Deu 32 | NASB2020 | STEP | “ Listen , you heavens , and I will speak ; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth !

Deuteronomy 32

The Song of Moses

1 “ ^aListen, you heavens, and I will speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!
2 “ ^bMay my teaching drip as the rain,
My speech trickle as the dew,
^cAs droplets on the fresh grass,
And as the showers on the vegetation.
3 “ ^dFor I proclaim the name of the Lord;
^eAscribe greatness to our God!
4 “ ^fThe Rock! His work is perfect,
^gFor all His ways are ^{▼▼Or judgment}just;
ⁱA God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and just is He.
5 “ ^{▼▼Lit It has
,} ^kThey have acted corruptly against Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
^lBut are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 “Is this what you ^mdo to the Lord,
ⁿYou foolish and unwise people?
^oIs He not your Father who has purchased 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 “ ^rWhen the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of ^{▼▼Or Adam}mankind,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
^tAccording to the number of the ^{▼▼As in MT; DSS sons of God; LXX angels of God}sons of Israel.
9 “ ^vFor the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10 “ ^wHe found him in a desert land,
And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as ^xthe ^{▼▼Lit pupil}apple of His eye.
11 “ ^zAs an eagle stirs up its nest,
And hovers over its young,
^aaHe spread His wings, He caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.
12 “ ^abThe Lord alone guided him,
^acAnd there was no foreign god with him.
13 “ ^adHe had him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
^aeAnd He had him suck honey from the rock,
And ^{▼▼I.e., olive oil
,} ^agoil from the flinty rock,
14 Curds of the herd, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and of goats,
^ahWith the best of the wheat;
And you drank wine of the ^aiblood of grapes.

15 “ ^ajBut ^{▼▼I.e., Israel}Jeshurun became fat and kicked--
You have become fat, thick, and obstinate--
^alThen he abandoned God ^amwho made him,
And ^{▼▼Lit declared void}rejected ^aothe Rock of his salvation.
16 “ ^apThey made Him jealous with strange gods;
^aqWith abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 “ ^arThey sacrificed to demons, who were not God,
^asTo gods whom they have not known,
^atNew gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not know.
18 “You forgot ^authe Rock who fathered you,
^avAnd forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 “ ^awThe Lord saw this, and spurned them
^axBecause of the provocation by His sons and daughters.
20 “Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
^ayI will see what their end will be;
^azFor they are a perverse generation,
^baSons in whom there is no faithfulness.
21 ‘ ^bbThey have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their ^{▼▼Lit nonexistent things
,} ^bdidols.
^beSo I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
22 ^bfFor a fire has flared in My anger,
And it burns to the lowest part of ^{▼▼I.e., the netherworld}Sheol,
^bhAnd devours the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 ‘ ^biI will add misfortunes to them;
^bjI will use up My arrows on them.
24 ‘ ^bkThey will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by ^{▼▼Lit burning heat}plague
^bmAnd a bitter epidemic;
^bnAnd the teeth of beasts I will send against them,
^boWith the venom of crawling things of the dust.
25 ‘ ^bpOutside the sword will make them childless,
And inside, terror--
^bqBoth young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hair.
26 ‘I would have said, “ ^brI will wipe them out,
^bsI will remove the mention of ^{▼▼Lit them}their name from humanity,”
27 Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,
That their adversaries would misjudge,
That they would say, “ ^buOur hand is ^{▼▼Lit high}triumphant,
And the Lord has not performed all this.”’

28 “ ^bwFor they are a nation ^{▼▼Lit perishing of}destitute of counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.
29 “ ^byIf only they were wise and they understood this;
^bzIf only they would discern their ^{▼▼Or latter end}future!
30 “ ^cbHow could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their ^ccRock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?
31 “Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;
^cdEven 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 ^cfpoison,
Their clusters, bitter.
33 “Their wine is the venom of ^{▼▼Lit dragons}serpents,
And the ^{▼▼Lit cruel}deadly poison of vipers.

34 ‘ ^ciIs it not stored up with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?
35 ‘ ^cjVengeance is Mine, and retribution;
^ckIn due time their foot will slip.
^clFor the day of their disaster is near,
And the impending things are hurrying to them.’
36 “ ^cmFor the Lord will vindicate His people,
^cnAnd 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, ‘ ^cpWhere are their gods,
The rock in which they took refuge?
38 ‘ ^cqThose who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
^crLet them rise up and help you,
Let them be your protection!
39 ‘ ^csSee now that I, I am He,
^ctAnd there is no god besides Me;
^cuIt is I who put to death and give life.
^cvI have wounded and it is I who heal,
^cwAnd there is no one who can save anyone from My hand.
40 ‘Indeed, ^cxI raise My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,
41 ^cyIf I have sharpened ^{▼▼Lit the lightning of My sword}My flashing sword,
And My hand has taken hold of justice,
^daI will return vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.
42 ‘ ^dbI will make My arrows drunk with blood,
^dcAnd 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 “ ^deRejoice, you nations, with His people;
^dfFor He will avenge the blood of His servants,
^dgAnd will return vengeance on His adversaries,
^dhAnd 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
,} ^djJoshua the son of Nun. 45 When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, “ ^dkTake to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you will command ^dlyour sons to ^{▼▼Lit be careful to perform}follow carefully, all the words of this Law. 47 For it is not a ^{▼▼Lit empty word}trivial matter for you; indeed ^doit is your life. And ^dpby 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 Now ^dsthe Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, 49 “ ^dtGo 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 as a possession. 50 Then you are to die on the mountain where you ascend, and be ^dvgathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 ^dwbecause you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the ^dxwilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel. 52 ^dyFor you will see the land at a distance but ^dzyou will not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel.”