Deuteronomio 28
1 Sucederá que si escuchas atentamente la voz de Yavé tu ʼElohim para guardar y practicar todos sus Mandamientos que yo te ordeno hoy, también Yavé tu ʼElohim te exaltará 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 Si escuchas la voz de Yavé tu ʼElohim, todas estas bendiciones vendrán sobre ti y te alcanzarán:
If you obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to bless you:
3 Bendito serás tú en la ciudad y 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 Bendito el fruto de tu vientre, de tu tierra, de tus animales, la cría de tus manadas vacunas y los borregos de tu rebaño.
He will bless you by giving you many children [IDM] and by giving you abundant crops, and plenty of cattle and sheep.
5 Bendita será tu cesta y tu artesa de amasar.
He will bless you by causing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
6 Bendito serás cuando entres y cuando salgas.
He will bless you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
7 Yavé hará que tus enemigos, los que se levantan contra ti, sean derrotados delante de ti. Por un camino saldrán contra ti, y por siete caminos huirán de ti.
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 Yavé mandará su bendición sobre tus graneros y sobre todo lo que emprenda tu mano. Te bendecirá en la tierra que te da Yavé tu ʼElohim.
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 Yavé te confirmará como su pueblo santo, como te juró, si guardas los Mandamientos de Yavé tu ʼElohim y andas en 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 Todos los pueblos de la tierra mirarán que el Nombre de Yavé es invocado sobre ti, y tendrán temor a 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 Yavé hará que sobreabundes en bienes, el fruto de tu vientre, el fruto de tu bestia, el producto de tu terreno, y la tierra que Yavé juró a tus antepasados que te la 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 Yavé te abrirá su buen tesoro, el cielo, para dar la lluvia a tu tierra en su tiempo y bendecir toda la obra de tu mano. Prestarás a muchas naciones, pero tú no tomarás prestado.
“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 Si escuchas los Mandamientos de Yavé tu ʼElohim que te mando hoy para que los guardes y los cumplas, Yavé te pondrá como cabeza y no como cola, estarás encima solamente, y no estarás debajo.
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 apartes, ni a la derecha ni a la izquierda de ninguna de las Palabras que yo te ordeno hoy para seguir y servir a otros ʼelohim.
[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 sucederá que si no escuchas la voz de Yavé tu ʼElohim para observar y practicar todos sus Mandamientos y Estatutos que yo te ordeno hoy, vendrán sobre ti y te alcanzarán todas estas maldiciones:
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 Maldito serás en la ciudad y 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 Malditas serán tu cesta y tu artesa de amasar.
He will curse you by not allowing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.
18 Maldito será el fruto de tu vientre y de tu tierra, el parto de tu ganado vacuno y la cría de tu rebaño.
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 Maldito serás cuando entres y cuando salgas.
He will curse you [everywhere]—when you go out [of your houses] and when you come into [your houses].
20 Yavé enviará contra ti maldición, quebranto y asombro en todo cuanto pongas la mano y hagas, hasta que seas destruido y perezcas pronto, a causa de la maldad de tus obras por las cuales me dejaste.
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 Yavé ordenará que se te pegue la mortandad, hasta que Él te extermine de la tierra a la cual entras para poseerla.
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 Yavé te herirá con tuberculosis, fiebre, inflamación y calor sofocante, sequía, calamidad repentina, hongo y calamidad repentina, y hongo y honguillo. Te perseguirán hasta que perezcas.
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 que está sobre tu cabeza será de bronce, y la tierra que está debajo de ti, de hierro.
There will be no rain [MET], [with the result that] the ground will be [as hard as] iron [MET].
24 Yavé dará a tu tierra polvo y ceniza como lluvia, los cuales descenderán 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 Yavé ordenará que seas derrotado delante de tus enemigos. Por un camino saldrás contra ellos y por siete caminos huirás de ellos, y serás objeto de terror para todos los reinos de la tierra.
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 servirá de comida a todas las aves del cielo y a las fieras de la tierra, y no habrá quien las ahuyente.
[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 Yavé te golpeará con la úlcera de Egipto, tumores, sarna y erupciones de las cuales no podrás ser curado.
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 Yavé te golpeará con demencia, ceguera y turbación de corazón.
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 Como el ciego palpa en la oscuridad, así palparás a medio día. No prosperarás en tus caminos, sino solo serás oprimido y robado continuamente, sin que alguno te salve.
[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 desposarás con una mujer, pero otro hombre se unirá a ella. Edificarás casa y no vivirás en ella. Plantarás viña, pero no recogerás su fruto.
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 degollado delante de tus ojos, pero no comerás de él. Tu asno será arrebatado delante de ti, y no te será devuelto. Tus ovejas serán dadas a tus enemigos, y no tendrás quien te las rescate.
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 y tus hijas serán entregados a otro pueblo. Tus ojos lo verán y desfallecerán por ellos todo el día, pero no habrá fuerza en tu mano.
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 Un pueblo que no conoces comerá del fruto de tu tierra y de todo tu trabajo. Serás oprimido y quebrantado todos los días,
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 y enloquecerás a causa de lo que verán tus ojos.
The result will be that all these terrible things that you see/experience will cause you to become insane.
35 Yavé te golpeará con póstula maligna en las rodillas y en las piernas, desde la planta de tu pie hasta tu coronilla, sin que puedas ser curado.
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 Yavé te llevará a ti y al rey que designaste sobre ti, a una nación que ni tú ni tus antepasados conocieron. Allí servirás a otros ʼelohim, al palo y a la 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 Serás objeto de espanto. Servirás de refrán y de burla a todos los pueblos a los cuales Yavé te lleve.
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 Sacarás mucha semilla al campo, pero recogerás poco, porque el saltamontes la devorará.
You will plant plenty of seeds in your fields, but you will reap only a small harvest, because locusts will eat the crops.
39 Plantarás viñas y las cultivarás, pero no recogerás uvas, ni beberás vino, porque el gusano se las comerá.
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 en todo tu territorio, pero no te ungirás con aceite, porque tu aceituna se caerá.
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 Engendrarás hijos e hijas, pero no serán para ti, porque irán en cautividad.
You will have sons and daughters, but they will not stay with you, because they will be captured and taken away.
42 La langosta devorará toda tu arboleda y el fruto de tu tierra.
Swarms of locusts/insects will eat your crops and [the leaves of] all your trees.
43 El extranjero que esté en medio de ti se elevará cada vez más por encima de ti, y tú descenderás más y más abajo.
Foreigners who live in your land will become more and more [powerful], and you will become less and less [powerful].
44 Él te prestará y tú no le podrás prestar. Él será cabeza y tú serás cola.
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 Vendrán sobre ti todas estas maldiciones. Te perseguirán y te alcanzarán hasta que seas destruido, por cuanto no escuchaste la voz de Yavé tu ʼElohim para guardar sus Mandamientos y Estatutos que Él te prescribió.
“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 señal y maravilla en ti y en tus descendientes para siempre,
“These disasters will warn [DOU] you and your descendants forever [about what happens to groups who disobey Yahweh].
47 por cuanto no serviste a Yavé tu ʼElohim con alegría y gozo de corazón por la abundancia de todas las cosas.
“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 Yavé enviará contra ti, en medio de hambre, sed, desnudez y la falta de todas las cosas. Pondrá sobre tu cuello un yugo de hierro hasta que te destruya.
“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 Como águila que se lanza, así Yavé traerá contra ti de lejos, del extremo de la tierra, a una 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 pueblo de aspecto feroz, que no respetará al anciano, ni del joven tendrá compasión.
They will be fierce looking. They will not act mercifully toward anyone, not even young children and old people.
51 Devorará el fruto de tu ganado y el fruto de tu tierra hasta que seas destruido. No te dejará grano, ni mosto, ni aceite, ni la cría de tu ganado vacuno ni las crías de tu rebaño, hasta que te destruya.
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 Asediará en toda tu tierra todas tus ciudades, hasta que caigan tus muros altos y fortificados en los cuales confías. Él te sitiará en todas tus ciudades y toda tu tierra que te dio Yavé tu ʼElohim.
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 Por la angustia con la cual te oprimirá tu enemigo durante el asedio, te comerás el fruto de tu vientre, la carne de tus propios hijos e hijas que Yavé tu ʼElohim te dio.
“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 refinado y delicado en medio de ti será hostil hacia su hermano, su amada esposa y el resto de sus hijos que le queden,
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 para no dar a ninguno de ellos de la carne de sus hijos que él come, porque nada le quedó debido al asedio y a la angustia con la cual tu enemigo te atormentará en todas tus ciudades.
56 La mujer refinada y delicada entre ustedes, que nunca probó poner la planta de su pie en la tierra por delicadeza y refinamiento, será hostil hacia el varón de su regazo, su hijo, su 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 su placenta que sale de entre sus piernas y sus hijos que dé a luz. Pues se los comerá a escondidas por la carencia de todo en el asedio y por la angustia con la cual te oprimirá tu enemigo en tus ciudades.
58 Si no tienes el cuidado de cumplir todas las Palabras de esta Ley escritas en este rollo, para temer a este Nombre glorioso y temible, Yavé tu ʼElohim,
“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 entonces Yavé aumentará de manera asombrosa tus enfermedades y las de tus descendientes, enfermedades severas y duraderas, y perniciosas y crónicas.
he will [punish you by] causing you and your descendants to experience great afflictions and plagues which will last for many years.
60 Traerá sobre ti todas las enfermedades de Egipto de las cuales temiste, y se pegarán a ti.
He will cause you to experience the plagues that he sent on the people of Egypt, and you will never be healed.
61 Yavé también traerá sobre ti toda enfermedad y todo azote que no están escritos en el rollo de esta 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 Así, después de ser tan numeroso como las estrellas del cielo, quedarán pocos en número por cuanto no obedeciste la voz de Yavé tu ʼElohim.
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 Sucederá que así como Yavé se gozó en ustedes para hacerles bien y multiplicarlos, así Yavé se gozará en ustedes para arruinarlos y destruirlos. Serán arrancados de la tierra a la cual entran para tomarla como posesión.
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 Entonces Yavé te dispersará por todos los pueblos, desde un extremo de la tierra hasta el otro, y allí servirás a otros ʼelohim que ni tú ni tus antepasados conocieron: al palo y a la piedra.
“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 Entre aquellas naciones no hallarás reposo ni habrá descanso para la planta de tu pie, pues Yavé te dará allí un corazón tembloroso, desfallecimiento de ojos y angustia de alma.
In those places you will be restless. Yahweh will cause you to be constantly worried/anxious, feel hopeless, and discouraged.
66 Tendrás tu vida como algo que pende delante de ti. Estarás temeroso de noche y de día, y no tendrás seguridad de tu vida.
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 dirás: ¡Quién me diera que fuera la noche! Y en la noche dirás: ¡Quién me diera que fuera la mañana! Esto sucederá por el terror con el cual serás atemorizado, y por el espectáculo que verán tus ojos.
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 Yavé te hará regresar a Egipto en naves por el camino del cual yo te dije: Nunca más volverás. Allí serán ofrecidos en venta a sus enemigos como esclavos y esclavas, y no habrá quien los compre.
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].”
