Deuteronomy 32
1 “Faclu ac yen engyeng uh, lohng kas luk, Lohng akwoya ma nga ac fahk inge.
“Listen to me, [all you who are in the] heavens, and [all you who are on the] earth, listen to what I say [MTY].
2 Mwe luti luk fah putat oana tulin af, Ac sikyak fin faclu oana aunfong. Kas luk fah putat oana af sringsring nu fin sacn ma tufahna srunak, Oana af loang nu fin mah srisrik uh.
I wish/desire that my teaching will fall on you like rain drops or be like dew on the ground, and be like a gentle rain on the young plants, like showers on the grass.
3 Nga fah kaksakin Inen LEUM GOD, Ac mwet lal fah fahkak fulatlana lal.
I will praise Yahweh [MTY]. And [all you people should] tell others that our God is very great.
4 “LEUM GOD El nien molela kulana lowos, El suwohs ac pwaye in ma nukewa El oru; God lowos El oaru ac pwaye; El suwoswos ac El oru ma suwohs.
He is like a rock [MET] [under which we are protected]; [everything] that he does is perfect and completely just/fair [DOU]. He always does what he says that he will do; he never does anything that is wrong.
5 A kowos tia pwaye nu sel; kowos tia fal in mwet lal, Sie mutanfahl koluk ac kutasrik.
“But [you Israeli people] have been very unfaithful to him; because of your sins, you no longer [deserve to] be his children. You are extremely wicked and deceitful [DOU].
6 Kowos mwet lalfon ac selalkung, Ya kowos ac moli kulang lun LEUM GOD ouinge? El papa tomowos; El pa orekowosla, El oru tuh kowos in sie mutunfacl.
You foolish and senseless [DOU] people, (is this the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you]?/this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh [for all that he has done for you].) [RHQ] He is your father; he created you [RHQ]; he caused you to become a nation.
7 “Nunku ke pacl meet ah, ke fwilin mwet somsomla; Siyuk papa tomowos in srumun nu suwos lah mea sikyak meet, Siyuk sin mwet matu in srumun ke pacl somla.
“Think about [what happened] long ago; consider what happened to your ancestors. Ask your parents, and they will inform you; ask the older people, and they will tell you.
8 El su Fulatlana El oakiya acn nu sin kais sie mutunfacl; El kitalik acn, ac srisrngiya masrol nu ke acn in muta lun mwet uh. El sang lipufan in karingin kais sie mutunfacl.
When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and (assigned to/chose for) each people-group a god/angel.
9 A El sulela fwilin tulik natul Jacob nu sel sifacna.
But Yahweh decided that we would be his people; he chose [us, the descendants of] Jacob, to belong to him.
10 “El konalosyak ke elos raraun yen mwesis, Sie acn wangin mwet muta we, a pusren ngirngir na lun eng uh. El loangelosla ac karinganulosyang, Mweyen elos arulana saok sel.
“He saw [our ancestors] when they were in a desert, wandering in a land (that was desolate/where no people lived). He protected them and took care of them, as every person takes good care of his own eyes. [SIM, IDM]
11 Oana ke sie eagle el luti ma fusr natul in sohksok ke el ac sinukla liki ang uh, Na el ukwalos in molelosla ac srakalosyak fin posohksok lal, Ouinge LEUM GOD El liyaung Israel tuh elan tia putatla.
[Yahweh protected his people] just like an eagle encourages its babies [to fly] and flutters over them [MET], spreading its wings and catching them [if they start to fall].
12 LEUM GOD mukena kolma mwet lal, Ac wangin kasru sin god saya.
Yahweh was the only one who led them; no other foreign god helped him.
13 “El lela nu selos in leumi fulan eol uh, Ac elos kang ma kapak inimae. Elos konauk honey inmasrlon eot uh; Sak olive sunalos kapak wo in acn eoteot uh.
“[After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them], Yahweh enabled them to rule the hilly areas; they ate the crops that grew in the fields. They found honey in the rocks, and their olive trees [MTY] grew [even] in stony ground.
14 Cow ac nani natulos arulana sroanom tetelos; Un sheep ac nani ac cow natulos pa wo oemeet; Wheat ac wain lalos arulana yu.
The cows gave them plenty of curds/yogurt, the goats gave them plenty of milk, they had well-fed sheep and cattle, they had very good wheat, and they made delicious wine from their grapes.
15 “Mwet lun LEUM GOD elos kasrupi, tusruktu elos orek likkeke lain God; Elos fatelik ke kainmongo lalos. Elos forla liki God su oralosla Ac pilesru Mwet Lango ku lalos.
“The Israeli people became rich and prosperous, but then they rebelled against God; they abandoned him, the one who created them, the one who powerfully saves them.
16 Alu lalos nu ke ma sruloala oru LEUM GOD El lemta; Orekma koluk lalos akkasrkusrakyal.
So he abandoned them because they started to worship other/strange gods. Because of their worshiping disgusting idols, he became angry.
17 Elos orek kisa nu sin kutu god ma tia pwaye, God sasu ma papa matu tumalos tiana etu kac, Kutu god ma mwet Israel soenna wi alu nu kac.
They offered sacrifices to gods who were [really] demons, gods that their ancestors had never known; they offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about, gods whom your ancestors had never revered.
18 Elos mulkunla God lalos su langoelos ke ku lulap lal, El su sang moul nu selos.
They forgot [the true] God, the one who protects them [MET], the one who created them and caused them to live.
19 “Ke LEUM GOD El liye ma inge, El arulana kasrkusrak, Ac sisla wen ac acn nukewa natul.
“When Yahweh saw that [they had abandoned him], he became angry, so he rejected [the Israeli people, who are like] his sons and daughters.
20 El fahk, ‘Nga ac fah tia sifil kasrelos, Na nga fah liye lah mea ac sikyak nu selos, Elos mwet likkeke ac soaru.
He said, ‘They are very wicked/stubborn people, very unfaithful; so I will no longer help them, and then I will watch and see what happens to them.
21 Elos akkasrkusrakyeyu ke ma sruloala lalos, Ac oru nga in lemta ke sripen god lusrongten lalos, Kutu god su tia god pwaye. Ke ma inge nga fah oru sie mutunfacl lusrongten in akkasrkusrakyalos. Nga fah oru tuh elos in lemtai sie mutunfacl lalfon.
They made me very angry because of their worshiping idols, which are not really gods; they have caused me to be [jealous [MET] because I want them to worship only me]. So now, in order to cause them to become jealous, I will send [to attack them an army of] a nation of worthless and foolish people.
22 Kasrkusrak luk ac fah ngutyak oana sie e Ac esukak faclu wi ma nukewa ma kapak fac. Ac fah sun acn loallana ke facl lun misa, Ac esukla kapin eol uh. (Sheol h7585)
I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains. (Sheol h7585)
23 “Nga fah sang nu faclos mwe ongoiya wangin saflaiya, Ac orekmakin mwe pisr nukewa nutik lainulos.
I will cause them to experience many disasters; [they will feel as though] [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.
24 Elos ac fah misa ke masrinsral ac ke musen fol ke mano; Elos ac misa ke mas na keok. Nga ac fah supwama kosro lemnak in anwuk nu selos, Ac wet pwasin in ngalselosi.
They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers and because of terrible diseases; I will send wild animals to attack [MTY] them, and poisonous snakes to bite [MTY] them.
25 Mweun ac fah oru mwet uh misa inkanek uh; Mwet muta in lohm uh ac tuninfongla. Mukul fusr ac mutan fusr fah misa; Wangin tulik fusr ku mwet matu ac fah moul.
Outside [their houses, their enemies] will kill them [MTY] with swords, and in their homes, [their enemies will cause] them to be terrified. Their enemies will kill young men and young women, and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.
26 Nga nunku in sukelosla nukewa, In wangin mwet sifil esamulos.
I wanted to scatter the Israeli people to distant countries in order that no one would ever remember them.
27 Tusruktu nga tia lungse mwet lokoalok lalos in konkin Mu elos kutangla mwet luk, Ke nga sifacna pa kunauselosla.’
But [if I did that], their enemies would wrongly boast that they were the ones who had [gotten rid of my people]; they would say, “We [SYN] are the ones who defeated them; it was not Yahweh who has done all these things.”’
28 “Israel el sie mutunfacl wangin nanka; Wangin na pwaye etu lalos.
You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.
29 Elos tiana akilenak lah efu ku kutangyukla elos. Elos tia kalem kac lah efu ma inge sikyak.
If you were wise, you would understand [why you would be punished]; you would have realized what was going to happen to you.
30 Efu ku tausin se in kutangyukla sin mwet sefanna, Ac singoul tausin sin mwet luo na? Mweyen LEUM GOD lalos El som lukelos; God kulana lalos El siselosla.
[You would have realized] why 1,000 [of your soldiers] would be defeated by only one [of the enemy soldiers], and why two of your enemies would chase away 10,000 [Israeli soldiers]. [You would realize that this would happen] only if God, the one who always defended you [MET], had allowed your enemies to defeat you, because he had abandoned you.
31 Mwet lokoalok lalos etu na lah god lalos sifacna arulana munas, Tiana ku oana God lun Israel.
Your enemies know that their gods are not powerful like Yahweh, our God, [so their gods could not have defeated us Israelis].
32 Mwet lokoalok lalos kolukla, oana Sodom ac Gomorrah. Elos oana fain in grape ma fokkakin grape mwen ac pwasin,
Your enemies are like [MET] grapevines planted near [the ruins of] Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; the grapes from those vines are bitter and poisonous;
33 Ac wain nimalos oana pwasin ma tuku ke oalin wet uh.
the wine [from those grapes] is like the poison of snakes [DOU].
34 “LEUM GOD El esam ma mwet lokoalok lalos tuh oru; Ac El tupan sie pacl fal in kaelos kac.
[“Yahweh says], ‘I know [RHQ] [what I have planned to do to the Israeli people and to their enemies], and those plans are so secure [that it as though he locked them up] [MET].
35 LEUM GOD El ac fah oru foloksak lal ac kaelos; Oasr pacl se ac tuku ke elos ac ikori, Len in ongoiya lalos apkuranme.
I am the one who will get revenge and pay those enemies back for what they have done [to my people], at the right time for them to be punished [IDM]; they will soon experience disasters, and I will punish/destroy them quickly.’
36 LEUM GOD El ac fah molela mwet lal Ke pacl se El liye lah ku lalos wanginla. El ac pakomutalos su kulansupwal Ke El ac liye lupan munasla lalos.
“But Yahweh will see that you who are truly his people, who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and he will be merciful to you. And he will see that you are helpless, and that there are very few of you, slaves or free people, who are still alive.
37 Na LEUM GOD El ac fah siyuk sin mwet lal, ‘Pia god kulana lowos ma kowos lulalfongi uh?
Then Yahweh will ask his people, ‘Where are the gods that you thought would protect you [MET]?
38 Kowos kitalos ke mwe mongo yuyu ke mwe kisa lowos Ac sang wain ma kisakinyuk elos in nim. Inge, lela god ingan in tuku kasrekowos, Ac molikowosla.
You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed, and you poured out wine for them to drink. So, they should begin to help you; they should be the ones who will protect you!
39 “‘Liye, nga mukefanna pa God; Wangin pac sie god sayuk. Nga uniya ac nga sang moul, nga kanteya ac nga akkeyala, Ac wangin sie ku in lain ma nga oru.
“But now you will realize that I, only I, am God; there is no other god who is [a real] god. I am the one who can kill people and who can cause people to live; I can wound people, and I can heal people, and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.
40 In oana ke nga pa God moul, Nga sralak pouk ac wulela ku
I raise my hand toward heaven and solemnly declare that just as sure as I live forever,
41 Lah nga fah tamla cutlass saromrom nutik Ac liyaung tuh nununku suwohs in orek. Nga fah foloksak nu sin mwet lokoalok luk Ac kaelos su srungayu.
that when I sharpen my sword, as I [SYN] prepare to punish people, I will get revenge on my enemies; I will pay back those who hate me.
42 Sukan pisr nutik fah tultul ke srah kaclos, Ac cutlass nutik fah onelosi nukewa su lainyu. Nga fah tia likiya moul lun kutena mwet su lainyu; Finne mwet pakpuki ke cutlass, wi mwet sruoh ke mweun, elos nukewa fah misa.’
I will kill all [of my enemies] with a sword; it will be as though I had arrows that will be covered with their blood. I will kill [MTY] all those whom I capture and cut off their leaders’ heads.’
43 “Kowos mutanfahl uh, kowos in kaksakin mwet lun LEUM GOD— El kalyaelos nukewa su onelosla. El foloksak nu fin mwet lokoalok lal, Ac El nunak munas ke ma koluk lun mwet lal.”
“You people of all nations, you as well as his people should praise Yahweh, because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him; and he cleanses his people’s land which has become defiled because of their sins.”
44 Moses ac Joshua, wen natul Nun, eltal fahkak kas ke on soko inge tuh mwet Israel nukewa in ku in lohng.
Joshua and Moses/I recited the words of that song while the Israeli people were listening.
45 Ke Moses el aksafyela luti lal ke kas lun God nu sin mwet uh
When they/we finished reciting to the Israeli people the words of this song,
46 el fahk, “Aklohya in akos sap inge nukewa ma nga sot nu suwos misenge. Kalweni nu sin tulik nutuwos tuh elos in ku in oaru ac akos mwe luti nukewa lun God.
Moses/I said, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them.
47 Mwe luti inge tia kas lusrongten — a moul na lowos. Akos ma inge ac kowos fah moul paht fin facl se lefahl ingo Infacl Jordan ma kowos apkuran in oakwuki we.”
These instructions are very important [LIT]. If [you obey] them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan [River] to occupy.”
48 In len sacna LEUM GOD El fahk nu sel Moses,
On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses/me,
49 “Fahla nu Fineol Abarim in acn Moab tulanang siti Jericho. Fanyak Fineol Nebo ac ngetla liye facl Canaan ma nga akola in sang nu sin mwet Israel.
“Go to the Abarim Mountain range [here] in the Moab region, across from Jericho. Climb Nebo Mountain, and look [toward the west] to see Canaan land, the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people.
50 Kom ac fah misa fineol soko an oana ke Aaron, tamulel lom, el misa Fineol Hor,
You will die on that mountain [EUP, DOU], like your [older] brother Aaron died on Hor Mountain.
51 mweyen komtal kewa tuh fahsr sayen ma nga sapkin nu sumtal ye mutun mwet Israel. — Pacl se komtal tuh muta ke kof in acn Meribah, apkuran nu ke siti Kadesh in acn mwesis Zin, komtal tuh tia akfulatyeyu ye mutun mwet uh.
You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israeli people, when you all were at Meribah Springs near Kadesh [town] in the Zin Desert. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israeli people in the way that I deserve because I am God.
52 Kom ac ngetla liye facl sac ke oan loessula, tusruktu kom ac tia ilyak nu in facl sac su nga ac sang nu sin mwet Israel.”
[When you are on that mountain where I told you to go], you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israeli people, but you will not enter it.”
