THE
BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
Deuteronomy
Chapter 32
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¶ Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my
mouth.
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My doctrine will drop as the rain, my speech shall
distil as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on
the grass:
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Because I will proclaim the name of the LORD: ascribe greatness to our God.
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He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are
just: a God of truth without iniquity, just and right is he.
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They have corrupted themselves, they are no longer his
children because of their blemish: they are a perverse and crooked
generation.
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Is this your repayment to the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? is not he your father who has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?
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¶ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, that he may show you; your elders, that they may
tell you.
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When the most High gave 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
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For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is
his allotted inheritance.
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He found him in a desert land, and in a howling wilderness waste; he encircled
him, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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Like an eagle that stirs up her nest, and hovers over her young, the
Lord spread out his wings, took them, and bore them on his wings:
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So the LORD alone led Jacob, and there was no foreign god with
him.
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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;
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Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat
lambs, and rams of the breed of
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¶ But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have grown
fat, you grew plump, you became gorged and sleek; then he forsook God who
made him, and despised the Rock of his salvation.
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They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,
they provoked him to anger with abominations.
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They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they did not know, to new gods
that recently came up, whom your fathers did not fear.
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You were unmindful of the Rock that begat you, and have forgotten the
God who formed you.
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¶ And when the LORD saw it, he rejected them,
because of the provocation of his sons, and of his daughters.
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And 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 who are
without faith.
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They have provoked me to jealousy with their false gods; they have
provoked me to anger with their idols: so I will provoke them to jealousy with those
who are not a nation; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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For a fire is kindled by mine anger, and it shall burn
to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its increase, and set on
fire the foundations of the mountains.
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I will heap calamities upon them; I will shoot all my arrows at them.
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They will be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and
with deadly pestilence: I will also send the teeth of beasts against them, with
the poison of the crawling things of the dust.
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The sword outdoors, and terror indoors, shall destroy both the young man and
the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.
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¶ I said, I would scatter them afar, I would have
caused them to be forgotten by all men:
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had I not suspected provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries
misconstrue it, lest they should say, Our hand has
prevailed, and none of it was the work of the LORD.
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For they are a nation of unsound mind, nor is there any
understanding in them.
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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that
they would consider their latter end!
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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?
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For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being
judges.
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For their vine is of the vine of
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Their wine is the poison of dinosaurs, and the cruel venom of serpents.
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Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
treasures?
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Vengeance belongs to me, and recompense; their foot will slide in due
time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes
quickly.
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For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when
he sees that their power is gone, and none remains, bond or free.
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And he shall say, Where are their gods, the
rock in whom they trusted,
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Who 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.
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¶ See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god other
than me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: nor is there any
who can deliver out of my hand.
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For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear that, As I
live for ever.
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If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will
render vengeance to my enemies, and will repay those who hate me.
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I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh; with
the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the long-haired heads of the
enemy.
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Rejoice, O heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him.
Rejoice with his people, O you nations: 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.
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¶ And Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the ears of the
people, he, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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And when Moses finished speaking all these words to all
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He said to them, Take to heart all the words which I enjoin upon you this day,
which you shall command your children to observe, to do all the words of this
law.
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For it is not a meaningless thing for you; because it is your
life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land,
which you cross over the
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And the LORD spoke to Moses that very same day, saying,
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Go up onto this mountain of the Abarim,
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And die on the mount which you ascend, and be gathered to your people; as Aaron
your brother died on
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Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of
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Yet you will see the land before you; but you shall not go there to the
land that I give the children of Israel.