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1 Give
ear, you heavens,
and I will
speak.
Let the earth
hear the words
of my mouth.
2 My
doctrine will drop
as the rain.
My speech will condense
as the dew,
as the misty rain
on the tender
grass,
as the showers
on the herb.
3 For
I will proclaim
the LORD’s name.
Ascribe greatness
to our God!
4 The
Rock: his work
is perfect,
for all his
ways are just.
A God
of faithfulness who does
no wrong,
just and right
is he.
5 They
have dealt corruptly
with him.
They are not
his children, because
of their defect.
They are a
perverse and
crooked generation.
6 Is
this the way
you repay the
LORD,
foolish and
unwise people?
Isn’t he your father
who has bought
you?
He has made
you and
established you.
7 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.
8 When
the Most High
gave to the
nations their
inheritance,
when he separated
the children of
men,
he set the
bounds of the
peoples
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,
in the waste
howling wilderness.
He surrounded him.
He cared for him.
He kept him
as the apple of
his eye.
11 As
an eagle that
stirs up her
nest,
that flutters over
her young,
he spread abroad
his wings,
he took them,
he bore them
on his feathers.
12 The
LORD alone led him.
There was no
foreign god with
him.
13 He made
him ride on
the high places
of the earth.
He ate the
increase of the
field.
He caused him to
suck honey out
of the rock,
oil out of
the flinty rock;
14 butter
from the herd,
and milk from
the flock,
with fat of
lambs,
rams of the
breed of Bashan,
and goats,
with the finest
of the wheat.
From the blood
of the grape,
you drank wine.
15 But
Jeshurun grew fat,
and kicked.
You have grown
fat.
You have grown
thick.
You have become
sleek.
Then he abandoned
God who made
him,
and rejected the
Rock of his
salvation.
16 They moved
him to jealousy
with strange gods.
They provoked him
to anger with
abominations.
17 They
sacrificed to
demons, not God,
to gods that
they didn’t know,
to new gods
that came up recently,
which your fathers didn’t dread.
18 Of
the Rock who
became your father,
you are unmindful,
and have
forgotten God who
gave you birth.
19 The
LORD saw and
abhorred,
because of the
provocation of his
sons and his
daughters.
20 He said, “I
will hide my
face from them.
I will see
what their end
will be;
for they are
a very perverse
generation,
children in whom
is no faithfulness.
21 They
have moved me to
jealousy with that
which is not
God.
They have
provoked me to
anger with their
vanities.
I will move them
to jealousy with
those who are
not a people.
I will provoke
them to anger
with a foolish
nation.
22 For
a fire is
kindled in
my anger,
that burns to
the lowest
Sheol,
devours the earth with
its increase,
and sets the
foundations of the
mountains on fire.
23 “I
will heap evils
on them.
I will spend
my arrows on
them.
24 They
shall be wasted
with hunger,
and devoured with
burning heat
and bitter
destruction.
I will send
the teeth
of animals on them,
with the venom
of vipers that glide
in the dust.
25 Outside
the sword will
bereave,
and in the
rooms,
terror on both
young man and
virgin,
the nursing
infant with the
gray-haired man.
26 I said that I would scatter
them afar.
I would make their memory
to cease from among
men;
27 were
it not that
I feared the
provocation of the
enemy,
lest their
adversaries should judge wrongly,
lest they
should say, ‘Our
hand is exalted;
the LORD has
not done all
this.’ ”
28 For
they are a
nation void of
counsel.
There is no
understanding in
them.
29 Oh
that they were wise,
that they understood
this,
that they would
consider their latter end!
30 How could
one chase a
thousand,
and two put
ten thousand to
flight,
unless their Rock
had sold them,
and the LORD
had delivered them
up?
31 For
their rock is
not as our
Rock,
even our enemies themselves
concede.
32 For
their vine is
of the vine
of Sodom,
of the fields
of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are
poison grapes.
Their clusters are
bitter.
33 Their wine
is the poison of
serpents,
the cruel venom of
asps.
34 “Isn’t this
laid up in
store with me,
sealed up among
my treasures?
35 Vengeance
is mine, and recompense,
at the time
when their
foot slides,
for the day
of their calamity
is at hand.
Their doom rushes at
them.”
36 For
the LORD will
judge his people,
and have
compassion on his
servants,
when he sees
that their power
is gone,
that there is
no one remaining,
shut up or
left at large.
37 He will say, “Where
are their gods,
the rock in which
they took refuge,
38 which 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.
39 “See
now that I myself
am he.
There is no
god with me.
I kill and
I make alive.
I wound and
I heal.
There is no
one who can
deliver out of
my hand.
40 For
I lift up
my hand to
heaven and declare,
as I live
forever,
41 if I
sharpen my
glittering sword,
my hand grasps it
in judgment;
I will take
vengeance on my
adversaries,
and will repay
those who hate
me.
42 I
will make my
arrows drunk with
blood.
My sword
shall devour flesh
with the blood
of the slain
and the captives,
from the head
of the leaders
of the enemy.”
43 Rejoice,
you nations, with
his people,
for he will
avenge the blood
of his servants.
He will take
vengeance on his
adversaries,
and will make
atonement for
his land and for
his people.
44 Moses
came and spoke
all the words
of this song
in the ears of
the people, he
and Joshua the
son of Nun.
45 Moses
finished reciting
all these words
to all Israel.
46 He
said to them, “Set
your heart to
all the words
which I testify
to you today,
which you shall
command your
children to
observe to do,
all the words
of this law.
47 For
it is no
vain thing for
you, because it
is your life,
and through this
thing you
shall prolong your
days in the land,
where you go
over the Jordan
to possess it.”
48 The
LORD spoke to
Moses that same
day, saying,
49 “Go
up into this
mountain of Abarim,
to Mount Nebo,
which is in
the land of
Moab, that is
across from
Jericho; and see
the land of
Canaan, which I
give to the
children of Israel
for a possession.
50 Die
on the mountain
where you go
up, and be gathered
to your people,
as Aaron your brother
died on Mount
Hor, and
was gathered to
his people;
51 because
you trespassed
against me among
the children of
Israel at the
waters of Meribah
of Kadesh, in
the wilderness of
Zin; because
you didn’t uphold my
holiness among the
children of Israel.
52 For
you shall see
the land from
a distance; but
you shall not
go there into
the land which I
give the children
of Israel.”