32Deuteronomy 32

1Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.Select Deuteronomy 32:1

2Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.Select Deuteronomy 32:2

3Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.Select Deuteronomy 32:3

4The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.Select Deuteronomy 32:4

5They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.Select Deuteronomy 32:5

6Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?Select Deuteronomy 32:6

7Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.Select Deuteronomy 32:7

8When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.Select Deuteronomy 32:8

9But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.Select Deuteronomy 32:9

10He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.Select Deuteronomy 32:10

11As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.Select Deuteronomy 32:11

12The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.Select Deuteronomy 32:12

13He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,Select Deuteronomy 32:13

14Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.Select Deuteronomy 32:14

15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.Select Deuteronomy 32:15

16They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.Select Deuteronomy 32:16

17They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.Select Deuteronomy 32:17

18Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.Select Deuteronomy 32:18

19The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.Select Deuteronomy 32:19

20And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.Select Deuteronomy 32:20

21They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.Select Deuteronomy 32:21

22A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.Select Deuteronomy 32:22

23I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.Select Deuteronomy 32:23

24They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.Select Deuteronomy 32:24

25Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.Select Deuteronomy 32:25

26I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.Select Deuteronomy 32:26

27But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.Select Deuteronomy 32:27

28They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.Select Deuteronomy 32:28

29O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.Select Deuteronomy 32:29

30How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?Select Deuteronomy 32:30

31For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.Select Deuteronomy 32:31

32Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.Select Deuteronomy 32:32

33Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.Select Deuteronomy 32:33

34Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?Select Deuteronomy 32:34

35Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.Select Deuteronomy 32:35

36The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.Select Deuteronomy 32:36

37And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?Select Deuteronomy 32:37

38Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.Select Deuteronomy 32:38

39See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.Select Deuteronomy 32:39

40I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.Select Deuteronomy 32:40

41If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.Select Deuteronomy 32:41

42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.Select Deuteronomy 32:42

43Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.Select Deuteronomy 32:43

44So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.Select Deuteronomy 32:44

45And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.Select Deuteronomy 32:45

46And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:Select Deuteronomy 32:46

47For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.Select Deuteronomy 32:47

48And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:Select Deuteronomy 32:48

49Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.Select Deuteronomy 32:49

50When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:Select Deuteronomy 32:50

51Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.Select Deuteronomy 32:51

52Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.Select Deuteronomy 32:52