Deuteronomy 32:15-52

Deuteronomy 32:15-52

[15] 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.  [16] They provoked him to jealousy  with strange  gods, with abominations  provoked they him to anger.  [17] They sacrificed  unto devils,  not to God;  to gods  whom they knew  not, to new  newly  up,  whom your fathers  feared  [18] Of the Rock  that begat  thee thou art unmindful,  and hast forgotten  God  that formed  [19] And when the LORD  saw  it, he abhorred  them, because of the provoking  of his sons,  and of his daughters.  [20] 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.  [21] 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.  [22] 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  of the mountains.  [23] I will heap  mischiefs  upon them; I will spend  mine arrows  upon them. [24] 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.  [25] The sword  without,  and terror  within,  shall destroy  both the young man  and the virgin,  the suckling  also with the man  of gray hairs.  [26] I said,  I would scatter them into corners,  I would make the remembrance  of them to cease  from among men:  [27] 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  [28] For they are a nation  void  of counsel,  neither is there any understanding  in them. [29] O that  they were wise,  that they understood  this, that they would consider  their latter end!  [30] 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?  [31] For their rock  even our enemies  themselves being judges.  [32] For their vine  of Sodom,  and of the fields  of Gomorrah:  their grapes  of gall,  their clusters  are bitter:  [33] Their wine  is the poison  of dragons,  and the cruel  venom  of asps.  [34] Is not this laid up in store  with me, and sealed up  among my treasures?  [35] 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.  [36] 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.  [37] And he shall say,  Where are their gods,  their rock  in whom they trusted,  [38] 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.  [39] 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.  [40] For I lift up  my hand  to heaven,  and say,  I live  for ever.  [41] 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  [42] 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.  [43] 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.  [44] And Moses  came  and spake  all the words  of this song  in the ears  of the people,  he, and Hoshea  the son  of Nun.  [45] And Moses  made an end  of speaking  all these words  to all Israel:  [46] 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.  [47] 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. [48] And the LORD  spake  unto Moses  that selfsame  day,  saying,  [49] 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:  [50] 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:  [51] Because 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.  [52] Yet thou shalt see  the land  before thee; but thou shalt not go  thither unto the land  which I give  the children  of Israel.