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Deuteronomy 32 📜 📕 ↷
Song of Moses
1 HEAR ye heavens what things I speak, the earth hear the words of my mouth.📜💬📚
2 My doctrine grow together as rain, my speech flow as the dew, as it were a shower upon the herb, and as it were drops upon the grass.📜💬📚
3 Because I will invocate the name of our Lord: give magnificence to our God.📜💬📚
4 The works of God be perfect, and all his ways judgments: God is faithful, and without any iniquity, just and right.📜💬📚
5 They have sinned to him, and not his children in filthiness: a froward and perverse generation,📜💬📚
6 These things doest thou render to our Lord, thou foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made, and created thee?📜💬📚
7 Remember the old days, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders, and they will tell thee.📜💬📚
8 When the highest divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of people according to the number of the children of Israel.📜💬📚
9 But our Lord's part is his people: Jacob the cord of his inheritance.📜💬📚
10 He found him in a desert land, and a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and kept him as the apple of his eye.📜💬📚
11 As the eagle provoking her young to fly, and hovering over them hath he spread his wings, and he hath taken him, and carried him on his shoulders.📜💬📚
12 Our Lord only was his guide: and there was not with him a strange God.📜💬📚
13 He placed him over an 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.📜💬📚
14 Butter from the herd, and milk of the sheep, with the fat of lambs, & of rams of the sons of Basan: and buck-goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the blood of the grape most pure.📜💬📚
15 The beloved was made gross, and spurned: made gross, fatted, dilated, he left God his Maker, and departed from God his salvation.📜💬📚
16 They provoked him in strange gods, and in abominations stirred him to anger.📜💬📚
17 They immolated to devils and not to God, to gods, which they knew not: there came new and fresh ones, whom their fathers worshipped not.📜💬📚
18 God that begat thee thou hast forsaken, and hast forgotten our Lord thy creator.📜💬📚
19 Our Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his sons and daughters provoked him.📜💬📚
20 And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider their last: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.📜💬📚
21 They have provoked me in that, which was no God, and have angered me in their vanities: & I will provoke them in that which is no people, and in a foolish nation will I anger them.📜💬📚
22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest parts of hell: and shall devour the earth with her spring, and shall burn the foundations of mountains.📜💬📚
23 I will heap evils upon them, and mine arrows I will spend in them.📜💬📚
24 They shall be consumed with famine, & birds shall devour them with most bitter biting: the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the fury of those that trail upon the ground, and creep.📜💬📚
25 Without shall the sword devour them, and within fearfulness, the young man and the virgin together, the sucking child with the old man.📜💬📚
26 I said: Where are they? I will make their memory to cease from among man.📜💬📚
27 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, & would say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.📜💬📚
28 A nation without counsel is it, and without wisdom.📜💬📚
29 O that they were wise, and understood, and would provide for their last!📜💬📚
30 How should one pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight? Was it not therefore, because their God sold them, and our Lord inclosed them?📜💬📚
31 For our Lord is not as their gods: our enemies also are judges.📜💬📚
32 Of the vineyard of Sodom, is their vineyard, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grape the grape of gall, and the clusters most bitter.📜💬📚
33 The gall of dragons their wine, and the venom of Asps, uncurable.📜💬📚
34 Are not these things laid up with me, and signed in my treasures?📜💬📚
35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in time, that their foot may slide: the day of perdition is at hand, and the times make haste to be present.📜💬📚
36 Our Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, & the shut-up also have failed, and the residue be consumed.📜💬📚
37 And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they had confidence.📜💬📚
38 Of whose victims they did eat fat, and drank the wine of their libaments: Let them arise, and help you, and protect you in necessity.📜💬📚
39 See ye that I am only, 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.📜💬📚
40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and will say: I live for ever.📜💬📚
41 If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, & my hand take judgment: I will repay vengeance to mine enemies, and them that hate me will I requite.📜💬📚
42 I will imbrue my arrows with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.📜💬📚
43 You gentiles praise his people, because he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will repay vengeance upon their enemies, and will be propitious to the land of his people.📜💬📚
44 Moyses therefore came and spake all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, he and Josue the son of Nun.📜💬📚
45 And he finished all these words, speaking to the children of Israel,📜💬📚
46 & he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: that you command them to your children to keep and to do, and to fulfill all things of this law that are written:📜💬📚
47 for not in vain are they commanded you, but that every one should live in them: which doing you may continue a long time in the Land, which passing over Jordan you enter to possess.📜💬📚
Moses' Death Foretold
48 And our Lord spake to Moyses in the same day, saying:📜💬📚
49 Go up into this mount Abarim, that is to say, of passages, into mount Nebo, which is in the Land of Moab against Jericho: and see the Land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to obtain, and die thou in the mount.📜💬📚
50 Which going up unto thou shalt be joined to thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was laid to his people:📜💬📚
51 because you did prevaricate 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.📜💬📚
52 Over against shalt thou see the Land, and shalt not enter into it, which I will give to the children of Israel.📜💬📚
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