Deuteronomy Chapter 32 (Index)

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

002  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:

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

004  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.

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

006  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?

007  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.

008  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.

009  For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

010  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.

011  As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

012  So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

013  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;

014  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.

015  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.

016  They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

017  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.

018  Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

019  And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

020  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.

021  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.

022  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.

023  I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

024  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.

025  The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

026  I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

027  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.

028  For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

029  O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

030  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?

031  For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

032  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:

033  Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

034  Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

035  To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense; 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.

036  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.

037  And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

038  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.

039  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.

040  For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

041  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.

042  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.

043  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.

044  And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

045  And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

046  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.

047  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.

048  And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

049  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:

050  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:

051  Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

052  Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.