Deuteronomio 32
1 Cielo, escucha mientras hablo; Tierra, escucha lo que digo.
“Listen to me, [all you who are in the] heavens, and [all you who are on the] earth, listen to what I say [MTY].
2 Que mi enseñanza caiga suavemente como la lluvia; que mis palabras caigan ligeramente como el rocío, como una suave lluvia sobre la hierba nueva, como lluvias primaverales sobre las plantas en crecimiento.
I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
3 Alabaré el carácter del Señor. ¡Que todo el mundo sepa de su grandeza!
I will praise Yahweh [MTY]. And [all you people should] tell others that our God is very great.
4 Él es la Roca. Todo lo que hace es perfecto, porque todos sus caminos son correctos. Él es el Dios confiable que nunca es injusto; es justo y honesto.
He is like a rock [MET] [under which we are protected]; [everything] that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.
5 Sus hijos han actuado inmoralmente con él; por eso ya no son sus hijos a causa de sus manchas pecaminosas. Son un pueblo perverso y corrupto.
“But [you Israeli people] have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer [deserve to] be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].
6 ¿Es esta la manera de pagar al Señor, pueblo tonto y necio? ¿No es tu Padre quien te ha creado? ¿No es él quien te convirtió en una nación y te hizo fuerte?
You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, (is this the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you]?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you].) [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.
7 Recuerda los tiempos antiguos; piensa en los tiempos pasados. Pregúntenle a Dios y a su padre, y él se los explicará. Hablen con los ancianos, y ellos se lo harán saber.
“Think about [what happened] long ago; consider what happened to your ancestors. Ask your parents, and they will inform you; ask the older people, and they will tell you.
8 El Altísimo les dio a las naciones sus tierras cuando dividió la raza humana; fijó sus fronteras según sus dioses.
When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and (assigned to/chose for) each people-group a god/angel.
9 Pero el pueblo del Señor es suyo, Israel es su elegido.
But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; he chose [us, the descendants of] Jacob, to belong to him.
10 Los encontró en una tierra desértica, en un páramo desolado de torbellinos. Los protegió, los cuidó, los cuidó como a la persona que más amaba.
“He saw [our ancestors] when they were in a desert, wandering in a land (that was desolate/where no people lived). He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
11 Como un águila que vigila su nido, revoloteando sobre sus polluelos, extendió sus alas, te recogió y te llevó consigo.
[Yahweh protected his people] just like an eagle encourages its babies [to fly] and flutters over them [MET], spreading its wings and catching them [if they start to fall].
12 El Señor fue el único que te guió; ningún dios extranjero estaba con él.
Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.
13 El Señor te dio el país alto para gobernar, y te alimentó con los cultivos del campo para comer. Te alimentó con miel de la roca y aceite de oliva del peñón de piedra,
“[After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them], Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew [even] in stony ground.
14 Con yogur del rebaño y leche del rebaño, con grasa de corderos, con carneros de Basán, y cabras, junto con el mejor trigo. Bebiste el vino hecho de las mejores uvas.
The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.
15 Pero Israel, te engordaste y te rebelaste: con grasa, sobrepeso y llenura de comida. Abandonaste al Dios que te hizo y despreciaste la Roca de tu salvación.
“The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
16 Celebraste al Señor adorando a dioses extranjeros; lo enojaste con prácticas tan repugnantes.
So he abandoned them because they started to worship other/strange gods. Because of their worshiping disgusting idols, he became angry.
17 Ofreciste sacrificios a los demonios en lugar de a Dios, a dioses que no conocías, a nuevos dioses que tus antepasados no adoraban.
They offered sacrifices to gods who were [really] demons, gods that their ancestors had never known; they offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about, gods whom your ancestors had never revered.
18 Abandonaste a la Roca que te engendró; olvidaste al Dios que te dio a luz.
They forgot [the true] God, the one who protects them [MET], the one who created them and caused them to live.
19 El Señor los rechazó cuando vio esto; sus hijos e hijas lo enojaron.
“When Yahweh saw that [they had abandoned him], he became angry, so he rejected [the Israeli people, who are like] his sons and daughters.
20 Dijo: Me apartaré de ellos. ¡Entonces veré qué les pasa! Son un pueblo perverso, hijos infieles.
He said, ‘They are very wicked/stubborn people, very unfaithful; so I will no longer help them, and then I will watch and see what happens to them.
21 Me han dado celos adorando cosas que no son Dios; me han hecho enojar con sus ídolos inútiles. Así que los pondré celosos usando un pueblo que no es realmente una nación; los haré enojar usando extranjeros ignorantes.
They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be [jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me]. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send [to attack them an army of] a nation of worthless and foolish people.
22 Mi ira se ha encendido, quemando hasta las profundidades de la tumba, destruyendo la tierra y todo lo que produce, incluso prendiendo fuego a los cimientos de las montañas. (Sheol h7585)
I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Amontonaré desastres sobre ellos; usaré mis flechas para dispararles.
I will cause them to experience many disasters; [they will feel as though] [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.
24 Se consumirán por el hambre, destruidos por la enfermedad y la peste venenosa. Enviaré animales salvajes para que los muerdan con sus dientes, los colmillos de las serpientes que se deslizan por el suelo.
They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers and because of terrible diseases; I will send wild animals to attack [MTY] them, and poisonous snakes to bite [MTY] them.
25 Afuera en las calles la espada mata a sus hijos, dentro de sus casas, mueren de miedo; jóvenes y mujeres jóvenes, niños y ancianos.
Outside [their houses, their enemies] will kill them [MTY] with swords, and in their homes, [their enemies will cause] them to be terrified. Their enemies will kill young men and young women, and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.
26 Les habría dicho que iba a cortarlos en pedazos y borrar incluso su memoria;
I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries in order that no one would ever remember them.
27 Pero no quería oír a sus conquistadores burlándose, sus enemigos malinterpretando lo que había pasado y diciendo: “Ganamos por nuestra propia cuenta, el Señor no tuvo nada que ver”.
But [if I did that], their enemies would wrongly boast that they were the ones who had [gotten rid of my people]; they would say, “We [SYN] are the ones who defeated them; it was not Yahweh who has done all these things.”’
28 Israel es una nación que no piensa con claridad; ninguno de ellos entiende nada.
You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.
29 ¡Cómo me gustaría que fueran sabios, para que pudieran entenderlo; así reconocerían cuál puede ser su fin!
If you were wise, you would understand [why you would be punished]; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
30 ¿Cómo podría un hombre perseguir a mil, o dos hacer huir a diez mil, si su Roca de protección no los hubiera vendido, si el Señor no los hubiera entregado?
[You would have realized] why 1,000 [of your soldiers] would be defeated by only one [of the enemy soldiers], and why two of your enemies would chase away 10,000 [Israeli soldiers]. [You would realize that this would happen] only if God, the one who always defended you [MET], had allowed your enemies to defeat you, because he had abandoned you.
31 La roca en la que confían no es como nuestra Roca, como incluso nuestros enemigos admiten.
Your enemies know that their gods are not powerful like Yahweh, our God, [so their gods could not have defeated us Israelis].
32 Pero su vid proviene de la vid de Sodoma, de los campos de Gomorra. Sus uvas son venenosas; son racimos amargos.
Your enemies are like [MET] grapevines planted near [the ruins of] Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; the grapes from those vines are bitter and poisonous;
33 Su vino es el veneno de las serpientes, el veneno de las serpientes mortales.
the wine [from those grapes] is like the poison of snakes [DOU].
34 He guardado todo esto; está sellado en mis bóvedas.
[“Yahweh says], ‘I know [RHQ] [what I have planned to do to the Israeli people and to their enemies], and those plans are so secure [that it as though he locked them up] [MET].
35 Me aseguro de que se haga justicia, lo pagaré. Se acerca el momento en que caerán, se acerca el día del desastre, su perdición llegará pronto.
I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done [to my people], at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
36 El Señor va a reivindicar a su pueblo; será misericordioso con sus siervos cuando vea que no les quedan fuerzas y que todos se han ido, ya sean esclavos o libres.
“But Yahweh will see that you who are truly his people, who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and he will be merciful to you. And he will see that you are helpless, and that there are very few of you, slaves or free people, who are still alive.
37 Preguntará: ¿Qué pasó con tus dioses, la roca a la que acudiste para protegerte?
Then Yahweh will ask his people, ‘Where are the gods that you thought would protect you [MET]?
38 ¿Quién comió la grasa de sus sacrificios y bebió el vino de sus ofrendas? ¡Haz que vengan a ayudarte! ¡Haz que vengan a protegerte!
You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed, and you poured out wine for them to drink. So, they should begin to help you; they should be the ones who will protect you!
39 ¡Escuchen! ¡Yo soy el único Dios! ¡No hay otro Dios excepto yo! Traigo la muerte y doy la vida; hiero y curo. Nadie puede ser rescatado de mi poder.
“But now you will realize that I, only I, am God; there is no other god who is [a real] god. I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live; I can wound people, and I can heal people, and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.
40 Levanto mi mano al cielo y declaro solemnemente sobre mi vida eterna,
I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare that just as sure as I live forever,
41 Cuando afile mi brillante espada y la recoja para ejecutar el juicio, pagaré a mis enemigos y castigaré a los que me odian como se merecen.
that when I sharpen my sword, as I [SYN] prepare to punish people, I will get revenge on my enemies; I will pay back those who hate me.
42 Mis flechas se emborracharán de sangre, como mi espada come carne; la sangre de los muertos y capturados, las cabezas de los líderes del enemigo.
I will kill all [of my enemies] with a sword; it will be as though I had arrows that will be covered with their blood. I will kill [MTY] all those whom I capture and cut off their leaders’ heads.’
43 ¡Celebren con él! ¡Que todos los ángeles de Dios lo adoren! Celebren, extranjeros, con su pueblo; porque él pagará a los que mataron a sus hijos. Castigará a sus enemigos, y pagará a los que lo odien; purificará su tierra y su pueblo.
“You people of all nations, you as well as his people should praise Yahweh, because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him; and he cleanses his people’s land which has become defiled because of their sins.”
44 Entonces Moisés vino con Josué hijo de Nun y recitó todas las palabras de esta canción para que el pueblo la escuchara.
Joshua and Moses/I recited the words of that song while the Israeli people were listening.
45 Después de que Moisés terminó de recitar toda la canción a todos los israelitas,
When they/we finished reciting to the Israeli people the words of this song,
46 les dijo: “Piensen en todas estas palabras que les he declarado hoy, para que puedan instruir a sus hijos a seguir cuidadosamente todo lo que está en esta ley.
Moses/I said, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
47 No traten estas palabras como triviales porque son su vida, y por ellas tendrán larga vida en el país que posean después de cruzar el Jordán”.
These instructions are very important [LIT]. If [you obey] them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to occupy.”
48 Ese mismo día el Señor le dijo a Moisés:
On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses/me,
49 “Sube a los montes de Abarim al monte Nebo, en la tierra de Moab, frente a Jericó, y mira la tierra de Canaán, que doy a los israelitas para que la posean.
“Go to the Abarim Mountain range [here] in the Moab region, across from Jericho. Climb Nebo Mountain, and look [toward the west] to see Canaan land, the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people.
50 “Allí, en el monte que has subido, morirás y te unirás a tu pueblo en la muerte, de la misma manera que tu hermano Aarón murió en el monte Hor y se unió a su pueblo.
You will die on that mountain [EUP, DOU], like your [older] brother Aaron died on Hor Mountain.
51 “Porque allí, en las aguas de Meribá-Cades, en el desierto de Zin, me fueron infieles. Me representaste falsamente ante los israelitas cuando no me trataste como a un santo en presencia de ellos.
You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israeli people, when you all were at Meribah Springs near Kadesh [town] in the Zin Desert. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israeli people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
52 Aunque verás el país que les doy a los israelitas desde lejos, no entrarás en él”.
[When you are on that mountain where I told you to go], you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people, but you will not enter it.”
