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"When the MostHighgave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel.
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"The LORDaloneguided him, And there was noforeigngod with him.
r'ken lea w{Mi[ !yea.w .WN,x.n;y d'd'B h'wh.y
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"He made him ride on the highplaces of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He made him suckhoney from the rock, And oil from the flintyrock,
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Curds of cows, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest* of the wheat - And of the blood of grapes you drankwine.
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"Then He said, 'I will hide My face from them, I will seewhat their end shall be; For they are a perversegeneration, Sons in whom is nofaithfulness.
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'They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolishnation,
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For a fire is kindled in My anger, And burns to the lowestpart of Sheol, And consumes the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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'I will heapmisfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.
~'B -h,L;k]a y;Cix tw{['r w{myel'[ h,P.s;a
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'They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague And bitterdestruction; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the venom of crawlingthings of the dust.
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'I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces, I will remove the memory of them from men,"
~'r.kiz vw{n/aem h'tyiB.v;a ~,hyea.p;a yiT.r;m'a
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Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, "Our hand is triumphant, And the LORD has not doneallthis."'
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"Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadlypoison of cobras.
r'z.k;a ~yin't.P va{r.w ~'nyey ~inyiN;T t;m]x
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'Is it not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up in My treasuries?
y't{r.cw{a.B ~Ut'x yid'Mi[ sUm'K a.Wh -a{l]h
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'Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their calamity is near, And the impendingthings are hastening upon them.'
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"For the LORD will vindicate His people, And will havecompassion on His servants, When He sees that their strength is gone, And there is none remaining, bond or free.
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'Seenow that I, I am He, And there is nogodbesides Me; It is I who put to death and givelife. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is noone who can deliver from My hand.
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'I will make My arrowsdrunk with blood, And My sword will devourflesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-hairedleaders of the enemy.'
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"Rejoice, O nations, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And will rendervengeance on His adversaries, And will atone for His land and His people."
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he said to them, "Take to your heartall the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observecarefully, even all the words of thislaw.
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"For it is not an idleword for you; indeed it is your life. And by thisword you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess."
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"Go up to thismountain of the Abarim, MountNebo, which is in the land of Moabopposite*Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession.
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because* you brokefaith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh*, in the wilderness of Zin, because* you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel.