| 1 «Escuchad, cielos, y hablaré; | oye, tierra, los dichos de mi boca; | 1 “Listen, O heavens, to what I am saying. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. |
| 2 descienda como lluvia mi doctrina, | destile como rocío mi palabra, | como llovizna sobre la hierba, | como orvallo sobre el césped. | 2 Let my doctrine accumulate like the rain. Let my eloquence form like the dew, like a mist upon the plants, and like water droplets upon the grass. |
| 3 Voy a proclamar el nombre del Señor: | dad gloria a nuestro Dios. | 3 For I will invoke the name of the Lord. Acknowledge the magnificence of our God! |
| 4 Él es la Roca, sus obras son perfectas, | sus caminos son justos, | es un Dios fiel, sin maldad; | es justo y recto. | 4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments. God is faithful and without any iniquity. He is just and upright. |
| 5 Hijos degenerados se portaron mal con él, | generación malvada y pervertida. | 5 They have sinned against him, and in their filth they are not his sons. They are a depraved and perverse generation. |
| 6 ¿Así le pagas al Señor, | pueblo necio e insensato? | ¿No es él tu padre y tu creador, | el que te hizo y te constituyó? | 6 How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you? |
| 7 Acuérdate de los días remotos, | considera las edades pretéritas, | pregunta a tu padre y te lo contará, | a tus ancianos y te lo dirán: | 7 Remember the days of antiquity. Consider each generation. Question your father, and he will declare it to you. Question your elders, and they will tell it to you. |
| 8 Cuando el Altísimo daba a cada pueblo su heredad | y distribuía a los hijos de Adán, | trazando las fronteras de las naciones, | según el número de los hijos de Israel, | 8 When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. |
| 9 la porción del Señor fue su pueblo, | Jacob fue el lote de su heredad. | 9 But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob, the lot of his inheritance. |
| 10 Lo encontró en una tierra desierta, | en una soledad poblada de aullidos: | lo rodeó cuidando de él, | lo guardó como a las niñas de sus ojos. | 10 He discovered him in a desert land, in a place of horror and a vast wilderness. He led him around and taught him, and he guarded him like the pupil of his eye, |
| 11 Como el águila incita a su nidada, | revoloteando sobre los polluelos, | así extendió sus alas, los tomó | y los llevó sobre sus plumas. | 11 just as an eagle encourages its young to fly, and, flying above them, stretches out its wings, and takes them up, and carries them on its shoulders. |
| 12 El Señor solo los condujo, | no hubo dioses extraños con él. | 12 The Lord alone was his leader, and there was no strange god with him. |
| 13 Los puso a caballo de sus montañas, | los alimentó con las cosechas de sus campos; | los crió con miel silvestre, | con aceite de rocas de pedernal; | 13 He stood him upon an exalted land, so that he might eat the fruits of the fields, so that he might eat honey from the rock, and oil from the hardest stone, |
| 14 con requesón de vacas y leche de ovejas, | con grasas de corderos y carneros, | ganado de Basán y cabritos, | con la flor de la harina de trigo, | y por bebida, con la sangre fermentada de la uva. | 14 butter from the herd, and milk from the sheep, with fat from the lambs, and with rams and goats from the sons of Bashan, with the kernel of the wheat, and so that he might drink the undiluted blood of the grape. |
| 15 Comió Jacob hasta saciarse, | engordó Jesurún y respingó | —estabas gordo, cebado y orondo— | y rechazó a Dios, su creador, | despreció a su Roca salvadora. | 15 The beloved grew fat, and he kicked. Having grown fat and thick and wide, he abandoned God, his Maker, and he withdrew from God, his Savior. |
| 16 Le dieron celos con dioses extraños, | lo irritaron con sus abominaciones. | 16 They provoked him with strange gods, and they stirred him to anger by their abominations. |
| 17 Sacrificaron a demonios, que no son dios, | a dioses desconocidos, | nuevos, recién llegados, | que vuestros padres no veneraron. | 17 They immolated to demons and not to God, to gods whom they did not know, who were new and recent arrivals, whom their fathers did not worship. |
| 18 Despreciaste a la Roca que te engendró, | y olvidaste al Dios que te dio a luz. | 18 You have forsaken the God who conceived you, and you have forgotten the Lord who created you. |
| 19 Lo vio el Señor, e irritado | rechazó a sus hijos e hijas. | 19 The Lord saw, and he was stirred to anger. For his own sons and daughters provoked him. |
| 20 Y dijo: “Les ocultaré mi rostro, | y veré cuál es su suerte, | porque son una generación pervertida, | unos hijos desleales. | 20 And he said: ‘I will hide my face from them, and I will consider their very end. For this is a perverse generation, and they are unfaithful sons. |
| 21 Me han dado celos con un dios que no es dios, | me han irritado con sus ídolos vacíos; | pues yo les daré celos con un pueblo que no es pueblo, | con una nación fatua los irritaré. | 21 They have provoked me with that which was not God, and they have angered me with their emptiness. And so, I will provoke them with that which is not a people, and I will anger them with a foolish nation. |
| 22 En mi nariz está ardiendo el fuego | y abrasará hasta el fondo del Abismo, | devorará la tierra y sus productos | y consumirá los cimientos de los montes. | 22 A fire has been kindled in my fury, and it will burn even to the deepest Hell, and it will devour the earth with its produce, and it will burn the foundations of the mountains. |
| 23 Amontonaré desastres sobre ellos, | agotaré contra ellos mis saetas. | 23 I will heap evils upon them, and I will expend my arrows among them. |
| 24 Andarán extenuados de hambre, | consumidos por la fiebre y la peste; | les enviaré dientes de fieras, | veneno de quienes se arrastran en el polvo. | 24 They will be consumed by famine, and birds with a very bitter bite will devour them. I will send forth the teeth of wild beasts among them, along with the fury of creatures that scurry across the ground, and of serpents. |
| 25 La espada arrebatará a los hijos en las calles, | en las casas habrá pavor, | en el joven y la doncella, | en el lactante y el encanecido”. | 25 Outside, the sword will devastate them; and inside, there will be dread, as much for the young man as for the maiden, and as much for the newborn as for the old man. |
| 26 Me dije: “Los aniquilaría, | y borraría su memoria entre los hombres”. | 26 I said: Where are they? I will cause their memory to cease from among men. |
| 27 Si no temiese las burlas del enemigo, | y la mala interpretación del adversario, | no sea que digan: “Nuestra mano ha vencido, | no es el Señor quien ha hecho todo esto”. | 27 But because of the wrath of the enemies, I have delayed it. Otherwise, perhaps their enemies would be arrogant and would say: “Our exalted hand, and not the Lord, has done all these things.” |
| 28 Porque es gente que ha perdido el juicio, | y que carece de inteligencia. | 28 They are a nation without counsel and without prudence. |
| 29 Si fueran sabios, comprenderían esto, | entenderían su destino. | 29 I wish that they would be wise and understanding, and would provide for the very end.’ |
| 30 ¿Cómo puede uno perseguir a mil, | y dos poner en fuga a diez mil, | si no fuera porque los ha vendido su Roca | y el Señor los ha entregado? | 30 How is it that one pursues a thousand, and two chases ten thousand? Is it not because their God has sold them, and because the Lord has enclosed them? |
| 31 Porque su roca no es como nuestra Roca, | y nuestros enemigos pueden comprobarlo. | 31 For our God is not like their gods. And our enemies are judges. |
| 32 Su cepa proviene de la viña de Sodoma, | de los campos de Gomorra, | sus uvas son uvas venenosas | y sus racimos son amargos; | 32 Their vines are of the vines of Sodom, but from the suburbs of Gomorrah. Their grapes are the grapes of gall, and their grape clusters are most bitter. |
| 33 su vino es veneno de serpientes, | ponzoña mortal de víboras. | 33 Their wine is the gall of snakes, and it is the incurable venom of asps. |
| 34 ¿No tengo todo esto guardado, | sellado en mis depósitos, | 34 ‘Have not these things been stored up with me, and sealed up amid my treasures? |
| 35 para mi venganza y recompensa, | en el día que tropiecen sus pies? | Pues el día de su ruina se acerca, | y se precipita su destino. | 35 Vengeance is mine, and I will repay them in due time, so that their foot may slip and fall. The day of perdition is near, and the time rushes to appear.’ |
| 36 El Señor hará justicia a su pueblo, | y tendrá piedad de sus siervos). | Cuando vea que se debilitan sus manos, | y que no hay ya esclavo ni libre, | 36 The Lord will judge his people, and he will take pity on his servants. He will see that their hand has been weakened, and that those who have been enclosed have likewise failed, and that those who have been left behind have been consumed. |
| 37 dirá: “¿Dónde están sus dioses, | la roca donde se refugiaban? | 37 And he shall say: ‘Where are their gods, in whom they had confidence? |
| 38 Los que comían la grasa de sus víctimas | y bebían el vino de sus ofrendas, | que se levanten para socorreros, | que sean vuestro refugio”. | 38 They ate the fat of their victims, and they drank the wine of their libations. So let these rise up, and bring relief to you, and protect you in your distress. |
| 39 Pero ahora mirad: soy yo, solo yo, | y no hay dios fuera de mí. | Yo doy la muerte y la vida, | yo hiero y yo curo, | y no hay quien pueda librar de mi mano. | 39 See that I am alone, and there is no other god beside me. I will kill, and I will cause to live. I will strike, and I will heal. And there is no one who is able to rescue from my hand. |
| 40 Levanto mi mano al cielo | y digo: “Como vivo yo eternamente, | 40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live in eternity. |
| 41 cuando afile el rayo de mi espada, | y empuñe en mi mano el juicio, | tomaré venganza de mis enemigos | y daré su paga a los que me aborrecen, | 41 When I sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand takes hold of judgment, then I will render vengeance to my enemies, and I will repay those who hate me. |
| 42 embriagaré de sangre mis flechas | y mi espada devorará carne, | de la sangre de caídos y cautivos, | de la cabeza de jefes enemigos”. | 42 I will inebriate my arrows with blood, and my sword will devour flesh: from the blood of the slain and from the captive, from the exposed head of the enemies.’ |
| 43 Aclamadlo, naciones, con su pueblo, | porque él vengará la sangre de sus siervos, | porque tomará venganza de sus enemigos | y purificará el suelo de su pueblo». | 43 You nations, praise his people! For he will avenge the blood of his servants. And he will distribute vengeance to their enemies. And he will be merciful to the land of his people.” |
| 44 Moisés fue y proclamó todas las palabras de este cántico en presencia del pueblo. Josué, hijo de Nun, iba con él. | 44 Therefore, Moses went and spoke all the words of this canticle to the ears of the people, both he and Joshua, the son of Nun. |
| 45 Cuando Moisés terminó de proclamar todas estas palabras a todo Israel, | 45 And he completed all these words, speaking to all of Israel. |
| 46 les dijo: «Tomad a pecho todas las palabras con que hoy doy testimonio contra vosotros y mandad a vuestros hijos observar y cumplir todas las palabras de esta ley. | 46 And he said to them: “Set your hearts upon all the words which I am testifying to you this day. So shall you command your sons, to keep, and to do, and to fulfill all the things that have been written in this law. |
| 47 Porque no es palabra baladí para vosotros, pues es vuestra vida y por esta palabra se prolongará la vida en la tierra que vais a tomar en posesión, después de pasar el Jordán». | 47 For these things have not been entrusted to you to no purpose, but so that each one would live by them, and so that, in doing these, you may continue for a long time in the land, which you will enter upon crossing the Jordan in order to possess it.” |
| 48 Aquel mismo día el Señor dijo a Moisés: | 48 And the Lord spoke to Moses on the same day, saying: |
| 49 Sube a esa montaña de los Abarín, al monte Nebo, que está en la tierra de Moab, frente a Jericó, y contempla la tierra de Canaán que yo voy a dar en propiedad a los hijos de Israel. | 49 “Ascend this mountain, Abarim, (that is, of crossings) onto Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and look upon the land of Canaan, which I will deliver to the sons of Israel to obtain it. And you shall die upon the mountain. |
| 50 Después morirás en el monte y te reunirás con los tuyos, lo mismo que tu hermano Aarón murió en el monte Hor y se reunió con los suyos. | 50 After climbing it, you will be joined to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor, and was placed with his people. |
| 51 Por haberme sido infieles en medio de los hijos de Israel, en la fuente de Meribá, en Cadés, en el desierto de Sin, y por no haber reconocido mi santidad en medio de los hijos de Israel, | 51 For you trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel, at the Waters of Contradiction, in Kadesh, in the desert of Sin. And you did not sanctify me among the sons of Israel. |
| 52 por eso verás de lejos la tierra, pero no entrarás en la tierra que voy a dar a los hijos de Israel». | 52 You shall see the land opposite you, which I will give to the sons of Israel, but you shall not enter into it.” |
