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UST DEU Chapter 32

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32 “Listen to me, all you who are in the heavens, let me sing this song,

and all you who are on the earth, listen to what I sing.

2 I wish that my song may help you like the rain helps you,

may it refresh you like the dew on the ground in the morning,

like a gentle rain on the young plants,

or like showers of rain on the grass.

3 This song will refresh you if you listen to it because I will praise Yahweh.

All you people should praise how great our God is.

4 He is like a rock on top of which we are safe;

everything that he does is perfect and completely just.

He always does what he says that he will do, and he never breaks his promises;

he always does the right thing.

5 But you Israelite people have been very unfaithful to him;

because of your sins, you no longer deserve to be his children.

You are extremely wicked and deceitful.

6 You foolish and senseless people,

this is certainly not the way that you should repay Yahweh for all that he has done for you.

He is your father; he created you;

he caused you to become a nation.

7 Think about what happened long ago;

consider what happened to your ancestors.

Ask your parents, and they will inform you;

ask the older people, and they will tell you.

8 Long ago when the Greatest God divided humanity into people groups and gave them their lands,

he set their boundaries according to the number of Jacob’s descendants,

9 because Yahweh decided that we would be his people.

He chose us, Jacob’s descendants, to belong to him.

10 He saw our ancestors when they were in a desert,

wandering in a land that was desolate.

He protected them and took care of them,

as every person takes good care of his own eyes.

11 Yahweh trained and protected his people just like an eagle encourages its babies to fly

and flutters over them,

spreading its wings and catching them if they start to fall.

12 Yahweh was the only one who led them;

no other foreign god helped them.

13 After they entered the land that Yahweh promised to give to them,

Yahweh enabled them to rule the hill country;

they ate the crops that grew in the fields.

They found honey in the rocks,

and their olive trees grew even in stony ground.

14 Their cows produced very creamy milk,

the sheep and goats gave them plenty of milk,

they ate choice lamb fat, Bashan-bred rams, and goats,

they had choice wheat kernels,

and they made and drank delicious wine from their grapes.

15 The Israelites became so rich and prosperous that they became very fat,

but then they rebelled against God;

they abandoned him, the one who created them.

They disregarded the God who powerfully saves them.

16 The Israelites made God jealous by worshipping other gods.

Because they did disgusting things while worshipping idols, he became angry.

17 They offered sacrifices to gods who were really demons instead of sacrificing to God,

to gods that they had not known before.

They offered sacrifices to gods that they had recently found out about,

to gods whom your ancestors had never been afraid of.

18 They ignored their Protector who created them,

they forgot the true God who made them a nation.

19 When Yahweh saw that they had abandoned him, he became angry,

so he rejected the Israelites who were like his sons and daughters.

20 He said, ‘They are very wicked people,

very unfaithful,

so I will no longer help them,

and then I will watch and see what happens to them.

21 Because they worship worthless idols that are not real gods,

they have made me angry like a jealous husband.

So I will make them angry in return by using a foolish nation that is not really a people.

22 My anger is like a fierce fire that burns in my nostrils;

it will burn all the way down to the place where dead people are.

That fire will destroy the land and the crops,

it will even burn deep under the mountains.

23 I will cause so many disasters to happen to them

that they will feel like I am shooting all my arrows into them.

24 They will die because of being hungry and because of having hot fevers

and because of terrible diseases.

I will send wild animals to attack them,

and poisonous snakes to bite them.

25 Outside their houses, their enemies will kill them with swords,

and in their homes, their enemies will terrify them.

Their enemies will kill young men and young women,

and they will kill infants and old people with gray hair.

26 I almost completely destroyed them

in order that no one would ever remember them.

27 But I worried that if I did that, their enemies would boast.

They would think the wrong thing.

I did not want them to say, “We are the stronger than the Israelites;

it was us, not Yahweh who destroyed them.” ’

28 You are a nation of people who do not have any sense.

None of you are wise.

29 If you were wise, you would understand why I would punish you;

you would have realized what was going to happen to you.

30 You would have realized why one soldier could defeat a thousand soldiers,

and why two soldiers could chase away ten thousand soldiers.

You would realize that this could happen only if the Israelites’ Protector had given their enemies power to defeat them,

that is, Yahweh let Israel lose.

31 Even our enemies know

that their protector gods are not like our Protector God.

32 Their gods are as deeply evil as those of Sodom and Gomorrah,

so those who worship them are bitter and toxic,

33 they love celebrating things as deadly as snakes’ poison.

34 Yahweh says, ‘The things I will do to punish them, I have kept hidden with me,

protected like a treasure.

35 It is for me to punish and to pay back.

When everything sudden goes wrong

I am starting to destroy them.

I am prepared to punish them quickly.’

36 Yahweh will see that his people are helpless

and that almost no one remains—neither prisoner nor free person.

Then he will pity his servants

and judge on behalf of them.

37 Then Yahweh will ask you, ‘Where are the gods

that you thought would protect you?

38 You gave to those gods the best parts of the animals that you sacrificed,

and you poured out wine for them to drink.

So they should take action to help you;

they should be the ones who will protect you!

39 But now you will realize that I, only I, am God;

there is no other god who is a real god.

I alone can kill people and can cause people to live;

I can wound people, and I alone can heal people,

and there is no one who can prevent me from doing those things.

40 I solemnly swear

that just as surely as I live forever, I will act.

41 I will prepare to judge my enemies

like a warrior sharpens his sword until it shines.

I will strike my enemies back,

and repay those who hate me for what they have done.

42 The arrows of the army that I send to destroy my enemies will have so much blood on them that it would make them drunk if it were wine and they were people.

Their swords will kill a lot of people.

The blood will come from enemies that they kill or that they wound and capture,

some will come from the enemies’ leaders’ heads.’

43 You people of all nations, you should praise Yahweh’s people,

because Yahweh gets revenge on those who kill the people who serve him,

and he cleanses his people’s land

which has become defiled because of their sins.”

44 Moses and Joshua son of Nun sang that song while the Israelites listened. 45 Then Moses finished telling all the Israelites all Yahweh’s instructions. 46 He concluded by telling them, “Never forget all these commands that I have been giving you today. Teach these laws to your children, in order that they will faithfully obey all of them. 47 These instructions are very important. If you obey them, you will live a long time in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan River to occupy.”

48 On that same day, Yahweh said to Moses, 49 “Go to the Abarim mountain range here in the region of Moab, across from the city of Jericho. Climb Mount Nebo and look toward the west to see Canaan, the land that I am about to give to the Israelites. 50 You will die on the mountain after you go up. You will join your people in the place where dead people stay, just like your older brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and went to join your people in the place where dead people stay. 51 You will die because both of you disobeyed me in the presence of the Israelites, when you all were at the springs of Meribah near Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. You did not honor and respect me in the presence of the Israelites in the way that I deserve because I am God. 52 When you are on that mountain where I told you to go, you will see in the distance in front of you the land that I am about to give to the Israelites, but you will not enter it.”

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