Deuteronômio 32— comparação

1Deem ouvidos, ó céus, e eu falarei.

2Minha doutrina gotejará como a chuva.

3Pois eu proclamarei o nome do SENHOR.

4A Rocha: sua obra é perfeita,

5Eles agiram de forma corrupta para com ele.

6É assim que vocês retribuem ao SENHOR,

7Lembrem-se dos dias da antiguidade.

8Quando o Altíssimo deu às nações a sua herança,

9Pois a porção do SENHOR é o seu povo.

10Ele o encontrou em uma terra deserta,

11Como uma águia que desperta o seu ninho,

12Somente o SENHOR o guiou.

13Ele o fez cavalgar sobre os lugares altos da terra.

14manteiga do gado, e leite do rebanho,

15Mas Jesurum engordou, e deu coices.

16Eles o provocaram a ciúmes com deuses estranhos.

17Eles sacrificaram a demônios, não a Deus,

18Da Rocha que se tornou o seu pai, você se esqueceu,

19O SENHOR viu e os abominou,

20Ele disse: “Esconderei o meu rosto deles.

21Eles me provocaram a ciúmes com aquilo que não é Deus.

22Pois um fogo se acendeu na minha ira,

23“Amontoarei males sobre eles.

24Eles serão consumidos pela fome,

25Lá fora a espada os privará de filhos,

26Eu disse que os espalharia para longe.

27se não fosse que eu temia a provocação do inimigo,

28Pois eles são uma nação desprovida de conselho.

29Ah, se eles fossem sábios, se entendessem isso,

30Como poderia um só perseguir mil,

31Pois a rocha deles não é como a nossa Rocha,

32Pois a videira deles é da videira de Sodoma,

33O seu vinho é o veneno de serpentes,

34“Isso não está guardado comigo,

35A vingança é minha, e a recompensa,

36Pois o SENHOR julgará o seu povo,

37Ele dirá: “Onde estão os seus deuses,

38que comiam a gordura dos seus sacrifícios,

39“Vejam agora que eu mesmo sou ele.

40Pois eu levanto a minha mão aos céus e declaro,

41se eu afiar a minha espada reluzente,

42Embriagarei as minhas flechas com sangue.

43Alegrem-se, ó nações, com o seu povo,

44Moisés veio e falou todas as palavras deste cântico aos ouvidos do povo, ele e Josué, filho de Num.

45Moisés terminou de recitar todas estas palavras a todo o Israel.

46Ele lhes disse: “Apliquem o seu coração a todas as palavras que hoje testifico a vocês, as quais vocês ordenarão aos seus filhos que observem e cumpram, todas as palavras desta lei.

47Pois não é uma coisa vã para vocês, porque é a sua vida, e por meio disso vocês prolongarão os seus dias na terra, para onde estão atravessando o Jordão para possuí-la.”

48O SENHOR falou a Moisés naquele mesmo dia, dizendo:

49“Suba a esta montanha de Abarim, ao Monte Nebo, que está na terra de Moabe, em frente a Jericó; e veja a terra de Canaã, que eu dou aos filhos de Israel como propriedade.

50Morra na montanha para onde você subir, e seja reunido ao seu povo, assim como Arão, seu irmão, morreu no Monte Hor, e foi reunido ao seu povo;

51porque vocês transgrediram contra mim no meio dos filhos de Israel nas águas de Meribá de Cades, no deserto de Zim; porque vocês não sustentaram a minha santidade no meio dos filhos de Israel.

52Pois você verá a terra de longe; mas você não entrará lá, na terra que eu dou aos filhos de Israel.”

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

2My 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.

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

4The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

5They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

6Is 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.

7Remember 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.

8When 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.

9For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10He 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.

11As 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.

12Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

13He 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;

14butter 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.

15But 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.

16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

17They 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.

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

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

20He 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.

21They 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.

22For 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.

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

24They 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.

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

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

27were 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.’”

28For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

30How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.

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

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

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

35Vengeance 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.”

36For 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.

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

38which 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.

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.

40For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,

41if 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.

42I 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.”

43Rejoice, 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.

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

45Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.

46He 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.

47For 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.”

48Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

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.

50Die 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;

51because 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.

52For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”