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Give ear ,
O heavens ,
and I will speak ;
and let the earth hear the words of my mouth .
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May my teaching drop as the rain ,
my speech distil as the dew ,
as the gentle rain upon the tender grass ,
and as the showers upon the herb .
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For I will proclaim the name of the LORD .
Ascribe greatness to our God !
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The Rock ,
his work is perfect ;
for all his ways are justice .
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity ,
just and right is he .
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They have dealt corruptly with him ,
they are no longer his children because of their blemish ;
they are a perverse and crooked generation .
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Do you thus requite the LORD ,
you foolish and senseless people ?
Is not he your father ,
who created you ,
who made you and established you ?
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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 .
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When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance ,
when he separated the sons of men ,
he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God .
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For the LORD '
s portion is his people ,
Jacob his allotted heritage .
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He found him in a desert land ,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness ;
he encircled him ,
he cared for him ,
he kept him as the apple of his eye .
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Like an eagle that stirs up its nest ,
that flutters over its young ,
spreading out its wings ,
catching them ,
bearing them on its pinions ,
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the LORD alone did lead him ,
and there was no foreign god with him .
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth ,
and he ate the produce of the field ;
and he made him suck honey out of the rock ,
and oil out of the flinty rock .
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Curds from the herd ,
and milk from the flock ,
with fat of lambs and rams ,
herds of Bashan and goats ,
with the finest of the wheat--and of the blood of the grape you drank wine .
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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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This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death .
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He said , "
The LORD came from Sinai ,
and dawned from Se '
ir upon us ;
he shone forth from Mount Paran ,
he came from the ten thousands of holy ones ,
with flaming fire at his right hand .
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Yea ,
he loved his people ;
all those consecrated to him were in his hand ;
so they followed in thy steps ,
receiving direction from thee ,
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when Moses commanded us a law ,
as a possession for the assembly of Jacob .
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Thus the LORD became king in Jesh '
urun ,
when the heads of the people were gathered ,
all the tribes of Israel together .
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Let Reuben live ,
and not die ,
nor let his men be few ."
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And this he said of Judah : "
Hear ,
O LORD ,
the voice of Judah ,
and bring him in to his people .
With thy hands contend for him ,
and be a help against his adversaries ."
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And of Levi he said , "
Give to Levi thy Thummim ,
and thy Urim to thy godly one ,
whom thou didst test at Massah ,
with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Mer '
ibah ;
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who said of his father and mother , `
I regard them not ';
he disowned his brothers ,
and ignored his children .
For they observed thy word ,
and kept thy covenant .
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They shall teach Jacob thy ordinances ,
and Israel thy law ;
they shall put incense before thee ,
and whole burnt offering upon thy altar .
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Bless ,
O LORD ,
his substance ,
and accept the work of his hands ;
crush the loins of his adversaries ,
of those that hate him ,
that they rise not again ."
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Of Benjamin he said , "
The beloved of the LORD ,
he dwells in safety by him ;
he encompasses him all the day long ,
and makes his dwelling between his shoulders ."
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And of Joseph he said , "
Blessed by the LORD be his land ,
with the choicest gifts of heaven above ,
and of the deep that couches beneath ,
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with the choicest fruits of the sun ,
and the rich yield of the months ,
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with the finest produce of the ancient mountains ,
and the abundance of the everlasting hills ,
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with the best gifts of the earth and its fulness ,
and the favor of him that dwelt in the bush .
Let these come upon the head of Joseph ,
and upon the crown of the head of him that is prince among his brothers .
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His firstling bull has majesty ,
and his horns are the horns of a wild ox ;
with them he shall push the peoples ,
all of them ,
to the ends of the earth ;
such are the ten thousands of E '
phraim ,
and such are the thousands of Manas '
seh ."
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And of Zeb '
ulun he said , "
Rejoice ,
Zeb '
ulun ,
in your going out ;
and Is '
sachar ,
in your tents .
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They shall call peoples to their mountain ;
there they offer right sacrifices ;
for they suck the affluence of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand ."
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And of Gad he said , "
Blessed be he who enlarges Gad !
Gad couches like a lion ,
he tears the arm ,
and the crown of the head .
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He chose the best of the land for himself ,
for there a commander '
s portion was reserved ;
and he came to the heads of the people ,
with Israel he executed the commands and just decrees of the LORD ."
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And of Dan he said , "
Dan is a lion '
s whelp ,
that leaps forth from Bashan ."
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And of Naph '
tali he said , "
O Naph '
tali ,
satisfied with favor ,
and full of the blessing of the LORD ,
possess the lake and the south ."
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And of Asher he said , "
Blessed above sons be Asher ;
let him be the favorite of his brothers ,
and let him dip his foot in oil .
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Your bars shall be iron and bronze ;
and as your days ,
so shall your strength be .
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There is none like God ,
O Jesh '
urun ,
who rides through the heavens to your help ,
and in his majesty through the skies .
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The eternal God is your dwelling place ,
and underneath are the everlasting arms .
And he thrust out the enemy before you ,
and said ,
Destroy .
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So Israel dwelt in safety ,
the fountain of Jacob alone ,
in a land of grain and wine ;
yea ,
his heavens drop down dew .
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Happy are you ,
O Israel !
Who is like you ,
a people saved by the LORD ,
the shield of your help ,
and the sword of your triumph !
Your enemies shall come fawning to you ;
and you shall tread upon their high places ."
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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo ,
to the top of Pisgah ,
which is opposite Jericho .
And the LORD showed him all the land ,
Gilead as far as Dan ,
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all Naph '
tali ,
the land of E '
phraim and Manas '
seh ,
all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea ,
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the Negeb ,
and the Plain ,
that is ,
the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees ,
as far as Zo '
ar .
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And the LORD said to him , "
This is the land of which I swore to Abraham ,
to Isaac ,
and to Jacob , `
I will give it to your descendants .'
I have let you see it with your eyes ,
but you shall not go over there ."
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So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab ,
according to the word of the LORD ,
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and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-pe '
or ;
but no man knows the place of his burial to this day .
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Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died ;
his eye was not dim ,
nor his natural force abated .
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And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days ;
then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended .
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And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom ,
for Moses had laid his hands upon him ;
so the people of Israel obeyed him ,
and did as the LORD had commanded Moses .
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And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses ,
whom the LORD knew face to face ,
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none like him for all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt ,
to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land ,
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and for all the mighty power and all the great and terrible deeds which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel .