Deuteronomy 9
GOD’S WORD Translation
Israel Has Been Given Canaan because of God’s Mercy
9 Listen, Israel, you’re about to cross the Jordan River. You’ll be forcing out nations that are larger and stronger than you, with big cities that have sky-high walls. 2 Their people are tall and strong. They’re descendants of Anak. You know all about them. You’ve also heard it said, “Who can oppose the descendants of Anak?” 3 Realize today that the Lord your God is the one who is going ahead of you like a raging fire. He will wipe them out and will use you to crush their power. You will take possession of their land and will quickly destroy them as the Lord promised you.
4 When the Lord your God expels these people in front of you, don’t say to yourselves, “Because we’ve been living right, the Lord brought us here to take possession of this land.” No, it’s because these nations are so wicked that the Lord is forcing them out of your way. 5 It’s not because you’ve been living right or because you’re so honest that you’re entering to take possession of their land. It’s because these people are so wicked that the Lord your God is forcing them out of your way. It’s also because the Lord wants to confirm the promise he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 So understand this: It’s not because you’ve been living right that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess. You are impossible to deal with!
7 Never forget how you made the Lord your God angry in the desert. You’ve rebelled against the Lord from the day you left Egypt until you came here. 8 Even at Mount Horeb you made the Lord so angry that he wanted to destroy you. 9 When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the tablets of the promise that the Lord made to you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights without food or water. 10 Then the Lord gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by God himself. On them were written all the words that the Lord spoke to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
11 At the end of the 40 days and 40 nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets with his promise on them. 12 He told me, “Leave right away. Your people whom you brought out of Egypt have ruined ⌞everything⌟. They’ve quickly turned from the way I commanded them to live. They’ve made an idol for themselves.”
13 The Lord also said to me, “I’ve seen these people, and they are impossible to deal with. 14 Leave me alone! I’ll destroy them and wipe their name off the earth. Then I’ll make you into a nation larger and stronger than they are.”
15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was still burning with fire. I was carrying the two tablets with the promise on them. 16 Then I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made a statue of a calf for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord commanded you to live. 17 I took the two tablets, threw them down, and smashed them in front of you.
18 Once again I threw myself down in front of the Lord. I went without food and water for 40 days and 40 nights because of the sin you committed. You did what the Lord considered evil and made him furious. 19 I was terrified of the Lord’s anger and fury. He was so angry he wanted to destroy you. But once more the Lord listened to me.
20 The Lord also became very angry with Aaron and wanted to destroy him. But at that time I prayed for Aaron, too.
21 I took that sinful calf you made and burned it. I crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was as fine as powder. Then I threw the powder into the river that flowed down the mountain.
22 You also made the Lord angry at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth Hattaavah.
23 When the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, he said, “Go and take possession of the land I’m giving you.” But you rebelled against the Lord your God’s word. You didn’t believe him or obey him. 24 You’ve rebelled against the Lord as long as I’ve known you.
25 I threw myself down in front of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights because the Lord said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed to the Lord and said, “Almighty Lord, don’t destroy your people. They belong to you. You saved them by your great power and used your mighty hand to bring them out of Egypt. 27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people. 28 Otherwise, the country we left will say, “The Lord wasn’t able to bring them to the land he promised them. He hated them. That’s why he brought them out—to let them die in the desert.” 29 They are your people. They belong to you. You used your great strength and powerful arm to bring them out ⌞of Egypt⌟.
Deuteronomy 9
New King James Version
Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed(A)
9 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the (B)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’ 3 Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who (C)goes over before you as a (D)consuming fire. (E)He will destroy them and bring them down before you; (F)so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.
4 (G)“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is (H)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you. 5 (I)It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may [a]fulfill the (J)word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a (K)stiff-necked[b] people.
7 “Remember! Do not forget how you (L)provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. (M)From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Also (N)in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you. 9 (O)When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and (P)forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 (Q)Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire (R)in[c] the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 “Then the Lord said to me, (S)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have (T)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’
13 “Furthermore (U)the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed (V)they are a [d]stiff-necked people. 14 (W)Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and (X)blot out their name from under heaven; (Y)and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
15 (Z)“So I turned and came down from the mountain, and (AA)the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And (AB)I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. 17 Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and (AC)broke them before your eyes. 18 And I (AD)fell[e] down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 19 (AE)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. (AF)But the Lord listened to me at that time also. 20 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I (AG)threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.
22 “Also at (AH)Taberah and (AI)Massah and (AJ)Kibroth Hattaavah you [f]provoked the Lord to wrath. 23 Likewise, (AK)when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and (AL)you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. 24 (AM)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
25 (AN)“Thus I [g]prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said He would destroy you. 26 Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and (AO)Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, 28 lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.” 29 Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 9:5 perform
- Deuteronomy 9:6 stubborn or rebellious
- Deuteronomy 9:10 when you were all gathered together
- Deuteronomy 9:13 stubborn or rebellious
- Deuteronomy 9:18 prostrated myself
- Deuteronomy 9:22 caused the Lord to be angry
- Deuteronomy 9:25 fell down
Deutéronome 9
Segond 21
Souvenir des rébellions d'Israël
9 »Ecoute, Israël! Tu vas aujourd'hui passer le Jourdain pour te rendre maître de nations plus grandes et plus puissantes que toi, de villes grandes et fortifiées jusqu'au ciel, 2 d'un peuple grand et de haute taille, les descendants d'Anak, que tu connais et à propos desquels tu as entendu dire: ‘Qui pourrait résister aux descendants d'Anak?’ 3 Sache aujourd'hui que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, marchera lui-même devant toi comme un feu dévorant. C'est lui qui les détruira, qui les humiliera devant toi, et tu les chasseras, tu les feras disparaître rapidement, comme l'Eternel te l'a dit. 4 Lorsque l'Eternel, ton Dieu, les aura chassés devant toi, ne dis pas dans ton cœur: ‘C'est à cause de ma justice que l'Eternel me fait entrer en possession de ce pays.’ En effet, c'est à cause de la méchanceté de ces nations que l'Eternel les chasse devant toi. 5 Non, ce n'est pas à cause de ta justice et de la droiture de ton cœur que tu entres en possession de leur pays, c’est à cause de la méchanceté de ces nations que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, les chasse devant toi, et c'est pour confirmer la promesse que l'Eternel a faite avec serment à tes ancêtres, à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob. 6 Sache donc que ce n'est pas à cause de ta justice que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne ce bon pays à posséder, car tu es un peuple réfractaire.
7 »Souviens-toi, n'oublie pas de quelle manière tu as excité la colère de l'Eternel, ton Dieu, dans le désert. Depuis le jour où tu es sorti d'Egypte jusqu'à votre arrivée ici, vous vous êtes révoltés contre l'Eternel.
8 »A Horeb, vous avez excité la colère de l'Eternel et l'Eternel s’est irrité contre vous au point de vouloir vous détruire. 9 Lorsque je suis monté sur la montagne pour prendre les tables de pierre, les tables de l'alliance que l'Eternel a conclue avec vous, je suis resté là 40 jours et 40 nuits, sans manger de pain et sans boire d'eau. 10 L'Eternel m’a donné les deux tables de pierre écrites du doigt de Dieu et contenant toutes les paroles que l'Eternel vous avait dites sur la montagne du milieu du feu, le jour de l'assemblée. 11 C’est au bout des 40 jours et des 40 nuits que l'Eternel m’a donné les deux tables de pierre, les tables de l'alliance. 12 L'Eternel m’a dit alors: ‘Lève-toi, dépêche-toi de descendre d'ici. En effet, ton peuple, celui que tu as fait sortir d'Egypte, s'est corrompu. Ils se sont bien vite écartés de la voie que je leur avais prescrite: ils se sont fait une idole en métal fondu.’ 13 L'Eternel m’a dit: ‘Je vois que ce peuple est un peuple réfractaire. 14 Laisse-moi les détruire et effacer leur nom de dessous le ciel, tandis que je ferai de toi une nation plus puissante et plus nombreuse que ce peuple.’ 15 Je suis reparti et je suis descendu de la montagne tout en feu, les deux tables de l'alliance dans les deux mains. 16 J’ai regardé et j’ai vu que vous aviez péché contre l'Eternel, votre Dieu. Vous vous étiez fait un veau en métal fondu, vous vous étiez bien vite écartés de la voie que l'Eternel vous avait prescrite. 17 Je tenais les deux tables; je les ai jetées et brisées sous vos yeux. 18 Je me suis prosterné devant l'Eternel, comme précédemment, 40 jours et 40 nuits, sans manger de pain et sans boire d'eau, à cause de tous les péchés que vous aviez commis en faisant ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Eternel pour l'irriter. 19 En effet, *j'étais tremblant de peur[a] en voyant la colère et la fureur dont l'Eternel était animé contre vous au point de vouloir vous détruire. Mais l'Eternel m’a écouté cette fois encore. 20 L'Eternel était aussi très irrité contre Aaron, qu'il voulait faire mourir, et j’ai encore intercédé pour lui à cette époque-là. 21 J’ai pris le veau que vous aviez fait, ce produit de votre péché, je l’ai brûlé au feu, je l’ai broyé jusqu'à ce qu'il soit réduit en poudre et j’ai jeté cette poudre dans le torrent qui descend de la montagne.
22 »A Tabeéra, à Massa et à Kibroth-Hattaava, vous avez excité la colère de l'Eternel.
23 »Lorsque l'Eternel vous a envoyés à Kadès-Barnéa en disant: ‘Montez, prenez possession du pays que je vous donne!’ vous vous êtes révoltés contre l'ordre de l'Eternel, votre Dieu, vous n’avez pas eu foi en lui et vous n’avez pas obéi à sa voix.
24 »Vous avez été rebelles contre l'Eternel depuis que je vous connais.
25 »Je me suis prosterné 40 jours et 40 nuits, parce que l'Eternel avait dit qu'il voulait vous détruire. 26 J’ai prié l'Eternel, j’ai dit: ‘Seigneur Eternel, ne détruis pas ton peuple, ton héritage, que tu as racheté dans ta grandeur, que tu as fait sortir d'Egypte par ta main puissante. 27 Souviens-toi de tes serviteurs Abraham, Isaac et Jacob. Ne regarde pas à la dureté de ce peuple, à sa méchanceté et à son péché. 28 Sinon, les habitants du pays d'où tu nous as fait sortir diront: C'est parce que l'Eternel n'avait pas le pouvoir de les conduire dans le pays qu'il leur avait promis et parce qu'il les détestait qu'il les a fait sortir pour les faire mourir dans le désert. 29 Ils sont pourtant ton peuple et ton héritage, que tu as fait sortir d'Egypte avec puissance et force.’
Footnotes
- Deutéronome 9:19 J’étais… peur: évoqué en Hébreux 12.21.
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