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Give ear,
O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O
earth, the words of my mouth.
02 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:
03 Because I will publish the name of the Lord:
ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
04 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 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is
not the spot of his children: they are a perverse
and crooked generation.
06 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?
07 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.
08 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.
09 For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob 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 So the Lord alone did lead him, and 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
with fatness; then he forsook God which made him,
and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange
gods, with abominations provoked they him to
anger.
17 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.
18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art
unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed
thee.
19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred 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 shall be: for they are a
very froward generation, children in whom is no
faith.
21 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.
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 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 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:
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27 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.
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither
is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood
this, 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 is not as our Rock, even our
enemies themselves being judges.
32 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:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the
cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and
sealed up among my treasures?
35 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.
36 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.
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their
rock in whom they trusted,
38 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.
39 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.
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; 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, 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.
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 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.
48 And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame
day, saying,
49 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:
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
MeribahKadesh, 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 thee; but
thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I
give the children of Israel.
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