32  “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.  ² My instruction will fall as the rain;My words will trickle as the dew,As gentle rains upon grassAnd as copious showers upon vegetation.  ³ For I will declare the name of Jehovah.+ Tell about the greatness of our God!+  ⁴ The Rock, perfect is his activity,+For all his ways are justice.+ A God of faithfulness+ who is never unjust;+Righteous and upright is he.+  ⁵ They are the ones who have acted corruptly.+ They are not his children, the defect is their own.+ They are a crooked and twisted generation!+  ⁶ Is this the way that you should treat Jehovah,+O foolish and unwise people?+ Is he not your Father who caused your existence,+The One who made you and firmly established you?  ⁷ Remember the days of old;Consider the years of past generations. Ask your father, and he can tell you;+Your elders, and they will inform you.  ⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,+When he divided the sons of Adam* from one another,+He fixed the boundary of the peoples+With regard for the number of the sons of Israel.+  ⁹ For Jehovah’s people are his portion;+Jacob is his inheritance.+ ¹⁰ He found him in a wilderness land+And in an empty, howling desert.+ He protectively encircled him, took care of him,+And safeguarded him as the pupil of his eye.+ ¹¹ Just as an eagle stirs up its nest,Hovers over its fledglings,Spreading out its wings, taking them,Carrying them on its pinions,+ ¹² Jehovah alone kept leading him;*+No foreign god was with him.+ ¹³ He made him ride upon earth’s high places,+So that he ate the produce of the field.+ He nourished him with honey from the cragAnd oil out of a flinty rock, ¹⁴ Butter of the herd and milk of the flock,Together with the choicest* sheep,And rams of Baʹshan, and he-goats,Together with the finest* wheat;+And you drank wine from the blood* of grapes. ¹⁵ When Jeshʹu·run* grew fat, he kicked out rebelliously. You have grown fat, you have become stout, you have become bloated.+ So he forsook God, who made him,+And despised the Rock of his salvation. ¹⁶ They incited him to fury with foreign gods;+They were offending him with detestable things.+ ¹⁷ They were sacrificing to demons, not to God,+To gods that they had not known,New ones that came along recently,To gods that your forefathers did not know. ¹⁸ You forgot the Rock+ who fathered you,And you did not remember the God who gave birth to you.+ ¹⁹ When Jehovah saw it, he rejected them+Because his sons and his daughters offended him. ²⁰ So he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;+I will see what will become of them. For they are a perverse generation,+Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.+ ²¹ They have incited me to fury* with what is not a god;+They have offended me with their worthless idols.+ So I will incite them to jealousy with what is not a people;+I will offend them with a foolish nation.+ ²² For my anger has kindled a fire+That will burn to the depths of the Grave,*+And it will consume the earth and its produceAnd will set ablaze the foundations of mountains. ²³ I will increase their calamities;I will use up my arrows on them. ²⁴ They will be exhausted from hunger+And eaten up by burning fever and bitter destruction.+ I will send the teeth of beasts against them+And the venom of reptiles of the dust. ²⁵ Outside, a sword will bereave them;+Inside, there is terror+For both young man and virgin,Infant together with gray-haired man.+ ²⁶ I would have said: “I will scatter them;I will make the memory of them cease from among men,” ²⁷ If not for my dread of the enemy’s reaction,+Because the adversaries might misconstrue it.+ They might say: “Our power has triumphed;+It was not Jehovah who did all of this.” ²⁸ For they are a nation devoid of sense,*And there is no understanding among them.+ ²⁹ If only they were wise!+ They would ponder over this.+ They would think about their outcome.+ ³⁰ How could one chase after 1,000,And two put 10,000 to flight?+ Not unless their Rock had sold them+And Jehovah had surrendered them. ³¹ For their rock is not like our Rock,+Even our enemies have understood this.+ ³² For their vine is from the vine of SodʹomAnd from the terraces of Go·morʹrah.+ Their grapes are grapes of poison,Their clusters are bitter.+ ³³ Their wine is the venom of serpents,The cruel poison of cobras. ³⁴ Is this not stored up with me,Sealed up in my storehouse?+ ³⁵ Vengeance is mine, and retribution,+At the appointed time when their foot slips,+For the day of their disaster is near,And what awaits them will come quickly.’ ³⁶ For Jehovah will judge his people,+And he will feel pity for* his servants+When he sees that their strength has waned,And that only the helpless and weak remain. ³⁷ Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,+The rock in whom they sought refuge, ³⁸ Who used to eat the fat of their sacrifices,*To drink the wine of their drink offerings?+ Let them rise up and help you. Let them become your place of refuge. ³⁹ See now that I—I am he,+And there are no gods apart from me.+ I put to death, and I make alive.+ I wound,+ and I will heal,+And no one can rescue from my hand.+ ⁴⁰ For I raise my hand to heaven,And I swear: “As surely as I live forever,”+ ⁴¹ If I sharpen my flashing swordAnd prepare my hand for judgment,+I will pay back vengeance on my adversaries+And bring retribution to those who hate me. ⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood,And my sword will eat flesh,With the blood of the slain and the captives,With the heads of the leaders of the enemy.’ ⁴³ Be glad, you nations, with his people,+For he will avenge the blood of his servants,+And he will repay vengeance to his adversaries+And will make atonement for* the land of his people.” ⁴⁴ Thus Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people,+ he and Ho·sheʹa*+ the son of Nun. ⁴⁵ After Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, ⁴⁶ he said to them: “Take to heart all the words of my warning to you today,+ so that you may command your sons to take care to do all the words of this Law.+ ⁴⁷ For this is no empty word for you, but it means your life,+ and by this word you may live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.” ⁴⁸ Jehovah spoke to Moses on this same day, saying: ⁴⁹ “Go up into this mountain of Abʹa·rim,+ Mount Neʹbo,+ which is in the land of Moʹab, which faces toward Jerʹi·cho, and view the land of Caʹnaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.+ ⁵⁰ Then you will die on the mountain you are about to ascend, and be gathered to your people,* just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor+ and was gathered to his people, ⁵¹ because both of you were unfaithful to me among the Israelites at the waters of Merʹi·bah+ of Kaʹdesh in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not sanctify me before the people of Israel.+ ⁵² You will see the land from a distance, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.”+