Deuteronomio 32
1 Escuchád cielos, y hablaré: y oiga la tierra los dichos de mi boca.
“Listen to me, [all you who are in the] heavens, and [all you who are on the] earth, listen to what I say [MTY].
2 Goteará, como la lluvia, mi doctrina: destilará, como el rocío, mi dicho: como las mollinas sobre la grama, y como las gotas sobre la yerba.
I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
3 Porque el nombre de Jehová invocaré, dad grandeza a nuestro Dios.
I will praise Yahweh [MTY]. And [all you people should] tell others that our God is very great.
4 Del Fuerte, cuya obra es perfecta: porque todos sus caminos son juicio, Dios de verdad: y no hay iniquidad, justo y recto es.
He is like a rock [MET] [under which we are protected]; [everything] that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.
5 La corrupción no es suya: a sus hijos la mancha de ellos, generación torcida y perversa.
“But [you Israeli people] have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer [deserve to] be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].
6 ¿Así pagáis a Jehová? pueblo loco, e ignorante: ¿no es él tu padre que te poseyó? él te hizo y te compuso.
You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, (is this the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you]?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you].) [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.
7 Acuérdate de los tiempos antiguos, considerád los años de generación y generación: pregunta a tu padre, que él te declarará: a tus viejos, y ellos te dirán:
“Think about [what happened] long ago; consider what happened to your ancestors. Ask your parents, and they will inform you; ask the older people, and they will tell you.
8 Cuando el Altísimo hizo heredar a las gentes; cuando hizo dividir los hijos de los hombres; cuando estableció los términos de los pueblos según el número de los hijos de Israel.
When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and (assigned to/chose for) each people-group a god/angel.
9 Porque la parte de Jehová es su pueblo, Jacob el cordel de su heredad.
But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; he chose [us, the descendants of] Jacob, to belong to him.
10 Hallóle en tierra de desierto, y en un desierto horrible y yermo: trájole al derredor, instruyóle, guardóle como la niña de su ojo.
“He saw [our ancestors] when they were in a desert, wandering in a land (that was desolate/where no people lived). He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
11 Como el águila despierta su nido, vuela sobre sus pollos, extiende sus alas, tómale, llévale sobre sus espaldas:
[Yahweh protected his people] just like an eagle encourages its babies [to fly] and flutters over them [MET], spreading its wings and catching them [if they start to fall].
12 Jehová solo le guió, que no hubo con él dios ajeno.
Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.
13 Hízole subir sobre las alturas de la tierra, y comió los frutos del campo, e hizo que chupase miel de la peña, y aceite de pedernal fuerte;
“[After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them], Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew [even] in stony ground.
14 Manteca de vacas, y leche de ovejas, con grosura de corderos, y carneros de Basán: y machos de cabrío con grosura de riñones de trigo, y sangre de uva bebiste vino.
The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.
15 Y engordó el Recto, y tiró coces: engordástete, engrosástete, cubrístete, y dejó al Dios, que lo hizo: y menospreció al Fuerte de su salud.
“The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
16 Despertáronle a celos con los ajenos, ensañáronle con las abominaciones.
So he abandoned them because they started to worship other/strange gods. Because of their worshiping disgusting idols, he became angry.
17 Sacrificaron a los diablos, no a Dios: a los dioses, que no conocieron: nuevos, venidos de cerca, que vuestros padres no los temieron.
They offered sacrifices to gods who were [really] demons, gods that their ancestors had never known; they offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about, gods whom your ancestors had never revered.
18 Del Fuerte que te crió, te has olvidado, háste olvidado del Dios tu criador.
They forgot [the true] God, the one who protects them [MET], the one who created them and caused them to live.
19 Y viólo Jehová, y encendióse con ira de sus hijos y de sus hijas.
“When Yahweh saw that [they had abandoned him], he became angry, so he rejected [the Israeli people, who are like] his sons and daughters.
20 Y dijo: Esconderé de ellos mi rostro, veré cual será su prostrimería: que son generación de perversidades, hijos sin fe.
He said, ‘They are very wicked/stubborn people, very unfaithful; so I will no longer help them, and then I will watch and see what happens to them.
21 Ellos me despertaron a celos con el que no es Dios: hiciéronme ensañar con sus vanidades: y yo los despertaré a celos con los que no son pueblo, con gente loca les haré ensañar.
They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be [jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me]. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send [to attack them an army of] a nation of worthless and foolish people.
22 Porque fuego se encenderá en mi furor, y arderá hasta el profundo: y tragará la tierra y sus frutos, y abrasará los fundamentos de los montes. (Sheol h7585)
I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Yo allegaré males sobre ellos, mis saetas acabaré en ellos.
I will cause them to experience many disasters; [they will feel as though] [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.
24 Consumidos de hambre, y comidos de fiebre ardiente, y de pestilencia amarga: y diente de bestias enviaré sobre ellos, con veneno de serpientes de la tierra.
They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers and because of terrible diseases; I will send wild animals to attack [MTY] them, and poisonous snakes to bite [MTY] them.
25 De fuera deshijará la espada, y en las recámaras amedrentamiento: así el mancebo como la doncella, el que mama como el hombre cano.
Outside [their houses, their enemies] will kill them [MTY] with swords, and in their homes, [their enemies will cause] them to be terrified. Their enemies will kill young men and young women, and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.
26 Dije: Yo los echaría del mundo, haría cesar de los hombres la memoria de ellos.
I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries in order that no one would ever remember them.
27 Si no temiese la ira del enemigo, porque no enagenen mi gloria sus adversarios, porque no digan: Nuestra mano alta ha hecho todo esto, no Jehová.
But [if I did that], their enemies would wrongly boast that they were the ones who had [gotten rid of my people]; they would say, “We [SYN] are the ones who defeated them; it was not Yahweh who has done all these things.”’
28 Porque son gente de perdidos consejos, y no hay en ellos entendimiento.
You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.
29 ¡Ojalá fueran sabios, entendieran esto, entendieran su prostrimería!
If you were wise, you would understand [why you would be punished]; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
30 ¿Cómo podría perseguir uno a mil, y dos harían huir a diez mil, si su Fuerte no los hubiese vendido, y Jehová no los hubiese entregado?
[You would have realized] why 1,000 [of your soldiers] would be defeated by only one [of the enemy soldiers], and why two of your enemies would chase away 10,000 [Israeli soldiers]. [You would realize that this would happen] only if God, the one who always defended you [MET], had allowed your enemies to defeat you, because he had abandoned you.
31 Que el fuerte de ellos no es como nuestro Fuerte: y nuestros enemigos sean jueces.
Your enemies know that their gods are not powerful like Yahweh, our God, [so their gods could not have defeated us Israelis].
32 Por tanto de la vid de Sodoma es la vid de ellos, y de los sarmientos de Gomorra: las uvas de ellos son uvas ponzoñosas, racimos de amarguras tienen.
Your enemies are like [MET] grapevines planted near [the ruins of] Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; the grapes from those vines are bitter and poisonous;
33 Veneno de dragones es su vino, y ponzoña cruel de áspides.
the wine [from those grapes] is like the poison of snakes [DOU].
34 ¿No tengo yo esto guardado, sellado en mis tesoros?
[“Yahweh says], ‘I know [RHQ] [what I have planned to do to the Israeli people and to their enemies], and those plans are so secure [that it as though he locked them up] [MET].
35 Mía es la venganza y el pago, al tiempo que su pie vacilará: porque el día de su aflicción está cercano, y lo que les está determinado se apresura.
I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done [to my people], at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
36 Porque Jehová juzgará a su pueblo, y sobre sus siervos se arrepentirá, cuando viere que la fuerza pereció sin quedar guardado ni desamparado.
“But Yahweh will see that you who are truly his people, who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and he will be merciful to you. And he will see that you are helpless, and that there are very few of you, slaves or free people, who are still alive.
37 Y dirá: ¿Dónde están sus dioses, el fuerte de quien se ampararon,
Then Yahweh will ask his people, ‘Where are the gods that you thought would protect you [MET]?
38 Que comían el sebo de sus sacrificios, bebían el vino de sus derramaduras? levántense, y os ayuden, os amparen.
You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed, and you poured out wine for them to drink. So, they should begin to help you; they should be the ones who will protect you!
39 Ved ahora que yo, yo soy, y no hay dioses conmigo: yo hago morir, y yo hago vivir: yo hiero y yo curo: y no hay quien escape de mi mano.
“But now you will realize that I, only I, am God; there is no other god who is [a real] god. I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live; I can wound people, and I can heal people, and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.
40 Cuando yo alzaré a los cielos mi mano, y diré: Vivo yo para siempre.
I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare that just as sure as I live forever,
41 Si afilare mi espada reluciente, y mi mano arrebatare el juicio, yo volveré la venganza a mis enemigos, y daré el pago a los que me aborrecen.
that when I sharpen my sword, as I [SYN] prepare to punish people, I will get revenge on my enemies; I will pay back those who hate me.
42 Embriagaré mis saetas en sangre, y mi espada tragará carne: en la sangre de los muertos y de los cautivos de las cabezas, con venganzas de enemigo.
I will kill all [of my enemies] with a sword; it will be as though I had arrows that will be covered with their blood. I will kill [MTY] all those whom I capture and cut off their leaders’ heads.’
43 Alabád gentes a su pueblo, porque él vengará la sangre de sus siervos, y volverá la venganza a sus enemigos, y expiará su tierra, a su pueblo.
“You people of all nations, you as well as his people should praise Yahweh, because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him; and he cleanses his people’s land which has become defiled because of their sins.”
44 Y vino Moisés, y recitó todas las palabras de esta canción a oídos del pueblo, él y Josué hijo de Nun.
Joshua and Moses/I recited the words of that song while the Israeli people were listening.
45 Y acabó Moisés de recitar todas estas palabras a todo Israel.
When they/we finished reciting to the Israeli people the words of this song,
46 Y díjoles: Ponéd vuestro corazón a todas las palabras que yo protesto hoy contra vosotros, para que las mandéis a vuestros hijos, que guarden y hagan todas las palabras de esta ley,
Moses/I said, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
47 Porque no os es cosa vana, mas es vuestra vida: y por este negocio haréis prolongar los días sobre la tierra, para heredar la cual pasáis el Jordán.
These instructions are very important [LIT]. If [you obey] them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to occupy.”
48 Y habló Jehová a Moisés aquel mismo día, diciendo:
On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses/me,
49 Sube a este monte de Abarim, al monte de Nebo, que está en la tierra de Moab, que está en derecho de Jericó; y mira la tierra de Canaán, que yo doy a los hijos de Israel por heredad:
“Go to the Abarim Mountain range [here] in the Moab region, across from Jericho. Climb Nebo Mountain, and look [toward the west] to see Canaan land, the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people.
50 Y muere en el monte al cual subes, y sé agregado a tus pueblos, de la manera que murió Aarón tu hermano en el monte de Hor, y fue agregado a sus pueblos:
You will die on that mountain [EUP, DOU], like your [older] brother Aaron died on Hor Mountain.
51 Por cuanto prevaricasteis contra mí en medio de los hijos de Israel a las aguas de la rencilla de Cádes del desierto de Zín; porque no me santificasteis en medio de los hijos de Israel.
You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israeli people, when you all were at Meribah Springs near Kadesh [town] in the Zin Desert. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israeli people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
52 Por tanto delante verás la tierra, mas no entrarás allá, a la tierra que yo doy a los hijos de Israel.
[When you are on that mountain where I told you to go], you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people, but you will not enter it.”
