Deuteronomy 32:1-12

New King James Version

The Song of Moses

32 “Give ^(A)ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
And hear, O ^(B)earth, the words of my mouth.
²Let ^(C)my ^[a]teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
^(D)As raindrops on the tender herb,
And as showers on the grass.
³For I proclaim the ^(E)name of the Lord:
^(F)Ascribe greatness to our God.
⁴He is ^(G)the Rock, ^(H)His work is perfect;
For all His ways are justice,
^(I)A God of truth and ^(J)without injustice;
Righteous and upright is He.

⁵“They^(K) have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A ^(L)perverse and crooked generation.
⁶Do you thus ^(M)deal^[b] with the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is He not ^(N)your Father, who ^(O)bought you?
Has He not ^(P)made you and established you?

⁷“Remember^(Q) the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
^(R)Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you:
⁸When the Most High ^(S)divided their inheritance to the nations,
When He ^(T)separated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the ^[c]children of Israel.
⁹For ^(U)the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

¹⁰“He found him ^(V)in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He ^(W)kept him as the ^[d]apple of His eye.
¹¹^(X)As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,
¹²So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.