Liber Deuteronomii, 32

1. audite cæli quæ loquor audiat terra verba oris mei

1. Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.

2. concrescat in pluvia doctrina mea fluat ut ros eloquium meum quasi imber super herbam et quasi stillæ super gramina

2. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.

3. quia nomen Domini invocabo date magnificentiam Deo nostro

3. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.

4. Dei perfecta sunt opera et omnes viæ ejus judicia Deus fidelis et absque ulla iniquitate justus et rectus

4. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

5. peccaverunt ei non filii ejus in sordibus generatio prava atque perversa

5. They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

6. hæcine reddis Domino popule stulte et insipiens numquid non ipse est pater tuus qui possedit et fecit et creavit te

6. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

7. memento dierum antiquorum cogita generationes singulas interroga patrem tuum et adnuntiabit tibi majores tuos et dicent tibi

7. Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

8. quando dividebat Altissimus gentes quando separabat filios Adam constituit terminos populorum juxta numerum filiorum Israël

8. When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9. pars autem Domini populus ejus Jacob funiculus hereditatis ejus

9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

10. invenit eum in terra deserta in loco horroris et vastæ solitudinis circumduxit eum et docuit et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui

10. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11. sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos et super eos volitans expandit alas suas et adsumpsit eum atque portavit in umeris suis

11. As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.

12. Dominus solus dux ejus fuit et non erat cum eo deus alienus

12. The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

13. constituit eum super excelsam terram ut comederet fructus agrorum ut sugeret mel de petra oleumque de saxo durissimo

13. He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,

14. butyrum de armento et lac de ovibus cum adipe agnorum et arietum filiorum Basan et hircos cum medulla tritici et sanguinem uvæ biberet meracissimum

14. Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

15. incrassatus est dilectus et recalcitravit incrassatus inpinguatus dilatatus dereliquit Deum factorem suum et recessit a Deo salutari suo

15. The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

16. provocaverunt eum in diis alienis et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt

16. They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.

17. immolaverunt dæmonibus et non Deo diis quos ignorabant novi recentesque venerunt quos non coluerunt patres eorum

17. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

18. Deum qui te genuit dereliquisti et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui

18. Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.

19. vidit Dominus et ad iracundiam concitatus est quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et filiæ

19. The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.

20. et ait abscondam faciem meam ab eis et considerabo novissima eorum generatio enim perversa est et infideles filii

20. And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

21. ipsi me provocaverunt in eo qui non erat Deus et inritaverunt in vanitatibus suis et ego provocabo eos in eo qui non est populus et in gente stulta inritabo illos

21. They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

22. ignis succensus est in furore meo et ardebit usque ad inferni novissima devorabitque terram cum germine suo et montium fundamenta conburet

22. A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

23. congregabo super eos mala et sagittas meas conplebo in eis

23. I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.

24. consumentur fame et devorabunt eos aves morsu amarissimo dentes bestiarum inmittam in eos cum furore trahentium super terram atque serpentium

24. They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

25. foris vastabit eos gladius et intus pavor juvenem simul ac virginem lactantem cum homine sene

25. Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

26. dixi ubinam sunt cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum

26. I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

27. sed propter iram inimicorum distuli ne forte superbirent hostes eorum et dicerent manus nostra excelsa et non Dominus fecit hæc omnia

27. But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

28. gens absque consilio est et sine prudentia

28. They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.

29. utinam saperent et intellegerent ac novissima providerent

29. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

30. quomodo persequatur unus mille et duo fugent decem milia nonne ideo quia Deus suus vendidit eos et Dominus conclusit illos

30. How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

31. non enim est Deus noster ut deus eorum et inimici nostri sunt judices

31. For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.

32. de vinea Sodomorum vinea eorum et de suburbanis Gomorræ uva eorum uva fellis et botri amarissimi

32. Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.

33. fel draconum vinum eorum et venenum aspidum insanabile

33. Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

34. nonne hæc condita sunt apud me et signata in thesauris meis

34. Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?

35. mea est ultio et ego retribuam in tempore ut labatur pes eorum juxta est dies perditionis et adesse festinant tempora

35. Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

36. judicabit Dominus populum suum et in servis suis miserebitur videbit quod infirmata sit manus et clausi quoque defecerint residuique consumpti sint

36. The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants : he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.

37. et dicet ubi sunt dii eorum in quibus habebant fiduciam

37. And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?

38. de quorum victimis comedebant adipes et bibebant vinum libaminum surgant et opitulentur vobis et in necessitate vos protegant

38. Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.

39. videte quod ego sim solus et non sit alius deus præter me ego occidam et ego vivere faciam percutiam et ego sanabo et non est qui de manu mea possit eruere

39. See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

40. levabo ad cælum manum meam et dicam vivo ego in æternum

40. I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

41. si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum et arripuerit judicium manus mea reddam ultionem hostibus meis et his qui oderunt me retribuam

41. If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.

42. inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine et gladius meus devorabit carnes de cruore occisorum et de captivitate nudati inimicorum capitis

42. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.

43. laudate gentes populum ejus quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur et vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum et propitius erit terræ populi sui

43. Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

44. venit ergo Moses et locutus est omnia verba cantici hujus in auribus populi ipse et Josue filius Nun

44. So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.

45. conplevitque omnes sermones istos loquens ad universum Israël

45. And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.

46. et dixit ad eos ponite corda vestra in omnia verba quæ ego testificor vobis hodie ut mandetis ea filiis vestris custodire et facere et implere universa quæ scripta sunt legis hujus

46. And he said to them : Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:

47. quia non in cassum præcepta sunt vobis sed ut singuli in eis viverent quæ facientes longo perseveretis tempore in terra ad quam Jordane transmisso ingredimini possidendam

47. For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.

48. locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen in eadem die dicens

48. And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:

49. ascende in montem istum Abarim id est transituum in montem Nebo qui est in terra Moab contra Hiericho et vide terram Chanaan quam ego tradam filiis Israël obtinendam et morere in monte

49. Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.

50. quem conscendens jungeris populis tuis sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor et adpositus populis suis

50. When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Her, and was gathered to his people:

51. quia prævaricati estis contra me in medio filiorum Israël ad aquas Contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin et non sanctificastis me inter filios Israël

51. Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.

52. e contra videbis terram et non ingredieris in eam quam ego dabo filiis Israël

52. Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.