Deuteronomy:32

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* Give ear , O heavens , and I will speak ; and hear , O earth , the words of my mouth . * My doctrine shall drop as the rain ; my speech shall drop down as the dew , as the small rain on the tender plant , and as the showers on the grass ; * because I will proclaim the name of the LORD , ascribe greatness to our God . * [He is ] the Rock ; His work [is ] perfect . For all His ways [are ] just , a God of faithfulness , and without evil ; just and upright is He . * They have corrupted themselves : [they are ] not His sons ; [it is ] their blemish ; [they are ] a crooked and perverse generation . * Do you thus give back to the LORD , Oh foolish and unwise people ? [Is ] He not your Father who bought you ? [Has ] He [not ] made you and established you ? * Remember the days of old ; consider the years of many generations . Ask your father , and he will show you ; your elders , and they will tell you . * When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance , when He separated the sons of Adam , He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the sons of Israel . * For the LORD 's portion [is ] His people . Jacob [is ] the lot of His inheritance . * He found him in a desert land , and in the deserted , howling wilderness . He led him about , He cared for him , He kept him as the pupil of His eye . * As an eagle stirs up her nest , flutters over her young , spreads abroad her wings , takes them and bears them on her wing , * the LORD alone led him , and [there was ] no strange god with him . * He made him ride on the high places of the earth , so that he might eat the increase of the fields . And He made him suck honey out of the rock , and oil out of the flinty rock , * butter from cows , and milk from sheep , with fat of lambs , and rams of the sons of Bashan , and goats , with the fat of kidneys of wheat . And you drank the blood of the grape . * But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked . You grew fat , thick , [and ] satisfied . Then he forsook God who made him , and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation . * They provoked Him to jealousy with strange [gods ]; with abominations they provoked Him to anger . * They sacrificed to devils , not to God ; to gods whom they knew not , to new ones newly come up , whom your fathers did not fear . * You forgot the Rock [who ] brought you forth , and ceased to care for God who formed you . * And the LORD saw , and despised [them ] because of the provoking of His sons and of His daughters . * And He said , I will hide My face from them ; I will see what their end [shall be ]. For they [are ] a very perverse generation , sons in whom [is ] no faithfulness . * They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god . They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities . And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people . I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation . * For a fire is kindled in My anger , and shall burn to the lowest hell , and shall consume the earth with its increase , and set on fire the foundations of the mountains . * I will heap evils on them . I will spend My arrows on them . * Exhaustion by famine , and consumption by burning heat , and bitter destruction , and the teeth of beasts I will send on them , with the poison of crawling things of the dust . * The sword outside , and the terror inside , shall destroy both the young man and the virgin , the suckling [also ] with the man of grey hairs . * I said I would dash them to pieces ; I would make the memory of them to cease from among men , * were it not the provocation of an enemy I feared , lest their enemies should misconstrue ; lest they should say , Our hand [is ] high and the LORD has not done all this . * For they [are ] a nation without wisdom , neither is there any understanding in them . * If they were wise , they would understand this ; they would consider their latter end ! * How shall one chase a thousand , and two put ten thousand to flight , unless their Rock had sold them and the LORD had shut them up ? * For their rock [is ] not as our Rock , even our enemies themselves being judges . * For their vine [is ] of the vine of Sodom , and of the fields of Gomorrah . Their grapes are grapes of gall . Their clusters [are ] bitter . * Their wine [is ] the poison of serpents , and the cruel venom of asps . * [Is ] not this laid up in store with Me and sealed up among My treasures ? * Vengeance and retribution [belong ] to Me . Their foot shall slide in time , for the day of their calamity [is ] at hand , and the things that shall come on them make haste . * For the LORD will bring His people justice ; and He shall have compassion on His servants , for He sees that [their ] power is gone , and only the imprisoned and abandoned [remain ]. * And He shall say , Where [are ] their gods , [their ] rock in whom they trusted ? * Who ate the fat of their sacrifices [and ] drank the wine of their drink offerings ? Let them rise up and help you ; let it be your hiding place . * See now that I , I am He , and there is no god with me . I kill , and I make alive ; I wound and I heal ; and there is no deliverer out of My hand . * For I lift up My hand to Heaven and say , I live forever ! * If I sharpen My glittering sword , and if My hand takes hold in judgment , I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me . * I will make My arrows drunk with blood , and My sword shall devour flesh , with the blood of the slain and of the captives , from the hairy scalp of the enemy . * Rejoice , O , nations , [with ] His people ; for He will avenge the blood of His servants , and will render vengeance to His foes and will be merciful to His land , to His people . * And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people , he and Joshua the son of Nun . * And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel . * And he said to them , Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you today , which you shall command your sons to observe and to do , all the words of this law . * For it [is ] not a vain thing for you , because it is your life . And by this word you shall prolong [your ] days in the land where you go over Jordan , there to possess it . * And the LORD spoke to Moses that same day , saying , * Go up into Mount Abarim , [to ] Mount Nebo in the land of Moab , which is opposite Jericho ; and behold the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession . * And die in the mountain where you go up , and be gathered to your people , as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people , * because you sinned against Me among the sons of Israel at the Waters of Strife in Kadesh , in the wilderness of Zin , because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the sons of Israel . * Yet you shall see the land before [you ], but you shall not go there to the land which I [am ] giving to the sons of Israel .

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