32 “Give ear, (A)O heavens, and I will speak,
    and let (B)the earth hear the words of my mouth.
May (C)my teaching drop as the rain,
    my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
    and (D)like showers upon the herb.
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord;
    ascribe (E)greatness to our God!

(F)“The Rock, (G)his work is perfect,
    for (H)all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and (I)without iniquity,
    just and upright is he.
They have dealt corruptly with him;
    they are no longer his children (J)because they are blemished;
    they are (K)a crooked and twisted generation.
Do you thus repay the Lord,
    you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he (L)your father, who (M)created you,
    who (N)made you and established you?
(O)Remember the days of old;
    consider the years of many generations;
(P)ask your father, and he will show you,
    your elders, and they will tell you.
When the Most High (Q)gave to the nations their inheritance,
    when he (R)divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[a] of the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of God.[b]
But the Lord's portion is his people,
    Jacob his allotted heritage.

10 “He found him (S)in a desert land,
    and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he (T)encircled him, he cared for him,
    he (U)kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 (V)Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
    that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
    bearing them on its pinions,
12 (W)the Lord alone guided him,
    (X)no foreign god was with him.
13 (Y)He made him ride on the high places of the land,
    and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with (Z)honey out of the rock,
    and (AA)oil out of (AB)the flinty rock.
14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat[c] of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
    with the very finest[d] of the wheat—
    and you drank foaming wine made from (AC)the blood of the grape.

15 “But (AD)Jeshurun grew fat, and (AE)kicked;
    (AF)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
(AG)then he forsook God (AH)who made him
    and scoffed at (AI)the Rock of his salvation.
16 (AJ)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (AK)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to (AL)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (AM)the Rock that bore[e] you,
    and you (AN)forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 (AO)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of (AP)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (AQ)‘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.
21 (AR)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger (AS)with their idols.
So (AT)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with (AU)a foolish nation.
22 For (AV)a fire is kindled by my anger,
    and it burns to (AW)the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
    and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Or territories
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Compare Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text sons of Israel
  3. Deuteronomy 32:14 That is, with the best
  4. Deuteronomy 32:14 Hebrew with the kidney fat
  5. Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered

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