 1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak. And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine will drop like rain. My speech will drop down like the dew, like small rain on the tender plant and like showers on the grass. 3 Because I will proclaim the name of the Lord and ascribe greatness to our God. 4 He is the rock. His work is perfect. All His ways are just, a God of truth and without iniquity. He is just and upright. 5 They have corrupted themselves. They are not His children. It is their blemish. They are a crooked and perverse generation. 6 Do you thus give back to the Lord, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you? 7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father and he will show you. Ask your elders and they will tell you. 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. 9 For the Lord's portion is His people. Jacob is the lot of His inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land. In the deserted, howling wilderness, he led him and cared for him and kept him as the pupil of His eye. 11 Like an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads her wings, and bears them on her wing. 12 The Lord alone led him and there was no strange god with him. 13 He made him to ride on the high places of the earth so that he might eat the increase of the fields. He made him suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock. 14 Curds from cows, milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs and rams, the bread of Bashan, and goats, with the finest wheat, and wine from the blood of grape to drink. 15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked, fat and thick and satisfied+ and then forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with abominations. 17 They sacrificed to devils, not to God, but to gods they did not know, new ones whom your fathers did not fear. 18 You forgot the rock who brought you forth and you ceased to care for God who formed you. 19 The Lord saw this and despised them because of the provoking of His sons and daughters. 20 He said, I will hide my presence+ from them. I will see what their end will be. For they are a perverse+ generation, children in whom there is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with false gods. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with false, unbelieving people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. 24 Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust. 25 The sword outside, and the terror inside, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey hairs. 26 I said I would dash them to pieces; I would make the memory of them to cease from among men, 27 were it not the provocation of an enemy I feared, lest their enemies should misconstrue. Lest they should say, Our hand is high and the Lord has not done all this. 28 For they are a nation without wisdom, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 If they were wise, they would understand this. They would consider their latter end. 30 How shall one chase a thousand, and two put 10,000 to flight, unless their rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up? 31 For their rock is not as our rock, even 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 serpents, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures? 35 Vengeance and retribution belong to me. Their foot will slide in time for the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that will come on them swiftly+. 36 For the Lord will bring justice to His people. He will have compassion on His servants. For He sees that their stgrength+ is gone and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain. 37 He will say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted? 38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you. Let it be your hiding place. 39 See now that I, I am He, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive; I wound and I heal. And there is no deliverer out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to Heaven and say, I live forever. 41 If I sharpen my glittering sword, and if my hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to my enemies and will reward those who hate me. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the hairy scalp of the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O nations, with His people. For He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His foes and will be merciful to His land, to His people. 44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing+ of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 45 Moses ended speaking all these words to all Israel. 46 He said to them, Set your hearts to all the words that I testify among you today that you shall command your children to observe and to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you, because it is your life. And by this word you shall prolong your days in the land where you go over Jordan, there to possess it. 48 The Lord spoke to Moses that same day saying, 49 Go up into Mount Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab that is opposite Jericho. And behold the land of Canaan that I am giving to the children of Israel for a possession. 50 Die in the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 because you sinned against me among the children of Israel at the Waters of Strife in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 Yet you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there to the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.
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