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Deuteronomy 32
The Song Of Moses
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
My speech distill as the dew,
As the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.
Ascribe greatness to our God!
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.
They are not His children, because of their defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.
O foolish and unwise people?
Is not He your Father who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.
Consider the years of all generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.
When He separated the sons of man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the sons of Israel.
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
And in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
That hovers over its young,
He spread His wings and caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.
And there was no foreign god with him.
And he ate the produce of the field;
And He made him suck honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the finest of the wheat—
And of the blood of grapes you drank wine.
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
Then he forsook God who made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
To gods whom they have not known,
New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.
And forgot the God who gave you birth.
Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.
I will see what their end shall be;
For they are a perverse generation,
Sons in whom is no faithfulness.
They have provoked Me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
And burns to the lowest part of Sheol,
And consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
I will use My arrows on them.
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
And inside terror—
Both young man and virgin,
The nursling with the man of gray hair.
I will remove the memory of them from men,”
That their adversaries would misjudge,
That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant,
And the LORD has not done all this.”’
And there is no understanding in them.
That they would discern their future!
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock had sold them,
And the LORD had given them up?
Even our enemies themselves judge this.
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
Their clusters, bitter.
And the deadly poison of cobras.
Sealed up in My treasuries?
In due time their foot will slip;
For the day of their calamity is near,
And the impending things are hastening upon them.’
And will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.
The rock in which they sought refuge?
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your hiding place!
And there is no god besides Me;
It is I who put to death and give life.
I have wounded and it is I who heal,
And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
And say, as I live forever,
And My hand takes hold on justice,
I will render vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.
And My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired leaders of the enemy.’
For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And will render vengeance on His adversaries,
And will atone for His land and His people.”
44Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he, with Joshua the son of Nun. 45When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46he said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law. 47“For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”
48The LORD spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, 49“Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession. 50Then die on the mountain where you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel. 52“For you shall see the land at a distance, but you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel.”