Deuteronomy:32

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* "Give ear , O heavens , and I will speak ; And hear , O earth , the words of my mouth . * Let my teaching drop as the rain , My speech distill as the dew , As raindrops on the tender herb , And as showers on the grass . * For I proclaim the name of the LORD : Ascribe greatness to our God . * He is the Rock , His work is perfect ; For all His ways are justice , A God of truth and without injustice ; Righteous and upright is He . * "They have corrupted themselves ; They are not His children , Because of their blemish : A perverse and crooked generation . * Do you thus deal with the LORD , O 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 their inheritance to the nations , When He separated the sons of Adam , He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel . * For the LORD 's portion is His people ; Jacob is the place of His inheritance . * "He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland , a howling wilderness ; He encircled him , He instructed him , He kept him as the apple of His eye . * As an eagle stirs up its nest , Hovers over its young , Spreading out its wings , taking them up , Carrying them on its wings , * So the LORD alone led him , And there was no foreign god with him . * "He made him ride in the heights of the earth , That he might eat the produce of the fields ; He made him draw honey from the rock , And oil from the flinty rock ; * Curds from the cattle , and milk of the flock , With fat of lambs ; And rams of the breed of Bashan , and goats , With the choicest wheat ; And you drank wine , the blood of the grapes . * "But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked ; You grew fat , you grew thick , You are obese ! Then he forsook God who made him , And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation . * They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods ; With abominations they provoked Him to anger . * They sacrificed to demons , not to God , To gods they did not know , To new gods , new arrivals That your fathers did not fear . * Of the Rock who begot you , you are unmindful , And have forgotten the God who fathered you . * "And when the LORD saw it , He spurned them , Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters . * And He said : "I will hide My face from them , I will see what their end will be , For they are a perverse generation , Children in whom is no faith . * They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God ; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols . But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation ; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation . * For a fire is kindled in My anger , And shall burn to the lowest hell ; It shall consume the earth with her increase , And set on fire the foundations of the mountains . * "I will heap disasters on them ; I will spend My arrows on them . * They shall be wasted with hunger , Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction ; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts , With the poison of serpents of the dust . * The sword shall destroy outside ; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin , The nursing child with the man of gray hairs . * I would have said , "I will dash them in pieces , I will make the memory of them to cease from among men ," * Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy , Lest their adversaries should misunderstand , Lest they should say , "Our hand is high ; And it is not the LORD who has done all this ."' * "For they are a nation void of counsel , Nor is there any understanding in them . * Oh , that they were wise , that they understood this , That they would consider their latter end ! * How could one chase a thousand , And two put ten thousand to flight , Unless their Rock had sold them , And the LORD had surrendered them ? * For their rock is not like 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 cobras . * "Is this not laid up in store with Me , Sealed up among My treasures ? * Vengeance is Mine , and recompense ; Their foot shall slip in due time ; For the day of their calamity is at hand , And the things to come hasten upon them .' * "For the LORD will judge His people And have compassion on His servants , When He sees that their power is gone , And there is no one remaining , bond or free . * He will say : "Where are their gods , The rock in which they sought refuge ? * Who ate the fat of their sacrifices , And drank the wine of their drink offering ? Let them rise and help you , And be your refuge . * "Now see that I , even I , am He , And there is no God besides Me ; I kill and I make alive ; I wound and I heal ; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand . * For I raise My hand to heaven , And say , "As I live forever , * If I whet My glittering sword , And My hand takes hold on judgment , I will render vengeance to My enemies , And repay those who hate Me . * I will make My arrows drunk with blood , And My sword shall devour flesh , With the blood of the slain and the captives , From the heads of the leaders of the enemy ."' * "Rejoice , O Gentiles , with His people ; For He will avenge the blood of His servants , And render vengeance to His adversaries ; He will provide atonement for His land and His people ." * So Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people . * Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel , * and he said to them : "Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today , which you shall command your children to be careful to observe--all the words of this law . * For it is not a futile thing for you , because it is your life , and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess ." * Then the LORD spoke to Moses that very same day , saying : * "Go up this mountain of the Abarim , Mount Nebo , which is in the land of Moab , across from Jericho ; view the land of Canaan , which I give to the children of Israel as a possession ; * and die on the mountain which you ascend , and be gathered to your people , just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people ; * because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh , in the Wilderness of Zin , because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel . * Yet you shall see the land before you , though you shall not go there , into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel ."

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