Deuteronomy 32

About Deuteronomy Deuteronomy records Moses' last speeches, retelling the law and urging Israel to love and obey God in the new land.

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:1Ask

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:SelectedDeuteronomy 32:2Ask

Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:3Ask

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:4Ask

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:5Ask

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?SelectedDeuteronomy 32:6Ask

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:7Ask

When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:8Ask

For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:9Ask

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:10Ask

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:SelectedDeuteronomy 32:11Ask

So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:12Ask

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;SelectedDeuteronomy 32:13Ask

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:14Ask

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:15Ask

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:16Ask

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:17Ask

Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:18Ask

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:19Ask

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:20Ask

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:21Ask

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:22Ask

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:23Ask

They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:24Ask

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:25Ask

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:SelectedDeuteronomy 32:26Ask

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:27Ask

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:28Ask

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!SelectedDeuteronomy 32:29Ask

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?SelectedDeuteronomy 32:30Ask

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:31Ask

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:SelectedDeuteronomy 32:32Ask

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:33Ask

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?SelectedDeuteronomy 32:34Ask

To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:35Ask

For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:36Ask

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,SelectedDeuteronomy 32:37Ask

Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:38Ask

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:39Ask

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:40Ask

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:41Ask

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:42Ask

Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:43Ask

And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:44Ask

And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:SelectedDeuteronomy 32:45Ask

And 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:46Ask

For 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:47Ask

And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,SelectedDeuteronomy 32:48Ask

Get 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:SelectedDeuteronomy 32:49Ask

And 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:SelectedDeuteronomy 32:50Ask

Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:51Ask

Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.SelectedDeuteronomy 32:52Ask

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