1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 2My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distill as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb. 3For I will proclaim the name of Yehovah: Ascribe greatness to our God. 4The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he. 5They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish; They are a perverse and crooked generation. 6Do you thus repay Yehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you. 7Remember 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. 8When 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. 9For Yehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He encircled him, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye. 11As an eagle that stirs up her nest, That flutters over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He carried them on his pinions. 12Yehovah alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him. 13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the increase of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock; 14Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape you drank wine. 15But 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. 16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations they provoked him to anger. 17They sacrificed to demons, which were no God, To gods that they did not know, To new gods that came up of late, Which your fathers did not dread. 18Of the Rock that fathered you you are unmindful, And have forgotten God who gave you birth. 19And Yehovah saw it, and abhorred them, Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. 20And 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. 21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22For a fire is kindled in my anger, And burns to the lowest Sheol, And devours the earth with its increase, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them: 24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust. 25Outside the sword shall bereave, And in the chambers terror; It shall destroy both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs. 26I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men; 27Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Yehovah has not done all this. 28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them. 29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end! 30How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And Yehovah had delivered them up? 31For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges. 32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: 33Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps. 34Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures? 35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste. 36For Yehovah will judge his people, And repent himself for his servants; When he sees that their power is gone, And there is none remaining, shut up or left at large. 37And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge; 38Who 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. 39See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; And there is none who can deliver out of my hand. 40For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever, 41If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand takes hold of judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, And will recompense those who hate me. 42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy. 43Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people. 44And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; 46and 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, even all the words of this law. 47For 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 are going over the Jordan to possess it. 48And Yehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying, 49Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession; 50and die in the mount where you are going up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: 51because 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. 52For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.