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, O Israel: You go this day across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger than yourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven;

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 many and tall, the sons of Enac, whom you know, and concerning whom you have heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Enac?

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.

And you shall know today, that the Lord your God he shall go before your face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before you, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said 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.

Speak not in your heart, when the Lord your God has destroyed these nations before your face, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me in to inherit this good land.

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, nor for the holiness of your heart, do you go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord will destroy them from before you, and that he may establish the covenant, which the Lord sware to our fathers, to Abraam, and 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.

And you shall know today, that [it is] not for your righteousnesses the Lord your God gives you this good land to inherit, 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, forget not, how much you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness: from the day that you came forth out of Egypt, even till you came into this place, you continued to be disobedient towards the Lord.

8 En Horeb provocaron a ira a Yavé de manera que se airó contra ustedes para destruirlos.

Also in Choreb you provoked the Lord, 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 went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no 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.

And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain 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.

And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables 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.

And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.

13 Luego Yavé me habló: Miré a este pueblo, y ciertamente es un pueblo indómito.

And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to you once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is 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!

And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

15 Di vuelta y bajé de la Montaña que ardía en fuego, con las tablas del Pacto en mis manos.

And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burnt with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies [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!

And when I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;

17 Entonces tomé las dos tablas, las lancé con mis dos manos y las quebré delante de ustedes.

then I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before you.

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,

And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.

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.

And I was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly to destroy you; yet the Lord listened to me at this time also.

20 También Yavé se airó contra Aarón grandemente para destruirlo. Hablé con Yavé con respecto a Aarón en aquel tiempo.

And he was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that 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.

And your sin which you had made, [even] the calf, I took, and burnt it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it became fine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

22 También en Taberá, en Masa y en Kibrot-atava siguieron la provocación a ira a Yavé.

Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the graves of lust, you provoked the Lord.

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.

And when the Lord sent you forth from Cades Barne, saying, Go up and inherit the land which I give to you, then you disobeyed the word of the Lord your God, and believed him not, and listened not to his voice.

24 ¡Han sido rebeldes a Yavé desde el día cuando los conocí!

You were disobedient in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which he became known to you.

25 Caí postrado ante Yavé los 40 días y las 40 noches. Caí postrado porque Yavé dijo que los iba a destruir,

And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed [before], for the Lord said that he would utterly 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.

And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not your people and your inheritance, whom you did redeem, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with your great power, and with your strong hand, and with your high arm.

27 Acuérdate de tus esclavos, de Abraham, Isaac y Jacob. No mires la dureza de este pueblo, ni su perversidad, ni su pecado,

Remember Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob your servants, to whom you sware by yourself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sins.

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 inhabitants of the land whence you brought us out speak, saying, Because the Lord could not bring them into the land of which he spoke to them, and because he hated them, has he brought them forth 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.

And these [are] your people and your portion, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with your great strength, and with your mighty hand, and with your high arm.