Deuteronomy - douay rheims

Chapter 32

¹ Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
² Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
³ Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.
⁴ The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.
⁵ They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
⁶ Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?
⁷ Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
⁸ When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.
⁹ But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
¹⁰ He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹ As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.
¹² The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.
¹³ He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,
¹⁴ Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.
¹⁵ The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
¹⁶ They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
¹⁷ They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.
¹⁸ Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
¹⁹ The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
²⁰ And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
²¹ They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.
²² A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.
²³ I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
²⁴ They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
²⁵ Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
²⁶ I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
²⁷ But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.
²⁸ They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
²⁹ O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.
³⁰ How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
³¹ For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.
³² Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.
³³ Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.
³⁴ Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
³⁵ Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
³⁶ The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants : he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.
³⁷ And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?
³⁸ Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.
³⁹ See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
⁴⁰ I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.
⁴¹ If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.
⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.
⁴³ Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.
⁴⁴ So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.
⁴⁵ And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.
⁴⁶ And he said to them : Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:
⁴⁷ For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.
⁴⁸ And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:
⁴⁹ Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.
⁵⁰ When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Her, and was gathered to his people:
⁵¹ Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.
⁵² Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.

Deuteronomy - webster

Chapter 32

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 distill 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 to our God.
⁴ 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.
⁵ They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶ 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?
⁷ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show 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 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 cows, 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 hast waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶ They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.
¹⁷ They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods which 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 will 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 who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to 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 my 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;
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 recompense; 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 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 ate 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 shall whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
⁴² I will make my 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 to his land, and to his people.
⁴⁴ And Moses came and spoke 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 to them, Set your hearts to 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 spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
⁴⁹ Ascend this mountain Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan which I give to the children of Israel for a Possession:
⁵⁰ And die in the mount whither thou goest, and be gathered to thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to 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 thee, but thou shalt not go thither to the land which I give the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy - world english bible

Chapter 32

¹ ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
² doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
³ I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness to our God!
⁴ Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
⁵ have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶ you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
⁷ the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
⁸ the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
⁹ Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
¹⁰ found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹ an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.
¹² alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
¹³ made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
¹⁴ of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
¹⁵ Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶ moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
¹⁷ sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late, which your fathers didn't dread.
¹⁸ the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
¹⁹ saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
²⁰ said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
²¹ have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
²² a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
²³ will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
²⁴ shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
²⁵ the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
²⁶ said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
²⁷ it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"
²⁸ they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
²⁹ that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
³⁰ could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
³¹ their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
³² their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
³³ wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.
³⁴ this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
³⁵ is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste."
³⁶ Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
³⁷ will say, "Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;
³⁸ ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.
³⁹ now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
⁴⁰ I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,
⁴¹ I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
⁴² will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy."
⁴³ you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
⁴⁴ came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
⁴⁵ made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;
⁴⁶ said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
⁴⁷ it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it."
⁴⁸ spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
⁴⁹ up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;
⁵⁰ die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
⁵¹ you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.
⁵² you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."

Deuteronomy - darby

Chapter 32

¹ Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth!
² My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
³ For the name of Jehovah will I proclaim: Ascribe greatness unto our God!
⁴ [He is] the Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A ùGod of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he.
⁵ They have dealt corruptly with him; Not his children's is their spot: -- A crooked and perverted generation!
⁶ Do ye thus requite Jehovah, Foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee and established thee?
⁷ Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
⁸ When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
⁹ For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
¹⁰ He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he watched over him, He preserved him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹ As the eagle stirreth up its nest, Hovereth over its young, Spreadeth out its wings, Taketh them, beareth them on its feathers,
¹² So Jehovah alone did lead him, And no strange ùgod [was] with him.
¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;
¹⁴ Cream of kine, and milk of sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink pure wine, the blood of the grape.
¹⁵ Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked -- Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness; -- He gave up +God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶ They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.
¹⁷ They sacrificed unto demons who are not +God; To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.
¹⁸ Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten ùGod who brought thee forth.
¹⁹ And Jehovah saw it, and despised 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 perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no ùGod; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.
²² For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.
²³ I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.
²⁴ They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.
²⁵ From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror -- Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
²⁶ I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
²⁷ If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.
²⁸ For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.
²⁹ Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
³⁰ How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
³¹ For their rock is not as our Rock: Let our enemies themselves be judges.
³² For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;
³³ Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers.
³⁴ Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
³⁵ Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
³⁶ For Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that 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 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, [And] drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, That there may be a protection over you.
³⁹ See now that I, I am HE, And there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, And there is none that delivereth out of my hand,
⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to the heavens, and say, I live for ever!
⁴¹ If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
⁴² Mine arrows will I make drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; [I will make them drunk] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, With the head of the princes of the enemy.
⁴³ Shout for joy, ye nations, with his people, For he avengeth the blood of his servants, And rendereth vengeance to his enemies, And maketh atonement for his land, for his people.
⁴⁴ And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.
⁴⁵ And when Moses had ended speaking all these words to all Israel,
⁴⁶ he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words that I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to take heed to do, all the words of this law.
⁴⁷ For it is no vain word for you, but it is your life, and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.
⁴⁸ And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
⁴⁹ Go up into this mountain Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession,
⁵⁰ and die on the mountain whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died on mount Hor, and was gathered unto his peoples;
⁵¹ because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
⁵² For thou shalt see the land before [thee]; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy - american standard version

Chapter 32

¹ Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear 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 grass, And as the showers upon the herb.
³ For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah: Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
⁴ The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
⁵ They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶ Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.
⁷ Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
⁸ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
⁹ For Jehovah'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 compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹ As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions.
¹² Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him.
¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;
¹⁴ Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.
¹⁵ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶ They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
¹⁷ They sacrificed unto demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they knew not, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
¹⁸ Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.
¹⁹ And Jehovah saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and 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 perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
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 that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
²² For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
²³ I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
²⁴ [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
²⁵ Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
²⁶ I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
²⁷ Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.
²⁸ For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
²⁹ Oh 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 Jehovah had delivered 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 serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.
³⁴ Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
³⁵ Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
³⁶ For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself for his servants; When he seeth that [their] power is gone, And there is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
³⁷ And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;
³⁸ Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, [And] drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them 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; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,
⁴¹ If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
⁴² I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of 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 make expiation for his land, for 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 heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
⁴⁷ For it is no 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 the Jordan to possess it.
⁴⁸ And Jehovah spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
⁴⁹ Get thee up into this mountain of 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 in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
⁵² For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy - basic english

Chapter 32

¹ Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:
² My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:
³ For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.
⁴ He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
⁵ They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.
⁶ Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
⁷ Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.
⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
⁹ For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.
¹⁰ He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
¹¹ As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:
¹² So the Lord only was his guide, no other god was with him.
¹³ He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;
¹⁴ Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.
¹⁵ But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶ The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
¹⁷ They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.
¹⁸ You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.
¹⁹ And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
²⁰ And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.
²¹ They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,
²² For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.
²³ I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.
²⁴ They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
²⁵ Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.
²⁶ I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:
²⁷ But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
²⁸ For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
²⁹ If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
³⁰ How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?
³¹ For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.
³² For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:
³³ Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
³⁴ Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?
³⁵ Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.
³⁶ For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.
³⁷ And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?
³⁸ Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.
³⁹ See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
⁴⁰ For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,
⁴¹ If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
⁴² I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.
⁴³ Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.
⁴⁴ So Moses said all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Hoshea, the son of Nun.
⁴⁵ And after saying all this to the people,
⁴⁶ Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.
⁴⁷ And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.
⁴⁸ That same day the Lord said to Moses,
⁴⁹ Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for their heritage:
⁵⁰ And let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest with your people; as death came to Aaron, your brother, on Mount Hor, where he was put to rest with his people:
⁵¹ Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.
⁵² So you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.