Verse 1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. Verse 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb. Verse 3 For I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Ascribe greatness to our God! Verse 4 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. Verse 5 They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Verse 6 Do you thus requite the Lord, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you. Verse 7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. Verse 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. Verse 9 For the Lord's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. Verse 10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. Verse 11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers. Verse 12 The Lord alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. Verse 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; Verse 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine. Verse 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Verse 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations. Verse 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they did not know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers did not dread. Verse 18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth. Verse 19 The Lord saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. Verse 20 He said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. Verse 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. Verse 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire. Verse 23 "I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. Verse 24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust. Verse 25 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man. Verse 26 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men; Verse 27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, the Lord has not done all this.'" Verse 28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them. Verse 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! Verse 30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up? Verse 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. Verse 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter. Verse 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps. Verse 34 "Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures? Verse 35 Vengeance is mine, and I will repay, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste." Verse 36 For the Lord will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, There is none remaining, shut up or left at large. Verse 37 He will say, "Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge; Verse 38 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection. Verse 39 "See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. Verse 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever, Verse 41 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me. Verse 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy." Verse 43 Rejoice, O heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him. Rejoice, O nations, with his people, and let all the angels of God strengthen themselves in him. For he will avenge the blood of his sons, and render vengeance to his enemies, and will recompense them that hate him, and will cleanse the land for his people. Verse 44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. Verse 45 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; Verse 46 He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. Verse 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it." Verse 48 The Lord spoke to Moses that same day, saying, Verse 49 "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession; Verse 50 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: Verse 51 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel. Verse 52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."