Deuteronomy 32-34 (Young's Literal Translation)

Deuteronomy 32

 ¹`Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

 ²Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

 ³For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness to our God!

 ⁴The Rock! -- perfect [is] His work, For all His ways [are] just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright [is] He.

 ⁵It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!

 ⁶To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.

 ⁷Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

 ⁸In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam -- He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel.

 ⁹For Jehovah's portion [is] His people, Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance.

 ¹⁰He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.

 ¹¹As an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings -- taketh them, Beareth them on its pinions; --

 ¹²Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him.

 ¹³He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock;

 ¹⁴Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams, sons of Bashan, And he-goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou dost drink wine!

 ¹⁵And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat -- thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.

 ¹⁶They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

 ¹⁷They sacrifice to demons -- no god! Gods they have not known -- New ones -- from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers!

 ¹⁸The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.

 ¹⁹And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

 ²⁰And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what [is] their latter end; For a froward generation [are] they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness.

 ²¹They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

 ²²For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol -- the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.

 ²³I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

 ²⁴Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

 ²⁵Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

 ²⁶I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

 ²⁷If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

 ²⁸For a nation lost to counsels [are] they, And there is no understanding in them.

 ²⁹If they were wise -- They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end:

 ³⁰How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?

 ³¹For not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] judges!)

 ³²For of the vine of Sodom their vine [is], And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes of gall -- They have bitter clusters;

 ³³The poison of dragons [is] their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

 ³⁴Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

 ³⁵Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

 ³⁶For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth -- the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.

 ³⁷And He hath said, Where [are] their gods -- The rock in which they trusted;

 ³⁸Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and help you, Let it be for you a hiding-place!

 ³⁹See ye, now, that I -- I [am] He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer,

 ⁴⁰For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age!

 ⁴¹If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!

 ⁴²I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.

 ⁴³Sing ye nations -- [with] his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He turneth back on His adversaries, And hath pardoned His land -- His people.'

 ⁴⁴And Moses cometh and speaketh all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea son of Nun;

 ⁴⁵and Moses finisheth to speak all these words unto all Israel,

 ⁴⁶and saith unto them, `Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,

 ⁴⁷for it [is] not a vain thing for you, for it [is] your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'

 ⁴⁸And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in this self-same day, saying,

 ⁴⁹`Go up unto this mount Abarim, mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, which [is] on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession;

 ⁵⁰and die in the mount whither thou art going up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother hath died in the mount Hor, and is gathered unto his people:

 ⁵¹`Because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin -- because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the sons of Israel;

 ⁵²but over-against thou seest the land, and thither thou dost not go in, unto the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel.'

Deuteronomy 33

 ¹And this [is] the blessing [with] which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death,

 ²and he saith: -- `Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And hath risen from Seir for them; He hath shone from mount Paran, And hath come [with] myriads of holy ones; At His right hand [are] springs for them.

 ³Also He [is] loving the peoples; All His holy ones [are] in thy hand, And they -- they sat down at thy foot, [Each] He lifteth up at thy words.

 ⁴A law hath Moses commanded us, A possession of the assembly of Jacob.

 ⁵And he is in Jeshurun king, In the heads of the people gathering together, The tribes of Israel!

 ⁶Let Reuben live, and not die, And let his men be a number.

 ⁷And this [is] for Judah; and he saith: -- Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And unto his people do Thou bring him in; His hand hath striven for him, And an help from his adversaries art Thou.

 ⁸And of Levi he said: -- Thy Thummim and thy Urim [are] for thy pious one, Whom Thou hast tried in Massah, Thou dost strive with Him at the waters of Meribah;

 ⁹Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep.

 ¹⁰They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.

 ¹¹Bless, O Jehovah, his strength, And the work of his hands Thou acceptest, Smite the loins of his withstanders, And of those hating him -- that they rise not!

 ¹²Of Benjamin he said: -- The beloved of Jehovah doth tabernacle confidently by him, Covering him over all the day; Yea, between his shoulders He doth tabernacle.

 ¹³And of Joseph he said: -- Blessed of Jehovah [is] his land, By precious things of the heavens, By dew, and by the deep crouching beneath,

 ¹⁴And by precious things -- fruits of the sun, And by precious things -- cast forth by the moons,

 ¹⁵And by chief things -- of the ancient mountains, And by precious things -- of the age-during heights,

 ¹⁶And by precious things -- of earth and its fulness, And the good pleasure Of Him who is dwelling in the bush, -- Let it come for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of him Who is separate from his brethren.

 ¹⁷His honour [is] a firstling of his ox, And his horns [are] horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they [are] the myriads of Ephraim, And they [are] the thousands of Manasseh.

 ¹⁸And of Zebulun he said: -- Rejoice, O Zebulun, in thy going out, And, O Issachar, in thy tents;

 ¹⁹Peoples [to] the mountain they call, There they sacrifice righteous sacrifices; For the abundance of the seas they suck, And hidden things hidden in the sand.

 ²⁰And of Gad he said: -- Blessed of the Enlarger [is] Gad, As a lioness he doth tabernacle, And hath torn the arm -- also the crown!

 ²¹And he provideth the first part for himself, For there the portion of the lawgiver is covered, And he cometh [with] the heads of the people; The righteousness of Jehovah he hath done, And His judgments with Israel.

 ²²And of Dan he said: -- Dan [is] a lion's whelp; he doth leap from Bashan.

 ²³And of Naphtali he said: -- O Naphtali, satisfied with pleasure, And full of the blessing of Jehovah, West and south possess thou.

 ²⁴And of Asher he said: -- Blessed with sons [is] Asher, Let him be accepted by his brethren, And dipping in oil his foot.

 ²⁵Iron and brass [are] thy shoes, And as thy days -- thy strength.

 ²⁶There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Riding the heavens in thy help, And in His excellency the skies.

 ²⁷A habitation [is] the eternal God, And beneath [are] arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!'

 ²⁸And Israel doth tabernacle [in] confidence alone; The eye of Jacob [is] unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew.

 ²⁹O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who [is] the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'

Deuteronomy 34

 ¹And Moses goeth up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which [is] on the front of Jericho, and Jehovah sheweth him all the land -- Gilead unto Dan,

 ²and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah unto the further sea,

 ³and the south, and the circuit of the valley of Jericho, the city of palms, unto Zoar.

 ⁴And Jehovah saith unto him, `This [is] the land which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To thy seed I give it; I have caused thee to see with thine eyes, and thither thou dost not pass over.'

 ⁵And Moses, servant of the Lord, dieth there, in the land of Moab, according to the command of Jehovah;

 ⁶and He burieth him in a valley in the land of Moab, over-against Beth-Peor, and no man hath known his burying place unto this day.

 ⁷And Moses [is] a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dieth; his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled.

 ⁸And the sons of Israel bewail Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses are completed.

 ⁹And Joshua son of Nun is full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him, and the sons of Israel hearken unto him, and do as Jehovah commanded Moses.

 ¹⁰And there hath not arisen a prophet any more in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah hath known face unto face,

 ¹¹in reference to all the signs and the wonders which Jehovah sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

 ¹²and in reference to all the strong hand, and to all the great fear which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.