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Deuteronomy Outline

      • Song of Moses (1-47)

        • Jehovah, the Rock (4)

        • Israel forgets its Rock (18)

        • “Vengeance is mine” (35)

        • “Be glad, you nations, with his people” (43)

      • Moses to die on Mount Nebo (48-52)

Deuteronomy 32:1

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    bf 526

Deuteronomy 32:2

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    6/2020, p. 10

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 624, 1209

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 729-730

    The Watchtower (Study),

    4/2016, pp. 3-4

    Awake!,

    5/22/1995, p. 31

  • Publications Index

    w20.06 10; it-1 624, 1209; it-2 729-730; w16.04 3-4; g95 5/22 31;

    ad 448; w66 366, 395; w62 54, 606; w39 381; w34 41; w33 281; pp 130

Deuteronomy 32:3

Marginal References

  • +Joh 17:26
  • +1Ch 29:11; Ps 145:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    6/2020, pp. 10-11

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 324

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 466-467

  • Publications Index

    w20.06 10-11; it-1 324; it-2 466-467;

    ad 1202; ns 239; lg 26

Deuteronomy 32:4

Marginal References

  • +2Sa 22:31; Ps 18:2; 19:7; Jas 1:17
  • +Ps 33:5
  • +De 7:9; 1Pe 4:19
  • +De 25:16
  • +Ge 18:25

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Bible Questions Answered, article 125

    Close to Jehovah, pp. 110-112

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 339, 817

    The Watchtower,

    5/1/2009, p. 14

    9/15/2004, p. 27

    3/1/1989, pp. 19-22

  • Publications Index

    w24.12 31; cl 110, 112; it-1 339, 817; w09 5/1 14; w04 9/15 27; w89 3/1 19-22;

    w83 6/15 12; g80 4/8 16; w77 234; w76 338, 349; hs 37-38; gc 11; w74 528; w73 133; w73 316; w73 440-441; w71 357-358; w71 497; ad 481, 595, 1389, 1394, 1407, 1444, 1450; w65 230, 716; im 153; g64 5/8 6; g64 7/22 27; g64 8/8 6; w63 214; g63 1/8 28; g60 7/22 27; w59 677; w54 121; nh 70; lg 26; w49 13; w48 148; tf 269; w34 3, 184, 214; jh 341

Deuteronomy 32:5

Marginal References

  • +De 31:27; Jg 2:19; Ps 14:1
  • +Isa 1:4
  • +Ps 78:8; Lu 9:41

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Awake!,

    3/22/2002, p. 30

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1988, p. 10

  • Publications Index

    g02 3/22 30; w88 12/15 10;

    g80 4/8 6; g77 5/8 27; ad 641, 1028, 1389; ev 139; g66 10/8 7; im 153; w64 390; w48 148; w34 184; jh 300

Deuteronomy 32:6

Marginal References

  • +Isa 1:2
  • +Jer 4:22
  • +Ex 4:22; De 32:18; Isa 63:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 324

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/2008, p. 5

  • Publications Index

    it-1 324; w08 9/1 5;

    w78 8/15 5

Deuteronomy 32:7

Marginal References

  • +Ex 13:14; Ps 44:1

Deuteronomy 32:8

Footnotes

  • *

    Or possibly, “the human race.”

Marginal References

  • +Ge 10:5; Ps 115:16
  • +Ge 11:9
  • +De 2:5, 19; Ac 17:26
  • +Ge 15:18; Ex 23:31

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 358, 913-914

  • Publications Index

    it-1 358, 913-914;

    w74 726; w73 432; ad 254, 1047; w62 687; w49 100

Deuteronomy 32:9

Marginal References

  • +Ex 19:5; De 7:6
  • +Ps 78:71

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ad 672; jh 266, 277; w33 165, 247; pp 50

Deuteronomy 32:10

Marginal References

  • +De 8:14, 15
  • +Jer 2:6
  • +Ne 9:19, 20
  • +Zec 2:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 789

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 714-715

  • Publications Index

    it-1 789; it-2 714-715;

    pm 166; ad 551, 672, 1359, 1656; w39 9

Deuteronomy 32:11

Marginal References

  • +Ex 19:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 662-663

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 494

    The Watchtower,

    10/1/2001, p. 9

    6/15/2001, p. 26

    6/15/1996, p. 11

  • Publications Index

    it-1 662-663; it-2 494; w01 6/15 26; w01 10/1 9; w96 6/15 11;

    g83 2/8 9; ad 473, 1221, 1310; g68 10/22 28

Deuteronomy 32:12

Footnotes

  • *

    That is, Jacob.

Marginal References

  • +De 1:31
  • +Isa 43:12

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    10/1/2001, p. 9

    6/15/2001, p. 26

  • Publications Index

    w01 6/15 26; w01 10/1 9

Deuteronomy 32:13

Marginal References

  • +De 33:29
  • +De 8:7, 8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 1107, 1135

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 546

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1107, 1135; it-2 546;

    ad 766, 785, 1246

Deuteronomy 32:14

Footnotes

  • *

    Lit., “fat of.”

  • *

    Lit., “kidney fat of.”

  • *

    Or “juice.”

Marginal References

  • +Ps 147:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 259-260, 814

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 150

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/2015, p. 15

    9/15/2004, p. 27

    5/1/1989, p. 16

  • Publications Index

    it-1 260, 814; it-2 150; w15 12/15 15; w04 9/15 27; w89 5/1 16;

    w72 190; ad 568, 991, 1658

Deuteronomy 32:15

Footnotes

  • *

    Meaning “Upright One,” an honorary title for Israel.

Marginal References

  • +De 31:20; Ne 9:25
  • +Isa 1:4; Ho 13:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 525

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 51

  • Publications Index

    it-1 525; it-2 51;

    ad 390, 569, 917, 1415; g65 12/22 28; w58 340; jh 269; w33 165

Deuteronomy 32:16

Marginal References

  • +Jg 2:12; 1Ki 14:22; 1Co 10:21, 22
  • +2Ki 23:13; Eze 8:17

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w74 396

Deuteronomy 32:17

Marginal References

  • +Le 17:7; Ps 106:37; 1Co 10:20

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    im 151

Deuteronomy 32:18

Marginal References

  • +Ps 106:21; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:32
  • +De 4:34

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ad 1362, 1415; g64 2/22 6; w63 256; jh 271; w33 166

Deuteronomy 32:19

Marginal References

  • +Jg 2:14; Ps 78:59

Deuteronomy 32:20

Marginal References

  • +De 31:17
  • +De 32:5; Isa 65:2; Mt 17:17
  • +Isa 1:2

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w39 343

Deuteronomy 32:21

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “jealousy.”

Marginal References

  • +Ps 96:5; 1Co 10:21, 22
  • +1Sa 12:10, 21
  • +Ho 2:23; Ro 9:25; 11:11; 1Pe 2:10
  • +Ro 10:19

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1260

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1260;

    ad 873; w63 205; w51 52; w45 116; w39 343

Deuteronomy 32:22

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “Sheol,” that is, the common grave of mankind. See Glossary.

Marginal References

  • +La 4:11
  • +Am 9:2

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 444

  • Publications Index

    it-2 444;

    ad 1186; w65 81

Deuteronomy 32:24

Marginal References

  • +De 28:53
  • +De 28:21, 22
  • +Le 26:22

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 781

  • Publications Index

    it-2 781

Deuteronomy 32:25

Marginal References

  • +La 1:20
  • +Eze 7:15
  • +2Ch 36:17; La 2:21

Deuteronomy 32:27

Marginal References

  • +1Sa 12:22; Eze 20:14
  • +Ex 32:12; Nu 14:15, 16
  • +Ps 115:2

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 54

  • Publications Index

    it-1 54

Deuteronomy 32:28

Footnotes

  • *

    Or possibly, “deaf to advice.”

Marginal References

  • +Mt 13:15

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w37 148

Deuteronomy 32:29

Marginal References

  • +Ps 81:13
  • +Ho 14:9
  • +Jer 2:19

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Enjoy Life Forever!, lesson 35

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/2008, pp. 8-11

    7/1/1999, p. 32

  • Publications Index

    lff lesson 35; w08 9/1 8-11; w99 7/1 32

Deuteronomy 32:30

Marginal References

  • +2Ch 24:24
  • +Jg 2:14; 1Sa 12:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 734-735

  • Publications Index

    it-2 734-735

Deuteronomy 32:31

Marginal References

  • +1Sa 2:2
  • +Ex 14:25; 1Sa 4:8; Ezr 1:2, 3

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w35 358

Deuteronomy 32:32

Marginal References

  • +Jude 7
  • +Isa 5:4; Jer 2:21

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1156

  • Publications Index

    it-2 1156;

    w78 12/15 18, 23; ad 619, 1636

Deuteronomy 32:33

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 485

  • Publications Index

    it-1 485;

    ad 361

Deuteronomy 32:34

Marginal References

  • +Ro 2:5

Deuteronomy 32:35

Marginal References

  • +Na 1:2; Ro 12:19; Heb 10:30
  • +Ps 73:12, 18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 727

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1149

  • Publications Index

    it-1 727; it-2 1149;

    ad 518; w65 751; g64 7/8 28; vn 3

Deuteronomy 32:36

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “feel regret over.”

Marginal References

  • +Heb 10:30
  • +Jg 2:18; Ps 90:13; 106:45; 135:14

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w65 376; bf 289

Deuteronomy 32:37

Marginal References

  • +Jg 10:14

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ad 1415; lg 154

Deuteronomy 32:38

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “eat their finest sacrifices.”

Marginal References

  • +Ho 2:8; 1Co 10:20, 21

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    lg 154

Deuteronomy 32:39

Marginal References

  • +Isa 41:4; 48:12
  • +De 4:35
  • +1Sa 2:6; Ps 68:20
  • +2Ch 21:16, 18
  • +Nu 12:13; Jer 17:14
  • +Isa 43:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1055

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1055;

    w84 7/15 25; w75 63; ad 727

Deuteronomy 32:40

Marginal References

  • +1Ti 1:17; Re 10:5, 6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1061

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1061;

    ad 732; w65 655; bf 289; v-1 273

Deuteronomy 32:41

Marginal References

  • +Na 1:3
  • +Isa 1:24; 59:18

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ad 1068; w65 376; bf 289; w42 189; w34 181; jh 45, 291; vn 12; v-1 273

Deuteronomy 32:42

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    g64 7/8 27; bf 289, 526

Deuteronomy 32:43

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “will cleanse.”

Marginal References

  • +Ge 12:2, 3; 1Ki 8:43; Ro 3:29; 15:10
  • +2Ki 9:7; Re 6:10
  • +Mic 5:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/1998, pp. 12, 17

    4/15/1991, pp. 12-13

  • Publications Index

    w98 2/1 12, 17; w91 4/15 12-13;

    w81 6/15 25-27; w78 3/1 17; ad 924; w65 376, 655; bf 289; w54 317; w46 211; na46 5; w45 376; w41 202; w40 339

Deuteronomy 32:44

Footnotes

  • *

    The original name of Joshua. Hoshea is a shortened form of Hoshaiah, which means “Saved by Jah; Jah Has Saved.”

Marginal References

  • +Re 15:3
  • +Nu 11:28; De 31:22, 23

Deuteronomy 32:46

Marginal References

  • +De 11:18
  • +De 6:6, 7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    10/15/2001, p. 19

    8/15/1988, pp. 10-12

  • Publications Index

    w01 10/15 19; w88 8/15 10-12;

    g63 10/8 22; w61 17; yb61 27; w59 549; ci 270

Deuteronomy 32:47

Marginal References

  • +Le 18:5; De 30:19; Ro 10:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower (Study),

    2/2023, p. 3

    The Watchtower,

    4/15/2008, pp. 5-6

  • Publications Index

    w23.02 3; w08 4/15 5-6;

    w77 357; w64 595; w61 17; w59 549

Deuteronomy 32:49

Marginal References

  • +Nu 27:12
  • +De 34:1
  • +Ge 10:19; 15:18; Jos 1:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 479

  • Publications Index

    it-2 479

Deuteronomy 32:50

Footnotes

  • *

    This is a poetic expression for death.

Marginal References

  • +Nu 20:28; 33:38

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 377

  • Publications Index

    it-1 377;

    ad 268; w65 78

Deuteronomy 32:51

Marginal References

  • +Nu 20:12, 13
  • +Le 22:32; Isa 8:13

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    ad 926, 1142

Deuteronomy 32:52

Marginal References

  • +Nu 27:13, 14; De 3:27; 34:4, 5

Parallel Translations

Click a verse number to display parallel Bible verses.

General

Deut. 32:3Joh 17:26
Deut. 32:31Ch 29:11; Ps 145:3
Deut. 32:42Sa 22:31; Ps 18:2; 19:7; Jas 1:17
Deut. 32:4Ps 33:5
Deut. 32:4De 7:9; 1Pe 4:19
Deut. 32:4De 25:16
Deut. 32:4Ge 18:25
Deut. 32:5De 31:27; Jg 2:19; Ps 14:1
Deut. 32:5Isa 1:4
Deut. 32:5Ps 78:8; Lu 9:41
Deut. 32:6Isa 1:2
Deut. 32:6Jer 4:22
Deut. 32:6Ex 4:22; De 32:18; Isa 63:16
Deut. 32:7Ex 13:14; Ps 44:1
Deut. 32:8Ge 10:5; Ps 115:16
Deut. 32:8Ge 11:9
Deut. 32:8De 2:5, 19; Ac 17:26
Deut. 32:8Ge 15:18; Ex 23:31
Deut. 32:9Ex 19:5; De 7:6
Deut. 32:9Ps 78:71
Deut. 32:10De 8:14, 15
Deut. 32:10Jer 2:6
Deut. 32:10Ne 9:19, 20
Deut. 32:10Zec 2:8
Deut. 32:11Ex 19:4
Deut. 32:12De 1:31
Deut. 32:12Isa 43:12
Deut. 32:13De 33:29
Deut. 32:13De 8:7, 8
Deut. 32:14Ps 147:14
Deut. 32:15De 31:20; Ne 9:25
Deut. 32:15Isa 1:4; Ho 13:6
Deut. 32:16Jg 2:12; 1Ki 14:22; 1Co 10:21, 22
Deut. 32:162Ki 23:13; Eze 8:17
Deut. 32:17Le 17:7; Ps 106:37; 1Co 10:20
Deut. 32:18Ps 106:21; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:32
Deut. 32:18De 4:34
Deut. 32:19Jg 2:14; Ps 78:59
Deut. 32:20De 31:17
Deut. 32:20De 32:5; Isa 65:2; Mt 17:17
Deut. 32:20Isa 1:2
Deut. 32:21Ps 96:5; 1Co 10:21, 22
Deut. 32:211Sa 12:10, 21
Deut. 32:21Ho 2:23; Ro 9:25; 11:11; 1Pe 2:10
Deut. 32:21Ro 10:19
Deut. 32:22La 4:11
Deut. 32:22Am 9:2
Deut. 32:24De 28:53
Deut. 32:24De 28:21, 22
Deut. 32:24Le 26:22
Deut. 32:25La 1:20
Deut. 32:25Eze 7:15
Deut. 32:252Ch 36:17; La 2:21
Deut. 32:271Sa 12:22; Eze 20:14
Deut. 32:27Ex 32:12; Nu 14:15, 16
Deut. 32:27Ps 115:2
Deut. 32:28Mt 13:15
Deut. 32:29Ps 81:13
Deut. 32:29Ho 14:9
Deut. 32:29Jer 2:19
Deut. 32:302Ch 24:24
Deut. 32:30Jg 2:14; 1Sa 12:9
Deut. 32:311Sa 2:2
Deut. 32:31Ex 14:25; 1Sa 4:8; Ezr 1:2, 3
Deut. 32:32Jude 7
Deut. 32:32Isa 5:4; Jer 2:21
Deut. 32:34Ro 2:5
Deut. 32:35Na 1:2; Ro 12:19; Heb 10:30
Deut. 32:35Ps 73:12, 18
Deut. 32:36Heb 10:30
Deut. 32:36Jg 2:18; Ps 90:13; 106:45; 135:14
Deut. 32:37Jg 10:14
Deut. 32:38Ho 2:8; 1Co 10:20, 21
Deut. 32:39Isa 41:4; 48:12
Deut. 32:39De 4:35
Deut. 32:391Sa 2:6; Ps 68:20
Deut. 32:392Ch 21:16, 18
Deut. 32:39Nu 12:13; Jer 17:14
Deut. 32:39Isa 43:13
Deut. 32:401Ti 1:17; Re 10:5, 6
Deut. 32:41Na 1:3
Deut. 32:41Isa 1:24; 59:18
Deut. 32:43Ge 12:2, 3; 1Ki 8:43; Ro 3:29; 15:10
Deut. 32:432Ki 9:7; Re 6:10
Deut. 32:43Mic 5:15
Deut. 32:44Re 15:3
Deut. 32:44Nu 11:28; De 31:22, 23
Deut. 32:46De 11:18
Deut. 32:46De 6:6, 7
Deut. 32:47Le 18:5; De 30:19; Ro 10:5
Deut. 32:49Nu 27:12
Deut. 32:49De 34:1
Deut. 32:49Ge 10:19; 15:18; Jos 1:3
Deut. 32:50Nu 20:28; 33:38
Deut. 32:51Nu 20:12, 13
Deut. 32:51Le 22:32; Isa 8:13
Deut. 32:52Nu 27:13, 14; De 3:27; 34:4, 5
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
Deuteronomy 32:1-52

Deuteronomy

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 grass

And 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 crag

And 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 produce

And 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 Sodʹom

And 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 sword

And 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.”+

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