Deu 32 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ Give ear , O heavens , and let me speak ; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth .

Deuteronomy 32

The Song of Moses

1 ^a“Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2 ^b“Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
^cAs the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.
3 ^d“For I proclaim the name of the Lord;
^eAscribe greatness to our God!
4 ^f“The Rock! His work is perfect,
^gFor all His ways are ^{▼▼ Or judgment}just;
ⁱA God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.
5 ^{▼▼ Lit It has
,} ^k“They have acted corruptly toward Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
^l But are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 “Do you thus ^mrepay the Lord,
ⁿO foolish and unwise people?
^oIs not He your Father who has bought you?
^pHe has made you and established you.
7 “Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
^qAsk your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.
8 ^r“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of ^{▼▼ Or Adam}man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
^tAccording to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 ^u“For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10 ^v“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 ^wthe pupil of His eye.
11 ^x“Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
That hovers over its young,
^yHe spread His wings and caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.
12 ^z“The Lord alone guided him,
^aaAnd there was no foreign god with him.
13 ^ab“He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
^acAnd He made him suck honey from the rock,
And ^adoil 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,
^aeWith the finest of the wheat—
And of the ^afblood of grapes you drank wine.

15 ^ag“But ^{▼▼ I.e. Israel}Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
^aiThen he forsook God ^ajwho made him,
And scorned ^akthe Rock of his salvation.
16 ^al“They made Him jealous with strange gods;
^amWith abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 ^an“They sacrificed to demons who were not God,
^aoTo gods whom they have not known,
^apNew gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.
18 “You neglected ^aqthe Rock who begot you,
^arAnd forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 ^as“The Lord saw this, and spurned them
^atBecause of the provocation of His sons and daughters.
20 “Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
^auI will see what their end shall be;
^avFor they are a perverse generation,
^awSons in whom is no faithfulness.
21 ‘ ^axThey have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their ^{▼▼ Lit vanities
,} ^azidols.
^baSo I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
22 ^bbFor a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of ^{▼▼ I.e. the nether world}Sheol,
^bdAnd consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 ‘ ^beI will heap misfortunes on them;
^bfI will use My arrows on them.
24 ‘ ^bg They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by ^{▼▼ Lit burning heat}plague
^biAnd bitter destruction;
^bjAnd the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
^bkWith the venom of crawling things of the dust.
25 ‘ ^blOutside the sword will bereave,
And inside terror—
^bmBoth young man and virgin,
The nursling with the man of gray hair.
26 ‘I would have said, ^bn“I will cut them to pieces,
^boI 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, ^bp“Our hand is ^{▼▼ Lit high}triumphant,
And the Lord has not done all this.”’

28 ^br“For they are a nation ^{▼▼ Lit perishing}lacking in counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.
29 ^bt“Would that they were wise, that they understood this,
^buThat they would discern their ^{▼▼ Or latter end}future!
30 ^bw“How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their ^bxRock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?
31 “Indeed their rock is not like our Rock,
^byEven our enemies ^{▼▼ Lit are judges}themselves judge this.
32 “For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of ^capoison,
Their clusters, bitter.
33 “Their wine is the venom of ^{▼▼ Lit dragons}serpents,
And the ^{▼▼ Lit cruel}deadly poison of cobras.

34 ‘ ^cdIs it not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?
35 ‘ ^ceVengeance is Mine, and retribution,
^cfIn due time their foot will slip;
^cgFor the day of their calamity is near,
And the impending things are hastening upon them.’
36 ^ch“For the Lord will vindicate His people,
^ciAnd will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their ^{▼▼ Lit hand}strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.
37 “And He will say, ‘ ^ckWhere are their gods,
The rock in which they sought refuge?
38 ‘ ^clWho ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
^cmLet them rise up and help you,
Let them be your hiding place!
39 ‘ ^cnSee now that I, I am He,
^coAnd there is no god besides Me;
^cpIt is I who put to death and give life.
^cqI have wounded and it is I who heal,
^crAnd there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
40 ‘Indeed, ^csI lift up My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,
41 ^ctIf I sharpen My ^{▼▼ Or lightning}flashing sword,
And My hand takes hold on justice,
^cvI will render vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.
42 ‘ ^cwI will make My arrows drunk with blood,
^cxAnd My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired ^{▼▼ Lit head}leaders of the enemy.’
43 ^cz“Rejoice, O nations, with His people;
^daFor He will avenge the blood of His servants,
^dbAnd will render vengeance on His adversaries,
^dcAnd 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 ^{▼▼ Lit Hoshea
,} ^deJoshua the son of Nun. 45 When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, ^df“Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command ^dgyour sons to observe ^{▼▼ Lit to do}carefully, even all the words of this law. 47 “For it is not an idle word for you; indeed ^diit is your life. And ^djby this word you will prolong your days in the land, ^{▼▼ Lit where}which you are about to cross the Jordan to ^{▼▼ Lit possess it}possess.”

48 ^dmThe Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, 49 ^dn“Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab ^{▼▼ Lit which is opposite}opposite 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 you ascend, and be ^dpgathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 ^dqbecause you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the ^drwilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel. 52 ^ds“For you shall see the land at a distance, but ^dtyou shall not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel.”