King James VersionDeuteronomy32

Deuteronomy

1 Give ear, O ye heav­ens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doc­trine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall dis­til as the dew, as the small rain upon the ten­der herb, and as the show­ers upon the grass: 3 Be­cause I will pub­lish the name of the LORD: as­cribe ye great­ness unto our God. 4 He is the Rock, his work is per­fect: for all his ways are judg­ment: a God of truth and with­out in­iq­ui­ty, just and right is he. 5 They have cor­rupt­ed them­selves, their spot is not the spot of his chil­dren: they are a per­verse and crooked gen­er­a­tion. 6 Do ye thus re­quite the LORD, O fool­ish peo­ple and un­wise? is not he thy fa­ther that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and es­tab­lished thee? 7 Re­mem­ber the days of old, con­sid­er the years of many gen­er­a­tions: ask thy fa­ther, and he will shew thee; thy el­ders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the most High di­vid­ed to 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 Is­rael. 9 For the LORD'S por­tion is his peo­ple; Ja­cob is the lot of his in­her­i­tance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howl­ing wilder­ness; he led him about, he in­struct­ed him, he kept him as the ap­ple of his eye. 11 As an ea­gle stir­reth up her nest, flut­tereth over her young, spread­eth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13 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; 14 But­ter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kid­neys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. 15 But Jeshu­run waxed fat, and kicked: thou art wax­en fat, thou art grown thick, thou art cov­ered with fatness; then he for­sook God which made him, and light­ly es­teemed the Rock of his sal­va­tion. 16 They pro­voked him to jeal­ousy with strange gods, with abom­i­na­tions pro­voked they him to anger. 17 They sac­ri­ficed unto dev­ils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new ­gods that came new­ly up, whom your fa­thers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that be­gat thee thou art un­mind­ful, and hast for­got­ten God that formed thee. 19 And when the LORD saw it, he ab­horred them, be­cause of the pro­vok­ing of his sons, and of his daugh­ters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward gen­er­a­tion, chil­dren in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jeal­ousy with that which is not God; they have pro­voked me to anger with their van­i­ties: and I will move them to jeal­ousy with those which are not a peo­ple; I will pro­voke them to anger with a fool­ish na­tion. 22 For a fire is kin­dled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the low­est hell, and shall con­sume the earth with her in­crease, and set on fire the foun­da­tions of the moun­tains. 23 I will heap mis­chiefs upon them; I will spend mine ar­rows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and de­voured with burn­ing heat, and with bit­ter de­struc­tion: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poi­son of ser­pents of the dust. 25 The sword with­out, and ter­ror with­in, shall de­stroy both the young man and the vir­gin, the suck­ling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scat­ter them into cor­ners, I would make the re­mem­brance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the en­e­my, lest their ad­ver­saries should be­have them­selves strange­ly, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 28 For they are a na­tion void of coun­sel, nei­ther is there any un­der­stand­ing in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they un­der­stood this, that they would con­sid­er their lat­ter end! 30 How should one chase a thou­sand, and two put ten thou­sand to flight, ex­cept their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut 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, and of the fields of Go­mor­rah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clus­ters are bit­ter: 33 Their wine is the poi­son of drag­ons, and the cru­el ven­om of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my trea­sures? 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and rec­om­pence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calami­ty is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his peo­ple, and re­pent him­self for his ser­vants, when he seeth that their pow­er is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trust­ed, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sac­ri­fices, and drank the wine of their drink of­fer­ings? let them rise up and help you, and be your pro­tec­tion. 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: nei­ther is there any that can de­liv­er out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heav­en, and say, I live for ev­er. 41 If I whet my glit­ter­ing sword, and mine hand take hold on judg­ment; I will ren­der vengeance to mine en­e­mies, and will re­ward them that hate me. 42 I will make mine ar­rows drunk with blood, and my sword shall de­vour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the cap­tives, from the be­gin­ning of re­venges upon the en­e­my. 43 Re­joice, O ye na­tions, with his peo­ple: for he will avenge the blood of his ser­vants, and will ren­der vengeance to his ad­ver­saries, and will be mer­ci­ful unto his land, and to his peo­ple. 44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the peo­ple, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45 And Moses made an end of speak­ing all these words to all Is­rael: 46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I tes­ti­fy among you this day, which ye shall com­mand your chil­dren to ob­serve to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; be­cause it is your life: and through this thing ye shall pro­long your days in the land, whith­er ye go over Jor­dan to pos­sess it. 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that self­same day, say­ing, 49 Get thee up into this moun­tain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jeri­cho; and be­hold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the chil­dren of Is­rael for a pos­ses­sion: 50 And die in the mount whith­er thou goest up, and be gath­ered unto thy peo­ple; as Aaron thy broth­er died in mount Hor, and was gath­ered unto his peo­ple: 51 Be­cause ye tres­passed against me among the chil­dren of Is­rael at the wa­ters of Merib­ah-Kadesh, in the wilder­ness of Zin; be­cause ye sanc­ti­fied me not in the midst of the chil­dren of Is­rael. 52 Yet thou shalt see the land be­fore thee; but thou shalt not go thith­er unto the land which I give the chil­dren of Is­rael.