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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear, heavens, and I will speak! Listen, earth, to the words of my mouth! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For I'll proclaim the name of our LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Flawless is the work of the Rock, because all his ways are just. A faithful God—never unjust— righteous and upright is he. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But those who are not his children acted corruptly against him; they are a defective and perverted generation. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is his allotted portion. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Like an eagle stirs its nest, hovering near its young, spreading out his wings to take him and carry him on his pinions, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12the LORD alone guided him. There was no foreign god with him. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You neglected the Rock that fathered you; you abandoned God, who was awaiting your birth. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The LORD saw it and became jealous, provoked by his sons and daughters. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I'll bury them in misfortunes and bring them to an end with my arrows. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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." |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"I said, 'I will scatter them, erasing their memory from the human race, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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."'" |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28They are a nation devoid of purpose and without insight. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29O, that they were wise to understand this and consider their future! |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For their rock isn't like our Rock, as even our enemies admit. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Instead, their vine is from the vines of Sodom and the vineyards of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous, their clusters bitter. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Their wine is the venom of serpents, a poisonous cobra. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Is this not kept in reserve, sealed up with me in my treasury? |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37"He will say, 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge? |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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!' |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40"I solemnly swear to heaven— I say 'As certainly as I'm alive and living forever, |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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.' |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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." |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44So Moses and Nun's son Joshua came and recited all the words of this song while the people were assembled. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45When Moses had finished addressing all of these words to all Israel, |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46he told them, "Take to heart my entire testimony against you today. Command your children to observe carefully every word of this Law, |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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." |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Later that day, the LORD told Moses, |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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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