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,
Listen, people of Israel! Shortly you're going to cross the Jordan to enter and take over the country from nations that are larger and stronger than you, that have large towns with walls that reach up into 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?
The people are strong and tall; they are the descendants of the Anakim. You all know about them and you have heard the saying, “Who could ever defeat 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.
But you should realize that today the Lord your God is going across ahead of you. He is like a consuming fire; he will destroy them and defeat them ahead of you. You will drive them out and quickly wipe them out, just as the Lord promised 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.
When the Lord your God has driven them out ahead of you, don't think to yourselves, “It's because I'm such a good person that the Lord has brought me here to take over this land.” No, the Lord is driving out these nations ahead of you because of they're so wicked.
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.
It's not because you're so good or moral that you are going to take over their land. No, it's because of their wickedness that the Lord your God is driving out these nations ahead of you, to keep the promise he made to your fathers—m to Abraham, Isaac, and 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.
You'd better believe that it's not because you're such good people that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to own, because you are stubborn, hard-hearted 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 how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert! Don't ever forget it! From the time you left the land of Egypt until you arrived here, you've been constantly rebelling against the Lord.
8 En Horeb provocaron a ira a Yavé de manera que se airó contra ustedes para destruirlos.
At Horeb you provoked the Lord, making him so angry he was about 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.
This was when I climbed up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets that recorded agreement the Lord made with you. I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, and I didn't eat or drink anything.
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 gave me the two stone tablets on which he'd written with his finger everything he'd told you when he spoke from the fire on the mountain when we were all assembled there.
11 Al final de los 40 días y 40 noches Yavé me dio las dos tablas de piedra, las tablas del Pacto.
After forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the agreement.
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 told me, “Hurry! Go down immediately, because your people that you led out of Egypt, are committing a terrible sin. They have disobeyed what I told them so quickly! They have made themselves an idol using molten metal.”
13 Luego Yavé me habló: Miré a este pueblo, y ciertamente es un pueblo indómito.
The Lord also told me, “I have been watching these people, and they really are a stubborn and hard-hearted.
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, so that I can destroy them and wipe out their name completely. Then I will turn you into a nation even more powerful and more important than them.”
15 Di vuelta y bajé de la Montaña que ardía en fuego, con las tablas del Pacto en mis manos.
I went back down the mountain while it was still on fire, carrying the two tablets of the agreement.
16 Miré, y ciertamente pecaron contra Yavé su ʼElohim. Se hicieron un becerro de fundición. ¡Pronto se apartaron del camino que Yavé les ordenó!
Then I saw how much you had sinned against the Lord your God by making for yourselves a molten calf. You had disobeyed what the Lord had told you so quickly.
17 Entonces tomé las dos tablas, las lancé con mis dos manos y las quebré delante de ustedes.
I threw the two tablets down, smashing them to pieces as you watched.
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,
Then I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, just as I had before. I didn't eat or drink anything because of all the sins you had committed by doing what was evil in the Lord's sight, making him angry.
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.
I was terrified at how angry and furious the Lord was with you. He was ready to destroy you. But once again the Lord listened to me.
20 También Yavé se airó contra Aarón grandemente para destruirlo. Hablé con Yavé con respecto a Aarón en aquel tiempo.
The Lord was so angry with Aaron he was ready to destroy him, but right then I prayed for Aaron too.
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 that abominable thing, the calf you'd made, and burned it. Then I crushed it up and ground it into dust, and I threw it into the stream that descended from the mountain.
22 También en Taberá, en Masa y en Kibrot-atava siguieron la provocación a ira a Yavé.
But you went on provoking the Lord at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
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 had you leave Kadesh-barnea, he told you, “Go and take over the country that I've given you.” But you defied the command of the Lord your God. You didn't believe him and you didn't obey him.
24 ¡Han sido rebeldes a Yavé desde el día cuando los conocí!
You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day I first 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 lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had threatened to 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, saying, “Please Lord, God, don't destroy your people that belong to you, the ones whom you rescued by your great ability and led out of Egypt by your power.
27 Acuérdate de tus esclavos, de Abraham, Isaac y Jacob. No mires la dureza de este pueblo, ni su perversidad, ni su pecado,
Please remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Please disregard the stubbornness of this people and their wicked 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.
If you don't, those people back in Egypt will say, ‘The Lord brought them out to kill them in the desert because he couldn't take them to the land he'd promised them, and because he hated them.’
29 Pues ellos son tu pueblo y tu heredad que sacaste con tu gran poder y con tu brazo extendido.
But they are your people, Lord! They belong to you! You led them out of Egypt by your amazing power and might!”
