Chapter 31
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And Moses spoke in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song until he finished it.
Chapter 32
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Hear, O heavens, so that I may speak, and let the earth listen to the words of my mouth.
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May my teaching drop like rain, my utterance trickle like dew, like small showers upon the green plants, and like showers upon the grass.
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For I call the name of the LORD; give greatness to our God.
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The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness, with no injustice—righteous and upright is he.
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He has corrupted himself, not his sons—their defect, a crooked and twisted generation.
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Do you repay the LORD this way, you people? Foolish and not wise! Is he not your father who acquired you, he who made you and established you?
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Remember the days of eternity, understand the years of generation and generation. Ask your father, and he will tell you; your elders, and they will say to you.
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When the Most High gave nations as an inheritance, when he separated the sons of man, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
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For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob the measuring line of his inheritance.
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He found him in the land of the wilderness, in the howling waste, a desolation. He surrounded him, he instructed him, he established him as the pupil of his eye.
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As an eagle stirs up its nest over its fledglings, it hovers, it spreads its wings, it takes them, it bears them on its pinions.
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The LORD alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the fields. He suckled him with honey from a rock and oil from the flinty rock.
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Curds of cattle and fat of sheep, with fat of rams, rams, sons of Bashan, and he-goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat, and blood of grape—you will drink wine.
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And Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, thick, and sleek, and you abandoned God who made you and spurned the Rock of your salvation.
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They will make him jealous with foreigners; with an abomination they will anger him.
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They sacrificed to demons—not gods, gods they did not know; new ones from near that came, which your fathers did not heed.
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You forget the Rock who begot you and forget God who fathered you.
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And the LORD saw it and spurned his sons and daughters in anger.
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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 generation turned, sons in whom there is no faith."
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They have made me jealous with no-god, provoked me with their vanities; and I will make them jealous with no-people. With a foolish nation I will provoke them.
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For a fire has blazed in my anger, and it burns to Sheol's lowest depths, and it consumes the land and its produce, and it flames the foundations of the mountains.
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I will heap evils upon them, my arrows. She will devour them.
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Emaciation from famine and bitter manna, rashes and qeteb of bitters and fangs of beasts I will send among them with the fury of creeping things of dust.
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Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror—both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of old age.
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I said, "I will puff them away; I will make the memory of them cease from humanity."
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Were it not that I restrained the anger of the enemy, lest their adversaries estrange them, lest they say, "Our hand is exalted, and not the LORD did all this."
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For they are a nation lost of counsels, and there is no understanding in them.
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If they had been wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end.
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How can one pursue a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock sold them and the LORD delivered them up?
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For our Rock is not like their Rock, and our enemies are judges.
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For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, and their grapes from the vineyards of Gomorrah. Their clusters are poison, their berries gall—bitterness to them.
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Their wine is the venom of sea monsters, and their head is the head of cruel vipers.
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Is it not laid up with me, sealed in my treasury?
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Vengeance and requital belong to me, at the time when their foot staggers; for the day of their calamity is near, and the appointed time is hastening for them.
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For the LORD will judge his people and will relent over his servants, for he will see that the hand has failed and there is none shut up or abandoned.
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And he will say, "Where are his gods, the rock in whom he takes refuge?"
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which eat the fat of their sacrifices, drink the wine of their drink offerings; let them rise up and help you; let them be a shelter over you.
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See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me. I put to death and I make alive; I crush and I heal, and there is no one who delivers from my hand.
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For I lift my hand to the heavens and say, "I live forever."
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If I sharpen the lightning of my sword, and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my foes, and I will repay those who hate me.
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I will make my arrow drunk from blood, and my sword will eat flesh from the blood of the profaned and captivity from the head of the enemies' dishevelment.
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Rejoice, nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants and he will return vengeance to his adversaries, and he will make atonement for his land, his people.
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And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua son of Nun.
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And Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel.
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And he said to them, "Set your heart on all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your sons to keep, to do all the words of this Torah."
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For it is not an empty word for you, for it is your life, and by this word you will prolong your days on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.