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 in 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 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 haecine reddis Domino popule stulte et insipiens numquid non ipse est pater tuus qui possedit 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 adnuntiabit 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 Israhel

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 adsumpsit eum atque portavit in umeris 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 inpinguatus 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 daemonibus 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 inritaverunt in vanitatibus suis et ego provocabo eos in eo qui non est populus et in gente stulta inritabo 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 conburet (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 conplebo 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 inmittam 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 lactantem 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 intellegerent ac novissima providerent

If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

30 quomodo persequatur unus mille et duo fugent decem milia 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 deus 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 Gomorrae 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 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 defecerint residuique consumpti sint

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 occidam et ego vivere faciam 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 Moses 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 conplevitque omnes sermones istos loquens ad universum Israhel

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 in cassum 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 Mosen in eadem die dicens

That same day the Lord said to Moses,

49 ascende in montem istum Abarim id est transituum in montem Nebo qui est in terra Moab contra Hiericho et vide terram Chanaan quam ego tradam filiis Israhel 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 adpositus 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 Israhel ad aquas Contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin et non sanctificastis me inter filios Israhel

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 e contra videbis terram et non ingredieris in eam quam ego dabo filiis Israhel

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.