1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine will drop as the rain.
My speech will condense as the dew,
as the misty rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.
3 For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name.
Ascribe greatness to our God!
4 The Rock: his work is perfect,
for all his ways are just.
A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
just and right is he.
5 They have dealt corruptly with him.
They are not his children, because of their defect.
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Is this the way you repay Yahweh,
foolish and unwise people?
Isn’t he your father who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.
7 Remember the days of old.
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
your elders, and they will tell you.
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 Yahweh’s portion is his people.
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land,
in the waste howling wilderness.
He surrounded him.
He cared for him.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
that flutters over her young,
he spread abroad his wings,
he took them,
he bore them on his feathers.
12 Yahweh alone led him.
There was no foreign god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He ate the increase of the field.
He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
oil out of the flinty rock;
14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
with the finest of the wheat.
From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
You have grown fat.
You have grown thick.
You have become sleek.
Then he abandoned God who made him,
and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
They provoked him to anger with abominations.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods that they didn’t know,
to new gods that came up recently,
which your fathers didn’t dread.
18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
19 Yahweh saw and abhorred,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
20 He said, "I will hide my face from them.
I will see what their end will 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.
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in my anger,
that burns to the lowest Sheol,
devours the earth with its increase,
and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
23 "I will heap evils on them.
I will spend my arrows on them.
24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured with burning heat
and bitter destruction.
I will send the teeth of animals on them,
with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25 Outside the sword will bereave,
and in the rooms,
terror on both young man and virgin,
the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
26 I said that I would scatter them afar.
I would make their memory to cease from among men;
27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted,
Yahweh has not done all this.’"
28 For they are a nation void of counsel.
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 could one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and Yahweh had delivered them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock,
even our enemies themselves concede.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
of the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison grapes.
Their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents,
the cruel venom of asps.
34 "Isn’t this laid up in store with me,
sealed up among my treasures?
35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
at the time when their foot slides,
for the day of their calamity is at hand.
Their doom rushes at them."
36 For Yahweh will judge his people,
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
37 He will say, "Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,
38 which ate 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 myself am he.
There is no god with me.
I kill and I make alive.
I wound and I heal.
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare,
as I live forever,
41 if I sharpen my glittering sword,
my hand grasps it in judgment;
I will take vengeance on my adversaries,
and will repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
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, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
He will take vengeance on his adversaries,
and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 45 Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel. 46 He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it."
48 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying, 49 "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession. 50 Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people; 51 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel. 52 For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."
1 Luister, o hemele, dat ek kan spreek, en laat die aarde hoor die woorde van my mond.
2 Laat my leer drup soos die reën, my woord vloei soos die dou, soos reëndruppels op die grasspruitjies en soos reënbuie op die plante.
3 Want die Naam van die HERE roep ek uit: Gee grootheid aan onse God!
4 Die Rots -- volkome is sy werk; want al sy weë is strafgerigte; 'n God van trou en sonder onreg; regverdig en reg is Hy.
5 Hulle het verderflik teen Hom gehandel -- die wat sy seuns nie was nie, maar hulle skandvlek -- 'n verkeerde en verdraaide geslag.
6 Durf julle dit die HERE vergelde, o dwase en onwyse volk? Is Hy nie jou Vader wat jou geskape het nie; het Hy jou nie gemaak en jou toeberei nie?
7 Dink aan die dae van die ou tyd, let op die jare, van geslag tot geslag; vra jou vader, dat hy jou dit bekend maak; die ou mense, dat hulle jou dit sê.
8 Toe die Allerhoogste aan die nasies 'n erfdeel gegee het, toe Hy die mensekinders van mekaar geskei het, het Hy die grense van die volke vasgestel volgens die getal van die kinders van Israel.
9 Want die HERE se deel is sy volk, Jakob is sy afgemete erfdeel.
10 Hy het hom gevind in 'n woestynland en in 'n woeste wêreld, vol gehuil van die wildernis; Hy het hom omring, op hom ag gegee, hom bewaak soos sy oogappel.
11 Soos 'n arend sy nes opwek, oor sy kleintjies sweef, sy vlerke uitsprei, hulle opneem, hulle dra op sy vleuels --
12 die HERE alleen het hom gelei, en daar was geen vreemde god by hom nie.
13 Hy het hom laat ry op die hoogtes van die aarde, en hy het die opbrings van die veld geëet; en Hy het hom heuning uit die rots laat suig en olie uit die klipharde rots;
14 dikmelk van beeste en melk van kleinvee, met die vet van lammers en ramme; stiere van Basan en bokke, met die niervet van koring; en druiwebloed het jy gedrink, skuimende wyn.
15 Toe het Jesurun vet geword en agterop geskop -- jy het vet geword, dik geword, spekvet geword -- en hy het God verwerp wat hom gemaak het, en die steenrots van sy heil geminag.
16 Hulle het deur vreemde gode sy ywer gewek; deur gruwels Hom geterg.
17 Hulle het aan die duiwels geoffer, wat nie-God is, gode wat aan hulle nie bekend was nie; nuwes wat kort gelede opgekom het, vir wie julle vaders nie gehuiwer het nie.
18 Die Steenrots wat jou verwek het, het jy veronagsaam; en jy het die God vergeet wat jou voortgebring het.
19 Toe die HERE dit sien, het Hy hulle verwerp, uit ergernis oor sy seuns en dogters.
20 En Hy het gesê: Ek wil my aangesig vir hulle verberg, Ek wil sien wat hulle einde sal wees; want 'n heeltemal verkeerde geslag is hulle, kinders in wie geen trou is nie.
21 Hulle het my ywer gewek deur wat nie-God is, My geterg deur hulle nietige afgode. Âk sal dan hulle ywer wek deur die wat 'n nie-volk is, deur 'n dwase nasie sal Ek hulle terg.
22 Want 'n vuur is aangesteek in my toorn en het gebrand tot in die doderyk daaronder, en dit het die aarde met sy opbrings verteer en die fondamente van die berge aan die brand gesteek.
23 Ek sal onheile op hulle ophoop; my pyle sal Ek op hulle wegskiet.
24 As hulle uitgeput is van honger en verteer deur koorsgloed en dodelike siekte, sal Ek die tand van wilde diere teen hulle loslaat met die gif van stofkruipers.
25 Buitekant sal die swaard beroof, en in die binnekamers die verskrikking; die jongman sowel as die jongedogter, die suigling saam met die grysaard.
26 Ek sou gesê het: Ek wil hulle wegblaas, hulle gedagtenis onder die mense uitroei --
27 as Ek nie vir die terging van die vyand bedug was nie, dat hulle teëstanders dit sou misverstaan en sê: Ons hand was hoog, en die HERE het dit alles nie gedoen nie.
28 Want 'n nasie van verlore raadsplanne is hulle, en daar is geen verstand in hulle nie.
29 Was hulle wys, hulle sou dit insien, hulle sou op hulle einde let.
30 Hoe kan een dan duisend agtervolg en twee tien duisend op die vlug jaag, was dit nie dat hul steenrots hulle verkoop en die HERE hulle oorgelewer het nie!
31 Want hulle steenrots is nie soos ons Steenrots nie -- ja, ons vyande self is skeidsregters!
32 Want hulle wingerdstok is uit die wingerdstok van Sodom en uit die wingerde van Gomorra; hulle druiwe is giftige druiwe, bitter trosse dra hulle.
33 Hulle wyn is slanggif en wrede addergif.
34 Is dit nie by My opgegaar, in my skatkamers verseël nie?
35 My kom die wraak toe en die vergelding, op die tyd as hulle voet sal wankel; want die dag van hulle ondergang is naby, en wat oor hulle beskik is, kom gou.
36 Want die HERE sal aan sy volk reg verskaf, en Hy sal medelyde hê met sy knegte as Hy sien dat hulle vashouplek weg is en dit met almal sonder uitsondering gedaan is.
37 Dan sal Hy sê: Waar is hulle gode, die steenrots waarin hulle toevlug geneem het,
38 wat die vet van hulle slagoffers geëet het, die wyn van hulle drankoffer gedrink het? Laat hulle opstaan en julle help, dat daar oor julle 'n beskerming kan wees!
39 Aanskou nou dat dit Ek is en dat daar geen god naas My is nie; Ek maak dood en maak lewend, Ek het verbrysel en Ek genees; en daar is niemand wat uit my hand red nie.
40 Want Ek sal my hand na die hemel ophef en sê: So waar as Ek ewig leef --
41 as Ek my glinsterende swaard skerp gemaak het en my hand na die strafgerig gryp, sal Ek wraak oefen op my teëstanders en my haters vergelde.
42 Ek sal my pyle dronk maak van bloed, en my swaard sal vlees eet: van die bloed van hom wat verslaan en gevang is, van die kop van die vyand se aanvoerders.
43 Jubel, o nasies, oor sy volk, want Hy sal die bloed van sy knegte wreek, en Hy sal wraak oefen op sy teëstanders en versoening doen vir sy land en sy volk.
44 En Moses het gekom en al die woorde van hierdie lied voor die ore van die volk gespreek, hy en Hos,a, die seun van Nun.
45 En toe Moses met al hierdie woorde die hele Israel klaar toegespreek het,
46 sê hy vir hulle: Gee ag op al die woorde waarmee ek julle vandag waarsku, dat julle dit jul kinders beveel om al die woorde van hierdie wet sorgvuldig te hou.
47 Want dit is geen vergeefse woord vir julle nie, maar dit is julle lewe; en deur hierdie woord sal julle die dae verleng in die land waarheen julle deur die Jordaan trek om dit in besit te neem.
48 Daarna het die HERE op daardie selfde dag met Moses gespreek en gesê:
49 Klim op hierdie gebergte Ab rim, die berg Nebo, wat in die land Moab is, wat teenoor J,rigo lê, en aanskou die land Kana„n wat Ek aan die kinders van Israel as besitting sal gee;
50 en sterwe op die berg waarheen jy opklim, en word versamel by jou volksgenote, soos jou broer A„ron gesterf het op die berg Hor en versamel is by sy volksgenote,
51 omdat julle onder die kinders van Israel ontrou teen My gehandel het by die twiswater van Kades, in die woestyn Sin, omdat julle My nie geheilig het onder die kinders van Israel nie.
52 Want reg voor sal jy die land sien, maar jy sal daar nie inkom, in die land wat Ek aan die kinders van Israel sal gee nie.