Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Tega sikio, enyi mbingu, na niruhusu kuzungumza.
2 My 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.
Acha dunia isikie maneno ya kinywa changu. Acha mafundisho yangu yamwagike chini kama mvua, acha usemi wangu udondoke kama umande, kama mvua tulivu juu ya majani laini, na kama mvua za manyunyu juu ya mimea.
3 For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!
Kwa maana nitatangaza jina la Yahwe, na kumpatia ukuu Mungu wetu.
4 The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
Mwamba, kazi yake ni kamili; kwa maana njia zake ni za haki. Yeye ni Mungu mwaminifu, hana udhalimu. Yeye ni wa haki na mwadilifu.
5 They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Wamefanya yaliyo maovu dhidi yake. Wao sio watoto wake. Ni aibu kwao. Wao ni kizazi kiovu na kilichopindika.
6 Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Is not he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
Je! Unamzawadia Yahwe kwa njia hii, enyi watu wapumbavu na msiojitambua? Je! yeye si baba yenu, yule ambaye aliwaumba? Aliwaumba na kuwaimarisha.
7 Remember 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.
Kumbukeni siku zile za zamani, tafakari juu ya miaka mingi ya nyuma. Muulize baba yako naye atakuonyesha, wazee wako nao watakuambia.
8 When 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.
Pale ambapo Aliye Juu alipowapatia mataifa urithi wao – alipowagawa wanadamu wote, na kuweka mipaka ya watu, na alipoimarisha idadi ya miungu yao.
9 For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Kwa maana fungu la Yahwe ni watu wake; Yakobo ni mgao wa urithi wake.
10 He 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.
Alimpata katika nchi ya jangwa, na katika jangwa kame na livumalo upepo; alimkinga na kumtunza, alimlinda kama mboni ya jicho lake.
11 As 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.
Kama tai akichungaye kiota chake na kupiga piga mabawa juu ya makinda yake, Yahwe alitandaza mabawa yake na kuwachukua, na kuwabeba kwenye mapapatio yake.
12 The LORD alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
Yahwe pekee alimuongoza, hapakuwa na mungu mgeni pamoja naye.
13 He 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;
Alimfanya aendeshe katika maeneo ya juu ya nchi, na alimlisha matunda ya mbugani; alimrutubisha kwa asali kutoka kwenye jiwe, na mafuta kutoka kwenye mwamba mgumu sana.
14 butter 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.
Alikula siagi kutoka katika kundi na kunywa maziwa kutoka katika kundi la mifugo, pamoja na mafuta ya wanakondoo, kondoo dume wa Bashani na mbuzi, pamoja na ngano safi kabisa – nawe ulikunywa divai itokayo povu iliyotengenezwa kwa juisi ya mizabibu.
15 But 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.
Lakini Yeshuruni akakua kwa unene na kupiga mateke – ulikua kwa unene, ulikua mnene sana, na ulikuwa umekula ujazo wako – alimuacha Mungu aliyemuumba, na kukataa Mwamba wa wokovu wake.
16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
Walimfanya Yahwe apatwe wivu kwa miungu yao ya ajabu; kwa maudhi yao walimkasirisha.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they did not know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers did not dread.
Walitoa dhabihu kwa mapepo, ambayo sio Mungu – miungu ambayo hawajaijua, miungu ambayo imejitokeza hivi karibuni, miungu ambayo mababu zenu hawakuogopa.
18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Umetelekeza Mwamba, ambao ulikuwa baba yako, na ukasahau Mungu aliyekuzaa.
19 The LORD saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Yahwe aliliona hili na kuwakataa, kwa sababu watoto wake wa kiume na mabinti zake walimchokoza.
20 He 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.
“Nitaficha uso wangu kwao”, alisema, “nami nitaona mwisho wao utakuaje; maana wao ni kazazi kaidi, watoto ambao sio waaminifu.
21 They 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.
Wamenifanya kuwa na wivu kwa kile ambacho sio mungu na kunikasirisha kwa mambo yao yasiyo na maana. Nitawafanya waone wivu kwa wale ambao sio taifa; nitawakasirisha kwa taifa pumbavu.
22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol (Sheol h7585), devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
Kwa maana moto kuwashwa kwa hasira yangu na inawaka hadi chini mwa Sheoli; inameza ulimwengu na mavuno yake; inawasha moto misingi ya milima. (Sheol h7585)
23 “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
Nitarundia maafa juu yao; nitafyatua mishale yangu yote kwao;
24 They 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.
Watapotea kwa njaa na kumezwa kwa joto liwakalo na uharibifu mchungu; nitatuma kwao meno ya wanyama wa mwituni, pamoja na sumu ya vitu vitambaao mavumbini.
25 Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
Nje panga litawatwaa, na ndani ya vyumba hofu kuu itafanya hivyo. Wote mwanamume kijana na bikra nitawaangamiza, mchanga anyonyaye, na mwanamume mwenye mvi.
26 I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
Nilisema nitawasambaza mbali, kwamba nitafanya kumbukumbu yao kukoma miongoni mwa wanadamu.
27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted; the LORD has not done all this.’”
Isingekuwa kwamba naogopa uchokozi wa adui, na kwamba adui zake wangehukumu kimakosa, na kwamba wangesema, “Mkono wetu umeinuliwa,” ningefanya haya yote.
28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
Kwa maana Israeli ni taifa linalopungukiwa na hekima, na hakuna ufahamu ndani mwao.
29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Ah laiti wangekuwa na hekima, wangeelewa hili, na kuzingatia ujio wa hatima yao!
30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?
Inawezekanaje mmoja kufukuza maelfu, na wawili kuweka makumi elfu mbioni, isipokuwa Mwamba wao hajawauza, na Yahwe hajawaachilia kwao?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
Kwa maana mwamba wa maadui zetu si kama Mwamba wetu, kama vile maadui zetu wanavyokiri.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
Kwa maana mzabibu wao unatoka kwenye mzabibu wa Sodoma, na kwenye mashamba ya Gomorra; na zabibu zake ni zabibu za sumu; vishada vyao ni vichungu.
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
Mvinyo yao ni sumu ya nyoka na sumu katili ya nyoka.
34 “Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
Huu mpango haujafichwa kwangu kwa siri, na kufungwa kabisa katika hazina zangu?
35 Vengeance 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.”
Kisasi ni changu kutoa, na fidia, katika muda mguu wao utakapotereza; kwa maana siku ya maafa kwao ipo karibu, na vitu vitakavyokuja juu yao vitaharakisha kutendeka.
36 For the LORD 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.
Kwa maana Yahwe atatoa haki kwa watu wake, na atawahurumia watumishi wake. Atahakikisha kuwa nguvu yao imetoweka, na hakuna atakayesalia, iwe watumwa au watu huru.
37 He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
Kisha atasema, “wako wapi miungu yao, mwamba ambao wamekimbilia? –
38 which 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.
miungu iliyokula sadaka zao nene na kunywa mvinyo wa sadaka zao za kinywaji? Na wainuke na kukusaidia; na wawe ulinzi kwako.
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.
Tazama sasa mimi, hata mimi, ni Mungu, na kwamba hakuna mungu tofauti yangu; ninaua, na ninaleta uhai; ninajeruhi, na ninaponya, na hakuna mtu atakayekuokoa kutoka kwa uwezo wangu.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,
Kwa maana ninainua mikono yangu mbinguni na kusema, “Niishivyo milele, nitatenda.
41 if 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.
Nitakapong’oa panga langu lingaaro, na mkono wangu utakapoanza kuleta haki, nitalipiza kisasi juu ya maadui zangu, na kuwalipa wale wote wanichukiao.
42 I 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.”
Nitafanya mishale yangu kulewa na damu, na panga langu litameza nyama kwa damu ya waliouawa na mateka, na kutoka kwa vichwa vya viongozi wa adui.”
43 Rejoice, 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.
Furahi, enyi mataifa, na watu wa Mungu, kwa maana atalipiza kisasi damu ya watumishi wake; atalipiza kisasi juu ya maadui zake, naye atafanya upatanisho kwa ajili ya nchi yake, kwa watu wake.
44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
Musa alikuja na kunena maneno yote ya wimbo huu masikioni mwa watu, yeye na Yoshua mwana wa Nuni.
45 Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
Kisha Musa alimaliza kunena maneno haya yote kwa Israeli yote.
46 He 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.
Aliwaambia, “Imarisheni akili yenu kwa haya maneno ambayo nimewashuhudia kwenu leo, ili kwamba muwaamuru watoto wenu kuyashika, maneno yote ya sheria hii.
47 For 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.”
Kwa maana hili si jambo dogo kwako, kwa sababu ni uzima wako, na kupitia jambo hili utarefusha siku zako katika nchi ambayo unakwenda juu ya Yordani kumiliki.”
48 The LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
Yahwe alizungumza na Musa katika siku hiyo hiyo na kusema,
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.
“Nenda katika usawa huu wa milima wa Abarimu, juu ya mlima wa Nebo, ambao upo katika nchi ya Moabu, mkabala na Yeriko. Utatazama nchi ya Kanani, ambayo ninawapatia watu wa Israeli kama miliki yao.
50 Die 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;
Utakufa katika mlima utakaopanda, na utakusanywa kwa watu wako, kama Haruni Muisraeli mwenzako alivyokufa juu ya mlima wa Hori na kukusanywa kwa watu wake. Hii
51 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.
itatendeka kwa sababu haukuwa mwaminifu kwangu miongoni mwa watu wa Israeli katika maji ya Meriba kule Kadeshi, katika jangwa la Zini; kwa sababu haukunitendea utukufu na heshima miongoni mwa watu wa Israeli.
52 For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”
Kwa maana utaona nchi mbele yako, lakini hautakwenda kule, katika nchi ninayowapatia watu wa Israeli.”
