Deut. 32
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32:1
Give ear, O
aheaven, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Deut. 32
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Let my teaching drop like the
arain;
Let my speech distill like the dew,
Like raindrops upon tender grass,
And like abundant
bshowers upon herbage.
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32:3
For the name of Jehovah will I declare.
Ascribe greatness to our God!
Deut. 32
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The aRock — perfect is His work,
For all His
bways are justice:
A God of faithfulness and without injustice;
Righteous and upright is He.
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Corruptly have
they dealt with Him — their blemish is not His
1sons —
A twisted and
acrooked generation
are they.
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Do you repay Jehovah with this,
Foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your
aFather who bought you?
Was it not He who
bmade you and established you?
Deut. 32
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Remember the days of long ago;
Consider the years of generation upon generation;
Ask your father, and he will inform you;
Your elders, and they will tell you.
Deut. 32
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When the
aMost High gave the nations
their inheritance,
When He
bdivided the sons of
1man,
He set the
cborders of the peoples
According to the number of Israel’s children.
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For Jehovah’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His
ainheritance.
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He found him in a land of
awilderness,
And in a howling desert waste;
He encircled him, cared for him with all attention;
He guarded him like the
bpupil of His eye.
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As the
aeagle rouses his nest,
Hovers over his young,
Spreads his
bwings, takes them,
And bears them up upon his pinions;
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So Jehovah alone
aled him,
And there was
bno strange god with Him.
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He made him ride on the
ahigh places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
And He made him suck
bhoney out of a crag,
And
coil out of flint rock:
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Curd of cows and milk of sheep,
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the offspring of Bashan, and goats,
With the choicest
awheat;
And the
bblood of the grape you drank as fermenting wine.
Deut. 32
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But 1aJeshurun grew fat and kicked —
You have become
bfat, you have grown thick, you have gorged yourself —
And forsook God, who made him,
And treated the
cRock of his salvation disdainfully.
Deut. 32
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They made Him
ajealous with strange
gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
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They sacrificed to
1ademons,
to those who were no god,
To gods they did not know,
To new ones who had recently come up,
Before whom your fathers had not shuddered.
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You have neglected the
aRock who begot you
And have forgotten the God who travailed with you.
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And Jehovah saw and held
them in contempt,
Because of anger provoked by His
asons and daughters.
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And He said, I will
ahide My face from them;
I will see what their latter end will be.
For they are a generation of perversions,
Children in whom is no faithfulness.
Deut. 32
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They have made Me
ajealous with a non-God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their
1bvanities.
Hence I will make them
cjealous with a
dnon-people;
With a foolish nation I will provoke them to anger.
Deut. 32
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For a
afire is kindled in My anger
And burns unto nethermost
1Sheol.
And it devours the earth and its produce
And sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
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I will heap evils on them;
I will use up My
aarrows against them.
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They shall be sucked up by famine,
And eaten up by fire bolt
And bitter destruction;
And I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
With the venom of those that crawl in the dust.
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32:25
The sword shall bereave outside,
And inside, terror;
Taking both the young man and the virgin,
The suckling with the gray-haired man.
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I would have said, I will
ascatter them,
I will cause the memory of them to cease from among men;
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Except I dreaded the vexation from the enemy;
Lest their adversaries misjudge;
Lest they say, Our hand is exalted,
And
it is not Jehovah
who has wrought all this.
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For they are a nation destitute of counsel,
And there is
ano understanding in them.
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If they had been wise, they would have comprehended
athis,
They would have perceived their latter end.
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How shall
aone chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Were it not that their Rock sold them,
And Jehovah delivered them up?
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32:31
For their rock is not like our
aRock;
And
of this our enemies are judges.
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For their vine is from Sodom’s vine,
And from Gomorrah’s fields;
Their grapes are the grapes of poison;
Clusters of bitterness have they.
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Their wine is the venom of serpents
And the cruel poison of cobras.
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Is this not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?
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aVengeance is Mine and
so is retribution,
For the time when their foot slips;
Because the day of their calamity has drawn near,
And the things destined to happen to them hasten.
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aFor Jehovah will
1execute judgment for His people,
And He will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that
their support is gone,
And that neither fettered nor free remain.
Deut. 32
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32:37
And He will say,
aWhere are their gods,
The rock they sought refuge in,
Deut. 32
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Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
Let
1them be a shelter over you.
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See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god with Me.
It is I who kill, and I
amake alive;
I wound, and it is I who
bheal;
cAnd there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
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For I
alift up My hand to heaven
And say, As I
blive forever:
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If I sharpen My flashing sword,
And My hand takes hold of judgment,
I will repay My adversaries with vengeance,
And those who hate Me will I recompense.
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I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword will devour flesh —
With the blood of the slain and of the captives,
The flesh of the long-haired
1leaders of the enemy.
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aShout 1joyously, you nations,
with His people,
Because He will
bavenge the blood of His servants,
And He will repay His adversaries with vengeance
And will cover
the guilt of His land
and of His people.
B.
The word of Moses and Joshua to the people
32:44-47
Deut. 32
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And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and
aHoshea the son of Nun.
Deut. 32
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And Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel.
Deut. 32
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32:46
And he said to them, Set your heart on all these words which I am testifying to you today. You shall command them to your
achildren that they may be certain to do all the words of this law.
Deut. 32
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32:47
For it is not a matter too vain for you, because it is your
alife; and by this matter you will extend your days upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.
VII.
The death of Moses, and his successor
32:48-52
A.
The death of Moses
32:48-52
Deut. 32
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And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
Deut. 32
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aGo up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which faces Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel as a possession;
Deut. 32
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32:50
And die in the mountain to which you are going up, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;
Deut. 32
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32:51
Because 1you were unfaithful to Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because
1you did not
2sanctify Me among the children of Israel.
Deut. 32
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32:52
But from a distance you shall
asee the land, yet you shall
1not go there into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.
