[1] Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak; Let the earth hear the words
of my mouth. [2] My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall
condense as the dew, As the small rain on the tender grass, As the showers
on the herb. [3] For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh: Ascribe you
greatness to our God. [4] The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways
are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is
he. [5] They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children,
[it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation. [6]
Do you thus requite Yahweh, Foolish people and unwise? 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 Yahweh`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 compassed him about, 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 pinions. [12] Yahweh alone did lead 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 made him to suck honey out of the rock, Oil
out of the flinty rock; [14] Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs, Rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest
of the wheat; Of the blood of the grape you drank wine. [15] But Jeshurun
grew fat, and kicked: You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are
become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, Lightly esteemed the Rock
of his salvation. [16] They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With
abominations provoked they him to anger. [17] They sacrificed to demons,
[which were] no God, To gods that they didn`t know, To new [gods] that came
up of late, Which your fathers didn`t dread. [18] Of the Rock that became
your father, you are unmindful, Have forgotten God who gave you birth. [19]
Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], 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 shall 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, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its
increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. [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 Bitter destruction; The
teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of
the dust. [25] Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It
shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray
hairs. [26] I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the memory of
them to cease from among men; [27] Were it not that I feared the
provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest
they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh 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 should one chase a thousand, Two put
ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had
delivered them up? [31] For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies
themselves being judges. [32] For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, Of
the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, 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 shall
slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, The things that are to
come on them shall make haste. [36] For Yahweh will judge his people,
Repent himself for his servants; When he sees that [their] power is gone,
There is none [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, even I, am he, There is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I
wound, and I heal; There is none who can deliver out of my hand. [40] For I
lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever, [41] If I whet my
glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to
my adversaries, Will recompense 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, Will render vengeance to his adversaries, Will make
expiation for his land, 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 made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; [46] He
said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this
day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, [even] 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] Yahweh spoke to Moses that same
day, saying, [49] Get you up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo,
which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the
land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;
[50] and 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 in the midst of the children
of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin;
because you didn`t sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel. [52]
For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the
land which I give the children of Israel.
