1Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak;
2My doctrine shall drop as the rain;
3For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah:
4The Rock, his work is perfect;
5They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish;
6Do ye thus requite Jehovah,
7Remember the days of old,
8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
9For Jehovah’s portion is his people;
10He found him in a desert land,
11As an eagle that stirreth up her nest,
12Jehovah alone did lead him,
13He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
14Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,
15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:
16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods;
17They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God,
18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,
19And Jehovah saw it, and abhorred them,
20And he said, I will hide my face from them,
21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;
22For a fire is kindled in mine anger,
23I will heap evils upon them;
24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat
25Without shall the sword bereave,
26I said, I would scatter them afar,
27Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
28For they are a nation void of counsel,
29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
30How should one chase a thousand,
31For their rock is not as our Rock,
32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
33Their wine is the poison of serpents,
34Is not this laid up in store with me,
35Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
36For Jehovah will judge his people,
37And he will say, Where are their gods,
38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices,
39See now that I, even I, am he,
40For I lift up my hand to heaven,
41If I whet my glittering sword,
42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,
43Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people:
44And Moses came and spake 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 unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye 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 ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
48And Jehovah spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
49Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession;
50and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
51because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
52For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.