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Deuteronomy Chapter 32 (NIV)

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undefined Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
undefined Let my teaching fall like rainand my words descend like dew,like showers on new grass,like abundant rain on tender plants.
undefined I will proclaim the name of the Lord.Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
undefined He is the Rock, his works are perfect,and all his ways are just.A faithful God who does no wrong,upright and just is he.
undefined They have acted corruptly toward him;to their shame they are no longer his children,but a warped and crooked generation.
undefined Is this the way you repay the Lord,O foolish and unwise people?Is he not your Father, your Creator,who made you and formed you?
undefined Remember the days of old;consider the generations long past.Ask your father and he will tell you,your elders, and they will explain to you.
undefined When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,when he divided all mankind,he set up boundaries for the peoplesaccording to the number of the sons of Israel.
undefined For the Lord’s portion is his people,Jacob his allotted inheritance.
undefined In a desert land he found him,in a barren and howling waste.He shielded him and cared for him;he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
undefined like an eagle that stirs up its nestand hovers over its young,that spreads its wings to catch themand carries them on its pinions.
undefined The Lord alone led him;no foreign god was with him.
undefined He made him ride on the heights of the landand fed him with the fruit of the fields.He nourished him with honey from the rock,and with oil from the flinty crag,
undefined with curds and milk from herd and flockand with fattened lambs and goats,with choice rams of Bashanand the finest kernels of wheat.You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
undefined Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;filled with food, he became heavy and sleek.He abandoned the God who made himand rejected the Rock his Savior.
undefined They made him jealous with their foreign godsand angered him with their detestable idols.
undefined They sacrificed to demons, which are not God—gods they had not known,gods that recently appeared,gods your fathers did not fear.
undefined You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;you forgot the God who gave you birth.
undefined The Lord saw this and rejected thembecause he was angered by his sons and daughters.
undefined “I will hide my face from them,” he said,“and see what their end will be;for they are a perverse generation,children who are unfaithful.
undefined They made me jealous by what is no godand angered me with their worthless idols.I will make them envious by those who are not a people;I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
undefined For a fire has been kindled by my wrath,one that burns to the realm of death below.It will devour the earth and its harvestsand set afire the foundations of the mountains.
undefined “I will heap calamities upon themand spend my arrows against them.
undefined I will send wasting famine against them,consuming pestilence and deadly plague;I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
undefined In the street the sword will make them childless;in their homes terror will reign.Young men and young women will perish,infants and gray-haired men.
undefined I said I would scatter themand blot out their memory from mankind,
undefined but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,lest the adversary misunderstandand say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;the Lord has not done all this.’”
undefined They are a nation without sense,there is no discernment in them.
undefined If only they were wise and would understand thisand discern what their end will be!
undefined How could one man chase a thousand,or two put ten thousand to flight,unless their Rock had sold them,unless the Lord had given them up?
undefined For their rock is not like our Rock,as even our enemies concede.
undefined Their vine comes from the vine of Sodomand from the fields of Gomorrah.Their grapes are filled with poison,and their clusters with bitterness.
undefined Their wine is the venom of serpents,the deadly poison of cobras.
undefined “Have I not kept this in reserveand sealed it in my vaults?
undefined It is mine to avenge; I will repay.In due time their foot will slip;their day of disaster is nearand their doom rushes upon them.”
undefined The Lord will judge his peopleand have compassion on his servantswhen he sees their strength is goneand no one is left, slave or free.
undefined He will say: “Now where are their gods,the rock they took refuge in,
undefined the gods who ate the fat of their sacrificesand drank the wine of their drink offerings?Let them rise up to help you!Let them give you shelter!
undefined “See now that I myself am He!There is no god besides me.I put to death and I bring to life,I have wounded and I will heal,and no one can deliver out of my hand.
undefined I lift my hand to heaven and declare:As surely as I live forever,
undefined when I sharpen my flashing swordand my hand grasps it in judgment,I will take vengeance on my adversariesand repay those who hate me.
undefined I will make my arrows drunk with blood,while my sword devours flesh:the blood of the slain and the captives,the heads of the enemy leaders.”
undefined Rejoice, O nations, with his people,for he will avenge the blood of his servants;he will take vengeance on his enemiesand make atonement for his land and people.
undefined Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
undefined When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
undefined he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.
undefined They are not just idle words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
undefined Moses to Die on Mount NeboOn that same day the Lord told Moses,
undefined “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.
undefined There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
undefined This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.
undefined Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”

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