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| [1]Hearken, ye heavens, and I will speak: and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. |
[1]`Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth! |
| [2]My doctrine shall drop as the rain, and my speech shall still as doth the dew, as the shower upon the herbs, and as the great rain upon the grass. |
[2]Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb, |
| [3]For I will publish the name of the Lord: give ye glory unto our God. |
[3]For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness to our God! |
| [4]Perfect is the work of the mighty God: for all his ways are judgment. God is true, and without wickedness: just, and righteous is he. |
[4]The Rock! -- perfect [is] His work, For all His ways [are] just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright [is] He. |
| [5]They have corrupted themselves toward him by their vice, not being his children, but a froward and crooked generation. |
[5]It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked! |
| [6]Do ye so reward the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and proportioned thee. |
[6]To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee. |
| [7]Remember the days of old: consider the years of so many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee: thine elders, and they will tell thee. |
[7]Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee: |
| [8]When the Most High God divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the borders of the people, according to the number of the children of Israel. |
[8]In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam -- He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel. |
| [9]For the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. |
[9]For Jehovah's portion [is] His people, Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance. |
| [10]He found him in the land of the wilderness, in a waste, and roaring wilderness: he led him about, he taught him, and kept him as the apple of his eye. |
[10]He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round -- He causeth him to understand -- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye. |
| [11]As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her birds, stretcheth out her wings, taketh them, and beareth them on her wings, |
[11]As an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings -- taketh them, Beareth them on its pinions; -- |
| [12]So the Lord alone led him and there was no strange god with him. |
[12]Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him. |
| [13]He carried him up to the high places of the earth, that he might eat the fruits of the fields, and he caused him to suck honey out of the stone and oil out of the hard rock: |
[13]He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock; |
| [14]Butter of kine, and milk of sheep with fat of the lambs, and rams fed in Bashan, and goats, with the fat of the grains of wheat, and the red liquor of the grape hast thou drunk. |
[14]Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams, sons of Bashan, And he-goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou dost drink wine! |
| [15]But he that should have been upright, when he waxed fat, spurned with his heel: thou art fat, thou art gross, thou art laden with fatness: therefore he forsook God that made him, and regarded not the strong God of his salvation. |
[15]And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat -- thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation. |
| [16]They provoked him with strange gods: they provoked him to anger with abominations. |
[16]They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry. |
| [17]They offered unto devils, not to God, but to gods whom they knew not: new gods that came newly up, whom their fathers feared not. |
[17]They sacrifice to demons -- no god! Gods they have not known -- New ones -- from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers! |
| [18]Thou hast forgotten the mighty God that begat thee, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. |
[18]The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee. |
| [19]The Lord then saw it, and was angry, for the provocation of his sons and of his daughters. |
[19]And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For 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 froward generation, children in whom is no faith. |
[20]And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what [is] their latter end; For a froward generation [are] they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness. |
| [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 which are no people: I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. |
[21]They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry. |
| [22]For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn unto the bottom of hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. |
[22]For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol -- the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains. |
| [23]I will spend plagues upon them: I will bestow mine arrows upon them. |
[23]I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them. |
| [24]They shall be burned with hunger, and consumed with heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the venom of serpents creeping in the dust. |
[24]Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust. |
| [25]The sword shall kill them without, and in the chambers fear: both the young man and the young woman, the suckling with the man of gray hair. |
[25]Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair. |
| [26]I have said, I would scatter them abroad: I would make their remembrance to cease from among men, |
[26]I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man; |
| [27]Save that I feared the fury of the enemy, lest their adversaries should wax proud, and lest they should say, Our high hand and not the Lord hath done all this: |
[27]If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this. |
| [28]For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. |
[28]For a nation lost to counsels [are] they, And there is no understanding in them. |
| [29]Oh that they were wise, then they would understand this: they would consider their latter end. |
[29]If they were wise -- They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end: |
| [30]How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their strong God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? |
[30]How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up? |
| [31]For their god is not as our God, even our enemies being judges. |
[31]For not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] judges!) |
| [32]For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters be bitter. |
[32]For of the vine of Sodom their vine [is], And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes of gall -- They have bitter clusters; |
| [33]Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps. |
[33]The poison of dragons [is] their wine And the fierce venom of asps. |
| [34]Is not this laid in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? |
[34]Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures? |
| [35]Vengeance and recompense are mine: their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them, make haste. |
[35]Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them. |
| [36]For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent toward his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and none shut up in hold nor left abroad. |
[36]For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth -- the going away of power, And none is restrained and left. |
| [37]When men shall say, Where are their gods, their mighty God in whom they trusted, |
[37]And He hath said, Where [are] their gods -- The rock in which they trusted; |
| [38]Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and did drink the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up, and help you: let him be your refuge. |
[38]Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and help you, Let it be for you a hiding-place! |
| [39]Behold now, for I, I am he, and there is no gods with me: I kill, and give life: I wound, and I make whole: neither is there any that can deliver out of mine hand. |
[39]See ye, now, that I -- I [am] He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer, |
| [40]For I lift up mine hand to heaven, and say, I live forever. |
[40]For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age! |
| [41]If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. |
[41]If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay! |
| [42]I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, (and my sword shall eat flesh) for the blood of the slain, and of the captives, when I begin to take vengeance of the enemy. |
[42]I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy. |
| [43]Ye nations, praise his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will execute vengeance upon his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. |
[43]Sing ye nations -- [with] his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He turneth back on His adversaries, And hath pardoned His land -- His people.' |
| [44]Then Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the audience of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun. |
[44]And Moses cometh and speaketh all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea son of Nun; |
| [45]When Moses had made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel, |
[45]and Moses finisheth to speak all these words unto all Israel, |
| [46]Then he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify against you this day, that ye may command them unto your children, that they may observe and do all the words of this law. |
[46]and saith unto them, `Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law, |
| [47]For it is no vain word concerning you, but it is your life, and by this word ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. |
[47]for it [is] not a vain thing for you, for it [is] your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.' |
| [48]And the Lord spake unto Moses the self same day, saying, |
[48]And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in this self-same day, saying, |
| [49]Go up into this mountain of Abarim, unto the 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, |
[49]`Go up unto this mount Abarim, mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, which [is] on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession; |
| [50]And die in the mount which thou goest up unto, and thou shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people, |
[50]and die in the mount whither thou art going up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother hath died in the mount Hor, and is gathered unto his people: |
| [51]Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel, at the waters of Meribah, at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin: for ye sanctified me not among the children of Israel. |
[51]`Because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin -- because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the sons of Israel; |
| [52]Thou shalt therefore see the land before thee, but shalt not go thither, I mean, into the land which I give the children of Israel. |
[52]but over-against thou seest the land, and thither thou dost not go in, unto the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel.' |