Deuteronomio 32

1Escuchad, oh cielos, que yo hablaré; oiga la tierra las palabras de mi boca.

2Descienda, como lluvia, mi doctrina; destile mi palabra cual rocío, cual llovizna sobre la hierba, como gotas de agua sobre el césped.

3Pues celebraré el nombre de Yahvé; ¡dad gloria a nuestro Dios!

4Él es la Roca, perfecta es su obra, justos son todos sus caminos; es un Dios fiel y sin iniquidad; justo y recto es Él.

5Prevaricaron contra Él los que por sus inmundicias ya no son hijos suyos, una generación depravada y perversa.

6¡Así retribuís a Yahvé, oh pueblo necio e insensato! ¿No es Él tu padre que te adquirió tu creador, tu fundador?

7Acuérdate de los tiempos antiguos; considerad los años, generación tras generación; pregunta a tu padre, y él te lo anunciará; a tus ancianos y ellos te lo dirán.

8Cuando el que mora en lo alto dio a cada nación su posesión, cuando dividió a los hijos de los hombres, fijó los límites de los pueblos según el número de los hijos de Israel.

9Pues la porción de Yahvé es su pueblo, Jacob la herencia peculiar suya.

10Lo halló en una tierra desierta, en la soledad, entre aullidos salvajes; y rodeándolo por todas partes lo cuidó, y lo guardó como a la niña de sus ojos.

11Como el águila vigila sobre su nido cuando revolotea sobre sus polluelos, extiende sus alas, los toma, y los lleva sobre sus alas;

12así Yahvé solo lo conducía no estaba con él dios ajeno.

13Le hizo escalar las alturas de la tierra, para que comiera los frutos del campo; le dio a sorber miel de la peña, y aceite de la durísima roca,

14manteca de vacas y leche de ovejas, con pingües corderos, carneros de Basan y machos cabríos, con lo más escogido del trigo; y bebiste la sangre espumante de la uva.

15Mas engordó Yeschurún, y dio coces; — ¡engordaste, engrosaste, te hinchaste!— y abandonó a Dios su Hacedor, despreciando la Roca de su salvación.

16Le provocaron con dioses extraños; con abominaciones incitaron su ira.

17Ofrecían sacrificios a los demonios, que no son Dios, a dioses que no habían conocido, a nuevos y recién venidos, que no adoraron vuestros padres.

18Abandonaste la Roca que te engendró, diste al olvido a Dios que te dio el ser.

19Lo vio Yahvé y sintió asco, pues sus hijos y sus hijas le provocaron.

20Y dijo: “Les esconderé mi rostro, veré cuál será su fin; es una raza perversa, hijos desleales.

21Han provocado mis celos con no-dioses, me han irritado con sus ídolos. Por eso provocaré sus celos con aquellos que no son pueblo; con una nación necia los irritaré.

22Se ha encendido el fuego de mi ira, que arderá hasta lo más hondo del infierno, devorando la tierra con sus productos, y abrasando los cimientos de los montes.

23Males quiero amontonar sobre ellos, agotar contra ellos mis flechas.

24Los consumirá el hambre, y los devorará la ardiente fiebre, la amarga pestilencia. Enviaré contra ellos dientes de fieras y el veneno de las (serpientes) que se arrastran por el polvo.

25Por fuera los destruirá la espada, y dentro de la casa el espanto, lo mismo al joven como a la doncella, al niño de pecho como al anciano.

26Quisiera decir: “Los aniquilaré; haré cesar de entre los hombres su memoria”,

27si no temiera la arrogancia del enemigo; pues lo verían sus adversarios; y dirían: “Nuestra mano ha prevalecido, no es Yahvé quien ha hecho todo esto.”

28Pues es gente sin inteligencia, y no hay en ellos entendimiento.

29¡Oh si fueran sabios para entenderlo y comprender lo que les espera!

30¿Cómo puede perseguir uno a mil, y dos espantar a diez mil, si no porque su Roca los ha vendido, y Yahvé los ha entregado?

31Pues no es la Roca nuestra como la suya; los mismos enemigos lo testifican.

32Porque su vid es de la vid de Sodoma y de las campiñas de Gomorra; sus uvas son uvas venenosas, y llenos de amargura sus racimos.

33Veneno de dragones es su vino, ponzoña terrible de áspides.

34¿No tengo Yo esto guardado conmigo, sellado entre mis tesoros?

35Mía es la venganza y la retribución; a su tiempo resbalará su pie; pues el día de su ruina está cerca, su destino viene volando.

36Pues Yahvé juzga a su pueblo, y se compadecerá de sus siervos, cuando vea que ya no tienen fuerza y no les queda ni esclavo ni libre.

37Entonces dirá: ¿Dónde están sus dioses, la Roca en que se refugiaron?

38(¿Dónde están esos dioses), que comían la grosura de sus sacrificios, y bebían el vino de sus libaciones? ¡Levántense y vengan a socorreros, y sean ellos vuestro amparo!

39Ved ahora que soy Yo, y solo Yo, y no hay dioses junto a Mí; Yo soy quien doy la muerte y doy la vida; Yo hiero y Yo sano, y no hay quien se libre de mi mano.

40Porque alzando al cielo mi mano, digo: “Por mi vida eterna:

41Cuando afile el rayo de mi espada, y mi mano empuñe el juicio, tomaré venganza de mis enemigos, y daré el pago a los que me odian.

42Embriagaré de sangre mis saetas, y mi espada comerá carne, la sangre de muertos y de cautivos, y las cabezas de los caudillos enemigos.”

43Ensalzad, oh naciones, a su pueblo, porque Él vengará la sangre de sus siervos; tomará venganza de sus enemigos, y espulgará a su tierra, a su pueblo.

44Fue, pues, Moisés, y dijo todas las palabras de este cántico a oídos del pueblo él con Josué, hijo de Nun.

45Y cuando Moisés hubo acabado de comunicar todas estas palabras a todo Israel,

46les dijo: “Fijad vuestro corazón en todas estas palabras que hoy os he proclamado, Los prescribiréis a vuestros hijos, a fin de que cuiden de poner por obra todas las palabras de esta Ley.

47Porque no es cosa inútil para vosotros, es vuestra vida; por medio de esta palabra prolongaréis vuestros días sobre la tierra en cuya posesión vais a entrar, pasando el Jordán.”

48En aquel día habló Yahvé a Moisés, diciendo:

49“Sube a esta montaña de Abarim, al monte Nebo, que está en el país de Moab, frente a Jericó; y mira la tierra de Canaán, que voy a dar en posesión a los hijos de Israel.

50En el monte al que has de subir morirás y serás reunido con tu pueblo; así como murió Aarón, tu hermano, en el monte Hor, y fue reunido con su pueblo.

51Porque habéis pecado contra Mí en medio de los hijos de Israel, junto a las aguas de Meribá, en Cades, en el desierto de Sin y porque no me glorificasteis en medio de los hijos de Israel.

52Verás delante de ti la tierra que Yo voy a dar a los hijos de Israel, pero no entrarás en ella.”

1[Audite, cæli, quæ loquor: audiat terra verba oris mei.

2Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea, fluat ut ros eloquium meum, quasi imber super herbam, et quasi stillæ super gramina.

3Quia nomen Domini invocabo: date magnificentiam Deo nostro.]

4[Dei perfecta sunt opera, et omnes viæ ejus judicia: Deus fidelis, et absque ulla iniquitate, justus et rectus.

5Peccaverunt ei, et non filii ejus in sordibus: generatio prava atque perversa.

6Hæccine reddis Domino, popule stulte et insipiens? numquid non ipse est pater tuus, qui possedit te, et fecit, et creavit te?

7Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas: interroga patrem tuum, et annuntiabit tibi: majores tuos, et dicent tibi.

8Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes, quando separabat filios Adam, constituit terminos populorum juxta numerum filiorum Israël.

9Pars autem Domini, populus ejus: Jacob funiculus hæreditatis ejus.

10Invenit eum in terra deserta, in loco horroris, et vastæ solitudinis: circumduxit eum, et docuit: et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui.

11Sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos, et super eos volitans, expandit alas suas, et assumpsit eum, atque portavit in humeris suis.

12Dominus solus dux ejus fuit, et non erat cum eo deus alienus:

13constituit eum super excelsam terram, ut comederet fructus agrorum: ut sugeret mel de petra, oleumque de saxo durissimo;

14butyrum de armento, et lac de ovibus cum adipe agnorum, et arietum filiorum Basan: et hircos cum medulla tritici, et sanguinem uvæ biberet meracissimum.]

15[Incrassatus est dilectus, et recalcitravit: incrassatus, impinguatus, dilatatus, dereliquit Deum factorem suum, et recessit a Deo salutari suo.

16Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis, et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.

17Immolaverunt dæmoniis et non Deo, diis quos ignorabant: novi recentesque venerunt, quos non coluerunt patres eorum:

18Deum qui te genuit dereliquisti, et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui.]

19[Vidit Dominus, et ad iracundiam concitatus est: quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et filiæ.

20Et ait: Abscondam faciem meam ab eis, et considerabo novissima eorum: generatio enim perversa est, et infideles filii.

21Ipsi me provocaverunt in eo qui non erat Deus, et irritaverunt in vanitatibus suis: et ego provocabo eos in eo qui non est populus, et in gente stulta irritabo illos.

22Ignis succensus est in furore meo, et ardebit usque ad inferni novissima: devorabitque terram cum germine suo, et montium fundamenta comburet.

23Congregabo super eos mala, et sagittas meas complebo in eis.

24Consumentur fame, et devorabunt eos aves morsu amarissimo: dentes bestiarum immittam in eos, cum furore trahentium super terram, atque serpentium.

25Foris vastabit eos gladius, et intus pavor, juvenem simul ac virginem, lactentem cum homine sene.]

26[Dixi: Ubinam sunt? cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum.

27Sed propter iram inimicorum distuli: ne forte superbirent hostes eorum, et dicerent: Manus nostra excelsa, et non Dominus, fecit hæc omnia.

28Gens absque consilio est, et sine prudentia.

29Utinam saperent, et intelligerent, ac novissima providerent.

30Quomodo persequatur unus mille, et duo fugent decem millia? nonne ideo, quia Deus suus vendidit eos, et Dominus conclusit illos?

31Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eorum: et inimici nostri sunt judices.

32De vinea Sodomorum, vinea eorum, et de suburbanis Gomorrhæ: uva eorum, uva fellis, et botri amarissimi.

33Fel draconum vinum eorum, et venenum aspidum insanabile.

34Nonne hæc condita sunt apud me, et signata in thesauris meis?

35Mea est ultio, et ego retribuam in tempore, ut labatur pes eorum: juxta est dies perditionis, et adesse festinant tempora.

36Judicabit Dominus populum suum, et in servis suis miserebitur: videbit quod infirmata sit manus, et clausi quoque defecerunt, residuique consumpti sunt.]

37[Et dicet: Ubi sunt dii eorum, in quibus habebant fiduciam?

38de quorum victimis comedebant adipes, et bibebant vinum libaminum: surgant, et opitulentur vobis, et in necessitate vos protegant.

39Videte quod ego sim solus, et non sit alius deus præter me: ego occidam, et ego vivere faciam: percutiam, et ego sanabo, et non est qui de manu mea possit eruere.

40Levabo ad cælum manum meam, et dicam: Vivo ego in æternum.

41Si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum, et arripuerit judicium manus mea: reddam ultionem hostibus meis, et his qui oderunt me retribuam.

42Inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine, et gladius meus devorabit carnes; de cruore occisorum et de captivitate, nudati inimicorum capitis.

43Laudate, gentes, populum ejus, quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur: et vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum, et propitius erit terræ populi sui.]

44Venit ergo Moyses, et locutus est omnia verba cantici hujus in auribus populi, ipse et Josue filius Nun.

45Complevitque omnes sermones istos, loquens ad universum Israël,

46et dixit ad eos: Ponite corda vestra in omnia verba, quæ ego testificor vobis hodie: ut mandetis ea filiis vestris custodire et facere, et implere universa quæ scripta sunt legis hujus:

47quia non incassum præcepta sunt vobis, sed ut singuli in eis viverent: quæ facientes longo perseveretis tempore in terra, ad quam, Jordane transmisso, ingredimini possidendam.

48Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in eadem die, dicens:

49Ascende in montem istum Abarim, id est, transitum, in montem Nebo, qui est in terra Moab contra Jericho: et vide terram Chanaan, quam ego tradam filiis Israël obtinendam, et morere in monte.

50Quem conscendens jungeris populis tuis, sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor, et appositus populis suis:

51quia prævaricati estis contra me in medio filiorum Israël ad aquas contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin: et non sanctificastis me inter filios Israël.

52E contra videbis terram, et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Israël.

1Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.

2Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.

3Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.

4The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

5They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

6Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

7Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

8When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

10He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.

12The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

13He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,

14Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

16They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.

17They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

18Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.

19The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.

20And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

21They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

22A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

23I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.

24They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

25Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

26I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

27But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

28They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.

29O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

30How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

31For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.

32Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.

33Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

34Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?

35Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

36The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.

37And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?

38Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.

39See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

40I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

41If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.

42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.

43Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

44So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.

45And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.

46And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfill all that is written in this law:

47For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.

48And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:

49Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.

50When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Her, and was gathered to his people:

51Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.

52Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.