Deuteronomy 32 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

The Song of Moses

Deu 32:1Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth!

Deu 32:2My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

Deu 32:3

Deu 32:3For the name of Jehovah will I proclaim: Ascribe greatness unto our God!

Deu 32:4

Deu 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he.

Deu 32:5

Deu 32:5They have dealt corruptly with him; Not his children's is their spot: -- A crooked and perverted generation!

Deu 32:6

Deu 32:6Do ye thus requite Jehovah, Foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee and established thee?

Deu 32:7

Deu 32:7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Deu 32:8

Deu 32:8When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

Deu 32:9

Deu 32:9For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

Deu 32:10

Deu 32:10He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he watched over him, He preserved him as the apple of his eye.

Deu 32:11

Deu 32:11As the eagle stirreth up its nest, Hovereth over its young, Spreadeth out its wings, Taketh them, beareth them on its feathers,

Deu 32:12

Deu 32:12So Jehovah alone did lead him, And no strange god was with him.

Deu 32:13

Deu 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;

Deu 32:14

Deu 32:14Cream of kine, and milk of sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink pure wine, the blood of the grape.

Deu 32:15

Deu 32:15Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked -- Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness; -- He gave up God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Deu 32:16

Deu 32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.

Deu 32:17

Deu 32:17They sacrificed unto demons who are not God; To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.

Deu 32:18

Deu 32:18Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten God who brought thee forth.

Deu 32:19

Deu 32:19And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.

Deu 32:20

Deu 32:20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

Deu 32:21

Deu 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.

Deu 32:22

Deu 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.

Deu 32:23

Deu 32:23I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.

Deu 32:24

Deu 32:24They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.

Deu 32:25

Deu 32:25From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror -- Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

Deu 32:26

Deu 32:26I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

Deu 32:27

Deu 32:27If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.

Deu 32:28

Deu 32:28For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.

Deu 32:29

Deu 32:29Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!

Deu 32:30

Deu 32:30How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

Deu 32:31

Deu 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock: Let our enemies themselves be judges.

Deu 32:32

Deu 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;

Deu 32:33

Deu 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers.

Deu 32:34

Deu 32:34Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

Deu 32:35

Deu 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Deu 32:36

Deu 32:36For Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that power is gone, And there is none shut up or left.

Deu 32:37

Deu 32:37And he shall say, Where are their gods, Their rock in whom they trusted,

Deu 32:38

Deu 32:38Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, That there may be a protection over you.

Deu 32:39

Deu 32:39See now that I, I am HE, And there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, And there is none that delivereth out of my hand,

Deu 32:40

Deu 32:40For I lift up my hand to the heavens, and say, I live for ever!

Deu 32:41

Deu 32:41If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

Deu 32:42

Deu 32:42Mine arrows will I make drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; I will make them drunk with the blood of the slain and of the captives, With the head of the princes of the enemy.

Deu 32:43

Deu 32:43Shout for joy, ye nations, with his people, For he avengeth the blood of his servants, And rendereth vengeance to his enemies, And maketh atonement for his land, for his people.

Deu 32:44

Deu 32:44And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.

Deu 32:45

Deu 32:45And when Moses had ended speaking all these words to all Israel,

Deu 32:46

Deu 32:46he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words that I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to take heed to do, all the words of this law.

Deu 32:47

Deu 32:47For it is no vain word for you, but it is your life, and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.

Deu 32:48

Deu 32:48And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

Deu 32:49

Deu 32:49Go up into this mountain Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession,

Deu 32:50

Deu 32:50and die on the mountain whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died on mount Hor, and was gathered unto his peoples;

Deu 32:51

Deu 32:51because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

Deu 32:52

Deu 32:52For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Deuteronomy 32 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

The Song of Moses

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