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“Listen, O heavens, and I will speak!
Hear, O earth, the words that I say!
Hear, O earth, the words that I say!
“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,
and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Let my teaching fall on you like rain;
let my speech settle like dew.
Let my words fall like rain on tender grass,
like gentle showers on young plants.
let my speech settle like dew.
Let my words fall like rain on tender grass,
like gentle showers on young plants.
May my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb.
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb.
I will proclaim the name of the LORD;
how glorious is our God!
how glorious is our God!
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord;
ascribe greatness to our God!
ascribe greatness to our God!
He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect.
Everything he does is just and fair.
He is a faithful God who does no wrong;
how just and upright he is!
Everything he does is just and fair.
He is a faithful God who does no wrong;
how just and upright he is!
“The Rock, his work is perfect,
for all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
just and upright is he.
for all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
just and upright is he.
They have dealt corruptly with him;
they are no longer his children because they are blemished;
they are a crooked and twisted generation.
they are no longer his children because they are blemished;
they are a crooked and twisted generation.
Is this the way you repay the LORD,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t he your Father who created you?
Has he not made you and established you?
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t he your Father who created you?
Has he not made you and established you?
Do you thus repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father, who created you,
who made you and established you?
you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father, who created you,
who made you and established you?
Remember the days of long ago;
think about the generations past.
Ask your father, and he will inform you.
Inquire of your elders, and they will tell you.
think about the generations past.
Ask your father, and he will inform you.
Inquire of your elders, and they will tell you.
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.
consider the years of many generations;
ask your father, and he will show you,
your elders, and they will tell you.
“For the people of Israel belong to the LORD;
Jacob is his special possession.
Jacob is his special possession.
But the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
Jacob his allotted heritage.
“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.
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he encircled him, he cared for him,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Like an eagle that rouses her chicks
and hovers over her young,
so he spread his wings to take them up
and carried them safely on his pinions.
and hovers over her young,
so he spread his wings to take them up
and carried them safely on his pinions.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
The LORD alone guided them;
they followed no foreign gods.
they followed no foreign gods.
the Lord alone guided him,
no foreign god was with him.
no foreign god was with him.
He let them ride over the highlands
and feast on the crops of the fields.
He nourished them with honey from the rock
and olive oil from the stony ground.
and feast on the crops of the fields.
He nourished them with honey from the rock
and olive oil from the stony ground.
He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with honey out of the rock,
and oil out of the flinty rock.
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with honey out of the rock,
and oil out of the flinty rock.
He fed them yogurt from the herd
and milk from the flock,
together with the fat of lambs.
He gave them choice rams from Bashan, and goats,
together with the choicest wheat.
You drank the finest wine,
made from the juice of grapes.
and milk from the flock,
together with the fat of lambs.
He gave them choice rams from Bashan, and goats,
together with the choicest wheat.
You drank the finest wine,
made from the juice of grapes.
“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked;
you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
then he forsook God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
then he forsook God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods;
they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.
they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God,
to gods they had not known before,
to new gods only recently arrived,
to gods their ancestors had never feared.
to gods they had not known before,
to new gods only recently arrived,
to gods their ancestors had never feared.
They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
to gods they had never known,
to new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
You neglected the Rock who had fathered you;
you forgot the God who had given you birth.
you forgot the God who had given you birth.
“The LORD saw this and drew back,
provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
He said, ‘I will abandon them;
then see what becomes of them.
For they are a twisted generation,
children without integrity.
then see what becomes of them.
For they are a twisted generation,
children without integrity.
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.
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God;
they have provoked my anger with their useless idols.
Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people;
I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.
they have provoked my anger with their useless idols.
Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people;
I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.
They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
they have provoked me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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.
and it burns to the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
I will heap disasters upon them
and shoot them down with my arrows.
and shoot them down with my arrows.
“‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
I will spend my arrows on them;
I will spend my arrows on them;
I will weaken them with famine,
burning fever, and deadly disease.
I will send the fangs of wild beasts
and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
burning fever, and deadly disease.
I will send the fangs of wild beasts
and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
Outside, the sword will bring death,
and inside, terror will strike
both young men and young women,
both infants and the aged.
and inside, terror will strike
both young men and young women,
both infants and the aged.
Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
I would have annihilated them,
wiping out even the memory of them.
wiping out even the memory of them.
I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
I will wipe them from human memory,”
I will wipe them from human memory,”
But I feared the taunt of Israel’s enemy,
who might misunderstand and say,
“Our own power has triumphed!
The LORD had nothing to do with this!”’
who might misunderstand and say,
“Our own power has triumphed!
The LORD had nothing to do with this!”’
had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
“But Israel is a senseless nation;
the people are foolish, without understanding.
the people are foolish, without understanding.
“For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is no understanding in them.
and there is no understanding in them.
Oh, that they were wise and could understand this!
Oh, that they might know their fate!
Oh, that they might know their fate!
If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would discern their latter end!
they would discern their latter end!
How could one person chase a thousand of them,
and two people put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the LORD had given them up?
and two people put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the LORD had given them up?
How could one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
For their rock is not as our Rock;
our enemies are by themselves.
our enemies are by themselves.
Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom,
from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison,
and their clusters are bitter.
from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison,
and their clusters are bitter.
For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
their clusters are bitter;
and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
their clusters are bitter;
Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.
the deadly poison of cobras.
their wine is the poison of serpents
and the cruel venom of asps.
and the cruel venom of asps.
“The LORD says, ‘Am I not storing up these things,
sealing them away in my treasury?
sealing them away in my treasury?
“‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
sealed up in my treasuries?
sealed up in my treasuries?
I will take revenge; I will pay them back.
In due time their feet will slip.
Their day of disaster will arrive,
and their destiny will overtake them.’
In due time their feet will slip.
Their day of disaster will arrive,
and their destiny will overtake them.’
Then he will ask, ‘Where are their gods,
the rocks they fled to for refuge?
the rocks they fled to for refuge?
Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,
the rock in which they took refuge,
Where now are those gods,
who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their offerings?
Let those gods arise and help you!
Let them provide you with shelter!
who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their offerings?
Let those gods arise and help you!
Let them provide you with shelter!
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!
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!
Look now; I myself am he!
There is no other god but me!
I am the one who kills and gives life;
I am the one who wounds and heals;
no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!
There is no other god but me!
I am the one who kills and gives life;
I am the one who wounds and heals;
no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!
“‘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.
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.
Now I raise my hand to heaven
and declare, “As surely as I live,
and declare, “As surely as I live,
For I lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
and swear, As I live forever,
when I sharpen my flashing sword
and begin to carry out justice,
I will take revenge on my enemies
and repay those who reject me.
and begin to carry out justice,
I will take revenge on my enemies
and repay those who reject me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword will devour flesh —
the blood of the slaughtered and the captives,
and the heads of the enemy leaders.”’
and my sword will devour flesh —
the blood of the slaughtered and the captives,
and the heads of the enemy leaders.”’
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.’
and my sword shall devour flesh —
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’
“Rejoice with him, you heavens,
and let all of God’s angels worship him.h
Rejoice with his people, you Gentiles,
and let all the angels be strengthened in him.i
For he will avenge the blood of his childrenj;
he will take revenge against his enemies.
He will repay those who hate himk
and cleanse his people’s land.”
and let all of God’s angels worship him.h
Rejoice with his people, you Gentiles,
and let all the angels be strengthened in him.i
For he will avenge the blood of his childrenj;
he will take revenge against his enemies.
He will repay those who hate himk
and cleanse his people’s land.”
When Moses had finished reciting all these words to the people of Israel,
And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,
he added: “Take to heart all the words of warning I have given you today. Pass them on as a command to your children so they will obey every word of these instructions.
he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.
These instructions are not empty words — they are your life! By obeying them you will enjoy a long life in the land you will occupy when you cross the Jordan River.”
For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
Moses’ Death Foretold
That same day the LORD said to Moses,
Moses’ Death Foretold
That very day the Lord spoke to Moses,
That very day the Lord spoke to Moses,
“Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.
Then you will die there on the mountain. You will join your ancestors, just as Aaron, your brother, died on Mount Hor and joined his ancestors.
And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,
because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.