Deuteronomy 32 : 1 (HCSB)
Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak; listen, earth, to the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 32 : 2 (HCSB)
Let my teaching fall like rain and my word settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass and showers on tender plants.
Deuteronomy 32 : 3 (HCSB)
For I will proclaim the LORD's name. Declare the greatness of our God!
Deuteronomy 32 : 4 (HCSB)
The Rock-- His work is perfect; all His ways are entirely just. A faithful God, without prejudice, He is righteous and true.
Deuteronomy 32 : 5 (HCSB)
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; this is their defect-- they are not His children but a devious and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32 : 6 (HCSB)
Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Isn't He your Father and Creator? Didn't He make you and sustain you?
Deuteronomy 32 : 7 (HCSB)
Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will teach you.
Deuteronomy 32 : 8 (HCSB)
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance and divided the human race, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32 : 9 (HCSB)
But the LORD's portion is His people, Jacob, His own inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32 : 10 (HCSB)
He found him in a desolate land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, cared for him, and guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
Deuteronomy 32 : 11 (HCSB)
He watches over His nest like an eagle and hovers over His young; He spreads His wings, catches him, and lifts him up on His pinions.
Deuteronomy 32 : 12 (HCSB)
The LORD alone led him, with no help from a foreign god.
Deuteronomy 32 : 13 (HCSB)
He made him ride on the heights of the land and eat the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from flintlike rock,
Deuteronomy 32 : 14 (HCSB)
cream from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat; you drank wine from the finest grapes.
Deuteronomy 32 : 15 (HCSB)
Then Jeshurun became fat and rebelled-- you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32 : 16 (HCSB)
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with detestable practices.
Deuteronomy 32 : 17 (HCSB)
They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known, new gods that had just arrived, which your fathers did not fear.
Deuteronomy 32 : 18 (HCSB)
You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who brought you forth.
Deuteronomy 32 : 19 (HCSB)
When the LORD saw *this , He despised them , provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Deuteronomy 32 : 20 (HCSB)
He said: "I will hide My face from them; I will see what will become of them, for they are a perverse generation-- unfaithful children.
Deuteronomy 32 : 21 (HCSB)
They have provoked My jealousy with *their so-called gods; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with an inferior people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy 32 : 22 (HCSB)
For fire has been kindled because of My anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the land and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy 32 : 23 (HCSB)
I will pile disasters on them; I will use up My arrows against them.
Deuteronomy 32 : 24 (HCSB)
They will be weak from hunger, ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs, as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32 : 25 (HCSB)
Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the virgin *will be killed , the infant and the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 32 : 26 (HCSB)
I would have said: I will cut them to pieces and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
Deuteronomy 32 : 27 (HCSB)
if I had not feared insult from the enemy, *or feared that these foes might misunderstand and say: Our own hand has prevailed; it wasn't the LORD who did all this."
Deuteronomy 32 : 28 (HCSB)
Israel is a nation lacking sense with no understanding at all.
Deuteronomy 32 : 29 (HCSB)
If only they were wise, they would figure it out; they would understand their fate.
Deuteronomy 32 : 30 (HCSB)
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Deuteronomy 32 : 31 (HCSB)
But their "rock" is not like our Rock; even our enemies concede.
Deuteronomy 32 : 32 (HCSB)
For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
Deuteronomy 32 : 33 (HCSB)
Their wine is serpents' venom, the deadly poison of cobras.
Deuteronomy 32 : 34 (HCSB)
"Is it not stored up with Me, sealed up in My vaults?
Deuteronomy 32 : 35 (HCSB)
Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay. In time their foot will slip, for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly."
Deuteronomy 32 : 36 (HCSB)
The LORD will indeed vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that *their strength is gone and no one is left-- slave or free.
Deuteronomy 32 : 37 (HCSB)
He will say: "Where are their gods, the 'rock' they found refuge in?
Deuteronomy 32 : 38 (HCSB)
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let it be a shelter for you.
Deuteronomy 32 : 39 (HCSB)
See now that I alone am He; there is no God but Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal. No one can rescue *anyone from My hand.
Deuteronomy 32 : 40 (HCSB)
I raise My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
Deuteronomy 32 : 41 (HCSB)
when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand takes hold of judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
Deuteronomy 32 : 42 (HCSB)
I will make My arrows drunk with blood while My sword devours flesh-- the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders."
Deuteronomy 32 : 43 (HCSB)
Rejoice, you nations, over His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants. He will take vengeance on His adversaries; He will purify His land and His people.
Deuteronomy 32 : 44 (HCSB)
Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the presence of the people.
Deuteronomy 32 : 45 (HCSB)
After Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
Deuteronomy 32 : 46 (HCSB)
he said to them, "Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32 : 47 (HCSB)
For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
Deuteronomy 32 : 48 (HCSB)
On that same day the LORD spoke to Moses,
Deuteronomy 32 : 49 (HCSB)
"Go up Mount Nebo in the Abarim *range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession.
Deuteronomy 32 : 50 (HCSB)
Then you will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
Deuteronomy 32 : 51 (HCSB)
For *both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
Deuteronomy 32 : 52 (HCSB)
Although you will view the land from a distance, which I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there."
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