Deuteronomy 32

Give ^aear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. ^{2 b}My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, ^cas the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: ³ Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. ⁴ He is the Rock, ^dhis work is perfect: for ^eall his ways are judgment: ^fa God of truth and ^gwithout iniquity, just and right is he. ⁵ They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. ⁶ Do ye thus ^hrequite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he ⁱthy father that hath ^jbought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

⁷ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. ⁸ When the Most High ^ldivided to the nations their inheritance, when he ^kseparated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. ⁹ For ^mthe LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. ¹⁰ He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he ⁿinstructed him, he ^okept him as the apple of his eye. ¹¹ As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: ¹² So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. ^{13 q}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 ^phoney out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; ¹⁴ Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, ^rwith the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure ^sblood of the grape.

¹⁵ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he ^tforsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the ^uRock of his salvation. ¹⁶ They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 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. ¹⁸ Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

¹⁹ And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 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, ^vchildren in whom is no faith. ²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger ^xwith their vanities: and ^wI will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. ²² For ^ya 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. ²³ I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 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. ^{25 z}The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

²⁶ I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: ²⁷ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should ^asay, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. ²⁸ For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. ^{29 b}O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

³⁰ How should ^cone chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock ^dhad sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? ³¹ For their rock is not as our Rock, ^eeven our enemies themselves being judges. 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: ³³ Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. ³⁴ Is not this ^flaid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? ^{35 g}To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; 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. ³⁶ For the LORD shall judge his people, ^hand repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. ³⁷ And he shall say, ⁱWhere are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 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.

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, and ^jthere is no god with me: ^kI kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. ^{40 l}For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 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. 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 revenges ^mupon the enemy. ^{43 n}Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will ^oavenge the blood of his servants, and ^pwill render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

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. ⁴⁵ And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 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. ⁴⁷ For it is not a vain thing for you; ^qbecause it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

^{48 r}And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 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: 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: ⁵¹ Because ^sye 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. 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.

Deuteronomy 33