05:032:001 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth,
the words of my mouth.
05:032:002 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:
05:032:003 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye
greatness unto our God.
05:032:004 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.
05:032:005 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of
his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
05:032:006 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?
05:032:007 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.
05:032:008 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.
05:032:009 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.
05:032:010 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.
05:032:011 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her
wings:
05:032:012 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god
with him.
05:032:013 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;
05:032:014 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.
05:032:015 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.
05:032:016 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with
abominations provoked they him to anger.
05:032:017 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.
05:032:018 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast
forgotten God that formed thee.
05:032:019 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the
provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
05:032:020 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.
05:032:021 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.
05:032:022 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.
05:032:023 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
them.
05:032:024 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.
05:032:025 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the
young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of
gray hairs.
05:032:026 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
remembrance of them to cease from among men:
05:032:027 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.
05:032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them.
05:032:029 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end!
05:032:030 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?
05:032:031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges.
05:032:032 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:
05:032:033 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of
asps.
05:032:034 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
treasures?
05:032:035 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.
05:032:036 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.
05:032:037 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom
they trusted,
05:032:038 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.
05:032:039 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.
05:032:040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
05:032:041 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.
05:032:042 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.
05:032:043 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.
05:032:044 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the
ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
05:032:045 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all
Israel:
05:032:046 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.
05:032:047 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.
05:032:048 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
05:032:049 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:
05:032:050 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:
05:032:051 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel
at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin;
because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of
Israel.
05:032:052 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go
thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.