Deuteronomy 32 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
let the earth hear the words of my mouth.(A)
2 May my teaching drop like the rain,
my speech condense like the dew,
like gentle rain on grass,
like showers on new growth.(B)
3 For I will proclaim the name of the Lord,
ascribe greatness to our God!(C)

4 The Rock, his work is perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God, without deceit,
just and upright is he;(D)
5 yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him,[a]
a perverse and crooked generation.(E)
6 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?(F)
7 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.(G)
8 When the Most High[b] apportioned the nations,
when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the gods;[c](H)
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
Jacob his allotted share.(I)

10 He sustained[d] him in a desert land,
in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him as the apple of his eye.(J)
11 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,(K)
12 the Lord alone guided him;
no foreign god was with him.(L)
13 He set him atop the heights of the land
and fed him with[e] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
with oil from flinty rock,(M)
14 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.(N)
15 Jacob ate his fill;[f]
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.(O)
16 They made him jealous with strange gods;
with abhorrent things they provoked him.(P)
17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to deities they had never known,
to new ones recently arrived,
whom your ancestors had not feared.(Q)
18 You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you;[g]
you forgot the God who gave you birth.(R)

19 The Lord saw it and was jealous;[h]
he spurned[i] his sons and daughters.(S)
20 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.(T)
21 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.(U)
22 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.(V)
23 I will heap disasters upon them,
spend my arrows against them:(W)
24 wasting hunger,
burning consumption,
bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
with venom of things crawling in the dust.(X)
25 In the street the sword shall bereave,
and in the chambers terror
for young man and woman alike,
nursing child and old gray head.(Y)
26 I said, “I will make an end of them[j]
and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”(Z)
27 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.” ’(AA)

28 They are a nation void of sense;
there is no understanding in them.
29 If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would discern what their end would be.(AB)
30 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?(AC)
31 Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;
our enemies are fools.[k](AD)
32 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 serpents,
the cruel venom of asps.(AE)

34 Is not this laid up in store with me,
sealed up in my treasuries,(AF)
35 for the day of vengeance[l] and recompense,
for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
their doom comes swiftly.(AG)

36 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.(AH)
37 Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,(AI)
38 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;
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.(AJ)
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
41 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.(AK)
42 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.’(AL)

43 Praise, O heavens,[m] his people;
worship him, all you gods![n]
For he will avenge the blood of his children[o]
and take vengeance on his adversaries;
he will repay those who hate him[p]
and cleanse the land for his people.”[q](AM)

44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua[r] son of Nun. 45 When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel, 46 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.(AN)47 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.”(AO)

Moses’s Death Foretold

48 On that very day the Lord addressed Moses as follows: 49 “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;(AP)50 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 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.(AQ)52 Although you may view the land from a distance, you shall not enter it, the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”(AR)

Footnotes

  1. 32.5Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 32.8Traditional rendering of Heb Elyon
  3. 32.8Q ms Compare Gk Tg: MT the Israelites
  4. 32.10Sam Gk Compare Tg: MT found
  5. 32.13Sam Gk Syr Tg: MT he ate
  6. 32.15Q mss Sam Gk: MT lacks Jacob ate his fill
  7. 32.18Or that fathered you
  8. 32.19Q mss Gk: MT lacks was jealous
  9. 32.19Cn: Heb he spurned because of provocation
  10. 32.26Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  11. 32.31Gk: Heb judges
  12. 32.35Sam Gk: MT vengeance is mine
  13. 32.43Q ms Gk: MT nations
  14. 32.43Q ms Gk: MT lacks this line
  15. 32.43Q ms Gk: MT his servants
  16. 32.43Q ms Gk: MT lacks this line
  17. 32.43Q ms Sam Gk Vg: MT his land his people
  18. 32.44Sam Gk Syr Vg: MT Hoshea

Cross references

  1. 32.1 : Isa 1.2
  2. 32.2 : Isa 55.10, 11
  3. 32.3 : Ex 33.19; Deut 3.24
  4. 32.4 : vv 15, 18, 30; Deut 7.9; Ps 92.15
  5. 32.5 : Deut 31.29; Lk 9.41
  6. 32.6 : Deut 1.31
  7. 32.7 : Ex 13.14
  8. 32.8 : Gen 11.8; Acts 17.26
  9. 32.9 : 1 Kings 8.51, 53; Jer 10.16
  10. 32.10 : Jer 2.6; Zech 2.8
  11. 32.11 : Ex 19.4; Isa 31.5
  12. 32.12 : v 39
  13. 32.13 : Job 29.6; Isa 58.14
  14. 32.14 : Ps 147.14
  15. 32.15 : Deut 33.5, 26; Isa 1.4
  16. 32.16 : Ps 78.58; 1 Cor 10.22
  17. 32.17 : Deut 28.64; Judg 5.8; Ps 106.37
  18. 32.18 : Ps 106.21; Isa 17.10
  19. 32.19 : Ps 106.40; Jer 44.21–23
  20. 32.20 : v 5; Deut 31.17, 29
  21. 32.21 : v 16; Rom 10.19
  22. 32.22 : Jer 15.14
  23. 32.23 : Deut 29.21; Ezek 5.16
  24. 32.24 : v 33; Lev 26.22; Deut 28.22
  25. 32.25 : 2 Chr 36.17; Ezek 7.15
  26. 32.26 : Deut 4.27; Ps 34.16
  27. 32.27 : Deut 9.26–28; Isa 10.13
  28. 32.29 : Ps 81.13
  29. 32.30 : v 4; Lev 26.7, 8
  30. 32.31 : 1 Sam 2.2; 4.8
  31. 32.33 : Ps 58.4
  32. 32.34 : Hos 13.12
  33. 32.35 : Rom 12.19; Heb 10.30
  34. 32.36 : Judg 2.18; Ps 106.45; 135.14; Joel 2.14
  35. 32.37 : Jer 2.28
  36. 32.39 : Ps 50.22; Isa 41.4
  37. 32.41 : Ezek 21.9, 10
  38. 32.42 : Jer 46.10
  39. 32.43 : Ps 85.1; Rom 15.10; Rev 19.2
  40. 32.46 : Deut 6.6; Ezek 40.4
  41. 32.47 : Deut 30.20
  42. 32.49 : Num 27.12–14
  43. 32.51 : Num 20.11–13; 27.14
  44. 32.52 : Deut 1.37; 34.1–3

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