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1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
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Give ear, O 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 distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
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May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew; like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
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For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; ascribe greatness to our God!
4 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.
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The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
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yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation.
6 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?
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Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
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Remember the days of old, consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you.
8 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.
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When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;
9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
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the Lord's own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.
10 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.
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He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
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As an eagle stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young; as it spreads its wings, takes them up, and bears them aloft on its pinions,
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
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the Lord alone guided him; no foreign god was with him.
13 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;
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He set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock;
14 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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curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams; Bashan bulls and goats, together with the choicest wheat— you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.
15 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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Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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They made him jealous with strange gods, with abhorrent things they provoked him.
17 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.
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They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.
18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
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You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
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The Lord saw it, and was jealous; he spurned his sons and daughters.
20 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.
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He said: I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there 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: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people, provoke them with a foolish nation.
22 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.
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For a fire is kindled by my anger, and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
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I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:
24 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.
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wasting hunger, burning consumption, bitter pestilence. The teeth of beasts I will send against them, with venom of things crawling in the dust.
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
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In the street the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror, for young man and woman alike, nursing child and old gray head.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
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I thought to scatter them and blot out the memory of them from humankind;
27 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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but I feared provocation by the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say, "Our hand is triumphant; it was not the Lord who did all this."
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
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They are a nation void of sense; there is no understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what the end would be.
30 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?
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How could one have routed a thousand, and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the Lord had given them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
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Indeed their rock is not like our Rock; our enemies are fools.
32 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:
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Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter;
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
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Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
35 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.
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Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; because the day of their calamity is at hand, their doom comes swiftly.
36 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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Indeed the Lord will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
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Then he will say: Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
38 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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who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection!
39 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.
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See now that I, even I, am he; there is no god besides me. I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and no one can deliver from my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
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For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear: As I live forever,
41 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.
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when I whet my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
42 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.
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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 long-haired enemy.
43 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.
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Praise, O heavens, his people, worship him, all you gods! For he will avenge the blood of his children, and take vengeance on his adversaries; he will repay those who hate him, and cleanse the land for his people.
44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
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Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua son of Nun.
45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
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When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
46 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.
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he said to them: "Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today; give them as a command to your children, so that they may diligently observe all the words of this law.
47 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.
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This is no trifling matter for you, but rather your very life; through it you may live long in the land that you are crossing over the Jordan to possess."
48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
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On that very day the Lord addressed Moses as follows:
49 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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"Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites for a possession;
50 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:
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you shall die there on the mountain that you ascend and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his kin;
51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
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because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to maintain my holiness among the Israelites.
52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
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Although you may view the land from a distance, you shall not enter it—the land that I am giving to the Israelites."
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