Deuteronomii 32
1 Audite cæli quæ loquor, audiat terra verba oris mei.
Heaven, listen as I speak; Earth, hear what I'm saying.
2 Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea, fluat ut ros eloquium meum, quasi imber super herbam, et quasi stillæ super gramina.
May my teaching fall gently like the rain; may my words drop lightly like the dew, like soft rain on new grass, like spring showers on growing plants.
3 Quia nomen Domini invocabo: date magnificentiam Deo nostro.
I will praise the Lord's character. Tell everyone how great he is!
4 Dei perfecta sunt opera, et omnes viæ eius iudicia: Deus fidelis, et absque ulla iniquitate, iustus et rectus.
He is the Rock. Everything he does is perfect, for all his ways are right. He is the trustworthy God who is never unjust; he is fair and honest.
5 Peccaverunt ei, et non filii eius in sordibus: generatio prava atque perversa.
His children have acted immorally towards him; so they are no longer his children because of their sinful stains. They are a perverse and corrupt people.
6 Hæccine reddis Domino popule stulte et insipiens? Numquid non ipse est Pater tuus, qui possedit te, et fecit, et creavit te?
Is this any way to repay the Lord, you foolish, stupid people? Isn't he your Father who created you? Isn't he the one who turned you into a nation and made you strong?
7 Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas: interroga patrem tuum, et annunciabit tibi: maiores tuos, et dicent tibi.
Remember the olden days; think about times long ago. God and ask your father, and he will explain them to you. Talk to your elders, and they will let you know.
8 Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes: quando separabat filios Adam, constituit terminos populorum iuxta numerum filiorum Israel.
The Most High gave the nations their lands when he divided the human race; he fixed their borders depending on their gods.
9 Pars autem Domini, populus eius: Iacob funiculus hereditatis eius.
But the Lord's people are his, Israel is his chosen one.
10 Invenit eum in terra deserta, in loco horroris, et vastæ solitudinis: circumduxit eum, et docuit: et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui.
He found you in a desert land, in a desolate wasteland of whirlwinds. He protected you; he cared for you; he looked after you as the one he loved the most.
11 Sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos, et super eos volitans, expandit alas suas, et assumpsit eum, atque portavit in humeris suis.
Like an eagle watching over its nest, hovering over its chicks, he spread his wings and picked you up and carried you along.
12 Dominus solus dux eius fuit: et non erat cum eo deus alienus.
The Lord was the only one who led you; no foreign god was with him.
13 Constituit eum super excelsam terram: ut comederet fructus agrorum, ut sugeret mel de petra, oleumque de saxo durissimo.
The Lord gave you the high country to rule, and fed you with the crops of the field to eat. He sustained you with honey from the rock and olive oil from the flinty crag,
14 Butyrum de armento, et lac de ovibus cum adipe agnorum, et arietum filiorum Basan, et hircos cum medulla tritici, et sanguinem uvæ biberet meracissimum.
with yogurt from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, along with the best wheat. You drank the wine made from the best grapes.
15 Incrassatus est dilectus, et recalcitravit: incrassatus, impinguatus, dilatatus, dereliquit Deum Factorem suum, et recessit a Deo salutari suo.
But Israel, you grew fat and rebelled—fat, overweight, and bloated with food. You abandoned the God who made you and despised the Rock of your salvation.
16 Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis, et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.
You made the Lord jealous by worshiping foreign gods; you made him angry with such disgusting practices.
17 Immolaverunt dæmoniis et non Deo, diis, quos ignorabant: novi recentesque venerunt, quos non coluerunt patres eorum.
You offered sacrifices to demons instead of God, to gods you didn't know anything about, to brand-new gods that your forefathers didn't worship.
18 Deum, qui te genuit dereliquisti, et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui.
You dismissed the Rock who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave birth to you.
19 Vidit Dominus, et ad iracundiam concitatus est: quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et filiæ.
The Lord rejected them when he saw this; his sons and daughters made him angry.
20 Et ait: Abscondam faciem meam ab eis, et considerabo novissima eorum: generatio enim perversa est, et infideles filii.
He said: “I will turn away from them. Then I'll see what happens to them! They are a perverse people, unfaithful children.
21 Ipsi me provocaverunt in eo, qui non erat Deus, et irritaverunt in vanitatibus suis: et ego provocabo eos in eo, qui non est populus, et in gente stulta irritabo illos.
They have made me jealous by worshiping things that are not God; they have made me angry with their useless idols. So I will make them jealous using a people that aren't really a nation; I will make them angry using ignorant foreigners.
22 Ignis succensus est in furore meo, et ardebit usque ad inferni novissima: devorabitque terram cum germine suo, et montium fundamenta comburet. (Sheol h7585)
My anger has been set on fire, burning down to the depths of the grave, destroying the earth and all it produces, even setting fire to the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Congregabo super eos mala, et sagittas meas complebo in eis.
I will pile disasters on them; I will use up my arrows shooting at them.
24 Consumentur fame, et devorabunt eos aves morsu amarissimo: dentes bestiarum immittam in eos, cum furore trahentium super terram, atque serpentium.
They will waste away from hunger, destroyed by disease and poisonous plague. I will send wild animals to bite them with their teeth, the fangs of snakes that slide along the ground.
25 Foris vastabit eos gladius, et intus pavor, iuvenem simul ac virginem, lactentem cum homine sene.
Outside in the streets the sword kills their children, inside their homes, they die from fright; young men and young women, children and old people.
26 Dixi: Ubinam sunt? Cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum.
I would have told them I was going to cut them to pieces and wipe out even the memory of them;
27 Sed propter iram inimicorum distuli: ne forte superbirent hostes eorum, et dicerent: Manus nostra excelsa, et non Dominus, fecit hæc omnia.
but I didn't want to hear their conquerors jeering, their enemies misunderstanding what had happened and saying, ‘We won all by ourselves, the Lord didn't have anything to do with it.’
28 Gens absque consilio est, et sine prudentia.
Israel is a nation that doesn't think straight; none of them understand anything.
29 Utinam saperent, et intelligerent, ac novissima providerent.
How I wish they were wise, so they could understand it; they would recognize what was going to happen to them.
30 Quo modo persequatur unus mille, et duo fugent decem millia? Nonne ideo, quia Deus suus vendidit eos, et Dominus conclusit illos?
How on earth could one man chase after a thousand, or two make ten thousand run away, unless their Rock of protection had sold them, unless the Lord had surrendered them?
31 Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eorum: et inimici nostri sunt iudices.
The rock they rely on is not like our Rock, as even our enemies admit.
32 De vinea Sodomorum, vinea eorum, et de suburbanis Gomorrhæ: uva eorum uva fellis, et botri amarissimi.
But their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; they are bitter bunches.
33 Fel draconum vinum eorum, et venenum aspidum insanabile.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, deadly snake venom.
34 Nonne hæc condita sunt apud me, et signata in thesauris meis?
I've stored this all up; it's sealed in my vaults.
35 Mea est ultio, et ego retribuam in tempore, ut labatur pes eorum: iuxta est dies perditionis, et adesse festinant tempora.
I make sure justice is done, I will repay. The time is coming when they will fall, their day of disaster is approaching, their doom will soon arrive.”
36 Iudicabit Dominus populum suum, et in servis suis miserebitur: videbit quod infirmata sit manus, et clausi quoque defecerunt, residuique consumpti sunt.
The Lord is going to vindicate his people; he will be merciful to his servants when he sees that they have no strength left, and that everyone is gone, whether slave or free.
37 Et dicet: Ubi sunt dii eorum, in quibus habebant fiduciam?
He'll ask, “What happened to your gods, the rock where your went for protection?
38 De quorum victimis comedebant adipes, et bibebant vinum libaminum: surgant, et opitulentur vobis, et in necessitate vos protegant.
Who ate the fat of your sacrifices and drank the wine of your drink offerings? Have them come and help you; have them come and protect you!
39 Videte quod ego sim solus, et non sit alius deus præter me: ego occidam, et ego vivere faciam: percutiam, et ego sanabo, et non est qui de manu mea possit eruere.
Listen! I am the only God! There is no other God except me! I bring death, and I give life; I wound, and I heal. No one can be rescued from my power.
40 Levabo ad cælum manum meam, et dicam: Vivo ego in æternum.
I hold up my hand to heaven and solemnly declare on my eternal life,
41 Si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum, et arripuerit iudicium manus mea: reddam ultionem hostibus meis, et his qui oderunt me retribuam.
when I sharpen my shining sword and pick it up to execute judgment, I will repay my enemies and punish those who hate me as they deserve.
42 Inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine, et gladius meus devorabit carnes, de cruore occisorum, et de captivitate, nudati inimicorum capitis.
My arrows will become drunk with blood, as my sword eats flesh; the blood of those who are killed and captured, the heads of the enemy's leaders.”
43 Laudate gentes populum eius, quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur: et vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum, et propitius erit terræ populi sui.
Celebrate with him! Let all God's angels worship him! Celebrate, foreigners, with his people; because he will pay back those who killed his children. He will punish his enemies, and repay those who hate him; he will purify his land and his people.
44 Venit ergo Moyses, et locutus est omnia verba cantici huius in auribus populi, ipse et Iosue filius Nun.
Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song for the people to hear.
45 Complevitque omnes sermones istos, loquens ad universum Israel.
After Moses finished reciting the whole song to all the Israelites,
46 Et dixit ad eos: Ponite corda vestra in omnia verba, quæ ego testificor vobis hodie: ut mandetis ea filiis vestris custodire et facere, et implere universa quæ scripta sunt legis huius:
he told them, “Think about all these words I've declared to you today, so you can order your children to follow carefully everything in this law.
47 quia non incassum præcepta sunt vobis, sed ut singuli in eis viverent: quæ facientes longo perseveretis tempore in Terra, ad quam, Iordane transmisso, ingredimini possidendam.
Don't treat these words as trivial because they are your life, and by them you will have long lives in the country that you will own after crossing the Jordan.”
48 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in eadem die, dicens:
That same day the Lord told Moses,
49 Ascende in montem istum Abarim, id est, transitum, in montem Nebo, qui est in Terra Moab contra Iericho: et vide Terram Chanaan, quam ego tradam filiis Israel obtinendam, et morere in monte.
“Climb up into the Abarim mountains to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and look over the country of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites for them to own.
50 Quem conscendens iungeris populis tuis, sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor, et appositus populis suis:
There on the mountain you've climbed, you will die and join your people in death, in the same way your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and joined his people.
51 quia prævaricati estis contra me in medio filiorum Israel ad Aquas contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin: et non sanctificastis me inter filios Israel.
For there at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Desert of Zin, you both were unfaithful to me. You misrepresented me to the Israelites when you didn't treat me as holy in their presence.
52 Econtra videbis terram, et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Israel.
Though you will see the country that I am giving the Israelites from a distance, you won't enter it.”
