top Odes ch 2

Chapter 2

ᾠδὴ Μωυσέως ἐν τῷ Δευτερονομίῳ. Song of Moses
(Deut. 32:1-43)
1 πρόσεχε, οὐρανέ, καὶ λαλήσω, καὶ ἀκουέτω γῆ ῥήματα ἐκ στόματός μου. 1 “Take heed, Oh sky, and I will speak, and let the earth hear words from my mouth.
2 προσδοκάσθω ὡς ὑετὸς τὸ ἀπόφθεγμά μου, καὶ καταβήτω ὡς δρόσος τὰ ῥήματά μου, ὡσεὶ ὄμβρος ἐπ' ἄγρωστιν καὶ ὡσεὶ νιφετὸς ἐπὶ χόρτον. 2 Let my sayings be expected like rain, and let my words come down like dew, like a thunderstorm on crab grass, and like a snowstorm on lawn.
3 ὅτι ὄνομα κυρίου ἐκάλεσα· δότε μεγαλωσύνην τῷ θεῷ ἡμῶν. 3 Because I have called the name of the Lord; give greatness to our God!
4 θεός, ἀληθινὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ, καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ ὁδοὶ αὐτοῦ κρίσις· θεὸς πιστός, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀδικία, δίκαιος καὶ ὅσιος κύριος. 4 God; his works are true, and all his ways are justice. A faithful God, and there is no injustice, a righteous and virtuous Lord;
5 ἡμάρτοσαν οὐκ αὐτῷ τέκνα μωμητά, γενεὰ σκολιὰ καὶ διεστραμμένη. 5 Guilty children, not his, have sinned; a generation, crooked and perverse.
6 ταῦτα κυρίῳ ἀνταποδίδοτε οὕτω, λαὸς μωρὸς καὶ οὐχὶ σοφός; οὐκ αὐτὸς οὗτός σου πατὴρ ἐκτήσατό σὲ καὶ ἐποίησέν σὲ καὶ ἔκτισέν σὲ; 6 Thus do you repay these things to the Lord, Oh foolish and not wise people? Didn't he himself, your father, acquire you and make you and create you?
7 μνήσθητε ἡμέρας αἰῶνος, σύνετε ἔτη γενεᾶς γενεῶν· ἐπερώτησον τὸν πατέρα σου, καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ σοὶ, τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους σου, καὶ ἐροῦσίν σοὶ. 7 Remember days of old; consider years of a generation of generations; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.
8 ὅτε διεμέριζεν ὁ ὕψιστος ἔθνη, ὡς διέσπειρεν υἱοὺς Ἀδάμ, ἔστησεν ὅρια ἐθνῶν κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἀγγέλων θεοῦ, 8 When the Most High was allocating nations, as he scattered Adam's sons, he fixed borders of nations according to the number of God's angels,
9 καὶ ἐγενήθη μερὶς κυρίου λαὸς αὐτοῦ Ἰακώβ, σχοίνισμα κληρονομίας αὐτοῦ Ἰσραήλ. 9 and his people Jacob became the Lord's portion, Israēl a measured part of his inheritance.
10 αὐτάρκησεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, ἐν δίψει καύματος ἐν ἀνύδρῳ· ἐκύκλωσεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐπαίδευσεν αὐτὸν καὶ διεφύλαξεν αὐτὸν ὡς κόρην ὀφθαλμοῦ 10 He sustained him in a deserted land, in thirst of heat, in an arid place; he encircled him and educated him and guarded him as the pupil of his eye.
11 ὡς ἀετὸς σκεπάσαι νοσσιὰν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς νεοσσοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐπεπόθησεν, διεὶς τὰς πτέρυγας αὐτοῦ ἐδέξατο αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀνέλαβεν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τῶν μεταφρένων αὐτοῦ. 11 As an eagle protects his brood, and he yearned for his young; spreading his wings, he received them and took them up on his back;
12 κύριος μόνος ἦγεν αὐτούς, καὶ οὐκ ἦν μετ' αὐτῶν θεὸς ἀλλότριος. 12 the Lord alone was leading them, and no foreign god was with them.
13 ἀνεβίβασεν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν τῆς γῆς, ἐψώμισεν αὐτοὺς γενήματα ἀγρῶν· ἐθήλασαν μέλι ἐκ πέτρας καὶ ἔλαιον ἐκ στερεᾶς πέτρας, 13 He brought them up onto the strength of the land, he fed them with produce of the fields; they sucked honey from a rock and olive oil from solid rock,
14 βούτυρον βοῶν καὶ γάλα προβάτων μετὰ στέατος ἀρνῶν καὶ κριῶν, υἱῶν ταύρων καὶ τράγων μετὰ στέατος νεφρῶν πυροῦ, καὶ αἷμα σταφυλῆς ἔπιον οἶνον. 14 butter of cows and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams; of the sons of bulls and of goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat–and they drank wine, blood of grape.
15 καὶ ἔφαγεν Ἰακὼβ καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη, καὶ ἀπελάκτισεν ὁ ἠγαπημένος, ἐλιπάνθη, ἐπαχύνθη ἐπλατύνθη· καὶ ἐγκατέλιπεν θεὸν τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτὸν καὶ ἀπέστη ἀπὸ θεοῦ σωτῆρος αὐτοῦ. 15 And Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked. He grew fat; he became heavy; he became broad! And he abandoned God who made him, and he departed from God his saviour.
16 παρώξυνάν με ἐπ' ἀλλοτρίοις, ἐν βδελύγμασιν αὐτῶν ἐξεπίκρανάν με· 16 They provoked me with foreign things; by their abominations they embittered me.
17 ἔθυσαν δαιμονίοις καὶ οὐ θεῷ, θεοῖς, οἷς οὐκ ᾔδεισαν· καινοὶ καὶ πρόσφατοι ἥκασιν, οὓς οὐκ ᾔδεισαν οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν. 17 They sacrificed to demons and not to God, to gods they didn't know. New, recent ones have come, whom their fathers didn't know.
18 θεὸν τὸν γεννήσαντά σὲ ἐγκατέλιπες καὶ ἐπελάθου θεοῦ τοῦ τρέφοντός σὲ. 18 You abandoned God who bore you, and you forgot God who nourished you.
19 καὶ εἶδεν κύριος καὶ ἐζήλωσεν καὶ παρωξύνθη δι' ὀργὴν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ θυγατέρων 19 And the Lord saw it and was jealous, and he was provoked on account of the wrath of his sons and daughters.
20 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. 20 And he said, I will turn away my face from them, and I will show what will happen to them at the end, because it is a perverted generation, sons who have no faithfullness in them.
21 αὐτοὶ παρεζήλωσάν με ἐπ' οὐ θεῷ, παρώργισάν με ἐν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν· κἀγὼ παραζηλώσω αὐτοὺς ἐπ' οὐκ ἔθνει, ἐπ' ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ αὐτούς. 21 They made me jealous with what is not a god, provoked me with their idols. And I will make them jealous with what is not a nation, provoke them with a foolish nation.
22 ὅτι πῦρ ἐκκέκαυται ἐκ τοῦ θυμοῦ μου, καυθήσεται ἕως ᾅδου κάτω, καταφάγεται γῆν καὶ τὰ γενήματα αὐτῆς, φλέξει θεμέλια ὀρέων. 22 They made me jealous with what is not a god, provoked me with their idols. And I will make them jealous with what is not a nation, provoke them with a foolish nation.
23 συνάξω εἰς αὐτοὺς κακὰ καὶ τὰ βέλη μου συντελέσω εἰς αὐτούς. 23 I will gather evils against them and will expend my arrows against them.
24 τηκόμενοι λιμῷ καὶ βρώσει ὀρνέων καὶ ὀπισθότονος ἀνίατος· ὀδόντας θηρίων ἐξαποστελῶ εἰς αὐτοὺς μετὰ θυμοῦ συρόντων ἐπὶ γῆς. 24 While they are being wasted by famine and are eaten by birds– and uncurable tetanus. I will send teeth of beasts against them, with anger of creatures that drag on the ground.
25 ἔξωθεν ἀτεκνώσει αὐτοὺς μάχαιρα καὶ ἐκ τῶν ταμιείων φόβος· νεανίσκος σὺν παρθένῳ, θηλάζων μετὰ καθεστηκότος πρεσβυτέρου. 25 From outside, a dagger shall bereave them of children, and from the bedrooms, fear; young man together with virgin, nursing child with one grown old.
26 εἶπα διασπερῶ αὐτούς, παύσω δὴ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτῶν, 26 I said, I will disperse them; indeed, I will cause their memory to cease from among men,
27 εἰ μὴ δι' ὀργὴν ἐχθρῶν, ἵνα μὴ μακροχρονίσωσιν, καὶ ἵνα μὴ συνεπιθῶνται οἱ ὑπεναντίοι, μὴ εἴπωσιν ἡ χεὶρ ἡμῶν ὑψηλή, καὶ οὐχὶ κύριος ἐποίησεν ταῦτα πάντα. 27 were it not for wrath of the enemies so that they may not last long and so that their adversaries not joining in attacking, don't let them say, ‘Our hand is high, and it was not the Lord who did all these things.'
28 ὅτι ἔθνος ἀπολωλεκὸς βουλήν ἐστιν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐπιστήμη. 28 Because it is a nation that has lost counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
29 οὐκ ἐφρόνησαν συνιέναι ταῦτα· καταδεξάσθωσαν εἰς τὸν ἐπιόντα χρόνον. 29 They had no sense to understand these things. Let them accept them for the time to come.
30 πῶς διώξεται εἷς χιλίους καὶ δύο μετακινήσουσιν μυριάδας, εἰ μὴ ὁ θεὸς ἀπέδοτο αὐτοὺς καὶ ὁ κύριος παρέδωκεν αὐτούς; 30 How shall one pursue thousands and two remove myriads unless God sold them and the Lord delivered them up?
31 οὐ γάρ εἰσιν οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν ὡς ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν· οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν ἀνόητοι. 31 Because our God is not like their gods, but our enemies are without understanding.
32 ἐκ γὰρ ἀμπέλου Σοδόμων ἡ ἄμπελος αὐτῶν, καὶ ἡ κληματὶς αὐτῶν ἐκ Γομόρρας· ἡ σταφυλὴ αὐτῶν σταφυλὴ χολῆς, βότρυς πικρίας αὐτοῖς· 32 For their grapevine is from the grapevine of Sodom, and their branch from Gomorra; their grape cluster is a cluster of bile; it is a bunch of bitterness to them;
33 θυμὸς δρακόντων ὁ οἶνος αὐτῶν καὶ θυμὸς ἀσπίδων ἀνίατος. 33 their wine is the anger of dragons, and the anger of incurable asps.
34 οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα πάντα συνῆκται παρ' ἐμοὶ καὶ ἐσφράγισται ἐν τοῖς θησαυροῖς μου; 34 Look! haven't these things been gathered with me and sealed up in my treasuries?
35 ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐκδικήσεως ἀνταποδώσω, ἐν καιρῷ, ὅταν σφαλῇ ὁ ποὺς αὐτῶν· ὅτι ἐγγὺς ἡμέρα ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν, καὶ πάρεστιν ἕτοιμα ὑμῖν. 35 In a day of vengeance, I will repay, in a time when their foot slips, because the day of their destruction is near and things prepared for you are present.
36 ὅτι κρινεῖ κύριος τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ παρακληθήσεται· εἶδεν γὰρ αὐτοὺς παραλελυμένους καὶ ἐκλελοιπότας ἐν ἐπαγωγῇ καὶ παρειμένους. Because the Lord will judge his people and be comforted over his slaves. For he saw them paralyzed, both failed under attack and enfeebled.
37 καὶ εἶπεν κύριος ποῦ εἰσιν οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν, ἐφ' οἷς ἐπεποίθεισαν ἐπ' αὐτοῖς, 37 And the Lord said, Where are their gods, they in whom they trusted,
38 ὧν τὸ στέαρ τῶν θυσιῶν αὐτῶν ἠσθίετε καὶ ἐπίνετε τὸν οἶνον τῶν σπονδῶν αὐτῶν; ἀναστήτωσαν καὶ βοηθησάτωσαν ὑμῖν καὶ γενηθήτωσαν ὑμῖν σκεπασταί. 38 the fat of whose sacrifices you were eating and were drinking the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you, and let them be protectors for you.
39 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. 39 See, see that I am, and there is no god except me. I will kill, and I will make alive; I will strike, and I will heal, and there is no one who will deliver from my hands.
40 ὅτι ἀρῶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν τὴν χεῖρά μου καὶ ὀμοῦμαι τῇ δεξιᾷ μου καὶ ἐρῶ ζῶ ἐγὼ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, 40 Because I will lift up my hand to the sky, and I will swear by my right hand, and I will say; I live forever,
41 ὅτι παροξυνῶ ὡς ἀστραπὴν τὴν μάχαιράν μου, καὶ ἀνθέξεται κρίματος ἡ χείρ μου, καὶ ἀνταποδώσω δίκην τοῖς ἐχθροῖς καὶ τοῖς μισοῦσίν με ἀνταποδώσω· 41 because I will sharpen my dagger like lightning, and my hand will take hold on judgment, and I will repay my enemies with justice, and those who hate me I will repay.
42 μεθύσω τὰ βέλη μου ἀφ' αἵματος, καὶ ἡ μάχαιρά μου καταφάγεται κρέα, ἀφ' αἵματος τραυματιῶν καὶ αἰχμαλωσίας, ἀπὸ κεφαλῆς ἀρχόντων ἐθνῶν. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood; and my dagger shall devour flesh; with the blood of the wounded and of captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemies.
43 εὐφράνθητε, οὐρανοί ἅμα αὐτῷ, καὶ προσκυνησάτωσαν αὐτῷ πάντες οἱ ἄγγελοι θεοῦ· εὐφράνθητε, ἔθνη, μετὰ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐνισχυσάτωσαν αὐτῷ πάντες υἱοὶ θεοῦ· ὅτι τὸ αἷμα τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ ἐκδικεῖται, καὶ ἐκδικήσει καὶ ἀνταποδώσει δίκην τοῖς ἐχθροῖς καὶ τοῖς μισοῦσιν ἀνταποδώσει, καὶ ἐκκαθαριεῖ κύριος τὴν γῆν τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ. 43 Be glad, Oh skies, with him, and let all the sons of God worship him. Be glad, Oh nations, with his people, and let all the angels of God grow strong for him. For he will avenge the blood of his sons and take revenge and repay the enemies with justice, and he will repay those who hate, and the Lord shall cleanse the land of his people.”