1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak;
2My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
3Because I will publish the name of the Lord:
4He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
5They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children:
6Do ye thus requite the Lord,
7Remember the days of old,
8When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
9For the Lord’s portion is his people;
10He found him in a desert land,
11As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
12So the Lord alone did lead him,
13He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep,
15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:
16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,
17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God;
18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,
19And when the Lord saw it, he 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 my anger,
23I will heap mischiefs upon them;
24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat,
25The sword without,
26I said, I would scatter them into corners,
27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,
28For they are a nation void of counsel,
29O 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 dragons,
34Is not this laid up in store with me,
35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence;
36For the Lord shall judge his people,
37And he shall 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 hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
47For it is not a 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 Jordan to possess it.
48And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
49Get thee up into this mountain 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 among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
52Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.