Deuteronomy 32 BSB ISV Parallel

◄ Deuteronomy 32 ►

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1Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

1Hear, heavens, and I will speak! Listen, earth, to the words of my mouth!

2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

2May my instructions descend like rain and may my words flow like dew, as light rain upon the grass, and as showers upon new plants.

3For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

3For I'll proclaim the name of our LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

4Flawless is the work of the Rock, because all his ways are just. A faithful God—never unjust— righteous and upright is he.

5His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

5But those who are not his children acted corruptly against him; they are a defective and perverted generation.

6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

6This is not the way to repay the LORD, is it, you foolish and witless people? Is he not your father, who bought you, formed you, and established you?

7Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

7Remember the days of old, reflect on the years of previous generations. Ask your father, and he'll tell you; your elders will inform you.

8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

8When the Most High gave nations as their inheritance, when he separated the human race, he set boundaries for the people according to the number of the children of God.

9But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

9For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is his allotted portion.

10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

10The LORD found him in a desert land, in a barren, eerie wilderness. He surrounded, cared for, and guarded him as the pupil of his eye.

11As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

11Like an eagle stirs its nest, hovering near its young, spreading out his wings to take him and carry him on his pinions,

12The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

12the LORD alone guided him. There was no foreign god with him.

13He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

13He mounted him on a high place above the earth, feeding him from the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and with oil from the flint rock,

14with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

14with curds from cattle and with milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, with the fat of goats, with the finest of wheat— and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

15Jacob dined until satisfied; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. He grew fat, coarse, and gross, so that he abandoned the God who made him and spurned the Rock that was his salvation.

16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

16They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.

17They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

17They sacrificed to demons— not to the real God— gods whom they didn't know, new neighbors who had recently appeared, whom your ancestors never feared.

18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

18You neglected the Rock that fathered you; you abandoned God, who was awaiting your birth.

19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

19The LORD saw it and became jealous, provoked by his sons and daughters.

20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.

20So he said: "Let me hide my face from them. I will observe what their end will be, because they are a perverted generation, children within whom there is no loyalty.

21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

21They provoked me to jealousy over non-gods, and to be angry over their vanity. Now I'll provoke them to jealousy over a non-people; and over a foolish nation I'll provoke them to anger.

22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

22For a fire breaks out in my anger— burning to the deepest part of the afterlife, consuming the earth and its produce and igniting the foundations of the mountains.

23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

23I'll bury them in misfortunes and bring them to an end with my arrows.

24They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

24Emaciated from famine, feverish from plague, and destroyed by bitterness, I'll send fanged beasts against them, along with poisonous snakes that glide through the dust.

25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

25Outside, the sword will cause bereavement; within, there will be terror for the young man and virgin alike, also for the nursing infant and the aged man."

26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

26"I said, 'I will scatter them, erasing their memory from the human race,

27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’ ”

27if it weren't for dreading the taunting of their enemies— otherwise, their adversary might misinterpret and say, "Our power is great. It isn't the LORD who made all of this happen."'"

28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

28They are a nation devoid of purpose and without insight.

29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

29O, that they were wise to understand this and consider their future!

30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

30How can one person chase a thousand of them and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock delivers them and the LORD gives them up?

31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

31For their rock isn't like our Rock, as even our enemies admit.

32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

32Instead, their vine is from the vines of Sodom and the vineyards of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous, their clusters bitter.

33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

33Their wine is the venom of serpents, a poisonous cobra.

34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

34"Is this not kept in reserve, sealed up with me in my treasury?

35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

35To me belong vengeance and recompense. In due time their feet will slip, because their time of calamity is near and the things prepared for them draw near.

36For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

36For the LORD will vindicate his people and bring comfort to his servants, because he will observe that their power has waned, when neither prisoner nor free person remain.

37He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

37"He will say, 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge?

38which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!

38Who ate the fat of their offerings and drank the wine that was their drink offering? Let them rise and help you and be your hiding place!'

39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

39"Look now! I AM, and there is no other god besides me. I myself cause death and I sustain life; I wound severely and I also heal; from my power no one can deliver.

40For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

40"I solemnly swear to heaven— I say 'As certainly as I'm alive and living forever,

41when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

41I'll whet my shining sword, with my hands in firm grasp of judgment. I'll show vengeance on my adversary and repay those who keep on hating me.

42I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

42I'll make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword will devour flesh, along with the blood of the slain, and I'll take their enemy leaders captive.'

43Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.

43"Sing for joy, nations! Sing for joy, people who belong to him! For he'll avenge the blood of his servants, turn on his adversary, and cleanse both his land and his people."

44Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

44So Moses and Nun's son Joshua came and recited all the words of this song while the people were assembled.

45When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

45When Moses had finished addressing all of these words to all Israel,

46he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

46he told them, "Take to heart my entire testimony against you today. Command your children to observe carefully every word of this Law,

47For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

47because they're not just empty words for you—they are your very life. Through these instructions you will live long in the land that you are about to cross over the Jordan River to possess."

48On that same day the LORD said to Moses,

48Later that day, the LORD told Moses,

49“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.

49"Ascend this Abarim mountain range toward Mount Nebo in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and look out over the land of Canaan that I'm about to give to the Israelis as a possession.

50And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

50You will die on the mountain that you are about to ascend and be taken to be with your ancestors, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was taken to be with his ancestors.

51For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

51Both of you acted unfaithfully against me among the Israelis at Meribah-kadesh in the desert of Zin, when you failed to uphold my holiness among the Israelis.

52Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”

52You'll see the land from a distance, but you won't be able to enter the land that I am about to give to the Israelis."

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