Deuteronomii 32
1 Audite caeli quae loquor, audiat terra verba oris mei.
Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of 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 teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:
3 Quia nomen Domini invocabo: date magnificentiam Deo nostro.
For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.
4 Dei perfecta sunt opera, et omnes viae eius iudicia: Deus fidelis, et absque ulla iniquitate, iustus et rectus.
He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
5 Peccaverunt ei, et non filii eius in sordibus: generatio prava atque perversa.
They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.
6 Haeccine reddis Domino popule stulte et insipiens? numquid non ipse est pater tuus, qui possedit te, et fecit, et creavit te?
Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
7 Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas: interroga patrem tuum, et annunciabit tibi: maiores tuos, et dicent tibi.
Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.
8 Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes: quando separabat filios Adam, constituit terminos populorum iuxta numerum filiorum Israel.
When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
9 Pars autem Domini, populus eius: Iacob funiculus hereditatis eius.
For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.
10 Invenit eum in terra deserta, in loco horroris, et vastae solitudinis: circumduxit eum, et docuit: et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui.
He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light 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, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:
12 Dominus solus dux eius fuit: et non erat cum eo Deus alienus.
So the Lord only was his guide, no other god was with him.
13 Constituit eum super excelsam terram: ut comederet fructus agrorum, ut sugeret mel de petra, oleumque de saxo durissimo.
He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard 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 from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.
15 Incrassatus est dilectus, et recalcitravit: incrassatus, impinguatus, dilatatus, dereliquit Deum factorem suum, et recessit a Deo salutari suo.
But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
16 Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis, et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.
The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
17 Immolaverunt daemoniis et non Deo, diis, quos ignorabant: novi recentesque venerunt, quos non coluerunt patres eorum.
They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.
18 Deum, qui te genuit dereliquisti, et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui.
You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.
19 Vidit Dominus, et ad iracundiam concitatus est: quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et filiae.
And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
20 Et ait: Abscondam faciem meam ab eis, et considerabo novissima eorum: generatio enim perversa est, et infideles filii.
And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.
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 given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by 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 my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Congregabo super eos mala, et sagittas meas complebo in eis.
I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.
24 Consumentur fame, et devorabunt eos aves morsu amarissimo: dentes bestiarum immittam in eos, cum furore trahentium super terram, atque serpentium.
They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
25 Foris vastabit eos gladius, et intus pavor, iuvenem simul ac virginem, lactentem cum homine sene.
Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.
26 Dixi: Ubinam sunt? cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum.
I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:
27 Sed propter iram inimicorum distuli: ne forte superbirent hostes eorum, et dicerent: Manus nostra excelsa, et non Dominus, fecit haec omnia.
But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
28 Gens absque consilio est, et sine prudentia.
For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
29 Utinam saperent, et intelligerent, ac novissima providerent.
If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
30 Quo modo persequebatur unus mille, et duo fugabant decem millia? nonne ideo, quia Deus suus vendidit eos, et Dominus conclusit illos?
How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?
31 Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eorum: et inimici nostri sunt iudices.
For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.
32 De vinea Sodomorum, vinea eorum, et de suburbanis Gomorrhae: uva eorum uva fellis, et botri amarissimi.
For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:
33 Fel draconum vinum eorum, et venenum aspidum insanabile.
Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
34 Nonne haec condita sunt apud me, et signata in thesauris meis?
Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?
35 Mea est ultio, et ego retribuam eis in tempore, ut labatur pes eorum: iuxta est dies perditionis, et adesse festinant tempora.
Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.
36 Iudicabit Dominus populum suum, et in servis suis miserebitur: videbit quod infirmata sit manus, et clausi quoque defecerunt, residuique consumpti sunt.
For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
37 Et dicet: Ubi sunt dii eorum, in quibus habebant fiduciam?
And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?
38 De quorum victimis comedebant adipes, et bibebant vinum libaminum: surgant, et opitulentur vobis, et in necessitate vos protegant.
Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.
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, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
40 Levabo ad caelum manum meam, et dicam: Vivo ego in aeternum.
For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,
41 Si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum, et arripuerit iudicium manus mea: reddam ultionem hostibus meis, et his qui oderunt me retribuam.
If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
42 Inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine, et gladius meus devorabit carnes, de cruore occisorum, et de captivitate, nudati inimicorum capitis.
I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.
43 Laudate gentes populum eius, quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur: et vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum, et propitius erit terrae populi sui.
Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.
44 Venit ergo Moyses, et locutus est omnia verba cantici huius in auribus populi, ipse et Iosue filius Nun.
So Moses said all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Hoshea, the son of Nun.
45 Complevitque omnes sermones istos, loquens ad universum Israel.
And after saying all this to the people,
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:
Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word 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.
And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.
48 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in eadem die, dicens:
That same day the Lord said to 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.
Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for their heritage:
50 Quem conscendens iungeris populis tuis, sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor, et appositus populis suis:
And let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest with your people; as death came to Aaron, your brother, on Mount Hor, where he was put to rest with 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 of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.
52 Econtra videbis terram, et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Israel.
So you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.
