5. MoseKapitel 32

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Listen, heavens, and I will speak; hear, earth, the words of my mouth.
Let my teaching fall like rain, my speech settle like dew, like fine rain on tender grass, like showers on the growing plants.
The Rock—his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness and without wrong, righteous and upright is he.
They have acted corruptly toward him; their blemish marks them as no children of his—a crooked and twisted generation.
Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is he not your Father, who created you, who made you and established you?
Remember the days of old; consider the years of generations past. Ask your father, and he will tell you; your elders, and they will explain.
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided the human race, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.
He found him in a desert land, in an empty, howling waste. He surrounded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions,
He set him astride the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, with oil from the flinty crag,
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat—and you drank the foaming blood of the grape.
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—you grew fat, thick, and sleek. He abandoned the God who made him and spurned the Rock of his salvation.
They sacrificed to demons, not to God—to gods they had never known, new gods, lately arrived, whom your fathers never feared.
You neglected the Rock who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
The LORD saw it and rejected them, provoked to anger by his sons and daughters.
He said: I will hide my face from them and see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.
They made me jealous with what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.
For a fire has blazed up in my anger; it burns to the depths of Sheol. It devours the earth and its harvest and sets the foundations of the mountains ablaze.
I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows against them.
They will be wasted by hunger, consumed by burning fever and bitter plague. I will send against them the fangs of beasts, with the venom of things that glide in the dust.
In the street the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror—young man and young woman alike, nursing child and gray-haired elder.
had I not feared the taunt of the enemy, that their adversaries would misunderstand and say, "Our own hand has triumphed; the LORD did none of this."
If only they were wise and would grasp this, and discern what their end would be.
How could one man chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and the LORD had handed them over?
Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison; their clusters are bitter.
Vengeance is mine, and repayment, for the time when their foot slips. Their day of disaster is near, and their doom rushes upon them.
For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees that their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.
the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your shelter!
See now that I, I am he, and there is no god besides me. I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and no one can deliver from my hand.
when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold of judgment, I will bring vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh—the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy's leaders.
Rejoice, you nations, with his people! For he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will bring vengeance on his adversaries and make atonement for his land and his people.
he said to them, "Take to heart all the words I am solemnly declaring to you this day, so that you may command your children to be careful to do all the words of this law.
They are not empty words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
"Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, Mount Nebo in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their possession.
There on the mountain you are about to climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
This is because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.
You will see the land from a distance, but you will not enter it—the land I am giving to the Israelites.