1 G ive ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

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

2 M y doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

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

3 F or I will proclaim Yahweh’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!

لِأنِّي سَأُعلِنُ اسْمَ اللهِ ، وَسَأُسَبِّحُ عَظَمَةَ إلَهِنا.

4 T he Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, 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. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

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

6 I s this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you 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 children of Israel.

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

9 F or Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob 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 waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept 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 an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

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

12 Y ahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

اللهُ وَحْدَهُ قادَهُمْ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ مَعَهُ إلَهٌ غَرِيبٌ.

13 H e made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, 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 from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

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 grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected 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. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

وَأثارَ غَيْرَتَهُ بِآلِهَةٍ غَرِيبَةٍ، وَأغضَبَهُ بِأصنامٍ كَرِيهَةٍ.

17 T hey sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

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

18 O f the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

أهمَلْتَ الصَّخْرَةَ الَّتِي وَلَدَتْكَ، وَنَسِيتَ الَّذِي تَمَخَّضَ بِكَ.

19 Y ahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

«فَرَأى اللهُ هَذا وَرَفَضَهُمْ لِأنَّ أبْناءَهُ وَبَناتِهِ أغضَبُوهُ.

20 H e said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very 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 not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger 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 in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

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

23 “ I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

«‹سَأُكَوِّمُ المَصائِبَ عَلَيهِمْ، وَسأخْتَرِقُهُمْ بِجَمِيعِ سِهامِي:

24 T hey shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

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

25 O utside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

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

26 I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;

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

27 w ere it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh 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. There is no understanding in them.

«لِأنَّهُمْ أُمَّةٌ لا تَستَوعِبُ، وَلا فَهْمَ لَها.

29 O h that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider 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, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh 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, even our enemies themselves concede.

لِأنَّ صَخْرَةَ الأُمَمِ لَيسَتْ كَصَخرَتِنا. وَحَتَّى أعداؤنا يَفْهَمَونَ هَذا.

32 F or their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.

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

33 T heir wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

خَمرُهُمْ كَسُمِّ الحَيّاتِ، كَسُمِّ الأفاعِي القاتِلِ.

34 “ Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

«كُنتُ أُخَبِّئُ هَذِهِ الخَمرَ، إنَّها مَحفُوظَةٌ فِي مَخزَنِي.

35 V engeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

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

36 F or Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

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

37 H e 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 hich 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 “ See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one 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 declare, as I live forever,

قَدْ رَفَعْتُ يَدِي إلَى السَّماءِ، وَقُلْتُ: أُقسِمُ بِذاتِي،

41 i f I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay 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. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

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

43 R ejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and 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 M oses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

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

45 M oses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.

وَحِينَ انتَهَى مُوسَى مِنْ كُلِّ هَذا الكَلامِ لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ،

46 H e said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe 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 thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go 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 Y ahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

وَكَلَّمَ اللهُ مُوسَى فِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ فَقالَ:

49 “ Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to 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 D ie on the mountain where you go up, 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 trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among 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 you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”

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