1 “ Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

`Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

2 L et my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

3 F or I proclaim the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God.

For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness to our God!

4 H e is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.

The Rock! -- perfect His work, For all His ways just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright He.

5 “ They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.

It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!

6 D o you thus deal with the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.

7 “ Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:

Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

8 W hen the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam -- He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel.

9 F or the Lord ’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

For Jehovah's portion His people, Jacob the line of His inheritance.

10 “ He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.

He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.

11 A s an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,

As an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings -- taketh them, Beareth them on its pinions; --

12 S o the Lord alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him.

Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him.

13 “ He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock;

He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock;

14 C urds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.

Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams, sons of Bashan, And he-goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou dost drink wine!

15 “ But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat -- thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.

16 T hey provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

17 T hey sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.

They sacrifice to demons -- no god! Gods they have not known -- New ones -- from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers!

18 O f the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.

The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.

19 “ And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

20 A nd He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.

And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what their latter end; For a froward generation they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness.

21 T hey have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

22 F or a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol -- the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.

23 ‘ I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.

I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

24 T hey shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.

Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

25 T he sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

26 I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

27 H ad I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, “Our hand is high; And it is not the Lord who has done all this.”’

If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

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

For a nation lost to counsels they, And there is no understanding in them.

29 O h, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

If they were wise -- They deal wisely this; They attend to their latter end:

30 H ow could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had surrendered them?

How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?

31 F or their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

For not as our Rock their rock, (And our enemies judges!)

32 F or their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.

For of the vine of Sodom their vine, And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes grapes of gall -- They have bitter clusters;

33 T heir wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.

The poison of dragons their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

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

Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

35 V engeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.’

Mine vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

36 “ For the Lord will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.

For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth -- the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.

37 H e will say: ‘Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?

And He hath said, Where their gods -- The rock in which they trusted;

38 W ho ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.

Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and help you, Let it be for you a hiding-place!

39 ‘ Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

See ye, now, that I -- I He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer,

40 F or I raise My hand to heaven, And say, “ As I live forever,

For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age!

41 I f I whet My glittering sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me.

If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!

42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.”’

I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.

43 “ Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”

Sing ye nations -- his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He turneth back on His adversaries, And hath pardoned His land -- His people.'

44 S o Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

And Moses cometh and speaketh all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea son of Nun;

45 M oses finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

and Moses finisheth to speak all these words unto all Israel,

46 a nd he said to them: “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law.

and saith unto them, `Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,

47 F or it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.” Moses to Die on Mount Nebo

for it not a vain thing for you, for it your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'

48 T hen the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying:

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in this self-same day, saying,

49 “ Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession;

`Go up unto this mount Abarim, mount Nebo, which in the land of Moab, which on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession;

50 a nd die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;

and die in the mount whither thou art going up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother hath died in the mount Hor, and is gathered unto his people:

51 b ecause you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel.

`Because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin -- because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the sons of Israel;

52 Y et you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.”

but over-against thou seest the land, and thither thou dost not go in, unto the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel.'