32Deuteronomy 32

1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.Select Deuteronomy 32:1

2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:Select Deuteronomy 32:2

3Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness to our God.Select Deuteronomy 32:3

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.Select Deuteronomy 32:4

5They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked generation.Select Deuteronomy 32:5

6Do 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?Select Deuteronomy 32:6

7Remember 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:7

8When 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:8

9For the LORD'S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.Select Deuteronomy 32:9

10He 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:10

11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings;Select Deuteronomy 32:11

12[So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange God with him.Select Deuteronomy 32:12

13He 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;Select Deuteronomy 32:13

14Butter of cows, 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:14

15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou hast waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [who] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.Select Deuteronomy 32:15

16They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations they provoked him to anger.Select Deuteronomy 32:16

17They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods which they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.Select Deuteronomy 32:17

18Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.Select Deuteronomy 32:18

19And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.Select Deuteronomy 32:19

20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end [will be]: for they [are] a very froward generation, children in whom [is] no faith.Select Deuteronomy 32:20

21They 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 who are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.Select Deuteronomy 32:21

22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.Select Deuteronomy 32:22

23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.Select Deuteronomy 32:23

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.Select Deuteronomy 32:24

25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.Select Deuteronomy 32:25

26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;Select Deuteronomy 32:26

27Were 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:27

28For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.Select Deuteronomy 32:28

29O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!Select Deuteronomy 32:29

30How 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?Select Deuteronomy 32:30

31For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges:Select Deuteronomy 32:31

32For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:Select Deuteronomy 32:32

33Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.Select Deuteronomy 32:33

34[Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?Select Deuteronomy 32:34

35To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompense; 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:35

36For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent for his servants: when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left.Select Deuteronomy 32:36

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

38Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them rise up and help you, [and] be your protection.Select Deuteronomy 32:38

39See 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:39

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

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

42I will make my 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:42

43Rejoice, 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 to his land, [and] to his people.Select Deuteronomy 32:43

44And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.Select Deuteronomy 32:44

45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;Select Deuteronomy 32:45

46And he said to them, Set your hearts to 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:46

47For 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:47

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

49Ascend this mountain Abarim, [to] mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan which I give to the children of Israel for a Possession:Select Deuteronomy 32:49

50And die in the mount whither thou goest, and be gathered to thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:Select Deuteronomy 32:50

51Because 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.Select Deuteronomy 32:51

52Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee], but thou shalt not go thither to the land which I give the children of Israel.Select Deuteronomy 32:52