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The Song of Moses

and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2  my words like rain showers on tender grass,
and like spring showers on new growth.
3  ascribe greatness to our God!
4 is perfect, for all his ways are just;

he is a faithful God, and[fn]
- righteous and upright is he.
- 5 have behaved corruptly toward[fn] him; they are not his children; this is their flaw,
- a generation crooked and perverse.
- 6 Like this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and[fn] people?
Has he not, your father, created you?
- He made you, and he established you.
- 7 the old days,[fn] ask your father, and he will inform you,
- your elders and they will tell you.[fn]
- 8 [fn] the nations, at his dividing up of the sons of humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples,
- according to the number of the children of Israel.[fn]
- 9 was his people, Jacob the share of his inheritance.
- 10  and in a howling, desert wasteland;
he[fn] he cared for him,
- he protected him like the[fn] of his eye.
- 11  hovers over its young,
spreads out its wings, takes them,[fn]
- carries them[fn] on its pinions,[fn]
- 12 so Yahweh alone guided him,[fn] and[fn]
- 13 the land, and he fed him the crops[fn] of the field,
and he nursed him with honey from crags,[fn]
- and with oil from flinty rock,
- 14 With curds[fn] from the herd, and with milk from the flock,
with the fat of young rams,
- and rams, the offspring of Bashan,
and with goats along with the finest kernels of wheat,
- and from the blood of grapes[fn] you drank fermented wine.[fn]
- 15 you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate;
and he abandoned God, his maker,
- and he scoffed at the rock of his salvation.
- 16 gods; with detestable things they provoked him.
- 17  to gods whom[fn] they had not known,
new gods who[fn] came from recent times;
- [fn]
- 18 The rock who[fn] bore you, you neglected, and you forgot God, the one giving you birth.
- 19 them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- 20  I will see what will be their end,
for they are a generation of perversity,
- [fn]
- 21 what is not a god; they provoked me with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those not a people,
- with a foolish nation I will provoke them.
- 22 [fn] by my anger, and it burned[fn]
and it devoured the earth and its produce,
- and it set afire the foundation of the mountains.
- 23  my arrows I will spend on them.
- 24 They will become weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence;
and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them,
- with the poison of the creeping things in the dust;
- 25 her boundaries the sword will make her childless, and from inside, terror;
both for the young man and also the young woman,
- the infant along with the gray-headed man.
- 26 [fn]
- 27 the enemy, lest their foes might misunderstand,[fn]
lest they should say,[fn] “Our hand is
- [fn] and Yahweh did not do all this.” ’
- 28 [fn] and there is not any understanding in them.
- 29  they would discern[fn]
- 30  and two could cause a myriad to flee,
if their Rock had not sold them,
- and Yahweh had not given them up?
- 31  their rock is not like our Rock,
- and our enemies recognize[fn] this.
- 32 is from the vine of Sodom, and from the terraces of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
- [fn]
- 33 is the poison of snakes, and the deadly poison of horned vipers.
- 34 Is not this stored up with me, sealed in my treasuries?’[fn]
- 35 [fn] and also recompense,[fn]
because the day of their disaster is near,
- [fn]
- 36 on behalf of his people, and concerning his servants;
he will change his mind when he sees that their power has disappeared,
- and there is no one left, confined[fn] or free.[fn]
- 37 are their gods, their rock in whom[fn] they took refuge?
- 38 and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up, and let them help you;
- [fn]
- 39 even I am he, and there is not a god besides me;
I put to death and I give life;
- I wound and I heal;
- there is not one who delivers from my hand!
- 40 indeed I lift up my hand to heaven, And I promise[fn]
- 41 [fn] [fn] and my hand takes hold[fn] of it in judgment,
[fn]
- and my haters I will repay.
- 42  and my sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain,
- and captives[fn] from the heads[fn] of the leaders of the enemy.’
- 43 concerning his people,[fn] for the blood of his servants he will avenge,
[fn]
- and he will make atonement for his land, his people.”

44 And Moses came, and he spoke[fn] all the words of this song in the ears of the people; that is, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 45 And when Moses finished speaking[fn] all these words to all Israel, 46 then he said to them, “Take to heart all the words[fn] that I am admonishing against you today[fn] concerning which you should instruct them with respect to your children[fn] so that they will observe diligently[fn] all the words of this law, 47 for it is not a trifling matter among you, but it is your life, and through this word you will live long in the land[fn] that you are about to cross the Jordan to get there to take possession of it.”

32:? Literally “there is not injustice”

32:? Or “with”

32:? Literally “not wise”

32:? Literally “the years of from generation to generation”

32:? Hebrew “to you”

32:? Literally “In/at the apportioning of the Most High”

32:? LXX reads “the number of the angels of God”; Dead Sea Scrolls reads “the number of the sons of God”

32:? Literally “moved around him”

32:? Literally “pupil”

32:? Hebrew “it” but used poetically and with plural sense in context

32:? Hebrew “pinion”

32:? That is, Jacob, standing for Israel

32:? Literally “and there was not with him a god foreign/strange”

32:? Hebrew “crop”

32:? Hebrew “crag”

32:? Hebrew “curd”

32:? Hebrew “grape”

32:? Or “partially fermented wine”; others translate simply as wine (NASB, NEB); HALOT 330, “still fermenting wine”

32:? Hebrew “them”

32:? Hebrew “they,” understood in the verb form

32:? Literally “their fathers not knew them”

32:? Hebrew “he,” understood in verb form

32:? Literally “sons not faithfulness is in them”

32:? Or “ignited”

32:? Literally “up to Sheol depths”

32:? Literally “I will blot out from among human being their remembrance”

32:? Or “so that they not make a false construal” of what has happened

32:? Or “so that they might not”

32:? Literally “raised/held high”

32:? Literally “they a nation perishing of counsel”

32:? Literally “they would discern for end their”

32:? The meaning of this expression is uncertain, but “discerns” or “judges” seem good choices; see HALOT 932, which allows for “judges” or “in the estimation of our enemies”

32:? Literally “clusters of bitter are for them”

32:? Or “storehouses

32:? Literally “To me is vengeance”

32:? Literally “at the time when it shall slip foot their”

32:? Literally “and comes quickly/hurries events to come to them”

32:? Or “bond/bound”

32:? Or “freed”

32:? Hebrew “in him”

32:? Literally “let there be/him/them unto you as a shelter”

32:? Literally “live I to eternity”

32:? Or “have sharpened”

32:? Literally “the flashing of my sword”

32:? Or “seizes”

32:? Literally “I will let return vengeance to foes my”

32:? Hebrew “captive”

32:? Hebrew “head”

32:? Dead Sea Scrolls reads: “Rejoice, O heavenly ones, with him! Bow down, all you gods, before him!”

32:? Literally “vengeance he will let return to his foes”

32:44 Or “recited”

32:45 Literally “And he finished Moses to speak”

32:46 Literally “Put heart your to all the words”

32:46 Literally “the day”

32:46 Or “sons”

32:46 Literally “to keep to do”

32:47 Literally “you will make long days on the land”

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The Song of Moses