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1 Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to 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 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops 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 invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.
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For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; ascribe greatness to our God!
4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.
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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 sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
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yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created 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, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to 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 the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of 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 But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob 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, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and 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 the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.
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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 The Lord alone was his leader: 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 set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,
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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 the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest 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 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
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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 by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
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They made him jealous with strange gods, with abhorrent things they provoked him.
17 They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped 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 Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
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You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
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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, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
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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 provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them 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 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn 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 evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
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I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:
24 They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
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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 Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
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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: Where are they? I will make the memory 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 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.
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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 They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
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They are a nation void of sense; there is no understanding in them.
29 O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last 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 pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God 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 our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.
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Indeed their rock is not like our Rock; our enemies are fools.
32 Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most 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 gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.
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their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
34 Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
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Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
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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 The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.
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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, in whom they trusted?
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Then he will say: Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
38 Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.
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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 ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none 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 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will 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 shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay 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 my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.
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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 Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of 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 So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue 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 he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.
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When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
46 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in 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 they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the 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 spoke to Moses the same day, saying:
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On that very day the Lord addressed Moses as follows:
49 Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.
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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 When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to 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 you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among 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 Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.
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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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