Chapter 32
1Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2My teaching will drop like rain; my word will flow like dew, like showers upon the grass and like showers upon the vegetation.
3For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God.
4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice; a faithful God without injustice, righteous and upright is he.
5They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because of their blemish; they are a crooked and twisted generation.
6Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is he not your father who created you, who made you and established you?
7Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father and he will declare to you, your elders and they will tell you.
8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the cord of his inheritance.
10He found him in a land of wilderness and in the howling waste of Jeshimon; he encircled him, cared for him, and kept him as the pupil of his eye.
11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, he took them and bore them on his pinions.
12The LORD alone guided him; no foreign god was with him.
13He made him ride on the high places of the land and he ate the fruit of the field; he suckled him with honey from the rock and oil from flinty rock.
14Curds from cattle and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams of Bashan and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you drank foaming wine from the blood of grapes.
15Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat, you thickened, you were sated; then he abandoned the god who made him and treated the Rock of his salvation senselessly.
16They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods; with abominations they angered him.
17They sacrificed to demons, not God, gods they had not known, new ones that came recently, that your fathers did not know.
18The Rock begot you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19The LORD saw it and spurned them because of the provocation of his sons and daughters.
20He said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end shall be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.'
21They made me jealous with what is no god; they provoked me with their idols; so I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
22For fire has been kindled in my anger and burns till lower Sheol; it eats land and its crops and kindles the foundations of the mountains.
23I will heap calamities upon them; I will spend my arrows against them.
24They will be wasted by famine and consumed by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will send against them the teeth of beasts and the venom of serpents that crawl in the dust.
25The sword will bereave them from without, and terror from within, both young man and maiden, the nursing child and the gray-haired man.
26I said, 'I will scatter them afar; I will make the memory of them cease from among humankind.'
27But I feared the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say, 'Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.'
28They are a nation lacking counsel, and there is no understanding among them.
29If they were wise they would understand this; they would perceive their end.
30How could one pursue a thousand, or two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and the LORD had shut them up?
31For their rock is not like our Rock, and our enemies are judges.
32Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are poisonous grapes; their clusters are bitter.
33The rage of their dragons is their wine, and the cruel poison of cobras.
34Is this not stored up with me, sealed in my treasuries?
35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slips; for the day of their disaster is near, and their doom hastens upon them.
36The LORD will indeed judge his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees that strength is gone and no one remains, whether bound or free.
37Then he will say, Where are their gods, the Rock in which they sought refuge?
38Let them eat the fat of their sacrifices and drink the wine of their drink offerings; let them rise and help you; let them be your shelter.
39See now that I, I am he, and there is no god besides me; I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal; and none can deliver from my hand.
40For I lift my hand to heaven and declare, 'As I live forever,'
41If I sharpen my lightning sword and my hand grasps justice, I will return vengeance to my enemies and complete it to those who hate me.
42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the heads of the enemy leaders.'
43Rejoice with his people, O nations, for he will avenge the blood of his servants and take vengeance on his foes and make atonement for his land and people.
44Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Hoshea son of Nun.
45When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,
46he said to them, 'Take to heart all the words I solemnly declare to you today; command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.'
47For it is not a worthless word from you, for it is your life; through this word you will prolong your days in the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
31
Deuteronomy
The Song of Moses
Deuteronomy 31:30-32:47
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