk nou nan mòn nan, nan mitan dife a nan jou asanble a.
The LORD delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 “Li te vin rive nan fen karant jou ak karant nwit yo, ke SENYÈ a te ban mwen de tablo wòch, tab akò yo.
It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
12 Alò, SENYÈ a te di mwen: ‘Leve, desann soti isit la byen vit, paske pèp ou a ke nou te fè sòti an Égypte la te vin konwonpi. Yo te vire akote chemen ke Mwen te kòmande a. Yo te fè yon imaj fonn pou kont yo!’
The LORD said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
13 “SENYÈ a te pale plis avè m e te di: ‘Mwen te wè pèp sa a, vrèman, li se yon pèp ki di.
Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
14 Kite Mwen sèl pou M kapab detwi yo, e efase non yo soti anba syèl la; Mwen va fè a ou menm yon nasyon pi pwisan e pi gran ke yo.’
Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
15 “Epi mwen te vire desann mòn nan pandan mòn nan t ap brile avèk dife a, ak de tab akò yo nan de men m yo.
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 Epi konsa, mwen te wè ke vrèman, nou te peche kont SENYÈ a Bondye nou an. Nou te fè pou nou menm yon ti bèf fonn. Nou te vire detounen byen vit kite chemen ke SENYÈ a te kòmande nou an.
I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a moulded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 Mwen te pran de tab sa yo; mwen te jete yo sòti nan men m, e te kraze yo devan zye nou.
I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 “Mwen te tonbe ba devan SENYÈ a, yon fwa ankò. Pandan karant jou ak karant nwit mwen pa t manje pen ni bwè dlo akoz tout peche ke nou te fè nan fè sa ki mal nan zye SENYÈ a, pou pwovoke Li a lakòlè.
I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
19 Paske Mwen te pè lakòlè ak chalè mekontantman avèk sila SENYÈ a te fache kont nou pou L te kapab detwi nou an. Men SENYÈ a te koute mwen fwa sa a tou.
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.
20 “SENYÈ a te ase fache avèk Aaron pou detwi li. Konsa, mwen te priye anplis pou Aaron nan menm lè sa a.
The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21 “Mwen te pran peche nou an, ti bèf ke nou te fè a, e mwen te brile li avèk dife. Mwen te kraze li fen jiskaske li te vin tankou poud, epi mwen te jete poud li nan ti flèv dlo ki te pase desann nan mòn nan.
I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
22 “Ankò, nan Tabeéra, nan Massa, ak nan Kibroth-Hattaava, nou te pwovoke SENYÈ a lakòlè.
At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.
23 Lè SENYÈ a te voye nou soti Kadés-Barnéa, Li te di: ‘Ale monte pou posede tè ke mwen te bannou an.’ Men nou te fè rebèl kont kòmand SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an. Nou pa t kwè Li, ni koute vwa Li.
When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
24 Nou te fè rebèl kont SENYÈ a depi jou ke m te konnen nou an.
You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
25 “Konsa, mwen te vin tonbe devan SENYÈ a pandan karant jou ak karant nwit, ke m te tonbe a, akoz SENYÈ a te di Li t ap detwi nou.
So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
26 Mwen te priye a SENYÈ a e mwen te di: ‘O SENYÈ a, pa detwi pèp Ou a, eritaj Ou menm nan, ke Ou te peye ranson selon grandè Ou, pou Ou te mennen sòti an Égypte avèk yon men pwisan.
I prayed to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 “Sonje sèvitè Ou yo, Abraham, Isaac, ak Jacob. Pa gade rebelyon a pèp sila a, ni sou mechanste yo oswa peche yo.
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
28 Otreman, peyi kote Ou te mennen nou sòti a, kapab di: ‘Akoz SENYÈ a pa t kapab mennen yo antre nan peyi ke Li te pwomèt yo a, e akoz Li te rayi yo, Li te mennen yo deyò pou touye yo nan dezè a.’
lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
29 Men se pèp Ou yo ye, eritaj Ou menm, ke Ou te mennen sòti pa gran pouvwa avèk bra lonje.”
Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
