¹ Ce sont donc ici les commandements, les statuts et les droits que l'Eternel votre Dieu m'a commandé de vous enseigner, afin que vous les fassiez au pays dans lequel vous allez passer pour le posséder.

² Afin que tu craignes l'Eternel ton Dieu, en gardant durant tous les jours de ta vie, toi, et ton fils, et le fils de ton fils, tous ces statuts et ces commandements que je te prescris, et afin que tes jours soient prolongés.

³ Tu les écouteras donc, ô Israël! et tu prendras garde de les faire, afin que tu prospères, et que vous soyez fort multipliés [au] pays découlant de lait et de miel, ainsi que l'Eternel, le Dieu de tes pères, l'a dit.

⁴ Ecoute, Israël, l'Eternel notre Dieu est le seul Eternel.

⁵ Tu aimeras donc l'Eternel ton Dieu de tout ton cœur, de toute ton âme, et de toutes tes forces.

⁶ Et ces paroles que je te commande aujourd'hui seront en ton cœur.

⁷ Tu les enseigneras soigneusement à tes enfants, et tu t'en entretiendras quand tu demeureras en ta maison, quand tu voyageras, quand tu te coucheras, et quand tu te lèveras.

⁸ Et tu les lieras pour être un signe sur tes mains, et elles seront comme des fronteaux entre tes yeux.

⁹ Tu les écriras aussi sur les poteaux de ta maison, et sur tes portes.

¹⁰ Et il arrivera que quand l'Eternel ton Dieu t'aura fait entrer au pays qu'il a juré à tes pères, Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob, de te donner; dans les grandes et bonnes villes que tu n'as point bâties;

¹¹ Dans les maisons pleines de tous biens que tu n'as point remplies; vers les puits creusés, que tu n'as point creusés; près des vignes et des oliviers que tu n'as point plantés; tu mangeras, et tu seras rassasié.

¹² [Mais] prends garde à toi, de peur que tu n'oublies l'Eternel qui t'a tiré du pays d'Egypte, de la maison de servitude.

¹³ Tu craindras l'Eternel ton Dieu, tu le serviras, et tu jureras par son Nom.

¹⁴ Vous ne marcherez point après les autres dieux, d'entre les dieux des peuples qui seront autour de vous.

¹⁵ Car le [Dieu] Fort [et] jaloux, qui est l'Eternel ton Dieu, est au milieu de toi; de peur que la colère de l'Eternel ton Dieu ne s'enflamme contre toi, et qu'il ne t'extermine de dessus la terre.

¹⁶ Vous ne tenterez point l'Eternel votre Dieu, comme vous l'avez tenté en Massa.

¹⁷ Vous garderez soigneusement les commandements de l'Eternel votre Dieu, et ses témoignages, et ses statuts qu'il vous a commandés.

¹⁸ Tu feras donc ce que l'Eternel approuve et trouve droit et bon, afin que tu prospères, et que tu entres au bon pays duquel l'Eternel a juré à tes pères, et que tu le possèdes.

¹⁹ En chassant tous tes ennemis de devant toi, comme l'Eternel en a parlé.

²⁰ Quand ton enfant t'interrogera à l'avenir, en disant : Que veulent dire ces témoignages, et ces statuts, et ces droits que l'Eternel notre Dieu vous a commandés?

²¹ Alors tu diras à ton enfant : Nous avons été esclaves de Pharaon en Egypte, et l'Eternel Nous a retirés d'Egypte à main forte;

²² Et l'Eternel a fait des signes et des miracles, grands et nuisibles en Egypte, sur Pharaon, et sur toute sa maison, comme nous l'avons vu.

²³ Et il nous a fait sortir de là, pour nous faire entrer au pays duquel il avait juré à nos pères, de nous le donner;

²⁴ Ainsi l'Eternel nous a commandé d'observer tous ces statuts, en craignant l'Eternel notre Dieu, afin que nous prospérions toujours, et que notre vie soit préservée, comme [il paraît] aujourd'hui.

²⁵ Et ceci sera notre justice, [savoir] quand nous aurons pris garde de faire tous ces commandements devant l'Eternel notre Dieu, selon qu'il nous l'a commandé.

¹ Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

² He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

³ "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

⁵ Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

⁶ I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

⁷ For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

⁹ In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."

¹¹ Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

¹² The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

¹³ Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

¹⁴ Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

¹⁵ So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

¹⁶ but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁷ Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

¹⁹ Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"

²⁰ Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

²² Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

²³ who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

²⁶ He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

²⁸ whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

²⁹ Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

³⁰ They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.