1Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.
2Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.
3I will proclaim the name of the Lord.
Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
4He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
5They are corrupt and not his children;
to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
6Is this the way you repay the Lord,
you foolish and unwise people?
Is he not your Father, your Creator,32:6 Or Father, who bought you
who made you and formed you?
7Remember the days of old;
consider the generations long past.
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.
8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,
he set up boundaries for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God
9For the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance.
10In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them aloft.
12The Lord alone led him;
no foreign god was with him.
13He made him ride on the heights of the land
and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,
and with oil from the flinty crag,
14with curds and milk from herd and flock
and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan
and the finest kernels of wheat.
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
15Jeshurun32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel. grew fat and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned the God who made them
and rejected the Rock their Savior.
16They made him jealous with their foreign gods
and angered him with their detestable idols.
17They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God—
gods they had not known,
gods that recently appeared,
gods your ancestors did not fear.
18You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19The Lord saw this and rejected them
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
20“I will hide my face from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,
children who are unfaithful.
21They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
22For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
23“I will heap calamities on them
and spend my arrows against them.
24I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.
26I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
27but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’ ”
28They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.
29If only they were wise and would understand this
and discern what their end will be!
30How could one man chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?
31For their rock is not like our Rock,
as even our enemies concede.
32Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,
and their clusters with bitterness.
33Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.
34“Have I not kept this in reserve
and sealed it in my vaults?
35It is mine to avenge; I will repay.
In due time their foot will slip;
their day of disaster is near
and their doom rushes upon them.”
36The Lord will vindicate his people
and relent concerning his servants
when he sees their strength is gone
and no one is left, slave or free.32:36 Or and they are without a ruler or leader
37He will say: “Now where are their gods,
the rock they took refuge in,
38the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up to help you!
Let them give you shelter!
39“See now that I myself am he!
There is no god besides me.
I put to death and I bring to life,
I have wounded and I will heal,
and no one can deliver out of my hand.
40I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear:
As surely as I live forever,
41when I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
42I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
while my sword devours flesh:
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
43Rejoice, you nations, with his people,32:43 Or Make his people rejoice, you nations32:43 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) people, / and let all the angels worship him, /
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.
44Moses came with Joshua32:44 Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. 45When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, 46he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. 47They are not just idle words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Moses to Die on Mount Nebo
48On that same day the Lord told Moses, 49“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. 50There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. 51This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites. 52Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”
132:1 Za 49:1; Mik 1:2; Yer 2:12; Kum 4:26; Isa 1:2Sikilizeni, enyi mbingu, nami nitasema;
sikia, ee nchi, maneno ya kinywa changu.
232:2 2Sam 23:4; Za 107:20; Isa 9:8; 55:11; Mik 5:7; Za 65:10; 68:9; 72:8; 147:8Mafundisho yangu na yanyeshe kama mvua,
na maneno yangu na yashuke kama umande,
kama manyunyu juu ya majani mabichi,
kama mvua tele juu ya mimea myororo.
332:3 Za 118:17; 145:6; Kut 33:16-19; 34:4-6; Kum 3:24Nitalitangaza jina la Bwana.
Naam, sifuni ukuu wa Mungu wetu!
432:4 Mwa 49:24; 2Sam 22:31; Za 18:30; 19:7; Kum 4:35; Za 92:15; Mwa 18:25Yeye ni Mwamba, kazi zake ni kamilifu,
njia zake zote ni haki.
Mungu mwaminifu ambaye hakosei,
yeye ni mnyofu na mwenye haki.
532:5 Kum 31:29; Mt 17:17; Lk 9:41; Mdo 2:40Wamefanya mambo ya upotovu mbele zake;
kwa aibu yao, wao si watoto wake tena,
lakini ni kizazi kilicho kiovu na kilichopotoka.
632:6 Za 116:12; 94:8; Yer 5:21; Kut 4:22; 2Sam 7:24; Isa 63:16Je, hii ndiyo njia ya kumlipa Bwana,
enyi watu wajinga na wasio na busara?
Je, yeye siye Baba yenu, Muumba wenu,
aliyewafanya ninyi na kuwaumba?
732:7 Za 44:1; 74:2; 74:2; 77:5; Isa 51:9; 63:9; Kum 4:32; Yos 8:8; 20:4; Za 78:4; Isa 46:9; Kut 10:2; 13:14; Ay 15:18Kumbuka siku za kale;
tafakari vizazi vya zamani vilivyopita.
Uliza baba yako, naye atakuambia,
wazee wako, nao watakueleza.
832:8 Za 7:8; Mwa 11:8; Mdo 8:1; Za 74:17; Hes 23:9; Kum 33:12; 28; Yer 23:6; Mdo 17:26Aliye Juu Sana alipowapa mataifa urithi wao,
alipogawanya wanadamu wote,
aliweka mipaka kwa ajili ya mataifa
sawasawa na hesabu ya wana wa Israeli.
932:9 Za 16:5; 73:26; 119:57; 142:5; Yer 10:16; Kum 9:29; 1Sam 26:19; 1Fal 8:51-53Kwa kuwa fungu la Bwana ni watu wake,
Yakobo kura yake ya urithi.
1032:10 Kum 1:19; 8:15; Ay 12:24; Za 107:40; 32:10; Yer 31:22; Za 17:8; Mit 7:2; Hos 13:5; Zek 2:8Katika nchi ya jangwa alimkuta,
katika nyika tupu ivumayo upepo.
Alimhifadhi na kumtunza;
akamlinda kama mboni ya jicho lake,
1132:11 Kut 19:4; Za 17:8; 18:10-19; 61:4kama tai avurugaye kiota chake,
na kurukaruka juu ya makinda yake,
ambaye hutanda mabawa yake kuwadaka,
na huwachukua kwenye mabawa yake.
1232:12 Za 106:9; Isa 63:13; Yer 31:32; Kum 4:35; Amu 2:12; Za 18:31; 81:9; Isa 43:12; 45:5Bwana peke yake alimwongoza;
hakuwepo mungu mgeni pamoja naye.
1332:13 Kum 33:29; 2Sam 22:34; Za 18:33; Isa 33:16; 58:14; Eze 36:2; Ebr 3:19; Kum 8:8; 33:24; Ay 29:6Akamfanya apande sehemu zilizoinuka za nchi,
akamlisha kwa mavuno ya mashamba.
Akamlea kwa asali toka mwambani,
na kwa mafuta kutoka mwamba mgumu,
1432:14 Hes 21:33; Za 65:9; 81:16; 147:14; Mwa 49:11kwa jibini na maziwa kutoka makundi ya ngʼombe
na kutoka makundi ya mbuzi,
kwa mafuta ya wana-kondoo na mbuzi,
kwa kondoo dume wazuri wa Bashani,
na kwa ngano nzuri.
Ukanywa damu ya zabibu inayotoa povu.
1532:15 Kum 33:5; 26; Isa 44:2; Kum 31:20; Yer 5:28; Kum 31:16; Isa 1:4, 28; 58:2; 65:11; Yer 15:6; Eze 14:5; Mwa 49:24Yeshuruni32:15 Yeshuruni maana yake ni Yeye aliye mnyofu, yaani Israeli (ona pia Kum 33:26; Isa 44:2). alinenepa na kupiga teke;
alikuwa na chakula tele,
akawa mzito na akapendeza sana.
Akamwacha Mungu aliyemuumba,
na kumkataa Mwamba Mwokozi wake.
1632:16 1Kor 10:22; Kum 31:17; 1Fal 14:9Wakamfanya Mungu kuwa na wivu kwa miungu yao migeni,
na kumkasirisha kwa sanamu zao
za machukizo.
1732:17 Kut 32:8; 22:20; 1Kor 10:20; Kum 28:64; Amu 5:8Wakatoa dhabihu kwa pepo, ambao si Mungu:
miungu wasiyoijua,
miungu iliyojitokeza siku za karibuni,
miungu ambayo baba zenu hawakuiogopa.
1832:18 Amu 3:7; 1Sam 12:9; Za 44:17, 20; 106:21; Yer 2:32; Eze 23:35; Hos 8:14; 13:6Mkamwacha Mwamba, aliyewazaa ninyi;
mkamsahau Mungu aliyewazaa.
1932:19 Law 26:30; Za 78:59; Amo 6:8; Yer 44:21-23; Za 106:40Bwana akaona hili, akawakataa,
kwa sababu alikasirishwa
na wanawe na binti zake.
2032:20 Kum 31:17; Za 4:6; 44:24; Kum 9:23Akasema, “Nitawaficha uso wangu,
nami nione mwisho wao utakuwa nini,
kwa kuwa wao ni kizazi kilichopotoka,
watoto ambao si waaminifu.
2132:21 Hes 25:11; 1Kor 10:22; 1Fal 16:13, 26; 2Fal 17:15; Yer 8:19; Yon 2:8; Rum 10:19; Za 31:6; Yer 2:8; 10:8; 16:19Wamenifanya niwe na wivu
kwa kile ambacho si mungu,
na kunikasirisha kwa sanamu zao
zisizokuwa na thamani.
Nitawafanya wawaonee wivu wale ambao si taifa.
Nitawafanya wakasirishwe
na taifa lile lisilo na ufahamu.
2232:22 Za 7:11; Hes 16:31-35; Za 18:7-8; Yer 15:14; Mao 4:11; Amo 7:4; Law 26:20Kwa maana moto umewashwa kwa hasira yangu,
ule uwakao hadi kwenye vina vya mauti.
Utateketeza dunia pamoja na mazao yake,
na kuwasha moto katika misingi ya milima.
2332:23 Kum 29:21; 2Sam 22:15; Ay 6:4; Za 7:13; 18:14; 45:5; 77:17; 120:4; Isa 5:28; 49:2; Eze 5:16; Hab 3:9-11“Nitalundika majanga juu yao
na kutumia mishale yangu dhidi yao.
2432:24 Mwa 26:1; 41:55; 42:5; 2Sam 24:13; 1Nya 21:12; Kum 28:22; Za 91:6; Mwa 37:20; Ay 20:16; Za 58:4; Yer 8:17; Amo 5:18-19; Mik 7:17; Ay 20:16Nitatuma njaa kali dhidi yao maradhi mabaya,
yateketezayo na tauni ya kufisha;
nitawapelekea meno makali ya wanyama mwitu,
na sumu ya nyoka wale watambaao mavumbini.
2532:25 Isa 24:17; Yer 14:18; Mao 1:20; Eze 7:15; 2Kor 7:5; 2Nya 36:17; Isa 13:18; Yer 4:31; Mao 2:21Barabarani upanga utawakosesha watoto;
nyumbani mwao hofu itatawala.
Vijana wao wa kiume na wa kike wataangamia,
pia watoto wachanga na wazee wenye mvi.
2632:26 Kum 4:27; Hes 14:12; Ay 18:17; Za 34:16; 37:28; 109:15; Isa 14:20Nilisema ningewatawanya
na kufuta kumbukumbu lao
katika mwanadamu.
2732:27 Kum 9:26-28; Za 140:8; Isa 11:13; Yer 40:2-3Lakini nilihofia dhihaka za adui,
adui asije akashindwa kuelewa,
na kusema, ‘Mikono yetu imeshinda;
Bwana hakufanya yote haya.’ ”
2832:28 Isa 1:3; 5:13; 27:11; Yer 8:7Wao ni taifa lisilo na akili,
hakuna busara ndani yao.
2932:29 Kum 5:29; Za 81:13; Isa 47:7; Mao 1:9Laiti wangekuwa na hekima wangefahamu hili,
na kutambua mwisho wao utakuwa aje!
3032:30 Law 26:8; Amu 2:14; 3:8; 4:2; 10:7; 1Sam 12:9; Hes 21:34; 1Sam 23:7; Za 31:18; 44:12; 106:41; Isa 50:1; 54:6Mtu mmoja angewezaje kufukuza elfu moja,
au wawili kufukuza elfu kumi,
kama si kwamba Mwamba wao amewauza,
kama si kwamba Bwana amewaacha?
3132:31 Mwa 49:24; Kut 14:25Kwa kuwa mwamba wao si kama Mwamba wetu,
sawasawa na vile adui zetu wanavyokiri.
3232:32 Yer 23:14; Ay 6:4; 20:16; Kum 29:18Mzabibu wao unatoka kwenye mzabibu wa Sodoma,
na kutoka kwenye mashamba ya Gomora.
Zabibu zake zimejaa sumu,
na vishada vyake vimejaa uchungu.
3332:33 Za 58:4Mvinyo wao ni sumu ya nyoka,
sumu yenye kufisha ya swila.
3432:34 Ay 14:17; Yer 2:22; Hos 13:12“Je, hili sikuliweka akiba
na kulifungia kwenye vyumba vyangu vya hazina?
3532:35 Mwa 4:24; Yer 51:6; Mwa 30:2; Kut 32:34; Za 54:5; Rum 12:19; Ebr 10:30; Za 17:5; 35:6; 37:31; 38:16; 66:9; 73:2; 94:18; 121:3; Mit 4:19; Yer 23:12; Eze 7:8-9Ni juu yangu kulipiza kisasi; nitalipiza.
Wakati utakapowadia, mguu wao utateleza;
siku yao ya maafa ni karibu,
na maangamizo yao yanawajia haraka.”
3632:36 Ebr 10:30; Amo 7:3; Law 26:43-45; Kum 30:1-3; Amu 2:18; Za 90:13; 102:13; 103:13; 106:45; 135:14; Yoe 2:14; 1Fal 14:10; 21:21; 2Fal 9:8Bwana atawahukumu watu wake,
na kuwahurumia watumishi wake
atakapoona nguvu zao zimekwisha
wala hakuna yeyote aliyebaki,
mtumwa au aliye huru.
3732:37 Amu 10:14; Yer 2:28; 11:12Atasema: “Sasa iko wapi miungu yao,
mwamba walioukimbilia,
3832:38 Hes 25:1-2; Yer 11:12; 44:8; 25miungu wale waliokula mafuta ya dhabihu zao
na kunywa mvinyo wa sadaka zao za vinywaji?
Wainuke basi, wawasaidie!
Wawapeni basi ulinzi!
3932:39 Isa 41:4; 43:10; 44:7; 46:4; 48:12; 1Sam 2:6; 2Fal 5:7; Za 68:20; Yn 11:25-26; Kut 15:26; Ay 5:18; 15:11; Za 147:3; Isa 6:10; 19:22; 30:26; 53:5; 57:18; Yer 33:6; Hos 6:1; Mal 4:2; 1Pet 2:24; Ay 9:12; 10:7; Za 7:2; 50:22; Isa 43:13; Dan 4:35; Hos 5:14“Tazama basi, Mimi mwenyewe, Mimi Ndiye!
Hakuna mungu mwingine ila Mimi.
Mimi ninaua na Mimi ninafufua,
Mimi nimejeruhi na Mimi nitaponya,
wala hakuna awezaye kuokoa kutoka mkononi mwangu.
4032:40 Mwa 14:22; 21:23; Ufu 1:18Ninainua mkono wangu kuelekea mbinguni na kusema:
Hakika kama niishivyo milele,
4132:41 Amu 7:20; Za 7:12; 45:3; Isa 27:1; 34:6; 66:16; Yer 12:12; Eze 21:9-10; Za 149:7; Yer 46:10; Neh 1:2; Za 137:8; Yer 25:14; 50:29; 51:24, 56wakati ninapounoa upanga wangu unaometameta
na mkono wangu unapoushika ili kutoa hukumu,
nitalipiza kisasi juu ya adui zangu
na kuwalipiza wale wanaonichukia.
4232:42 2Sam 2:26; Yer 12:12; 44:1; 46:10-14Nitailevya mishale yangu kwa damu,
wakati upanga wangu ukitafuna nyama:
damu ya waliochinjwa pamoja na mateka,
vichwa vya viongozi wa adui.”
4332:43 Za 137:6; Isa 25:9; 65:18; 66:10; Rum 15:10; 2Fal 9:7; Ufu 6:10; Isa 1:24; Yer 9:9; Za 65:3; 79:9Furahini, enyi mataifa, pamoja na watu wake,
kwa kuwa atailipiza damu ya watumishi wake,
atalipiza kisasi juu ya adui zake
na kufanya upatanisho
kwa ajili ya nchi na watu wake.
4432:44 Hes 13:8, 16Mose na Yoshua32:44 Yoshua, yaani Yehoshea kwa Kiebrania, maana yake ni Yehova ni Mwokozi. mwana wa Nuni wakaja, wakanena maneno yote ya wimbo watu wakiwa wanasikia. 45Mose alipomaliza kuyasoma maneno haya yote kwa Israeli wote, 4632:46 Kum 6:6; Yn 1:17; 7:19; Kum 6:7akawaambia, “Yawekeni moyoni maneno yote ambayo nimewatangazia kwa makini siku hii ya leo, ili kwamba mpate kuwaagiza watoto wenu wayatii kwa bidii maneno yote ya sheria hii. 4732:47 Kum 30:20; 33:25; Kut 23:26; Isa 65:22Siyo maneno matupu tu kwenu, bali ni uzima wenu. Kwa hayo mtaishi maisha marefu katika nchi mnayovuka Yordani kuimiliki.”
Mose Aelezwa Kuhusu Kifo Chake
4832:48 Hes 27:12Siku hiyo hiyo Bwana akamwambia Mose, 4932:49 Hes 27:12; 32:3; 22:1; Law 14:34“Kwea katika mapangano ya Mlima Abarimu hadi kilima cha Nebo kilichoko Moabu, ngʼambo ya Yeriko, na uitazame Kanaani, nchi ninayowapa Waisraeli kama milki yao wenyewe. 5032:50 Mwa 25:8; Hes 27:13; 20:22; 29Utafia kwenye mlima huo unaokwea na kukusanyika pamoja na watu wako, kama ndugu yako Aroni alivyofia juu ya Mlima Hori naye akakusanyika kwa watu wake. 5132:51 Eze 47:19; Hes 13:21; 20:11-13; 27:14Hii ni kwa sababu ninyi wawili mlivunja uaminifu nami mbele ya Waisraeli kwenye maji ya Meriba-Kadeshi katika Jangwa la Sini, na kwa sababu hamkuuinua utakatifu wangu miongoni mwa Waisraeli. 5232:52 Kum 34:1-3; 3:27Kwa hiyo, utaiona tu nchi kwa mbali; wewe hutaingia nchi ninayowapa watu wa Israeli.”
