Deuteronomy 32

1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.Cross-references: Deut 4:26 · Deut 30:19 · Deut 31:28 · Ps 49:1 · Ps 50:4 · Isa 1:2 · +3 more

2My 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:4 · Job 29:22 · Ps 72:6 · Isa 55:10 · Hos 6:4 · Hos 14:5 · +4 more

3For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!Cross-references: Ex 3:13 · Ex 6:3 · Ex 20:24 · Ex 33:19 · Ex 34:5 · Deut 3:24 · +14 more

4The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.Cross-references: Gen 1:31 · Gen 18:25 · Ex 34:6 · Deut 7:9 · Deut 10:18 · Deut 32:15 · +48 more

5They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.Cross-references: Gen 6:12 · Ex 32:7 · Deut 4:16 · Deut 9:24 · Deut 31:29 · Judg 2:19 · +12 more

6Is 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.Cross-references: Ex 4:22 · Ex 15:16 · Deut 1:31 · Deut 32:15 · Deut 32:18 · Job 10:8 · +27 more

7Remember 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.Cross-references: Ex 13:14 · Deut 4:32 · Judg 6:13 · Job 8:8 · Ps 10:6 · Ps 44:1 · +7 more

8When 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.Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Gen 10:25 · Gen 11:8 · Gen 15:18 · Num 24:16 · Ps 7:17 · +10 more

9For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.Cross-references: Ex 15:16 · Ex 19:5 · Deut 26:18 · 1Sam 10:1 · 1Ki 8:51 · 1Ki 8:53 · +8 more

10He 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.Cross-references: Deut 4:36 · Deut 8:15 · Neh 9:19 · Ps 17:8 · Ps 32:7 · Ps 107:4 · +8 more

11As 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.Cross-references: Ex 19:4 · Isa 31:5 · Isa 40:31 · Isa 46:4 · Isa 63:9 · Heb 11:3 · +1 more

12Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.Cross-references: Deut 1:31 · Deut 32:39 · Neh 9:12 · Ps 27:11 · Ps 78:14 · Ps 78:52 · +6 more

13He 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;Cross-references: Deut 33:26 · Deut 33:29 · Job 29:6 · Ps 81:16 · Isa 48:21 · Isa 58:14 · +2 more

14butter 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.Cross-references: Gen 18:8 · Gen 49:11 · Judg 5:25 · 2Sam 17:29 · Job 20:17 · Ps 22:12 · +9 more

15But 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.Cross-references: Deut 6:10 · Deut 8:10 · Deut 31:16 · Deut 31:20 · Deut 32:4 · Deut 32:6 · +22 more

16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.Cross-references: Lev 18:27 · Deut 5:9 · Deut 7:25 · 1Ki 14:22 · 2Ki 23:13 · Ps 78:58 · +2 more

17They 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.Cross-references: Lev 17:7 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 32:21 · Judg 5:8 · Ps 106:37 · Isa 44:8 · +5 more

18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.Cross-references: Deut 6:12 · Deut 8:11 · Deut 8:14 · Deut 8:19 · Deut 32:4 · Deut 32:15 · +8 more

19Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.Cross-references: Lev 26:11 · Judg 2:14 · Ps 5:4 · Ps 10:3 · Ps 78:59 · Ps 82:6 · +8 more

20He 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.Cross-references: Deut 31:17 · Deut 31:29 · Deut 32:5 · 2Chr 20:20 · Job 13:24 · Job 34:29 · +13 more

21They 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.Cross-references: Deut 32:16 · 1Sam 12:21 · 1Ki 16:13 · 1Ki 16:26 · Ps 31:6 · Ps 78:58 · +11 more

22For 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.Cross-references: Num 16:35 · Deut 29:20 · Job 9:5 · Ps 18:7 · Ps 21:9 · Ps 46:2 · +26 more

23“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.Cross-references: Lev 26:18 · Lev 26:24 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:21 · Ps 7:12 · Isa 24:17 · +6 more

24They 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.Cross-references: Gen 3:14 · Gen 49:15 · Lev 26:22 · Deut 28:22 · Deut 28:53 · Ps 18:12 · +14 more

25Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · 2Chr 36:17 · Isa 30:16 · Jer 9:21 · Lam 1:20 · Lam 2:19 · +3 more

26I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Lev 26:38 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:37 · Deut 28:64 · +3 more

27were 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.’”Cross-references: Ex 32:12 · Num 14:15 · Josh 7:9 · 1Sam 12:22 · Ps 115:1 · Ps 140:8 · +12 more

28For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.Cross-references: Deut 32:6 · Job 28:28 · Ps 81:12 · Prov 1:7 · Isa 27:11 · Isa 29:14 · +6 more

29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!Cross-references: Deut 5:29 · Ps 81:13 · Ps 107:15 · Ps 107:43 · Isa 10:3 · Isa 47:7 · +8 more

30How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?Cross-references: Lev 26:8 · Josh 23:10 · Judg 2:14 · Judg 3:8 · Judg 7:22 · 1Sam 14:15 · +9 more

31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.Cross-references: Ex 14:25 · Num 23:8 · Num 23:23 · 1Sam 2:2 · 1Sam 4:8 · Ezra 1:3 · +6 more

32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.Cross-references: Deut 29:18 · Isa 1:10 · Isa 5:4 · Jer 2:21 · Lam 4:6 · Ezek 16:45 · +2 more

33Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.Cross-references: Job 20:14 · Ps 58:4 · Ps 140:3 · Jer 8:14 · Rom 3:13

34“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?Cross-references: Job 14:17 · Jer 2:22 · Hos 13:12 · Rom 2:5 · 1Cor 4:5 · Rev 20:12

35Vengeance 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.”Cross-references: Deut 32:43 · Ps 73:17 · Ps 94:1 · Prov 4:19 · Isa 5:19 · Isa 8:15 · +16 more

36For 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.Cross-references: Deut 30:1 · Judg 2:18 · Judg 10:15 · 1Ki 14:10 · 1Ki 21:21 · 2Ki 9:8 · +12 more

37He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,Cross-references: Judg 10:14 · 2Ki 3:13 · Jer 2:28

38which 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.Cross-references: Lev 21:21 · Judg 10:14 · Ps 50:13 · Ezek 16:18 · Hos 2:8 · Zeph 2:11

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.Cross-references: Deut 4:35 · 1Sam 2:6 · 2Ki 5:7 · Job 5:18 · Job 10:7 · Ps 50:22 · +16 more

40For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,Cross-references: Gen 14:22 · Ex 6:8 · Num 14:28 · Jer 4:2 · Heb 6:17 · Rev 10:5

41if 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.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Deut 5:9 · Deut 32:35 · Ps 7:12 · Isa 1:24 · Isa 27:1 · +12 more

42I 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.”Cross-references: Deut 32:23 · Job 13:24 · Ps 45:5 · Ps 68:23 · Isa 34:6 · Jer 16:10 · +6 more

43Rejoice, 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.Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Deut 32:35 · 1Ki 8:43 · 2Ki 9:7 · Job 13:24 · Ps 22:27 · +22 more

44Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.Cross-references: Num 13:8 · Num 13:16 · Deut 31:22 · Deut 31:30

45Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel.

46He 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.Cross-references: Deut 4:9 · Deut 6:6 · Deut 11:18 · 1Chr 22:19 · Prov 3:1 · Ezek 40:4 · +2 more

47For 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.”Cross-references: Lev 18:5 · Deut 30:19 · Prov 3:1 · Prov 3:18 · Prov 3:22 · Prov 4:22 · +9 more

48Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,Cross-references: Num 27:12

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.Cross-references: Num 27:12 · Num 33:47 · Deut 34:1 · Isa 33:17 · 2Cor 5:1

50Die 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;Cross-references: Gen 15:15 · Gen 25:8 · Gen 25:17 · Gen 49:33 · Num 20:24 · Num 33:38 · +1 more

51because 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.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · Num 20:11 · Num 20:24 · Num 27:14 · Deut 3:23 · 1Ki 13:21 · +2 more

52For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”Cross-references: Num 27:12 · Deut 1:37 · Deut 3:27 · Deut 32:49 · Deut 34:1 · Heb 11:13 · +1 more