Deuteronomy 9

1 Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

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;

2 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?"

Un pueblo grande y alto, hijos de gigantes, los cuales ya tú conoces; y has oído, ¿Quién parará delante de los hijos del gigante?

3 Know therefore this day, that the LORD 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 to perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you.

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.

4 Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, "For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land"; because the LORD drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

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.

5 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 the LORD does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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.

6 Know therefore, that the LORD your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

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.

7 Remember, do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

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.

8 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.

Y en Horeb provocastes a ira a Jehová, y Jehová se enojó contra vosotros para destruiros.

9 When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

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:

10 The LORD delivered to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

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.

11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant.

Y fue que al cabo de los cuarenta días, y cuarenta noches, Jehová me dio las dos tablas de piedra, las tablas del concierto.

12 The LORD 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 aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image."

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.

13 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, "I have seen this people, and look, it is a stiff-necked people:

Y hablóme Jehová, diciendo: Yo he visto este pueblo, y, he aquí, él es pueblo duro de cerviz:

14 let 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."

Déjame que los destruya, y raiga su nombre de debajo del cielo, que yo te pondré sobre gente fuerte y mucha más que él.

15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

Y volví, y descendí del monte, y el monte ardía en fuego, con las tablas del concierto en mis dos manos.

16 I looked, and look, you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

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.

17 I took hold of the two tablets, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

Entonces tomé las dos tablas, y arrojélas de mis dos manos, y quebrélas delante de vuestros ojos.

18 I fell down before the LORD, 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 the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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:

19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.

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.

20 The LORD was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

Contra Aarón también se enojó Jehová en gran manera para destruirle; y yo oré entonces también por Aarón.

21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.

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.

22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath.

Y en Tabera, y en Massa, y en Kibrot-hattaava enojasteis también a Jehová.

23 When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you"; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe him, nor listen to his voice.

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.

24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

Rebeldes habéis sido a Jehová desde el día que yo os conozco.

25 So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

Y postréme delante de Jehová cuarenta días y cuarenta noches, que estuve echado, porque Jehová dijo, que os había de destruir.

26 I prayed to God, and said, "Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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.

27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,

Acuérdate de tus siervos Abraham, Isaac, y Jacob: no mires a la dureza de este pueblo, y a su impiedad, y a su pecado:

28 lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because the LORD 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.'

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.

29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm."

Y ellos son tu pueblo, y tu heredad, que sacaste con tu gran fortaleza, y con tu brazo extendido.