Thematic Bible
Deuteronomy 32:1 (show verse)
listen, earth, to the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 32:2 (show verse)
and my word settle like dew,
like gentle rain on new grass
and showers on tender plants.
Deuteronomy 32:3 (show verse)
Declare the greatness of our God!
Deuteronomy 32:4 (show verse)
all His ways are entirely just.
A faithful God, without prejudice,
He is righteous and true.
Deuteronomy 32:5 (show verse)
this is their defect
but a devious and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32:6 (show verse)
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?
Deuteronomy 32:7 (show verse)
consider the years long past.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will teach you.
Deuteronomy 32:8 (show verse)
and divided the human race,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:9 (show verse)
Jacob, His own inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32:10 (show verse)
in a barren, howling wilderness;
He surrounded him, cared for him,
and protected him as the pupil of His eye.
Deuteronomy 32:11 (show verse)
and hovers over His young;
He spreads His wings, catches him,
and lifts him up on His pinions.
Deuteronomy 32:12 (show verse)
with no help from a foreign god.
Deuteronomy 32:13 (show verse)
and eat the produce of the field.
He nourished him with honey from the rock
and oil from flint-like rock,
Deuteronomy 32:14 (show verse)
with the fat of lambs,
rams from Bashan, and goats,
with the choicest grains of wheat;
you drank wine from the finest grapes.
Deuteronomy 32:15 (show verse)
you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:16 (show verse)
they enraged Him with detestable practices.
Deuteronomy 32:17 (show verse)
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.
Deuteronomy 32:18 (show verse)
you forgot the God who gave birth to you.
Deuteronomy 32:19 (show verse)
provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Deuteronomy 32:20 (show verse)
I will see what will become of them,
for they are a perverse generation—
unfaithful children.
Deuteronomy 32:21 (show verse)
with their so-called gods;
they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.
So I will provoke their jealousy
with an inferior people;
I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy 32:22 (show verse)
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the land and its produce,
and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy 32:23 (show verse)
I will use up My arrows against them.
Deuteronomy 32:24 (show verse)
ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;
I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,
as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32:25 (show verse)
and inside, there will be terror;
the young man and the young woman will be killed,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 32:26 (show verse)
and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
Deuteronomy 32:27 (show verse)
or feared that these foes might misunderstand
and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;
it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.’”
Deuteronomy 32:28 (show verse)
with no understanding at all.
Deuteronomy 32:29 (show verse)
they would understand their fate.
Deuteronomy 32:30 (show verse)
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?
Deuteronomy 32:31 (show verse)
even our enemies concede.
Deuteronomy 32:32 (show verse)
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
Deuteronomy 32:33 (show verse)
the deadly poison of cobras.
Deuteronomy 32:34 (show verse)
sealed up in My vaults?
Deuteronomy 32:35 (show verse)
In time their foot will slip,
for their day of disaster is near,
and their doom is coming quickly.”
Deuteronomy 32:36 (show verse)
and have compassion on His servants
when He sees that their strength is gone
and no one is left—slave or free.
Deuteronomy 32:37 (show verse)
the ‘rock’ they found refuge in?
Deuteronomy 32:38 (show verse)
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up and help you;
let it
Deuteronomy 32:39 (show verse)
there is no God but Me.
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal.
No one can rescue anyone from My hand.
Deuteronomy 32:40 (show verse)
As surely as I live forever,
Deuteronomy 32:41 (show verse)
and My hand takes hold of judgment,
I will take vengeance on My adversaries
and repay those who hate Me.
Deuteronomy 32:42 (show verse)
while My sword devours flesh—
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Deuteronomy 32:43 (show verse)
for He will avenge the blood of His servants.
He will take vengeance on His adversaries;
He will purify His land and His people.
Deuteronomy 32:44 (show verse)
Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the presence of the people.
Deuteronomy 32:45 (show verse)
After Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
Deuteronomy 32:46 (show verse)
he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32:47 (show verse)
For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Deuteronomy 32:48 (show verse)
On that same day the Lord spoke to Moses,
Deuteronomy 32:49 (show verse)
“Go up Mount Nebo in the Abarim range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession.
Deuteronomy 32:50 (show verse)
Then you will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
Deuteronomy 32:51 (show verse)
For both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
Deuteronomy 32:52 (show verse)
Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”