“Give ^aear, O heavens, and I will speak;

And hear, O ^bearth, the words of my mouth.

2

Let ^amy ¹teaching drop as the rain,

My speech distill as the dew,

^bAs raindrops on the tender herb,

And as showers on the grass.

3

For I proclaim the ^aname of the Lord:

^bAscribe greatness to our God.

4

He is ^athe Rock, ^bHis work is perfect;

For all His ways are justice,

^cA God of truth and ^dwithout injustice;

Righteous and upright is He.

5

“They^a have corrupted themselves;

They are not His children,

Because of their blemish:

A ^bperverse and crooked generation.

6

Do you thus ^adeal¹ with the Lord,

O foolish and unwise people?

Is He not ^byour Father, who ^cbought you?

Has He not ^dmade you and established you?

7

“Remember^a the days of old,

Consider the years of many generations.

^bAsk your father, and he will show you;

Your elders, and they will tell you:

8

When the Most High ^adivided their inheritance to the nations,

When He ^bseparated the sons of Adam,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the ¹children of Israel.

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For ^athe Lord’s portion is His people;

Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

10

“He found him ^ain a desert land

And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;

He encircled him, He instructed him,

He ^bkept him as the ¹apple of His eye.

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^aAs an eagle stirs up its nest,

Hovers over its young,

Spreading out its wings, taking them up,

Carrying them on its wings,

12

So the Lord alone led him,

And there was no foreign god with him.

13

“He^a 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;

14

Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,

^aWith fat of lambs;

And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the choicest wheat;

And you drank wine, the ^bblood of the grapes.

15

“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;

^aYou grew fat, you grew thick,

You are obese!

Then he ^bforsook God who ^cmade him,

And scornfully esteemed the ^dRock of his salvation.

16

^aThey provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;

With ¹abominations they provoked Him to anger.

17

^aThey sacrificed to demons, not to God,

To gods they did not know,

To new gods, new arrivals

That your fathers did not fear.

18

^aOf the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,

And have ^bforgotten the God who fathered you.

19

“And^a when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,

Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

20

And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,

I will see what their end will be,

For they are a perverse generation,

^aChildren in whom is no faith.

21

^aThey have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;

They have moved Me to anger ^bby their ¹foolish idols.

But ^cI will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;

I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

22

For ^aa fire is kindled in My anger,

And shall burn to the ¹lowest ²hell;

It shall consume the earth with her increase,

And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23

‘I will ^aheap disasters on them;

^bI will spend My arrows on them.

24

They shall be wasted with hunger,

Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;

I will also send against them the ^ateeth of beasts,

With the poison of serpents of the dust.

25

The sword shall destroy outside;

There shall be terror within

For the young man and virgin,

The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

26

^aI would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,

I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

27

Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,

Lest they should say, ^a“Our hand is high;

And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’

28

“For they are a nation void of counsel,

Nor is there any understanding in them.

29

^aOh, that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would consider their ^blatter end!

30

How could one chase a thousand,

And two put ten thousand to flight,

Unless their Rock ^ahad sold them,

And the Lord had surrendered them?

31

For their rock is not like our Rock,

^aEven our enemies themselves being judges.

32

For ^atheir vine is of the vine of Sodom

And of the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of gall,

Their clusters are bitter.

33

Their wine is ^athe poison of serpents,

And the cruel ^bvenom of cobras.

34

‘Is this not ^alaid up in store with Me,

Sealed up among My treasures?

35

^aVengeance is Mine, and recompense;

Their foot shall slip in due time;

^bFor the day of their calamity is at hand,

And the things to come hasten upon them.’

36

“For^a the Lord will judge His people

^bAnd have compassion on His servants,

When He sees that their power is gone,

And ^cthere is no one remaining, bond or free.

37

He will say: ^a‘Where are their gods,

The rock in which they sought refuge?

38

Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,

And drank the wine of their drink offering?

Let them rise and help you,

And be your refuge.

39

‘Now see that ^aI, even I, am He,

And ^bthere is no God besides Me;

^cI kill and I make alive;

I wound and I heal;

Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

40

For I raise My hand to heaven,

And say, “As I live forever,

41

^aIf I ¹whet My glittering sword,

And My hand takes hold on judgment,

I will render vengeance to My enemies,

And repay those who hate Me.

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.” ’

43

“Rejoice,^a O Gentiles, with His ¹people;

For He will ^bavenge the blood of His servants,

And render vengeance to His adversaries;

He ^cwill provide atonement for His land and His people.”

44 So Moses came with ¹Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. 45 Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 and he said to them: ^a“Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your ^bchildren to be careful to observe—all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a ¹futile thing for you, because it is your ^alife, 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

48 Then the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying: 49 ^a“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; 50 and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be ¹gathered to your people, just as ^aAaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people; 51 because ^ayou trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of ¹Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you ^bdid not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 ^aYet 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.”