Deuteronomy 32
1 Give
ear, O ye
heavens, and I will
speak; and
hear, O
earth, the
words of my
mouth. 2 My
doctrine shall
drop as the
rain, my
speech shall
distil as the
dew, as the small
rain upon the tender
herb, and as the
showers upon the
grass: 3 Because I will
publish the
name of the
LORD: ascribe ye
greatness unto our
God. 4 He is the
Rock, his
work is
perfect: for all his
ways are
judgment: a
God of
truth and without
iniquity, just and
right is he.
5 They have
corrupted themselves, their
spot is not the spot of his
children: they are a
perverse and
crooked generation. 6 Do ye thus
requite the
LORD, O
foolish people and
unwise? is not he thy
father that hath
bought thee? hath he not
made thee, and
established thee?
7 Remember the
days of
old, consider the
years of
many generations: ask thy
father, and he will
shew thee; thy
elders, and they will
tell thee.
8 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
children of
Israel. 9 For the
LORD'S portion is his
people; Jacob is the
lot of his
inheritance. 10 He
found him in a
desert land, and in the
waste howling wilderness; he led him
about, he
instructed him, he
kept him as the
apple of his
eye. 11 As an
eagle stirreth
up her
nest, fluttereth over her
young, spreadeth
abroad her
wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her
wings: 12 So the
LORD alone did
lead him, and there was no
strange god with him.
13 He made him
ride on the high
places of the
earth, that he might
eat the
increase of the
fields; and he made him to
suck honey out of the
rock, and
oil out of the
flinty rock; 14 Butter of
kine, and
milk of
sheep, with
fat of
lambs, and
rams of the
breed of
Bashan, and
goats, with the
fat of
kidneys of
wheat; and thou didst
drink the
pure blood of the
grape. 15 But
Jeshurun waxed
fat, and
kicked: thou art waxen
fat, thou art grown
thick, thou art
covered with fatness; then he
forsook God which
made him, and lightly
esteemed the
Rock of his
salvation. 16 They provoked him to
jealousy with
strange gods, with
abominations provoked they him to
anger.
17 They
sacrificed unto
devils, not to
God; to
gods whom they
knew not, to
new gods that
came newly up, whom your
fathers feared not.
18 Of the
Rock that
begat thee thou art
unmindful, and hast
forgotten God that
formed thee.
19 And when the
LORD saw it, he
abhorred them, because of the
provoking of his
sons, and of his
daughters. 20 And he
said, I will
hide my
face from them, I will
see what their
end shall be: for they are a very
froward generation, children in whom is no
faith. 21 They have moved me to
jealousy with that which is
not God; they have provoked me to
anger with their
vanities: and I will move them to
jealousy with those which are not a
people; I will provoke them to
anger with a
foolish nation. 22 For a
fire is
kindled in mine
anger, and shall
burn unto the
lowest hell, and shall
consume the
earth with her
increase, and set on
fire the
foundations of the
mountains. 23 I will
heap mischiefs upon them; I will
spend mine
arrows upon them.
24 They shall be
burnt with
hunger, and
devoured with burning
heat, and with
bitter destruction: I will also
send the
teeth of
beasts upon them, with the
poison of
serpents of the
dust. 25 The
sword without, and
terror within, shall
destroy both the young
man and the
virgin, the
suckling also with the
man of gray
hairs. 26 I
said, I would scatter them into
corners, I would make the
remembrance of them to
cease from among
men: 27 Were it
not that I
feared the
wrath of the
enemy, lest their
adversaries should behave themselves
strangely, and lest they should
say, Our
hand is
high, and the
LORD hath not
done all this.
28 For they are a
nation void of
counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them.
29 O
that they were
wise, that they
understood this, that they would
consider their latter
end! 30 How should
one chase a
thousand, and
two put
ten thousand to
flight,
except their
Rock had
sold them, and the
LORD had shut them
up?
31 For their
rock is not as our
Rock, even our
enemies themselves being
judges. 32 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: 33 Their
wine is the
poison of
dragons, and the
cruel venom of
asps. 34 Is not this laid up in
store with me, and sealed
up among my
treasures? 35 To me belongeth
vengeance, and
recompence; their
foot shall
slide in due
time: for the
day of their
calamity is at
hand, and the things that shall
come upon them make
haste.
36 For the
LORD shall
judge his
people, and
repent himself for his
servants, when he
seeth that their
power is
gone, and there is
none shut
up, or
left.
37 And he shall
say, Where are their
gods, their
rock in whom they
trusted,
38 Which did
eat the
fat of their
sacrifices, and
drank the
wine of their drink
offerings? let them rise
up and
help you, and be your
protection. 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no
god with me: I
kill, and I make
alive; I
wound, and I
heal: neither is there any that can
deliver out of my
hand. 40 For I lift
up my
hand to
heaven, and
say, I
live for
ever. 41 If I
whet my
glittering sword, and mine
hand take
hold on
judgment; I will
render vengeance to mine
enemies, and will
reward them that
hate me.
42 I will make mine
arrows drunk with
blood, and my
sword shall
devour flesh; and that with the
blood of the
slain and of the
captives, from the
beginning of
revenges upon the
enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye
nations, with his
people: for he will
avenge the
blood of his
servants, and will
render vengeance to his
adversaries, and will be
merciful unto his
land, and to his
people. 44 And
Moses came and
spake all the
words of this
song in the
ears of the
people, he, and
Hoshea the
son of
Nun. 45 And
Moses made an
end of
speaking all these
words to all
Israel: 46 And he
said unto them,
Set your
hearts unto all the
words which I
testify among you this
day, which ye shall
command your
children to
observe to
do, all the
words of this
law. 47 For it is not a
vain thing for you; because it is your
life: and through this
thing ye shall
prolong your
days in the
land, whither ye go
over Jordan to
possess it.
48 And the
LORD spake unto
Moses that
selfsame day, saying,
49 Get thee
up into this
mountain Abarim, unto
mount Nebo, which is in the
land of
Moab, that is over
against Jericho; and
behold the
land of
Canaan, which I
give unto the
children of
Israel for a
possession: 50 And
die in the
mount whither thou goest
up, and be
gathered unto thy
people; as
Aaron thy
brother died in
mount Hor, and was
gathered unto his
people: 51 Because ye
trespassed against me
among the
children of
Israel at the
waters of
Meribah-Kadesh, in the
wilderness of
Zin; because ye
sanctified me not in the
midst of the
children of
Israel. 52 Yet thou shalt
see the
land before thee; but thou shalt not
go thither unto the
land which I
give the
children of
Israel.