1Give ear, you heavens, to what I say; listen, earth, to the words I speak.
2May my teaching fall like raindrops, my words distil like dew, like fine rain on tender grass, like lavish showers on growing plants.
3When I proclaim the name of the LORD, you will respond: “Great is our God,
4the Creator, whose work is perfect, for all his ways are just, a faithful God who does no wrong; how righteous and true is he!”
5Perverted and crooked generation whose faults have proved you no children of his,
6is this how you repay the LORD, you senseless, stupid people? Is he not your father who formed you? Did he not make you and establish you?
7Remember the days of old, think of the years, age upon age; ask your father to inform you, the elders to tell you.
8When the Most High gave each nation its heritage, when he divided all mankind, he laid down the boundaries for peoples according to the number of the sons of God;
9but the LORD's share was his own people, Jacob was his allotted portion.
10He found his people in a desert land, in a barren, howling waste. He protected and trained them, he guarded them as the apple of his eye.
11As an eagle watches over its nest, hovers above its young, spreads its pinions and takes them up, and bears them on its wings,
12the LORD alone led his people, no alien god at his side.
13He made them ride over the heights of the earth and fed them on the harvest of the fields; he satisfied them with honey from the crags and oil from the flinty rock,
14curds from the cattle, milk from the herd, the fat of lambs' kidneys, of Bashan rams, and of goats, with the finest flour of wheat; and you, his people, drank red wine from the juice of the grape.
15Jacob ate and was well fed, Jeshurun grew fat and unruly, they grew fat and bloated and sleek. They forsook God their Maker and dishonoured the Rock of their salvation.
16They roused his jealousy with alien gods and provoked him to anger with abominable practices.
17They sacrificed to demons that are no gods, to gods who were strangers to them; they consorted with upstart gods from their neighbours, gods whom your fathers did not acknowledge.
18You forsook the Creator who begot you and ceased to care for God who brought you to birth.
19The LORD saw and spurned them; his own sons and daughters provoked his anger.
20“I shall hide my face from them,” he said; “let me see what their end will be, for they are a subversive generation, children not to be trusted.
21They roused my jealousy with a god of no account, with their worthless idols they provoked me to anger; so I shall rouse their jealousy with a people of no account, with a foolish nation I shall provoke them.
22For fire is set ablaze by my anger, it burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours earth and its harvest and the flames reach the very roots of the mountains.
23“I shall heap on them one disaster after another, and expend my arrows on them:
24pangs of hunger, ravages of plague, and bitter pestilence. I shall harry them with the fangs of wild beasts and the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
25The sword will make orphans in the streets, make widows in their homes; it will take toll of young men and girls, of babes in arms as well as of the aged.
26I had resolved to strike them down and to destroy all memory of them,
27but I feared that I should be provoked by their foes, that their enemies would take the credit, saying, ‘It was not the LORD, but we who got the upper hand.’”
28They are a nation devoid of good counsel, that lacks all understanding.
29If only they had the wisdom to discern this and understand what their end is to be!
30How could one man rout a thousand of them, how could two put ten thousand to flight, if their Rock had not sold them to their enemies, if the LORD had not handed them over?
31For the enemy have no Rock like ours; in themselves they are mere fools.
32Their vines are from the vines of Sodom, grown on the terraces of Gomorrah; their grapes are poisonous, the clusters bitter to the taste.
33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the cruel poison of asps;
34all this I have in reserve, sealed up in my storehouses
35till the day of punishment and vengeance, till the moment when their foot slips; for the day of their downfall is near, their doom is fast approaching.
36The LORD will judge his people and have compassion on his servants; for he will see that their strength is gone: no one, either fettered or free, is left.
37He will ask, “Where are your gods, the rock in which you sought refuge,
38the gods who ate the fat of your sacrifices and drank the wine of your drink-offerings? Let them rise to help you! Let them be your protection!
39See now that I, I am He, and besides me there is no god: I put to death and I keep alive, I inflict wounds and I heal; there is no rescue from my grasp.
40I raise my hand towards heaven and swear: As I live for ever,
41when I have whetted my flashing sword, when I have set my hand to judgement, then I shall punish my adversaries and wreak vengeance on my foes.
42I shall make my arrows drunk with blood, my sword will devour flesh, blood of slain and captives, the heads of the enemy princes.”
43Rejoice with him, you heavens, bow down, all you gods, before him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons and take vengeance on his adversaries; he will punish those who hate him and cleanse his people's land.
44These are the words of the song that Moses, when he came with Joshua son of Nun, recited in full in the hearing of the people.
45When Moses had finished reciting all these words to Israel
46he said: Take to heart all the warnings which I give you this day: command your children to be careful to observe all the words of this law.
47For you they are no empty words; they are your very life, and by them you will enjoy long life in the land which you are to occupy after crossing the Jordan.
48That same day the LORD said to Moses,
49“Go up the mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo in Moab, to the east of Jericho, and view the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites for their possession.
50On this mountain you will die and be gathered to your father's kin, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his father's kin.
51This is because both of you broke faith with me at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, when you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.
52You may see the land from a distance, but you may not enter the land I am giving to the Israelites.”
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