Deuteronomio 9
1 Oye Israel: Tu pasas hoy el Jordán para entrar a heredar gentes más y más fuertes que tú, ciudades grandes y encastilladas hasta el cielo;
Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
2 Un pueblo grande y alto, hijos de gigantes, los cuales ya tú conoces; y has oído, ¿Quién parará delante de los hijos del gigante?
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 Sepas pues hoy, que Jehová tu Dios es el que pasa delante de ti, fuego consumidor, que los destruirá, y humillará delante de ti: y echarlos has, y destruirlos has luego, como Jehová te ha dicho.
Know therefore today that Yahweh 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 perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
4 No digas en tu corazón, cuando Jehová tu Dios los echare de delante de tu presencia, diciendo: Por mi justicia me ha metido Jehová a heredar esta tierra; que por la impiedad de estas gentes Jehová las echa de delante de ti.
Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh 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 heredar la tierra de ellos: mas por la impiedad de estas gentes Jehová tu Dios las echa de delante de ti, y por confirmar la palabra que Jehová juró a tus padres 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 Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6 Por tanto sepas que no por tu justicia Jehová tu Dios te da esta buena tierra, que la heredes: que pueblo duro de cerviz eres tú.
Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Acuérdate, no te olvides que has provocado a ira a Jehová tu Dios en el desierto: desde el día que saliste de la tierra de Egipto hasta que entrastes en este lugar habéis sido rebeldes a Jehová.
Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
8 Y en Horeb provocastes a ira a Jehová, y Jehová se enojó contra vosotros para destruiros.
Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
9 Cuando yo subí al monte para recibir las tablas de piedra, las tablas del concierto que Jehová hizo con vosotros, y estuve en el monte cuarenta días y cuarenta noches; no comí pan, ni bebí agua:
When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10 Y Jehová me dio las dos tablas de piedra escritas con el dedo de Dios; y en ellas conforme a todas las palabras que Jehová os habló en el monte de en medio del fuego el día de la congregación.
Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 Y fue que al cabo de los cuarenta días, y cuarenta noches, Jehová me dio las dos tablas de piedra, las tablas del concierto.
It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
12 Y díjome Jehová: Levántate, desciende presto de aquí, que tu pueblo que sacaste de Egipto ha corrompido, presto se han apartado del camino, que yo les mandé; hánse hecho un vaciadizo.
Yahweh 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 away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
13 Y hablóme Jehová, diciendo: Yo he visto este pueblo, y, he aquí, él es pueblo duro de cerviz:
Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
14 Déjame que los destruya, y raiga su nombre de debajo del cielo, que yo te pondré sobre gente fuerte y mucha más que él.
Leave 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 Y volví, y descendí del monte, y el monte ardía en fuego, con las tablas del concierto en mis dos manos.
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 Y miré, y, he aquí, habíais pecado contra Jehová vuestro Dios: os habíais hecho un becerro de vaciadizo; apartándoos presto del camino que Jehová os había mandado.
I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
17 Entonces tomé las dos tablas, y arrojélas de mis dos manos, y quebrélas delante de vuestros ojos.
I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 Y echéme delante de Jehová, como antes, cuarenta días y cuarenta noches: no comí pan, ni bebí agua, a causa de todo vuestro pecado que habíais pecado haciendo mal en ojos de Jehová enojándole:
I fell down before Yahweh, 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 Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
19 Porque temí a causa del furor y de la ira, con que Jehová estaba enojado contra vosotros para destruiros: y Jehová me oyó también esta vez.
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
20 Contra Aarón también se enojó Jehová en gran manera para destruirle; y yo oré entonces también por Aarón.
Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21 Y tomé a vuestro pecado que habíais hecho, es a saber, el becerro; y quemélo en el fuego, y desmenucélo moliéndolo bien, hasta que fue molido en polvo; y eché el polvo de él en el arroyo que descendía del monte.
I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
22 Y en Tabera, y en Massa, y en Kibrot-hattaava enojasteis también a Jehová.
At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
23 Y cuando Jehová os envió desde Cádes-barne, diciendo: Subíd, y heredad la tierra, que yo os dí, también fuisteis rebeldes al dicho de Jehová vuestro Dios, y no lo creísteis, ni obedecisteis a su voz.
When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.
24 Rebeldes habéis sido a Jehová desde el día que yo os conozco.
You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
25 Y postréme delante de Jehová cuarenta días y cuarenta noches, que estuve echado, porque Jehová dijo, que os había de destruir.
So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
26 Y yo oré a Jehová, diciendo: Señor Jehová, no destruyas tu pueblo, y tu heredad que has redimido con tu grandeza, al cual sacaste de Egipto con mano fuerte.
I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t 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 siervos Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob: no mires a la dureza de este pueblo, y a su impiedad, y a su pecado:
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
28 Porque no digan los de la tierra de donde nos sacaste: Porque no pudo Jehová meterlos en la tierra que les había dicho, o porque los aborrecía, los sacó para matarlos en el desierto.
lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh 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 Y ellos son tu pueblo, y tu heredad, que sacaste con tu gran fortaleza, 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.”
