5 Mosebok 32
1 «Høyr himmel, på meg, med eg talar, lyd du jord, på ordi frå min munn!
Give ear, you heavens, and let me speak. Let the earth listen to the words of my mouth.
2 Som regnet rislar mitt kvæde, som doggi dryp mine ord, som skurer på grønan grode, som el på urter og gras;
Let my teaching drop down like the rain, let my speech distill like the dew, like the gentle rain on the tender grass, and like the showers on the plants.
3 For Herrens namn vil eg prisa; høgt love de Herren, vår Gud!
For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh, and ascribe greatness to our God.
4 Eit fjell er han, stød i si framferd; for rett fylgjer alle hans fet - ein trufast Gud og truverdig; rettferdig og rettvis er han.
The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his paths are just. He is the faithful God, without iniquity. He is just and upright.
5 Men borni hans dei var’kje hans born; dei synda imot ham stygt, seg sjølve til skam og vanæra, ei rang og svikefull ætt.
They have acted corruptly against him. They are not his children. It is their disgrace. They are a perverted and crooked generation.
6 Er det soleis de løner Herren, du dårlege, fåvise folk! Er’kje han din far og din fostrar? Han laga deg og gav deg liv.
Do you reward Yahweh in this way, you foolish and senseless people? Is he not your father, the one who has created you? He made you and established you.
7 Hugs etter ævordoms dagar, gransk åri, ætt etter ætt! Spør far din, han gjev deg fråsegn, dine gamle, av deim fær du grein.
Call to mind the days of ancient times, think about the years of many ages past. Ask your father and he will show you, your elders and they will tell you.
8 Då den Høgste skifte ut heimen, og gav folki eiga og arv, då manneborni vart skilde og spreidde til kvar sin stad, då laga han landskili etter talet på Israels lyd;
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance— when he divided all of mankind, and he set the boundaries of the peoples, as he also fixed the number of their gods.
9 For Herrens folk er hans odel, Jakob er hans eiga og arv.
For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is his apportioned inheritance.
10 Han fann han på aude viddi, med det ylte i villande heid; han verna han, og han vakta han vart, som ein augnestein.
He found him in a desert land, and in the barren and howling wilderness; he shielded him and cared for him, he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
11 Som ørnen vekkjer sitt elde, og yver ungarne sviv, so breidd’ han ut flogfjørern’ sine, og bar han uppå sin veng.
As an eagle that guards her nest and flutters over her young, Yahweh spread out his wings and took them, and carried them on his pinions.
12 Det var Herren eine som førd’ han; ingen framand gud fylgde med.
Yahweh alone led him; no foreign god was with him.
13 Då for du fram yver høgdern’, fekk eta av landsens avl; utor berget tappa du honning, og olje or hardaste stein;
He made him ride on high places of the land, and he fed him the fruits of the field; he nourished him with honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty crag.
14 søtrjomen og sauemjølki saup du; lambe- og verefeitt, kjøt av uksar i Basan alne åt du og ungbukkekjøt, attåt feitaste kveitemergen, og druveblod drakk du, vin.
He ate butter from the herd and drank milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the juice of grapes.
15 Jesjurun vart feit, og slo bakut, feit vart han, foreten og stinn; han skaut ifrå seg sin skapar, mismætte sitt frelsande fjell.
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill— he abandoned the God who made him, and he rejected the Rock of his salvation.
16 Dei arga han med avgudar, med ufryskje harma dei han.
They made Yahweh jealous by their strange gods; with their abominations they angered him.
17 Dei blota til vonde vette, til gudar dei vankjende fyrr, nye og nyst uppkomne, som federne ikkje visst’ um.
They sacrificed to demons, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.
18 Du ansa ikkje fjellet, ditt upphav, du gløymde din skapar og Gud.
You have deserted the Rock, who became your father, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 Og Herren såg det, og støytte deim burt ifrå seg, sine born;
Yahweh saw this and he rejected them, because his sons and his daughters provoked him so.
20 og i sin harm sagde han dette: «Eg skal løyna mitt andlit for deim; eg undrast korleis det vil ganga, undrast kva ende dei fær; for dei er ei ætt av uvyrdor, born som ein aldri kann tru.
“I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
21 Dei arga meg upp med u-gudar, eggja meg med sine skrymt; eg skal eggja deim med eit u-folk, ei uvitug heidningeborg.
They have made me jealous by what is not god and angered me by their worthless things. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; by a foolish nation I will make them angry.
22 For ein eld er kveikt av min ande, og logar til djupt under jord; han øyder grunnen og grøda og fatar i fastaste fjell. (Sheol h7585)
For a fire is kindled by my anger and is burning to the lowest Sheol; it is devouring the earth and its harvest; it is setting on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Eg skal sanka i hop ulukkor og sleppa nedyver deim; kvar ei pil eg hev i mi eiga skal eg skjota av imot deim.
I will heap disasters on them; I will shoot all my arrows at them;
24 Når svolt og svidande sotter hev soge mergen or deim, sender eg mot deim udyrtonni og eitr av krjupande orm.
They will be wasted by hunger and devoured by burning heat and bitter destruction; I will send on them the teeth of wild animals, with the poison of things that crawl in the dust.
25 Ute herjar den kalde odden, og inne rædsla og støkk, tyner sveinar og tynar møyar, sylvherde og sugarborn.
Outside the sword will bereave, and in the bedrooms terror will do so. It will destroy both young man and virgin, the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs.
26 Eg hadde vilja blåse deim burt, so ingen mintest deim meir,
I said that I would scatter them far away, that I would make the memory of them to cease from among mankind.
27 ottast eg ikkje min eigen harm, når uvenern’ tydde det rangt, når valdsmennern’ sagde: «Stor er vår magt, dette er ikkje Herrens verk.»»
Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, and that their enemies would judge mistakenly, and that they would say, 'Our hand is exalted,' I would have done all this.
28 For dei er eit folk forutan visdom; dei vantar båd’ klokskap og vit.
For Israel is a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding in them.
29 Var det vit i deim, vara dei seg; for då visste dei kvar det bar av.
Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their coming fate!
30 Koss kunde ein mann elta tusund, og tvo slå ti tusund på flog, hadd’ ikkje hjelpi gjenge frå deim og Herren gjeve deim upp?
How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had given them up?
31 For deira vern er’kje som vår vern; det vitnar fienden sjølv.
For our enemies' rock is not like our Rock, just as even our enemies admit.
32 I Sodoma voks deira vintre, skaut upp av Gomorras grunn; druvorn’ dei ber, det er trollber, og beisk er kvar einaste krans;
For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter.
33 Vinen av deim er orme-eiter og øgjeleg drakefraud.
Their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.
34 «Ligg’kje dette gøymt i mi stova, forsegla i mine skrin?
Is not this plan secretly kept by me, sealed up among my treasures?
35 Eg råder for hemn og for attgjeld når foten deira skrid ut. Alt lid det mot undergangsdagen, og forloga deira kjem fort.»
Vengeance is mine to give, and recompense, at the time when their foot slips; for the day of disaster for them is near, and the things that are to come on them will hurry to happen.”
36 Sine tenarar tykkjer Gud synd um, og tek deira sak i si hand, når han ser det er ende på magti og ute med gamall og ung.
For Yahweh will give justice to his people, and he will pity his servants. He will see that their power is gone, and no one remains, either slaves or free people.
37 Han spør: «Kvar tru er deira gudar, den hjelpi dei trygde seg til,
Then he will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in whom they took refuge?—
38 som slauk deira slagtofferfeita, og saup deira drykkoffervin? - Bed dei reinsa seg og dykk berga, bed deim vera vervegg for dykk!
The gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection.
39 Ser de no at eg er sjølv eine: Det er ingen Gud utan eg! Eg drep, og eg vekkjer til live, eg helseslær og eg gjer heil; og ingen i vide verdi kann fria dykk or mitt vald.
See now that I, even I, am God, and that there is no god besides me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, and there is no one who can save you from my might.
40 Sjå, eg lyfter handi mot himmelen: So visst eg hev ævelegt liv:
For I lift up my hand to heaven and say, 'As I live forever, I will act.
41 Hev eg slipa det ljonande sverdet, og stend med domen i hand, tek eg hemn yver deim som meg hatar, valdsmannen fær det han er verd.
When I sharpen my glittering sword, and when my hand begins to bring justice, I will render vengeance on my enemies, and I will pay back those who hate me.
42 Med kjøt vert sverdet mitt metta, mine piler drukne av blod - blodet av falne og fangar, av fiendehovdingen sjølv.»
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh with the blood of the killed and the captives, and from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.'”
43 Love hans tenarar, lydar! Hemna vil han deira blod; mot valdsmannen vender han våpni, og løyser sitt land og sin lyd.»
Rejoice, you nations, with God's people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will render vengeance on his enemies, and he will make atonement for his land, for his people.
44 Då Moses hadde kvede alle versi i denne songen for folket, han og Hosea Nunsson,
Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Joshua son of Nun.
45 og hadde tala alle desse ordi til heile Israel,
Then Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
46 so sagde han til deim: «Agta no vel på alle dei ordi eg lysar for dykk i dag, so de kann læra borni dykkar å halda alle bodi i denne lovi og liva etter deim!
He said to them, “Fix your mind on all the words that I have witnessed to you today, so that you may command your children to keep them, all the words of this law.
47 For dette er ikkje noko tomt ord, som ikkje gjeld for dykk; livet dykkar ligg i dette ordet, og held de dykk etter det, so skal de få liva lenge i det landet de no fer yver til og skal leggja under dykk.»
For this is no trivial matter for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you will prolong your days in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
48 Denne same dagen tala Herren til Moses, og sagde:
Yahweh spoke to Moses on that same day and said,
49 «Stig upp på Abarimfjellet her, på Nebotinden, som ligg i Moablandet, midt for Jeriko, so skal du få skoda Kana’ans-landet, som eg gjev Israels-borni til eigedom,
“Go up into this range of the mountains of Abarim, up Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho. You will look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel as their possession.
50 og der uppå fjellet skal du døy og fara til federne dine, soleis som Aron, døydde på Horfjellet og for til federne sine,
You will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people, as Aaron your fellow Israelite died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
51 for di de ikkje for ærleg fram mot meg millom Israels-sønerne ved Meribakjelda i Kades i Sinøydemarki, og ikkje synte Israels-sønerne allmagti mi.
This will happen because you were unfaithful to me among the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not treat me with honor and respect among the people of Israel.
52 Du skal få sjå landet framfyre deg, men inn skal du ikkje koma i det landet som eg vil gjeva Israels-sønerne.»
For you will see the land before you, but you will not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.”
