Deuteronomy 32 (ENGOJB)

1Give ear, O Shomayim, and I will speak; and hear, O Ha'Aretz, the words of my mouth.Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2My teaching shall drop as the matar, my speech shall distil as the tal, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the esev;Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

3Because I will publish the Shem of Hashem; ascribe ye greatness unto Eloheinu.For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

4He is the Tzur, His po'al is tamim; for all His ways are mishpat; El Emunah and without avel (iniquity), tzaddik and yashar is He.He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

5They have corrupted themselves, their mum is not His; the defect is in His banim; a dor ikesh u'petaltol (a perverse and crooked generation).His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

6Do ye thus repay Hashem, O foolish people without chacham? Is not He Avicha that hath bought thee? Hath He not made thee, and established thee?Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

7Remember the yemot olam, consider shenot dor v'dor: ask Avicha, and he will show thee; thy zekenim, and they will tell thee.Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

8When HaElyon divided to the Goyim their nachalah, when He separated the Bnei Adam, He set the gevulot (borders) of the people according to the number of the Bnei Yisroel.When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

9For Hashemʼs chelek is His people; Ya'akov is the chevel (allotment) of His nachalah.But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

10He found him in an eretz midbar, and in a barren and howling wilderness; He encircled him, He granted him discernment, He preserved him as the pupil of His eye.He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

11As a nesher stirreth up her ken (nest), fluttereth over her young, spreadeth her wings, taketh them up, beareth them on her wings,As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

12So Hashem alone did lead him, and there was no el nekhar (strange g-d) with him.The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

13He made him ride on the high places of Eretz, that he might eat the tenuvot sadeh (increase of the fields); and He made to suckle him devash out of the rock, and shemen out of the flinty rock;He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

14Butter of cattle, and cholov tzon, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with chittah (wheat) as fat as kidneys; and thou didst drink the pure dahm of the grape.with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

15But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked; thou art grown fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook G-d which made him, and lightly esteemed the Tzur of his Yeshu'ah (Salvation).But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

16They provoked Him to jealousy with zarim (foreign g-ds), with to'evot (abominations) provoked they Him to anger.They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

17They sacrificed unto shedim (demons), not to G-d; to elohim whom they knew not, to chadashim (new g-ds), new arrivals, whom Avoteichem feared not.They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

18Of the Tzur that fathered thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten El that formed thee.You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

19And when Hashem saw it, He spurned them, because of the provoking of His banim, and of His banot.When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

20And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, banim in whom is no faithfulness.He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.

21They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is lo El (not G-d), they have provoked Me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are lo Am (a non-people); I will provoke them to anger with a goy naval (foolish, senseless nation).They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

22For an eish is kindled in Mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest Sheol, and shall devour Eretz and her increase, and set on fire the foundations of harim.For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend Mine khitzim (arrows) upon them.I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

24They shall be burned with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the venom of serpents of the aphar (dust).They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

25The cherev without, and terror within, shall destroy both the bochur and the betulah, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

26I said, I will dash them in pieces, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misinterpret, and lest they should say, Our hand is triumphant, and Hashem hath not done all this.if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

28For they are a goy (nation) void of sense, neither is there any seichel in them.Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

29O that they were wise, that they had seichel, that they would consider their acharit (latter end, future)!If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

30How should echad chase an elef (thousand), and shnayim (two) put ten thousand to flight, except their tzur had sold them, and Hashem had shut them up?How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

31For their tzur is not like Tzureinu, even our enemies themselves being conceders.For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

32For their gefen is of the gefen of Sodom, and of the fields of Amora (Gomorrah); their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter;But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

33Their yayin is the venom of serpents, and the deadly poison of asps.Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

34Is not this laid up in store with Me, and sealed up among My otzrot (treasures)?“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

35To Me belongeth nakam (vengeance) and recompence; their foot shall slip in due time; for the Yom of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

36For Hashem shall judge His people, and relent for His avadim, when He seeth that their power is gone, and there is none left, slave or free.For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

37And He shall say, Where are their elohim, their tzur in whom they trusted,He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

38Which did eat the fat of their zevakhim (sacrifices), and drank the yayin of their nesakhim (drink offerings)? Let them rise up and help you, and be your shelter.which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!

39See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no elohim besides Me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; neither is there any that can deliver out of My hand.See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

40For I lift up My hand to Shomayim, and say, Chai Anochi l'Olam (as I live).For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

41If I sharpen My glittering cherev, and Mine hand take hold on mishpat; I will render nakam (vengeance) to Mine enemies, and will reward them that hate Me.when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

42I will make Mine khitzim (arrows) drunk with dahm, and My cherev shall devour basar; and that with the dahm of the slain and of the captives, from the head of leaders of the foe.I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

43Rejoice, O ye Goyim, with His people: for He will avenge the dahm of His avadim, and will render nakam (vengeance) to His adversaries, and will make kapporah for the land of His people.Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.

44And Moshe came and spoke kol divre hashirah in the hearing of the people, he, and Hoshea ben Nun.Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

45And Moshe made an end of speaking all these devarim to kol Yisroel;When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

46And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the devarim which I testify among you today, which ye shall command your banim to be shomer to do, kol divrei hatorah hazot.he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

47For it is not an idle thing for you; because it is Chayyeichem (your life); and through this thing ye shall prolong your yamim in ha'adamah, whither ye go over Yarden to possess it.For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

48And Hashem spoke unto Moshe that very same day, saying,On that same day the LORD said to Moses,

49Get thee up into this mountain range Avarim, unto Mt Nevo, which is in Eretz Moav, that is opposite Yericho; and view Eretz Kena'an, which I give unto the Bnei Yisroel for a possession;“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.

50And in the mount whither thou goest up ye will die, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aharon thy brother died in Mt Hor, and was gathered unto his people;And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

51Because you trespassed against Me among the Bnei Yisroel at the waters of Merivat-Kadesh, in the midbar of Tzin; because lo kiddashtem (not ye upheld as holy) Me in the midst of the Bnei Yisroel.For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

52Therefore from a distance thou shalt see ha'aretz; but thou shalt not enter thither into ha'aretz which I give the Bnei Yisroel.Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”

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