Chapter 32

1 "Give ^R985 ear, O heavens, and let me speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 2 "Let ^R986 my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As ^R987 the droplets on the fresh grass And as the showers on the herb. 3 "For ^R988 I proclaim the name of the LORD; Ascribe ^R989 greatness to our God! 4 "The ^R990 Rock! His work is perfect, For ^R991 all His ways are just; ^F510 A ^R992 God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He. 5 "They ^{R993 F511} have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But ^R994 are a perverse and crooked generation. 6 "Do you thus repay ^R995 the LORD, O ^R996 foolish and unwise people? Is ^R997 not He your Father who has bought you? He ^R998 has made you and established you.

7 "Remember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations. Ask ^R999 your father, and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you. 8 "When ^R1000 the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, ^F512 He set the boundaries of the peoples According ^R1001 to the number of the sons of Israel. 9 "For ^R1002 the LORD'S portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance. 10 "He ^R1003 found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the ^R1004 pupil of His eye. 11 "Like ^R1005 an eagle that stirs up its nest, That hovers over its young, He ^R1006 spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions. 12 "The ^R1007 LORD alone guided him, And ^R1008 there was no foreign god with him. 13 "He ^R1009 made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And ^R1010 He made him suck honey from the rock, And oil ^R1011 from the flinty rock, 14 Curds of cows, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats, With ^R1012 the finest of the wheat-- And of the blood ^R1013 of grapes you drank wine.

15 "But ^R1014 Jeshurun ^F513 grew fat and kicked-- You are grown fat, thick, and sleek-- Then ^R1015 he forsook God who ^R1016 made him, And scorned the ^R1017 Rock of his salvation. 16 "They ^R1018 made Him jealous with strange gods; With ^R1019 abominations they provoked Him to anger. 17 "They ^R1020 sacrificed to demons who were not God, To ^R1021 gods whom they have not known, New ^R1022 gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not dread. 18 "You neglected the ^R1023 Rock who begot you, And ^R1024 forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 "The ^R1025 LORD saw this, and spurned them Because ^R1026 of the provocation of His sons and daughters. 20 "Then He said, `I will hide My face from them, I <sup>R1027</sup> will see what their end shall be; For <sup>R1028</sup> they are a perverse generation, Sons <sup>R1029</sup> in whom is no faithfulness. 21 `They ^R1030 have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. ^{R1031 F514} So ^R1032 I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation, 22 For ^R1033 a fire is kindled in My anger, And burns to the lowest part of Sheol, ^F515 And ^R1034 consumes the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 `I <sup>R1035</sup> will heap misfortunes on them; I <sup>R1036</sup> will use My arrows on them. 24 `They ^R1037 will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague ^F516 And ^R1038 bitter destruction; And ^R1039 the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With ^R1040 the venom of crawling things of the dust. 25 `Outside ^R1041 the sword will bereave, And inside terror-- Both ^R1042 young man and virgin, The nursling with the man of gray hair.

26 `I would have said, "I <sup>R1043</sup> will cut them to pieces, I <sup>R1044</sup> will remove the memory of them from men," 27 Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, "Our <sup>R1045</sup> hand is triumphant, <sup>F517</sup> And the LORD has not done all this."' 28 "For <sup>R1046</sup> they are a nation lacking <sup>F518</sup> in counsel, And there is no understanding in them. 29 "Would <sup>R1047</sup> that they were wise, that they understood this, That <sup>R1048</sup> they would discern their future! <sup>F519</sup> 30 "How <sup>R1049</sup> could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock <sup>R1050</sup> had sold them, And the LORD had given them up? 31 "Indeed their rock is not like our Rock, Even <sup>R1051</sup> our enemies themselves <sup>F520</sup> judge this. 32 "For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, And from the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of poison, <sup>R1052</sup> Their clusters, bitter. 33 "Their wine is the venom of serpents, <sup>F521</sup> And the deadly <sup>F522</sup> poison of cobras. 34 `Is ^R1053 it not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up in My treasuries? 35 `Vengeance <sup>R1054</sup> is Mine, and retribution, In <sup>R1055</sup> due time their foot will slip; For <sup>R1056</sup> the day of their calamity is near, And the impending things are hastening upon them.' 36 "For <sup>R1057</sup> the LORD will vindicate His people, And <sup>R1058</sup> will have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their strength <sup>F523</sup> is gone, And there is none remaining, bond or free. 37 "And He will say, `Where ^R1059 are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge? 38 `Who ^R1060 ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let ^R1061 them rise up and help you, Let them be your hiding place!

39 `See <sup>R1062</sup> now that I, I am He, And <sup>R1063</sup> there is no god besides Me; It <sup>R1064</sup> is I who put to death and give life. I <sup>R1065</sup> have wounded and it is I who heal, And <sup>R1066</sup> there is no one who can deliver from My hand. 40 `Indeed, I ^R1067 lift up My hand to heaven, And say, as I live forever, 41 If ^R1068 I sharpen My flashing ^F524 sword, And My hand takes hold on justice, I ^R1069 will render vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me. 42 `I ^R1070 will make My arrows drunk with blood, And ^R1071 My sword will devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired leaders ^F525 of the enemy.' 43 "Rejoice, ^R1072 O nations, with His people; For ^R1073 He will avenge the blood of His servants, And ^R1074 will render vengeance on His adversaries, And ^R1075 will atone for His land and His people."

44 Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he, with Joshua ^{R1076 F526} the son of Nun. 45 When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, "Take ^R1077 to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your ^R1078 sons to observe carefully, ^F527 even all the words of this law. 47 "For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it ^R1079 is your life. And by ^R1080 this word you will prolong your days in the land, which ^F528 you are about to cross the Jordan to possess." ^F529 48 The ^R1081 LORD spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, 49 "Go ^R1082 up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab opposite ^F530 Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession. 50 "Then die on the mountain where you ascend, and be gathered ^R1083 to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 because ^R1084 you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness ^R1085 of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel. 52 "For ^R1086 you shall see the land at a distance, but you ^R1087 shall not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel."

Chapter 33

1 Now this is the blessing with which Moses the ^R1088 man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death. 2 He said, "The ^R1089 LORD came from Sinai, And ^R1090 dawned ^F531 on them from Seir; He ^R1091 shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came from the ^R1092 midst ^F532 of ten thousand holy ones; At ^R1093 His right hand there was flashing ^F533 lightning for them. 3 "Indeed, ^R1094 He loves the ^F534 people; All ^R1095 Your ^F535 holy ones are in Your hand, And ^R1096 they followed ^F536 in Your steps; Everyone receives of Your words. 4 "Moses ^R1097 charged us with a law, A ^R1098 possession for the assembly of Jacob. 5 "And ^R1099 He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, The tribes of Israel together.

6 "May ^R1100 Reuben live and not die, Nor his men be few." 7 And ^R1101 this regarding Judah; so he said, "Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people. With his hands he contended for them, ^F537 And may You be a help against his adversaries."

8 Of Levi he said, "Let Your Thummim ^R1102 and Your Urim belong to Your ^F538 godly ^R1103 man, Whom ^R1104 You proved at Massah, With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who ^R1105 said of his father and his mother, `I did not consider them'; And he did not acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he regard his own sons, For they ^R1106 observed Your word, And kept Your covenant. 10 "They ^R1107 shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob, And Your law to Israel. They ^R1108 shall put incense before ^F539 You, And whole ^R1109 burnt offerings on Your altar. 11 "O LORD, bless his substance, And accept the work of his hands; Shatter the loins of those who rise up against him, And those who hate him, so that they will not rise again."

12 Of Benjamin he said, "May ^R1110 the beloved of the LORD dwell in security by Him, Who ^R1111 shields him all the day, And ^R1112 he dwells between His shoulders." 13 Of Joseph he said, "Blessed ^R1113 of the LORD be his land, With the choice things of heaven, with the dew, And from the deep lying beneath, 14 And with the choice yield of the sun, And with the choice produce of the months. 15 "And with the best ^F540 things of the ^R1114 ancient mountains, And with the choice things of the everlasting hills, 16 And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness, And the favor of ^R1115 Him who dwelt in the bush. Let it come to the head of Joseph, And to the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers. 17 "As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his, And his horns are the horns of the ^R1116 wild ox; With them he will push ^R1117 the peoples, All at ^F541 once, to the ends of the earth. And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And those are the thousands of Manasseh."

18 Of ^R1118 Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going forth, And, Issachar, in your tents. 19 "They ^R1119 will call peoples to the mountain; There they will offer righteous ^R1120 sacrifices; For they will draw ^F542 out the ^R1121 abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand." 20 Of ^R1122 Gad he said, "Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad; He lies down as ^R1123 a lion, ^F543 And tears the arm, also the crown of the head. 21 "Then ^R1124 he provided ^F544 the first part for himself, For ^R1125 there the ruler's portion was reserved; ^F545 And ^R1126 he came with the leaders of the people; He ^R1127 executed the justice of the LORD, And His ordinances with Israel."

22 Of ^R1128 Dan he said, "Dan is a ^R1129 lion's whelp, That leaps forth from Bashan." 23 Of Naphtali he said, "O ^R1130 Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of the LORD, Take possession of the sea and the south." 24 Of ^R1131 Asher he said, "More blessed than sons is Asher; May he be favored by his brothers, And ^R1132 may he dip his foot in oil. 25 "Your ^R1133 locks will be iron and bronze, And ^R1134 according to your days, so will your leisurely walk be.

26 "There ^R1135 is none like the God of Jeshurun, ^F546 Who ^R1136 rides the heavens to ^F547 your help, And through the skies in His majesty. 27 "The ^R1137 eternal God is a dwelling ^F548 place, And ^R1138 underneath are the everlasting arms; And ^R1139 He drove out the enemy from before you, And ^R1140 said, `Destroy!' 28 "So ^R1141 Israel dwells in security, The ^R1142 fountain of Jacob secluded, In ^R1143 a land of grain and new wine; His ^R1144 heavens also drop down dew. 29 "Blessed ^R1145 are you, O Israel; Who ^R1146 is like you, a people saved by the LORD, Who ^R1147 is the shield of your help And ^R1148 the sword of your majesty! So ^R1149 your enemies will cringe before you, And ^R1150 you will tread upon their high places."

Chapter 34

1 Now ^R1151 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed ^R1152 him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, 2 and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western ^{R1153 F549} sea, 3 and the Negev ^F550 and the plain in the valley of Jericho, the ^R1154 city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. 4 Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land which I ^R1155 swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, `I will give it to your descendants'; ^F551 I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

5 So Moses the ^R1156 servant of the LORD died ^R1157 there in the land of Moab, according to the word ^F552 of the LORD. 6 And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite ^R1158 Beth-peor; but no ^R1159 man knows his burial place to this day. 7 Although Moses was one ^R1160 hundred and twenty years old when he died, his ^R1161 eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated. 8 So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

9 Now Joshua the son of Nun was filled ^R1162 with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; and the sons of Israel listened to him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses. 10 Since that time no ^R1163 prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the ^R1164 LORD knew face to face, 11 for all the signs and wonders which the LORD sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all his servants, and all his land, 12 and for all the mighty power ^F553 and for all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.