CHAPTER 32
Let my teaching
fall
like rain
and my speech
settle
like dew,
like gentle rain
on
new grass,
like showers
on
tender plants.
He is the Rock,
His work
is perfect;
all
His ways
are just.
A God
of faithfulness
without
injustice,
righteous
and upright
is He.
His people have acted corruptly
toward Him;
their spot is
not
that of His children,
but of a perverse
and crooked
generation.
Is 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?
Remember
the days
of old;
consider
the years
long
past.
Ask
your father,
and he will tell you,
your elders,
and they will inform you.
When 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.
He found him
in a desolate
land,
in a barren,
howling
wilderness;
He surrounded him,
He instructed him,
He guarded him
as the apple
of His eye.
As an eagle
stirs up
its nest
and hovers
over
its young,
He spread
His wings
to catch them;
He carried them
on
His pinions.
He 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,
with 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.
But Jeshurun
grew fat
and kicked—
becoming fat,
bloated,
and gorged.
He abandoned
the God
who made him
and scorned
the Rock
of his salvation.
They sacrificed
to demons,
not
to God,
to gods
they had not
known,
to newly arrived gods,
which your fathers
did not
fear.
He 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.
They
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.
For
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.
They will be wasted
from hunger,
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.
Outside,
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.
if 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.’
How
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?
But
their vine is
from the vine
of Sodom
and from the fields
of Gomorrah.
Their grapes
are poisonous;
Their
clusters are
bitter.
Vengeance
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.
For
the LORD
will judge
His people
and have compassion
on
His servants
when
He sees
that
their strength
is gone
and no one remains,
slave
or free.
which
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!
See
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.
when
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.
I 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.
Rejoice, [O heavens, with Him, and let a
Rejoice, O Gentiles,
with His people;
for
He will avenge
the blood
of His children.
He will take
vengeance
on His adversaries [and repay those who
He will cleanse
His land
and His people.”
Then Moses
came
with Joshua
son
of Nun
and recited
all
the words
of this
song
in the hearing
of the people.
he 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.
For
they
are not
idle
words
to you,
because
they
are your life,
and by them
you will live long
in
the land
you
are crossing
the Jordan
to possess.”
“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.
And 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.
For
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.
Although
you shall see
from a distance
the land
that
I
am giving
the Israelites,
you shall not
enter
it.”