Deuteronomy 32

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Deuteronomy 32

The Song of Moses

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“^(A)Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

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“^(B)Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
^(C)As the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.

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“^(D)For I proclaim the name of the Lord;
^(E)Ascribe greatness to our God!

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“^(F)The Rock! His work is perfect,
^(G)For all His ways are ^(a)just;
^(H)A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.

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“^(b)^(I)They have acted corruptly toward Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
^(J)But are a perverse and crooked generation.

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“Do you thus ^(K)repay the Lord,
^(L)O foolish and unwise people?
^(M)Is not He your Father who has bought you?
^(N)He has made you and established you.

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“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
^(O)Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

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“^(P)When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of ^(c)man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
^(Q)According to the number of the sons of Israel.

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“^(R)For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

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“^(S)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 ^(T)the pupil of His eye.

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“^(U)Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
That hovers over its young,
^(V)He spread His wings and caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.

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“^(W)The Lord alone guided him,
^(X)And there was no foreign god with him.

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“^(Y)He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
^(Z)And He made him suck honey from the rock,
And ^(AA)oil from the flinty rock,

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Curds of cows, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,
^(AB)With the finest of the wheat—
And of the ^(AC)blood of grapes you drank wine.

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“^(AD)But ^(d)Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
^(AE)Then he forsook God ^(AF)who made him,
And scorned ^(AG)the Rock of his salvation.

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“^(AH)They made Him jealous with strange gods;
^(AI)With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

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“^(AJ)They sacrificed to demons who were not God,
^(AK)To gods whom they have not known,
^(AL)New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.

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“You neglected ^(AM)the Rock who begot you,
^(AN)And forgot the God who gave you birth.

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“^(AO)The Lord saw this, and spurned them
^(AP)Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.

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“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
^(AQ)I will see what their end shall be;
^(AR)For they are a perverse generation,
^(AS)Sons in whom is no faithfulness.

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‘^(AT)They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their ^(e)^(AU)idols.
^(AV)So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,

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^(AW)For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of ^(f)Sheol,
^(AX)And consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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‘^(AY)I will heap misfortunes on them;
^(AZ)I will use My arrows on them.

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‘^(BA)They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by ^(g)plague
^(BB)And bitter destruction;
^(BC)And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
^(BD)With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

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‘^(BE)Outside the sword will bereave,
And inside terror—
^(BF)Both young man and virgin,
The nursling with the man of gray hair.

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‘I would have said, “^(BG)I will cut them to pieces,
^(BH)I will remove the memory of them from men,”

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Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,
That their adversaries would misjudge,
That they would say, “^(BI)Our hand is ^(h)triumphant,
And the Lord has not done all this.”’

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“^(BJ)For they are a nation ⁽ⁱ⁾lacking in counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.

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“^(BK)Would that they were wise, that they understood this,
^(BL)That they would discern their ^(j)future!

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“^(BM)How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their ^(BN)Rock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?

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“Indeed their rock is not like our Rock,
^(BO)Even our enemies ^(k)themselves judge this.

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“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of ^(BP)poison,
Their clusters, bitter.

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“Their wine is the venom of ^(l)serpents,
And the ^(m)deadly poison of cobras.

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‘^(BQ)Is it not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?

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‘^(BR)Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,
^(BS)In due time their foot will slip;
^(BT)For the day of their calamity is near,
And the impending things are hastening upon them.’

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“^(BU)For the Lord will vindicate His people,
^(BV)And will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their ⁽ⁿ⁾strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.

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“And He will say, ‘^(BW)Where are their gods,
The rock in which they sought refuge?

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‘^(BX)Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
^(BY)Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your hiding place!

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‘^(BZ)See now that I, I am He,
^(CA)And there is no god besides Me;
^(CB)It is I who put to death and give life.
^(CC)I have wounded and it is I who heal,
^(CD)And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

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‘Indeed, ^(CE)I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,

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^(CF)If I sharpen My ^(o)flashing sword,
And My hand takes hold on justice,
^(CG)I will render vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.

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‘^(CH)I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
^(CI)And My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired ^(p)leaders of the enemy.’

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“^(CJ)Rejoice, O nations, with His people;
^(CK)For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
^(CL)And will render vengeance on His adversaries,
^(CM)And will atone for His land and His people.”

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44} Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he, with ^(q)^(CN)Joshua the son of Nun. ^{Tools
45} When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, ^{Tools
46} he said to them, “^(CO)Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command ^(CP)your sons to observe ^(r)carefully, even all the words of this law. ^{Tools
47} For it is not an idle word for you; indeed ^(CQ)it is your life. And ^(CR)by this word you will prolong your days in the land, ^(s)which you are about to cross the Jordan to ^(t)possess.”

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49} “^(CT)Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab ^(u)opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession. ^{Tools
50} Then die on the mountain where you ascend, and be ^(CU)gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, ^{Tools
51} ^(CV)because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the ^(CW)wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel. ^{Tools
52} ^(CX)For you shall see the land at a distance, but ^(CY)you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel.”

Footnotes:

a. Deuteronomy 32:4: ['Or ', judgment]

b. Deuteronomy 32:5: ['Lit ', It has]

c. Deuteronomy 32:8: ['Or ', Adam]

d. Deuteronomy 32:15: ['I.e. Israel']

e. Deuteronomy 32:21: ['Lit ', vanities]

f. Deuteronomy 32:22: ['I.e. the nether world']

g. Deuteronomy 32:24: ['Lit ', burning heat]

h. Deuteronomy 32:27: ['Lit ', high]

i. Deuteronomy 32:28: ['Lit ', perishing]

j. Deuteronomy 32:29: ['Or ', latter end]

k. Deuteronomy 32:31: ['Lit ', are judges]

l. Deuteronomy 32:33: ['Lit ', dragons]

m. Deuteronomy 32:33: ['Lit ', cruel]

n. Deuteronomy 32:36: ['Lit ', hand]

o. Deuteronomy 32:41: ['Or ', lightning]

p. Deuteronomy 32:42: ['Lit ', head]

q. Deuteronomy 32:44: ['Lit ', Hoshea]

r. Deuteronomy 32:46: ['Lit ', to do]

s. Deuteronomy 32:47: ['Lit ', where]

t. Deuteronomy 32:47: ['Lit ', possess it]

u. Deuteronomy 32:49: ['Lit ', which is opposite]

Cross references:

A. Deuteronomy 32:1: Deuteronomy 4:26; Psalm 50:4; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 6:19

B. Deuteronomy 32:2: Isaiah 55:10; Isaiah 55:11

C. Deuteronomy 32:2: Psalm 72:6

D. Deuteronomy 32:3: Exodus 33:19; Exodus 34:5; Exodus 34:6

E. Deuteronomy 32:3: Deuteronomy 3:24; Deuteronomy 5:24

F. Deuteronomy 32:4: Deuteronomy 32:15; Deuteronomy 32:18; Deuteronomy 32:30; 2 Samuel 22:31

G. Deuteronomy 32:4: Genesis 18:25; Daniel 4:37

H. Deuteronomy 32:4: Deuteronomy 7:9

I. Deuteronomy 32:5: Deuteronomy 4:25; Deuteronomy 31:29

J. Deuteronomy 32:5: Matthew 17:17

K. Deuteronomy 32:6: Psalm 116:12

L. Deuteronomy 32:6: Deuteronomy 32:28

M. Deuteronomy 32:6: Deuteronomy 1:31; Psalm 74:2; Isaiah 63:16

N. Deuteronomy 32:6: Deuteronomy 32:15

O. Deuteronomy 32:7: Exodus 12:26; Psalm 78:5-8

P. Deuteronomy 32:8: Acts 17:26

Q. Deuteronomy 32:8: Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 33:28

R. Deuteronomy 32:9: 1 Samuel 10:1; Jeremiah 10:16

S. Deuteronomy 32:10: Deuteronomy 1:19

T. Deuteronomy 32:10: Psalm 17:8; Proverbs 7:2; Zechariah 2:8

U. Deuteronomy 32:11: Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 33:12

V. Deuteronomy 32:11: Psalm 18:10-18

W. Deuteronomy 32:12: Deuteronomy 4:35; Deuteronomy 4:39

X. Deuteronomy 32:12: Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 43:12

Y. Deuteronomy 32:13: Isaiah 58:14

Z. Deuteronomy 32:13: Deuteronomy 8:8; Psalm 81:16

AA. Deuteronomy 32:13: Job 29:6

AB. Deuteronomy 32:14: Psalm 81:16; Psalm 147:14

AC. Deuteronomy 32:14: Genesis 49:11

AD. Deuteronomy 32:15: Deuteronomy 31:20

AE. Deuteronomy 32:15: Judges 10:6

AF. Deuteronomy 32:15: Deuteronomy 32:6

AG. Deuteronomy 32:15: Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 89:26

AH. Deuteronomy 32:16: Psalm 78:58

AI. Deuteronomy 32:16: Psalm 106:29

AJ. Deuteronomy 32:17: Leviticus 17:7; 1 Corinthians 10:20

AK. Deuteronomy 32:17: Deuteronomy 28:64

AL. Deuteronomy 32:17: Judges 5:8

AM. Deuteronomy 32:18: Deuteronomy 32:4

AN. Deuteronomy 32:18: Psalm 106:21

AO. Deuteronomy 32:19: Leviticus 26:30; Psalm 106:40

AP. Deuteronomy 32:19: Jeremiah 44:21-23

AQ. Deuteronomy 32:20: Deuteronomy 31:29

AR. Deuteronomy 32:20: Deuteronomy 32:5

AS. Deuteronomy 32:20: Deuteronomy 9:23

AT. Deuteronomy 32:21: Deuteronomy 32:16; 1 Corinthians 10:22

AU. Deuteronomy 32:21: Deuteronomy 32:17; Deuteronomy 32:26

AV. Deuteronomy 32:21: Romans 10:19

AW. Deuteronomy 32:22: Numbers 16:33-35; Psalm 18:7; Psalm 18:8; Lamentations 4:11

AX. Deuteronomy 32:22: Leviticus 26:20

AY. Deuteronomy 32:23: Deuteronomy 29:21

AZ. Deuteronomy 32:23: Psalm 18:14; Psalm 45:5

BA. Deuteronomy 32:24: Deuteronomy 28:22; Deuteronomy 28:48

BB. Deuteronomy 32:24: Psalm 91:6

BC. Deuteronomy 32:24: Leviticus 26:22

BD. Deuteronomy 32:24: Amos 5:18; Amos 5:19

BE. Deuteronomy 32:25: Lamentations 1:20; Ezekiel 7:15

BF. Deuteronomy 32:25: Lamentations 2:21

BG. Deuteronomy 32:26: Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 28:64

BH. Deuteronomy 32:26: Deuteronomy 9:14

BI. Deuteronomy 32:27: Numbers 15:30

BJ. Deuteronomy 32:28: Deuteronomy 32:6

BK. Deuteronomy 32:29: Deuteronomy 5:29

BL. Deuteronomy 32:29: Deuteronomy 31:29

BM. Deuteronomy 32:30: Leviticus 26:7; Leviticus 26:8

BN. Deuteronomy 32:30: Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 44:12

BO. Deuteronomy 32:31: Exodus 14:25

BP. Deuteronomy 32:32: Deuteronomy 29:18

BQ. Deuteronomy 32:34: Job 14:17; Jeremiah 44:21

BR. Deuteronomy 32:35: Psalm 94:1; Romans 12:19; Hebrews 10:30

BS. Deuteronomy 32:35: Jeremiah 23:12

BT. Deuteronomy 32:35: Ezekiel 7:5-10

BU. Deuteronomy 32:36: Psalm 135:14; Hebrews 10:30

BV. Deuteronomy 32:36: Leviticus 26:43-45; Deuteronomy 30:1-3

BW. Deuteronomy 32:37: Judges 10:14; Jeremiah 2:28

BX. Deuteronomy 32:38: Numbers 25:1; Numbers 25:2

BY. Deuteronomy 32:38: Jeremiah 11:12

BZ. Deuteronomy 32:39: Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 43:10

CA. Deuteronomy 32:39: Deuteronomy 32:12; Isaiah 45:5

CB. Deuteronomy 32:39: 1 Samuel 2:6; Psalm 68:20

CC. Deuteronomy 32:39: Psalm 51:8

CD. Deuteronomy 32:39: Psalm 50:22

CE. Deuteronomy 32:40: Ezekiel 20:5; Ezekiel 20:6; Ezekiel 21:4; Ezekiel 21:5

CF. Deuteronomy 32:41: Isaiah 34:6-8

CG. Deuteronomy 32:41: Jeremiah 50:28-32

CH. Deuteronomy 32:42: Deuteronomy 32:23

CI. Deuteronomy 32:42: Jeremiah 12:12; Jeremiah 46:10; Jeremiah 46:14

CJ. Deuteronomy 32:43: Romans 15:10

CK. Deuteronomy 32:43: Revelation 6:10; Revelation 19:2

CL. Deuteronomy 32:43: Isaiah 1:24; Isaiah 1:25

CM. Deuteronomy 32:43: Psalm 65:3; Psalm 79:9; Psalm 85:1

CN. Deuteronomy 32:44: Numbers 13:8; Numbers 13:16

CO. Deuteronomy 32:46: Ezekiel 40:4; Ezekiel 44:5

CP. Deuteronomy 32:46: Deuteronomy 4:9

CQ. Deuteronomy 32:47: Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 30:20

CR. Deuteronomy 32:47: Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 33:25

CS. Deuteronomy 32:48: Numbers 27:12

CT. Deuteronomy 32:49: Numbers 27:12-14; Deuteronomy 3:27

CU. Deuteronomy 32:50: Genesis 25:8

CV. Deuteronomy 32:51: Numbers 20:12

CW. Deuteronomy 32:51: Numbers 27:14

CX. Deuteronomy 32:52: Deuteronomy 34:1-3

CY. Deuteronomy 32:52: Deuteronomy 1:37; Deuteronomy 3:27