Deuteronomy 31:30-32:14

New American Standard Bible

32 “^(A)Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!
^2 (B)May my teaching drip as the rain,
My speech trickle as the dew,
^(C)As droplets on the fresh grass,
And as the showers on the vegetation.
^3 (D)For I proclaim the name of the Lord;
^(E)Ascribe greatness to our God!
^4 (F)The Rock! His work is perfect,
^(G)For all His ways are ^[a]just;
^(H)A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and just is He.
^5 [b](I)They have acted corruptly against Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
^(J)But are a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶ Is this what you ^(K)do to the Lord,
^(L)You foolish and unwise people?
^(M)Is He not your Father who has purchased you?
^(N)He has made you and established you.
⁷ Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
^(O)Ask your father and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.
^8 (P)When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of ^[c]mankind,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
^(Q)According to the number of the ^[d]sons of Israel.
^9 (R)For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
^10 (S)He found him in a desert land,
And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as ^(T)the ^[e]apple of His eye.
^11 (U)As an eagle stirs up its nest,
And hovers over its young,
^(V)He spread His wings, He caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.
^12 (W)The Lord alone guided him,
^(X)And there was no foreign god with him.
^13 (Y)He had him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
^(Z)And He had him suck honey from the rock,
And ^[f](AA)oil from the flinty rock,
¹⁴ Curds of the herd, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and of goats,
^(AB)With the best of the wheat;
And you drank wine of the ^(AC)blood of grapes.