Deotoronomia 7

1 Rehefa entin’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ianao ka tafiditra any amin’ ny tany izay efa hidiranao holovana, ary firenena maro no voaroakany hiala eo anoloanao, dia ny Hetita sy ny Girgasita sy ny Amorita sy ny Kananita sy ny Perizita sy ny Hivita ary ny Jebosita, dia firenena fito izay lehibe sy mahery noho ianao.

“When your God YHWH brings you into the land to where you are going in to possess it, and He has cast out many nations from your presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than you,

2 ary rehefa voatolotr’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao eo anoloanao ireny ka resinao: dia aringano mihitsy izy; aza manao fanekena aminy, na mamindra fo aminy;

and your God YHWH has given them before you, then you have struck them—you utterly devote them—you do not make a covenant with them, nor do you favor them.

3 ary aza mifanambady anaka aminy: ny zanakao-vavy tsy homenao ho vadin’ ny zananilahy, ary ny zananivavy tsy halainao ho vadin’ ny zanakao-lahy.

And you do not join in marriage with them; you do not give your daughter to his son, and you do not take his daughter to your son,

4 Fa hampiala ny zanakao-lahy amin’ ny fanarahana Ahy izy mba hanompoany andriamani-kafa, dia hirehitra aminareo ny fahatezeran’ i Jehovah, ka handrifigana anao vetivety Izy.

for he turns aside your son from after Me, and they have served other gods; and the anger of YHWH has burned against you and has destroyed you quickly.

5 Fa izao kosa no ataovinareo aminy: ny alitarany horavanao, ary ny tsangam-baton-tsampiny hovakivakinao; ny Aserahany hokapainao, ary ny sarin-javatra voasokitra hodoranao amin’ ny afo.

But thus you do to them: you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down their Asherim, and you burn their carved images with fire.

6 Fa firenena masìna ho an’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ianao; fa ianao efa nofidin’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ho firenena rakitra soa ho Azy mihoatra noho ny firenena rehetra ambonin’ ny tany.

For you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH; your God YHWH has fixed on you, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

7 Tsy ny hamaroanareo noho ny firenena rehetra anefa no niraiketan’ ny fitiavan’ i Jehovah taminareo sy nifidianany anareo, fa ianareo dia vitsy noho ny firenena rehetra aza;

YHWH has delighted in you and fixes on you, not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples, for you [are] the least of all the peoples,

8 fa ny nitiavan’ i Jehovah anareo sy ny nitandremany ny fianianana izay efa nianianany tamin’ ny razanareo no nitondran’ i Jehovah anareo tamin’ ny tanana mahery sy nanavotany anao tamin’ ny trano nahandevozana dia tamin’ ny tànan’ i Farao, mpanjakan’ i Egypta.

but because of YHWH’s loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He has sworn to your fathers; YHWH has brought you out by a strong hand, and ransoms you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Koa aoka ho fantatrao fa Jehovah Andriamanitrao ihany no Andriamanitra, dia Andriamanitra mahatoky, Izay mitandrina fanekena sy famindram-po amin’ izay tia Azy sy mitandrina ny didiny, hatramin’ ny taranaka arivo mandimby,

And you have known that He, your God YHWH, [is] God, the faithful God keeping the covenant and the kindness with those loving Him and with those keeping His commands, for one thousand generations,

10 ary mamaly miharihary izay mandrafy Azy amin’ ny fandringanana azy; tsy hitaredretra Izy ny amin’ izay mandrafy Azy, fa hamaly azy miharihary.

and repaying to those hating Him to their face, to destroy them; He does not delay to him who is hating Him, He repays [it] to him to his face.

11 Koa tandremo ny lalàna sy ny didy ary ny fitsipika, izay andidiako anao anio, ka araho izy.

And you have kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding you today to do them.

12 Ary raha mihaino ireo fitsipika ireo ianareo ka mitandrina sy manaraka azy, dia hotanterahin’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao aminao ny fanekena sy ny famindram-po, izay nianianany tamin’ ny razanao;

And it has been, because you hear these judgments, and have kept and done them, that your God YHWH has kept the covenant and the kindness with you which He has sworn to your fathers,

13 dia ho tia anao sy hitahy anao ary hahamaro anao Izy; ary Izy hitahy ny ateraky ny kibonao sy ny vokatry ny taninao, dia ny varinao sy ny ranom-boalobokao sy ny diloilonao, ary ny ateraky ny ombinao sy ny ateraky ny ondry aman’ osinao any amin’ ny tany izay nianianany tamin’ ny razanao homena anao.

and has loved you, and blessed you, and multiplied you, and has blessed the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, your grain, and your new wine, and your oil, the increase of your oxen, and the wealth of your flock, on the ground which He has sworn to your fathers to give to you.

14 Hotahina ianao mihoatra noho ny firenena rehetra; tsy hisy lahy na vavy tsy hiteraka, na ianareo na ny biby fiompinareo.

Blessed are you above all the peoples; there is not a barren man or a barren woman in you—nor among your livestock;

15 Ary harovan’ i Jehovah tsy ho azon’ aretina ianao, ka tsy hisy hameliny anao ny aretin-dratsin’ i Egypta, izay fantatrao; fa hataony amin’ izay rehetra mankahala anao kosa ireny.

and YHWH has turned aside every sickness from you, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you have known) does He put on you, and He has put them on all hating you.

16 Ary aoka holaninao ny firenena rehetra, izay hatolotr’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao anao, ka aoka tsy hiantra azy ny masonao; ary aza manompo ny andriamaniny, fa ho fandrika aminao ireny.

And you have consumed all the peoples whom your God YHWH is giving to you; your eye has no pity on them, and you do not serve their gods, for it [is] a snare to you.

17 Raha ianao hanao anakampo hoe: Maro noho izaho ireo firenena ireo, ka hataoko ahoana no fahay mandroaka azy?

When you say in your heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them?

18 dia aza matahotra azy ianao; fa tsarovy tsara izay nataon’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao tamin’ i Farao sy ny Egyptiana rehetra,

You are not afraid of them; you surely remember that which your God YHWH has done to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt,

19 dia ny fizahan-toetra lehibe, izay efa hitan’ ny masonao, sy ny famantarana sy ny fahagagana sy ny tanana mahery ary ny sandry nahinjitra, izay nitondran’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao anao nivoaka; fa toy izany no hataon’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao amin’ ny firenena rehetra izay atahoranao.

the great trials which your eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the outstretched arm, with which your God YHWH has brought you out; so does your God YHWH do to all the peoples of whose presence you are afraid.

20 Ary ny fanenitra koa dia hampandehanin’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao ho eo aminy mandra-paharingan’ izay sisa sy izay efa niery ka tsy hitanao.

And your God YHWH also sends the locust among them, until the destruction of those who are left, even those who are hidden from your presence;

21 Aza matahotra azy ianao; fa Jehovah Andriamanitrao no eo aminao, dia Andriamanitra lehibe sy mahatahotra.

you are not terrified by their presence, for your God YHWH [is] in your midst, a God great and fearful.

22 Ary horoahin’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao eo alohanao tsikelikely ireny firenena ireny; tsy haharoaka azy faingana ianao, fandrao hihamaro ny bibi-dia ka hamely anao.

And your God YHWH has cast out these nations from your presence little [by] little (you are not able to consume them quickly, lest the beast of the field multiplies against you),

23 Fa hatolotr’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao eo anoloanao izy ka hataony mifanaritaka be ihany mandra-pahalany ritrany.

and your God YHWH has given them before you, and confused them [with] a great destruction until their being destroyed;

24 Dia hatolony eo an-tananao koa ny mpanjakany, ka ho foananao tsy ho re intsony atỳ ambanin’ ny lanitra ny anarany; tsy hisy olona hahajanona eo anoloanao, fa haringanao avokoa izy mandra-pahalaniny.

and He has given their kings into your hand, and you have destroyed their name from under the heavens; no man stations himself in your presence until you have destroyed them.

25 Ny sarin-javatra voasokitra, izay andriamaniny, dia hodoranareo amin’ ny afo; aza mitsiriritra ny volafotsy na ny volamena izay eo aminy, na maka izany ho anao, fandrao ho voafandriny ianao, fa fahavetavetana eo imason’ i Jehovah Andriamanitrao izany.

You burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you do not desire the silver and gold on them, nor have you taken [it] for yourself, lest you are snared by it, for it [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH;

26 Ary aza mitondra fahavetavetana ho ao an-tranonao, fandrao ho voaozona tahaka izany koa ianao; ho halanao sy ho fahavetavetana eo imasonao indrindra izany, fa zavatra voaozona.

and you do not bring in an abomination to your house, or you have been devoted like it—you utterly detest it and you utterly abhor it; for it [is] devoted.”