1Give ear , ye heavens , and I will speak ; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth . 2My doctrine shall drop as the rain ; My speech shall distil as the dew , As the small rain upon the tender grass , And as the showers upon the herb . 3For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah : Ascribe ye greatness unto our God . 4The Rock , his work is perfect ; For all his ways are justice : A God of faithfulness and without iniquity , Just and right is he . 5They have dealt corruptly with him , they are not his children , it is their blemish ; They are a perverse and crooked generation . 6Do ye thus requite Jehovah , O foolish people and unwise ? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee ? He hath made thee , and established thee . 7Remember the days of old , Consider the years of many generations : Ask thy father, and he will show thee ; Thine elders , and they will tell thee . 8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance , When he separated the children of men , He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel . 9For Jehovah ’s portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance . 10He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness ; He compassed him about , he cared for him , He kept him as the apple of his eye . 11As an eagle that stirreth up her nest , That fluttereth over her young , He spread abroad his wings , he took them , He bare them on his pinions. 12Jehovah alone did lead him , And there was no foreign god with him . 13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field ; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock , And oil out of the flinty rock ; 14Butter of the herd , and milk of the flock , With fat of lambs , And rams of the breed of Bashan , and goats , With the finest of the wheat ; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine . 15But Jeshurun waxed fat , and kicked : Thou art waxed fat , thou art grown thick , thou art become sleek ; Then he forsook God who made him , And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation . 16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods ; With abominations provoked they him to anger . 17They sacrificed unto demons , which were no God , To gods that they knew not , To new gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not . 18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful , And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth . 19And Jehovah saw it , and abhorred them , Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters . 20And he said, I will hide my face from them , I will see what their end shall be : For they are a very perverse generation , Children in whom is no faithfulness. 21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities : And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people ; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation . 22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol , And devoureth the earth with its increase , And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains . 23I will heap evils upon them ; I will spend mine arrows upon them : 24They shall be wasted with hunger , and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction ; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them , With the poison of crawling things of the dust . 25Without shall the sword bereave , And in the chambers terror; It shall destroy both young man and virgin , The suckling with the man of gray hairs . 26I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men; 27Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy , Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted , And Jehovah hath not done all this . 28For they are a nation void of counsel , And there is no understanding in them . 29Oh that they were wise , that they understood this , That they would consider their latter end! 30How should one chase a thousand , And two put ten thousand to flight , Except their Rock had sold them , And Jehovah had delivered them up ? 31For their rock is not as our Rock , Even our enemies themselves being judges . 32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom , And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall , Their clusters are bitter : 33Their wine is the poison of serpents , And the cruel venom of asps . 34Is not this laid up in store with me , Sealed up among my treasures? 35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide : For the day of their calamity is at hand , And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste . 36For Jehovah will judge his people , And repent himself for his servants ; When he seeth that their power is gone , And there is none remaining , shut up or left at large. 37And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge ; 38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices , And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you , Let them be your protection . 39See now that I , even I , am he , And there is no god with me : I kill , and I make alive ; I wound , and I heal ; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand . 40For I lift up my hand to heaven , And say, As I live for ever , 41If I whet my glittering sword , And my hand take hold on judgment ; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries , And will recompense them that hate me . 42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood , And my sword shall devour flesh ; With the blood of the slain and the captives , From the head of the leaders of the enemy. 43Rejoice , O ye nations , with his people : For he will avenge the blood of his servants , And will render vengeance to his adversaries , And will make expiation for his land, for his people .
God's Judgment and Mercy
44And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people , he , and Hoshea the son of Nun . 45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel ; 46and he said unto them , Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day , which ye shall command your children to observe to do , even all the words of this law . 47For it is no vain thing for you ; because it is your life , and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it . 48And Jehovah spake unto Moses that selfsame day , saying , 49Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim , unto mount Nebo , which is in the land of Moab , that is over against Jericho ; and behold the land of Canaan , which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession; 50and die in the mount whither thou goest up , and be gathered unto thy people , as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor , and was gathered unto his people : 51because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh , in the wilderness of Zin ; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel . 52For thou shalt see the land before thee ; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel .