1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak. Hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain on the tender herb, and as the showers on the grass:
3 Because I will proclaim the name of The Existing One (the LORD, Yehovah): ascribe greatness to our God ('Elohim).
4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a God ('Elohim). of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of Hxczis children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Is this how you reward I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), O foolish people and unwise? is not He your Father that has bought you? has He not made you and established you?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders and they will tell you.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Ruddy Man (Adam), He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of God Prevails (Israel).
9 For I AM’s (the LORD, Yehovah) portion is His people; Heel-Grabber (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 stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, and bears them on her wings:
12 So I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) alone did lead him, and there was no strange god (el) 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 suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
14 Butter of cattle, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs, rams from Fruitful (Bashan) and goats, with the fat of kidneys fed grain; and you drank the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Upright One (Jeshurun) became fat and kicked: you have become fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God (Eloha) who 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 to devils, not to God (Eloha); to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat you, you are unmindful and have forgotten God (El) who formed you.
19 When I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) 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 (El); 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 My anger and shall burn to 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 on them; I will spend My arrows on them.
24They shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts on 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 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has 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 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) 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 Burning (Sodom), and of the fields of Tyrants (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 belongs 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 on them make haste.
36 For I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) shall judge His people, and repent Himself for His servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
37 He shall say: Where are their gods, their rock 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, 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 My hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to My enemies and reward them that hate Me.
42 I will make My 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 acts of revenge on the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O you nations, with His people: for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His adversaries, and will be merciful to His land, and to His people.
44 All this Drawn (Moses) came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Salvation (Hoshea) the son of Posterity (Nun).
45 Then Drawn (Moses) made an end of speaking all these words to all God Prevails (Israel):
46 And he said to them: Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, which you 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, you shall prolong your days in the land, when you go over The Descender (Jordan) to possess it.
48 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke to Drawn (Moses) that day, saying:
49 Go up into the mountains of Regions Beyond (Abarim), to Mount Prophet (Nebo), which is in the land of Of His Father (Moab), that is over against Its Moon (Jericho); and behold the land of Humbled One (Canaan), which I give to the children of God Prevails (Israel) for a possession:
50 There you shall die in the mount where you go up, and be gathered to your people; as Light Bringer (Aaron) your brother died in The Mountain (Hor) and was gathered to his people:
51 Because you trespassed against Me among the children of God Prevails (Israel) at the waters of Place of Strife (Meribah) Holy (Kadesh), in the wilderness of Flat (Zin); because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the children of God Prevails (Israel).
52 Yet you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go into to the land which I give the children of God Prevails (Israel).
