Deuteronomy 32:1-21 ▼

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

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My word shall pour out as the dew, As the showers upon the herbage, And as the rains upon the green herb:

3 For I will call the name of Jehovah: Give ye greatness to our God.

4 The Rock, his work complete: For all his ways judgment: A God of faithfulness and not of iniquity Just and right is he.

5 He acted wickedly to him; not his sons their blot: A generation perverted and crooked.

6 To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.

7 Remember the days of eternity; Discern the years of generation and generation: Ask thy father, and he will announce to thee; Thy old men, and they shall say to thee.

8 The Most High distributing the nations, In his dispersing the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel.

9 For Jehovah the portion of his people; Jacob the cord of his inheritance.

10 He will find him in the land of the desert, In a waste howling desolation: He will encompass him about; he will teach him, He will keep him as the pupil of the eye.

11 As the eagle he will arouse his young brood, He will brood over his young birds; He will spread out his wings, and will take them; He will lift them up upon his wings:

12 Jehovah alone will lead him, And no strange god with him.

13 He will cause him to ride upon the heights of the land; He shall eat the produce of the field; And he shall suck honey from the rock, And oil from the flint of the rock.

14 Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

15 And Jeshurun will be fat and will tread down: Thou wert fat, thou wert thick, thou wert covered; And he will reject God having made him, And he will despise the Rock of his deliverance.

16 He will cause him to be jealous with strangers, With abominations they will irritate him.

17 They will sacrifice to demons, not God; Gods they have not known them New ones came out from the midst; Your fathers not having feared them.

18 Thou wilt forsake the Rock begetting thee, And thou wilt forget God setting thee free.

19 And God will see and will reject, From the irritating of his sons and his daughters.

20 And he will say, I will hide my face from them; I will see what shall be after them: For they a generation of perverseness, Sons no faith in them.

21 They made me jealous with not God; They irritated me with their vanities: And I will make them jealous with not a people; With a foolish nation will I irritate them.