32:1 Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and
let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.
32:2 Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew,
as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
32:3 For I have called on the name of Yehovah: assign ye greatness to our
Elohim.
32:4 [As for Elohim], his works [are] true, and all his ways [are] judgment:
Elohim [is] faithful, and there is no unrighteousness [in him]; just and holy
[is] Yehovah.
32:5 They have sinned, not [pleasing] him; spotted children, a froward and
perverse generation.
32:6 Do ye thus recompense Yehovah? [is the] people thus foolish and
unwise? did not he himself thy father purchase thee, and make thee, and form
thee?
32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask thy
father, and he shall relate to thee, thine elders, and they shall tell thee.
32:8 When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of
Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the Messengers
of Elohim.
32:9 And his people Jacob became the portion of Yehovah, Israel was the
line of his inheritance.
32:10 He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land:
he led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye.
32:11 As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young,
receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:
32:12 Yehovah alone led them, there was no strange god with them.
32:13 He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the
fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the
solid rock.
32:14 Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of
calves and kids, with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood
of the grape.
32:15 So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat,
he became thick and broad: then he forsook the Elohim that made him, and
departed from Elohim his Saviour.
32:16 They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations
they bitterly angered me.
32:17 They sacrificed to devils, and not to Elohim; to gods whom they knew not:
new and fresh [gods] came in, whom their fathers knew not.
32:18 Thou hast forsaken Elohim that begot thee, and forgotten Elohim who feeds
thee.
32:19 And Yehovah saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of
his sons and daughters,
32:20 and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall
happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in
whom is no faith.
32:21 They have provoked me to jealousy with [that which is] not Elohim, they
have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy
with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of
understanding.
32:22 For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell
below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire
the foundations of the mountains.
32:23 I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against
them.
32:24 [They shall be] consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and
there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the
teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of [serpents] creeping on the ground.
32:25 Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror [shall
issue] out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the
virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.
32:26 I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease
from among men.
32:27 Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long,
lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our
own high arm, and not Yehovah, has done all these things.
32:28 It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding
in them.
32:29 They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things
against the time to come.
32:30 How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if
Elohim had not sold them, and Yehovah delivered them up?
32:31 For their gods are not as our Elohim, but our enemies [are] void of
understanding.
32:32 For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of
Gomorrha: their grape [is] a grape of gall, their cluster [is] one of
bitterness.
32:33 Their wine [is] the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.
32:34 Lo! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed among my
treasures?
32:35 In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whensoever their foot shall
be tripped up; for the day of their destruction [is] near to them, and the
judgments at hand are close upon you.
32:36 For Yehovah shall judge hi people, and shall be comforted over his
servants; for he saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the
hostile invasion, and were become feeble:
32:37 and Yehovah said, Where are their gods on whom they trusted?
32:38 the fat of whose sacrifices ye ate, and ye drank the wine of their
drink-offerings? let them arise and help you, and be your protectors.
32:39 Behold, behold that I am [he], and there is no god beside me: I kill,
and I will make to live: I will smite, and I will heal; and there is none
who shall deliver out of my hands.
32:40 For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and
I will say, I live for ever.
32:41 For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take
hold of judgment; and I will render judgment to my enemies, and will
recompense them that hate me.
32:42 I will make my weapons drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour
flesh, [it shall glut itself] with the blood of the wounded, and from the
captivity of the heads of [their] enemies that rule over them.
32:43 Rejoice, ye heavens, with him, and let all the Messengers of Elohim worship
him; rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of Elohim
strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and
he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will
reward them that hate him; and Yehovah shall purge the land of his people.
32:44 And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children
of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears
of the people, he and Joshua the [son] of Naue.
32:45 And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.
32:46 And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words,
which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons, to
observe and do all the words of this law.
32:47 For this [is] no vain word to you; for it [is] your life, and because
of this word ye shall live long upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan
to inherit it.
32:48 And Yehovah spoke to Moses in this day, saying,
32:49 Go up to the mount Abarim, this mountain Nabau which is in the land of
Moab over against Jericho, and behold the land of Chanaan, which I give to
the sons of Israel:
32:50 and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be added to thy
people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Or, and was added to his people.
32:51 Because ye disobeyed my word among the children of Israel, at the
waters of strife of Cades in the wilderness of Sin; because ye sanctified me
not among the sons of Israel.
32:52 Thou shalt see the land before [thee], but thou shalt not enter into
it. |
32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will
speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
32:2 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:
32:3 Because I will publish the name of Yehovah: ascribe ye greatness unto
our Elohim.
32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a
Elohim of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
32:6 Do ye thus requite Yehovah, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy
father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask
thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
32:8 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.
32:9 For Yehovah's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.
32:10 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.
32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
32:12 So Yehovah alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
32:13 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;
32:14 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.
32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown
thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook Elohim which made him,
and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations
provoked they him to anger.
32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to Elohim; to gods whom they knew not,
to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten Elohim
that formed thee.
32:19 And when Yehovah saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking
of his sons, and of his daughters.
32:20 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.
32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not Elohim; 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.
32:22 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.
32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
32:24 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.
32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man
and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
remembrance of them to cease from among men:
32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
adversaries should behave themselves strMessengery, and lest they should say,
Our hand is high, and Yehovah hath not done all this.
32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them.
32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would
consider their latter end!
32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight,
except their Rock had sold them, and Yehovah had shut them up?
32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being
judges.
32:32 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:
32:33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
treasures?
32:35 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.
32:36 For Yehovah 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.
32:37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they
trusted,
32:38 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.
32:39 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.
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
32:41 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.
32:42 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.
32:43 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.
32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the
people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
32:46 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.
32:47 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.
32:48 And Yehovah spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
32:49 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:
32:50 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:
32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the
waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me
not in the midst of the children of Israel.
32:52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither
unto the land which I give the children of Israel. |