Deuteronomio 9
1 ¡Escucha, Israel! Hoy cruzas el Jordán para entrar a desposeer naciones más grandes y fuertes que tú, ciudades grandes y amuralladas hasta el cielo,
Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
2 a un pueblo grande y alto, hijos de los anaceos, de quienes sabes y oíste decir: ¿Quién se enfrentará a los hijos de Anac?
a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
3 Por tanto, entiende hoy que Yavé tu ʼElohim es el que pasa delante de ti como Fuego Consumidor. Él los destruirá y los someterá delante de ti para que tú los eches y los extermines rápidamente, como dijo Yavé.
Know therefore today that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you.
4 Cuando Yavé tu ʼElohim los eche de tu presencia, no pienses en tu corazón: Por mi justicia me trajo Yavé a esta tierra, pues por la perversidad de estas naciones Yavé las echa de delante de ti.
Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land;” because the LORD drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
5 No por tu justicia ni por la rectitud de tu corazón entras a poseer la tierra de ellos, sino por la perversidad de estas naciones Yavé tu ʼElohim las echa de delante de ti, y para confirmar la Palabra que Yavé juró a tus antepasados: a Abraham, Isaac y Jacob.
Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6 Entiende, pues, que no por tu justicia Yavé tu ʼElohim te da esta buena tierra para que la heredes, pues eres un pueblo indómito.
Know therefore that the LORD your God does not give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Recuerda. No olvides que provocaste a ira a Yavé tu ʼElohim en el desierto. Desde el día cuando saliste de la tierra de Egipto hasta cuando entraste en este lugar, fueron rebeldes contra Yavé.
Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
8 En Horeb provocaron a ira a Yavé de manera que se airó contra ustedes para destruirlos.
Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.
9 Cuando subí a la Montaña a recibir las tablas de piedra, las tablas del Pacto que Yavé estableció con ustedes, permanecí en la Montaña 40 días y 40 noches sin comer pan ni beber agua.
When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 Yavé me dio las dos tablas de piedra escritas con el dedo de ʼElohim, y sobre ellas estaban todas las Palabras que Yavé les dio en la Montaña, desde en medio del fuego, el día de la asamblea.
The LORD delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 Al final de los 40 días y 40 noches Yavé me dio las dos tablas de piedra, las tablas del Pacto.
It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
12 Yavé me dijo: Levántate, baja pronto de aquí, porque tu pueblo que sacaste de Egipto se depravó. Pronto se desviaron del camino que les ordené e hicieron una imagen de fundición.
The LORD said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
13 Luego Yavé me habló: Miré a este pueblo, y ciertamente es un pueblo indómito.
Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
14 ¡Deja que los destruya y borre su nombre de debajo del cielo. Haré de ti una nación más fuerte y grande que ellos!
Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
15 Di vuelta y bajé de la Montaña que ardía en fuego, con las tablas del Pacto en mis manos.
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 Miré, y ciertamente pecaron contra Yavé su ʼElohim. Se hicieron un becerro de fundición. ¡Pronto se apartaron del camino que Yavé les ordenó!
I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 Entonces tomé las dos tablas, las lancé con mis dos manos y las quebré delante de ustedes.
I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 Luego caí postrado ante Yavé 40 días y 40 noches como la primera vez, sin comer pan ni beber agua, a causa del gran pecado que cometieron al hacer lo malo ante Yavé y provocarlo a ira,
I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
19 porque tuve temor a causa de la ira y el furor por los cuales Yavé estaba tan enojado contra ustedes para destruirlos. Pero Yavé me escuchó también aquella vez.
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.
20 También Yavé se airó contra Aarón grandemente para destruirlo. Hablé con Yavé con respecto a Aarón en aquel tiempo.
The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21 Luego tomé el objeto de su pecado, el becerro que formaron, y lo quemé en el fuego. Lo desmenucé, lo molí muy bien hasta dejarlo fino como polvo y eché su polvo en el arroyo que descendía de la Montaña.
I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
22 También en Taberá, en Masa y en Kibrot-atava siguieron la provocación a ira a Yavé.
At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.
23 Cuando Yavé los envió desde Cades Barnea y les dijo: Suban y posean la tierra que les dí, se rebelaron contra la Palabra de Yavé su ʼElohim, y no le creyeron ni escucharon su voz.
When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe him or listen to his voice.
24 ¡Han sido rebeldes a Yavé desde el día cuando los conocí!
You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
25 Caí postrado ante Yavé los 40 días y las 40 noches. Caí postrado porque Yavé dijo que los iba a destruir,
So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
26 y hablé con Yavé: ¡Oh ʼAdonay Yavé! No destruyas a tu pueblo, tu heredad que rescataste con tu grandeza, a quienes sacaste de Egipto con mano fuerte.
I prayed to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Acuérdate de tus esclavos, de Abraham, Isaac y Jacob. No mires la dureza de este pueblo, ni su perversidad, ni su pecado,
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
28 no sea que los de la tierra de donde nos sacaste digan: Por cuanto Yavé no pudo introducirlos en la tierra que les prometió, o porque los aborrecía, los sacó para hacerlos morir en el desierto.
lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
29 Pues ellos son tu pueblo y tu heredad que sacaste con tu gran poder y con tu brazo extendido.
Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
