1 G ive ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

«أيَّتُها السَّماواتُ، استَمِعِي فَأتَكَلَّمَ! وَلْتَسمَعِ الأرْضُ كَلامَ فَمِي.

2 M y message shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the light rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.

لِيَنزِلْ تَعلِيمِي كَالمَطَرِ، وَلتَقطُرْ كَلِماتِي كَالنَّدَى، كَرَشّاتِ المَطَرِ عَلَى البَراعِمِ، وَكَالمَطَرِ الغَزِيرِ عَلَى العُشْبِ.

3 F or I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Concede and ascribe greatness to our God.

لِأنِّي سَأُعلِنُ اسْمَ اللهِ ، وَسَأُسَبِّحُ عَظَمَةَ إلَهِنا.

4 H e is the Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are law and justice. A God of faithfulness without breach or deviation, just and right is He.

«هُوَ الصَّخرَةُ، عَمَلُهُ كامِلٌ، وَطُرُقُهُ عادِلَةٌ مُستَقِيمَةٌ. إنَّهُ إلَهٌ أمِينٌ لا ظُلْمَ فِيهِ، صادِقٌ وَأمينٌ.

5 T hey have spoiled themselves. They are not sons to Him, and that is their blemish—a perverse and crooked generation!

عامَلُوهُ بِعَدَمِ استِقامَةٍ. إنَّهُمْ لَيسُوا أولادَهُ بِسَبَبِ عُيُوبِهِمْ وَعَدَمِ استِقامَتِهِمْ، بَلْ هُمْ شَعبٌ مُتَآمِرٌ خَدّاعٌ.

6 D o you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not He your Father Who acquired you for His own, Who made and established you ?

أهَكَذا تُكافِئُونَ اللهَ يا شَعباً غَبِيّاً بِلا تَفْكِيرٍ؟ ألَيسَ هُوَ أباكُمْ خالِقَكُمْ؟ ألَيسَ هُوَ الَّذِي صَنَعَكُمْ وَأوجَدَكُمْ وَجَعَلَكُمْ أمَّةً؟

7 R emember the days of old; consider the years of many generations. Ask your father and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

«اذكُرُوا الأيّامَ القَدِيمَةَ. فَكِّرُوا بِسَنَواتِ الأجيالِ الماضِيَةِ. اسألُوا آباءَكُمْ وَهُمْ سَيُخبِرُونَكُمْ. اسألُوا شُيُوخَكُمْ وَهُمْ سَيُخبِرُونَكُمْ.

8 W hen the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the Israelites.

حِينَ وَزَّعَ العَلِيُّ الأُمَمَ، وَقَسَّمَ الجِنسَ البَشَرِيَّ، عَيَّنَ حُدُودَ الأُمَمِ وَفْقاً لِعَدَدِ المَلائِكَةِ.

9 F or the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob (Israel) is the lot of His inheritance.

لَكِنَّ حِصَّةَ اللهِ هِيَ شَعبُهُ، يَعقُوبُ هُوَ حِصَّتُهُ.

10 H e found him in a desert land, in the howling void of the wilderness; He kept circling around him, He scanned him, He kept him as the pupil of His eye.

«وَجَدَهُمْ فِي صَحراءَ، فِي قَفرٍ تَعْصِفُ بِهِ الرِّياحُ. فَأحاطَ بِهِمْ وَاهتَمَّ بِهِمْ، وَحَرَسَهُمْ كَحَدَقَةِ عَينِهِ.

11 A s an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, He spread abroad His wings and He took them, He bore them on His pinions.

كَما يَهُزُّ النَّسْرُ عُشَّهُ، فَيُرَفرِفُ فَوقَ صِغارِهِ لِيَطِيروا، ثُمَّ يَبْسِطُ جَناحَيهِ، وَيَحْمِلُهُمْ عَلَى رِيشِ الجَناحَينِ.

12 S o the Lord alone led him; there was no foreign god with Him.

اللهُ وَحْدَهُ قادَهُمْ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ مَعَهُ إلَهٌ غَرِيبٌ.

13 H e made Israel ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the increase of the field; and He made him suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock,

أصْعَدَهُمْ إلَى الجِبالِ، وَأطْعَمَهُمْ مِنْ مَحاصِيلِ الحَقلِ. وَأعطاهُمْ عَسَلاً مِنَ الصَّخرِ، وَزَيتَ زَيتُونٍ مِنَ حَجَرِ الصُّوّانِ.

14 B utter and curds of the herd and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, with the finest of the wheat; and you drank wine of the blood of the grape.

وَأعطاهُمْ زُبدَةً مِنَ البَقَرِ، وَحَلِيباً مِنَ الغَنَمِ. وَأفضَلَ الحِملانِ وَالكِباشِ، وَأبقاراً مِنْ باشانَ مَعَ تُيُوسٍ، وَأفضَلَ أنواعِ القَمحِ. كَما شَرِبْتُمُ النَّبيذَ، دَمَ العِنَبِ.

15 B ut Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and kicked. You became fat, you grew thick, you were gorged and sleek! Then he forsook God Who made him and forsook and despised the Rock of his salvation.

«لَكِنَّ يَشْرُونَ سَمِنَ وَرَفَسَ! صارَ سَمِيناً وَغَلِيظاً وَكَثِيرَ الشَّحمِ. تَرَكَ اللهَ الَّذِي صَنَعَهُ، وَرَفَضَ صَخْرَةَ خَلاصِهِ.

16 T hey provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked Him to anger.

وَأثارَ غَيْرَتَهُ بِآلِهَةٍ غَرِيبَةٍ، وَأغضَبَهُ بِأصنامٍ كَرِيهَةٍ.

17 T hey sacrificed to demons, not to God—to gods whom they knew not, to new gods lately come up, whom your fathers never knew or feared.

وَذَبَحُوا لِأرواحٍ لَيسَتْ آلِهَةً، وَذَبَحُوا لِآلِهَةٍ لَمْ يَكُونوا يَعرِفُونَها. آلِهَةٍ جَدِيدَةٍ ظَهَرَتْ حَدِيثاً، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ آباؤكُمْ يَعرِفُونَ عَنْها.

18 O f the Rock Who bore you you were unmindful; you forgot the God Who travailed in your birth.

أهمَلْتَ الصَّخْرَةَ الَّتِي وَلَدَتْكَ، وَنَسِيتَ الَّذِي تَمَخَّضَ بِكَ.

19 A nd the Lord saw it and He spurned and rejected them, out of indignation with His sons and His daughters.

«فَرَأى اللهُ هَذا وَرَفَضَهُمْ لِأنَّ أبْناءَهُ وَبَناتِهِ أغضَبُوهُ.

20 A nd He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

وَقالَ: ‹سَأحْجُبُ وَجهِي عَنهُمْ، وَأرَى ما سَتَكُونُ عَلَيهِ نِهايَتُهُمْ، لِأنَّهُمْ شَعبٌ مُخادِعٌ غَيرُ ثابِتٍ، وَأولادٌ غَيرُ أوْفِياءٍ.

21 T hey have moved Me to jealousy with what is not God; they have angered Me with their idols. So I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will anger them with a foolish nation.

أثارُوا غَيرَتِي بِما هُوَ لَيسَ إلِهاً، وَأغاظُونِي بِأصنامٍ لا قِيمَةَ لَها. لِذا سأجْعَلُهُمْ يَغَارُونَ إذْ أسْتَخْدِمُ شَعباً بِلا هَوِيَّةٍ. وَسَأُغيظُهُمْ فَاسْتَخْدِمُ أُمَّةً جَاهِلَةً.

22 F or a fire is kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

لِأنَّ ناراً قَدِ اشتَعَلَتْ بِغَضَبِي، وَسَتَشتَعِلُ حَتَّى إلَى أعْماقِ الهاوِيَةِ، وَتَلتَهِمُ الأرْضَ وَمَحاصِيلَها، وَتُشعِلُ أساساتِ الجِبالِ.

23 A nd I will heap evils upon them; I will spend My arrows upon them.

«‹سَأُكَوِّمُ المَصائِبَ عَلَيهِمْ، وَسأخْتَرِقُهُمْ بِجَمِيعِ سِهامِي:

24 T hey shall be wasted with hunger and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and the teeth of beasts will I send against them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.

بِجُوعٍ يُضْعِفُ أجْسامَهُمْ، وَمَرَضٍ يُنْهِكُهُمْ بِحُمَّى شَديدَةٍ، وَأُرسِلُ أنْيابَ الحَيواناتِ المُفْتَرِسَةِ، وَسُمُومَ الحَيَواناتِ الزَّاحِفَةِ فِي التُّرابِ.

25 F rom without the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.

سَيَقتُلُهُمْ جُنُودٌ فِي الشَّوارِعِ، وَسَيَقتُلُهُمُ الخَوفُ داخِلَ بُيُوتِهِمْ. وَيَمُوتُ الشَّبابُ وَالشّابّاتُ، وَالرُّضَّعُ مَعَ المُسِنِّينَ.

26 I said, I would scatter them afar and I would have made the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

«‹كانَ بِإمكانِي أنْ أقُولَ: سَأمحُوهُمْ! سَأُفنِيهُمْ تَماماً!›

27 H ad I not feared the provocation of the foe, lest their enemies misconstrue it and lest they should say, Our own hand has prevailed; all this was not the work of the Lord.

لَكِنَّنِي لَمْ أشأْ أنْ يُغضِبَنِي أعداؤُهُمْ، وَأنْ يُسِيئُوا فَهْمَ ما حَدَثَ، فَيَقُولُوا: ‹انتَصَرْنا بِقُوَّتِنا! وَلَمْ يَصْنَعِ اللهُ هَذا.›

28 F or they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

«لِأنَّهُمْ أُمَّةٌ لا تَستَوعِبُ، وَلا فَهْمَ لَها.

29 O that they were wise and would see through this to their ultimate fate!

لَوْ أنَّهُمْ كانُوا حُكَماءَ لَفَهِمُوا هَذا، وَلَفَكَّرُوا فِي ما حَدَثَ لَهُمْ.

30 H ow could one have chased a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up?

فَكَيفَ لِرَجُلٍ واحِدٍ أنْ يَهزِمَ ألفاً، وَكَيفَ لِرَجُلَينِ أنْ يَطرُدا عَشْرَةَ آلافٍ، ما لَمْ يَكُنْ اللهُ قَدْ سَلَّمَهُمْ لأعدائِهِمْ، وَما لَمْ تَكُنْ صَخرَتُهُمْ قَدْ باعَتْهُمْ؟

31 F or their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves judge this.

لِأنَّ صَخْرَةَ الأُمَمِ لَيسَتْ كَصَخرَتِنا. وَحَتَّى أعداؤنا يَفْهَمَونَ هَذا.

32 F or their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

أصلُ كَرمَتِهِمْ مِنْ كَرمَةِ سَدُومَ، مِنْ كُرُومِ عَمُورَةَ. عِنَبُهُمْ عِنَبٌ سامٌّ، وَقُطُوفُهُمْ مُرَّةٌ.

33 T heir wine is the venom of serpents, and the pitiless poison of vipers.

خَمرُهُمْ كَسُمِّ الحَيّاتِ، كَسُمِّ الأفاعِي القاتِلِ.

34 I s not this laid up in store with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?

«كُنتُ أُخَبِّئُ هَذِهِ الخَمرَ، إنَّها مَحفُوظَةٌ فِي مَخزَنِي.

35 V engeance is Mine, and recompense, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their disaster is at hand and their doom comes speedily.

فَليَ الانتِقامُ، وَأنا سَأجازِي حِينَ تَزِلُّ أقْدامُهُمْ. لِأنَّ وَقتَ كارِثَتِهِمْ قَرِيبٌ، وَعُقُوبَتُهُمْ سَتَأْتِي سَرِيعاً.›

36 F or the Lord will revoke sentence for His people and relent for His servants’ sake when He sees that their power is gone and none remains, whether bond or free.

«لِأنَّ اللهَ سَيُنصِفُ شَعبَهُ، وَسَيَرحَمُ خُدّامَهُ. حِينَ يَرَى أنْ أياديَهُمْ قَدْ ضَعُفَتْ، عَبيداً وَأحْراراً.

37 A nd He will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

حِينَئِذٍ سَيَقُولُ: ‹أينَ آلِهَتُهُمُ الآنَ، الصَّخرَةُ الَّتِي وَثِقُوا بِها لِحِمايَتِهِمْ،

38 W ho ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection!

الَّتِي أكَلَتْ شَحْمَ ذَبائِحِهِمْ، وَشَرِبَتْ خَمرَ تَقدِماتِهِمْ؟ لِتَقُمْ وَتُساعِدْهُمْ! فَلتَحْمِهِمْ!

39 S ee now that I, I am He, and there is no god beside Me; I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand.

«‹ها إنِّي أنا الإلَهُ الوَحِيدُ، وَلَيسَ إلَهٌ غَيرِي. أنا أُمِيتُ وَأُحيِي. أنا جَرَحتُ وَأنا سأشْفِي، وَلا يَستَطِيعُ أحَدٌ أنْ يُنقِذَ مِنْ يَدِي.

40 F or I lift up My hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,

قَدْ رَفَعْتُ يَدِي إلَى السَّماءِ، وَقُلْتُ: أُقسِمُ بِذاتِي،

41 I f I whet My lightning sword and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will wreak vengeance on My foes and recompense those who hate Me.

حِينَ أُحَدِّدُ سَيفِي الَّلامِعَ، لأصنَعَ بِهِ العَدلَ، سَأنتَقِمُ مِنْ أعدائِي، وَسَأُجازِي الَّذِينَ يُبغِضُونَنِي.

42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the foe.

سَأجْعَلُ سِهامِي مُغَطّاةً بِالدَّمِ، وَسَيَأْكُلُ سَيفِي لَحماً. سَتُغَطَّى بِدَمِ المَقتُولِينَ وَالمَأسُورِينَ، وَسَتَأكُلُ رُؤُوسَ قادَةِ الأعداءِ.›

43 R ejoice His people, O you nations, for He avenges the blood of His servants, and vengeance He inflicts on His foes and clears guilt from the land of His people.

«افرَحِي أيَّتُها الأُمَمُ الأُخْرَى مَعَ شَعبِ اللهِ. لِأنَّهُ سَيُعاقِبُ عَلَى قَتلِ خُدّامِهِ. سَيَنتَقِمُ مِنْ أعدائِهِ، وَسَيُطَهِّرُ أرْضَ شَعبِهِ.» تَعلِيمُ مُوسَى لِلنَّشِيد

44 A nd Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea (Joshua) son of Nun.

ثُمَّ أتَى مُوسَى وَتَكَلَّمَ بِكُلِّ كَلِماتِ هَذا النَّشَيدِ لِكُلِّ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ لِيَسمَعُوها. وَكانَ يَشُوعُ بْنُ نُونَ مَعَ مُوسَى.

45 A nd when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

وَحِينَ انتَهَى مُوسَى مِنْ كُلِّ هَذا الكَلامِ لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ،

46 H e said to them, Set your hearts on all the words which I command you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be watchful to do all the words of this law.

قالَ لَهُمْ أيْضاً: «تَأمَّلُوا بِقُلُوبِكُمْ جَمِيعَ الكَلِماتِ الَّتِي أوصَيتُكُمُ اليَومَ بِها. وَأوصُوا بِها أولادَكُمْ لِيَحفَظُوا كُلَّ كَلِماتِ هَذِهِ الشَّرِيعَةِ.

47 F or it is not an empty and worthless trifle for you; it is your life. By it you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess.

لا تَستَهينُوا بِهَذِهِ الكَلِماتِ، فَهِيَ حَياتُكُمْ. وَبِها تَطُولُ أعْمارُكُمْ فِي الأرْضِ الَّتِي تَعبُرُونَ نَهْرَ الأردُنِّ لِتَمتَلِكُوها.» إنباءُ اللهِ لِمُوسَى باقتِرابِ مَوتِه

48 A nd the Lord said to Moses that same day,

وَكَلَّمَ اللهُ مُوسَى فِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ فَقالَ:

49 G et up into this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan which I give to the Israelites for a possession.

«اصْعَدْ إلَى جِبالِ عَبارِيمَ، إلَى جَبَلِ نِيبُو الوَاقِعِ فِي أرْضِ مُوآبَ، المُشْرِفِ عَلَى أرِيحا، وَانظُرْ أرْضَ كَنْعانَ الَّتِي أُعطِيها لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ مُلْكاً لَهُمْ.

50 A nd die on the mountain which you ascend and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,

سَتَمُوتُ عَلَى الجَبَلِ الَّذِي سَتَصْعَدُ إلَيهِ، وَسَتَنضَمُّ إلَى آبائِكَ، كَما ماتَ أخُوكَ هَارُونُ عَلَى جَبَلِ هُورَ وَانضَمَّ إلَى آبائِهِ،

51 B ecause you broke faith with Me in the midst of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin and because you did not set Me apart as holy in the midst of the Israelites.

لِأنَّكُما تَمَرَّدتُما عَلَيَّ أمامَ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ، عِندَ مِياهِ مَرِيبَةَ قادِشَ فِي بَرِّيَّةِ صِينَ، لِأنَّكُما لَمْ تُظْهِرا قَداسَتي فِي وَسَطِ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ.

52 F or you shall see the land opposite you at a distance, but you shall not go there, into the land which I give the Israelites.

وَلِذا سَتَرَى الأرْضَ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ، لَكِنَّكَ لَنْ تَدْخُلَ الأرْضَ الَّتِي أُعطِيها لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ.»