Deuteronomy 32:1-18

New King James Version

The Song of Moses

32 “Give ^(A)ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
And hear, O ^(B)earth, the words of my mouth.
²Let ^(C)my ^[a]teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
^(D)As raindrops on the tender herb,
And as showers on the grass.
³For I proclaim the ^(E)name of the Lord:
^(F)Ascribe greatness to our God.
⁴He is ^(G)the Rock, ^(H)His work is perfect;
For all His ways are justice,
^(I)A God of truth and ^(J)without injustice;
Righteous and upright is He.

⁵“They^(K) have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A ^(L)perverse and crooked generation.
⁶Do you thus ^(M)deal^[b] with the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is He not ^(N)your Father, who ^(O)bought you?
Has He not ^(P)made you and established you?

⁷“Remember^(Q) the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
^(R)Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you:
⁸When the Most High ^(S)divided their inheritance to the nations,
When He ^(T)separated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the ^[c]children of Israel.
⁹For ^(U)the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

¹⁰“He found him ^(V)in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He ^(W)kept him as the ^[d]apple of His eye.
¹¹^(X)As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,
¹²So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.

¹³“He^(Y) made him ride in the heights of the earth,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;
¹⁴Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,
^(Z)With fat of lambs;
And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the choicest wheat;
And you drank wine, the ^(AA)blood of the grapes.

¹⁵“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
^(AB)You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he ^(AC)forsook God who ^(AD)made him,
And scornfully esteemed the ^(AE)Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶^(AF)They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With ^[e]abominations they provoked Him to anger.
¹⁷^(AG)They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
¹⁸^(AH)Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have ^(AI)forgotten the God who fathered you.