The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 32ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΝΟΜΙΟΝ ΛΒ′

πρόσεχε οὐρανέ καὶ λαλήσω καὶ ἀκουέτω γῆ ῥήματα ἐκ στόματός μου

Give heed, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words from my mouth.

προσδοκάσθω ὡς ὑετὸς τὸ ἀπόφθεγμά μου καὶ καταβήτω ὡς δρόσος τὰ ῥήματά μου ὡσεὶ ὄμβρος ἐπ᾿ ἄγρωστιν καὶ ὡσεὶ νιφετὸς ἐπὶ χόρτον

Let my utterance be awaited like rain, and let my words come down like dew, like a shower upon the herbage and like snow upon the grass.

ὅτι ὄνομα κυρίου ἐκάλεσα δότε μεγαλωσύνην τῷ θεῷ ἡμῶν

For I have called upon the name of the LORD; give greatness to our God.

θεός ἀληθινὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ ὁδοὶ αὐτοῦ κρίσεις θεὸς πιστός καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀδικία δίκαιος καὶ ὅσιος κύριος

God — true are his works, and all his ways are judgments; a faithful God, and there is no injustice in him; righteous and holy is the LORD.

ἡμάρτοσαν οὐκ αὐτῷ τέκνα μωμητά γενεὰ σκολιὰ καὶ διεστραμμένη

They have sinned; not his are they — blemished children, a crooked and perverse generation.

ταῦτα κυρίῳ ἀνταποδίδοτε οὕτω λαὸς μωρὸς καὶ οὐχὶ σοφός οὐκ αὐτὸς οὗτός σου πατὴρ ἐκτήσατό σε καὶ ἐποίησέν σε καὶ ἔκτισέν σε

Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not himself your father who acquired you, and made you, and created you?

μνήσθητε ἡμέρας αἰῶνος σύνετε ἔτη γενεᾶς γενεῶν ἐπερώτησον τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ σοι τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους σου καὶ ἐροῦσίν σοι

Remember the days of old; consider the years of generation upon generation; ask your father, and he will tell you; your elders, and they will say to you.

ὅτε διεμέριζεν ὁ ὕψιστος ἔθνη ὡς διέσπειρεν υἱοὺς Αδαμ ἔστησεν ὅρια ἐθνῶν κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἀγγέλων θεοῦ

When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he dispersed the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.

καὶ ἐγενήθη μερὶς κυρίου λαὸς αὐτοῦ Ιακωβ σχοίνισμα κληρονομίας αὐτοῦ Ισραηλ

And the LORD's portion became his people Jacob, the measured allotment of his inheritance, Israel.

αὐτάρκησεν αὐτὸν ἐν γῇ ἐρήμῳ ἐν δίψει καύματος ἐν ἀνύδρῳ ἐκύκλωσεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐπαίδευσεν αὐτὸν καὶ διεφύλαξεν αὐτὸν ὡς κόραν ὀφθαλμοῦ

He sustained him in a desert land, in the thirst of burning heat, in a waterless place; he encircled him and instructed him and guarded him as the apple of an eye.

ὡς ἀετὸς σκεπάσαι νοσσιὰν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς νεοσσοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐπεπόθησεν διεὶς τὰς πτέρυγας αὐτοῦ ἐδέξατο αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀνέλαβεν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τῶν μεταφρένων αὐτοῦ

As an eagle to shelter his nest, and over his nestlings he yearned; spreading out his wings he received them and took them up upon his back.

κύριος μόνος ἦγεν αὐτούς καὶ οὐκ ἦν μετ᾿ αὐτῶν θεὸς ἀλλότριος

The LORD alone was leading them, and there was no foreign god with them.

ἀνεβίβασεν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν τῆς γῆς ἐψώμισεν αὐτοὺς γενήματα ἀγρῶν ἐθήλασαν μέλι ἐκ πέτρας καὶ ἔλαιον ἐκ στερεᾶς πέτρας

He brought them up onto the strength of the land; he fed them the produce of the fields; they sucked honey out of a rock, and oil out of solid rock.

βούτυρον βοῶν καὶ γάλα προβάτων μετὰ στέατος ἀρνῶν καὶ κριῶν υἱῶν ταύρων καὶ τράγων μετὰ στέατος νεφρῶν πυροῦ καὶ αἷμα σταφυλῆς ἔπιον οἶνον

Butter of cattle and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams, of the young of bulls and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and the blood of the grape they drank as wine.

καὶ ἔφαγεν Ιακωβ καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη καὶ ἀπελάκτισεν ὁ ἠγαπημένος ἐλιπάνθη ἐπαχύνθη ἐπλατύνθη καὶ ἐγκατέλιπεν θεὸν τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτὸν καὶ ἀπέστη ἀπὸ θεοῦ σωτῆρος αὐτοῦ

And Jacob ate and was filled, and the Beloved kicked; he grew fat, grew thick, grew broad — and he forsook the God who made him and departed from God his savior.

παρώξυνάν με ἐπ᾿ ἀλλοτρίοις ἐν βδελύγμασιν αὐτῶν ἐξεπίκρανάν με

They provoked me with strange gods; with their abominations they embittered me.

ἔθυσαν δαιμονίοις καὶ οὐ θεῷ θεοῖς οἷς οὐκ ᾔδεισαν καινοὶ πρόσφατοι ἥκασιν οὓς οὐκ ᾔδεισαν οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν

They sacrificed to demons and not to God, to gods whom they did not know; new, recent ones have come, whom their fathers did not know.

θεὸν τὸν γεννήσαντά σε ἐγκατέλιπες καὶ ἐπελάθου θεοῦ τοῦ τρέφοντός σε

The God who begot you, you forsook, and you forgot the God who nourishes you.

καὶ εἶδεν κύριος καὶ ἐζήλωσεν καὶ παρωξύνθη δι᾿ ὀργὴν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ θυγατέρων

And the LORD saw, and was jealous, and was provoked because of the anger of his sons and daughters.

καὶ εἶπεν ἀποστρέψω τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν καὶ δείξω τί ἔσται αὐτοῖς ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων ὅτι γενεὰ ἐξεστραμμένη ἐστίν υἱοί οἷς οὐκ ἔστιν πίστις ἐν αὐτοῖς

And he said, 'I will turn away my face from them, and I will show what will be for them at the last; for they are a perverse generation, sons in whom there is no faithfulness.'

αὐτοὶ παρεζήλωσάν με ἐπ᾿ οὐ θεῷ παρώργισάν με ἐν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν κἀγὼ παραζηλώσω αὐτοὺς ἐπ᾿ οὐκ ἔθνει ἐπ᾿ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ αὐτούς

They made me jealous with a no-god; they provoked me with their idols; and I will make them jealous with a no-people; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

ὅτι πῦρ ἐκκέκαυται ἐκ τοῦ θυμοῦ μου καυθήσεται ἕως ᾅδου κάτω καταφάγεται γῆν καὶ τὰ γενήματα αὐτῆς φλέξει θεμέλια ὀρέων

For a fire has been kindled from my wrath; it will burn down to Hades below; it will devour the earth and its produce; it will set ablaze the foundations of the mountains.

συνάξω εἰς αὐτοὺς κακὰ καὶ τὰ βέλη μου συντελέσω εἰς αὐτούς

I will gather evils upon them, and I will spend my arrows upon them.

τηκόμενοι λιμῷ καὶ βρώσει ὀρνέων καὶ ὀπισθότονος ἀνίατος ὀδόντας θηρίων ἀποστελῶ εἰς αὐτοὺς μετὰ θυμοῦ συρόντων ἐπὶ γῆς

Wasting away with famine and the devouring of birds and incurable spasm; the teeth of beasts I will send against them, with the wrath of creatures crawling upon the earth.

ἔξωθεν ἀτεκνώσει αὐτοὺς μάχαιρα καὶ ἐκ τῶν ταμιείων φόβος νεανίσκος σὺν παρθένῳ θηλάζων μετὰ καθεστηκότος πρεσβύτου

Outside the sword will bereave them of children, and terror from the inner chambers — young man with maiden, suckling infant with the aged old man.

εἶπα διασπερῶ αὐτούς παύσω δὴ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν

I said, 'I will scatter them; I will make their memory cease from among men' —

εἰ μὴ δι᾿ ὀργὴν ἐχθρῶν ἵνα μὴ μακροχρονίσωσιν καὶ ἵνα μὴ συνεπιθῶνται οἱ ὑπεναντίοι μὴ εἴπωσιν ἡ χεὶρ ἡμῶν ἡ ὑψηλὴ καὶ οὐχὶ κύριος ἐποίησεν ταῦτα πάντα

— were it not for the wrath of the enemies, lest they should endure long, and lest the adversaries should band together and say, 'Our own exalted hand, and not the LORD, has done all these things.'

ὅτι ἔθνος ἀπολωλεκὸς βουλήν ἐστιν καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐπιστήμη

For it is a nation that has lost counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

οὐκ ἐφρόνησαν συνιέναι ταῦτα καταδεξάσθωσαν εἰς τὸν ἐπιόντα χρόνον

They had no mind to understand these things; let them take them to heart for the time to come.

πῶς διώξεται εἷς χιλίους καὶ δύο μετακινήσουσιν μυριάδας εἰ μὴ ὁ θεὸς ἀπέδοτο αὐτοὺς καὶ κύριος παρέδωκεν αὐτούς

How shall one pursue a thousand, and two rout ten thousand, unless God had sold them and the LORD had delivered them up?

ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ὡς ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν ἀνόητοι

For their gods are not as our God; but our enemies are without sense.

ἐκ γὰρ ἀμπέλου Σοδομων ἡ ἄμπελος αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ κληματὶς αὐτῶν ἐκ Γομορρας ἡ σταφυλὴ αὐτῶν σταφυλὴ χολῆς βότρυς πικρίας αὐτοῖς

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their tendril is of Gomorrah; their grape is a grape of gall, a cluster of bitterness for them.

θυμὸς δρακόντων ὁ οἶνος αὐτῶν καὶ θυμὸς ἀσπίδων ἀνίατος

Their wine is the venom of serpents and the incurable venom of asps.

οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα συνῆκται παρ᾿ ἐμοὶ καὶ ἐσφράγισται ἐν τοῖς θησαυροῖς μου

Behold, are not these things stored up with me and sealed in my treasuries?

ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐκδικήσεως ἀνταποδώσω ἐν καιρῷ ὅταν σφαλῇ ὁ ποὺς αὐτῶν ὅτι ἐγγὺς ἡμέρα ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν καὶ πάρεστιν ἕτοιμα ὑμῖν

In the day of vengeance I will repay, in the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their destruction is near, and the things prepared for you are at hand.

ὅτι κρινεῖ κύριος τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ παρακληθήσεται εἶδεν γὰρ παραλελυμένους αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐκλελοιπότας ἐν ἐπαγωγῇ καὶ παρειμένους

For the LORD will judge his people and have compassion on his servants; for he saw them paralyzed and failing under affliction and worn out.

καὶ εἶπεν κύριος ποῦ εἰσιν οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν ἐφ᾿ οἷς ἐπεποίθεισαν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς

And the LORD said, 'Where are their gods, in whom they had trusted,

ὧν τὸ στέαρ τῶν θυσιῶν αὐτῶν ἠσθίετε καὶ ἐπίνετε τὸν οἶνον τῶν σπονδῶν αὐτῶν ἀναστήτωσαν καὶ βοηθησάτωσαν ὑμῖν καὶ γενηθήτωσαν ὑμῖν σκεπασταί

the fat of whose sacrifices you used to eat, and you used to drink the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you and become your protectors!

ἴδετε ἴδετε ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν θεὸς πλὴν ἐμοῦ ἐγὼ ἀποκτενῶ καὶ ζῆν ποιήσω πατάξω κἀγὼ ἰάσομαι καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἐξελεῖται ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν μου

See, see that I am, and there is no god besides me; I kill, and I will make alive; I will strike, and I will heal; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hands.

ὅτι ἀρῶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν τὴν χεῖρά μου καὶ ὀμοῦμαι τῇ δεξιᾷ μου καὶ ἐρῶ ζῶ ἐγὼ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα

For I will lift up my hand to heaven and swear by my right hand, and I will say, 'As I live forever —'

ὅτι παροξυνῶ ὡς ἀστραπὴν τὴν μάχαιράν μου καὶ ἀνθέξεται κρίματος ἡ χείρ μου καὶ ἀνταποδώσω δίκην τοῖς ἐχθροῖς καὶ τοῖς μισοῦσίν με ἀνταποδώσω

For I will whet my sword like lightning, and my hand will lay hold on judgment, and I will render vengeance to my enemies, and to those who hate me I will repay.

μεθύσω τὰ βέλη μου ἀφ᾿ αἵματος καὶ ἡ μάχαιρά μου καταφάγεται κρέα ἀφ᾿ αἵματος τραυματιῶν καὶ αἰχμαλωσίας ἀπὸ κεφαλῆς ἀρχόντων ἐχθρῶν

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh — with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the rulers of the enemies.

εὐφράνθητε οὐρανοί ἅμα αὐτῷ καὶ προσκυνησάτωσαν αὐτῷ πάντες υἱοὶ θεοῦ εὐφράνθητε ἔθνη μετὰ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐνισχυσάτωσαν αὐτῷ πάντες ἄγγελοι θεοῦ ὅτι τὸ αἷμα τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ ἐκδικᾶται καὶ ἐκδικήσει καὶ ἀνταποδώσει δίκην τοῖς ἐχθροῖς καὶ τοῖς μισοῦσιν ἀνταποδώσει καὶ ἐκκαθαριεῖ κύριος τὴν γῆν τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ

Rejoice, O heavens, together with him, and let all the sons of God worship him; rejoice, O nations, with his people, and let all the angels of God strengthen themselves in him; for he avenges the blood of his sons, and he will take vengeance and render vengeance to the enemies, and to those who hate him he will repay; and the LORD will cleanse the land of his people.

καὶ ἔγραψεν Μωυσῆς τὴν ᾠδὴν ταύτην ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ καὶ ἐδίδαξεν αὐτὴν τοὺς υἱοὺς Ισραηλ καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Μωυσῆς καὶ ἐλάλησεν πάντας τοὺς λόγους τοῦ νόμου τούτου εἰς τὰ ὦτα τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτὸς καὶ Ἰησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυη

And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the sons of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law into the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Naue.

καὶ συνετέλεσεν Μωυσῆς λαλῶν παντὶ Ισραηλ

And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.

καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς προσέχετε τῇ καρδίᾳ ἐπὶ πάντας τοὺς λόγους τούτους οὓς ἐγὼ διαμαρτύρομαι ὑμῖν σήμερον ἃ ἐντελεῖσθε τοῖς υἱοῖς ὑμῶν φυλάσσειν καὶ ποιεῖν πάντας τοὺς λόγους τοῦ νόμου τούτου

And he said to them, 'Set your heart on all these words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your sons to keep and to do — all the words of this law.'

ὅτι οὐχὶ λόγος κενὸς οὗτος ὑμῖν ὅτι αὕτη ἡ ζωὴ ὑμῶν καὶ ἕνεκεν τοῦ λόγου τούτου μακροημερεύσετε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς εἰς ἣν ὑμεῖς διαβαίνετε τὸν Ιορδάνην ἐκεῖ κληρονομῆσαι αὐτήν

For this is no empty word for you, for it is your life; and on account of this word you shall live long upon the land into which you are crossing the Jordan, there to inherit it.

καὶ ἐλάλησεν κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ λέγων

And the LORD spoke to Moses on that same day, saying,

ἀνάβηθι εἰς τὸ ὄρος τὸ Αβαριν τοῦτο ὄρος Ναβαυ ὅ ἐστιν ἐν γῇ Μωαβ κατὰ πρόσωπον Ιεριχω καὶ ἰδὲ τὴν γῆν Χανααν ἣν ἐγὼ δίδωμι τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ εἰς κατάσχεσιν

Go up into this Mount Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession.

καὶ τελεύτα ἐν τῷ ὄρει εἰς ὃ ἀναβαίνεις ἐκεῖ καὶ προστέθητι πρὸς τὸν λαόν σου ὃν τρόπον ἀπέθανεν Ααρων ὁ ἀδελφός σου ἐν Ωρ τῷ ὄρει καὶ προσετέθη πρὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ

And die on the mountain to which you are going up, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;

διότι ἠπειθήσατε τῷ ῥήματί μου ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὕδατος ἀντιλογίας Καδης ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ Σιν διότι οὐχ ἡγιάσατέ με ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ

because you disobeyed my word among the sons of Israel at the water of Strife at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not sanctify me among the sons of Israel.

ὅτι ἀπέναντι ὄψῃ τὴν γῆν καὶ ἐκεῖ οὐκ εἰσελεύσῃ

For you shall see the land from a distance, but there you shall not enter.