Deut. 31:19‑32:44• 19{i}And now, write ye this song, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.{/i}
20{i}For I shall bring them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, which floweth with milk and honey; and they will eat and fill themselves, and wax fat, and will turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.{/i}
21{i}And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination which they are forming already this day, before I bring them into the land which I have sworn unto them.{/i}
22{i}And Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.{/i}
23{i}And Jehovah commanded Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and courageous; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I have sworn unto them; and I will be with thee.{/i}
24{i}And it came to pass, when Moses had ended writing the words of this law in a book, until their conclusion,{/i}
25{i}that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying,{/i}
26{i}Take this book of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee;{/i}
27{i}for I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Lo, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death!{/i}
28{i}Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and take heaven and earth to witness against them.{/i}
29{i}For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and mischief will befall you at the end of days; because ye do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.{/i}
30{i}And Moses spoke in the ears of the whole congregation of Israel the words of this song, until their conclusion.{/i}
1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak;{HR}and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2{i}My doctrine shall drop as rain,{HR}My speech flow down as dew,{HR}As small rain upon the tender herb,{HR}And as showers on the grass.{HR}{/i}
3{i}For the name of Jehovah will I proclaim:{HR}Ascribe greatness unto our God!{HR}{/i}
4{i}He is the Rock{/i}, his doing is perfect:{HR}For all his ways are judgment:{HR}A God of truth without iniquity,{HR}Just and right is he.
5{i}They have dealt corruptly with him;{HR}Not his children's is their spot:{HR}—A crooked and perverted generation!{HR}{/i}
6{i}Do ye thus requite Jehovah,{HR}Foolish and unwise people?{HR}Is not he thy father that hath bought thee?{HR}Hath he not made thee and established thee?{HR}{/i}
7{i}Remember the days of old,{HR}Consider the years of generation to generation;{HR}Ask thy father, and he will show thee;{HR}Thine elders, and they will tell thee.{HR}{/i}
8When the Most High (Elion) divided to the nations their inheritance,{HR}When he separated the sons of Adam,{HR}He set the bounds of the people{HR}According to the number of the children of Israel.
9{i}For Jehovah's portion is his people;{HR}Jacob the lot of his inheritance.{HR}{/i}
10{i}He found him in a desert land,{HR}And in the waste, howling wilderness;{HR}He compassed him about, he watched over him,{HR}He preserved him as the apple of his eye.{HR}{/i}
11{i}As the eagle stirreth up its nest,{HR}Hovereth over its young,{HR}Spreadeth out its wings,{HR}Taketh them, beareth them on its feathers,{HR}{/i}
12{i}So Jehovah alone did lead him,{HR}And no strange god was with him.{HR}{/i}
13{i}He made him ride on the high places of the earth,{HR}And he ate the produce of the field;{HR}And he made him suck honey out of the crag,{HR}And oil out of the flinty rock;{HR}{/i}
14{i}Cream of kine, and milk of sheep,{HR}With the fat of lambs,{HR}And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats,{HR}With the fat of kidneys of wheat;{HR}And thou didst drink pure wine, the blood of the grape.{HR}{/i}
15{i}Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked{HR}—Thou art waxen fat,{HR}Thou art grown thick,{HR}And thou art covered with fatness;{HR}—He gave up God who made him,{HR}And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.{HR}{/i}
16{i}They moved him to jealousy with strange gods,{HR}With abominations did they provoke him to anger.{HR}{/i}
17{i}They sacrificed unto demons who are not God;{/i}{HR}To gods whom they knew not,{HR}To new gods that came newly up,{HR}Whom your fathers feared not.
18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,{HR}And hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19{i}And Jehovah saw it, and despised them,{HR}Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.{HR}{/i}
20{i}And he said, I will hide my face from them,{HR}I will see what their end shall be;{HR}For they are a perverse generation,{HR}Children in whom is no faithfulness.{HR}{/i}
21{i}They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God;{HR}They have exasperated me with their vanities;{HR}And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people;{HR}With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.{HR}{/i}
22{i}For a fire is kindled in mine anger,{HR}And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol,{HR}And shall consume the earth and its produce,{HR}And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.{HR}{/i}
23{i}I will heap mischiefs upon them;{HR}Mine arrows will I spend against them.{HR}{/i}
24{i}They shall be consumed with hunger,{HR}And devoured with burning heat,{HR}And with poisonous pestilence;{HR}And the teeth of beasts will I send against them,{HR}With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.{HR}{/i}
25{i}From without shall the sword bereave them,{HR}And in the chambers, terror{HR}—Both the young man and the virgin,{HR}The suckling with the man of gray hairs.{HR}{/i}
26{i}I would say, I will scatter,{HR}I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,{HR}{/i}
27{i}If I did not fear provocation from the enemy,{HR}Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it,{HR}Lest they should say, Our hand is high,{HR}And Jehovah has not done all this.{HR}{/i}
28{i}For they are a nation void of counsel,{HR}And understanding is not in them.{HR}{/i}
29{i}Oh that they had been wise!{HR}They would have understood this;{HR}They would have considered their latter end!{HR}{/i}
30{i}How could one chase a thousand,{HR}And two put ten thousand to flight,{HR}Were it not that their Rock had sold them,{HR}And Jehovah had delivered them up?{HR}{/i}
31{i}For their rock is not as our Rock:{HR}Let our enemies themselves be judges.{HR}{/i}
32{i}For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,{HR}And of the fields of Gomorrah:{HR}Their grapes are grapes of poison,{HR}Bitter are their clusters;{HR}{/i}
33{i}Their wine is the poison of dragons,{HR}And the cruel venom of vipers.{HR}{/i}
34{i}Is not this hidden with me,{HR}Sealed up among my treasures?{HR}{/i}
35{i}Vengeance is mine, and recompense,{HR}For the time when their foot shall slip.{HR}For the day of their calamity is at hand,{HR}And the things that shall come upon them make haste.{HR}{/i}
36For Jehovah shall judge his people,{HR}And repent himself for his servants,{HR}When he seeth that their power is gone,{HR}And there is none shut up or left.
37And he shall say, Where are their gods,{HR}Their rock in whom they trusted,
38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices,{HR}And drank the wine of their drink-offerings?{HR}Let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39See now that I, even I, am he,{HR}And there is no god with me:{HR}I kill, and I make alive;{HR}I wound, and I heal:{HR}Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40For I lift up my hand to heaven,{HR}And say, I live forever.
41If I whet my glittering sword,{HR}And mine hand take hold on judgment;{HR}I will render vengeance to mine enemies,{HR}And will reward them that hate me.
42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,{HR}And my sword shall devour flesh;{HR}And that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,{HR}From the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people:{HR}For he will avenge the blood of his servants,{HR}And will render vengeance to his adversaries,{HR}And will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
44{i}And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.{/i} (Deut. 31:19‑32:44)