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Give··ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the sayings of my mouth.
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My doctrine shall drip··down as the rain, what· I ·say shall stream as the dew, as the dewdrops upon the tender··herb, and as the raindrops upon the herb;
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because I will proclaim the name of Jehovah; give▵ ye greatness to our God.
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He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are judgment: a God◦ of faithfulness and no perversity, just and upright is He.
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They have corrupted themselves, they are not His sons, it is their blemish; they are a twisted and contorted generation.
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Do you thus recompense Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not He thy father that has bought thee? Has He not made thee, and established thee?
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Remember the days of eternity, understand the years of generation and generation; ask thy father, and he will··tell thee; thine elders, and they will say it to thee.
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When the Most··High caused the nations to inherit, when He separated the sons of man, He set··up the borders of the people according to the number of the sons of Israel.
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For Jehovah’s portion is His people; Jacob is the region of His inheritance.
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He found him in a land of wilderness, and in the void of howling solitude; He led· him ·around, He caused him to understand, He preserved him as the pupil of His eye.
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As an eagle stirs··up its nest, flutters over its young▵, spreads its wings, takes them, bears them on its wings*;
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So Jehovah alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god◦ with him.
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He made him ride on the high··places of the earth, that he might eat the bounty of the fields; and He made him to nurse on honey from the rock◦, and oil from the flinty rock;
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butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs▫ and rams, of the sons of Bashan, and of the he-goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the unmixed blood of the grape.
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But Jeshurun became··fat◦, and kicked; thou art become··fat◦, thou art··thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he abandoned God who made him, and disparaged the Rock of his salvation.
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They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they Him.
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They sacrificed to demons, not to God◦; to gods that they knew not, to new gods that came from nearby, at which your fathers shuddered not.
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Of the Rock who begot thee thou hast been oblivious, and hast forgotten God◦ who brought thee forth*.
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And Jehovah saw it, and He disdained them, because of the provocation of His sons, and of His daughters.
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And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their posterity shall be; for they are a very perverse◦ generation, sons in whom is no◦ faithfulness.
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They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God◦; they have provoked Me with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
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For a fire is ignited in My anger, and shall burn◦ to◦ the lowest◦ hell, and shall eat··up the earth and her produce, and set··flame··to◦ the foundations of the mountains.
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I will add against them evils; I will consume··all My arrows on◦ them.
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They shall be burnt with famine, and devoured with embers, and with bitter disaster; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of the snakes of the dust.
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The sword outside, and terror from the chambers, shall bereave both◦ the young··man and◦ the virgin, the nursing infant with the man◦ of gray··hairs.
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I said, I would push· them ·to··the··corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from man▵;
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except◦ that I be··afraid of the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should make· themselves ·unrecognizable, and lest they should say, Our hands are lifted··high, and Jehovah has not worked all this.
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For they are a nation void* of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
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Would··that they were··wise, that they had··intelligence in this, that they would understand their future!
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How should one pursue a thousand, and two put· myriads ·to··flight, except their Rock had sold them, and Jehovah had closed· them ·in?
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For their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges▵.
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields◦ of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, the bitter clusters are theirs.
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their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of adders.
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Is not this laid up in store with Me, and sealed among My treasures?
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To Me belongs vengeance, and repayment; their foot shall move in due time; for the day of their downfall is near, and their fortunes* shall hurry upon them.
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For Jehovah shall make··judgment for His people, and repent Himself for His servants; for He sees that their hand* is spent, and nothing is restrained or forsaken.
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And He shall say, Where◦ are their gods, their rock in whom they confide,
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which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their poured··offerings? Let them rise··up and help you, and be a hiding··place over you.
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See now that I◦, I◦ am He◦, and there is no god with Me; I◦ put··to··death, and I make··alive; I strike◦, and I◦ heal; and there is none who can rescue from My hand.
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For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say, I▵ am alive to eternity.
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If I sharpen My lightning sword, and My hand seizes on◦ judgment; I will return vengeance to My adversaries, and will repay those who hate Me.
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I will make· My arrows ·drunk from blood, and My sword shall eat··up flesh, from the blood of the slain and of the captivity, from the gall of revenging* the enemy.
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Sing··aloud, O ye nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will return vengeance upon His adversaries, and will make··atonement for His ground for His people.
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And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea* the son of Nun.
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And Moses completed speaking all these words to all Israel;
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and he said to▵ them, Set your hearts to all the words which I▵ testify among◦ you today, which you shall command your sons to take··heed to do, all the words of this law.
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For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life; and through this thing you shall prolong your days on the ground, whither you cross··over Jordan to possess it.
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And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
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Go··up to▵ this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is over before Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I◦ am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession◦;
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and die in the mountain whither thou goest up, and be gathered to thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;
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because you trespassed against Me among the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you sanctified Me not in the midst of the sons of Israel.
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For thou shalt see the land in··front··of thee; but thither thou shalt not go··in to the land which I give to the sons of Israel.
