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¹ Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak; Let the eretz 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 the LORD: 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 the LORD, 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 Zakenim, and they will tell you. ⁸ When Ha`Elyon 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 Yisra'el. <sup>9</sup> For the LORD's portion is his people; Ya`akov 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 The LORD alone did lead him, There was no foreign god with him. ¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the eretz, 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 Yeshurun 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 The LORD 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 She'ol, Devours the eretz 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, The LORD 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, The LORD 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 Sedom, Of the fields of `Amorah: 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 the LORD 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 Moshe came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Yehoshua the son of Nun. ⁴⁵ Moshe made an end of speaking all these words to all Yisra'el; 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 Yarden to possess it. ⁴⁸ The LORD spoke to Moshe that same day, saying, ⁴⁹ Go up into this mountain of `Avarimen, to Mount Nevo, which is in the land of Mo'av, that is over against Yericho; and see the land of Kana`an, which I give to the children of Yisra'el for a possession; ⁵⁰ and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aharon 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 Yisra'el at the waters of Merivah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Tzin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Yisra'el. ⁵² For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Yisra'el.