Deuteronomy 32

¹Hear ye heavens what things I speak, the earth hear the words of my mouth.

²My doctrine grow together as rain, my speech flow as the dew, as it were a shower upon the herb, and as it were drops upon the grass.

³Because I will invocate the name of our Lord: give magnificence to our God.

⁴The works of God be perfect, and all his ways judgments: God is faithful, and without any iniquity, just and right.

⁵They have sinned to him, and not his children in filthiness: a froward and perverse generation,

⁶These things doest thou render to our Lord, thou foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made, and created thee?

⁷Remember the old days, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders, and they will tell thee.

⁸When the highest divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

⁹But our Lord's part is his people: Jacob the cord of his inheritance.

¹⁰He found him in a desert land, and a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and kept him as the apple of his eye.

¹¹As the eagle provoking her young to fly, and hovering over them hath he spread his wings, and he hath taken him, and carried him on his shoulders.

¹²Our Lord only was his guide: and there was not with him a strange god.

¹³He placed him over an high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone.

¹⁴Butter from the herd, and milk of the sheep, with the fat of lambs, & of rams of the sons of Basan: and buck-goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the blood of the grape most pure.

¹⁵The beloved was made gross, and spurned: made gross, fatted, dilated, he left God his Maker, and departed from God his salvation.

¹⁶They provoked him in strange gods, and in abominations stirred him to anger.

¹⁷They immolated to devils and not to God, to gods, which they knew not: there came new and fresh ones, whom their fathers worshipped not.

¹⁸God that begat thee thou hast forsaken, and hast forgotten our Lord thy creator.

¹⁹Our Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his sons and daughters provoked him.

²⁰And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider their last: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

²¹They have provoked me in that, which was no God, and have angered me in their vanities: & I will provoke them in that which is no people, and in a foolish nation will I anger them.

²²Afire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest parts of hell: and shall devour the earth with her spring, and shall burn the foundations of mountains.

²³I will heap evils upon them, and mine arrows I will spend in them.

²⁴They shall be consumed with famine, & birds shall devour them with most bitter biting: the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the fury of those that trail upon the ground, and creep.

²⁵Without shall the sword devour them, and within fearfulness, the young man and the virgin together, the sucking child with the old man.

²⁶I said: Where are they? I will make their memory to cease from among man.

²⁷But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, & would say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

²⁸A nation without counsel is it, and without wisdom.

²⁹O that they were wise, and understood, and would provide for their last!

³⁰How should one pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight? Was it not therefore, because their God sold them, and our Lord inclosed them?

³¹For our Lord is not as their gods: our enemies also are judges.

³²Of the vineyard of Sodom, is their vineyard, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grape the grape of gall, and the clusters most bitter.

³³The gall of dragons their wine, and the venom of Asps, uncurable.

³⁴Are not these things laid up with me, and signed in my treasures?

³⁵Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in time, that their foot may slide: the day of perdition is at hand, and the times make haste to be present.

³⁶Our Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, & the shut-up also have failed, and the residue be consumed.

³⁷And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they had confidence.

³⁸Of whose victims they did eat fat, and drank the wine of their libaments: Let them arise, and help you, and protect you in necessity.

³⁹See ye that I am only, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

⁴⁰I will lift up my hand to heaven, and will say: I live for ever.

⁴¹If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, & my hand take judgment: I will repay vengeance to mine enemies, and them that hate me will I requite.

⁴²I will imbrue my arrows with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.

⁴³You gentiles praise his people, because he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will repay vengeance upon their enemies, and will be propitious to the land of his people.

⁴⁴Moyses therefore came and spake all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, he and Josue the son of Nun.

⁴⁵And he finished all these words, speaking to the children of Israel,

⁴⁶& he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: that you command them to your children to keep and to do, and to fulfill all things of this law that are written:

⁴⁷for not in vain are they commanded you, but that every one should live in them: which doing you may continue a long time in the Land, which passing over Jordan you enter to possess.

⁴⁸And our Lord spake to Moyses in the same day, saying:

⁴⁹Go up into this mount Abarim, that is to say, of passages, into mount Nebo, which is in the Land of Moab against Jericho: and see the Land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to obtain, and die thou in the mount.

⁵⁰Which going up unto thou shalt be joined to thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was laid to his people:

⁵¹because you did prevaricate against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the Waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.

⁵²Over against shalt thou see the Land, and shalt not enter into it, which I will give to the children of Israel.