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32 ·Hear [L Give ear], heavens, and I will speak. Listen, earth, to ·what I say [L the words of my mouth].

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.
I will announce the name of the Lord.
    ·Praise God because he is great [L Ascribe greatness to our God]!
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].

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.
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.

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.
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].
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

  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Israelites Hebrew copies, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, read “sons of God.” Some Greek copies read “angels of God.”

The Song of Moses

32 “Give (A)ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
And hear, O (B)earth, the words of my mouth.
Let (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.
For I proclaim the (E)name of the Lord:
(F)Ascribe greatness to our God.
He 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.

“They(K) have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A (L)perverse and crooked generation.
Do 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?

“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:
When 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.
For (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,
12 So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.

13 “He(Y) made him ride in the heights of the earth,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;
14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,
(Z)With fat of lambs;
And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the choicest wheat;
And you drank wine, the (AA)blood of the grapes.

15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
(AB)You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he (AC)forsook God who (AD)made him,
And scornfully esteemed the (AE)Rock of his salvation.
16 (AF)They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With [e]abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 (AG)They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
18 (AH)Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have (AI)forgotten the God who fathered you.

19 “And(AJ) when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
(AK)Children in whom is no faith.
21 (AL)They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger (AM)by their [f]foolish idols.
But (AN)I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
22 For (AO)a fire is kindled in My anger,
And shall burn to the [g]lowest [h]hell;
It shall consume the earth with her increase,
And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 ‘I will (AP)heap disasters on them;
(AQ)I will spend My arrows on them.
24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the (AR)teeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword shall destroy outside;
There shall be terror within
For the young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 (AS)I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, (AT)“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’

28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
Nor is there any understanding in them.
29 (AU)Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their (AV)latter end!
30 How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock (AW)had sold them,
And the Lord had surrendered them?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock,
(AX)Even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For (AY)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 (AZ)the poison of serpents,
And the cruel (BA)venom of cobras.

34 Is this not (BB)laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up among My treasures?
35 (BC)Vengeance is Mine, and recompense;
Their foot shall slip in due time;
(BD)For the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things to come hasten upon them.’

36 “For(BE) the Lord will judge His people
(BF)And have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their power is gone,
And (BG)there is no one remaining, bond or free.
37 He will say: (BH)‘Where are their gods,
The rock in which they sought refuge?
38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise and help you,
And be your refuge.

39 ‘Now see that (BI)I, even I, am He,
And (BJ)there is no God besides Me;
(BK)I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.
40 For I raise My hand to heaven,
And say, “As I live forever,
41 (BL)If I [i]whet My glittering sword,
And My hand takes hold on judgment,
I will render vengeance to My enemies,
And repay those who hate Me.
42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword shall devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” ’

43 “Rejoice,(BM) O Gentiles, with His [j]people;
For He will (BN)avenge the blood of His servants,
And render vengeance to His adversaries;
He (BO)will provide atonement for His land and His people.”

44 So Moses came with [k]Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. 45 Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 and he said to them: (BP)“Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your (BQ)children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a [l]futile thing for you, because it is your (BR)life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”

Moses to Die on Mount Nebo

48 Then the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying: 49 (BS)“Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession; 50 and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be [m]gathered to your people, just as (BT)Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people; 51 because (BU)you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of [n]Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you (BV)did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 (BW)Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.”

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:2 doctrine
  2. Deuteronomy 32:6 repay the
  3. Deuteronomy 32:8 LXX, DSS angels of God; Symmachus, Lat. sons of God
  4. Deuteronomy 32:10 pupil
  5. Deuteronomy 32:16 detestable acts
  6. Deuteronomy 32:21 foolishness, lit. vanities
  7. Deuteronomy 32:22 lowest part of
  8. Deuteronomy 32:22 Or Sheol
  9. Deuteronomy 32:41 sharpen
  10. Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS fragment adds And let all the gods (angels) worship Him; cf. LXX and Heb. 1:6
  11. Deuteronomy 32:44 Heb. Hoshea, Num. 13:8, 16
  12. Deuteronomy 32:47 vain
  13. Deuteronomy 32:50 Join your ancestors
  14. Deuteronomy 32:51 Lit. Contention at Kadesh

32 “Makinig kayo, mga langit, at ako'y magsasalita,
    at pakinggan ng lupa ang mga salita ng aking bibig.
Ang aking aral ay papatak na parang ulan;
    ang aking salita ay bababa na parang hamog;
gaya ng ambon sa malambot na damo,
    at gaya ng mahinang ambon sa pananim.
Sapagkat aking ihahayag ang pangalan ng Panginoon;
    dakilain ninyo ang ating Diyos!
“Siya ang Bato, ang kanyang gawa ay sakdal;
    sapagkat lahat ng kanyang daan ay katarungan.
Isang Diyos na tapat at walang kasamaan,
    siya ay matuwid at banal.
Sila'y nagpakasama,
    sila'y hindi kanyang mga anak, dahilan sa kanilang kapintasan;
    isang lahing liko at tampalasan.
Ganyan ba ninyo gagantihan ang Panginoon,
    O hangal at di-matalinong bayan?
Hindi ba siya ang iyong ama na lumalang sa iyo?
    Kanyang nilalang ka, at itinatag ka.
Alalahanin mo ang mga naunang araw,
    isipin mo ang mga taon ng maraming salinlahi;
itanong mo sa iyong ama at kanyang ibabalita sa iyo;
    sa iyong matatanda, at kanilang sasabihin sa iyo.
Nang(A) ibigay ng Kataas-taasan sa mga bansa ang kanilang pamana,
    nang kanyang ihiwalay ang mga anak ng tao,
kanyang inilagay ang mga hangganan ng mga bayan,
    ayon sa bilang ng mga anak ni Israel.
Sapagkat ang bahagi ng Panginoon ay ang kanyang bayan;
    si Jacob ang bahaging pamana niya.
10 “Kanyang natagpuan siya sa isang ilang na lupain,
    at sa kapanglawan ng isang umuungal na ilang;
kanyang pinaligiran siya, kanyang nilingap siya,
    kanyang iningatan siyang parang sarili niyang mga mata.
11 Gaya ng agila na ginagalaw ang kanyang pugad,
    na pumapagaspas sa kanyang mga inakay,
kanyang ibinubuka ang kanyang mga pakpak, na kinukuha sila,
    kanyang dinadala sa ibabaw ng kanyang mga pakpak:
12 tanging ang Panginoon ang pumapatnubay sa kanya,
    at walang ibang diyos na kasama siya.
13 Kanyang pinasakay siya sa matataas na dako ng lupa,
    at siya'y kumain ng bunga ng bukirin,
at kanyang pinainom ng pulot na mula sa bato,
    at ng langis na mula sa batong kiskisan.
14 Ng mantika mula sa baka, at gatas mula sa tupa,
    na may taba ng mga kordero,
at ng mga tupang lalaki sa Basan, at mga kambing,
    ng pinakamabuti sa mga trigo;
    at sa katas ng ubas ay uminom ka ng alak.
15 “Ngunit tumaba si Jeshurun at nanipa;
    ikaw ay tumataba, ikaw ay lumalapad, ikaw ay naging makinis.
Nang magkagayo'y tinalikuran niya ang Diyos na lumalang sa kanya,
    at hinamak ang Bato ng kanyang kaligtasan.
16 Siya'y kinilos nila sa paninibugho sa ibang mga diyos,
    sa pamamagitan ng mga karumaldumal, kanilang ibinunsod siya sa pagkagalit.
17 Sila'y(B) naghandog sa mga demonyo na hindi Diyos,
    sa mga diyos na hindi nila nakilala,
sa mga bagong diyos na kalilitaw pa lamang,
    na hindi kinatakutan ng inyong mga ninuno.
18 Hindi mo pinansin ang Batong nanganak sa iyo,
    at kinalimutan mo ang Diyos na lumalang sa iyo.
19 “At nakita ito ng Panginoon, at kinapootan sila,
    dahil sa panggagalit ng kanyang mga anak na lalaki at babae.
20 At kanyang sinabi, ‘Aking ikukubli ang aking mukha sa kanila,
    aking titingnan kung ano ang kanilang magiging wakas;
sapagkat sila'y isang napakasamang lahi,
    mga anak na walang katapatan.
21 Kinilos(C) nila ako sa paninibugho doon sa hindi diyos;
    ginalit nila ako sa kanilang mga diyus-diyosan.
Kaya't paninibughuin ko sila sa mga hindi bayan;
    aking gagalitin sila sa pamamagitan ng isang hangal na bansa.
22 Sapagkat may apoy na nag-aalab sa aking galit,
    at nagniningas hanggang sa Sheol,
at lalamunin ang lupa pati ang tubo nito,
    at pag-aapuyin ang saligan ng mga bundok.
23 “‘Aking dadaganan sila ng mga kasamaan;
    aking uubusin ang aking pana sa kanila.
24 Sila'y mapupugnaw sa gutom,
    at lalamunin ng maningas na init,
    at ng nakalalasong salot;
at ang mga ngipin ng mga hayop ay isusugo ko sa kanila,
    pati ng kamandag ng gumagapang sa alabok.
25 Sa labas ay namimighati ang tabak,
    at sa mga silid ay malaking takot;
kapwa mawawasak ang binata at dalaga,
    ang sanggol pati ng lalaking may uban.
26 Aking sinabi, “Ikakalat ko sila sa malayo,
    aking aalisin ang alaala nila sa mga tao,”
27 kung hindi ko kinatatakutan ang panghahamon ng kaaway;
    baka ang kanilang mga kalaban ay humatol ng mali,
baka kanilang sabihin, “Ang aming kamay ay matagumpay,
    at hindi ginawa ng Panginoon ang lahat ng ito.”’
28 “Sapagkat sila'y bansang salat sa payo,
    at walang kaalaman sa kanila.
29 O kung sila'y mga pantas, kanilang mauunawaan ito,
    at malalaman nila ang kanilang wakas!
30 Paano hahabulin ng isa ang isanlibo,
    at patatakbuhin ng dalawa ang sampung libo,
malibang ipinagbili sila ng kanilang Bato,
    at ibinigay na sila ng Panginoon?
31 Sapagkat ang kanilang bato ay hindi gaya ng ating Bato,
    kahit ang ating mga kaaway man ang maging mga hukom.
32 Sapagkat ang kanilang puno ng ubas ay mula sa ubasan sa Sodoma,
    at mula sa mga parang ng Gomorra.
Ang kanilang ubas ay ubas ng apdo,
    ang kanilang mga buwig ay mapait,
33 ang kanilang alak ay kamandag ng mga dragon,
    at mabagsik na kamandag ng mga ahas.
34 “Hindi ba ito'y nakalaan sa akin,
    na natatatakan sa aking mga kabang-yaman?
35 Ang(D) paghihiganti ay akin, at ang gantimpala,
    sa panahon na madudulas ang kanilang mga paa;
sapagkat ang araw ng kanilang kapahamakan ay malapit na,
    at ang mga bagay na darating sa kanila ay nagmamadali.
36 Sapagkat(E) hahatulan ng Panginoon ang kanyang bayan,
    at mahahabag sa kanyang mga lingkod.
Kapag nakita niyang ang kanilang kapangyarihan ay wala na,
    at wala ng nalalabi, bihag man o malaya.
37 At kanyang sasabihin, ‘Saan naroon ang kanilang mga diyos,
    ang bato na kanilang pinagkanlungan?
38 Sino ang kumain ng taba ng kanilang mga handog,
    at uminom ng alak ng kanilang handog na inumin?
Pabangunin sila at tulungan ka,
    at sila'y maging inyong pag-iingat!
39 “‘Tingnan ninyo ngayon, ako, samakatuwid ay Ako nga,
    at walang diyos liban sa akin;
ako'y pumapatay at ako'y bumubuhay;
    ako'y sumusugat at ako'y nagpapagaling;
    at walang makakaligtas sa aking kamay.
40 Sapagkat aking itinataas ang aking kamay sa langit,
    at sumusumpa, ‘Buháy ako magpakailanman.
41 Kung ihahasa ko ang aking makintab na tabak,
    at ang aking kamay ay humawak sa hatol,
ako'y maghihiganti sa aking mga kaaway,
    at aking gagantihan ang mga napopoot sa akin.
42 At aking lalasingin ng dugo ang aking palaso,
    at ang aking tabak ay sasakmal ng laman;
ng dugo ng patay at ng mga bihag,
    mula sa ulong may mahabang buhok ng mga pinuno ng kaaway.’
43 “Magalak(F) kayo, O mga bansa, kasama ng kanyang bayan;
    sapagkat ipaghihiganti niya ang dugo ng kanyang mga lingkod,
at maghihiganti sa kanyang mga kalaban,
    at patatawarin ang kanyang lupain, ang kanyang bayan.”

44 At si Moises ay pumaroon at sinabi ang lahat ng mga salita ng awit na ito sa pandinig ng bayan, siya at si Josue[a] na anak ni Nun.

Huling Tagubilin ni Moises

45 Pagkatapos sabihin ni Moises ang lahat ng mga salitang ito sa buong Israel,

46 ay kanyang sinabi sa kanila, “Ilagay ninyo sa puso ang lahat ng mga salita na aking pinapatotohanan sa inyo sa araw na ito, na inyong iuutos sa inyong mga anak upang gawin ang lahat ng mga salita ng kautusang ito.

47 Sapagkat ito'y hindi hamak na bagay sa inyo; sapagkat ito'y inyong buhay, at sa pamamagitan ng bagay na ito ay inyong pahahabain ang inyong mga araw sa lupain na inyong itinawid sa Jordan upang angkinin.”

Pinasampa si Moises sa Bundok ng Nebo

48 Ang(G) Panginoon ay nagsalita kay Moises nang araw ding iyon,

49 “Umakyat ka sa bundok na ito ng Abarim, sa bundok ng Nebo na nasa lupain ng Moab, na nasa tapat ng Jerico. Tanawin mo ang lupain ng Canaan, na aking ibinibigay sa mga anak ni Israel bilang pag-aari.

50 Mamamatay ka sa bundok na iyong inakyat at isasama ka sa iyong angkan, gaya ni Aaron na iyong kapatid na namatay sa bundok ng Hor at isinama sa kanyang angkan.

51 Sapagkat kayo'y sumuway sa akin sa gitna ng mga anak ni Israel sa tubig ng Meriba ng Kadesh, sa ilang ng Zin; sapagkat hindi ninyo ako itinuring na banal sa gitna ng mga anak ni Israel.

52 Gayunma'y makikita mo ang lupain sa harapan mo, ngunit hindi ka makakapasok sa lupain na aking ibinibigay sa mga anak ni Israel.”

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomio 32:44 o Hosheas .

32 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

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:

Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

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.

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

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?

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.

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.

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.

32 Listen,(A) you heavens,(B) and I will speak;
    hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.(C)
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.

I will proclaim(G) the name of the Lord.(H)
    Oh, praise the greatness(I) of our God!
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)

They are corrupt and not his children;
    to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.(O)
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)

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)
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)
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

  1. Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God
  3. Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.
  4. Deuteronomy 32:36 Or and they are without a ruler or leader
  5. Deuteronomy 32:43 Or Make his people rejoice, you nations
  6. Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) people, / and let all the angels worship him, /
  7. Deuteronomy 32:44 Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua