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 this day, 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 this day, that Jehovah 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 to perish quickly, as Jehovah 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 Jehovah your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, "For my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land"; because Jehovah 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 Jehovah does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which he 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 Jehovah your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it 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, do not forget, how you provoked Jehovah your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Jehovah.
8 En Horeb provocaron a ira a Yavé de manera que se airó contra ustedes para destruirlos.
Also in Horeb you provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah 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 was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which Jehovah 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.
Jehovah delivered to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which Jehovah spoke with you on the mountain 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.
It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone, 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.
Jehovah 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 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 Jehovah spoke to me, saying, "I have seen this people, and look, 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!
let 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: and 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 look, you had sinned against Jehovah your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah 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 cast 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 Jehovah, 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 sight of Jehovah, 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 Jehovah was angry against you to destroy you. But Jehovah 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.
Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and 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 burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast 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, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Jehovah 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 Jehovah sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you"; then you rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and you did not believe him, nor listen to his voice.
24 ¡Han sido rebeldes a Yavé desde el día cuando los conocí!
You have been rebellious against Jehovah 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 Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah 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 God, and said, "Lord Jehovah, 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 to 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 you brought us out from say, 'Because Jehovah 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."
