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Deuteronomy 32 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Song of Moses

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:1 - “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As raindrops on the tender herb,
And as showers on the grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:3 - For I proclaim the name of the LORD:
Ascribe greatness to our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 - He is the Rock, His work is perfect;
For all His ways are justice,
A God of truth and without injustice;
Righteous and upright is He.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:5 - “They have corrupted themselves;
They are not His children,
Because of their blemish:
A perverse and crooked generation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:6 - Do you thus deal with the LORD,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your Father, who bought you?
Has He not made you and established you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7 - “Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 - When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations,
When He separated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:9 - For the LORD’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - “He found him in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He kept him as the apple of His eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:11 - As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:12 - So the LORD alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - “He made him ride in the heights of the earth,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:14 - Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs;
And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the choicest wheat;
And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15 - “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he forsook God who made him,
And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:16 - They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:17 - They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18 - Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have forgotten the God who fathered you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:19 - “And when the LORD saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:20 - And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
Children in whom is no faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols.
But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 - For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And shall burn to the lowest hell;
It shall consume the earth with her increase,
And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:23 - ‘I will heap disasters on them;
I will spend My arrows on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the teeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - The sword shall destroy outside;
There shall be terror within
For the young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:26 - I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:27 - Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, “Our hand is high;
And it is not the LORD who has done all this.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:28 - “For they are a nation void of counsel,
Nor is there any understanding in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:29 - Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their latter end!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock had sold them,
And the LORD had surrendered them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 - For their rock is not like our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves being judges.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:32 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:33 - Their wine is the poison of serpents,
And the cruel venom of cobras.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:34 - ‘Is this not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up among My treasures?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:35 - Vengeance is Mine, and recompense;
Their foot shall slip in due time;
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things to come hasten upon them.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:36 - “For the LORD will judge His people
And have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their power is gone,
And there is no one remaining, bond or free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 - He will say: ‘Where are their gods,
The rock in which they sought refuge?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:38 - Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise and help you,
And be your refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:39 - ‘Now see that I, even I, am He,
And there is no God besides Me;
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:40 - For I raise My hand to heaven,
And say, “As I live forever,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:41 - If I whet My glittering sword,
And My hand takes hold on judgment,
I will render vengeance to My enemies,
And repay those who hate Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:42 - I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword shall devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 - “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people;[fn]
For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And render vengeance to His adversaries;
He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:44 - So Moses came with Joshua[fn] the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:45 - Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:46 - and he said to them: “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:47 - “For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”
Moses to Die on Mount Nebo

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:48 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses that very same day, saying:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:50 - “and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:51 - “because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:52 - “Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.”
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
A Dead Sea Scroll fragment adds And let all the gods (angels) worship Him (compare Septuagint and Hebrews 1:6).
Hebrew Hoshea (compare Numbers 13:8, 16)
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