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1“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;[#Isa 1.2]
let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2May my teaching drop like the rain,[#Isa 55.10, 11]
my speech condense like the dew,
like gentle rain on grass,
like showers on new growth.
3For I will proclaim the name of the Lord ,[#Ex 33.19; Deut 3.24]
ascribe greatness to our God!
4The Rock, his work is perfect,[#vv 15, 18, 30; Deut 7.9; Ps 92.15]
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God, without deceit,
just and upright is he;
5yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him,[#Deut 31.29; Lk 9.41; #32.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
a perverse and crooked generation.
6Do you thus repay the Lord ,[#Deut 1.31]
O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father who created you,
who made you and established you?
7Remember the days of old;[#Ex 13.14]
consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you,
your elders, and they will tell you.
8When the Most High apportioned the nations,[#Gen 11.8; Acts 17.26; #32.8 Traditional rendering of Heb Elyon]
when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the gods;
9the Lord ’s own portion was his people,[#1 Kings 8.51, 53; Jer 10.16]
Jacob his allotted share.
10He sustained him in a desert land,[#Jer 2.6; Zech 2.8; #32.10 Sam Gk Compare Tg: MT found]
in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him as the apple of his eye.
11As an eagle stirs up its nest[#Ex 19.4; Isa 31.5]
and hovers over its young,
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
and bears them aloft on its pinions,
12the Lord alone guided him;[#v 39]
no foreign god was with him.
13He set him atop the heights of the land[#Job 29.6; Isa 58.14]
and fed him with produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
with oil from flinty rock,
14curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,[#Ps 147.14]
with fat of lambs and rams,
Bashan bulls and goats,
together with the choicest wheat—
you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.
15Jacob ate his fill;[#Deut 33.5, 26; Isa 1.4; #32.15 Q mss Sam Gk: MT lacks Jacob ate his fill]
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.
You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
16They made him jealous with strange gods;[#Ps 78.58; 1 Cor 10.22]
with abhorrent things they provoked him.
17They sacrificed to demons, not God,[#Deut 28.64; Judg 5.8; Ps 106.37]
to deities they had never known,
to new ones recently arrived,
whom your ancestors had not feared.
18You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you;[#Ps 106.21; Isa 17.10; #32.18 Or that fathered you]
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19The Lord saw it and was jealous;[#Ps 106.40; Jer 44.21–23; #32.19 Q mss Gk: MT lacks was jealous]
he spurned his sons and daughters.
20He said, ‘I will hide my face from them;[#v 5 ; Deut 31.17, 29]
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom there is no faithfulness.
21They made me jealous with what is no god,[#v 16 ; Rom 10.19]
provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with what is no people,
provoke them with a foolish nation.
22For a fire is kindled by my anger[#Jer 15.14]
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the earth and its increase
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23I will heap disasters upon them,[#Deut 29.21; Ezek 5.16]
spend my arrows against them:
24wasting hunger,[#v 33 ; Lev 26.22; Deut 28.22]
burning consumption,
bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
with venom of things crawling in the dust.
25In the street the sword shall bereave,[#2 Chr 36.17; Ezek 7.15]
and in the chambers terror
for young man and woman alike,
nursing child and old gray head.
26I said, “I will make an end of them[#Deut 4.27; Ps 34.16; #32.26 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain]
and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”
27but I feared provocation by the enemy,[#Deut 9.26–28; Isa 10.13]
for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is triumphant;
it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’
28They are a nation void of sense;
there is no understanding in them.
29If they were wise, they would understand this;[#Ps 81.13]
they would discern what their end would be.
30How could one have routed a thousand[#v 4 ; Lev 26.7, 8]
and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
the Lord had given them up?
31Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;[#1 Sam 2.2; 4.8]
our enemies are fools.
32Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom,
from the vineyards of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
their clusters are bitter;
33their wine is the poison of serpents,[#Ps 58.4]
the cruel venom of asps.
34Is not this laid up in store with me,[#Hos 13.12]
sealed up in my treasuries,
35for the day of vengeance and recompense,[#Rom 12.19; Heb 10.30; #32.35 Sam Gk: MT vengeance is mine]
for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
their doom comes swiftly.
36Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people,[#Judg 2.18; Ps 106.45; 135.14; Joel 2.14]
have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
neither bond nor free remaining.
37Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,[#Jer 2.28]
the rock in which they took refuge,
38who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!
39See now that I, even I, am he;[#Ps 50.22; Isa 41.4]
there is no god besides me.
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
and no one can deliver from my hand.
40For I lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
41when I whet my flashing sword[#Ezek 21.9, 10]
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
42I will make my arrows drunk with blood,[#Jer 46.10]
and my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the long-haired enemy.’
43Praise, O heavens, his people;[#Ps 85.1; Rom 15.10; Rev 19.2; #32.43 Q ms Gk: MT nations]
worship him, all you gods!
For he will avenge the blood of his children
and take vengeance on his adversaries;
he will repay those who hate him
and cleanse the land for his people.”
44Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua son of Nun.[#32.44 Sam Gk Syr Vg: MT Hoshea]
45When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
46he said to them, “Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today; give them as a command to your children, so that they may diligently observe all the words of this law.[#Deut 6.6; Ezek 40.4]
47This is no trifling matter for you but rather your very life; through it you may live long in the land that you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.”[#Deut 30.20]
48On that very day the Lord addressed Moses as follows:
49“Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites for a possession;[#Num 27.12–14]
50you shall die there on the mountain that you ascend and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his kin,
51because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to maintain my holiness among the Israelites.[#Num 20.11–13; 27.14]
52Although you may view the land from a distance, you shall not enter it, the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”[#Deut 1.37; 34.1–3]