تَثنِيَة 32

١ 1 «أَصْغِي أَيَّتُهَا السَّمَاوَاتُ فَأَتَكَلَّمَ وَلْتُنْصِتِ الأَرْضُ إِلَى أَقْوَالِ فَمِي.

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

٢ 2 لِيَنْهَمِرْ تَعْلِيمِي كَالْمَطَرِ، وَلْيَقْطُرْ كَلاَمِي، فَيَكُونَ كَالطَّلِّ عَلَى الْكَلإِ وَكَالْغَيْثِ عَلَى الْعُشْبِ.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

٣ 3 بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ أَدْعُو، فَمَجِّدُوا عَظَمَةَ إِلَهِنَا.

Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

٤ 4 هُوَ الصَّخْرُ، وَصَنَائِعُهُ كُلُّهَا كَامِلَةٌ، سُبُلُهُ جَمِيعُهَا عَدْلٌ. هُوَ إِلَهُ أَمَانَةٍ لاَ يَرْتَكِبُ جَوْراً، صِدِّيقٌ وَعَادِلٌ هُوَ.

[He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.

٥ 5 لَقَدِ اقْتَرَفُوا الْفَسَادَ أَمَامَهُ، وَلَمْ يَعُودُوا لَهُ أَبْنَاءً بَلْ لَطْخَةَ عَارٍ، إِنَّهُمْ جِيلٌ أَعْوَجُ وَمُلْتَوٍ

They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked generation.

٦ 6 أَبِهَذَا تُكَافِئُونَ الرَّبَّ أَيُّهَا الشَّعْبُ الأَحْمَقُ الْغَبِيُّ؟ أَلَيْسَ هُوَ أَبَاكُمْ وَخَالِقَكُمُ الَّذِي عَمِلَكُمْ وَكَوَّنَكُمْ؟

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

٧ 7 اذْكُرُوا الأَيَّامَ الْغَابِرَةَ، وَتَأَمَّلُوا فِي سَنَوَاتِ الأَجْيَالِ الْمَاضِيَةِ. اسْأَلُوا آبَاءَكُمْ فَيُنْبِئُوكُمْ، وَشُيُوخَكُمْ فَيُخْبِرُوكُمْ.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

٨ 8 عِنْدَمَا قَسَمَ الْعَلِيُّ الْمِيرَاثَ عَلَى الأُمَمِ، وَحِينَ فَرَّقَ بَنِي آدَمَ، أَقَامَ حُدُوداً لِلشُّعُوبِ عَلَى عَدَدِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ،

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

٩ 9 لأَنَّ نَصِيبَ الرَّبِّ هُوَ شَعْبُهُ، وَأَبْنَاءَ يَعْقُوبَ قُرْعَةُ مِيرَاثِهِ.

For the LORD’s portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.

١٠ 10 وَجَدَهُمْ فِي أَرْضٍ قَفْرٍ وَفِي خَلاَءٍ مُوْحِشٍ. فَأَحَاطَ بِهِمْ وَرَعَاهُمْ وَصَانَهُمْ كَحَدَقَةِ عَيْنِهِ.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

١١ 11 وَكَمَا يَهُزُّ النَّسْرُ عُشَّهُ، وَيَرُفُّ عَلَى فِرَاخِهِ، بَاسِطاً جَنَاحَيْهِ لِيَأْخُذَهَا وَيَحْمِلَهَا عَلَى مِنْكَبَيْهِ،

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

١٢ 12 هَكَذَا الرَّبُّ وَحْدَهُ قَادَ شَعْبَهُ، وَلَيْسَ مَعَهُ إِلَهٌ غَرِيبٌ.

[So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him.

١٣ 13 أَصْعَدَهُمْ عَلَى هِضَابِ الأَرْضِ فَأَكَلُوا ثِمَارَ الصَّحْرَاءِ، وَغَذَّاهُمْ بِعَسَلٍ مِنْ صَخْرٍ، وَزَيْتٍ مِنْ حَجَرِ الصَّوَّانِ،

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

١٤ 14 وَزُبْدَةِ الْبَقَرِ وَلَبَنِ الْغَنَمِ وَشَحْمِ خِرَافٍ وَتُيُوسٍ وَخِيَارِ كِبَاشِ بَاشَانَ، وَأَفْضَلِ لُبِّ الْحِنْطَةِ، وَسَقَاهُمْ دَمَ الْعِنَبِ الْقَانِي.

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

١٥ 15 فَسَمِنَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ وَرَفَسُوا، سَمِنُوا وَغَلُظُوا وَاكْتَسَوْا شَحْماً، فَرَفَضُوا الإِلَهَ صَانِعَهُمْ وَتَنَكَّرُوا لِصَخْرَةِ خَلاَصِهِمْ.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness; ] then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

١٦ 16 أَثَارُوا غَيْرَتَهُ بِآلِهَتِهِمِ الْغَرِيبَةِ، وَأَغَاظُوهُ بِأَصْنَامِهِمِ الرِّجْسَةِ.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.

١٧ 17 قَدَّمُوا مُحْرَقَاتٍ لأَوْثَانٍ لَيْسَتْ هِيَ اللهَ، لِآلِهَةٍ غَرِيبَةٍ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهَا بَلْ ظَهَرَتْ حَدِيثاً، آلِهَةٍ لَمْ يَرْهَبْهَا آبَاؤُهُمْ مِنْ قَبْلُ.

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

١٨ 18 لَقَدْ نَبَذْتُمُ الصَّخْرَ الَّذِي أَنْجَبَكُمْ، وَنَسِيتُمُ اللهَ الَّذِي أَنْشَأَكُمْ.

Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

١٩ 19 فَرَأَى الرَّبُّ ذَلِكَ وَرَذَلَهُمْ، إِذْ أَثَارَ أَبْنَاؤُهُ وَبَنَاتُهُ غَيْظَهُ.

And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

٢٠ 20 وَقَالَ: سَأَحْجُبُ وَجْهِي عَنْهُمْ، فَأَرَى مَاذَا يَكُونُ مَصِيرُهُمْ؟ إِنَّهُمْ جِيلٌ مُتَقَلِّبٌ وَأَوْلاَدٌ خَوَنَةٌ،

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end [shall be: ] for they [are] a very froward generation, children in whom [is] no faith.

٢١ 21 هَيَّجُوا غَيْرَتِي بِعِبَادَةِ أَوْثَانِهِمْ، وَأَسْخَطُونِي بِأَصْنَامِهِمِ الْبَاطِلَةِ. لِذَلِكَ سَأُثِيرُ غَيْرَتَهُمْ بِشَعْبٍ مُتَوَحِّشٍ، وَأُغِيظُهُمْ بِأُمَّةٍ حَمْقَاءَ.

They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

٢٢ 22 فَهَا قَدْ أَضْرَمَ غَضَبِي نَاراً تُحْرِقُ حَتَّى الْهَاوِيَةِ السُّفْلَى، وَتَأْكُلُ الأَرْضَ وَغَلاَّتِهَا، وَتُشْعِلُ أُسُسَ الْجِبَالِ. (Sheol h7585)

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)

٢٣ 23 أُكَوِّمُ عَلَيْهِمْ شُرُوراً وَأُنْفِذُ سِهَامِي فِيهِمْ.

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

٢٤ 24 وَحِينَ يَكُونُونَ خَائِرِينَ مِنَ الْجُوعِ، مَنْهُوكِينَ مِنَ الْحُمَّى وَالدَّاءِ السَّامِّ، أَجْعَلُ أَنْيَابَ الْوُحُوشِ مَعَ سُمِّ زَوَاحِفِ الأَرْضِ تَنْشَبُ فِيهِمْ.

[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

٢٥ 25 يُثْكِلُهُمْ سَيْفُ الْعَدُوِّ فِي الطَّرِيقِ، وَيَسْتَوْلِي عَلَيْهِم الرُّعْبُ دَاخِلَ الْخُدُورِ، فَيَهْلِكُ الْفَتَى مَعَ الْفَتَاةِ، وَالرَّضِيعُ مَعَ الشَّيْخِ.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.

٢٦ 26 قُلْتُ: أُشَتِّتُهُمْ فِي زَوَايَا الأَرْضِ، وَأَمْحُو مِنْ بَيْنِ النَّاسِ ذِكْرَهُمْ.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

٢٧ 27 لَوْلاَ خَوْفِي مِنْ تَبَجُّحِ الْعَدُوِّ، إِذْ يَظُنُّونَ قَائِلِينَ: إِنَّ يَدَنَا قَدْ عَظُمَتْ، وَلَيْسَ مَا جَرَى هُوَ مِنْ فِعْلِ الرَّبِّ.

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

٢٨ 28 إِنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أُمَّةٌ غَبِيَّةٌ لاَ بَصِيرَةَ فِيهَا.

For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

٢٩ 29 لَوْ عَقَلُوا لَفَطِنُوا لِمَآلِهِمْ وَتَأَمَّلُوا فِي مَصِيرِهِمْ،

O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!

٣٠ 30 إِذْ كَيْفَ يَدْحَرُ وَاحِدٌ أَلْفاً، وَيَهْزِمُ اثْنَانِ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمْ عَشَرَةَ آلافٍ مِنْهُمْ، لَوْلاَ أَنَّ صَخْرَهُمْ قَدْ هَجَرَهُمْ وَالرَّبَّ قَدْ سَلَّمَهُمْ؟

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

٣١ 31 لأَنَّ لَيْسَ صَخْرُهُمْ كَصَخْرِنَا، وَهَذَا مَا يُقِرُّ بِهِ أَعْدَاؤُنَا.

For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges.

٣٢ 32 إِذْ إِنَّ كَرْمَتَهُمْ هِيَ مِنْ كَرْمَةِ سَدُومَ وَمِنْ حُقُولِ عَمُورَةَ. وَعِنَبَهُمْ يَنْضَحُ سُمّاً، وَعَنَاقِيدَهُمْ تَفِيضُ مَرَارَةً.

For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:

٣٣ 33 خَمْرُهُمْ حُمَةُ الأَفَاعِي وَسُمُّ الثَّعَابِينِ الْمُمِيتُ.

Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

٣٤ 34 أَلَيْسَ هَذَا مُدَّخَراً عِنْدِي مَخْتُوماً عَلَيْهِ فِي خَزَائِنِي؟

[Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?

٣٥ 35 لِيَ النَّقْمَةُ وَأَنَا أُجَازِي. وَفِي الْوَقْتِ الْمُعَيَّنِ تَزِلُّ أَقْدَامُهُمْ فَيَوْمُ هَلاَكِهِمْ بَاتَ وَشِيكاً، وَمَصِيرُهُمُ الْمَحْتُومُ يُسْرِعُ إِلَيْهِمْ،

To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

٣٦ 36 لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ يَدِينُ شَعْبَهُ وَيَرْأَفُ بِعَبِيدِهِ. عِنْدَمَا يَرَى أَنَّ قُوَّتَهُمْ قَدِ اضْمَحَلَّتْ وَلَمْ يَبْقَ عَبْدٌ وَلاَ حُرٌّ،

For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left.

٣٧ 37 عِنْدَئِذٍ يَسْأَلُ الرَّبُّ: أَيْنَ آلِهَتُهُمْ؟ أَيْنَ الصَّخْرَةُ الَّتِي الْتَجَأُوا إِلَيْهَا؟

And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted,

٣٨ 38 الَّتِي كَانَتْ تَلْتَهِمُ شَحْمَ ذَبَائِحِهِمْ وَتَشْرَبُ خَمْرَ سَكَائِبِهِمْ؟ لِتَهُبَّ لِمُسَاعَدَتِهِمْ وَتَبْسُطَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِمَايَتَهَا.

Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, [and] be your protection.

٣٩ 39 انْظُرُوا الآنَ: إِنِّي أَنَا هُوَ وَلَيْسَ إِلَهٌ آخَرُ مَعِي. أَنَا أُمِيتُ وَأُحْيِي، أَسْحَقُ وَأَشْفِي، وَلاَ مُنْقِذَ مِنْ يَدِي.

See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.

٤٠ 40 أَبْسُطُ يَدِي نَحْوَ السَّمَاءِ قَائِلاً: حَيٌّ أَنَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

٤١ 41 إِذَا سَنَنْتُ سَيْفِي الْبَارِقَ وَأَمْسَكَتْ بِهِ يَدِي لِلْقَضَاءِ، فَإِنِّي أَنْتَقِمُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِي، وَأُجَازِي مُبْغِضِيَّ.

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

٤٢ 42 أُسْكِرُ سِهَامِي بِالدَّمِ وَيَلْتَهِمُ سَيْفِي لَحْماً، مِنْ دَمِ الْقَتْلَى وَالسَّبَايَا وَرُؤُوسِ قَادَةِ الْعَدُوِّ.

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

٤٣ 43 تَهَلَّلِي أَيَّتُهَا الأُمَمُ مَعَ شَعْبِهِ، لأَنَّهُ سَيَنْتَقِمُ لِدِمَاءِ عَبِيدِهِ وَيَثْأَرُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِ وَيَصْفَحُ عَنْ أَرْضِهِ وَعَنْ شَعْبِهِ».

Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.

٤٤ 44 وَأَقْبَلَ مُوسَى وَيَشُوعُ بْنُ نُونَ وَقَرَآ كَلِمَاتِ هَذَا النَّشِيدِ جَمِيعَهَا فِي مَسَامِعِ الشَّعْبِ.

And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

٤٥ 45 وَعِنْدَمَا انْتَهَى مُوسَى مِنْ تِلاَوَةِ جَمِيعِ كَلِمَاتِ أَبْيَاتِ هَذَا النَّشِيدِ عَلَى الإِسْرَائِيلِيِّينَ،

And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

٤٦ 46 قَالَ لَهُمْ: «تَأَمَّلُوا بِقُلُوبِكُمْ فِي جَمِيعِ هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَاتِ الَّتِي أَنَا أَشْهَدُ عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَا الْيَوْمَ، لِكَيْ تُوصُوا بِهَا أَوْلاَدَكُمْ، لِيَحْرِصُوا عَلَى الْعَمَلِ بِكَلِمَاتِ هَذِهِ التَّوْرَاةِ كُلِّهَا.

And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

٤٧ 47 لأَنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ كَلِمَاتٍ لاَ جَدْوَى لَكُمْ مِنْهَا. إِنَّهَا حَيَاتُكُمْ وَبِهَا تَعِيشُونَ طَوِيلاً فِي الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أَنْتُمْ عَابِرُونَ نَهْرَ الأُرْدُنِّ إِلَيْهَا لِتَرِثُوهَا».

For it [is] not a vain thing for you; because it [is] your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

٤٨ 48 وَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لِمُوسَى فِي نَفْسِ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ:

And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

٤٩ 49 «اصْعَدْ إِلَى سِلْسِلَةِ جِبَالِ عَبَارِيمَ حَيْثُ جَبَلُ نَبُو الَّذِي فِي أَرْضِ مُوآبَ مُقَابِلَ أَرِيحَا، وَشَاهِدْ أَرْضَ كَنْعَانَ الَّتِي أَنَا وَاهِبُهَا مُلْكاً لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, [unto] mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

٥٠ 50 وَمُتْ فِي الْجَبَلِ الَّذِي تَصْعَدُ إِلَيْهِ، وَالْحَقْ بِقَوْمِكَ كَمَا مَاتَ أَخُوكَ هَرُونُ فِي جَبَلِ هُورٍ وَلَحِقَ بِقَوْمِهِ.

And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

٥١ 51 لأَنَّكُمَا لَمْ تَثِقَا بِي فِي حُضُورِ الإِسْرَائِيلِيِّينَ عِنْدَ مَاءِ مَرِيبَةِ قَادِشَ فِي بَرِّيَّةِ صِينٍ، إِذْ لَمْ تُقَدِّسَانِي بَيْنَ الشَّعْبِ.

Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

٥٢ 52 لِهَذَا فَإِنَّكَ تَشْهَدُ الأَرْضَ عَنْ بُعْدٍ، وَلَكِنَّكَ لَنْ تَدْخُلَ إِلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أَهَبُهَا لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ».

Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee; ] but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.