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32 Hlustið, þér himnar, því að nú mun ég mæla, og jörðin hlýði á mál munns míns!

Kenning mín streymi sem regn, ræða mín drjúpi sem dögg, eins og gróðrarskúrir á grængresið og sem þungaregn á jurtirnar.

Ég vil kunngjöra nafn Drottins: Gefið Guði vorum dýrðina!

Bjargið _ fullkomin eru verk hans, því að allir vegir hans eru réttlæti. Trúfastur Guð og tállaus, réttlátur og réttvís er hann.

Synir hans eru spilltir orðnir, blettur er á þeim, rangsnúin og rammspillt kynslóð.

Ætlið þér að launa Drottni þannig, þú heimska og óvitra þjóð? Er hann ekki faðir þinn, sá er skóp þig, sá er gjörði þig og myndaði?

Minnstu fyrri tíða, hyggið að árum liðinna alda! Spyr föður þinn, að hann megi fræða þig, gamalmenni þín, að þau megi segja þér frá!

Þá er hinn hæsti skipti óðulum meðal þjóðanna, þá er hann greindi í sundur mannanna börn, þá skipaði hann löndum þjóðflokkanna eftir tölu Ísraels sona.

Því að hlutskipti Drottins er lýður hans, Jakob úthlutuð arfleifð hans.

10 Hann fann hann í eyðimerkurlandi og í óbyggðum, innan um öskrið á öræfunum. Hann verndaði hann, hugði að honum, hann varðveitti hann sem sjáaldur auga síns.

11 Eins og örn, sem vekur upp hreiður sitt og svífur yfir ungum sínum, svo útbreiddi hann vængi sína, tók hann upp og bar hann á flugfjöðrum sínum.

12 Drottinn einn leiddi hann, og enginn annar guð var með honum.

13 Hann lét hann fram bruna á hæðum landsins og lét hann njóta ávaxtar akursins. Hann lét hann sjúga hunang úr klettunum og olífuolíu úr tinnusteinunum.

14 Hann ól hann á kúarjóma og sauðamjólk, ásamt feitu kjöti af dilkum og hrútum. Hann gaf honum Basan-uxa og kjarnhafra, ásamt nýrnafeiti hveitisins. Þrúgnablóð drakkst þú sem kostavín.

15 En Jesjúrún varð feitur og sparkaði aftur undan sér, _ feitur varðst þú, digur og sællegur! Þá hafnaði hann Guði, skapara sínum, og fyrirleit bjarg hjálpræðis síns.

16 Þeir vöktu vandlæti hans með útlendum guðum, egndu hann til reiði með andstyggðum.

17 Þeir færðu fórnir vættum, sem ekki eru Guð, guðum, sem þeir höfðu eigi þekkt, nýjum guðum, nýlega upp komnum, er feður yðar höfðu engan beyg af.

18 Um bjargið, sem þig hafði getið, hirtir þú ekki og gleymdir þeim Guði, sem þig hafði alið.

19 Drottinn sá það og hafnaði þeim af gremju við sonu sína og dætur.

20 Og hann sagði: Ég vil byrgja auglit mitt fyrir þeim, ég ætla að sjá, hver afdrif þeirra verða. Því að þeir eru rangsnúin kynslóð, börn, sem engin tryggð er í.

21 Þeir hafa vakið vandlæti mitt með því, sem ekki er Guð, egnt mig til reiði með hinum fánýtu goðum sínum. Nú mun ég vekja vandlæti þeirra með því, sem ekki er þjóð, egna þá til reiði með heiðnum lýð.

22 Því að eldur kviknaði í nösum mér, og hann logar lengst niður í undirheima, eyðir jörðina og ávöxtu hennar og kveikir í undirstöðum fjallanna.

23 Ég vil hrúga yfir þá margs konar böli, eyða á þá öllum örvum mínum.

24 Þótt þeir séu megraðir af hungri og tærðir af sýki og eitraðri sótt, þá mun ég hleypa tönnum villidýranna á þá, ásamt eitri þeirra, er í duftinu skríða.

25 Sverðið mun eyða þeim úti fyrir, en hræðslan í húsum inni, bæði yngismönnum og meyjum, brjóstmylkingum og gráhærðum öldungum.

26 Ég mundi segja: Ég vil blása þeim burt, afmá minning þeirra meðal mannanna! _

27 ef ég óttaðist ekki, að mér mundi gremjast við óvinina, að mótstöðumenn þeirra mundu leggja það út á annan veg, að þeir mundu segja: Hönd vor var á lofti, og það var ekki Drottinn, sem gjörði allt þetta!

28 Því að þeir eru ráðþrota þjóð, og hjá þeim eru engin hyggindi.

29 Ef þeir væru vitrir, þá mundu þeir sjá þetta, hyggja að, hver afdrif þeirra munu verða.

30 Hvernig gæti einn maður elt þúsund og tveir rekið tíu þúsundir á flótta, ef bjarg þeirra hefði ekki selt þá, ef Drottinn hefði ekki ofurselt þá?

31 Því að bjarg þeirra er ekki eins og vort bjarg _ um það geta óvinir vorir dæmt.

32 Því að vínviður þeirra er af vínviði Sódómu, af akurlöndum Gómorru. Vínber þeirra eru eitruð vínber, þrúgur þeirra beiskar.

33 Vín þeirra er höggormsólyfjan og banvænt nöðrueitur.

34 Er þetta ekki geymt hjá mér, innsiglað í forðabúrum mínum?

35 Mín er hefndin og mitt að endurgjalda, þá er þeir gjörast valtir á fótum. Því að glötunardagur þeirra er nálægur, og það ber óðfluga að, er fyrir þeim liggur.

36 Drottinn mun rétta hluta þjóðar sinnar og aumkast yfir þjóna sína, þá er hann sér, að öll hjálp er úti og enginn er framar til, þræll né frelsingi.

37 Þá mun hann segja: Hvar eru nú guðir þeirra, bjargið, er þeir leituðu hælis hjá,

38 sem átu feiti fórna þeirra og drukku vín dreypifórna þeirra? Rísi þeir nú upp og hjálpi yður, veri þeir yður nú hlíf!

39 Sjáið nú, að ég, ég er hann, og að enginn guð er til nema ég! Ég deyði og ég lífga, ég særi og ég græði, og enginn getur frelsað af minni hendi.

40 Því að ég lyfti hendi minni til himins og segi: Svo sannarlega sem ég lifi eilíflega, _

41 þegar ég hefi hvesst mitt blikandi sverð, og ég legg hönd á dóminn, þá mun ég efna hefnd við mótstöðumenn mína og endurgjalda þeim, er hata mig!

42 Ég vil gjöra örvar mínar drukknar af blóði, og sverð mitt skal hold eta _ af blóði veginna manna og hertekinna, af höfði fyrirliða óvinanna.

43 Vegsamið, þjóðir, lýð hans! því að hann hefnir blóðs þjóna sinna. Hann efnir hefnd við mótstöðumenn sína og friðþægir fyrir land síns lýðs.

44 Móse kom og flutti lýðnum öll orð þessa kvæðis í heyranda hljóði, hann og Hósea Núnsson.

45 Og er Móse hafði lokið að mæla öll þessi orð til alls Ísraels,

46 sagði hann við þá: "Hugfestið öll þau orð, sem ég flyt yður í dag, til þess að þér getið brýnt þau fyrir börnum yðar, svo að þau gæti þess að halda öll orð þessa lögmáls.

47 Því að það er ekkert hégómamál fyrir yður, heldur er það líf yðar, og fyrir þetta orð munuð þér lifa langa ævi í landinu, sem þér haldið nú inn í yfir Jórdan til þess að taka það til eignar."

48 Þann hinn sama dag talaði Drottinn við Móse og sagði:

49 "Far þú þarna upp á Abarímfjall, upp á Nebófjall, sem er í Móabslandi gegnt Jeríkó, og lít yfir Kanaanland, sem ég gef Ísraelsmönnum til eignar.

50 Og þú skalt deyja á fjallinu, er þú fer upp á, og safnast til þíns fólks, eins og Aron bróðir þinn dó á Hórfjalli og safnaðist til síns fólks,

51 af því að þið sýnduð mér ótrúmennsku mitt á meðal Ísraelsmanna hjá Meríbavötnum við Kades í Síneyðimörk, af því að þið helguðuð mig ekki meðal Ísraelsmanna.

52 Því að handan yfir skalt þú fá að líta landið, en inn í landið, sem ég gef Ísraelsmönnum, skalt þú ekki komast."

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

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.