Torati 32
1 Tega sikio, enyi mbingu, na niruhusu kuzungumza.
Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
2 Acha dunia isikie maneno ya kinywa changu. Acha mafundisho yangu yamwagike chini kama mvua, acha usemi wangu udondoke kama umande, kama mvua tulivu juu ya majani laini, na kama mvua za manyunyu juu ya mimea.
Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
3 Kwa maana nitatangaza jina la Yahwe, na kumpatia ukuu Mungu wetu.
Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.
4 Mwamba, kazi yake ni kamili; kwa maana njia zake ni za haki. Yeye ni Mungu mwaminifu, hana udhalimu. Yeye ni wa haki na mwadilifu.
The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.
5 Wamefanya yaliyo maovu dhidi yake. Wao sio watoto wake. Ni aibu kwao. Wao ni kizazi kiovu na kilichopindika.
They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
6 Je! Unamzawadia Yahwe kwa njia hii, enyi watu wapumbavu na msiojitambua? Je! yeye si baba yenu, yule ambaye aliwaumba? Aliwaumba na kuwaimarisha.
Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?
7 Kumbukeni siku zile za zamani, tafakari juu ya miaka mingi ya nyuma. Muulize baba yako naye atakuonyesha, wazee wako nao watakuambia.
Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
8 Pale ambapo Aliye Juu alipowapatia mataifa urithi wao – alipowagawa wanadamu wote, na kuweka mipaka ya watu, na alipoimarisha idadi ya miungu yao.
When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 Kwa maana fungu la Yahwe ni watu wake; Yakobo ni mgao wa urithi wake.
But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
10 Alimpata katika nchi ya jangwa, na katika jangwa kame na livumalo upepo; alimkinga na kumtunza, alimlinda kama mboni ya jicho lake.
He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 Kama tai akichungaye kiota chake na kupiga piga mabawa juu ya makinda yake, Yahwe alitandaza mabawa yake na kuwachukua, na kuwabeba kwenye mapapatio yake.
As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.
12 Yahwe pekee alimuongoza, hapakuwa na mungu mgeni pamoja naye.
The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.
13 Alimfanya aendeshe katika maeneo ya juu ya nchi, na alimlisha matunda ya mbugani; alimrutubisha kwa asali kutoka kwenye jiwe, na mafuta kutoka kwenye mwamba mgumu sana.
He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,
14 Alikula siagi kutoka katika kundi na kunywa maziwa kutoka katika kundi la mifugo, pamoja na mafuta ya wanakondoo, kondoo dume wa Bashani na mbuzi, pamoja na ngano safi kabisa – nawe ulikunywa divai itokayo povu iliyotengenezwa kwa juisi ya mizabibu.
Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.
15 Lakini Yeshuruni akakua kwa unene na kupiga mateke – ulikua kwa unene, ulikua mnene sana, na ulikuwa umekula ujazo wako – alimuacha Mungu aliyemuumba, na kukataa Mwamba wa wokovu wake.
The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
16 Walimfanya Yahwe apatwe wivu kwa miungu yao ya ajabu; kwa maudhi yao walimkasirisha.
They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
17 Walitoa dhabihu kwa mapepo, ambayo sio Mungu – miungu ambayo hawajaijua, miungu ambayo imejitokeza hivi karibuni, miungu ambayo mababu zenu hawakuogopa.
They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.
18 Umetelekeza Mwamba, ambao ulikuwa baba yako, na ukasahau Mungu aliyekuzaa.
Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
19 Yahwe aliliona hili na kuwakataa, kwa sababu watoto wake wa kiume na mabinti zake walimchokoza.
The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
20 “Nitaficha uso wangu kwao”, alisema, “nami nitaona mwisho wao utakuaje; maana wao ni kazazi kaidi, watoto ambao sio waaminifu.
And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
21 Wamenifanya kuwa na wivu kwa kile ambacho sio mungu na kunikasirisha kwa mambo yao yasiyo na maana. Nitawafanya waone wivu kwa wale ambao sio taifa; nitawakasirisha kwa taifa pumbavu.
They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.
22 Kwa maana moto kuwashwa kwa hasira yangu na inawaka hadi chini mwa Sheoli; inameza ulimwengu na mavuno yake; inawasha moto misingi ya milima. (Sheol h7585)
A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Nitarundia maafa juu yao; nitafyatua mishale yangu yote kwao;
I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
24 Watapotea kwa njaa na kumezwa kwa joto liwakalo na uharibifu mchungu; nitatuma kwao meno ya wanyama wa mwituni, pamoja na sumu ya vitu vitambaao mavumbini.
They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
25 Nje panga litawatwaa, na ndani ya vyumba hofu kuu itafanya hivyo. Wote mwanamume kijana na bikra nitawaangamiza, mchanga anyonyaye, na mwanamume mwenye mvi.
Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
26 Nilisema nitawasambaza mbali, kwamba nitafanya kumbukumbu yao kukoma miongoni mwa wanadamu.
I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
27 Isingekuwa kwamba naogopa uchokozi wa adui, na kwamba adui zake wangehukumu kimakosa, na kwamba wangesema, “Mkono wetu umeinuliwa,” ningefanya haya yote.
But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.
28 Kwa maana Israeli ni taifa linalopungukiwa na hekima, na hakuna ufahamu ndani mwao.
They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
29 Ah laiti wangekuwa na hekima, wangeelewa hili, na kuzingatia ujio wa hatima yao!
O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.
30 Inawezekanaje mmoja kufukuza maelfu, na wawili kuweka makumi elfu mbioni, isipokuwa Mwamba wao hajawauza, na Yahwe hajawaachilia kwao?
How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
31 Kwa maana mwamba wa maadui zetu si kama Mwamba wetu, kama vile maadui zetu wanavyokiri.
For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.
32 Kwa maana mzabibu wao unatoka kwenye mzabibu wa Sodoma, na kwenye mashamba ya Gomorra; na zabibu zake ni zabibu za sumu; vishada vyao ni vichungu.
Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.
33 Mvinyo yao ni sumu ya nyoka na sumu katili ya nyoka.
Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.
34 Huu mpango haujafichwa kwangu kwa siri, na kufungwa kabisa katika hazina zangu?
Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
35 Kisasi ni changu kutoa, na fidia, katika muda mguu wao utakapotereza; kwa maana siku ya maafa kwao ipo karibu, na vitu vitakavyokuja juu yao vitaharakisha kutendeka.
Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
36 Kwa maana Yahwe atatoa haki kwa watu wake, na atawahurumia watumishi wake. Atahakikisha kuwa nguvu yao imetoweka, na hakuna atakayesalia, iwe watumwa au watu huru.
The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.
37 Kisha atasema, “wako wapi miungu yao, mwamba ambao wamekimbilia? –
And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?
38 miungu iliyokula sadaka zao nene na kunywa mvinyo wa sadaka zao za kinywaji? Na wainuke na kukusaidia; na wawe ulinzi kwako.
Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.
39 Tazama sasa mimi, hata mimi, ni Mungu, na kwamba hakuna mungu tofauti yangu; ninaua, na ninaleta uhai; ninajeruhi, na ninaponya, na hakuna mtu atakayekuokoa kutoka kwa uwezo wangu.
See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
40 Kwa maana ninainua mikono yangu mbinguni na kusema, “Niishivyo milele, nitatenda.
I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.
41 Nitakapong’oa panga langu lingaaro, na mkono wangu utakapoanza kuleta haki, nitalipiza kisasi juu ya maadui zangu, na kuwalipa wale wote wanichukiao.
If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.
42 Nitafanya mishale yangu kulewa na damu, na panga langu litameza nyama kwa damu ya waliouawa na mateka, na kutoka kwa vichwa vya viongozi wa adui.”
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.
43 Furahi, enyi mataifa, na watu wa Mungu, kwa maana atalipiza kisasi damu ya watumishi wake; atalipiza kisasi juu ya maadui zake, naye atafanya upatanisho kwa ajili ya nchi yake, kwa watu wake.
Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.
44 Musa alikuja na kunena maneno yote ya wimbo huu masikioni mwa watu, yeye na Yoshua mwana wa Nuni.
So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.
45 Kisha Musa alimaliza kunena maneno haya yote kwa Israeli yote.
And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.
46 Aliwaambia, “Imarisheni akili yenu kwa haya maneno ambayo nimewashuhudia kwenu leo, ili kwamba muwaamuru watoto wenu kuyashika, maneno yote ya sheria hii.
And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfill all that is written in this law:
47 Kwa maana hili si jambo dogo kwako, kwa sababu ni uzima wako, na kupitia jambo hili utarefusha siku zako katika nchi ambayo unakwenda juu ya Yordani kumiliki.”
For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
48 Yahwe alizungumza na Musa katika siku hiyo hiyo na kusema,
And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:
49 “Nenda katika usawa huu wa milima wa Abarimu, juu ya mlima wa Nebo, ambao upo katika nchi ya Moabu, mkabala na Yeriko. Utatazama nchi ya Kanani, ambayo ninawapatia watu wa Israeli kama miliki yao.
Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages, ) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.
50 Utakufa katika mlima utakaopanda, na utakusanywa kwa watu wako, kama Haruni Muisraeli mwenzako alivyokufa juu ya mlima wa Hori na kukusanywa kwa watu wake. Hii
When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Her, and was gathered to his people:
51 itatendeka kwa sababu haukuwa mwaminifu kwangu miongoni mwa watu wa Israeli katika maji ya Meriba kule Kadeshi, katika jangwa la Zini; kwa sababu haukunitendea utukufu na heshima miongoni mwa watu wa Israeli.
Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.
52 Kwa maana utaona nchi mbele yako, lakini hautakwenda kule, katika nchi ninayowapatia watu wa Israeli.”
Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.
