These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Deuteronomy 32
Tanakh 52 verses
- 1 Give ear, ye , and I will speak; And let the earth the words of my mouth.
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My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew; As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.
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For I will proclaim the of ; Ascribe ye greatness unto our .
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The Rock, His work is ; For all His ways are justice; A of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is He.
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Psalm 18:30-31 Psalm 92:15 Deuteronomy 32:18 Daniel 4:37 Genesis 18:25 Deuteronomy 32:15 Deuteronomy 32:30-31 Job 34:10 Psalm 18:2 Habakkuk 1:13 John 1:14 John 14:6 2 Samuel 22:31-32 Romans 3:5 Isaiah 26:4 2 Samuel 22:2-3 Matthew 5:48 John 1:17 1 Samuel 2:2 Psalm 138:8 James 4:12 Romans 2:5 1 Peter 2:6 Ecclesiastes 3:14 2 Samuel 23:3 Psalm 99:4 Psalm 98:3 Romans 1:32 Isaiah 30:18 Genesis 1:31 Psalm 18:46 Psalm 146:6 Psalm 100:5 Isaiah 25:1 Romans 2:2 2 Samuel 22:47 Job 35:14 John 5:22 Jeremiah 10:10 Jeremiah 9:24 James 1:17 Psalm 97:2 Matthew 16:16-18 Psalm 61:2-4 Psalm 19:7 Psalm 31:5 Isaiah 28:16 Deuteronomy 7:9 Isaiah 32:2 1 Corinthians 10:4 Exodus 34:6 Deuteronomy 10:18 Revelation 15:3-4 Psalm 9:16 - 5 Is corruption His? No; His children’s is the blemish; A generation crooked and perverse.
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Do ye thus requite , O foolish people and unwise? Is not He thy father that hath gotten thee? Hath He not made thee, and established thee?
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Isaiah 63:16 Psalm 74:2 Isaiah 44:2 1 John 3:1 Acts 20:28 Deuteronomy 1:31 Galatians 3:26 Isaiah 64:8 Psalm 149:2 Isaiah 43:7 Romans 8:15 Galatians 4:6 1 Corinthians 6:20 Psalm 100:3 Deuteronomy 32:18 John 8:41 Deuteronomy 32:15 Isaiah 1:2 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 15:18-20 Exodus 15:16 Psalm 116:12 Isaiah 27:11 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Isaiah 43:3-4 Jeremiah 5:21 2 Peter 2:1 Exodus 4:22 Job 10:8 Psalm 95:6 Jeremiah 4:22 Galatians 3:1-3 Psalm 74:18 - 7 Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations; Ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
- 8 When the Most High gave to the nations When He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples According to the number of the children of .
- 9 For the portion of is His people, the lot of His inheritance.
- 10 He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, a howling wilderness; He compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
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As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, Hovereth over her young, Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, Beareth them on her pinions—
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- 12 The alone did lead him, And there was no strange with Him.
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the fruitage of the field; And He made him to suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;
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- 14 Curd of kine, and milk of sheep, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of , and he-goats, With the kidney-fat of wheat; And of the of the grape thou drankest foaming wine.
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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked—Thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross—And he forsook who made him, And contemned the Rock of his .
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Deuteronomy 31:20 Psalm 89:26 Deuteronomy 32:4 Hosea 13:6 Psalm 95:1 2 Samuel 22:47 Isaiah 44:2 1 Samuel 2:29 Deuteronomy 32:6 Deuteronomy 31:16 Acts 28:27 Deuteronomy 33:26 Deuteronomy 33:5 Isaiah 1:4 Acts 9:5 Job 15:27 Nehemiah 9:25 Jeremiah 5:28 Romans 2:4-5 Jeremiah 5:7 Psalm 119:70 Psalm 17:10 Psalm 73:7 Jeremiah 2:5 Deuteronomy 6:10-12 Isaiah 6:10 Psalm 18:46 Deuteronomy 8:10-14 - 16 They roused Him to jealousy with strange Elohims, With abominations did they provoke Him.
- 17 They sacrificed unto demons, no-Elohims, Elohims that they knew not, New Elohims that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
- 18 Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, And didst forget that bore thee.
- 19 And saw, and spurned, Because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.
- 20 And He said: ‘I will hide My from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a very froward generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
- 21 They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-; They have provoked Me with their vanities; And I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile nation.
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For a fire is kindled in My nostril, And burneth unto the depths of the nether-world, And devoureth the earth with her produce, And setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
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Lamentations 4:11 Jeremiah 15:14 Isaiah 24:19-20 Zephaniah 3:8 Psalm 86:13 Micah 1:4 Numbers 16:35 Jeremiah 17:4 Matthew 10:28 Deuteronomy 29:20 Jeremiah 4:4 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Psalm 46:2 Isaiah 30:33 Psalm 144:5 Matthew 23:33 Lamentations 2:3 Isaiah 24:6 Isaiah 54:10 Isaiah 66:15-16 Matthew 18:9 Hebrews 12:29 Psalm 21:9 Psalm 97:3 Job 9:5-6 Malachi 4:1-2 Psalm 18:7-8 Nahum 1:5-6 Habakkuk 3:10 Mark 9:43-48 Ezekiel 36:5 Psalm 83:14 - 23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them;
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The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
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- 25 Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; Slaying both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
- 26 I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;
- 27 Were it not that I dreaded the enemy’s provocation, Lest their adversaries should misdeem, Lest they should say: Our hand is exalted, And not hath wrought all this.’
- 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
- 29 If they were wise, they would understand this, They would discern their latter end.
- 30 How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had given them over And had delivered them up?
- 31 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, Their clusters are bitter;
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Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the cruel poison of asps.
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Is not this laid up in store with Me, Sealed up in My treasuries?
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Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, Against the time when their foot shall slip; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
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- 36 For will judge His people, And Himself for His servants; When He seeth that their stay is gone, And there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
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And it is said: Where are their Elohims, The rock in whom they trusted;
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Who did eat the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-? Let him rise up and help you, Let him be your protection.
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- 39 See now that I, even I, am He, And there is no with Me; I kill, and I make alive; I have wounded, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of My hand.
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For I lift up My hand to , And say: As I live for ever,
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- 41 If I whet My glittering sword, And My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to Mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate Me.
- 42 I will make Mine arrows drunk with , And My sword shall devour ; With the of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired heads of the enemy.’
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Sing aloud, O ye nations, of His people; For He doth avenge the of His servants, And doth render vengeance to His adversaries, And doth make expiation for the land of His people.
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Revelation 19:2 Psalm 85:1 Revelation 6:10 Romans 12:19 Deuteronomy 32:35 2 Kings 9:7 Job 13:24 Luke 19:27 Revelation 18:20 Luke 19:43-44 Jeremiah 13:14 Revelation 15:2 Romans 15:9-13 Luke 2:32 Lamentations 2:5 Revelation 5:9-10 Genesis 12:3 Acts 13:47-48 Revelation 18:2 Isaiah 19:25 Luke 21:22-24 Revelation 15:4 Psalm 65:3 Isaiah 11:10 Luke 2:10-11 1 Kings 8:43 Psalm 22:27 Isaiah 19:23 -
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And 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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- 45 And when made an end of speaking all these words to all ,
- 46 he said unto them: ‘Set your unto all the words wherewith I testify against you this day; that ye may charge your children therewith to observe to do all the words of this .
- 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days upon the land, whither ye go over the to possess it.’
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And spoke unto that selfsame day, saying:
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Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of , that is over against ; and behold the land of , which I give unto the children of for a possession;
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and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people.
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- 51 Because ye trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the children of .
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For thou shalt see the land afar off; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of .’
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