Deuteronomy 32

Revised Geneva Translation

32 “Listen, you heavens, and I will speak. And let the Earth hear the words of my mouth.

² “My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall still as the dew, as the shower upon the herbs and as the great rain upon the grass.

³ “For I will publish the Name of the LORD. Give glory to our God.

⁴ “Perfect is the work of the mighty God. For all His ways are judgment. God is true, and without wickedness. Just and righteous are He.

⁵ “They have corrupted themselves toward Him by their vice, not being his children, a perverse and crooked generation.

⁶ “Do you so reward the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? 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 so 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 Adam, He appointed the borders of the people, according to the number of the children of Israel.

⁹ “For the LORD’s portion is His people. Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.

¹⁰ “He found himself in the land of the wilderness, in a wasteland and roaring wilderness. He led him about. He taught him, kept him as the apple of His eye.

¹¹ “As an eagle stirs up her nest — flutters over her birds, stretches out her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings —

¹² “the LORD alone led him. And there was no strange god with him.

¹³ “He carried him up to the high places of the Earth, So that he might eat the fruits of the fields. And He caused him to suck honey out of the stone, and oil out of the hard rock.

¹⁴ “Butter from cattle, and milk from sheep with fat from the lambs, and rams fed in Bashan, and goats with the fat from the grains of wheat, and the red liquor of the grape have you drunk.

¹⁵ “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You are fat, you are thick, you are engorged with fatness. Therefore, he forsook God, Who made him, and did not regard the strong God of his salvation.

¹⁶ “They provoked Him with strange gods. They provoked Him to anger with abominations.

¹⁷ “They offered to demons, not to God, to gods whom they did not know, newcomers, whom their fathers did not fear.

¹⁸ “You have forgotten the mighty God Who begat you, and have forgotten the God Who formed you.

¹⁹ “The LORD then saw it and was angry, because of the provocation 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 perverse generation, children in whom there is no faith.

²¹ ‘They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

²² ‘For fire is kindled in My wrath, and shall burn to the bottom of Hell, and shall consume the Earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³ ‘I will use all My plagues upon them. I will heap My arrows upon them.

²⁴ ‘They shall be empty with hunger and consumed with heat and bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the venom of serpents in the dust.

²⁵ ‘The sword shall kill them outside and fear shall be within them: the young man, the young woman, the suckling and the man of gray hair.

²⁶ “I have said, ‘I would have scattered them abroad. I would have made their remembrance cease from among men,

²⁷ ‘if not for my fear of the fury of the enemy, lest their adversaries should grow proud, lest they should say, “Our high hand, and not the LORD, has done all this.’

²⁸ “For they are a nation void of counsel. Nor is there understanding in them.

²⁹ “Oh that they were wise, they would understand this! They would consider their latter end!

³⁰ “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

³¹ “For their god is not as our God. Even our enemies are judges.

³² “For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

³³ “Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps.

³⁴ ‘Is not this laid in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures?

³⁵ ‘Vengeance and recompense are Mine. Their foot shall slide in due time. For the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them, make haste.

³⁶ ‘For the LORD shall judge His people, and have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and that no one remains, bond or free.

³⁷ ‘When men shall say, “Where are their gods, their mighty god, in whom they trusted,

³⁸ “who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you. Let him be your refuge.”

³⁹ ‘Behold now. For I, I am He. And there are no gods with Me. I kill and give life. I wound. And I make whole. Nor is there anyone who can deliver out of My hand.

⁴⁰ ‘For I lift up My hand to Heaven, and say, ‘I live forever.

⁴¹ ‘If I whet My glittering sword, and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will execute vengeance on My enemies, and will reward those who hate Me.

⁴² ‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood and My sword shall eat flesh —for the blood of the slain and of the captives—when I begin to take vengeance on the enemy.’

⁴³ “Rejoice, O you nations of His people! For He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will execute vengeance upon His adversaries, and will be merciful to His land, and to His people.”

⁴⁴ Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the audience of the people, he and Hoshea (or Joshua), the son of Nun.

⁴⁵ When Moses had made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel,

⁴⁶ then he said to them, “Set your hearts to all the words which I testify against you this day, so that you may command them to your children, so that they may observe and do all the Words of this Law.

⁴⁷ “For it is no empty word concerning you. But it is your life. And by this word you shall prolong your days in the land to which you go over Jordan to possess.”

⁴⁸ And the LORD spoke to Moses the same day, saying,

⁴⁹ “Go up into the mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho) and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.

⁵⁰ “And die on the mount which you go up to. And you shall be gathered to your people (as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people)

⁵¹ “because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah, at Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin. For you did not sanctify Me among the children of Israel.

⁵² “You shall, therefore, see the land before you but shall not go there, into the land which I give the children of Israel.”