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Deuteronomy 32
Expanded Bible
Deuteronomy 32
Expanded Bible
32 ·Hear [L Give ear], heavens, and I will speak. Listen, earth, to ·what I say [L the words of my mouth].
2 My teaching will drop like rain;
my words will ·fall [distill] like dew.
They will be like showers on the grass;
they will pour down like rain on young plants.
3 I will announce the name of the Lord.
·Praise God because he is great [L Ascribe greatness to our God]!
4 He is like a rock; what he does is perfect,
and ·he is always [L all his ways are] fair.
He is a faithful God who does no wrong,
who is ·right [righteous] and ·fair [virtuous].
5 They ·have done evil against him [are corrupt].
·To their shame [or Their faults show] they are no longer his children [Is. 1:2–4; Hos. 1:9];
they are an ·evil [perverted] and ·lying [crooked] people.
6 This is not the way to repay the Lord,
you foolish and unwise people.
·He is [L Is he not…?] your Father and Maker,
who made you and formed you.
7 Remember the old days.
Think of the years already passed.
Ask your father and he will tell you;
ask your elders and they will inform you.
8 God Most High gave ·the nations their lands [L each nation its inheritance],
dividing up the ·human race [L sons of man].
He set up borders for the people
·and even numbered the Israelites[a] [L according to the number of the sons/T children of Israel].
9 The Lord took his people as his ·share [portion],
the people of Jacob as his ·very own [L special inheritance].
10 He found them in a ·desert [wilderness],
a windy, ·empty [unformed; Gen. 1:2] land.
He surrounded them and brought them up,
guarding them as ·those he loved very much [L the apple/pupil of his eye].
11 He was like an eagle ·building [watching; stirring up] its nest
that ·flutters [hovers] over its young.
It spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them on its feathers.
12 The Lord alone led them,
and there was no foreign god ·helping [L with] him.
13 The Lord ·brought them to [or made them ride over] the heights of the land
and fed them the fruit of the fields.
He ·gave them [suckled them with] honey from the rocks,
bringing oil from the ·solid [flint] rock.
14 There were milk curds from the cows and milk from the flock;
there were fat sheep and goats.
There were sheep and goats from Bashan [C a particularly fertile area east of the Sea of Galilee]
and the best of the wheat.
You drank the ·juice [L fermenting/foaming blood] of grapes [C wine].
15 ·Israel [L Jeshurun; C a name for Israel meaning “virtuous”; perhaps intended ironically; 33:5, 26; Is. 44:2] grew fat and kicked;
they were fat and ·full [bloated] and firm.
They ·left [abandoned] the God who made them
and ·rejected [dishonored] the Rock who saved them.
16 They made God jealous with ·foreign [strange] gods [4:24]
and angry with ·hateful idols [L abominations].
17 They made sacrifices to demons, not God,
to gods they had never known,
new gods from nearby,
gods your ·ancestors [fathers] did not fear.
18 You left God who is the Rock, ·your Father [L who bore you; or who begot you],
and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw this and ·rejected [spurned] them;
his sons and daughters had made him angry.
20 He said, “I will turn ·away [L my face away] from them
and see what ·will happen to them [their end will be].
They are ·evil people [L a perverted generation],
·unfaithful [untrustworthy] children.
21 They used things that are not gods to make me jealous [4:24]
and ·worthless idols [vanities; vain idols] to make me angry.
So I will use those who are not a nation to make them jealous;
I will use a nation that ·does not understand [L is foolish] to make them angry.
22 My anger has started a fire
that burns down to ·the place of the dead [L Sheol; C the grave or the underworld].
It will ·burn up [consume] the ·ground [or earth] and its ·crops [produce],
and it will set fire to the ·base [foundations] of the mountains.
23 “I will pile ·troubles [disasters] upon them
and shoot my arrows at them.
24 They will be starved and sick,
destroyed by terrible diseases.
I will send them ·vicious [L the teeth of] animals
·and gliding, poisonous snakes [L with the poison/venom of creatures that crawl in the dust].
25 In the streets the sword will ·kill [bereave];
in their ·homes [bedrooms] there will be terror.
Young men and women will die,
and so will ·babies [sucklings] and gray-haired men.
26 I will ·scatter them [or dash them to pieces] as I said,
and ·no one will remember them [L I will cause their memory to cease from among humans].
27 But I didn’t want ·their enemy to brag [or to provoke the enemy];
their enemy might misunderstand
and say, ‘·We have won [L Our hand is lifted up]!
The Lord has done none of this.’”
28 ·Israel [L They are a nation that] has no sense;
they do not understand.
29 I wish they were wise and understood this;
I wish they could see ·what will happen to them [their end].
30 ·One person cannot [L How can one person…?] chase a thousand people,
and ·two people cannot [L two…?] fight ten thousand
unless their Rock has sold them,
unless the Lord has ·given them up [surrendered them; 28:25–27].
31 The rock of these people is not like our Rock;
our enemies ·agree to that [L are judges].
32 Their vine comes from Sodom,
and their fields are like Gomorrah [Gen. 19].
Their grapes are full of poison;
their bunches of grapes are bitter.
33 Their wine is like ·snake poison [the venom of serpents],
like the ·deadly [cruel] poison of cobras.
34 “·I have been saving this [L Is this not stored up with me…?],
and I have it ·locked [sealed] in my ·storehouses [treasuries].
35 ·I will punish those who do wrong [L Vengeance is mine; Rom. 12:9]; I will repay them.
Soon their foot will slip,
because their day of ·trouble [disaster] is near,
and their ·punishment [doom] will come quickly.”
36 The Lord will ·defend [vindicate; judge] his people
and have mercy on his servants.
He will see that their ·strength [power; control; L hand] is gone,
that nobody is left, slaves or free.
37 Then he will say, “Where are their gods?
Where is the rock they ·trusted [took refuge in]?
38 Who ate the fat from their sacrifices [Lev. 3:17],
and who drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let those gods come to help you!
Let them protect you!
39 “Now you will see that I am ·the one God [L he]!
There is no god but me.
I ·send death and life [kill and make alive];
I ·can hurt [wound], and I can heal.
No one can escape from ·me [L my hand].
40 I raise my hand toward heaven [C to make a promise]:
As surely as I live forever,
41 I will sharpen my flashing sword,
and I will take it in my hand to judge [Ps. 7:12–13].
I will ·punish [bring vengeance on] my enemies
and pay back those who hate me.
42 My arrows will be ·covered [L drunk] with their blood;
my sword will eat their flesh.
The blood will flow from those who are killed and the captives.
The ·heads of the enemy leaders [or long-haired enemy] will be cut off.”
43 ·Be happy [Rejoice], nations, with his people,
because he will repay you for the blood of his servants.
He will ·punish [work vengeance on] his enemies,
and he will ·remove the sin of [provide atonement for] his land and people.
44 Moses came with Joshua son of Nun, and they spoke all the words of this song ·for the people to hear [L in the ears of his people]. 45 When Moses finished speaking these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them: “·Pay careful attention to [L Set your heart on] all the words I ·have said [testify; give witness] to you today, and command your children to obey carefully everything in these ·teachings [laws; instructions]. 47 These should not be unimportant words for you, but rather they mean life for you! By these words you will live a long time in the land you are crossing the Jordan River to take as your ·own [possession].”
Moses Goes Up to Mount Nebo
48 The Lord spoke to Moses again that same day and said, 49 “Go up the Abarim Mountains, to Mount Nebo in the country of Moab, across from Jericho. Look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as their ·own [possession; C one can look far into the Promised Land from Nebo]. 50 On that mountain that you climb, you will die and ·join [be gathered to] your ·ancestors [fathers], just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and joined his ·ancestors [fathers; Num. 20:22–29]. 51 You both sinned against me at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin, and you did not honor me as holy there among the ·Israelites [L sons/T children of Israel; Num. 20:1–13]. 52 So now you will only look at the land from far away. You will not enter the land I am giving the ·people [L sons; T children] of Israel.”
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Israelites Hebrew copies, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, read “sons of God.” Some Greek copies read “angels of God.”
Deuteronomy 32
King James Version
Deuteronomy 32
King James Version
32 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12 So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
48 And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Deuteronomio 32
Nueva Biblia de las Américas
Deuteronomio 32
Nueva Biblia de las Américas
Cántico de Moisés
32 «Presten atención, oh cielos, y déjenme hablar;
Y oiga la tierra(A) las palabras de mi boca.
2 -»Caiga como la lluvia mi enseñanza(B),
Y destile como el rocío(C) mi discurso,
Como llovizna sobre el verde prado
Y como aguacero sobre la hierba.
3 -»Porque yo proclamo el nombre del Señor(D);
Atribuyan grandeza a nuestro Dios(E).
4 -»¡La Roca! Su obra es perfecta(F),
Porque todos Sus caminos son justos[a](G);
Dios de fidelidad(H) y sin injusticia,
Justo y recto es Él.
5 -»En forma pervertida se han[b] portado con Él.
No son Sus hijos(I), debido a los defectos de ellos;
Son una generación perversa y torcida(J).
6 -»¿Así pagan ustedes al Señor,
Oh pueblo insensato e ignorante(K)?
¿No es Él tu Padre que te compró(L)?
Él te hizo(M) y te estableció.
7 -»Acuérdate de los días pasados;
Considera los años de todas las generaciones.
Pregunta a tu padre, y él te lo hará saber;
A tus ancianos, y ellos te lo dirán(N).
8 -»Cuando el Altísimo dio a las naciones su herencia,
Cuando separó los hijos del hombre[c](O),
Fijó los límites de los pueblos
Según el número de los israelitas(P).
9 -»Pues la porción del Señor es Su pueblo;
Jacob es la parte de Su heredad(Q).
10 -»Lo encontró en tierra desierta,
En la horrenda[d] soledad de un desierto(R);
Lo rodeó, cuidó de él,
Lo guardó como a la niña de Sus ojos(S).
11 -»Como un águila que despierta su nidada,
Que revolotea sobre sus polluelos(T),
Extendió Sus alas y los tomó(U),
Los llevó sobre Su plumaje.
12 -»El Señor solo(V) lo guió,
Y con él no hubo dios extranjero(W).
13 -»Lo hizo cabalgar sobre las alturas de la tierra,
Y comió el producto del campo(X);
Le hizo gustar[e] miel de la peña(Y),
Y aceite del[f] pedernal(Z),
14 Cuajada de vacas y leche de ovejas,
Con grasa de corderos,
Y carneros de raza de Basán y machos cabríos,
Con lo mejor del trigo(AA);
De la sangre de uvas bebiste vino(AB).
15 ¶»Pero Jesurún[g] engordó y dio coces
(Has engordado, estás cebado y rollizo(AC));
Entonces abandonó a Dios(AD) que lo hizo(AE),
Y despreció a la Roca de su salvación(AF).
16 -»Lo provocaron a celos con dioses extraños(AG),
Con abominaciones lo provocaron a ira(AH).
17 -»Ofrecieron sacrificios a demonios(AI), no a Dios,
A dioses que no habían conocido(AJ),
Dioses nuevos(AK) que vinieron recientemente,
A los que los padres de ustedes no temieron.
18 -»Despreciaste a la Roca(AL) que te engendró,
Y olvidaste al Dios que te dio a luz(AM).
19 ¶»Y el Señor vio esto, y se llenó de ira[h](AN)
A causa de la provocación de Sus hijos y de Sus hijas(AO).
20 -»Entonces Él dijo: “Esconderé de ellos Mi rostro,
Veré cuál será su fin(AP);
Porque son una generación perversa(AQ),
Hijos en los cuales no hay fidelidad(AR).
21 -”Ellos me han provocado a celo con lo que no es Dios;
Me han irritado(AS) con sus ídolos[i](AT).
Yo, pues, los provocaré a celos con los que no son un pueblo;
Los irritaré con una nación insensata(AU).
22 -”Porque fuego se ha encendido en Mi ira,
Que quema hasta las profundidades del Seol[j](AV),
Consume la tierra con su fruto(AW),
E incendia los fundamentos de los montes.
23 ¶”Amontonaré calamidades(AX) sobre ellos,
Emplearé en ellos Mis flechas(AY).
24 -”Serán debilitados por el hambre, y consumidos por la plaga[k](AZ)
Y destrucción amarga(BA);
Dientes de fieras enviaré sobre ellos(BB),
Con veneno de serpientes que se arrastran en el polvo(BC).
25 -”Afuera traerá duelo la espada(BD),
Y dentro el terror,
Tanto al joven como a la virgen,
Al niño de pecho como al hombre encanecido(BE).
26 -”Yo hubiera dicho: ‘Los haré pedazos(BF),
Borraré la memoria de ellos de entre los hombres(BG)’,
27 Si no hubiera temido la provocación del enemigo(BH),
No sea que entendieran mal sus adversarios,
No sea que dijeran: ‘Nuestra mano ha triunfado[l],
Y no es el Señor el que ha hecho todo esto’”.
28 ¶»Porque son una nación privada[m] de consejo,
Y no hay en ellos inteligencia(BI).
29 -»Ojalá que fueran sabios, que comprendieran esto(BJ),
Que comprendieran su futuro[n](BK).
30 -»¿Cómo es que uno puede perseguir a mil,
Y dos hacer huir a diez mil(BL),
Si su Roca no los hubiera vendido(BM),
Y el Señor no los hubiera entregado?
31 -»En verdad, su roca no es como nuestra Roca;
Aun nuestros mismos enemigos así lo juzgan[o](BN).
32 -»Porque la vid de ellos es de la vid de Sodoma
Y de los campos de Gomorra;
Sus uvas son uvas venenosas,
Sus racimos, amargos(BO).
33 -»Su vino es veneno de serpientes,
Y ponzoña mortal[p] de cobras.
34 ¶“¿No tengo Yo esto guardado conmigo,
Sellado en Mis tesoros(BP)?
35 -”Mía es la venganza y la retribución(BQ);
A su tiempo el pie de ellos resbalará(BR),
Porque el día de su calamidad está cerca(BS),
Ya se apresura lo que les está preparado”.
36 -»Porque el Señor vindicará a Su pueblo(BT)
Y tendrá compasión de Sus siervos(BU),
Cuando vea que su fuerza[q] se ha ido,
Y que nadie queda, ni siervo ni libre.
37 -»Entonces Él dirá: “¿Dónde están sus dioses(BV),
La roca en que buscaban refugio,
38 Que comían la grasa de sus sacrificios,
Y bebían el vino de su libación(BW)?
¡Que se levanten y los ayuden!
¡Que sean ellos su refugio(BX)!
39 -”Vean ahora que Yo, Yo soy el Señor[r](BY),
Y fuera de Mí no hay dios(BZ).
Yo hago morir y hago vivir(CA).
Yo hiero y Yo sano(CB),
Y no hay quien pueda librar(CC) de Mi mano.
40 -”Ciertamente, alzo a los cielos Mi mano(CD),
Y digo: Como que vivo Yo para siempre,
41 Cuando afile Mi espada flameante[s]
Y Mi mano empuñe la justicia(CE),
Me vengaré de Mis adversarios
Y daré el pago a los que me aborrecen(CF).
42 -”Embriagaré Mis flechas(CG) con sangre,
Y Mi espada se hartará de carne,
De sangre de muertos y cautivos(CH),
De los jefes[t] de larga cabellera del enemigo”.
43 -»Regocíjense, naciones, con Su pueblo(CI),
Porque Él vengará la sangre de Sus siervos(CJ);
Traerá venganza sobre Sus adversarios(CK),
Y hará expiación por Su tierra y Su pueblo(CL)».
Se ordena a Moisés subir al monte Nebo
44 Entonces llegó Moisés y habló todas las palabras de este cántico a oídos del pueblo, él, con Josué[u], hijo de Nun(CM). 45 Cuando terminó Moisés de hablar todas estas palabras a todo Israel, 46 les dijo: «Fijen en su corazón todas las palabras con que les advierto[v] hoy(CN): ordenarán a sus hijos que obedezcan cuidadosamente[w] todas las palabras de esta ley(CO). 47 Porque no es palabra inútil para ustedes; ciertamente es su vida(CP). Por esta palabra prolongarán sus días en la tierra adonde ustedes van, cruzando el Jordán a fin de poseerla(CQ)».
48 (CR)En aquel mismo día, el Señor le dijo a Moisés: 49 «Sube a estos montes(CS) de Abarim, al monte Nebo, que está en la tierra de Moab frente[x] a Jericó, y mira hacia la tierra de Canaán, la cual doy en posesión a los israelitas. 50 Morirás en el monte al cual subes, y serás reunido a tu pueblo(CT), así como tu hermano Aarón murió sobre el monte Hor, y fue reunido a su pueblo; 51 porque ustedes me fueron infieles en medio de los israelitas(CU) en las aguas de Meriba de Cades, en el desierto de Zin(CV), porque no me santificaron en medio de los israelitas. 52 Por tanto, solo de lejos verás la tierra(CW), pero no entrarás allí, a la tierra que doy a los israelitas(CX)».
Footnotes
- 32:4 O juicio.
- 32:5 Lit. se ha.
- 32:8 O de Adán.
- 32:10 O rugiente.
- 32:13 Lit. chupar.
- 32:13 Lit. de la roca de.
- 32:15 I.e. Israel.
- 32:19 Lit. y los despreció.
- 32:21 Lit. vanidades.
- 32:22 I.e. región de los muertos.
- 32:24 Lit. el calor abrasador.
- 32:27 Lit. está alta.
- 32:28 Lit. pereciendo.
- 32:29 O postrer fin.
- 32:31 Lit. son jueces.
- 32:33 Lit. cruel.
- 32:36 Lit. mano.
- 32:39 Lit. Él.
- 32:41 O relampagueante.
- 32:42 Lit. la cabeza.
- 32:44 Lit. Oseas.
- 32:46 Lit. testifico.
- 32:46 Lit. obedezcan para hacer.
- 32:49 Lit. que está frente.
Deuteronomy 32
New International Version
Deuteronomy 32
New International Version
32 Listen,(A) you heavens,(B) and I will speak;
hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.(C)
2 Let my teaching fall like rain(D)
and my words descend like dew,(E)
like showers(F) on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.
3 I will proclaim(G) the name of the Lord.(H)
Oh, praise the greatness(I) of our God!
4 He is the Rock,(J) his works are perfect,(K)
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God(L) who does no wrong,
upright(M) and just is he.(N)
5 They are corrupt and not his children;
to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.(O)
6 Is this the way you repay(P) the Lord,
you foolish(Q) and unwise people?(R)
Is he not your Father,(S) your Creator,[a]
who made you and formed you?(T)
7 Remember the days of old;(U)
consider the generations long past.(V)
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.(W)
8 When the Most High(X) gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,(Y)
he set up boundaries(Z) for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.[b](AA)
9 For the Lord’s portion(AB) is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance.(AC)
10 In a desert(AD) land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.(AE)
He shielded(AF) him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,(AG)
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,(AH)
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them aloft.(AI)
12 The Lord alone led(AJ) him;(AK)
no foreign god was with him.(AL)
13 He made him ride on the heights(AM) of the land
and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,(AN)
and with oil(AO) from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(AP)
and the finest kernels of wheat.(AQ)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(AR)
15 Jeshurun[c](AS) grew fat(AT) and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(AU) the God who made them
and rejected the Rock(AV) their Savior.
16 They made him jealous(AW) with their foreign gods
and angered(AX) him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed(AY) to false gods,(AZ) which are not God—
gods they had not known,(BA)
gods that recently appeared,(BB)
gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot(BC) the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(BD)
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(BE)
20 “I will hide my face(BF) from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(BG)
children who are unfaithful.(BH)
21 They made me jealous(BI) by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.(BJ)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(BK)
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(BL)
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(BM)
It will devour(BN) the earth and its harvests(BO)
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(BP)
23 “I will heap calamities(BQ) on them
and spend my arrows(BR) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(BS) against them,
consuming pestilence(BT) and deadly plague;(BU)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(BV)
the venom of vipers(BW) that glide in the dust.(BX)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror(BY) will reign.(BZ)
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.(CA)
26 I said I would scatter(CB) them
and erase their name from human memory,(CC)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand(CD)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”(CE)
28 They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment(CF) in them.
29 If only they were wise and would understand this(CG)
and discern what their end will be!(CH)
30 How could one man chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,(CI)
unless their Rock had sold them,(CJ)
unless the Lord had given them up?(CK)
31 For their rock is not like our Rock,(CL)
as even our enemies concede.(CM)
32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom(CN)
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,(CO)
and their clusters with bitterness.(CP)
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.(CQ)
34 “Have I not kept this in reserve
and sealed it in my vaults?(CR)
35 It is mine to avenge;(CS) I will repay.(CT)
In due time their foot will slip;(CU)
their day of disaster is near
and their doom rushes upon them.(CV)”
36 The Lord will vindicate his people(CW)
and relent(CX) concerning his servants(CY)
when he sees their strength is gone
and no one is left, slave(CZ) or free.[d]
37 He will say: “Now where are their gods,
the rock they took refuge in,(DA)
38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?(DB)
Let them rise up to help you!
Let them give you shelter!
39 “See now that I myself am he!(DC)
There is no god besides me.(DD)
I put to death(DE) and I bring to life,(DF)
I have wounded and I will heal,(DG)
and no one can deliver out of my hand.(DH)
40 I lift my hand(DI) to heaven and solemnly swear:
As surely as I live forever,(DJ)
41 when I sharpen my flashing sword(DK)
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance(DL) on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.(DM)
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,(DN)
while my sword devours flesh:(DO)
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
43 Rejoice,(DP) you nations, with his people,[e][f]
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;(DQ)
he will take vengeance on his enemies(DR)
and make atonement for his land and people.(DS)
44 Moses came with Joshua[g](DT) son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. 45 When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day,(DU) so that you may command(DV) your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. 47 They are not just idle words for you—they are your life.(DW) By them you will live long(DX) in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Moses to Die on Mount Nebo
48 On that same day the Lord told Moses,(DY) 49 “Go up into the Abarim(DZ) Range to Mount Nebo(EA) in Moab, across from Jericho,(EB) and view Canaan,(EC) the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. 50 There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die(ED) and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died(EE) on Mount Hor(EF) and was gathered to his people. 51 This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh(EG) in the Desert of Zin(EH) and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.(EI) 52 Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance;(EJ) you will not enter(EK) the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God
- Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.
- Deuteronomy 32:36 Or and they are without a ruler or leader
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Or Make his people rejoice, you nations
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) people, / and let all the angels worship him, /
- Deuteronomy 32:44 Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua
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