31 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I am aan hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more bgo out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, cThou shalt not go over this Jordan. 3 The Lord thy God, dhe will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, eas the Lord hath said. 4 fAnd the Lord shall do unto them gas he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. 5 And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them haccording unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. 6 iBe strong and of a good courage, kfear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, lhe it is that doth go with thee; mhe will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, nBe strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And the Lord, ohe it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, mhe will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither pbe dismayed.

9 And Moses wrote this law, qand delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, rwhich bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the syear of release, tin the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come to uappear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, xthou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 yGather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their children, zwhich have not known any thing, amay hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

14 And the Lord said unto Moses, bBehold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that cI may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. 15 And dthe Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. 16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt †sleep with thy fathers; and this people will erise up, and fgo a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will gforsake me, and hbreak my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and iI will forsake them, and I will khide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall †befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because lour God is not among us? 18 And mI will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be na witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, othat floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and pwaxen fat; qthen will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and rprovoke me, and hbreak my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, swhen many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify †against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for tI know their uimagination which they †go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 wAnd he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, xBe strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and yI will be with thee.

24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of zwriting the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, zwhich bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, 26 Take this book of the law, aand put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there bfor a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy cstiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, dye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death? 28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your eofficers, that I may speak these words in their ears, fand call heaven and earth to record against them. 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly gcorrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you hin the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, ito provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

32 Give ear, aO ye heavens, and I will speak;

And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2  bMy doctrine cshall drop as the rain,

My speech shall distil as the dew,

As the small rain upon the tender herb,

And das the showers upon the grass:

3  Because I will publish the name of the Lord:

Ascribe ye egreatness unto our God.

4  He is fthe Rock, his work is perfect:

For gall his ways are judgment:

hA God of truth and iwithout iniquity,

Just and right is he.

5  †They have corrupted themselves, ||their spot is not the spot of his children:

They are a kperverse and kcrooked generation.

6  Do ye thus lrequite the Lord,

O foolish people and unwise?

Is not he mthy father that hath nbought thee?

Hath he not omade thee, and established thee?

7  Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of †many generations:

pAsk thy father, and he will shew thee;

Thy elders, and they will tell thee.

8  When the most High qdivided to the nations their inheritance,

When he rseparated the sons of Adam,

He set the bounds of the people

According to the number of the children of Israel.

9  For the Lord’s portion is his people;

Jacob is the †lot of his inheritance.

10  He found him sin a desert land,

And in the twaste howling uwilderness;

He ||led him about, he instructed him,

He kept him as xthe apple of his eye.

11  yAs an eagle stirreth up her nest,

zFluttereth over her young,

Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,

yBeareth them on her wings:

12  So the Lord alone did lead him,

And there was no strange god with him.

13  aHe 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 bhoney out of the rock,

And coil out of dthe flinty rock;

14  Butter of kine, and milk of sheep,

With fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan,

And goats, with ethe fat of kidneys of wheat;

And thou didst drink the pure fblood of the grape.

15  But gJeshurun waxed fat, and hkicked:

iThou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness;

Then he jforsook God which kmade him,

And lightly esteemed the lRock of his salvation.

16  mThey provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,

With abominations provoked they him to anger.

17  nThey sacrificed unto devils, ||not to God;

To gods whom they knew not,

To new gods that came newly up,

Whom your fathers feared not.

18  Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,

And hast oforgotten God that formed thee.

19  pAnd when the Lord saw it, he ||abhorred them,

Because of the provoking of qhis sons, and of his daughters.

20  And he said, rI will hide my face from them,

I will see what their end shall be:

For they are a svery froward generation,

Children in whom is no faith.

21  tThey have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;

They have provoked me to anger uwith their vanities:

And xI will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22  For ya fire is kindled in mine anger,

And ||shall burn unto the lowest hell,

And z||shall consume the earth with her increase,

And set on fire zthe foundations of the mountains.

23  I will heap mischiefs upon them;

aI will spend mine arrows upon them.

24  They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with †burning heat,

And with bitter destruction:

I will also send bthe teeth of beasts upon them,

With the poison cof serpents of the dust.

25  dThe sword without,

And terror †within, shall †destroy

Both the young man and the virgin,

The suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26  eI said, I would scatter them into corners,

I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

27  Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries fshould behave themselves strangely,

And lest they should gsay, ||Our hand is high,

And the Lord hath not done all this.

28  For they are a nation void of counsel,

hNeither is there any understanding in them.

29  iO that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would consider jtheir latter end!

30  How should kone chase a thousand,

And two put ten thousand to flight,

Except their Rock lhad sold them,

And the Lord had shut them up?

31  For mtheir rock is not as our Rock,

nEven our enemies themselves being judges.

32  For their vine ||is of the vine of oSodom,

And of the fields of Gomorrah:

Their grapes are grapes of pgall,

Their clusters are bitter:

33  Their wine is qthe poison of dragons,

And the cruel pvenom of rasps.

34  Is not this laid up in store with me,

And ssealed up among my treasures?

35  tTo me belongeth vengeance, and recompence;

Their foot shall slide in due time:

For uthe day of their calamity is at hand,

And the things that shall come upon them make …