King James Version · full chapter
Deuteronomy 32
52 verses · King James Version
- 1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:1
- 2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:2
- 3Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:3
- 4the Rock, his work perfect: for all his ways judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right he.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:4
- 5They have corrupted themselves, their spot not of his children: a perverse and crooked generation.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:5
- 6Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? not he thy father hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:6
- 7Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:7
- 8When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:8
- 9For the LORD’S portion his people; Jacob the lot of his inheritance.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:9
- 10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:10
- 11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:11
- 12the LORD alone did lead him, and no strange god with him.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:12
- 13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:13
- 14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:14
- 15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered then he forsook God made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:15
- 16They provoked him to jealousy with strange with abominations provoked they him to anger.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:16
- 17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:17
- 18Of the Rock begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:18
- 19And when the LORD saw he abhorred because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:19
- 20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end for they a very froward generation, children in whom no faith.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:20
- 21They have moved me to jealousy with not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:21
- 22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:22
- 23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:23
- 24burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:24
- 25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:25
- 26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:26
- 27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:27
- 28For they a nation void of counsel, neither understanding in them.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:28
- 29O that they were wise, they understood this, they would consider their latter end!Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:29
- 30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:30
- 31For their rock not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves judges.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:31
- 32For their vine of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes grapes of gall, their clusters bitter:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:32
- 33Their wine the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:33
- 34not this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:34
- 35To me vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in time: for the day of their calamity at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:35
- 36For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that power is gone, and none shut up, or left.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:36
- 37And he shall say, Where their gods, rock in whom they trusted,Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:37
- 38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, be your protection.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:38
- 39See now that I, I, he, and no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither that can deliver out of my hand.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:39
- 40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:40
- 41If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:41
- 42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:42
- 43Rejoice, O ye nations, his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, to his people.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:43
- 44And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:44
- 45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:45
- 46And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:46
- 47For it not a vain thing for you; because it your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:47
- 48And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:48
- 49Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, mount Nebo, which in the land of Moab, that over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:49
- 50And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:50
- 51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:51
- 52Yet thou shalt see the land before but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.Compare translations of Deuteronomy 32:52