Deuteronomio 28
1 Si realmente obedeces lo que el Señor tu Dios te dice, y sigues cuidadosamente todos sus mandamientos que te doy hoy, entonces el Señor tu Dios te pondrá en lo alto, por encima de todas las naciones de la tierra.
“If you do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and faithfully obey everything that I am today commanding you to do, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation on the earth.
2 Tendrás todas las siguientes bendiciones y aún más, si haces lo que el Señor tu Dios dice.
If you obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to bless you:
3 Serás bendecido cuando estés en la ciudad; serás bendecido cuando estés en el campo.
He will bless everything that you do when you are in the cities and he will bless everything that you do when you are [working] in the fields.
4 Serás bendecido con muchos hijos. Serás bendecido con buenas cosechas. Serás bendecido con ganado: tu ganado tendrá muchos terneros, y tus ovejas tendrán muchos corderos.
He will bless you by giving you many children [IDM] and by giving you abundant crops, and plenty of cattle and sheep.
5 Serás bendecido con mucho pan.
He will bless you by causing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
6 Serás bendecido dondequiera que vayas y en todo lo que hagas.
He will bless you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
7 El Señor derrotará a los enemigos que vengan a atacarte. Vendrán a ti desde una dirección, pero se dispersarán por siete caminos diferentes.
Yahweh will enable you to defeat [the armies of] your enemies; they will attack you from one direction, but they will run away from you in seven/many directions.
8 El Señor bendecirá tu ingreso y todo lo que hagas. El Señor tu Dios te bendecirá en el país que te está dando.
Yahweh will bless you [by filling] your barns [with grain], and he will bless all the work that you do; he will bless you in the land that he is giving to you.
9 El Señor te hará su pueblo santo, como te prometió, si obedeces los mandamientos del Señor tu Dios y sigues sus caminos.
“If you obey all the commandments that Yahweh our God [has given to you] and if you conduct your lives as he wants you to do, you will continue to be his people, which is what he promised.
10 Entonces todos en la tierra verán que el Señor te ha elegido para ser suyo, y tendrán miedo de ti.
“When all the people-groups on the earth will realize that you belong to [MTY] Yahweh, and they will be afraid of you.
11 El Señor te hará muy próspero. Tendrás muchos hijos, tu ganado producirá muchas crías, y tu tierra tendrá buenas cosechas, todo esto en el país que el Señor prometió a tus antepasados que te daría.
“And Yahweh will cause you to prosper very much. He will give you many children [IDM], many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he vowed to our ancestors that he would give to you.
12 El Señor proveerá de lluvia a tu tierra en el momento adecuado desde su almacén celestial para bendecir todo tu trabajo de cultivo. Prestarás dinero a muchas naciones, pero no necesitarás pedir prestado a ninguna de ellas.
“When rain is needed, Yahweh will send it from where he stores it in the sky, and he will bless all your work, with the result that you [will be able to] lend money to many other nations, but you will not need to borrow [money from them].
13 El Señor te pondrá en el primer lugar, no en el último. Sólo subirás, nunca bajarás, siempre y cuando escuches y sigas cuidadosamente los mandamientos del Señor tu Dios que te doy hoy.
If you faithfully obey all of the commands of Yahweh our God that I am giving you today, Yahweh will cause your nation to be a leader among the nations, not inferior to them; you will always be prosperous and never be needy/poor [IDM].
14 No te desvíes hoy de ninguna de mis instrucciones. No vayas a adorar a otros dioses.
[Yahweh will do all these things for you] if you do not turn away from [obeying] what I am commanding you today, and if you never worship or serve other gods.
15 Pero si no obedeces al Señor tu Dios siguiendo cuidadosamente todos sus mandamientos y normas que te estoy dando hoy, entonces experimentarás todas las siguientes maldiciones y más:
But if you do not do what Yahweh our God is telling you to do, and if you do not faithfully obey all his rules and regulations that I am giving to you today, this is what he will do to curse you:
16 Serás maldito cuando estés en la ciudad; serás maldito cuando estés en el campo.
He will curse you when you are in the cities and he will curse you when you are [working] in the fields.
17 Serás malditoal no tener pan.
He will curse you by not allowing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
18 Serás malditosin poder tener hijos, ni buenas cosechas, ni tus vacas tendrán terneros ni tus ovejas tendrán corderos.
He will curse you by giving you only a few children [IDM], by causing you to have poor crops, and by not enabling you to have many cattle and sheep.
19 Serás maldito dondequiera que vayas y en todo lo que hagas.
He will curse you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
20 El Señor te enviará maldiciones, haciéndote confundir y frustrar en todo lo que hagas, hasta que seas derribado y mueras rápidamente por el mal que has hecho al abandonarlo.
If you do evil things and reject Yahweh, he will curse you by causing you to (be confused/not know what to do), and to be frustrated in everything that you do, until [your enemies] quickly and completely destroy you {you will be quickly and completely destroyed}.
21 El Señor te dará enfermedades infecciosas hasta que te haya borrado del país en el que estás entrando.
Yahweh will cause you to experience terrible diseases, until not one of you remains alive in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
22 Entonces el Señor te golpeará con una enfermedad que te hará consumir, con una fiebre severa e hinchazón como si te estuvieras quemando, mientras que tus cosechas serán dañadas por la sequía y la plaga y el moho. Estos te atacarán hasta que mueras.
Yahweh will strike/afflict you with diseases that shrivel your bodies, with fever, with inflammation/swelling. It will be extremely hot, and it will not rain. There will be scorching winds, and [Yahweh will cause] your crops to rot. All these things will strike you until you die.
23 El cielo sobre ti será como el bronce, y la tierra debajo de ti será como el hierro.
There will be no rain [MET], [with the result that] the ground will be [as hard as] iron [MET].
24 El Señor cambiará la lluvia de tu tierra en polvo y arena; caerá del cielo sobre ti hasta que seas destruido.
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh will send strong winds to blow sand and dust over your land, until your land is ruined.
25 El Señor hará que tus enemigos te derroten. Los atacarás desde una sola dirección, pero te dispersarás por siete caminos diferentes. Todos en la tierra se horrorizarán con lo que te pase.
Yahweh will enable your enemies to defeat you; your soldiers will attack your enemies from one direction, but they will run away from your enemies in seven/many directions, and when the people of other nations see what is happening to you, they will say that it is horrible.
26 Tu cadáver será alimento para las aves de rapiña y los animales salvajes, y no habrá nadie que los espante.
[You will die], and birds and wild animals will come and eat your corpses, and there will not be anyone to scare/shoo them away.
27 El Señor tecausará forúnculos como a los egipcios, con hinchazones y costras y sarpullidos que no se pueden curar.
Yahweh will cause you to have boils on your skin, like he caused the people of Egypt to have [many years ago]. He will cause you to have tumors, open sores, and your skin will itch, and there will be nothing that will cure those diseases.
28 El Señor te volverá loco y te hará quedar ciego y confundido,
Yahweh will cause [some of] you to become insane; he will cause some of you to become blind, and he will cause [some of] your minds to become confused.
29 de modo que incluso al mediodía estarás a tientas como un ciego en la oscuridad. No tendrás éxito en lo que hagas. Serás perseguido y te robarán todo el tiempo, y nadie vendrá a salvarte.
[Because you will not be able to see where you are going], at midday you will (grope/feel your way) around with your hands, like people do in the darkness. You will continually be oppressed and robbed, and no one will help you.
30 Te comprometerás a casarte con una mujer, pero otro hombre se acostará con ella. Construirás una casa pero no vivirás en ella. Plantarás un viñedo pero no te beneficiarás de ninguna cosecha.
Some of you men will be engaged/promised to marry a young woman, but someone else will rape her. You will build houses, but you will never live in them. You will plant grapevines, but you will not eat the grapes; [someone else will eat them].
31 Tu buey será sacrificado delante de ti, pero no comerás nada de él. Tu asno será retirado y no te será devuelto. Tus ovejas serán tomadas por tus enemigos, y nadie vendrá a salvarte.
Your enemies will butcher your cattle while you watch them, and you will not get any of the meat to eat. They will drag away your donkeys while you watch them do it, and they will not give them back to you. They will take away your sheep; and no one will help you [rescue them].
32 Tus hijos e hijas serán llevados como esclavos a otras naciones mientras tú miras, y te desgastarás llorando por ellos, pero no habrá nada que puedas hacer al respecto.
While you watch, your sons and daughters will be given to foreigners to become their slaves. Every day you will very sadly watch for your children to return, but (you will watch in vain/they will never return).
33 Una nación extranjera de la que nunca has oído hablar se comerá todas las cosechas que tanto te costó cultivar. Serás continuamente perseguido y oprimido.
People from a foreign nation will take all the crops that you worked hard to produce, and they will constantly treat you harshly and cruelly [DOU].
34 Lo que veas te enloquecerá.
The result will be that all these terrible things that you see/experience will cause you to become insane.
35 El Señor te causará forúnculos dolorosos que no se pueden curar en tus rodillas y muslos, de hecho, de la cabeza a los pies.
Yahweh will cause your legs [to be covered with] painful boils that cannot be healed, and you will have boils from the bottoms of your feet to the tops of your heads.
36 El Señor te desterrará a ti y a tu rey elegido hacia una nación extranjera de la que ni tú ni tus antepasados habían oído hablar. Allí adorarás a otros dioses, ídolos hechos de madera y piedra.
Yahweh will cause your king and the rest of you to be taken to another country, to a place in which you and your ancestors have never lived before, and there you will worship and serve gods that are made of wood or stone.
37 Lucirás comoun espanto para todas las naciones donde has sido exiliado por el Señor. Se reirán de ti y te ridiculizarán.
When the people-groups in nearby countries see what has happened to you, they will be shocked/horrified; they will make fun [DOU] of you.
38 Sembrarás mucha semilla en el campo, pero cosecharás muy poco porque las langostas la destruirán.
You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.
39 Sembrarás y cuidarás los viñedos, pero no cosecharás las uvas ni beberás el vino, porque serán comidos por los gusanos.
You will plant grapevines and take care of them, but you will not pick any grapes to make wine, because worms will eat the vines.
40 Tendrás olivos por todo el país pero no tendrás aceite de oliva para usar, porque las aceitunas se caerán pronto de los árboles.
Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not get any olive oil to rub on your skin because the olives will drop [on the ground before they are ripe].
41 Tendrás hijos e hijas, pero no los tendrás por mucho tiempo, porque serán llevados en cautiverio como esclavos.
You will have sons and daughters, but they will not stay with you, because they will be captured and taken away.
42 Nubes de langostas destruirán todos tus árboles y cultivos.
Swarms of locusts/insects will eat your crops and [the leaves of] all your trees.
43 Los extranjeros que vivan con ustedes se elevarán cada vez más por encima de ustedes, mientras que ustedes se hundirán cada vez más.
Foreigners who live in your land will become more and more [powerful], and you will become less and less [powerful].
44 Ellos te prestarán, pero tú no les prestarás a ellos. Ellos serán los primeros y tú serás el último.
They will [have money to] lend to you, but you will not [have any money to] lend to them. They will be superior [IDM] to you, and you will be inferior to them [IDM].
45 Todas estas maldiciones caerán sobre ti. Te perseguirán y atacarán hasta que mueras porque no has obedecido al Señor tu Dios y no has guardado los mandamientos y preceptos que te dio.
“You will experience all these disasters, and you will continue to experience them you until you are destroyed, if you do not do what Yahweh your God told you to do, and do not obey all the rules and regulations that he gave to you.
46 Serán una evidencia duradera, signos visibles de lo que te pasó a ti y a tus descendientes.
“These disasters will warn [DOU] you and your descendants forever [about what happens to groups who disobey Yahweh].
47 Por no haber servido al Señor tu Dios con alegría y con una actitud alegre,
“Because Yahweh blessed you abundantly in many ways, you should have served him very joyfully [DOU], but you did not do that.
48 servirás a tus enemigos que el Señor envía a atacarte con hambre, sed, desnudez y pobreza. Él atará un yugo de hierro en tu cuello hasta destruirte.
“Therefore, you will work for the enemies whom Yahweh will send to attack you. You will be hungry and thirsty; you will not have clothes to wear; and you will lack everything else that you need. And Yahweh will cause you to become slaves [MET] and work hard until he gets rid of you.
49 El Señor traerá una nación para atacarte desde lejos, desde los confines de la tierra. Se abalanzará sobre ti como un águila, esta nación cuya lengua no entenderás.
“Yahweh will cause an army from very far away [HYP] to attack you, whose soldiers speak a language that you do not know/understand. They will swoop down on you [quickly] like an eagle [SIM] attacks its prey.
50 Son una nación despiadada que no respeta a los viejos y no tiene piedad de los jóvenes.
They will be fierce looking. They will not act mercifully toward anyone, not even young children and old people.
51 Se comerán tus corderos y terneros y las cosechas que has cultivado hasta que te destruyan. No te dejarán grano, ni vino nuevo, ni aceite de oliva, ni terneros de tus rebaños, ni corderos de tus rebaños, así que morirás de hambre.
They will [kill and] eat your livestock, and they will eat your crops, and you will (starve/die because you do not have anything to eat). They will not leave for you any grain or wine or [olive] oil or cattle or sheep; and you will all die [from hunger].
52 Asediaran todas las ciudades de tu país, hasta que caigan los altos muros fortificados en los que confías. Asediarán todas las ciudades de tu país que el Señor tu Dios te ha dado.
Your enemies will surround your towns throughout the land that Yahweh your God is about to give to you, and they will break down the high and strong walls [around your towns], walls which you trusted/thought would protect you.
53 Terminarás comiéndote a tus hijos, comerás la carne de los hijos e hijas que el Señor tu Dios te dio, por el asedio y el sufrimiento que te causará tu enemigo.
“When your enemies are surrounding [your towns], you will be extremely hungry, with the result that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters that Yahweh your God has given to you.
54 El hombre más bondadoso y sensible de entre ustedes se negará a compartir su comida con su hermano, con la mujer que ama y con los hijos que le quedan.
When your enemies have surrounded your towns, even the most gentle and sensitive men among you will want food very desperately, with the result that they will [kill their own children and] eat their flesh, because they will not have anything else to eat. They will not even share any of it with their brothers or wives whom they love very much or with any of their children who are still alive.
55 Se negará a compartir con cualquiera de ellos la carne de sus hijos que se vea obligado a comer porque no tiene otra cosa a causa del asedio y el sufrimiento que su enemigo les ha causado en todos sus pueblos.
56 La mujer más amable y sensible de entre ustedes, tan amable y sensible que no iría nunca descalza por el suelo, se negará a compartir su comida, ni a su bebé recién partido, con el marido que ama, nicon su propio hijo e hija.
Even the most gentle and sensitive/kind women among you, who are very refined/rich with the result that they have never had to walk anywhere [HYP], will do the same thing. When your enemies have surrounded your towns, those women will be extremely hungry, with the result that after they give birth to a baby, they will secretly [kill it and] eat its flesh and also eat its afterbirth. And they will not share any of it with their husbands whom they love very much or with any of their other children.
57 Incluso se comerá en secreto al bebés que dé a luz y la placenta, ya que no tiene nada más por el asedio y el sufrimiento que su enemigo les ha causado en todos sus pueblos,
58 Si no observas cuidadosamente todas estas leyes escritas en este libro para que puedas mostrar respeto por este glorioso y asombroso Señor tu Dios,
“If you do not faithfully obey all of the laws that I am writing, and if you do not revere Yahweh our glorious God [MTY],
59 él traerá sobre ti y tus descendientes desastres increíbles, enfermedades intensas y duraderas, y enfermedades terribles e incurables.
he will [punish you by] causing you and your descendants to experience great afflictions and plagues which will last for many years.
60 Él hará caer sobre ti las enfermedades que te aterrorizaban en Egipto, y se quedarán contigo.
He will cause you to experience the plagues that he sent on the people of Egypt, and you will never be healed.
61 El Señor también lescausará todas las enfermedades y dolencias, incluso las que no están registradas en este Libro de la Ley, hasta que seas destruido.
He will also cause you to experience many other sicknesses and diseases that I have not talked about in these laws, until you all will die.
62 Ustedes, que han crecido tan numerosos como las estrellas del cielo, acabarán siendo unos pocos, porque no quisieron obedecer lo que el Señor su Dios les dijo.
You became as numerous as the stars in the sky, but only a few of you will remain alive, if you do not obey Yahweh your God.
63 De la misma manera que quiso hacerlos prósperos y aumentar su número, ahora los aniquilará y los destruirá. Serán desarraigados del país que han de poseer.
Yahweh was very happy to do good things for you and to cause you to become very numerous, but now he will be happy to ruin you and get rid of you. [Those of] you [who do not die from these plagues] will be snatched away from the land that you will soon be entering to possess.
64 El Señor los esparcirá entre las naciones de toda la tierra, y allí adorarán a otros dioses, dioses hechos de madera y piedra, de los que ni ustedes ni sus padres han oído hablar.
“Yahweh will scatter you among many people-groups, all over the earth, and in those areas/places you will serve other gods that are made of wood or stone, gods which you and your ancestors have never known/worshiped.
65 No encontrarán ningún lugar para descansar entre esas naciones, ningún lugar propio. El Señor los pondrá ansiosos, con la vista fallida y la mente llena de desesperación.
In those places you will be restless. Yahweh will cause you to be constantly worried/anxious, feel hopeless, and discouraged.
66 Verán su vida pendiendo de un hilo mientras dudan. Tendrán miedo de día y de noche, aterrorizados de no sobrevivir.
You will always be afraid that your enemies will kill you. You will be very fearful, all day and all night.
67 Por la mañana dirán: “¡Ojalá fuera de noche!” y por la noche dirán: “¡Ojalá fuera de mañana!” porque se asustaránpor las cosas aterradoras que verán.
Because you will be very fearful/afraid because of the [terrible] things that you see, each morning you will say ‘I wish it were evening already!’ and each evening you will say ‘I wish it were morning already!’
68 El Señor los enviará de vuelta a Egipto en barcos, a un lugar que no debían volver a ver. Se ofrecerán a la venta allí como esclavos y esclavas para sus enemigos, pero nadie querrá comprarlos.
Yahweh will send [some of] you back to Egypt in ships, even though he promised that you would never [be forced to] go there again. There in Egypt you will try to sell yourselves to become slaves of your enemies [in order to have food to eat], but no one will buy you. [All those things will happen to you if you do not obey the laws that Yahweh is giving to you].”
