Deuteronomy 32:2 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Let my doctrine accumulate like the rain. Let my eloquence form like the dew, like a mist upon the plants, and like water droplets upon the grass.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
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.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
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.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew; As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb:
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.
LSV Literal Standard Version
My doctrine drops as rain; My sayings flow as dew; As storms on the tender grass, || And as showers on the herb,
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
My doctrine shall drop as the raine, and my speach shall stil as the dew, as the showre vpon the herbes, and as the great raine vpon the grasse.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Let my teaching drop down like the rain, let my speech distill like the dew, like the gentle rain on the tender grass, and like the showers on the plants.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Let my speech be looked for as the rain, And my words come down as dew, As the shower upon the herbage, And as snow upon the grass.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,
FBV Free Bible Version
May my teaching fall gently like the rain; may my words drop lightly like the dew, like soft rain on new grass, like spring showers on growing plants.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Goteará como la lluvia mi doctrina; destilará como el rocío mi razonamiento; como la llovizna sobre la grama, y como las gotas sobre la hierba:
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Mis palabras caerán sobre ustedes como suave lluvia y rocío, como lluvia sobre el pasto tierno, como lluvia sobre las laderas.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Gotee como lluvia mi enseñanza, Y como el rocío destile mi palabra, Como la llovizna sobre la grama, Como aguaceros sobre el césped,
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Que mi enseñanza caiga suavemente como la lluvia; que mis palabras caigan ligeramente como el rocío, como una suave lluvia sobre la hierba nueva, como lluvias primaverales sobre las plantas en crecimiento.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Mi enseñanza caerá como la lluvia y mis palabras como el rocío sobre los campos, como lluvia sobre la hierba joven y como aguacero sobre las plantas.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Προσδοκάσθω ὡς ὑετὸς τὸ ἀπόφθεγμά μου, καὶ καταβήτω ὡς δρόσος τὰ ῥήματά μου, ὡσεὶ ὄμβρος ἐπʼ ἄγρωστιν, καὶ ὡσεὶ νιφετὸς ἐπὶ χόρτον.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
יַעֲרֹ֤ף כַּמָּטָר֙ לִקְחִ֔י תִּזַּ֥ל כַּטַּ֖ל אִמְרָתִ֑י כִּשְׂעִירִ֣ם עֲלֵי־דֶ֔שֶׁא וְכִרְבִיבִ֖ים עֲלֵי־עֵֽשֶׂב׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea, fluat ut ros eloquium meum, quasi imber super herbam, et quasi stillæ super gramina.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
да ча́етсѧ ꙗ҆́кѡ до́ждь вѣща́нїе моѐ, и҆ да сни́дꙋтъ ꙗ҆́кѡ роса̀ глаго́ли моѝ, ꙗ҆́кѡ тꙋ́ча на тро́скотъ и҆ ꙗ҆́кѡ и҆́ней на сѣ́но:
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Польется как дождь учение мое, как роса речь моя, как мелкий дождь на зелень, как ливень на траву.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Η διδασκαλία μου θέλει σταλάξει ως η βροχή, ο λόγος μου θέλει καταβή ως η δρόσος, ως η ψεκάς επί την χλόην και ως ο όμβρος επί τον χόρτον·
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Нека се спусти као дажд наука моја, и нека падне као роса говор мој, као ситан дажд на младу траву и као крупан дажд на одраслу траву.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Neka se spusti kao dažd nauka moja, i neka padne kao rosa govor moj, kao sitan dažd na mladu travu i kao krupan dažd na odraslu travu.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
يَهْطِلُ كَٱلْمَطَرِ تَعْلِيمِي، وَيَقْطُرُ كَٱلنَّدَى كَلَامِي. كَٱلطَّلِّ عَلَى ٱلْكَلاءِ، وَكَالْوَابِلِ عَلَى ٱلْعُشْبِ.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT