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 are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced 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 tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children 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.

Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said unto 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 you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you.

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 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 perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, 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.

Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stubborn 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 forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until all of you came unto this place, all of 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 all of you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed 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 was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink 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 delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst 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.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even 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 unto me, Arise, get you down quickly from behind; for your people which you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

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

Furthermore the LORD spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stubborn 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!

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: 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 mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables 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!

And I looked, and, behold, all of you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: all of you had turned aside quickly out of 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.

And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake 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,

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which all of you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, 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, wherewith the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.

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

And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also 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.

And I took your sin, the calf which all of you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

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

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, all of 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.

Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then all of you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and all of you believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

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

All of 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,

Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; 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 therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought forth 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; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to 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 whence you brought us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay 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 mighty power and by your stretched out arm.