Deuteronomio 9
1 ¡Escucha, Israel! Hoy vas a pasar el Jordán, para entrar a desposeer a naciones más grandes y poderosas que tú, ciudades grandes y fortificadas hasta el cielo,
Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;
2 un pueblo grande y alto, los hijos de los Anaceos, a los que conoces y de los que has oído decir: “¿Quién podrá enfrentarse a los hijos de Anac?”
A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.
3 Sabed, pues, hoy que Yahvé, vuestro Dios, es el que pasa delante de vosotros como un fuego devorador. Él los destruirá y los hará caer ante ti. Así los expulsarás y los harás perecer rápidamente, como Yahvé te ha dicho.
Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.
4 No digas en tu corazón, después de que Yahvé vuestro Dios los haya expulsado de delante de ti, “Por mi justicia Yahvé me ha hecho entrar a poseer esta tierra”; porque Yahvé los expulsa delante de ti por la maldad de estas naciones.
And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.
5 No por tu justicia ni por la rectitud de tu corazón entras a poseer su tierra, sino por la maldad de estas naciones que Yahvé, tu Dios, expulsa de delante de ti, y para confirmar la palabra que Yahvé juró a tus padres, a Abraham, a Isaac y a Jacob.
Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Sabed, pues, que el Señor, vuestro Dios, no os da esta buena tierra para que la poseáis por vuestra justicia, porque sois un pueblo de cuello duro.
Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Acuérdate, y no olvides, cómo provocaste la ira del Señor, tu Dios, en el desierto. Desde el día en que saliste de la tierra de Egipto hasta que llegaste a este lugar, te has rebelado contra Yahvé.
Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.
8 También en Horeb provocaste la ira de Yahvé, y éste se enojó contigo para destruirte.
Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.
9 Cuando subí al monte para recibir las tablas de piedra, las tablas del pacto que Yahvé hizo con ustedes, me quedé en el monte cuarenta días y cuarenta noches. No comí pan ni bebí agua.
When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.
10 El Señor me entregó las dos tablas de piedra escritas con el dedo de Dios. En ellas estaban todas las palabras que Yahvé habló contigo en la montaña, en medio del fuego, el día de la asamblea.
And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting.
11 Al cabo de cuarenta días y cuarenta noches, Yahvé me dio las dos tablas de piedra, las tablas de la alianza.
Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.
12 El Señor me dijo: “Levántate, baja pronto de aquí, porque tu pueblo que sacaste de Egipto se ha corrompido. Se han alejado rápidamente del camino que les ordené. Se han hecho una imagen de fundición”.
And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselves a metal image.
13 Además, el Señor me habló diciendo: “He visto a este pueblo, y he aquí que es un pueblo de dura cerviz.
And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:
14 Déjame, para que los destruya y borre su nombre de debajo del cielo; y haré de ti una nación más poderosa y más grande que ellos.”
Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
15 Me volví y bajé del monte, y el monte ardía en llamas. Las dos tablas de la alianza estaban en mis dos manos.
So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.
16 Miré, y he aquí que ustedes habían pecado contra el Señor, su Dios. Os habíais hecho un becerro moldeado. Se habían alejado rápidamente del camino que Yahvé les había ordenado.
And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.
17 Tomé las dos tablas, las arrojé de mis dos manos y las rompí ante vuestros ojos.
And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.
18 Me postré ante el Señor, como al principio, durante cuarenta días y cuarenta noches. No comí pan ni bebí agua, a causa de todo el pecado que cometisteis, al hacer lo que era malo a los ojos de Yahvé, para provocarlo a la ira.
And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.
19 Porque tuve miedo de la cólera y del ardor con que Yahvé se enojó contra ustedes para destruirlos. Pero Yahvé me escuchó también aquella vez.
For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.
20 Yahvé se enojó lo suficiente con Aarón como para destruirlo. También oré por Aarón en ese momento.
And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.
21 Tomé vuestro pecado, el becerro que habíais hecho, y lo quemé con fuego, y lo quebré, moliéndolo muy pequeño, hasta que quedó tan fino como el polvo. Arrojé su polvo al arroyo que descendía de la montaña.
And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.
22 En Taberá, en Massa y en Kibrot Hataavá provocaste la ira del Señor.
Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.
23 Cuando Yahvé te envió desde Cades Barnea, diciendo: “Subid y tomad la tierra que te he dado”, os rebelasteis contra el mandamiento de Yahvé vuestro Dios, y no le creísteis ni escuchasteis su voz.
And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.
24 Has sido rebelde contra el Señor desde el día en que te conocí.
From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.
25 Por eso me postré ante Yahvé los cuarenta días y las cuarenta noches que estuve postrado, porque Yahvé había dicho que te destruiría.
So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.
26 Oré a Yahvé y le dije: “Señor Yahvé, no destruyas a tu pueblo y a tu herencia que has redimido con tu grandeza, que has sacado de Egipto con mano poderosa.
And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.
27 Acuérdate de tus siervos Abraham, Isaac y Jacob. No mires la terquedad de este pueblo, ni su maldad, ni su pecado,
Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin:
28 no sea que en la tierra de donde nos sacaste digan: ‘Porque Yahvé no pudo llevarlos a la tierra que les prometió, y porque los odiaba, los ha sacado para matarlos en el desierto.’
Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.
29 Sin embargo, ellos son tu pueblo y tu herencia, que sacaste con tu gran poder y con tu brazo extendido.”
But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.
