1 أُنصُتي أيَّتُها السَّماواتُ فأتكَلَّمَ
ولِتَستَمعِ الأرضُ لأقوالِ فمي.
2 يهطِلُ كالمَطَرِ تعليمي
وكالغَيثِ على الكلأِ
وكالرَّذاذِ على العُشْبِ.
يسقُطَ كالنَّدى كلامي.
3 فنادوا باسْمِ الرّبِّ.
وهِبُوا عظَمةً لإِلهِنا.
4 صَوَّرَ الكائِناتِ وعمَلُهُ كامِلٌ،
وكُلُّ طُرُقِهِ عَدلٌ.
اللهُ أمينٌ لا جَورَ عِندَهُ،
وهوَ الصَّادِقُ المُستَقيمُ.
5 وبَنوهُ الّذينَ جعَلَهُم بِلا عَيـبٍ
فسَدوا، فَيا لِجيلٍ مُتَعَوِّجٍ مُلْتَوٍ!
6 أبِهذا تعتَرِفُ بِـجَميلِ الرّبِّ
أيُّها الشَّعبُ الأحمَقُ الجاهِلُ؟
أما هوَ أبوكَ الّذي خلَقَكَ،
الّذي أبدَعَكَ وكوَّنَكَ؟
7 أذكُرِ الأيّامَ القديمةَ
وتَأمَّلِ الأجيالَ السَّالِفةَ.
سَلْ آباءَكَ فَيُخبِروكَ
وشُيوخَكَ فيُحَدِّثوكَ
8 كيفَ العلـيُّ اخْتارَكُم مِنْ بَينِ الأُمَمِ
ومَيَّزَكُم عَنْ بَني آدمَ
وقسَمَ أرضَهُم مُلْكا لكُم
على عدَدِ بَني إِسرائيلَ،
9 لأنَّهُم شعبُهُ الّذينَ مِنْ نَصيـبِه،
وحِصَّتُهُ الّتي جعَلَها لهُ.
10 لقِـيَهُم في أرضٍ برِّيَّةٍ،
وفي مَتاهةٍ مهجورةٍ بعيدةٍ،
فرَبَّاهُم وعلَّمَهُم
واحْتَضَنَهُم كحَدَقةِ عينِهِ.
11 وكالنَّسرِ الّذي يَغارُ على عِشِّهِ،
وعلى فِراخِه يَرِفُّ،
فيَفرُشُ جناحَيهِ لِـيأخُذَهُم
ويحمِلَهُم على ريشِهِ،
12 اقْتادَهُمُ الرّبُّ بِمُفرَدِهِ،
مِنْ دونِ إلهٍ غريـبٍ.
13 أقامَهُم على مَشارِفِ الأرضِ
وأطعَمَهُم مِنْ غِلالِ الحُقولِ.
أرضَعَهُم عسَلا مِنَ الصَّخرِ،
وزيتا مِنْ حجَرِ الصَّوَّانِ
14 وزُبدةَ البقَرِ ولبَنَ الغنَمِ
وشَحْمَ الخِرافِ وكِباشَ بَني باشانَ،
وأطعَمَهُم شَحْمَ التُّيوسِ ولُبَّ الحنطةِ
ودَمَ العنبِ خمرا لِلشَّرابِ.
15 فسَمِنَ بَنو يعقوبَ وبَطَروا.
سَمِنوا وامْتَلأوا شَحْما ولَحما،
فَأهمَلوا الإلهَ الّذي صنَعَهُم
ونبَذوا خالِقَهم ومُخَلِّصَهُم.
16 أثاروا غَيرَتَه بِآلِهةٍ غريـبةٍ
وكَدَّروهُ بِما عَمِلوا مِنْ رَجاساتٍ.
17 ذبَحوا لِلشَّياطينِ لا للهِ،
لآلِهةٍ لم يعرِفوها مِنْ قَبلُ،
حديثةٍ جاءَت مِنْ قريـبٍ
ولم يعلَمْ بِها آباؤُهُم.
18 صَوَّرَهُم وابتَدَعَهُم فنَسَوهُ،
ولم يذكُروا اللهَ الّذي آخاهُم.
19 فرَأى الرّبُّ وتَكَدَّرَ،
واسْتَهانَ بِبَنيهِ وبَناتِهِ.
20 قالَ: «أحجُبُ وجهي عَنهُم
وأرى ماذا تكونُ آخِرَتُهُم،
لأنَّهم جيلٌ مُتَقَلِّبٌ
وبَنونَ لا أمانَةَ فيهِم.
21 أثاروني بِمَنْ لا إلهَ هوَ،
وكدَّروني بِأصنامِهِمِ الباطِلةِ،
وأنا سَأُثيرُهمُ بِشعبٍ لا شعبٌ هوَ
وأُكَدِّرُهُم بِقومٍ جُهَلاءَ،
22 لأنَّ غضَبـي يشتَعِلُ كالنَّارِ
ويتَوَقَّدُ إلى الموتِ الأسفَلِ،
وتَأكُلُ الأرضَ وغَلاَّتِها
وتَلتَهِمُ أساساتِ الجِبالِ.
23 أحشُدُ علَيهِمِ الشُّرورَ،
وجَعبَةُ سِهامي أُفرِغُها فيهِم
24 يَهلكونَ جوعا وتفتَرِسُهُم
حُمَّى مُلهِبَةٌ ووَبأٌ فَتَّاكٌ.
وأُطلِقُ فيهِم أنيابَ البَهائِمِ
معَ سَمِّ زَحافاتِ الأرضِ.
25 يَسقُطونَ بِالسَّيفِ في بُيوتِهِم
وتـتَرَمَّلُ في المَخادِعِ نِساؤُهُم.
ويَهلِكُ الفَتى والفَتاةُ مَعا
والرَّضيعُ والأشيَبُ على السَّواءِ.
26 قُلتُ أشُقُّهُم بِالسَّيفِ
وأُبعِدُ مِنْ بَينِ النَّاسِ ذِكرَهُم،
27 لولا خشيَتي مِنْ تَجبُّرِ الأعداءِ
وإنكارِهِم عليَّ ما فعَلتُ
بِقولِهِم: يَدُنا هيَ الّتي انتَصَرَت،
والرّبُّ لم يفعَلْ كُلَّ هذا.
28 بَنو إِسرائيلَ لا يَتَّعِظونَ،
لأنَّ لا بَصيرَةَ فيهِم.
29 لَيتَهُم حُكَماءُ فيَعقِلونَ
ويتَبَيَّنونَ ما تكونُ آخِرَتُهُم،
30 ما دامَ الواحدُ يُطارِدُ ألفا مِنهُم
ويَهزِمُ الاثنانِ عشَرةَ آلافٍ،
لأنَّ الّذي خَلَقَهُم باعَهُم،
والرّبُّ هوَ الّذي أسلَمَهُم.
31 لكنَّ خالِقَهُم غيرُ الّذي خلَقَنا،
وهُم بِذلِكَ يعلَمونَ.
32 مِنْ كرمَةِ سَدومَ كرمَتُهُم
ومِنْ بَساتينِ عَمورَةَ.
عِنبُهُم عِنَبٌ مَسمومٌ
وعَناقيدُهُم مِنْ مَرارة.
33 خمرُهُم حُمَّةُ الثَّعابـينِ
وسَمُّ الأفاعي الّذي لا يَرحَمُ.
34 ذلِكَ كُلُّهُ محفوظٌ لن أنساهُ،
ومختومٌ علَيهِ في ذاكِرتي.
35 ليَ الانتِقامُ والجَزاءُ
حينَ تـتَزَعزَعُ أرجُلُهُم فيَسقُطونَ،
لأنَّهُ اقترَبَ يومُ نَكبَتِهِم،
وما هُيِّئَ لهُم سريعٌ.
36 الرّبُّ يَدينُ شعبَهُ،
وعلى عبـيدِهِ يُشفِقُ،
إذا رأى القُدرَةَ ذهَبَت
ولم يَبقَ ملجأٌ ولا أهلٌ.
37 ويقولُ: أينَ آلِهتُهُم
أينَ الصَّخرَةُ الّتي بِها يحتَمونَ؟
38 تَأكُلُ شُحومَ ذبائِحِهِم
وتشرَبُ خمرَ سَكائِبِهِم.
فَلتَقُمْ وتَنصُرْهُم
وتكُنْ لهُم تُرْسا.
39 انْظُروا الآنَ. أنا هوَ
ولا إلهَ يَقِفُ أمامي.
أُميتُ وأُحيـي وأجرَحُ وأشفي،
ولا مَنْ يُنقِذُ مِنْ يَدي.
40 أرفَعُ يَدي إلى السَّماءِ
وأقولُ حَيٌّ أنا مَدى الدَّهرِ.
41 إذا صقَلْتُ بارِقَ سَيفي
وأخَذْتُ بِيَدي زِمامَ القضاءِ
رَدَدْتُ الانتِقامَ على أعدائي
وأنزَلْتُ العِقابَ بِالّذينَ يُبغِضونَني.
42 سِهامي تسكَرُ مِنَ الدِّماءِ
وسَيفي يَأْكُلُ لَحما
مِنْ دِماءِ القَتْلى والسَّبايا
ومِنْ رُؤُوسِ قادةِ العدُوِّ.
43 اهتِفوا أيُّها الأُمَمُ معَ شعبِهِ،
لأنَّه يَثأرُ لِدَمِ عبـيدِهِ
ويَرُدُّ الانتِقامَ على أعدائِهِ
ويُكَفِّرُ عَنْ خطايا شعبِهِ.
وصايا موسى الأخيرة
44 فجاءَ موسى وتَلا هذا النَّشيدَ على مَسامِـعِ الشَّعبِ، هوَ ويَشوعُ بنُ نُونٍ.
45 ولمَّا فرَغَ مِنْ مُخاطَبةِ جميعِ بَني إِسرائيلَ بِهذا الكلامِ كُلِّهِ، 46 قالَ لهُم: «إحفَظوا في قلوبِكُم كلامَ الشَّريعةِ الّذي أعَدْتُهُ علَيكُم اليومَ لِتوصُوا بِهِ بَنيكُم، حتّى يَحرِصوا أنْ يعمَلوا بجميعِ أحكامِها 47 فما هوَ كلامٌ فارغٌ لَدَيكُم، بل هوَ حياةٌ لكُم، وبهِ تَطولُ أيّامُكُم في الأرضِ الّتي أنتُم تعبُرونَ الأُردُنَّ إليها لِتَمتَلِكوها.
48 وقالَ الرّبُّ لِموسى في ذلِكَ اليومِ ذاتِهِ: 49 «إصعَدْ إلى جبَلِ عَباريمَ، وهوَ جبَلُ نَبو الّذي في أرضِ موآبَ تُجاهَ أريحا، وانظُر أرضَ كنعانَ الّتي أعطَيتُها لِبَني إِسرائيلَ مُلْكا. 50 ثُمَّ مُتْ في الجبَلِ الّذي أنتَ صاعِدٌ إليهِ، فتَنضَمَّ إلى الّذينَ ماتوا مِنْ قومِكَ كهَرونَ أخيكَ الّذي ماتَ في جبَلِ هورَ، 51 لأنَّكُما خالَفتُماني فيما بـينَ بَني إِسرائيلَ عِندَ ماءِ مَريـبةَ بِقادِشَ في برِّيَّةِ صِينَ ولم تُظهِرا قداسَتي فيما بَينَهُم. 52 فأنتَ تنظُرُ مِنْ بعيدٍ إلى الأرضِ الّتي أعطَيتُها لِبَني إِسرائيلَ ولكِنَّكَ لا تدخُلُها».
1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 ¶ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 ¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods , with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19 And when the LORD saw it , he abhorred them , because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
44 ¶ And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: 50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: 51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.