1 G ive ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth!

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

2 M y doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

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

3 F or the name of Jehovah will I proclaim: Ascribe greatness unto our God!

لِأنِّي سَأُعلِنُ اسْمَ اللهِ ، وَسَأُسَبِّحُ عَظَمَةَ إلَهِنا.

4 t he Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he.

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

5 T hey have dealt corruptly with him; Not his children's is their spot:—A crooked and perverted generation!

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

6 D o ye thus requite Jehovah, Foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee and established thee?

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 generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

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

8 W hen the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

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

9 F or Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

لَكِنَّ حِصَّةَ اللهِ هِيَ شَعبُهُ، يَعقُوبُ هُوَ حِصَّتُهُ.

10 H e found him in a desert land, And in the waste, howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he watched over him, He preserved him as the apple of his eye.

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

11 A s the eagle stirreth up its nest, Hovereth over its young, Spreadeth out its wings, Taketh them, beareth them on its feathers,

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

12 S o Jehovah alone did lead him, And no strange god with him.

اللهُ وَحْدَهُ قادَهُمْ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ مَعَهُ إلَهٌ غَرِيبٌ.

13 H e made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;

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

14 C ream of kine, and milk of sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink pure wine, 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 T hen Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked—Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness;—He gave up +God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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

16 T hey moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.

وَأثارَ غَيْرَتَهُ بِآلِهَةٍ غَرِيبَةٍ، وَأغضَبَهُ بِأصنامٍ كَرِيهَةٍ.

17 T hey sacrificed unto demons who are not +God; To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.

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

18 O f the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten God who brought thee forth.

أهمَلْتَ الصَّخْرَةَ الَّتِي وَلَدَتْكَ، وَنَسِيتَ الَّذِي تَمَخَّضَ بِكَ.

19 A nd Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of 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 shall 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 that which is no God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.

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 in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.

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

23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.

«‹سَأُكَوِّمُ المَصائِبَ عَلَيهِمْ، وَسأخْتَرِقُهُمْ بِجَمِيعِ سِهامِي:

24 T hey shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.

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

25 F rom without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror—Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

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

26 I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

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

27 I f I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.

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 understanding is not in them.

«لِأنَّهُمْ أُمَّةٌ لا تَستَوعِبُ، وَلا فَهْمَ لَها.

29 O h that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!

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

30 H ow could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah 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 as our Rock: Let our enemies themselves be judges.

لِأنَّ صَخْرَةَ الأُمَمِ لَيسَتْ كَصَخرَتِنا. وَحَتَّى أعداؤنا يَفْهَمَونَ هَذا.

32 F or their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;

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

33 T heir wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers.

خَمرُهُمْ كَسُمِّ الحَيّاتِ، كَسُمِّ الأفاعِي القاتِلِ.

34 I s not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

«كُنتُ أُخَبِّئُ هَذِهِ الخَمرَ، إنَّها مَحفُوظَةٌ فِي مَخزَنِي.

35 V engeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.

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

36 F or Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that power is gone, And there is none shut up or left.

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

37 A nd he shall say, Where are their gods, Their rock in whom they trusted,

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

38 W ho ate the fat of their sacrifices, drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, That there may be a protection over you.

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

39 S ee now that I, I am HE, And there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, And there is none that delivereth 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 the heavens, and say, I live for ever!

قَدْ رَفَعْتُ يَدِي إلَى السَّماءِ، وَقُلْتُ: أُقسِمُ بِذاتِي،

41 I f I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

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

42 M ine arrows will I make drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives, With the head of the princes of the enemy.

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

43 S hout for joy, ye nations, with his people, For he avengeth the blood of his servants, And rendereth vengeance to his enemies, And maketh atonement for his land, for 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 the 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 ended speaking all these words to all Israel,

وَحِينَ انتَهَى مُوسَى مِنْ كُلِّ هَذا الكَلامِ لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ،

46 h e said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words that I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to take heed 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 no vain word for you, but it is your life, and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.

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

48 A nd Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

وَكَلَّمَ اللهُ مُوسَى فِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ فَقالَ:

49 G o up into this mountain Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel 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 whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died on mount Hor, and was gathered unto his peoples;

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

51 b ecause ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

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

52 F or thou shalt see the land before; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

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