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Deuteronomy 32
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
My doctrine will drop as the rain.
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
For I will proclaim the LORD’s name.
For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!
The Rock: his work is perfect,
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
They have dealt corruptly with him.
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation (note: Cited in Philippians 2:15).
Is this the way you repay the LORD,
Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
Remember the days of old.
Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God (note: DSS; LXX according to the number of the angels of God; MT according to the number of the sons of Israel).
For the LORD’s portion is his people.
But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
He found him in a desert land,
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple (note: Literally the pupil) of His eye.
As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions (note: Pinions are the outer parts of a bird’s wings, including the flight feathers.).
He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
But Jeshurun (note: Jeshurun means the upright one, a term of endearment for Israel.) grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
They sacrificed to demons, not God,
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
The LORD saw and abhorred,
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
He said, “I will hide my face from them.
He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people (note: Or not a nation; see also LXX.); I will make them angry by a nation without understanding (note: Cited in Romans 10:19).
For a fire is kindled in my anger,
For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
“I will heap evils on them.
I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
They shall be wasted with hunger,
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Outside the sword will bereave,
Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.
I said that I would scatter them afar.
I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
For they are a nation void of counsel.
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
How could one chase a thousand,
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
For their rock is not as our Rock,
For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede (note: Hebrew; LXX but our enemies are void of understanding).
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
Their wine is the poison of serpents,
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
“Isn’t this laid up in store with me,
“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
Vengeance is Mine; I will repay (note: LXX; Hebrew Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; cited in Romans 12:19 and Hebrews 10:30). In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
For the LORD will judge his people,
For the LORD will vindicate His people (note: Or will judge His people; see also LXX; cited in Hebrews 10:30) and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.
He will say, “Where are their gods,
He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
which ate the fat of their sacrifices,
which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
“See now that I myself am he.
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare,
For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
if I sharpen my glittering sword,
when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children (note: DSS and LXX; MT servants). He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
Then Moses came with Joshua (note: LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua) son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.
When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
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.
he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
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.”
For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
“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.
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
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;
And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
because you trespassed against me amongst the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness amongst the children of Israel.
For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
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.”
Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”