5 Mosebok 32
1 «Høyr himmel, på meg, med eg talar, lyd du jord, på ordi frå min munn!
Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.
2 Som regnet rislar mitt kvæde, som doggi dryp mine ord, som skurer på grønan grode, som el på urter og gras;
Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
3 For Herrens namn vil eg prisa; høgt love de Herren, vår Gud!
For I have called on the name of the Lord: assign you greatness to our God.
4 Eit fjell er han, stød i si framferd; for rett fylgjer alle hans fet - ein trufast Gud og truverdig; rettferdig og rettvis er han.
[As for God], his works [are] true, and all his ways [are] judgement: God [is] faithful, and there is no unrighteousness [in him]; just and holy [is] the Lord.
5 Men borni hans dei var’kje hans born; dei synda imot ham stygt, seg sjølve til skam og vanæra, ei rang og svikefull ætt.
They have sinned, not [pleasing] him; spotted children, a froward and perverse generation.
6 Er det soleis de løner Herren, du dårlege, fåvise folk! Er’kje han din far og din fostrar? Han laga deg og gav deg liv.
Do you thus recompense the Lord? [is the] people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you?
7 Hugs etter ævordoms dagar, gransk åri, ætt etter ætt! Spør far din, han gjev deg fråsegn, dine gamle, av deim fær du grein.
Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask your father, and he shall relate to you, your elders, and they shall tell you.
8 Då den Høgste skifte ut heimen, og gav folki eiga og arv, då manneborni vart skilde og spreidde til kvar sin stad, då laga han landskili etter talet på Israels lyd;
When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.
9 For Herrens folk er hans odel, Jakob er hans eiga og arv.
And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.
10 Han fann han på aude viddi, med det ylte i villande heid; han verna han, og han vakta han vart, som ein augnestein.
He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: he led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye.
11 Som ørnen vekkjer sitt elde, og yver ungarne sviv, so breidd’ han ut flogfjørern’ sine, og bar han uppå sin veng.
As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:
12 Det var Herren eine som førd’ han; ingen framand gud fylgde med.
the Lord alone led them, there was no strange god with them.
13 Då for du fram yver høgdern’, fekk eta av landsens avl; utor berget tappa du honning, og olje or hardaste stein;
He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.
14 søtrjomen og sauemjølki saup du; lambe- og verefeitt, kjøt av uksar i Basan alne åt du og ungbukkekjøt, attåt feitaste kveitemergen, og druveblod drakk du, vin.
Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.
15 Jesjurun vart feit, og slo bakut, feit vart han, foreten og stinn; han skaut ifrå seg sin skapar, mismætte sitt frelsande fjell.
So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.
16 Dei arga han med avgudar, med ufryskje harma dei han.
They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.
17 Dei blota til vonde vette, til gudar dei vankjende fyrr, nye og nyst uppkomne, som federne ikkje visst’ um.
They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh [gods] came in, whom their fathers knew not.
18 Du ansa ikkje fjellet, ditt upphav, du gløymde din skapar og Gud.
You have forsaken God that begot you, and forgotten God who feeds you.
19 Og Herren såg det, og støytte deim burt ifrå seg, sine born;
And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters,
20 og i sin harm sagde han dette: «Eg skal løyna mitt andlit for deim; eg undrast korleis det vil ganga, undrast kva ende dei fær; for dei er ei ætt av uvyrdor, born som ein aldri kann tru.
and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.
21 Dei arga meg upp med u-gudar, eggja meg med sine skrymt; eg skal eggja deim med eit u-folk, ei uvitug heidningeborg.
They have provoked me to jealousy with [that which is] not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.
22 For ein eld er kveikt av min ande, og logar til djupt under jord; han øyder grunnen og grøda og fatar i fastaste fjell. (Sheol h7585)
For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 Eg skal sanka i hop ulukkor og sleppa nedyver deim; kvar ei pil eg hev i mi eiga skal eg skjota av imot deim.
I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them.
24 Når svolt og svidande sotter hev soge mergen or deim, sender eg mot deim udyrtonni og eitr av krjupande orm.
[They shall be] consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of [serpents] creeping on the ground.
25 Ute herjar den kalde odden, og inne rædsla og støkk, tyner sveinar og tynar møyar, sylvherde og sugarborn.
Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror [shall issue] out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.
26 Eg hadde vilja blåse deim burt, so ingen mintest deim meir,
I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from amongst men.
27 ottast eg ikkje min eigen harm, når uvenern’ tydde det rangt, når valdsmennern’ sagde: «Stor er vår magt, dette er ikkje Herrens verk.»»
Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not the Lord, has done all these things.
28 For dei er eit folk forutan visdom; dei vantar båd’ klokskap og vit.
It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them.
29 Var det vit i deim, vara dei seg; for då visste dei kvar det bar av.
They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to come.
30 Koss kunde ein mann elta tusund, og tvo slå ti tusund på flog, hadd’ ikkje hjelpi gjenge frå deim og Herren gjeve deim upp?
How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?
31 For deira vern er’kje som vår vern; det vitnar fienden sjølv.
For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies [are] void of understanding.
32 I Sodoma voks deira vintre, skaut upp av Gomorras grunn; druvorn’ dei ber, det er trollber, og beisk er kvar einaste krans;
For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrha: their grape [is] a grape of gall, their cluster [is] one of bitterness.
33 Vinen av deim er orme-eiter og øgjeleg drakefraud.
Their wine [is] the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.
34 «Ligg’kje dette gøymt i mi stova, forsegla i mine skrin?
Behold! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed amongst my treasures?
35 Eg råder for hemn og for attgjeld når foten deira skrid ut. Alt lid det mot undergangsdagen, og forloga deira kjem fort.»
In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction [is] near to them, and the judgements at hand are close upon you.
36 Sine tenarar tykkjer Gud synd um, og tek deira sak i si hand, når han ser det er ende på magti og ute med gamall og ung.
For the Lord shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for he saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:
37 Han spør: «Kvar tru er deira gudar, den hjelpi dei trygde seg til,
and the Lord said, Where are their gods on whom they trusted?
38 som slauk deira slagtofferfeita, og saup deira drykkoffervin? - Bed dei reinsa seg og dykk berga, bed deim vera vervegg for dykk!
the fat of whose sacrifices you ate, and you drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them arise and help you, and be your protectors.
39 Ser de no at eg er sjølv eine: Det er ingen Gud utan eg! Eg drep, og eg vekkjer til live, eg helseslær og eg gjer heil; og ingen i vide verdi kann fria dykk or mitt vald.
Behold, behold that I am [he], and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands.
40 Sjå, eg lyfter handi mot himmelen: So visst eg hev ævelegt liv:
For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live for ever.
41 Hev eg slipa det ljonande sverdet, og stend med domen i hand, tek eg hemn yver deim som meg hatar, valdsmannen fær det han er verd.
For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgement; and I will render judgement to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me.
42 Med kjøt vert sverdet mitt metta, mine piler drukne av blod - blodet av falne og fangar, av fiendehovdingen sjølv.»
I will make my weapons drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, [it shall glut itself] with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the heads of [their] enemies that rule over them.
43 Love hans tenarar, lydar! Hemna vil han deira blod; mot valdsmannen vender han våpni, og løyser sitt land og sin lyd.»
Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice you Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.
44 Då Moses hadde kvede alle versi i denne songen for folket, han og Hosea Nunsson,
And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the [son] of Naue.
45 og hadde tala alle desse ordi til heile Israel,
And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.
46 so sagde han til deim: «Agta no vel på alle dei ordi eg lysar for dykk i dag, so de kann læra borni dykkar å halda alle bodi i denne lovi og liva etter deim!
And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.
47 For dette er ikkje noko tomt ord, som ikkje gjeld for dykk; livet dykkar ligg i dette ordet, og held de dykk etter det, so skal de få liva lenge i det landet de no fer yver til og skal leggja under dykk.»
For this [is] no vain word to you; for it [is] your life, and because of this word you shall live long upon the land, into which you go over Jordan to inherit it.
48 Denne same dagen tala Herren til Moses, og sagde:
And the Lord spoke to Moses in this day, saying,
49 «Stig upp på Abarimfjellet her, på Nebotinden, som ligg i Moablandet, midt for Jeriko, so skal du få skoda Kana’ans-landet, som eg gjev Israels-borni til eigedom,
Go up to the mount Abarim, this mountain Nabau which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho, and behold the land of Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel:
50 og der uppå fjellet skal du døy og fara til federne dine, soleis som Aron, døydde på Horfjellet og for til federne sine,
and die in the mount whither you go up, and be added to your people; as Aaron your brother died in mount Or, and was added to his people.
51 for di de ikkje for ærleg fram mot meg millom Israels-sønerne ved Meribakjelda i Kades i Sinøydemarki, og ikkje synte Israels-sønerne allmagti mi.
Because you disobeyed my word amongst the children of Israel, at the waters of strife of Cades in the wilderness of Sin; because you sanctified me not amongst the sons of Israel.
52 Du skal få sjå landet framfyre deg, men inn skal du ikkje koma i det landet som eg vil gjeva Israels-sønerne.»
You shall see the land before [you], but you shall not enter into it.
