New King James Version
Deuteronomy 32
1 And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 And as showers on the grass. 3 Ascribe greatness to our God. 4 Righteous and upright is He. 5 A perverse and crooked generation. 6 Has He not made you and established you? 7 Your elders, and they will tell you: 8 According to the number of the children of Israel. 9 Jacob is the place of His inheritance. 10 He kept him as the apple of His eye. 11 Carrying them on its wings, 12 And there was no foreign god with him. 13 And oil from the flinty rock; 14 And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes. 15 And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 With abominations they provoked Him to anger. 17 That your fathers did not fear. 18 And have forgotten the God who fathered you. 19 Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. 20 Children in whom is no faith. 21 I will move them to anger by a foolish nation. 22 And set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will spend My arrows on them. 24 With the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The nursing child with the man of gray hairs. 26 I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,” 27 And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’ 28 Nor is there any understanding in them. 29 That they would consider their latter end! 30 And the Lord had surrendered them? 31 Even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 Their clusters are bitter. 33 And the cruel venom of cobras. 34 Sealed up among My treasures? 35 And the things to come hasten upon them.’ 36 And there is no one remaining, bond or free. 37 The rock in which they sought refuge? 38 And be your refuge. 39 Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. 40 And say, “As I live forever, 41 And repay those who hate Me. 42 From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” ’ 43 He will provide atonement for His land and His people.” 44 So Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. 45 Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 and he said to them: “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.” 48 Then the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying: 49 “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession; 50 and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people; 51 because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.”
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