Deuteronômio 9
1 Ouve, Israel: tu estás hoje para passar o Jordão, para entrar a possuir nações mais numerosas e mais fortes que tu, cidades grandes e fortificadas até o céu,
Listen, people of Israel! Shortly you're going to cross the Jordan to enter and take over the country from nations that are larger and stronger than you, that have large towns with walls that reach up into the sky.
2 Um povo grande e alto, filhos de gigantes, dos quais tens tu conhecimento, e ouviste dizer: Quem resistirá diante dos filhos do gigante?
The people are strong and tall; they are the descendants of the Anakim. You all know about them and you have heard the saying, “Who could ever defeat the sons of Anak?”
3 Sabe, pois, hoje que o SENHOR teu Deus é o que passa diante de ti, fogo consumidor, que os destruirá e humilhará diante de ti: e tu os expulsarás, e os destruirás logo, como o SENHOR te disse.
But you should realize that today the Lord your God is going across ahead of you. He is like a consuming fire; he will destroy them and defeat them ahead of you. You will drive them out and quickly wipe them out, just as the Lord promised you.
4 Não digas em teu coração quando o SENHOR teu Deus os haverá expulsado de diante de ti, dizendo: Por minha justiça me pôs o SENHOR a possuir esta terra; pois pela impiedade destas nações o SENHOR as expulsa de diante de ti.
When the Lord your God has driven them out ahead of you, don't think to yourselves, “It's because I'm such a good person that the Lord has brought me here to take over this land.” No, the Lord is driving out these nations ahead of you because of they're so wicked.
5 Não por tua justiça, nem pela retidão de teu coração entras a possuir a terra deles; mas pela impiedade destas nações o SENHOR teu Deus as expulsa de diante de ti, e para confirmar a palavra que o SENHOR jurou a teus pais Abraão, Isaque, e Jacó.
It's not because you're so good or moral that you are going to take over their land. No, it's because of their wickedness that the Lord your God is driving out these nations ahead of you, to keep the promise he made to your fathers—m to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Portanto, sabe que não por tua justiça o SENHOR teu Deus te dá esta boa terra para possuí-la; que povo duro de cerviz és tu.
You'd better believe that it's not because you're such good people that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to own, because you are stubborn, hard-hearted people.
7 Lembra-te, não te esqueças que provocaste a ira ao SENHOR teu Deus no deserto: desde o dia que saíste da terra do Egito, até que entrastes neste lugar, fostes rebeldes ao SENHOR.
Remember how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert! Don't ever forget it! From the time you left the land of Egypt until you arrived here, you've been constantly rebelling against the Lord.
8 E em Horebe provocastes à ira ao SENHOR, e irou-se o SENHOR contra vós para destruir-vos.
At Horeb you provoked the Lord, making him so angry he was about to destroy you.
9 Quando eu subi ao monte para receber as tábuas de pedra, as tábuas do pacto que o SENHOR fez convosco, estive então no monte quarenta dias e quarenta noites, sem comer pão nem beber água:
This was when I climbed up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets that recorded agreement the Lord made with you. I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, and I didn't eat or drink anything.
10 E deu-me o SENHOR as duas tábuas de pedra escritas com o dedo de Deus; e nelas estava escrito conforme todas as palavras que vos falou o SENHOR no monte do meio do fogo, no dia da assembleia.
The Lord gave me the two stone tablets on which he'd written with his finger everything he'd told you when he spoke from the fire on the mountain when we were all assembled there.
11 E foi ao fim dos quarenta dias e quarenta noites, que o SENHOR me deu as duas tábuas de pedra, as tábuas do pacto.
After forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the agreement.
12 E disse-me o SENHOR: Levanta-te, desce logo daqui; que teu povo que tiraste do Egito se corrompeu: logo se apartaram do caminho que eu lhes mandei: fizeram para si uma efígie de fundição.
The Lord told me, “Hurry! Go down immediately, because your people that you led out of Egypt, are committing a terrible sin. They have disobeyed what I told them so quickly! They have made themselves an idol using molten metal.”
13 E falou-me o SENHOR, dizendo: Vi esse povo, e eis que ele é povo duro de cerviz:
The Lord also told me, “I have been watching these people, and they really are a stubborn and hard-hearted.
14 Deixa-me que os destrua, e apague seu nome de debaixo do céu; que eu te porei sobre gente forte e muito mais que eles.
Leave me, so that I can destroy them and wipe out their name completely. Then I will turn you into a nation even more powerful and more important than them.”
15 E voltei e desci do monte, o qual ardia em fogo, com as tábuas do pacto em minhas duas mãos.
I went back down the mountain while it was still on fire, carrying the two tablets of the agreement.
16 E olhei, e eis que havíeis pecado contra o SENHOR vosso Deus: Havíeis feito para vós um bezerro de fundição, desviando-vos logo do caminho que o SENHOR vos havia mandado.
Then I saw how much you had sinned against the Lord your God by making for yourselves a molten calf. You had disobeyed what the Lord had told you so quickly.
17 Então tomei as duas tábuas, e lancei-as de minhas duas mãos, e quebrei-as diante vossos olhos.
I threw the two tablets down, smashing them to pieces as you watched.
18 E prostrei-me diante do SENHOR, como antes, quarenta dias e quarenta noites: não comi pão nem bebi água, por causa de todo vosso pecado que havíeis cometido fazendo mal aos olhos do SENHOR para irá-lo.
Then I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, just as I had before. I didn't eat or drink anything because of all the sins you had committed by doing what was evil in the Lord's sight, making him angry.
19 Porque temi por causa do furor e da ira com que o SENHOR estava irritado contra vós para destruir-vos. Porém o SENHOR me ouviu ainda esta vez.
I was terrified at how angry and furious the Lord was with you. He was ready to destroy you. But once again the Lord listened to me.
20 Contra Arão também se irou o SENHOR em grande maneira para destruí-lo: e também orei por Arão então.
The Lord was so angry with Aaron he was ready to destroy him, but right then I prayed for Aaron too.
21 E tomei vosso pecado, o bezerro que havíeis feito, e queimei no fogo, e o esmigalhei moendo-o muito bem, até que foi reduzido a pó: e lancei o pó dele no ribeiro que descia do monte.
I took that abominable thing, the calf you'd made, and burned it. Then I crushed it up and ground it into dust, and I threw it into the stream that descended from the mountain.
22 Também em Taberá, e em Massá, e em Quibrote-Hataavá, irritastes ao SENHOR.
But you went on provoking the Lord at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
23 E quando o SENHOR vos enviou desde Cades-Barneia, dizendo: Subi e possuí a terra que eu vos dei; também fostes rebeldes ao dito do SENHOR vosso Deus, e não o crestes, nem obedecestes à sua voz.
When the Lord had you leave Kadesh-barnea, he told you, “Go and take over the country that I've given you.” But you defied the command of the Lord your God. You didn't believe him and you didn't obey him.
24 Rebeldes fostes ao SENHOR desde o dia que eu vos conheço.
You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day I first knew you.
25 Prostrei-me, pois, diante do SENHOR quarenta dias e quarenta noites que estive prostrado; porque o SENHOR disse que vos havia de destruir.
So I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.
26 E orei ao SENHOR, dizendo: Ó Senhor DEUS, não destruas teu povo e tua herança que resgataste com tua grandeza, ao qual tiraste do Egito com mão forte.
I prayed to the Lord, saying, “Please Lord, God, don't destroy your people that belong to you, the ones whom you rescued by your great ability and led out of Egypt by your power.
27 Lembra-te de teus servos Abraão, Isaque, e Jacó; não olhes à dureza deste povo, nem a sua impiedade, nem a seu pecado:
Please remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Please disregard the stubbornness of this people and their wicked sin.
28 Porque não digam os da terra de onde nos tiraste: Porquanto não pôde o SENHOR introduzi-los na terra que lhes havia dito, ou porque os aborrecia, os tirou para matá-los no deserto.
If you don't, those people back in Egypt will say, ‘The Lord brought them out to kill them in the desert because he couldn't take them to the land he'd promised them, and because he hated them.’
29 E eles são teu povo e tua herança, que tiraste com tua grande força e com teu braço estendido.
But they are your people, Lord! They belong to you! You led them out of Egypt by your amazing power and might!”
