1Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
2Let my teaching fall like rain
3For I will proclaim the name of the LORD.
4He is the Rock, His work is perfect;
5His people have acted corruptly toward Him;
6Is this how you repay the LORD,
7Remember the days of old;
8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
9But the LORD’s portion is His people,
10He found him in a desert land,
11As an eagle stirs up its nest
12The LORD alone led him,
13He made him ride on the heights of the land
14with curds from the herd and milk from the flock,
15But Jeshurun 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, a term of endearment for Israel. grew fat and kicked—
16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;
17They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth;
19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them,
20He said: “I will hide My face from them;
21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God;
22For a fire has been kindled by My anger,
23I will heap disasters upon them;
24They will be wasted from hunger
25Outside, the sword will take their children,
26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces
27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,
29If only they were wise, they would understand it;
30How could one man pursue a thousand,
31For their rock is not like our Rock,
32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom
33Their wine is the venom of serpents,
34“Have I not stored up these things,
35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.32:35 LXX; Hebrew Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; cited in Romans 12:19 and Hebrews 10:30
36For the LORD will vindicate His people 32:36 Or will judge His people; see also LXX; cited in Hebrews 10:30
37He will say: “Where are their gods,
38which ate the fat of their sacrifices
39See now that I am He;
40For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare:
41when I sharpen My flashing sword,
42I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
43Rejoice, O heavens, with Him,
44Then Moses came with Joshua 32:44 LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
45When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
46he 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.
47For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
48On that same day the LORD said to Moses,
49“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.
50And 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.
51For 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.
52Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”