Deuteronomy 32 - Revised Standard Version(RSVCI)

1“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;

and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2May my teaching drop as the rain,

my speech distil as the dew,

as the gentle rain upon the tender grass,

and as the showers upon the herb.

3For I will proclaim the name of the Lord.

Ascribe greatness to 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.

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9For the Lord's portion is his people,

Jacob his allotted heritage.

10“He found him in a desert land,

and in the howling waste of the wilderness;

he encircled him, he cared for him,

he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,

that flutters over its young,

spreading out its wings, catching them,

bearing them on its pinions,

12the Lord alone did lead him,

and there was no foreign god with him.

13He 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 rock,

and oil out of the flinty rock.

14Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,

with fat of lambs and rams,

herds of Bashan and goats,

with the finest of the wheat—

and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

15“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked;

you waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek;

then he forsook God who made him,

and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

16They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;

with abominable practices they provoked him to anger.

17 you,

and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

19“The Lord saw it, and spurned them,

because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

20And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them,

I will see what their end will be,

For they are a perverse generation,

children in whom is no faithfulness.

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and my hand takes hold on judgment,

I will take vengeance on my adversaries,

and will requite those who hate me.

42I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

and my sword shall devour flesh—

with the blood of the slain and the captives,

from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’

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44Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

45And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

46he said to them, “Lay to heart all the words which I enjoin upon you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.

47For it is no trifle for you, but it is your life, and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

48And the Lord said to Moses that very day,

49“Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho; and view the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel for a possession;

50and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;

51because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meri-bath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not revere me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.

52For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there, into the land which I give to the people of Israel.”