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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 invoke the name of the LORD, ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4 The strong One, whose work is perfect: for all his ways are right; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is that they are not his sons; they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not thy father that has possessed thee? He made thee and established thee.
7 ¶ Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee;
8 when the most High caused the Gentiles to be inherited, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the measuring line 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 stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears 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 fruits of the field; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the strong flint,
14 butter of cows and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams of the sons of Bashan (or fruitfulness) and goats with the fat of kidneys, of wheat; and thou didst drink the blood of the grape, pure wine.
15 ¶ But Jeshurun (the upright one) waxed fat and kicked; (thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou hast covered thyself) and forsook the God who made him and lightly esteemed the strong One of his saving health.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came from nearby, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the strong One that begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgotten the God that travailed for thee.
19 ¶ And when the LORD saw it, his wrath was kindled because 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: that they are a generation of perversities, sons without 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 also will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with foolish Gentiles.
22 For fire shall be kindled in my anger and shall burn unto the lowest part of Sheol and shall consume the earth with her fruit and burn up the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
24 They shall be consumed 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 shatter them in pieces: I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
27 if I did not fear the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should become vain and lest they should say, Our high hand has done this and not the LORD.
28 For they are a Gentile void of counsel, neither is there any intelligence in them.
29 O that they were wise, if they were prudent, they would understand their latter end!
30 How could one chase a thousand and two put ten thousands to flight if their strong One had not sold them, and the LORD had not delivered them up?
31 For their strong one is not as our strong One, and even our enemies are judges of this.
32 Therefore, their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are very bitter.
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Do I not have this laid up in store, sealed up in my treasuries?
35 Vengeance and recompense are mine, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their calamity is at hand and that which is determined upon them makes haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people and repent himself for his slaves when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left.
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their strong one in whom they trusted,
38 who ate 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, I am he, and there are no gods with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and there is not one that can deliver out of my hand.
40 When I shall lift up my hand to the heavens and shall say, I live for ever,
41 if I whet the resplendence of my sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies and will recompense those that hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh, in the blood of the slain and of the captives of the heads, in revenge as an enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye Gentiles, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his slaves and will render vengeance to his enemies and will reconcile his land, to his people.
44 ¶ And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hosea, the son of Nun.
45 And Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel;
46 and he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I protest against you today, to command them unto your children and keep and fulfil 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, which ye shall pass the Jordan to inherit.
48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses that same day, saying,
49 Climb 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 as inheritance unto the sons of Israel,
50 and die in the mountain which thou shalt climb and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered unto his peoples,
51 because ye trespassed against me among the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because ye did not sanctify me in the midst of the sons of Israel.
52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee, but thou shalt not enter there to the land which I give the sons of Israel.
33 ¶ And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.
2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of holiness, at his right hand the law of fire for them.
3 Yea, he loved the peoples; all his saints are in thy hand; they also united at thy feet; they received thy words.
4 Moses commanded us law as inheritance unto the congregation of Jacob.
5 And he was king in Jeshurun when the heads of the people, the tribes of Israel, were gathered together as one.
6 ¶ Let Reuben live and not die, and let not his men be few.
7 And this blessing is for Judah, and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people; let his hands be sufficient for him, and be thou a help to him from his enemies.
8 ¶ And to Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah,
9 who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen them; neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor know his own children; therefore, they shall keep thy word and guard thy covenant.
10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thy nostrils and a perfect sacrifice upon thine altar.
11 Bless, O LORD, his ministry, {Heb. men of valour} and take pleasure in the work of his hands; smite through the loins of those that rise up against him and of those that hate him that they may never rise again.
12 ¶ And to Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
13 And to Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD is his land, for the gifts of the heavens, for the dew, and for the deep that is stretched out beneath,
14 and for the gifts of the fruits of the sun and for the gifts of the influence of the moon,
15 and for the summit of the ancient mountains and for the gifts of the everlasting hills,
16 and for the gifts of the earth and fullness thereof, and may the grace of him that dwelt in the bush come upon the head of Joseph and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
17 His beauty is like the firstborn of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh.
18 ¶ And to Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and thou, Issachar, in thy tents.
19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness; therefore they shall suck the abundance of the seas and hidden treasures of the sand.
20 And to Gad he said, Blessed is he that caused Gad to be enlarged; he shall dwell as a lion and shall tear the arm with the crown of the head.
21 And he saw the best for himself because there the portion of the lawgiver was enclosed; and he came at the head of the people; he shall execute the righteousness of the LORD and his judgments with Israel.
22 ¶ And to Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp; he shall leap from Bashan.
23 And to Naphtali he said, Naphtali, filled with grace and full of the blessing of the LORD, shall inherit the west and the Negev.
24 And to Asher he said, Asher, more blessed than the sons, shall be acceptable unto his brethren and shall dip his foot in oil.
25 Thy locks shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
26 ¶ There is no other like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rides upon the heavens for thy help, in the clouds with his excellency.
27 The habitation of God is eternal, and underneath the everlasting arms; he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee and shall say, Destroy them.
28 Then Israel, the fountain of Jacob, shall dwell in safety alone in a land of grain and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
29 Blessed art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help and the sword of thy excellency? Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
34 ¶ And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
2 and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
3 and the Negev and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed. I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over there.
5 ¶ So Moses, the slave of the LORD, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor, but no one knows of his sepulchre unto this day.
7 And Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
8 And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were fulfilled.
9 ¶ And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the Spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the sons of Israel hearkened unto him and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
10 And there never arose a prophet since in Israel like Moses, who had known the LORD face to face,
11 in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his slaves and to all his land,
12 and in all that mighty hand and in all the great terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.
26 And the inscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
27 And with him they crucified two thieves: the one on his right hand and the other on his left.
28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which says, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
29 And those that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads and saying, Ah, thou that would destroy the temple of God and build it in three days,
30 save thyself and come down from the cross. {Gr. stauros – stake}
31 Likewise also the princes of the priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
32 Let the Christ, King of Israel, descend now from the stake that we may see and believe. And those that were crucified {Gr. Stauroo – to hang on a stake} with him reviled him.
33 ¶ And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
35 And some of those that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calls Elijah.
36 And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.
37 But Jesus, giving a great cry, expired.
38 Then the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom.
39 And when the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw that he so cried out and expired, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
40 There were also some women looking on afar off, among whom was Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the lesser and of Joses, and Salome
41 (who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and ministered unto him), and many other women who came up with him unto Jerusalem.
42 ¶ And now when the evening was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
43 Joseph of Arimathaea, a noble senator, who also waited for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly unto Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
44 And Pilate marvelled that he was already dead; and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.
45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
46 And he bought fine linen and took him down and wrapped him in the linen and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
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