Deuteronomy 9

shema yisra'el attah over hayyom et-hayyarden lavo lareshet goyim gedolim va'atsumim mimmekka arim gedolot uvetsurot bashamayim

Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and more populous than you: great cities with walls sky-high;

am-gadol varam bene anaqim asher attah yadata ve'attah shamata mi yityatsev lifne bene anaq

a people great and tall, the Anakites, of whom you have knowledge; for you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the children of Anak?”

veyadata hayyom ki Adonai elohekha hu-ha'over lefanekha esh okhelah hu yashmidem vehu yakhni'em lefanekha vehorashtam veha'avadtam maher ka'asher dibber Adonai lakh

Know then this day that none other than the ETERNAL your God is crossing at your head, a devouring fire; it is [God] who will wipe them out—subduing them before you, that you may quickly dispossess and destroy them, as GOD promised you.

al-tomar bilvavekha bahadof Adonai elohekha otam millefanekha lemor betsidqati hevi'ani Adonai lareshet et-ha'arets hazzot uverishat haggoyim ha'elleh Adonai morisham mippanekha

And when the ETERNAL your God has thrust them from your path, say not to yourselves, “GOD has enabled us to possess this land because of our virtues”; it is rather because of the wickedness of those nations that GOD is dispossessing them before you.

lo vetsidqatekha uveyosher levavekha attah va lareshet et-artsam ki berishat haggoyim ha'elleh Adonai elohekha morisham mippanekha ulema'an haqim et-haddavar asher nishba Adonai la'avotekha le'avraham leyitskhaq uleya'aqov

It is not because of your virtues and your rectitude that you will be able to possess their country; but it is because of their wickedness that the ETERNAL your God is dispossessing those nations before you, and in order to fulfill the oath that GOD made to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

veyadata ki lo vetsidqatekha Adonai elohekha noten lekha et-ha'arets hattovah hazzot lerishtah ki am-qesheh-oref attah

Know, then, that it is not for any virtue of yours that the ETERNAL your God is giving you this good land to possess; for you are a stiffnecked people.

zekhor al-tishkakh et asher-hiqtsafta et-Adonai elohekha bammidbar lemin-hayyom asher-yatsata me'erets mitsrayim ad-bo'akhem ad-hammaqom hazzeh mamrim heyitem im-Adonai

Remember, never forget, how you provoked the ETERNAL your God to anger in the wilderness: from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have continued defiant toward GOD.

uvekhorev hiqtsaftem et-Adonai vayyitannaf Adonai bakhem lehashmid etkhem

At Horeb you so provoked GOD that GOD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

ba'aloti haharah laqakhat lukhot ha'avanim lukhot habberit asher-karat Adonai immakhem va'eshev bahar arba'im yom ve'arba'im laylah lekhem lo akhalti umayim lo shatiti

I had ascended the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant that GOD had made with you, and I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, eating no bread and drinking no water.

vayyitten Adonai elay et-shene lukhot ha'avanim ketuvim be'etsba elohim va'alehem kekhol-haddevarim asher dibber Adonai immakhem bahar mittokh ha'esh beyom haqqahal

And the ETERNAL gave me the two tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God, with the exact words that the ETERNAL had addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the Assembly.

vayehi miqqets arba'im yom ve'arba'im layelah natan Adonai elay et-shene lukhot ha'avanim lukhot habberit

At the end of those forty days and forty nights, GOD gave me the two tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant.

vayyomer Adonai elay qum red maher mizzeh ki shikhet ammekha asher hotseta mimmitsrayim saru maher min-hadderekh asher tsivvitim asu lahem massekhah

And GOD said to me, “Hurry, go down from here at once, for the people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted wickedly; they have been quick to stray from the path that I enjoined upon them; they have made themselves a molten image.”

vayyomer Adonai elay lemor ra'iti et-ha'am hazzeh vehinneh am-qesheh-oref hu

GOD further said to me, “I see that this is a stiffnecked people.

heref mimmenni ve'ashmidem ve'emkheh et-shemam mittakhat hashamayim ve'e'eseh otekha legoy-atsum varav mimmennu

Let Me alone and I will destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make you a nation far more numerous than they.”

va'efen va'ered min-hahar vehahar bo'er ba'esh ushene lukhot habberit al shete yaday

I started down the mountain, a mountain ablaze with fire, the two Tablets of the Covenant in my two hands.

va'ere vehinneh khatatem la-Adonai elohekhem asitem lakhem egel massekhah sartem maher min-hadderekh asher-tsivvah Adonai etkhem

I saw how you had sinned against the ETERNAL your God: you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had been quick to stray from the path that GOD had enjoined upon you.

va'etpos bishne hallukhot va'ashlikhem me'al shete yaday va'ashabberem le'enekhem

Thereupon I gripped the two tablets and flung them away with both my hands, smashing them before your eyes.

va'etnappal lifne Adonai karishonah arba'im yom ve'arba'im laylah lekhem lo akhalti umayim lo shatiti al kol-khattatkhem asher khatatem la'asot hara be'ene Adonai lehakhiso

I threw myself down before GOD—eating no bread and drinking no water forty days and forty nights, as before—because of the great wrong you had committed, doing what displeased and vexed GOD.

ki yagoreti mippene ha'af vehakhemah asher qatsaf Adonai alekhem lehashmid etkhem vayyishma Adonai elay gam bappa'am hahiv

For I was in dread of the fierce anger against you that moved GOD to wipe you out. And that time, too, GOD gave heed to me.—

uve'aharon hitannaf Adonai me'od lehashmido va'etpallel gam-be'ad aharon ba'et hahiv

Moreover, GOD was angry enough with Aaron to have destroyed him; so I also interceded for Aaron at that time.—

ve'et-khattatkhem asher-asitem et-ha'egel laqakhti va'esrof oto ba'esh va'ekkot oto takhon hetev ad asher-daq le'afar va'ashlikh et-afaro el-hannakhal hayyored min-hahar

As for that sinful thing you had made, the calf, I took it and put it to the fire; I broke it to bits and ground it thoroughly until it was fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the brook that comes down from the mountain.

uvetaverah uvemassah uveqivrot hatta'avah maqtsifim heyitem et-Adonai

Again you provoked GOD at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

uvishloakh Adonai etkhem miqqadesh barnea lemor alu ureshu et-ha'arets asher natatti lakhem vattamru et-pi Adonai elohekhem velo he'emantem lo velo shematem beqolo

And when GOD sent you on from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and take possession of the land that I am giving you,” you flouted the command of the ETERNAL your God—whom you did not put your trust in nor obey.

mamrim heyitem im-Adonai miyyom dati etkhem

As long as I have known you, you have been defiant toward GOD.

va'etnappal lifne Adonai et arba'im hayyom ve'et-arba'im hallaylah asher hitnappaleti ki-amar Adonai lehashmid etkhem

When I lay prostrate before GOD those forty days and forty nights, because GOD was determined to destroy you,

va'etpallel el-Adonai va'omar adonay Elohim al-tashkhet ammekha venakhalatekha asher padita begodlekha asher-hotseta mimmitsrayim beyad khazaqah

I prayed to GOD and said, “O my Sovereign GOD, do not annihilate Your very own people, whom You redeemed in Your majesty and whom You freed from Egypt with a mighty hand.

zekhor la'avadekha le'avraham leyitskhaq uleya'aqov al-tefen el-qeshi ha'am hazzeh ve'el-risho ve'el-khattato

Give thought to Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and pay no heed to the stubbornness of this people, its wickedness, and its sinfulness.

pen-yomeru ha'arets asher hotsetanu misham mibbeli yekholet Adonai lahavi'am el-ha'arets asher-dibber lahem umissinato otam hotsi'am lahamitam bammidbar

Else the country from which You freed us will say, ‘It was because GOD was powerless to bring them into the land promised to them, and because of having rejected them, that he brought them out to have them die in the wilderness.’

vehem ammekha venakhalatekha asher hotseta bekhokhakha haggadol uvizro'akha hannetuyah

Yet they are Your very own people, whom You freed with Your great might and Your outstretched arm.”