30 So Moses spoke into the ears of the assembly of Israel the words of this song ⌊until they were complete⌋.o

The Song of Moses

32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,

and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2 May my teaching trickle like the dew,

my words like rain showers on tender grass,

and like spring showers on new growth.

3 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh;

ascribe greatness to our God!

4 The Rock, his work is perfect,

for all his ways are just;

he is a faithful God, and ⌊without injustice⌋;a

righteous and upright is he.

5 They have behaved corruptly towardb him;

they are not his children; this is their flaw,

a generation crooked and perverse.

6 Like this do you treat Yahweh,

foolish and ⌊unwise⌋c people?

Has he not, your father, created you?

He made you, and he established you.

7 Remember the old days, ⌊the years long past⌋;d

ask your father, and he will inform you,

your elders and they will tell you.e

8 ⌊When the Most High apportioned⌋f the nations,

at his dividing up of the sons of humankind,

he fixed the boundaries of the peoples,

according to the number of the sons of God.g

9 For Yahweh’s portion was his people,

Jacob the share of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land,

and in a howling, desert wasteland;

he ⌊encircled him⌋,h he cared for him,

he protected him like the ⌊apple⌋i of his eye.

11 As an eagle stirs up its nest,

hovers over its young,

spreads out its wings, takes them,j

carries themk on its pinions,l

12 so Yahweh alone guided him,m

and ⌊there was no foreign god accompanying him⌋.n

13 And he set him on the high places of the land,

and he fed him the cropso of the field,

and he nursed him with honey from crags,p

and with oil from flinty rock,

14 With curdsq from the herd,

and with milk from the flock,

with the fat of young rams,

and rams, the offspring of Bashan,

and with goats along with the finest kernels of wheat,

and from the blood of grapesr you drank fermented wine.s

15 And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked;

you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate;

and he abandoned God, his maker,

and he scoffed at the rock of his salvation.

16 They made him jealous with strange gods;

with detestable things they provoked him.

17 They sacrificed to the demons, not God,

to gods whomt they had not known,

new gods whou came from recent times;

⌊their ancestors had not known them⌋.v

18 The rock whow bore you, you neglected,

and you forgot God, the one giving you birth.