Deuteronomy 32

«اِنْصِتِي أَيَّتُهَا السَّمَاوَاتُ فَأَتَكَلَّمَ، وَلْتَسْمَعِ الأَرْضُ أَقْوَالَ فَمِي.

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

يَهْطِلُ كَالْمَطَرِ تَعْلِيمِي، وَيَقْطُرُ كَالنَّدَى كَلاَمِي. كَالطَّلِّ عَلَى الْكَلاءِ، وَكَالْوَابِلِ عَلَى الْعُشْبِ.

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

إِنِّي بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ أُنَادِي. أَعْطُوا عَظَمَةً لإِلهِنَا.

Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

هُوَ الصَّخْرُ الْكَامِلُ صَنِيعُهُ. إِنَّ جَمِيعَ سُبُلِهِ عَدْلٌ. إِلهُ أَمَانَةٍ لاَ جَوْرَ فِيهِ. صِدِّيقٌ وَعَادِلٌ هُوَ.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

«أَفْسَدَ لَهُ الَّذِينَ لَيْسُوا أَوْلاَدَهُ عَيْبُهُمْ، جِيلٌ أَعْوَجُ مُلْتوٍ.

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

ألْرَّبَّ تُكَافِئُونَ بِهذَا يَا شَعْبًا غَبِيًّا غَيْرَ حَكِيمٍ؟ أَلَيْسَ هُوَ أَبَاكَ وَمُقْتَنِيَكَ، هُوَ عَمِلَكَ وَأَنْشَأَكَ؟

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

اُذْكُرْ أَيَّامَ الْقِدَمِ، وَتَأَمَّلُوا سِنِي دَوْرٍ فَدَوْرٍ. اِسْأَلْ أَبَاكَ فَيُخْبِرَكَ، وَشُيُوخَكَ فَيَقُولُوا لَكَ.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

«حِينَ قَسَمَ الْعَلِيُّ لِلأُمَمِ، حِينَ فَرَّقَ بَنِي آدَمَ، نَصَبَ تُخُومًا لِشُعُوبٍ حَسَبَ عَدَدِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

إِنَّ قِسْمَ الرَّبِّ هُوَ شَعْبُهُ. يَعْقُوبُ حَبْلُ نَصِيبِهِ.

For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

وَجَدَهُ فِي أَرْضِ قَفْرٍ، وَفِي خَلاَءٍ مُسْتَوْحِشٍ خَرِبٍ. أَحَاطَ بِهِ وَلاَحَظَهُ وَصَانَهُ كَحَدَقَةِ عَيْنِهِ.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

كَمَا يُحَرِّكُ النَّسْرُ عُشَّهُ وَعَلَى فِرَاخِهِ يَرِفُّ، وَيَبْسُطُ جَنَاحَيْهِ وَيَأْخُذُهَا وَيَحْمِلُهَا عَلَى مَنَاكِبِهِ،

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

هكَذَا الرَّبُّ وَحْدَهُ اقْتَادَهُ وَلَيْسَ مَعَهُ إِلهٌ أَجْنَبِيٌّ.

So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

أَرْكَبَهُ عَلَى مُرْتَفَعَاتِ الأَرْضِ فَأَكَلَ ثِمَارَ الصَّحْرَاءِ، وَأَرْضَعَهُ عَسَلاً مِنْ حَجَرٍ، وَزَيْتًا مِنْ صَوَّانِ الصَّخْرِ،

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

وَزُبْدَةَ بَقَرٍ وَلَبَنَ غَنَمٍ، مَعَ شَحْمِ خِرَافٍ وَكِبَاشٍ أَوْلاَدِ بَاشَانَ، وَتُيُوسٍ مَعَ دَسَمِ لُبِّ الْحِنْطَةِ، وَدَمَ الْعِنَبِ شَرِبْتَهُ خَمْرًا.

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

«فَسَمِنَ يَشُورُونَ وَرَفَسَ. سَمِنْتَ وَغَلُظْتَ وَاكْتَسَيْتَ شَحْمًا! فَرَفَضَ الإِلهَ الَّذِي عَمِلَهُ، وَغَبِيَ عَنْ صَخْرَةِ خَلاَصِهِ.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

أَغَارُوهُ بِالأَجَانِبِ، وَأَغَاظُوهُ بِالأَرْجَاسِ.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

ذَبَحُوا لأَوْثَانٍ لَيْسَتِ اللهَ. لآلِهَةٍ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهَا، أَحْدَاثٍ قَدْ جَاءَتْ مِنْ قَرِيبٍ لَمْ يَرْهَبْهَا آبَاؤُكُمْ.

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

الصَّخْرُ الَّذِي وَلَدَكَ تَرَكْتَهُ، وَنَسِيتَ اللهَ الَّذِي أَبْدَأَكَ.

Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

«فَرَأَى الرَّبُّ وَرَذَلَ مِنَ الْغَيْظِ بَنِيهِ وَبَنَاتِهِ.

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

وَقَالَ: أَحْجُبُ وَجْهِي عَنْهُمْ، وَأَنْظُرُ مَاذَا تَكُونُ آخِرَتُهُمْ. إِنَّهُمْ جِيلٌ مُتَقَلِّبٌ، أَوْلاَدٌ لاَ أَمَانَةَ فِيهِمْ.

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

هُمْ أَغَارُونِي بِمَا لَيْسَ إِلهًا، أَغَاظُونِي بِأَبَاطِيلِهِمْ. فَأَنَا أُغِيرُهُمْ بِمَا لَيْسَ شَعْبًا، بِأُمَّةٍ غَبِيَّةٍ أُغِيظُهُمْ.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

إِنَّهُ قَدِ اشْتَعَلَتْ نَارٌ بِغَضَبِي فَتَتَّقِدُ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ السُّفْلَى، وَتَأْكُلُ الأَرْضَ وَغَلَّتَهَا، وَتُحْرِقُ أُسُسَ الْجِبَالِ.

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

أَجْمَعُ عَلَيْهِمْ شُرُورًا، وَأُنْفِدُ سِهَامِي فِيهِمْ،

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

إِذْ هُمْ خَاوُونَ مِنْ جُوعٍ، وَمَنْهُوكُونَ مِنْ حُمَّى وَدَاءٍ سَامٍّ، أُرْسِلُ فِيهِمْ أَنْيَابَ الْوُحُوشِ مَعَ حُمَةِ زَوَاحِفِ الأَرْضِ.

They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

مِنْ خَارِجٍ السَّيْفُ يُثْكِلُ، وَمِنْ دَاخِلِ الْخُدُورِ الرُّعْبَةُ. الْفَتَى مَعَ الْفَتَاةِ وَالرَّضِيعُ مَعَ الأَشْيَبِ.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

قُلْتُ: أُبَدِّدُهُمْ إِلَى الزَّوَايَا، وَأُبَطِّلُ مِنَ النَّاسِ ذِكْرَهُمْ.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

لَوْ لَمْ أَخَفْ مِنْ إِغَاظَةِ الْعَدُوِّ، مِنْ أَنْ يُنْكِرَ أَضْدَادُهُمْ، مِنْ أَنْ يَقُولُوا: يَدُنَا ارْتَفَعَتْ وَلَيْسَ الرَّبُّ فَعَلَ كُلَّ هذِهِ.

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

«إِنَّهُمْ أُمَّةٌ عَدِيمَةُ الرَّأْيِ وَلاَ بَصِيرَةَ فِيهِمْ.

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

لَوْ عَقَلُوا لَفَطِنُوا بِهذِهِ وَتَأَمَّلُوا آخِرَتَهُمْ.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

كَيْفَ يَطْرُدُ وَاحِدٌ أَلْفًا، وَيَهْزِمُ اثْنَانِ رَبْوَةً، لَوْلاَ أَنَّ صَخْرَهُمْ بَاعَهُمْ وَالرَّبَّ سَلَّمَهُمْ؟

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

لأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ كَصَخْرِنَا صَخْرُهُمْ، وَلَوْ كَانَ أَعْدَاؤُنَا الْقُضَاةَ.

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

لأَنَّ مِنْ جَفْنَةِ سَدُومَ جَفْنَتَهُمْ، وَمِنْ كُرُومِ عَمُورَةَ. عِنَبُهُمْ عِنَبُ سَمٍّ، وَلَهُمْ عَنَاقِيدُ مَرَارَةٍ.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

خَمْرُهُمْ حُمَةُ الثَّعَابِينِ وَسَمُّ الأَصْلاَلِ الْقَاتِلُ.

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

«أَلَيْسَ ذلِكَ مَكْنُوزًا عِنْدِي، مَخْتُومًا عَلَيْهِ فِي خَزَائِنِي؟

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

لِيَ النَّقْمَةُ وَالْجَزَاءُ. فِي وَقْتٍ تَزِلُّ أَقْدَامُهُمْ. إِنَّ يَوْمَ هَلاَكِهِمْ قَرِيبٌ وَالْمُهَيَّآتُ لَهُمْ مُسْرِعَةٌ.

To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ يَدِينُ شَعْبَهُ، وَعَلَى عَبِيدِهِ يُشْفِقُ. حِينَ يَرَى أَنَّ الْيَدَ قَدْ مَضَتْ، وَلَمْ يَبْقَ مَحْجُوزٌ وَلاَ مُطْلَقٌ،

For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

يَقُولُ: أَيْنَ آلِهَتُهُمُ، الصَّخْرَةُ الَّتِي الْتَجَأُوا إِلَيْهَا،

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

الَّتِي كَانَتْ تَأْكُلُ شَحْمَ ذَبَائِحِهِمْ وَتَشْرَبُ خَمْرَ سَكَائِبِهِمْ؟ لِتَقُمْ وَتُسَاعِدْكُمْ وَتَكُنْ عَلَيْكُمْ حِمَايَةً!

Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

اُنْظُرُوا الآنَ! أَنَا أَنَا هُوَ وَلَيْسَ إِلهٌ مَعِي. أَنَا أُمِيتُ وَأُحْيِي. سَحَقْتُ، وَإِنِّي أَشْفِي، وَلَيْسَ مِنْ يَدِي مُخَلِّصٌ.

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

إِنِّي أَرْفَعُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ يَدِي وَأَقُولُ: حَيٌّ أَنَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

إِذَا سَنَنْتُ سَيْفِي الْبَارِقَ، وَأَمْسَكَتْ بِالْقَضَاءِ يَدِي، أَرُدُّ نَقْمَةً عَلَى أَضْدَادِي، وَأُجَازِي مُبْغِضِيَّ.

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

أُسْكِرُ سِهَامِي بِدَمٍ، وَيَأْكُلُ سَيْفِي لَحْمًا. بِدَمِ الْقَتْلَى وَالسَّبَايَا، وَمِنْ رُؤُوسِ قُوَّادِ الْعَدُوِّ.

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

«تَهَلَّلُوا أَيُّهَا الأُمَمُ، شَعْبُهُ، لأَنَّهُ يَنْتَقِمُ بِدَمِ عَبِيدِهِ، وَيَرُدُّ نَقْمَةً عَلَى أَضْدَادِهِ، وَيَصْفَحُ عَنْ أَرْضِهِ عَنْ شَعْبِهِ».

Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

فَأَتَى مُوسَى وَنَطَقَ بِجَمِيعِ كَلِمَاتِ هذَا النَّشِيدِ فِي مَسَامِعِ الشَّعْبِ، هُوَ وَيَشُوعُ بْنُ نُونَ.

And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

وَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مُوسَى مِنْ مُخَاطَبَةِ جَمِيعِ إِسْرَائِيلَ بِكُلِّ هذِهِ الْكَلِمَاتِ،

And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

قَالَ لَهُمْ: «وَجِّهُوا قُلُوبَكُمْ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الْكَلِمَاتِ الَّتِي أَنَا أَشْهَدُ عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَا الْيَوْمَ، لِكَيْ تُوصُوا بِهَا أَوْلاَدَكُمْ، لِيَحْرِصُوا أَنْ يَعْمَلُوا بِجَمِيعِ كَلِمَاتِ هذِهِ التَّوْرَاةِ.

And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

لأَنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ أَمْرًا بَاطِلاً عَلَيْكُمْ، بَلْ هِيَ حَيَاتُكُمْ. وَبِهذَا الأَمْرِ تُطِيلُونَ الأَيَّامَ عَلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أَنْتُمْ عَابِرُونَ الأُرْدُنَّ إِلَيْهَا لِتَمْتَلِكُوهَا».

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

وَكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ مُوسَى فِي نَفْسِ ذلِكَ الْيَوْمِ قَائِلاً:

And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

«اِصْعَدْ إِلَى جَبَلِ عَبَارِيمَ هذَا، جَبَلِ نَبُو الَّذِي فِي أَرْضِ مُوآبَ الَّذِي قُبَالَةَ أَرِيحَا، وَانْظُرْ أَرْضَ كَنْعَانَ الَّتِي أَنَا أُعْطِيهَا لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مُلْكًا،

Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

وَمُتْ فِي الْجَبَلِ الَّذِي تَصْعَدُ إِلَيْهِ، وَانْضَمَّ إِلَى قَوْمِكَ، كَمَا مَاتَ هَارُونُ أَخُوكَ فِي جَبَلِ هُورٍ وَضُمَّ إِلَى قَوْمِهِ.

And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

لأَنَّكُمَا خُنْتُمَانِي فِي وَسَطِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عِنْدَ مَاءِ مَرِيبَةِ قَادَشَ فِي بَرِّيَّةِ صِينٍ، إِذْ لَمْ تُقَدِّسَانِي فِي وَسَطِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah–Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

فَإِنَّكَ تَنْظُرُ الأَرْضَ مِنْ قُبَالَتِهَا، وَلكِنَّكَ لاَ تَدْخُلُ إِلَى هُنَاكَ إِلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي أَنَا أُعْطِيهَا لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ».

Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.