Deuteronomy 32

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 haste.

^36wFor the Lord shall judge his people,

^xAnd repent himself for his servants,

When he seeth that their ^†power is gone,

And ^ythere is none shut up, or left.

³⁷And he shall say, ^zWhere are their gods,

Their rock in whom they trusted,

³⁸Which 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.

³⁹See now that ^aI, even I, am he,

And there is no god with me:

^bI kill, and I make alive;

^cI wound, and I heal:

Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

⁴⁰For ^dI lift up my hand to heaven,

And say, I live for ever.

⁴¹If I whet my glittering ^esword,

And mine hand take hold on judgment;

I will render vengeance to mine enemies,

And will reward them that hate me.

⁴²I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,

And ^fmy sword shall devour flesh;

And that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,

From the beginning of ^grevenges upon the enemy.

^43||hRejoice, O ye nations, with his people:

For he will ⁱavenge the blood of his servants,

And ^kwill render vengeance to his adversaries,

And will be merciful unto his ^lland, and to his people.

⁴⁴And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and ^||Hoshea the son of Nun. ⁴⁵And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: ⁴⁶And he said unto them, ^mSet 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. ⁴⁷For it is not a vain thing for you; ⁿbecause it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

⁴⁸And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, ⁴⁹Get thee up into ^othis 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: ⁵⁰And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and ^pbe gathered unto thy people; as ^qAaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: ^51rBecause 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. ^52sYet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.