Bible, King James Version
Deuteronomy
Deut.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.
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