Deuteronomy - Chapter 32 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 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. {cf15I He is} the Rock, his work {cf15I is} perfect: for all his ways {cf15I are} judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right {cf15I is} he.
  • 5. They have corrupted themselves, their spot {cf15I is} not {cf15I the spot} of his children: {cf15I they are} a perverse and crooked generation.
  • 6. Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? {cf15I is} not he thy father {cf15I 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 {cf15I is} his people; Jacob {cf15I 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. {cf15I So} the LORD alone did lead him, and {cf15I 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 {cf15I with fatness}; then he forsook God {cf15I which} made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • 16. They provoked him to jealousy with strange {cf15I gods}, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
  • 17. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new {cf15I gods that} came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
  • 18. Of the Rock {cf15I that} begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
  • 19. And when the LORD saw {cf15I it}, he abhorred {cf15I 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 {cf15I shall be}: for they {cf15I are} a very froward generation, children in whom {cf15I is} no faith.
  • 21. They have moved me to jealousy with {cf15I that which is} not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with {cf15I 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. {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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, {cf15I and} lest they should say, Our hand {cf15I is} high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
  • 28. For they {cf15I are} a nation void of counsel, neither {cf15I is there any} understanding in them.
  • 29. O that they were wise, {cf15I that} they understood this, {cf15I 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 {cf15I is} not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves {cf15I being} judges.
  • 32. For their vine {cf15I is} of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes {cf15I are} grapes of gall, their clusters {cf15I are} bitter:
  • 33. Their wine {cf15I is} the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
  • 34. {cf15I Is} not this laid up in store with me, {cf15I and} sealed up among my treasures?
  • 35. To me {cf15I belongeth} vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in {cf15I due} time: for the day of their calamity {cf15I 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 {cf15I their} power is gone, and {cf15I there is} none shut up, or left.
  • 37. And he shall say, Where {cf15I are} their gods, {cf15I their} rock in whom they trusted,
  • 38. Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, {cf15I and} drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, {cf15I and} be your protection.
  • 39. See now that I, {cf15I even} I, {cf15I am} he, and {cf15I there is} no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither {cf15I 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; {cf15I 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, {cf15I 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, {cf15I 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 {cf15I is} not a vain thing for you; because it {cf15I is} your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong {cf15I 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, {cf15I unto} mount Nebo, which {cf15I is} in the land of Moab, that {cf15I 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 {cf15I thee}; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
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