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32:1 "Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
32:1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
32:2 May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distil as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
32:2 May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.
32:3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!
32:3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!
32:4 "The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;
32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are no longer his children because of their blemish; they are a perverse and crooked generation.
32:5 yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation.
32:6 Do you thus requite the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
32:6 Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
32:7 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.
32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you.
32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
32:8 When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;
32:9 For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
32:9 the LORD's own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.
32:10 "He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
32:10 He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye.
32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,
32:11 As an eagle stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young; as it spreads its wings, takes them up, and bears them aloft on its pinions,
32:12 the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god with him.
32:12 the LORD alone guided him; no foreign god was with him.
32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; and he made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
32:13 He set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock;
32:14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, herds of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat -- and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
32:14 curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams; Bashan bulls and goats, together with the choicest wheat--you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.
32:15 "But Jesh'urun waxed fat, and kicked; you waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek; then he forsook God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
32:15 Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
32:16 They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominable practices they provoked him to anger.
32:16 They made him jealous with strange gods, with abhorrent things they provoked him.
32:17 They sacrificed to demons which were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come in of late, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.
32:18 You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
32:18 You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
32:19 "The LORD saw it, and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
32:19 The LORD saw it, and was jealous he spurned his sons and daughters.
32:20 And he said, `I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
32:20 He said: I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.
32:21 They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
32:21 They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people, provoke them with a foolish nation.
32:22 For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
32:22 For a fire is kindled by my anger, and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
32:23 "`And I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them;
32:23 I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:
32:24 they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with venom of crawling things of the dust.
32:24 wasting hunger, burning consumption, bitter pestilence. The teeth of beasts I will send against them, with venom of things crawling in the dust.
32:25 In the open the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.
32:25 In the street the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror, for young man and woman alike, nursing child and old gray head.
32:26 I would have said, "I will scatter them afar, I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men,"
32:26 I thought to scatter them and blot out the memory of them from humankind;
32:27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, the LORD has not wrought all this."'
32:27 but I feared provocation by the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say, "Our hand is triumphant; it was not the LORD who did all this."
32:28 "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
32:28 They are a nation void of sense; there is no understanding in them.
32:29 If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end!
32:29 If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what the end would be.
32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?
32:30 How could one have routed a thousand, and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the LORD had given them up?
32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32:31 Indeed their rock is not like our Rock; our enemies are fools.
32:32 For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomor'rah; their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter;
32:32 Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter;
32:33 their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
32:33 their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
32:34 "Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.
32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; because the day of their calamity is at hand, their doom comes swiftly.
32:36 For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free.
32:36 Indeed the LORD will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.
32:37 Then he will say, `Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
32:37 Then he will say: Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
32:38 who 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!
32:38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection!
32:39 "`See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
32:39 See now that I, even I, am he; there is no god beside me. I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and no one can deliver from my hand.
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear, As I live for ever,
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear: As I live forever,
32:41 if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me.
32:41 when I whet my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh -- with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'
32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh--with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired enemy.
32:43 "Praise his people, O you nations; for he avenges the blood of his servants, and takes vengeance on his adversaries, and makes expiation for the land of his people."
32:43 Praise, O heavens, his people, worship him, all you gods! For he will avenge the blood of his children, and take vengeance on his adversaries; he will repay those who hate him, and cleanse the land for his people.
32:44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
32:44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua son of Nun.
32:45 And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,
32:45 When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
32:46 he said to them, "Lay to heart all the words which I enjoin upon you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.
32:46 he said to them: "Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today; give them as a command to your children, so that they may diligently observe all the words of this law.
32:47 For it is no trifle for you, but it is your life, and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess."
32:47 This is no trifling matter for you, but rather your very life; through it you may live long in the land that you are crossing over the Jordan to possess."
32:48 And the LORD said to Moses that very day,
32:48 On that very day the LORD addressed Moses as follows:
32:49 "Ascend this mountain of the Ab'arim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho; and view the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel for a possession;
32:49 "Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites for a possession;
32:50 and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;
32:50 you shall die there on the mountain that you ascend and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his kin;
32:51 because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Mer'i-bath-ka'desh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not revere me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.
32:51 because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to maintain my holiness among the Israelites.
32:52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there, into the land which I give to the people of Israel."
32:52 Although you may view the land from a distance, you shall not enter it--the land that I am giving to the Israelites."
32:1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
32:2 May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distil as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
32:2 May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.
32:3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!
32:3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!
32:4 "The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;
32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are no longer his children because of their blemish; they are a perverse and crooked generation.
32:5 yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation.
32:6 Do you thus requite the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
32:6 Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
32:7 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.
32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you.
32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
32:8 When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;
32:9 For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
32:9 the LORD's own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.
32:10 "He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
32:10 He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye.
32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,
32:11 As an eagle stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young; as it spreads its wings, takes them up, and bears them aloft on its pinions,
32:12 the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god with him.
32:12 the LORD alone guided him; no foreign god was with him.
32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; and he made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
32:13 He set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock;
32:14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, herds of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat -- and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
32:14 curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams; Bashan bulls and goats, together with the choicest wheat--you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.
32:15 "But Jesh'urun waxed fat, and kicked; you waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek; then he forsook God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
32:15 Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
32:16 They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominable practices they provoked him to anger.
32:16 They made him jealous with strange gods, with abhorrent things they provoked him.
32:17 They sacrificed to demons which were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come in of late, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.
32:18 You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
32:18 You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
32:19 "The LORD saw it, and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
32:19 The LORD saw it, and was jealous he spurned his sons and daughters.
32:20 And he said, `I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
32:20 He said: I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.
32:21 They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
32:21 They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people, provoke them with a foolish nation.
32:22 For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
32:22 For a fire is kindled by my anger, and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
32:23 "`And I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them;
32:23 I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:
32:24 they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with venom of crawling things of the dust.
32:24 wasting hunger, burning consumption, bitter pestilence. The teeth of beasts I will send against them, with venom of things crawling in the dust.
32:25 In the open the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.
32:25 In the street the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror, for young man and woman alike, nursing child and old gray head.
32:26 I would have said, "I will scatter them afar, I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men,"
32:26 I thought to scatter them and blot out the memory of them from humankind;
32:27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, the LORD has not wrought all this."'
32:27 but I feared provocation by the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say, "Our hand is triumphant; it was not the LORD who did all this."
32:28 "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
32:28 They are a nation void of sense; there is no understanding in them.
32:29 If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end!
32:29 If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what the end would be.
32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?
32:30 How could one have routed a thousand, and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the LORD had given them up?
32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32:31 Indeed their rock is not like our Rock; our enemies are fools.
32:32 For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomor'rah; their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter;
32:32 Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter;
32:33 their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
32:33 their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
32:34 "Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.
32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; because the day of their calamity is at hand, their doom comes swiftly.
32:36 For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free.
32:36 Indeed the LORD will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.
32:37 Then he will say, `Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
32:37 Then he will say: Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
32:38 who 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!
32:38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection!
32:39 "`See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
32:39 See now that I, even I, am he; there is no god beside me. I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and no one can deliver from my hand.
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear, As I live for ever,
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear: As I live forever,
32:41 if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me.
32:41 when I whet my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh -- with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'
32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh--with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired enemy.
32:43 "Praise his people, O you nations; for he avenges the blood of his servants, and takes vengeance on his adversaries, and makes expiation for the land of his people."
32:43 Praise, O heavens, his people, worship him, all you gods! For he will avenge the blood of his children, and take vengeance on his adversaries; he will repay those who hate him, and cleanse the land for his people.
32:44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
32:44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua son of Nun.
32:45 And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,
32:45 When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
32:46 he said to them, "Lay to heart all the words which I enjoin upon you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.
32:46 he said to them: "Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today; give them as a command to your children, so that they may diligently observe all the words of this law.
32:47 For it is no trifle for you, but it is your life, and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess."
32:47 This is no trifling matter for you, but rather your very life; through it you may live long in the land that you are crossing over the Jordan to possess."
32:48 And the LORD said to Moses that very day,
32:48 On that very day the LORD addressed Moses as follows:
32:49 "Ascend this mountain of the Ab'arim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho; and view the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel for a possession;
32:49 "Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites for a possession;
32:50 and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;
32:50 you shall die there on the mountain that you ascend and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his kin;
32:51 because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Mer'i-bath-ka'desh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not revere me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.
32:51 because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to maintain my holiness among the Israelites.
32:52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there, into the land which I give to the people of Israel."
32:52 Although you may view the land from a distance, you shall not enter it--the land that I am giving to the Israelites."