Deuteronomii 32
1 Audite caeli quae loquor, audiat terra verba oris mei.
Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2 Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea, fluat ut ros eloquium meum, quasi imber super herbam, et quasi stillae super gramina.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
3 Quia nomen Domini invocabo: date magnificentiam Deo nostro.
For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah. Ascribe ye greatness to our God.
4 Dei perfecta sunt opera, et omnes viae eius iudicia: Deus fidelis, et absque ulla iniquitate, iustus et rectus.
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 Peccaverunt ei, et non filii eius in sordibus: generatio prava atque perversa.
They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his sons, it is their blemish, a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Haeccine reddis Domino popule stulte et insipiens? numquid non ipse est pater tuus, qui possedit te, et fecit, et creavit te?
Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.
7 Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas: interroga patrem tuum, et annunciabit tibi: maiores tuos, et dicent tibi.
Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask thy father, and he will show thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee.
8 Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes: quando separabat filios Adam, constituit terminos populorum iuxta numerum filiorum Israel.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 Pars autem Domini, populus eius: Iacob funiculus hereditatis eius.
For Jehovah's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 Invenit eum in terra deserta, in loco horroris, et vastae solitudinis: circumduxit eum, et docuit: et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui.
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness. He compassed him about. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 Sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos, et super eos volitans, expandit alas suas, et assumpsit eum, atque portavit in humeris suis.
As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings. He took them. He bore them on his pinions.
12 Dominus solus dux eius fuit: et non erat cum eo Deus alienus.
Jehovah alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.
13 Constituit eum super excelsam terram: ut comederet fructus agrorum, ut sugeret mel de petra, oleumque de saxo durissimo.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the increase of the field, and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock,
14 Butyrum de armento, et lac de ovibus cum adipe agnorum, et arietum filiorum Basan: et hircos cum medulla tritici, et sanguinem uvae biberet meracissimum.
butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat, and of the blood of the grape thou drank wine.
15 Incrassatus est dilectus, et recalcitravit: incrassatus, impinguatus, dilatatus, dereliquit Deum factorem suum, et recessit a Deo salutari suo.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. Thou have grown fat. Thou have grown thick. Thou have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis, et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. With abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 Immolaverunt daemoniis et non Deo, diis, quos ignorabant: novi recentesque venerunt, quos non coluerunt patres eorum.
They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they knew not, to new gods that came up of late, which your fathers did not dread.
18 Deum, qui te genuit dereliquisti, et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui.
Thou are unmindful of the Rock that begot thee, and have forgotten God who gave thee birth.
19 Vidit Dominus, et ad iracundiam concitatus est: quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et filiae.
And Jehovah saw, and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
20 Et ait: Abscondam faciem meam ab eis, et considerabo novissima eorum: generatio enim perversa est, et infideles filii.
And he said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be. For they are a very perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness.
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 moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities, and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 Ignis succensus est in furore meo, et ardebit usque ad inferni novissima: devorabitque terram cum germine suo, et montium fundamenta comburet. (Sheol h7585)
For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Congregabo super eos mala, et sagittas meas complebo in eis.
I will heap evils upon them. I will spend my arrows upon them,
24 Consumentur fame, et devorabunt eos aves morsu amarissimo: dentes bestiarum immittam in eos, cum furore trahentium super terram, atque serpentium.
to be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. And I will send upon them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
25 Foris vastabit eos gladius, et intus pavor, iuvenem simul ac virginem, lactentem cum homine sene.
Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror, to both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.
26 Dixi: Ubinam sunt? cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum.
I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
27 Sed propter iram inimicorum distuli: ne forte superbirent hostes eorum, et dicerent: Manus nostra excelsa, et non Dominus, fecit haec omnia.
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, and Jehovah has not done all this.
28 Gens absque consilio est, et sine prudentia.
For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
29 Utinam saperent, et intelligerent, ac novissima providerent.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 Quo modo persequebatur unus mille, et duo fugabant decem millia? nonne ideo, quia Deus suus vendidit eos, et Dominus conclusit illos?
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them, and Jehovah had delivered them up?
31 Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eorum: et inimici nostri sunt iudices.
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 De vinea Sodomorum, vinea eorum, et de suburbanis Gomorrhae: uva eorum uva fellis, et botri amarissimi.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.
33 Fel draconum vinum eorum, et venenum aspidum insanabile.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Nonne haec condita sunt apud me, et signata in thesauris meis?
Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
35 Mea est ultio, et ego retribuam eis in tempore, ut labatur pes eorum: iuxta est dies perditionis, et adesse festinant tempora.
Vengeance is for me, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
36 Iudicabit Dominus populum suum, et in servis suis miserebitur: videbit quod infirmata sit manus, et clausi quoque defecerunt, residuique consumpti sunt.
For Jehovah will judge his people, and regrets for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
37 Et dicet: Ubi sunt dii eorum, in quibus habebant fiduciam?
And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
38 De quorum victimis comedebant adipes, et bibebant vinum libaminum: surgant, et opitulentur vobis, et in necessitate vos protegant.
which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection.
39 Videte quod ego sim solus, et non sit alius Deus praeter me: ego occido, et ego vivere facio: percutiam, et ego sanabo, et non est qui de manu mea possit eruere.
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
40 Levabo ad caelum manum meam, et dicam: Vivo ego in aeternum.
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, As I live forever,
41 Si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum, et arripuerit iudicium manus mea: reddam ultionem hostibus meis, et his qui oderunt me retribuam.
if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
42 Inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine, et gladius meus devorabit carnes, de cruore occisorum, et de captivitate, nudati inimicorum capitis.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.
43 Laudate gentes populum eius, quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur: et vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum, et propitius erit terrae populi sui.
Rejoice, O ye Gentiles, with his people. For he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will recompense those who hate him, and will make expiation for his land, for his people.
44 Venit ergo Moyses, et locutus est omnia verba cantici huius in auribus populi, ipse et Iosue filius Nun.
And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
45 Complevitque omnes sermones istos, loquens ad universum Israel.
And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel.
46 et dixit ad eos: Ponite corda vestra in omnia verba, quae ego testificor vobis hodie: ut mandetis ea filiis vestris custodire et facere, et implere universa quae scripta sunt legis huius:
And he said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons to observe to do, even all the words of this law.
47 quia non incassum praecepta sunt vobis, sed ut singuli in eis viverent: quae facientes longo perseveretis tempore in Terra, ad quam, Iordane transmisso, ingredimini possidendam.
For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land where ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
48 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in eadem die, dicens:
And Jehovah spoke to Moses that selfsame day, saying,
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.
Get thee up onto this mountain of Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is opposite Jericho, and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession.
50 Quem conscendens iungeris populis tuis, sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor, et appositus populis suis:
And die on the mount where thou go up, and be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people,
51 quia praevaricati estis contra me in medio filiorum Israel ad Aquas contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin: et non sanctificastis me inter filios Israel.
because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because ye did not sanctify me in the midst of the sons of Israel.
52 Econtra videbis terram, et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Israel.
For thou shall see the land before thee, but thou shall not go there into the land which I give the sons of Israel.
