Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:
Sikilizeni, enyi mbingu, nami nitasema; sikia, ee nchi, maneno ya kinywa changu.
2 My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:
Mafundisho yangu na yanyeshe kama mvua, na maneno yangu na yashuke kama umande, kama manyunyu juu ya majani mabichi, kama mvua tele juu ya mimea myororo.
3 For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.
Nitalitangaza jina la Bwana. Naam, sifuni ukuu wa Mungu wetu!
4 He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
Yeye ni Mwamba, kazi zake ni kamilifu, njia zake zote ni haki. Mungu mwaminifu ambaye hakosei, yeye ni mnyofu na mwenye haki.
5 They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.
Wamefanya mambo ya upotovu mbele zake; kwa aibu yao, wao si watoto wake tena, lakini ni kizazi kilicho kiovu na kilichopotoka.
6 Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
Je, hii ndiyo njia ya kumlipa Bwana, enyi watu wajinga na wasio na busara? Je, yeye siye Baba yenu, Muumba wenu, aliyewafanya ninyi na kuwaumba?
7 Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.
Kumbuka siku za kale; tafakari vizazi vya zamani vilivyopita. Uliza baba yako, naye atakuambia, wazee wako, nao watakueleza.
8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
Aliye Juu Sana alipowapa mataifa urithi wao, alipogawanya wanadamu wote, aliweka mipaka kwa ajili ya mataifa sawasawa na hesabu ya wana wa Israeli.
9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.
Kwa kuwa fungu la Bwana ni watu wake, Yakobo kura yake ya urithi.
10 He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
Katika nchi ya jangwa alimkuta, katika nyika tupu ivumayo upepo. Alimhifadhi na kumtunza; akamlinda kama mboni ya jicho lake,
11 As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:
kama tai avurugaye kiota chake, na kurukaruka juu ya makinda yake, ambaye hutanda mabawa yake kuwadaka, na huwachukua kwenye mabawa yake.
12 So the Lord only was his guide, no other god was with him.
Bwana peke yake alimwongoza; hakuwepo mungu mgeni pamoja naye.
13 He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;
Akamfanya apande sehemu zilizoinuka za nchi, akamlisha kwa mavuno ya mashamba. Akamlea kwa asali toka mwambani, na kwa mafuta kutoka mwamba mgumu,
14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.
kwa jibini na maziwa kutoka makundi ya ngʼombe na kutoka makundi ya mbuzi, kwa mafuta ya wana-kondoo na mbuzi, kwa kondoo dume wazuri wa Bashani, na kwa ngano nzuri. Ukanywa damu ya zabibu inayotoa povu.
15 But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
Yeshuruni alinenepa na kupiga teke; alikuwa na chakula tele, akawa mzito na akapendeza sana. Akamwacha Mungu aliyemuumba, na kumkataa Mwamba Mwokozi wake.
16 The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
Wakamfanya Mungu kuwa na wivu kwa miungu yao migeni, na kumkasirisha kwa sanamu zao za machukizo.
17 They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.
Wakatoa dhabihu kwa pepo, ambao si Mungu: miungu wasiyoijua, miungu iliyojitokeza siku za karibuni, miungu ambayo baba zenu hawakuiogopa.
18 You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.
Mkamwacha Mwamba, aliyewazaa ninyi; mkamsahau Mungu aliyewazaa.
19 And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
Bwana akaona hili, akawakataa, kwa sababu alikasirishwa na wanawe na binti zake.
20 And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.
Akasema, “Nitawaficha uso wangu, nami nione mwisho wao utakuwa nini, kwa kuwa wao ni kizazi kilichopotoka, watoto ambao si waaminifu.
21 They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,
Wamenifanya niwe na wivu kwa kile ambacho si mungu, na kunikasirisha kwa sanamu zao zisizokuwa na thamani. Nitawafanya wawaonee wivu wale ambao si taifa. Nitawafanya wakasirishwe na taifa lile lisilo na ufahamu.
22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
Kwa maana moto umewashwa kwa hasira yangu, ule uwakao hadi kwenye vina vya mauti. Utateketeza dunia pamoja na mazao yake, na kuwasha moto katika misingi ya milima. (Sheol h7585)
23 I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.
“Nitalundika majanga juu yao na kutumia mishale yangu dhidi yao.
24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
Nitatuma njaa kali dhidi yao maradhi mabaya, yateketezayo na tauni ya kufisha; nitawapelekea meno makali ya wanyama mwitu, na sumu ya nyoka wale watambaao mavumbini.
25 Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.
Barabarani upanga utawakosesha watoto; nyumbani mwao hofu itatawala. Vijana wao wa kiume na wa kike wataangamia, pia watoto wachanga na wazee wenye mvi.
26 I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:
Nilisema ningewatawanya na kufuta kumbukumbu lao katika mwanadamu.
27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
Lakini nilihofia dhihaka za adui, adui asije akashindwa kuelewa, na kusema, ‘Mikono yetu imeshinda; Bwana hakufanya yote haya.’”
28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
Wao ni taifa lisilo na akili, hakuna busara ndani yao.
29 If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
Laiti wangekuwa na hekima wangefahamu hili, na kutambua mwisho wao utakuwa aje!
30 How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?
Mtu mmoja angewezaje kufukuza elfu moja, au wawili kufukuza elfu kumi, kama si kwamba Mwamba wao amewauza, kama si kwamba Bwana amewaacha?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.
Kwa kuwa mwamba wao si kama Mwamba wetu, sawasawa na vile adui zetu wanavyokiri.
32 For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:
Mzabibu wao unatoka kwenye mzabibu wa Sodoma, na kutoka kwenye mashamba ya Gomora. Zabibu zake zimejaa sumu, na vishada vyake vimejaa uchungu.
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
Mvinyo wao ni sumu ya nyoka, sumu yenye kufisha ya swila.
34 Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?
“Je, hili sikuliweka akiba na kulifungia kwenye vyumba vyangu vya hazina?
35 Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.
Ni juu yangu kulipiza kisasi; nitalipiza. Wakati utakapowadia, mguu wao utateleza; siku yao ya maafa ni karibu, na maangamizo yao yanawajia haraka.”
36 For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
Bwana atawahukumu watu wake, na kuwahurumia watumishi wake atakapoona nguvu zao zimekwisha wala hakuna yeyote aliyebaki, mtumwa au aliye huru.
37 And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?
Atasema: “Sasa iko wapi miungu yao, mwamba walioukimbilia,
38 Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.
miungu wale waliokula mafuta ya dhabihu zao na kunywa mvinyo wa sadaka zao za vinywaji? Wainuke basi, wawasaidie! Wawapeni basi ulinzi!
39 See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
“Tazama basi, Mimi mwenyewe, Mimi Ndiye! Hakuna mungu mwingine ila Mimi. Mimi ninaua na Mimi ninafufua, Mimi nimejeruhi na Mimi nitaponya, wala hakuna awezaye kuokoa kutoka mkononi mwangu.
40 For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,
Ninainua mkono wangu kuelekea mbinguni na kusema: Hakika kama niishivyo milele,
41 If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
wakati ninapounoa upanga wangu unaometameta na mkono wangu unapoushika ili kutoa hukumu, nitalipiza kisasi juu ya adui zangu na kuwalipiza wale wanaonichukia.
42 I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.
Nitailevya mishale yangu kwa damu, wakati upanga wangu ukitafuna nyama: damu ya waliochinjwa pamoja na mateka, vichwa vya viongozi wa adui.”
43 Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.
Furahini, enyi mataifa, pamoja na watu wake, kwa kuwa atailipiza damu ya watumishi wake, atalipiza kisasi juu ya adui zake na kufanya upatanisho kwa ajili ya nchi na watu wake.
44 So Moses said all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Hoshea, the son of Nun.
Mose na Yoshua mwana wa Nuni wakaja, wakanena maneno yote ya wimbo watu wakiwa wanasikia.
45 And after saying all this to the people,
Mose alipomaliza kuyasoma maneno haya yote kwa Israeli wote,
46 Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.
akawaambia, “Yawekeni moyoni maneno yote ambayo nimewatangazia kwa makini siku hii ya leo, ili kwamba mpate kuwaagiza watoto wenu wayatii kwa bidii maneno yote ya sheria hii.
47 And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.
Siyo maneno matupu tu kwenu, bali ni uzima wenu. Kwa hayo mtaishi maisha marefu katika nchi mnayovuka Yordani kuimiliki.”
48 That same day the Lord said to Moses,
Siku hiyo hiyo Bwana akamwambia Mose,
49 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for their heritage:
“Kwea katika mapangano ya Mlima Abarimu hadi kilima cha Nebo kilichoko Moabu, ngʼambo ya Yeriko, na uitazame Kanaani, nchi ninayowapa Waisraeli kama milki yao wenyewe.
50 And let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest with your people; as death came to Aaron, your brother, on Mount Hor, where he was put to rest with his people:
Utafia kwenye mlima huo unaokwea na kukusanyika pamoja na watu wako, kama ndugu yako Aroni alivyofia juu ya Mlima Hori naye akakusanyika kwa watu wake.
51 Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.
Hii ni kwa sababu ninyi wawili mlivunja uaminifu nami mbele ya Waisraeli kwenye maji ya Meriba-Kadeshi katika Jangwa la Sini, na kwa sababu hamkuuinua utakatifu wangu miongoni mwa Waisraeli.
52 So you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.
Kwa hiyo, utaiona tu nchi kwa mbali; wewe hutaingia nchi ninayowapa watu wa Israeli.”
