Deuteronomy 31–34

31And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. ²And he said unto them, I am ^aan hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more ^bgo out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, ^cThou shalt not go over this Jordan. ³The Lord thy God, ^dhe will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, ^eas the Lord hath said. ^4fAnd the Lord shall do unto them ^gas he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. ⁵And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them ^haccording unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. ⁶ⁱBe strong and of a good courage, ^kfear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, ^lhe it is that doth go with thee; ^mhe will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

⁷And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, ⁿBe strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. ⁸And the Lord, ^ohe it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, ^mhe will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither ^pbe dismayed.

⁹And Moses wrote this law, ^qand delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, ^rwhich bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel. ¹⁰And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the ^syear of release, ^tin the feast of tabernacles, ¹¹When all Israel is come to ^uappear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, ^xthou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. ^12yGather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: ¹³And that their children, ^zwhich have not known any thing, ^amay hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

¹⁴And the Lord said unto Moses, ^bBehold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that ^cI may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. ¹⁵And ^dthe Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. ¹⁶And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt ^†sleep with thy fathers; and this people will ^erise up, and ^fgo a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will ^gforsake me, and ^hbreak my covenant which I have made with them. ¹⁷Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and ⁱI will forsake them, and I will ^khide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall ^†befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because ^lour God is not among us? ¹⁸And ^mI will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. ¹⁹Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be ⁿa witness for me against the children of Israel. ²⁰For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, ^othat floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and ^pwaxen fat; ^qthen will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and ^rprovoke me, and ^hbreak my covenant. ²¹And it shall come to pass, ^swhen many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify ^†against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for ^tI know their ^uimagination which they ^†go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. ²²Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. ^23wAnd he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, ^xBe strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and ^yI will be with thee.

²⁴And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of ^zwriting the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, ²⁵That Moses commanded the Levites, ^zwhich bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, ²⁶Take this book of the law, ^aand put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there ^bfor a witness against thee. ²⁷For I know thy rebellion, and thy ^cstiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ^dye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death? ²⁸Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your ^eofficers, that I may speak these words in their ears, ^fand call heaven and earth to record against them. ²⁹For I know that after my death ye will utterly ^gcorrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you ^hin the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, ⁱto provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. ³⁰And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

32Give ear, ^aO ye heavens, and I will speak;

And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

^2bMy doctrine ^cshall drop as the rain,

My speech shall distil as the dew,

As the small rain upon the tender herb,

And ^das the showers upon the grass:

³Because I will publish the name of the Lord:

Ascribe ye ^egreatness unto our God.

⁴He is ^fthe Rock, his work is perfect:

For ^gall his ways are judgment:

^hA God of truth and ⁱwithout iniquity,

Just and right is he.

^5†They have corrupted themselves, ^||their spot is not the spot of his children:

They are a ^kperverse and ^kcrooked generation.

⁶Do ye thus ^lrequite the Lord,

O foolish people and unwise?

Is not he ^mthy father that hath ⁿbought thee?

Hath he not ^omade thee, and established thee?

⁷Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of ^†many generations:

^pAsk thy father, and he will shew thee;

Thy elders, and they will tell thee.

⁸When the most High ^qdivided to the nations their inheritance,

When he ^rseparated the sons of Adam,

He set the bounds of the people

According to the number of the children of Israel.

⁹For the Lord’s portion is his people;

Jacob is the ^†lot of his inheritance.

¹⁰He found him ^sin a desert land,

And in the ^twaste howling ^uwilderness;

He ^||led him about, he instructed him,

He kept him as ^xthe apple of his eye.

^11yAs an eagle stirreth up her nest,

^zFluttereth over her young,

Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,

^yBeareth them on her wings:

¹²So the Lord alone did lead him,

And there was no strange god with him.

^13aHe 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 ^bhoney out of the rock,

And ^coil out of ^dthe flinty rock;

¹⁴Butter of kine, and milk of sheep,

With fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan,

And goats, with ^ethe fat of kidneys of wheat;

And thou didst drink the pure ^fblood of the grape.

¹⁵But ^gJeshurun waxed fat, and ^hkicked:

ⁱThou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness;

Then he ^jforsook God which ^kmade him,

And lightly esteemed the ^lRock of his salvation.

^16mThey provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,

With abominations provoked they him to anger.

¹⁷ⁿThey sacrificed unto devils, ^||not to God;

To gods whom they knew not,

To new gods that came newly up,

Whom your fathers feared not.

¹⁸Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,

And hast ^oforgotten God that formed thee.

^19pAnd when the Lord saw it, he ^||abhorred them,

Because of the provoking of ^qhis sons, and of his daughters.

²⁰And he said, ^rI will hide my face from them,

I will see what their end shall be:

For they are a ^svery froward generation,

Children in whom is no faith.

^21tThey have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;

They have provoked me to anger ^uwith their vanities:

And ^xI will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

²²For ^ya fire is kindled in mine anger,

And ^||shall burn unto the lowest hell,

And ^z||shall consume the earth with her increase,

And set on fire ^zthe foundations of the mountains.

²³I will heap mischiefs upon them;

^aI will spend mine arrows upon them.

²⁴They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with ^†burning heat,

And with bitter destruction:

I will also send ^bthe teeth of beasts upon them,

With the poison ^cof serpents of the dust.

^25dThe sword without,

And terror ^†within, shall ^†destroy

Both the young man and the virgin,

The suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

^26eI said, I would scatter them into corners,

I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

²⁷Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries ^fshould behave themselves strangely,

And lest they should ^gsay, ^||Our hand is high,

And the Lord hath not done all this.

²⁸For they are a nation void of counsel,

^hNeither is there any understanding in them.

²⁹ⁱO that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would consider ^jtheir latter end!

³⁰How should ^kone chase a thousand,

And two put ten thousand to flight,

Except their Rock ^lhad sold them,

And the Lord had shut them up?

³¹For ^mtheir rock is not as our Rock,

ⁿEven our enemies themselves being judges.

³²For their vine ^||is of the vine of ^oSodom,

And of the fields of Gomorrah:

Their grapes are grapes of ^pgall,

Their clusters are bitter:

³³Their wine is ^qthe poison of dragons,

And the cruel ^pvenom of ^rasps.

³⁴Is not this laid up in store with me,

And ^ssealed up among my treasures?

^35tTo me belongeth vengeance, and recompence;

Their foot shall slide in due time:

For ^uthe day of their calamity is at hand,

And the things that shall come upon them make…