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Chapter 32
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Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O
earth, the words of my mouth. |
2
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My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil
as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and
as the showers upon the grass: |
3
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Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe
ye greatness unto our God. |
4
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He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways
are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just
and right is he. |
5
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They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the
spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. |
6
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Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise?
is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not
made thee, and established thee? |
7
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Remember the days of old, consider the years of many
generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy
elders, and they will tell thee. |
8
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When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of
the people according to the number of the children of Israel. |
9
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For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot
of his inheritance. |
10
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He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept
him as the apple of his eye. |
11
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As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her
young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth
them on her wings: |
12
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So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange
god with him. |
13
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that
he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him
to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty
rock; |
14
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Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs,
and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat
of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood
of the grape. |
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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat,
thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then
he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the
Rock of his salvation. |
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They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with
abominations provoked they him to anger. |
17
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They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom
they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your
fathers feared not. |
18
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Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast
forgotten God that formed thee. |
19
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And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of
the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. |
20
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And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see
what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation,
children in whom is no faith. |
21
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They 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 which are not
a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. |
22
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For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto
the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. |
23
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I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows
upon them. |
24
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They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning
heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the
teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents
of the dust. |
25
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The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both
the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the
man of gray hairs. |
26
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I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make
the remembrance of them to cease from among men: |
27
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Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest
their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and
lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath
not done all this. |
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For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there
any understanding in them. |
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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that
they would consider their latter end! |
30
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How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand
to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD
had shut them up? |
31
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For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges. |
32
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields
of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters
are bitter: |
33
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Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom
of asps. |
34
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Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among
my treasures? |
35
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To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot
shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity
is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make
haste. |
36
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For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself
for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone,
and there is none shut up, or left. |
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And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in
whom they trusted, |
38
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Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank
the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and
help you, and be your protection. |
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See 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: neither
is there any that can deliver out of my hand. |
40
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For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for
ever. |
41
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If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold
on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and
will reward them that hate me. |
42
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I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword
shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain
and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon
the enemy. |
43
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Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge
the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to
his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and
to his people. |
44
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And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in
the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. |
45
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And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to
all Israel: |
46
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And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words
which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command
your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. |
47
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For it is not a 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 Jordan to possess it. |
48
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And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, |
49
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Get thee up into this mountain 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: |
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And 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: |
51
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Because ye trespassed against me among the children of
Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness
of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the
children of Israel. |
52
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Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt
not go thither unto the land which I give the children
of Israel. |
