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."

1 [Audite, cli, qu loquor :audiat terra verba oris mei.2 Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea,fluat ut ros eloquium meum,quasi imber super herbam,et quasi still super gramina.3 Quia nomen Domini invocabo :date magnificentiam Deo nostro.]4 [Dei perfecta sunt opera,et omnes vi ejus judicia :Deus fidelis, et absque ulla iniquitate,justus et rectus.5 Peccaverunt ei, et non filii ejus in sordibus :generatio prava atque perversa.6 Hccine reddis Domino,popule stulte et insipiens ?numquid non ipse est pater tuus,qui possedit te, et fecit, et creavit te ?7 Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas :interroga patrem tuum,et annuntiabit tibi :majores tuos, et dicent tibi.8 Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes,quando separabat filios Adam,constituit terminos populorumjuxta numerum filiorum Isral.9 Pars autem Domini, populus ejus :Jacob funiculus hreditatis ejus.10 Invenit eum in terra deserta,in loco horroris, et vast solitudinis :circumduxit eum, et docuit :et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui.11 Sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos,et super eos volitans,expandit alas suas, et assumpsit eum,atque portavit in humeris suis.12 Dominus solus dux ejus fuit,et non erat cum eo deus alienus :13 constituit eum super excelsam terram,ut comederet fructus agrorum :ut sugeret mel de petra,oleumque de saxo durissimo ;14 butyrum de armento, et lac de ovibuscum adipe agnorum,et arietum filiorum Basan : et hircoscum medulla tritici,et sanguinem uv biberet meracissimum.]15 [Incrassatus est dilectus, et recalcitravit :incrassatus, impinguatus, dilatatus,dereliquit Deum factorem suum,et recessit a Deo salutari suo.16 Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis,et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.17 Immolaverunt dmoniis et non Deo,diis quos ignorabant :novi recentesque venerunt,quos non coluerunt patres eorum :18 Deum qui te genuit dereliquisti,et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui.]19 [Vidit Dominus, et ad iracundiam concitatus est :quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et fili.20 Et ait : Abscondam faciem meam ab eis,et considerabo novissima eorum :generatio enim perversa est,et infideles filii.21 Ipsi me provocaverunt in eo qui non erat Deus,et irritaverunt in vanitatibus suis :et ego provocabo eos in eo qui non est populus,et in gente stulta irritabo illos.22 Ignis succensus est in furore meo,et ardebit usque ad inferni novissima :devorabitque terram cum germine suo,et montium fundamenta comburet.23 Congregabo super eos mala,et sagittas meas complebo in eis.24 Consumentur fame,et devorabunt eos aves morsu amarissimo :dentes bestiarum immittam in eos,cum furore trahentium super terram, atque serpentium.25 Foris vastabit eos gladius,et intus pavor,juvenem simul ac virginem,lactentem cum homine sene.]26 [Dixi : Ubinam sunt ?cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum.27 Sed propter iram inimicorum distuli :ne forte superbirent hostes eorum,et dicerent : Manus nostra excelsa,et non Dominus, fecit hc omnia.28 Gens absque consilio est,et sine prudentia.29 Utinam saperent, et intelligerent,ac novissima providerent.30 Quomodo persequatur unus mille,et duo fugent decem millia ?nonne ideo, quia Deus suus vendidit eos,et Dominus conclusit illos ?31 Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eorum :et inimici nostri sunt judices.32 De vinea Sodomorum, vinea eorum,et de suburbanis Gomorrh :uva eorum, uva fellis,et botri amarissimi.33 Fel draconum vinum eorum,et venenum aspidum insanabile.34 Nonne hc condita sunt apud me,et signata in thesauris meis ?35 Mea est ultio, et ego retribuam in tempore,ut labatur pes eorum :juxta est dies perditionis,et adesse festinant tempora.36 Judicabit Dominus populum suum,et in servis suis miserebitur :videbit quod infirmata sit manus,et clausi quoque defecerunt,residuique consumpti sunt.]37 [Et dicet : Ubi sunt dii eorum,in quibus habebant fiduciam ?38 de quorum victimis comedebant adipes,et bibebant vinum libaminum :surgant, et opitulentur vobis,et in necessitate vos protegant.39 Videte quod ego sim solus,et non sit alius deus prter me :ego occidam, et ego vivere faciam :percutiam, et ego sanabo,et non est qui de manu mea possit eruere.40 Levabo ad clum manum meam,et dicam : Vivo ego in ternum.41 Si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum,et arripuerit judicium manus mea :reddam ultionem hostibus meis,et his qui oderunt me retribuam.42 Inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine,et gladius meus devorabit carnes ;de cruore occisorum, de captivitate,nudati inimicorum capitis.43 Laudate, gentes, populum ejus,quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur :et vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum,et propitius erit terr populi sui.]44 Venit ergo Moyses, et locutus est omnia verba cantici hujus in auribus populi, ipse et Josue filius Nun. 45 Complevitque omnes sermones istos, loquens ad universum Isral, 46 et dixit ad eos : Ponite corda vestra in omnia verba, qu ego testificor vobis hodie : ut mandetis ea filiis vestris custodire et facere, et implere universa qu scripta sunt legis hujus : 47 quia non incassum prcepta sunt vobis, sed ut singuli in eis viverent : qu facientes longo perseveretis tempore in terra, ad quam, Jordane transmisso, ingredimini possidendam. 48 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in eadem die, dicens : 49 Ascende in montem istum Abarim, id est, transitum, in montem Nebo, qui est in terra Moab contra Jericho : et vide terram Chanaan, quam ego tradam filiis Isral obtinendam, et morere in monte. 50 Quem conscendens jungeris populis tuis, sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor, et appositus populis suis : 51 quia prvaricati estis contra me in medio filiorum Isral ad aquas contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin : et non sanctificastis me inter filios Isral. 52 E contra videbis terram, et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Isral.