321 " Give ear , O heavens , and let me speak ; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth . 2 " Let my teaching drop as the rain , My speech distill as the dew , As the droplets on the fresh grass And as the showers on the herb . 3 " For I proclaim the name of the Lord ; Ascribe greatness to our God ! 4 " The Rock ! His work is perfect , For all His ways are just ; A God of faithfulness and without injustice , Righteous and upright is He. 5 " They have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children , because of their defect ; But are a perverse and crooked generation . 6 "Do you thus repay the Lord , O foolish and unwise e people ? Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
7 "Remember the days of old , Consider the years of all generations . Ask your father , and he will inform you, Your elders , and they will tell you. 8 " When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance , When He separated the sons of man , He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel . 9 " For the Lord'S portion is His people ; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance . 10 " He 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 pupil of His eye . 11 " Like an eagle that stirs up its nest , That hovers over its young , He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions . 12 " The Lord alone guided him, And there was no foreign god with him. 13 " He made him ride on the high places of the earth , And he ate the produce of the field ; And He made him suck honey from the rock , And oil 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 the finest e of the wheat - And of the blood of grapes you drank wine .
15 " But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked - You are grown fat , thick , and sleek - Then he forsook God who made him, And scorned the Rock of his salvation . 16 " They made Him jealous with strange gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger . 17 " They sacrificed to demons who were not God , To gods whom they have not known , New gods who came lately , Whom your fathers did not dread . 18 "You neglected the Rock who begot you, And forgot the God who gave you birth .
19 " The Lord saw this, and spurned them Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters . 20 "Then He said , 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation , Sons in whom is no faithfulness . 21 ' They have made Me jealous with what is not God ; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols . So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people ; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation , 22 For a fire is kindled in My anger , And burns to the lowest part of Sheol , And consumes the earth with its yield , And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains . 23 ' I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them. 24 ' They will be wasted by famine , and consumed by plague And bitter destruction ; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust . 25 ' Outside e the sword will bereave , And inside e terror - Both young man and virgin , The nursling with the man of gray hair .
26 'I would have said , " I will cut them to pieces , I 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 hand is triumphant , And the Lord has not done all this ."' 28 " For they are a nation lacking in counsel , And there is no understanding in them. 29 " Would that they were wise , that they understood this , That they would discern their future ! 30 " How could one chase a thousand , And two put ten thousand to flight , Unless e e their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had given them up? 31 "Indeed their rock is not like our Rock , Even our enemies themselves judge this. 32 "For their vine is from the vine of Sodom , And from the fields of Gomorrah ; Their grapes are grapes of poison , Their clusters , bitter . 33 "Their wine is the venom of serpents , And the deadly poison of cobras . 34 ' Is it not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up in My treasuries ? 35 ' Vengeance is Mine, and retribution , In due time their foot will slip ; For the day of their calamity is near , And the impending things are hastening upon them.' 36 " For the Lord will vindicate His people , And will have compassion on His servants , When He sees that their strength is gone , And there is none remaining, bond or free . 37 "And He will say , ' Where are their gods , The rock in which they sought refuge ? 38 ' Who ate the fat of their sacrifices , And drank the wine of their drink offering ? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your hiding place !
39 ' See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life . I have wounded and it is I who heal , And there is no one who can deliver from My hand . 40 'Indeed , I lift up My hand to heaven , And say , as I live forever , 41 If I sharpen My flashing sword , And My hand takes hold on justice , I will render vengeance on My adversaries , And I will repay those who hate Me. 42 ' I will make My arrows drunk with blood , And My sword will devour flesh , With the blood of the slain and the captives , From the long-haired leaders of the enemy .' 43 " Rejoice , O nations , with His people ; For He will avenge the blood of His servants , And will render vengeance on His adversaries , And 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 the son of Nun . 45 When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel , 46 he said to them, " Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today , which you shall command your sons to observe carefully , even all the words of this law . 47 "For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life . And by this word you will prolong your days in the land , which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess ."
48 The Lord spoke to Moses that very same day , saying , 49 " Go up to this mountain of the Abarim , Mount Nebo , which is in the land of Moab opposite e 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 e you ascend , and be gathered to your people , as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people , 51 because e you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh e , in the wilderness of Zin , because e you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel . 52 " For you shall see the land at a distance e , but you shall not go there , into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel ."
