Deuteronomy:32:15-52
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But Jesh '
urun waxed fat ,
and kicked ;
you waxed fat ,
you grew thick ,
you became sleek ;
then he forsook God who made him ,
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation .
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They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods ;
with abominable practices they provoked him to anger .
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They sacrificed to demons which were no gods ,
to gods they had never known ,
to new gods that had come in of late ,
whom your fathers had never dreaded .
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You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you ,
and you forgot the God who gave you birth .
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The LORD saw it ,
and spurned them ,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters .
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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 faithfulness .
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They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god ;
they have provoked me with their idols .
So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people ;
I will provoke them with a foolish nation .
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For a fire is kindled by my anger ,
and it burns to the depths of Sheol ,
devours the earth and its increase ,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains .
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And I will heap evils upon them ;
I will spend my arrows upon them ;
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they shall be wasted with hunger ,
and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence ;
and I will send the teeth of beasts against them ,
with venom of crawling things of the dust .
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In the open the sword shall bereave ,
and in the chambers shall be terror ,
destroying both young man and virgin ,
the sucking child with the man of gray hairs .
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I would have said , "
I will scatter them afar ,
I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men ,"
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had I not feared provocation by the enemy ,
lest their adversaries should judge amiss ,
lest they should say , "
Our hand is triumphant ,
the LORD has not wrought all this ."'
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For they are a nation void of counsel ,
and there is no understanding in them .
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If they were wise ,
they would understand this ,
they would discern their latter end !
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How should one chase a thousand ,
and two put ten thousand to flight ,
unless their Rock had sold them ,
and the LORD had given them up ?
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For their rock is not as our Rock ,
even our enemies themselves being judges .
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For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom ,
and from the fields of Gomor '
rah ;
their grapes are grapes of poison ,
their clusters are bitter ;
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their wine is the poison of serpents ,
and the cruel venom of asps .
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Is not this laid up in store with me ,
sealed up in my treasuries ?
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Vengeance is mine ,
and recompense ,
for the time when their foot shall slip ;
for the day of their calamity is at hand ,
and their doom comes swiftly .
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For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants ,
when he sees that their power is gone ,
and there is none remaining ,
bond or free .
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Then he will say , `
Where are their gods ,
the rock in which they took refuge ,
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who ate the fat of their sacrifices ,
and drank the wine of their drink offering ?
Let them rise up and help you ,
let them be your protection !
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See now that I ,
even I ,
am he ,
and there is no god beside me ;
I kill and I make alive ;
I wound and I heal ;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand .
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For I lift up my hand to heaven ,
and swear ,
As I live for ever ,
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if I whet my glittering sword ,
and my hand takes hold on judgment ,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries ,
and will requite those who hate me .
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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 long-haired heads of the enemy .'
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Praise his people ,
O you nations ;
for he avenges the blood of his servants ,
and takes vengeance on his adversaries ,
and makes expiation for the land of his people ."
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Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people ,
he and Joshua the son of Nun .
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And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel ,
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he said to them , "
Lay to heart all the words which I enjoin upon you this day ,
that you may command them to your children ,
that they may be careful to do all the words of this law .
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For it is no trifle for you ,
but it is your life ,
and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess ."
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And the LORD said to Moses that very day ,
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Ascend this mountain of the Ab '
arim ,
Mount Nebo ,
which is in the land of Moab ,
opposite Jericho ;
and view the land of Canaan ,
which I give to the people of Israel for a possession ;
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and die on the mountain which you ascend ,
and be gathered to your people ,
as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people ;
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because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Mer '
i-bath-ka '
desh ,
in the wilderness of Zin ;
because you did not revere me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel .
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For you shall see the land before you ;
but you shall not go there ,
into the land which I give to the people of Israel ."
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