Deuteronomy 32 — BBE
32Verse 1Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:Verse 2My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:Verse 3For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.Verse 4He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.Verse 5They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.Verse 6Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.Verse 7Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.Verse 8When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.Verse 9For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.Verse 10He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.Verse 11As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:Verse 12So the Lord only was his guide, no other god was with him.Verse 13He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;Verse 14Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.Verse 15But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.Verse 16The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.Verse 17They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.Verse 18You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.Verse 19And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.Verse 20And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.Verse 21They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,Verse 22For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.Verse 23I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.Verse 24They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.Verse 25Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.Verse 26I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:Verse 27But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.Verse 28For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.Verse 29If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!Verse 30How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?Verse 31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.Verse 32For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:Verse 33Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.Verse 34Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?Verse 35Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.Verse 36For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.Verse 37And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?Verse 38Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.Verse 39See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.Verse 40For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,Verse 41If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.Verse 42I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.Verse 43Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.Verse 44So Moses said all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Hoshea, the son of Nun.Verse 45And after saying all this to the people,Verse 46Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.Verse 47And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.Verse 48That same day the Lord said to Moses,Verse 49Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for their heritage:Verse 50And let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest with your people; as death came to Aaron, your brother, on Mount Hor, where he was put to rest with his people:Verse 51Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.Verse 52So you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.