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Deuteronomy 32

Good News Translation GNT

1 "Earth and sky, hear my words, listen closely to what I say.

2 My teaching will fall like drops of rain and form on the earth like dew. My words will fall like showers on young plants, like gentle rain on tender grass.

3 I will praise the name of the Lord, and his people will tell of his greatness.

4 "The Lord is your mighty defender, perfect and just in all his ways; Your God is faithful and true; he does what is right and fair.

5 But you are unfaithful, unworthy to be his people, a sinful and deceitful nation.

6 Is this the way you should treat the Lord, you foolish, senseless people? He is your father, your Creator, he made you into a nation.

7 "Think of the past, of the time long ago; ask your parents to tell you what happened, ask the old people to tell of the past.

8 The Most High assigned nations their lands; he determined where peoples should live. He assigned to each nation a heavenly being,

9 but Jacob's descendants he chose for himself.

10 "He found them wandering through the desert, a desolate, wind-swept wilderness. He protected them and cared for them, as he would protect himself.

11 Like an eagle teaching its young to fly, catching them safely on its spreading wings, the Lord kept Israel from falling.

12 The Lord alone led his people without the help of a foreign god.

13 "He let them rule the highlands, and they ate what grew in the fields. They found wild honey among the rocks; their olive trees flourished in stony ground.

14 Their cows and goats gave plenty of milk; they had the best sheep, goats, and cattle, the finest wheat, and the choicest wine.

15 "The Lord's people grew rich, but rebellious; they were fat and stuffed with food. They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty savior.

16 Their idolatry made the Lord jealous; the evil they did made him angry.

17 They sacrificed to gods that are not real, new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.

18 They forgot their God, their mighty savior, the one who had given them life.

19 "When the Lord saw this, he was angry and rejected his sons and daughters.

20 "I will no longer help them,' he said; "then I will see what happens to them, those stubborn, unfaithful people.

21 With their idols they have made me angry, jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.

22 My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.

23 " "I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.

24 They will die from hunger and fever; they will die from terrible diseases. I will send wild animals to attack them, and poisonous snakes to bite them.

25 War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.

26 I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.

27 But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'

28 "Israel is a nation without sense; they have no wisdom at all.

29 They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.

30 Why were a thousand defeated by one, and ten thousand by only two? The Lord, their God, had abandoned them; their mighty God had given them up.

31 Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God.

32 Their enemies, corrupt as Sodom and Gomorrah, are like vines that bear bitter and poisonous grapes,

33 like wine made from the venom of snakes.

34 "The Lord remembers what their enemies have done; he waits for the right time to punish them.

35 The Lord will take revenge and punish them; the time will come when they will fall; the day of their doom is near.

36 The Lord will rescue his people when he sees that their strength is gone. He will have mercy on those who serve him, when he sees how helpless they are.

37 Then the Lord will ask his people, "Where are those mighty gods you trusted?

38 You fed them the fat of your sacrifices and offered them wine to drink. Let them come and help you now; let them run to your rescue.

39 " "I, and I alone, am God; no other god is real. I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal, and no one can oppose what I do.

40 As surely as I am the living God, I raise my hand and I vow

41 that I will sharpen my flashing sword and see that justice is done. I will take revenge on my enemies and punish those who hate me.

42 My arrows will drip with their blood, and my sword will kill all who oppose me. I will spare no one who fights against me; even the wounded and prisoners will die.'

43 "Nations, you must praise the Lord's people - he punishes all who kill them. He takes revenge on his enemies and forgives the sins of his people."

44 Moses and Joshua son of Nun recited this song, so that the people of Israel could hear it.

45 When Moses had finished giving God's teachings to the people,

46 he said, "Be sure to obey all these commands that I have given you today. Repeat them to your children, so that they may faithfully obey all of God's teachings.

47 These teachings are not empty words; they are your very life. Obey them and you will live long in that land across the Jordan that you are about to occupy."

48 That same day the Lord said to Moses,

49 "Go to the Abarim Mountains in the land of Moab opposite the city of Jericho; climb Mount Nebo and look at the land of Canaan that I am about to give the people of Israel.

50 You will die on that mountain as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor,

51 because both of you were unfaithful to me in the presence of the people of Israel. When you were at the waters of Meribah, near the town of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, you dishonored me in the presence of the people.

52 You will look at the land from a distance, but you will not enter the land that I am giving the people of Israel."

World English Bible WEB

1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak; Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall condense as the dew, As the small rain on the tender grass, As the showers on the herb.

3 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh: Ascribe greatness to our God.

4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.

5 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

6 Do you thus requite Yahweh, Foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

7 Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you.

8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

9 For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, In the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, That flutters over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bore them on his pinions.

12 Yahweh alone did lead him, There was no foreign god with him.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, He ate the increase of the field; He made him to suck honey out of the rock, Oil out of the flinty rock;

14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, Rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

17 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they didn't know, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers didn't dread.

18 Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful, Have forgotten God who gave you birth.

19 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

20 He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 I will heap evils on them; I will spend my arrows on them:

24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

25 Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

26 I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.

29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

30 How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had delivered them up?

31 For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, Of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:

33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

34 Isn't this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, The things that are to come on them shall make haste.

36 For Yahweh will judge his people, Repent himself for his servants; When he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.

37 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

38 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

39 See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; There is none who can deliver out of my hand.

40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,

41 If I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, Will recompense those who hate me.

42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, My sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

43 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, Will render vengeance to his adversaries, Will make expiation for his land, for his people.

44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

45 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;

46 He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.

47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.

48 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

49 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;

50 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:

51 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.