Deuteronomy 32

Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak;

Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

²My teaching shall drop as the rain;

My speech shall condense as the dew,

As the small rain on the tender grass,

As the showers on the herb.

³For I will proclaim the name of Allah:

Ascribe greatness to our God.

⁴He is the Rock, his work is perfect;

For all his ways are justice:

A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,

Just and right is he.

⁵They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish;

They are a perverse and crooked generation.

⁶Do you thus repay Allah,

Foolish and unwise people?

Isn't he your father who has bought you?

He has made you, and established you.

⁷Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of many generations:

Ask your father, and he will show you;

Ask your elders, and they will tell you.

⁸When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When he separated the children of men,

He set the bounds of the peoples

According to the number of Bani-Israel.

⁹For Allah's portion is his people;

Yaqub is the lot of his inheritance.

¹⁰He found him in a desert land,

In the wasteland, a howling wilderness;

He shielded him, he cared for him,

He kept him as the apple of his eye.

¹¹As an eagle that stirs up her nest,

That flutters over her young,

He spread abroad his wings, he took them,

He bore them on his feathers.

¹²Allah alone led him,

There was no foreign god with him.

¹³He made him ride on the high places of the earth,

He ate the harvest of the field;

He made him to suck honey out of the rock,

Oil out of the flinty rock;

¹⁴Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,

With fat of lambs,

Rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the finest of the wheat;

Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

¹⁵But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked:

You have grown fat, you have grown thick, you have become sleek;

Then he forsook God who made him,

He lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁶They moved him to jealousy with strange gods;

With abominations they provoked him to anger.

¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, which were no God,

To gods that they did not know,

To new gods that came up of late,

Which your fathers did not dread.

¹⁸Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful,

You have forgotten God who gave you birth.

¹⁹Allah saw it, and abhorred them,

Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

²⁰He said, I will hide my face from them,

I will see what their end shall be:

For they are a very perverse generation,

Children in whom there is no faithfulness.

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

They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:

I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a nation void of understanding.[1]

²²For a fire is kindled by my anger,

It burns to the depths of the grave,

Devours the earth with its increase,

Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³I will heap evils on them;

I will spend my arrows on them:

²⁴They shall waste away with hunger,

And be devoured with disease and bitter plague;

The teeth of animals will I send on them,

With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

²⁵Outside shall the sword bereave,

In the chambers terror;

It shall destroy both young man and virgin,

The suckling infant with the man of gray hairs.

²⁶I said, I would scatter them afar,

I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

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

Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,

Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,

Allah has not done all this.

²⁸For they are a nation void of counsel,

There is no understanding in them.

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

That they would consider their latter end!

³⁰How should one chase a thousand,

Two put ten thousand to flight,

Unless their Rock had sold them,

Allah had delivered them up?

³¹For their rock is not as our Rock,

Even our enemies themselves being judges.

³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,

Of the fields of Gomorrah:

Their grapes are grapes of gall,

Their clusters are bitter:

³³Their wine is the poison of serpents,

The cruel venom of asps.

³⁴Isn't this laid up in store with me,

Sealed up among my treasures?

³⁵Vengeance is mine, I will repay,[2]

At the time when their foot shall slide:

For the day of their calamity is at hand,

The things that are to come on them shall make haste.

³⁶For Allah will judge his people,

He will show mercy to his servants;

When he sees that their power is gone,

There is none remaining, shut up or left at large.

³⁷He will say, Where are their gods,

The rock in which they took refuge;

³⁸Which ate the fat of their sacrifices,

And drank the wine of their drink-offering?

Let them rise up and help you,

Let them be your protection.

³⁹See now that I, even I, am he,

There is no god with me:

I kill, and I make alive;

I wound, and I heal;

There is none who can deliver out of my hand.

⁴⁰For I lift up my hand to heaven,

And say, As I live forever,

⁴¹If I whet my glittering sword,

My hand take hold on judgment;

I will render vengeance to my adversaries,

Will punish those who hate me.

⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

My sword shall devour flesh;

With the blood of the slain and the captives,

From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

⁴³Rejoice, you nations, with his people:[3]

For he will avenge the blood of his servants,

Will render vengeance to his adversaries,

Will make expiation for his land, for his people.

⁴⁴Musa came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Yusha bin Nun. ⁴⁵Musa made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; ⁴⁶He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe, even all the words of this Taurat. ⁴⁷For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it. ⁴⁸Allah spoke to Musa that same day, saying, ⁴⁹Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over opposite Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to Bani-Israel for a possession; ⁵⁰and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Harun your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: ⁵¹because you trespassed against me in the midst of Bani-Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of Bani-Israel. ⁵²For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give to Bani-Israel.