Deuteronomy 32:1-18 ▼

1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2 Let my teaching drop like rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as raindrops on the tender herb, and as showers on the grass.

3 For the name of YHWH I proclaim; ascribe greatness to our God.

4 The Rock—perfect His work is, for all His ways are just; a God of truth and without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

5 They have corrupted themselves; because of their blemish they are not His sons, a generation perverse and crooked.

6 Is it even to YHWH that you? would act this way, O people foolish and unwise? Is not He your Father who created you, He who made you and established you?

7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of generation upon generation. Ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

8 When the Most High gave their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples by the number of the sons of God.

9 For YHWH's portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the pupil of His eye.

11 As an eagle stirs up his nest, he hovers over his young, he spreads his wings, he takes him, he carries him upon his pinions,

12 YHWH alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

13 He made him ride on the heights of the earth, that he might eat the fruits of the field. And He made him draw honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock,

14 curds of the herd and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the sons of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

15 And Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—you grew fat, you grew thick, you gorged—and he forsook God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

16 They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger.

17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known. New ones—from the vicinity they came—that your? fathers did not fear.

18 The Rock who brought you forth you neglected, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.