Deuteronomy Chapter 32

Deuteronomy Chapter 32
1 Hearken, ye heavens, and I will speak:
and let the earth hear the words of my
mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, and
my speech shall still as doth the dew, as
the shower upon the herbs, and as the
great rain upon the grass. 3 For I will
publish the name of the Lord: give ye
glory unto our God. 4 Perfect is the work
of the mighty God: for all his ways are
judgment. God is true, and without
wickedness: just, and righteous is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves
toward him by their vice, not being his
children, but a froward and crooked
generation.
6 Do ye so reward the Lord, O foolish
people and unwise? Is not he thy father
that hath bought thee? He hath made thee,
and proportioned thee. 7 Remember the
days of old: consider the years of so
many generations: ask thy father, and he
will show thee: thine elders, and they
will tell thee. 8 When the Most High
God divided to the nations their
inheritance, when he separated the sons
of Adam, he appointed the borders 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 the land of the wilderness,
in a waste, and roaring wilderness: he
led him about, he taught him, and kept
him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
fluttereth over her birds, stretcheth out
her wings, taketh them, and beareth them
on her wings,
12 So the Lord alone led him and there
was no strange god with him. 13 He
carried him up to the high places of the
earth, that he might eat the fruits of the
fields, and he caused him to suck honey
out of the stone and oil out of the hard
rock:
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep with
fat of the lambs, and rams fed in Bashan,
and goats, with the fat of the grains of
wheat, and the red liquor of the grape
hast thou drunk.
15 But he that should have been upright,
when he waxed fat, spurned with his
heel: thou art fat, thou art gross, thou art
laden with fatness: therefore he forsook
God that made him, and regarded not the
strong God of his salvation. 16 They
provoked him with strange gods: they
provoked him to anger with
abominations.
17 They offered unto devils, not to God,
but to gods whom they knew not: new
gods that came newly up, whom their
fathers feared not. 18 Thou hast forgotten
the mighty God that begat thee, and hast
forgotten God that formed thee.
19 The Lord then saw it, and was angry,
for the provocation 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 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 no people: I will provoke
them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For fire is kindled in my wrath, and
shall burn unto the bottom of hell, and
shall consume the earth with her
increase, and set on fire the foundations
of the mountains.
23 I will spend plagues upon them: I
will bestow mine arrows upon them. 24
They shall be burned with hunger, and
consumed with heat, and with bitter
destruction: I will also send the teeth of
beasts upon them, with the venom of
serpents creeping in the dust.
25 The sword shall kill them without,
and in the chambers fear: both the young
man and the young woman, the suckling
with the man of gray hair. 26 I have said,
I would scatter them abroad: I would
make their remembrance to cease from
among men,
27 Save that I feared the fury of the
enemy, lest their adversaries should wax
proud, and lest they should say, Our high
hand and not the Lord hath done all this:
28 For they are a nation void of counsel,
neither is there any understanding in
them.
29 Oh that they were wise, then they
would understand this: they would
consider their latter end.
30 How should one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to flight, except
their strong God had sold them, and the
Lord had shut them up?
31 For their god is not as our God, even
our enemies being judges. 32 For their
vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the
vines of Gomorrah: their grapes are
grapes of gall, their clusters be bitter. 33
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and
the cruel gall of asps. 34 Is not this laid
in store with me, and sealed up among
my treasures?
35 Vengeance and recompense are mine:
their foot shall slide in due time: for the
day of their destruction is at hand, and
the things that shall come upon them,
make haste.
36 For the Lord shall judge his people,
and repent toward his servants, when he
seeth that their power is gone, and none
shut up in hold nor left abroad. 37 When
men shall say, Where are their gods,
their mighty God in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their
sacrifices, and did drink the wine of
their drink offering? Let them rise up,
and help you: let him be your refuge. 39
Behold now, for I, I am he, and there is
no gods with me: I kill, and give life: I
wound, and I make whole: neither is
there any that can deliver out of mine
hand.
40 For I lift up mine hand to heaven, and
say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and
mine hand take hold on judgment, I will
execute vengeance on mine enemies, and
will reward them that hate me. 42 I will
make mine arrows drunk with blood,
(and my sword shall eat flesh) for the
blood of the slain, and of the captives,
when I begin to take vengeance of the
enemy.
43 Ye nations, praise his people: for he
will avenge the blood of his servants,
and will execute vengeance upon his
adversaries, and will be merciful unto
his land, and to his people.
44 Then Moses came and spake all the
words of this song in the audience of the
people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.
45 When Moses had made an end of
speaking all these words to all Israel, 46
Then he said unto them, Set your hearts
unto all the words which I testify against
you this day, that ye may command them
unto your children, that they may observe
and do all the words of this law.
47 For it is no vain word concerning
you, but it is your life, and by this word
ye shall prolong your days in the land,
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
48 And the Lord spake unto Moses the
self same day, saying,
49 Go up into this mountain of Abarim,
unto the 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 which thou
goest up unto, and thou shalt 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, at Kadesh in the
wilderness of Zin: for ye sanctified me
not among the children of Israel.
52 Thou shalt therefore see the land
before thee, but shalt not go thither, I
mean, into the land which I give the
children of Israel.