DE-32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O
earth, the
words of my mouth.
DE-32:2 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:
DE-32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye
greatness
unto our God.
DE-32:4 [He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his
ways [are]
judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right
[is] he.
DE-32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not
[the spot] of his
children: [they are] a perverse and crooked generation.
DE-32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and
unwise? [is] not he
thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
established
thee?
DE-32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many
generations: ask
thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will
tell thee.
DE-32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their
inheritance, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people
according to the
number of the children of Israel.
DE-32:9 For the LORD'S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the
lot of his
inheritance.
DE-32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste
howling wilderness;
he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of
his eye.
DE-32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her
young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her
wings:
DE-32:12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no
strange god
with him.
DE-32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that
he might eat
the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of
the rock, and
oil out of the flinty rock;
DE-32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs,
and rams of
the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat;
and thou
didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
DE-32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat,
thou art
grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook
God [which] made
him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
DE-32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods],
with abominations
provoked they him to anger.
DE-32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom
they knew not,
to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
DE-32:18 Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and
hast forgotten
God that formed thee.
DE-32:19 And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them],
because of the
provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
DE-32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see
what their
end [shall be]: for they [are] a very froward generation,
children in whom
[is] no faith.
DE-32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is]
not God; they
have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move
them to
jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke
them to anger
with a foolish nation.
DE-32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn
unto the lowest
hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on
fire the
foundations of the mountains.
DE-32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine
arrows upon them.
DE-32:24 [They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with
burning heat,
and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of
beasts upon them,
with the poison of serpents of the dust.
DE-32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy
both the young
man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray
hairs.
DE-32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would
make the
remembrance of them to cease from among men:
DE-32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest
their
adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they
should say,
Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
DE-32:28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is
there any]
understanding in them.
DE-32:29 O that they were wise, [that] they understood this,
[that] they
would consider their latter end!
DE-32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten
thousand to flight,
except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
DE-32:31 For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies
themselves
[being] judges.
DE-32:32 For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the
fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters
[are] bitter:
DE-32:33 Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel
venom of asps.
DE-32:34 [Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed
up among my
treasures?
DE-32:35 To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompense; their
foot shall slide
in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and
the things that
shall come upon them make haste.
DE-32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent
himself for his
servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there
is] none shut
up, or left.
DE-32:37 And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock
in whom they
trusted,
DE-32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank
the wine of
their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, [and] be
your
protection.
DE-32:39 See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no
god with me: I
kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there
any] that can
deliver out of my hand.
DE-32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for
ever.
DE-32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold
on judgment;
I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them
that hate me.
DE-32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword
shall devour
flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the
captives, from the
beginning of revengers upon the enemy.
DE-32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will
avenge the
blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his
adversaries, and will
be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.
DE-32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in
the ears of
the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
DE-32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to
all Israel:
DE-32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the
words which I
testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children
to observe to
do, all the words of this law.
DE-32:47 For it [is] not a vain thing for you; because it [is]
your life: and
through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land,
whither ye go
over Jordan to possess it.
DE-32:48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day,
saying,
DE-32:49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, [unto] mount
Nebo, which [is]
in the land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho; and behold
the land of
Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a
possession:
DE-32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be
gathered unto thy
people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered
unto his
people:
DE-32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of
Israel at the
waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye
sanctified me
not in the midst of the children of Israel.
DE-32:52 Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee]; but thou
shalt not go
thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
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