1 Inclinai os ouvidos, ó céus, e falarei;

e ouça a terra as palavras da minha boca.

2 Goteje a minha doutrina como a chuva,

destile a minha palavra como o orvalho,

como chuvisco sobre a relva

e como gotas de água sobre a erva.

3 Porque proclamarei o nome do Senhor.

Engrandecei o nosso Deus.

4 Eis a Rocha! Suas obras são perfeitas,

porque todos os seus caminhos são juízo;

Deus é fidelidade, e não há nele injustiça;

é justo e reto.

5 Procederam corruptamente contra ele,

já não são seus filhos, e sim suas manchas;

é geração perversa e deformada.

6 É assim que recompensas ao Senhor,

povo louco e ignorante?

Não é ele teu pai, que te adquiriu,

te fez e te estabeleceu?

7 Lembra-te dos dias da antiguidade,

atenta para os anos de gerações e gerações;

pergunta a teu pai, e ele te informará,

aos teus anciãos, e eles to dirão.

8 Quando o Altíssimo distribuía as heranças às nações,

quando separava os filhos dos homens uns dos outros,

fixou os limites dos povos,

segundo o número dos filhos de Israel.

9 Porque a porção do Senhor é o seu povo;

Jacó é a parte da sua herança.

10 Achou-o numa terra deserta

e num ermo solitário povoado de uivos;

rodeou-o e cuidou dele,

guardou-o como a menina dos olhos.

11 Como a águia desperta a sua ninhada

e voeja sobre os seus filhotes,

estende as asas e, tomando-os,

os leva sobre elas,

12 assim, só o Senhor o guiou,

e não havia com ele deus estranho.

13 Ele o fez cavalgar sobre os altos da terra,

comer as messes do campo,

chupar mel da rocha e azeite da dura pederneira,

14 coalhada de vacas e leite de ovelhas,

com a gordura dos cordeiros,

dos carneiros que pastam em Basã e dos bodes,

com o mais escolhido trigo;

e bebeste o sangue das uvas, o mosto.

15 Mas, engordando-se o meu amado, deu coices;

engordou-se, engrossou-se, ficou nédio

e abandonou a Deus, que o fez,

desprezou a Rocha da sua salvação.

16 Com deuses estranhos o provocaram a zelos,

com abominações o irritaram.

17 Sacrifícios ofereceram aos demônios, não a Deus;

a deuses que não conheceram,

novos deuses que vieram há pouco,

dos quais não se estremeceram seus pais.

18 Olvidaste a Rocha que te gerou;

e te esqueceste do Deus que te deu o ser.

19 Viu isto o Senhor e os desprezou,

por causa da provocação de seus filhos e suas filhas;

20 e disse: Esconderei deles o rosto,

verei qual será o seu fim;

porque são raça de perversidade,

filhos em quem não há lealdade.

21 A zelos me provocaram com aquilo que não é Deus;

com seus ídolos me provocaram à ira;

portanto, eu os provocarei a zelos com aquele que não é povo;

com louca nação os despertarei à ira.

22 Porque um fogo se acendeu no meu furor

e arderá até ao mais profundo do inferno,

consumirá a terra e suas messes

e abrasará os fundamentos dos montes.

23 Amontoarei males sobre eles;

as minhas setas esgotarei contra eles.

24 Consumidos serão pela fome,

devorados pela febre e peste violenta;

e contra eles enviarei dentes de feras

e ardente peçonha de serpentes do pó.

25 Fora devastará a espada,

em casa, o pavor,

tanto ao jovem como à virgem,

tanto à criança de peito como ao homem encanecido.

26 Eu teria dito: Por todos os cantos os espalharei

e farei cessar a sua memória dentre os homens,

27 se eu não tivesse receado a provocação do inimigo,

para que os seus adversários não se iludam,

para que não digam: A nossa mão tem prevalecido,

e não foi o Senhor quem fez tudo isto.

28 Porque o meu povo é gente falta de conselhos,

e neles não há entendimento.

29 Tomara fossem eles sábios! Então, entenderiam isto

e atentariam para o seu fim.

30 Como poderia um só perseguir mil,

e dois fazerem fugir dez mil,

se a sua Rocha lhos não vendera,

e o Senhor lhos não entregara?

31 Porque a rocha deles não é como a nossa Rocha;

e os próprios inimigos o atestam.

32 Porque a sua vinha é da vinha de Sodoma

e dos campos de Gomorra;

as suas uvas são uvas de veneno,

seus cachos, amargos;

33 o seu vinho é ardente veneno de répteis

e peçonha terrível de víboras.

34 Não está isto guardado comigo,

selado nos meus tesouros?

35 A mim me pertence a vingança, a retribuição,

a seu tempo, quando resvalar o seu pé;

porque o dia da sua calamidade está próximo,

e o seu destino se apressa em chegar.

36 Porque o Senhor fará justiça ao seu povo

e se compadecerá dos seus servos,

quando vir que o seu poder se foi,

e já não há nem escravo nem livre.

37 Então, dirá: Onde estão os seus deuses?

E a rocha em quem confiavam?

38 Deuses que comiam a gordura de seus sacrifícios

e bebiam o vinho de suas libações?

Levantem-se eles e vos ajudem,

para que haja esconderijo para vós outros!

39 Vede, agora, que Eu Sou, Eu somente,

e mais nenhum deus além de mim;

eu mato e eu faço viver;

eu firo e eu saro;

e não há quem possa livrar alguém da minha mão.

40 Levanto a mão aos céus

e afirmo por minha vida eterna:

41 se eu afiar a minha espada reluzente,

e a minha mão exercitar o juízo,

tomarei vingança contra os meus adversários

e retribuirei aos que me odeiam.

42 Embriagarei as minhas setas de sangue

(a minha espada comerá carne),

do sangue dos mortos e dos prisioneiros,

das cabeças cabeludas do inimigo.

43 Louvai, ó nações, o seu povo,

porque o Senhor vingará o sangue dos seus servos,

tomará vingança dos seus adversários

e fará expiação pela terra do seu povo.

44 Veio Moisés e falou todas as palavras deste cântico aos ouvidos do povo, ele e Josué, filho de Num. 45 Tendo Moisés falado todas estas palavras a todo o Israel, 46 disse-lhes: Aplicai o coração a todas as palavras que, hoje, testifico entre vós, para que ordeneis a vossos filhos que cuidem de cumprir todas as palavras desta lei. 47 Porque esta palavra não é para vós outros coisa vã; antes, é a vossa vida; e, por esta mesma palavra, prolongareis os dias na terra à qual, passando o Jordão, ides para a possuir.

48 Naquele mesmo dia, falou o Senhor a Moisés, dizendo: 49 Sobe a este monte de Abarim, ao monte Nebo, que está na terra de Moabe, defronte de Jericó, e vê a terra de Canaã, que aos filhos de Israel dou em possessão. 50 E morrerás no monte, ao qual terás subido, e te recolherás ao teu povo, como Arão, teu irmão, morreu no monte Hor e se recolheu ao seu povo, 51 porquanto prevaricastes contra mim no meio dos filhos de Israel, nas águas de Meribá de Cades, no deserto de Zim, pois me não santificastes no meio dos filhos de Israel. 52 Pelo que verás a terra defronte de ti, porém não entrarás nela, na terra que dou aos filhos de Israel.

1 Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak;

And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain;

My speech shall distil as the dew,

As the small rain upon the tender grass,

And as the showers upon the herb.

3 For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah:

Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

4 The Rock, his work is perfect;

For all his ways are justice:

A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,

Just and right is he.

5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish;

They are a perverse and crooked generation.

6 Do ye thus requite Jehovah,

O foolish people and unwise?

Is not he thy father that hath bought thee?

He hath made thee, and established thee.

7 Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of many generations:

Ask thy father, and he will show thee;

Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,

When he separated the children of men,

He set the bounds of the peoples

According to the number of the children of Israel.

9 For Jehovah’s portion is his people;

Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land,

And in the waste howling wilderness;

He compassed him about, he cared for him,

He kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle that stirreth up her nest,

That fluttereth over her young,

He spread abroad his wings, he took them,

He bare them on his pinions.

12 Jehovah alone did lead him,

And there was no foreign god with him.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth,

And he did eat the increase of the field;

And he made him to suck honey out of the rock,

And oil out of the flinty rock;

14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,

With fat of lambs,

And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the finest of the wheat;

And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.

15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:

Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek;

Then he forsook God who made him,

And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods;

With abominations provoked they him to anger.

17 They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God,

To gods that they knew not,

To new gods that came up of late,

Which your fathers dreaded not.

18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,

And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.

19 And Jehovah saw it, and abhorred them,

Because of the provocation of his sons and 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 perverse generation,

Children in whom is no faithfulness.

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 that are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger,

And burneth unto the lowest Sheol,

And devoureth the earth with its increase,

And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 I will heap evils upon them;

I will spend mine arrows upon them:

24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat

And bitter destruction;

And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them,

With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

25 Without shall the sword bereave,

And in the chambers terror;

It shall destroy both young man and virgin,

The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

26 I said, I would scatter them afar,

I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries should judge amiss,

Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,

And Jehovah hath not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel,

And there is no understanding in them.

29 Oh 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 Jehovah had delivered them up?

31 For their rock is not as our Rock,

Even our enemies themselves being judges.

32 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:

33 Their wine is the poison of serpents,

And the cruel venom of asps.

34 Is not this laid up in store with me,

Sealed up among my treasures?

35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense,

At the time when their foot shall slide:

For the day of their calamity is at hand,

And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

36 For Jehovah will judge his people,

And repent himself for his servants;

When he seeth that their power is gone,

And there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.

37 And he will say, Where are their gods,

The rock in which they took refuge;

38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices,

And drank the wine of their drink-offering?

Let them rise up and help you,

Let them 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;

And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

40 For I lift up my hand to heaven,

And say, As I live for ever,

41 If I whet my glittering sword,

And my hand take hold on judgment;

I will render vengeance to mine adversaries,

And will recompense them that hate me.

42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,

And my sword shall devour flesh;

With the blood of the slain and the captives,

From the head of the leaders of 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 make expiation for his land, for 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 heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, even all the words of this law. 47 For it is no 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 the Jordan to possess it.

48 And Jehovah spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 49 Get thee up into this mountain of 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 in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.

1 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.

2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

3 I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!

4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

5 They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.

6 Is this the way you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, "who made you and formed you?

7 Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. [^2]

9 For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

10 In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.

12 The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.

13 He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,

14 with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.

15 Jeshurun "grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.

16 They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.

17 They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God — gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.

18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

20 "I will hide my face from them," he said, "and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.

21 They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

23 "I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.

24 I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

25 In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.

26 I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory,

27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, 'Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.'"

28 They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.

29 If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!

30 How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

31 For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.

33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

34 "Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?

35 It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them."

36 The LORD will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free. [^4]

37 He will say: "Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,

38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!

39 "See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.

40 I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear: As surely as I live forever,

41 when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.

42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders."

43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people, ""for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people.

44 Moses came with Joshua "son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

45 When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

46 he said to them, "Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.

47 They are not just idle words for you —they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."

48 On that same day the LORD told Moses,

49 "Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.

50 There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

51 This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.

52 Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel."