Deuteronomio 9

1 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;

Hear, Israel; you are about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, and cities that are great and fortified up to heaven,

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

a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard people say, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'

3 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.

Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you like a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so will you drive them out and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has said to you.

4 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.

Do not say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, 'It was because of my righteousness that Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land,' for it was because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh is driving them out from before you.

5 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.

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that your God is driving them out from before you, and so that he may make come true the word that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 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.

Know therefore, that Yahweh your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.

7 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.

Remember and do not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to anger in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

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

Also at Horeb you provoked Yahweh to anger, and Yahweh was angry enough with you to destroy you.

9 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:

When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

10 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.

Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone written with his finger; on them was written everything just like all the words that Yahweh announced to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire on the day of the assembly.

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

It happened at the end of those forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

12 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.

Yahweh said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the path that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast figure.'

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

Furthermore, Yahweh spoke to me and said, 'I have seen this people; they are a stubborn people.

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

Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

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

So I turned around and came down the mountain, and the mountain was burning. The two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

16 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.

I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had molded for yourselves a calf. You had quickly turned aside out of the path that Yahweh had commanded you.

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

I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands. I broke them before your eyes.

18 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:

Again I lay facedown before Yahweh for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin that you had committed, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so as to provoke him to anger.

19 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.

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

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

Yahweh was very angry with Aaron so as to destroy him; I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

21 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.

I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it, beat it, and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

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

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

23 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.

When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea and said, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe or listen to his voice.

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

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

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

So I lay facedown before Yahweh those forty days and forty nights, because he had said that he would destroy you.

26 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.

I prayed to Yahweh and said, 'O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy your people or your inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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

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

28 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.

so that the land from where you brought us should say, “Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land that he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

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

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great strength and by the display of your power.'