Deuteronomy 32

¹“Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And you hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

²My doctrine drops as rain; My sayings flow as dew; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

³For I proclaim the Name of YHWH; Ascribe greatness to our God!

⁴The Rock—His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; God of steadfastness, and without iniquity; Righteous and upright is He.

⁵It has done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not of His sons, A generation perverse and crooked!

⁶Do you act thus to YHWH, O people foolish and not wise? Is He not your Father—He who bought you? He made you, and establishes you.

⁷Remember days of old—Understand the years of many generations—Ask your father, and he tells you; Your elderly, and they say to you:

⁸In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam—He sets up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of God or sons of Israel.

⁹For YHWH’s portion is His people, Jacob is the line of His inheritance.

¹⁰He finds him in a land—a desert, And in a void—a howling wilderness, He turns him around—He causes him to understand—He keeps him as the apple of His eye.

¹¹As an eagle wakes up its nest, Flutters over its young ones, Spreads its wings and takes them, Carries them on its pinions—

¹²YHWH alone leads him, And there is no strange god with him.

¹³He makes him ride on high places of earth, And he eats increase of the fields, And He makes him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock;

¹⁴Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams of sons of Bashan, And male goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat; And of the blood of the grape you drink wine!

¹⁵And Yeshurun waxes fat, and kicks: You have been fat, you have been thick, You have been covered. And he leaves God who made him, And dishonors the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁶They make Him zealous with strangers, They make Him angry with abominations.

¹⁷They sacrifice to the demons, not God, To gods they have not known, New ones—they came from the vicinity; Your fathers have not feared them!

¹⁸You forget the Rock that begot you, And neglect God who forms you.

¹⁹And YHWH sees and despises—For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

²⁰And He says: I hide My face from them, I see what their latter end is; For they are a contrary generation, Sons in whom is no steadfastness.

²¹They have made Me jealous by what is not God, They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them jealous by what is not a people, I make them angry by a foolish nation.

²²For a fire has been kindled in My anger, And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And consumes earth and its increase, And sets on fire the foundations of mountains.

²³I heap calamities on them, I consume My arrows on them.

²⁴Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat and bitter destruction—I also send the teeth of beasts on them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

²⁵The sword destroys from outside, And out of the inner-chambers—terror, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

²⁶I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

²⁷If I do not fear the anger of an enemy, Lest their adversaries know—Lest they say, Our hand is high, And YHWH has not worked all this.

²⁸For they are a nation lost to counsels, And there is no understanding in them.

²⁹If only they were wise, They would deal wisely with this, They would attend to their latter end!

³⁰How does one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee, If not that their Rock has sold them, And YHWH has shut them up?

³¹For their rock is not as our Rock (And our enemies are judges!)

³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall—They have bitter clusters;

³³The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of cobras.

³⁴Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

³⁵Vengeance and retribution are Mine, At the due time—their foot slides; For near is a day of their calamity, And things prepared for them have hastened.

³⁶For YHWH judges His people, And gives comfort over His servants. For He sees the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.

³⁷And He has said, Where are their gods—The rock in which they trusted?

³⁸Who eat the fat of their sacrifices, And drink the wine of their drink-offering? Let them arise and help you, Let it be a hiding place for you!

³⁹See, now, that I am He, And there is no god besides Me; I put to death and I keep alive; I have struck and I heal; And there is not a deliverer from My hand,

⁴⁰For I lift up My hand to the heavens, And have said, I live for all time!

⁴¹If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand lays hold on judgment, I return vengeance to My adversaries, And to those hating Me—I repay!

⁴²I make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword devours flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

⁴³Sing, O nations, with His people, For He avenges the blood of His servants, And He turns back vengeance on His adversaries, And has pardoned His land and His people.”

⁴⁴And Moses comes and speaks all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea son of Nun;

⁴⁵and Moses finishes to speak all these words to all Israel,

⁴⁶and says to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you today, that you command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,

⁴⁷for it is not a vain thing for you, for it is your life, and by this thing you prolong days on the ground to where you are passing over the Jordan to possess it.”

⁴⁸And YHWH speaks to Moses on this very same day, saying,

⁴⁹“Go up to this Mount Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession;

⁵⁰and die on the mountain to where you are going up, and be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron has died on Mount Hor and is gathered to his people;

⁵¹because you trespassed against Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin, because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the sons of Israel.

⁵²Indeed, you see the land before you, but you do not go in there to the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel.”

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