<vn='1'>Give <sn="238">ear</s>, O ye <sn="8064">heavens</s>, and I will <sn="1696">speak</s>; and <sn="8085">hear</s>, O <sn="776">earth</s>, the <sn="561">words</s> of my <sn="6310">mouth</s>. </v>
<vn='2'>My <sn="3948">doctrine</s> shall <sn="6201">drop</s> as the <sn="4306">rain</s>, my <sn="565">speech</s> shall <sn="5140">distill</s> as the <sn="2919">dew</s>, as the small <sn="8164">rain</s><sn="5921">upon</s> the tender <sn="1877">herb</s>, and as the <sn="7241">showers</s><sn="5921">upon</s> the <sn="6212">grass</s>: </v>
<vn='3'><sn="3588">Because</s> I will <sn="7121">publish</s> the <sn="8034">name</s> of the <sn="3068">LORD</s>: <sn="3051">ascribe</s> ye <sn="1433">greatness</s> unto our <sn="430">God</s>. </v>
<vn='4'> He is the <sn="6697">Rock</s>, his <sn="6467">work</s> is <sn="8549">perfect</s>: <sn="3588">for</s><sn="3605">all</s> his <sn="1870">ways</s> are <sn="4941">judgment</s>: a <sn="410">God</s> of <sn="530">truth</s> and <sn="369">without</s><sn="5766">iniquity</s>, <sn="6662">just</s> and <sn="3477">right</s> is <sn="1931">he</s>. </v>
<vn='5'>They have <sn="7843">corrupted</s> themselves, their <sn="3971">spot</s> is <sn="3808">not</s> the spot of his <sn="1121">children</s>: they are a <sn="6141">perverse</s> and <sn="6618">crooked</s><sn="1755">generation</s>. </v>
<vn='6'>Do ye <sn="2063">thus</s><sn="1580">requite</s> the <sn="3068">LORD</s>, O <sn="5036">foolish</s><sn="5971">people</s> and <sn="3808 2450">unwise</s>? is <sn="3808">not</s><sn="1931">he</s> thy <sn="1">father</s> that hath <sn="7069">bought</s> thee? hath <sn="1931">he</s> not <sn="6213">made</s> thee, and <sn="3559">established</s> thee? </v>
<vn='7'><sn="2142">Remember</s> the <sn="3117">days</s> of <sn="5769">old</s>, <sn="995">consider</s> the <sn="8141">years</s> of many <sn="1755 1755">generations</s>: <sn="7592">ask</s> thy <sn="1">father</s>, and he will <sn="5046">show</s> thee; thy <sn="2205">elders</s>, and they will <sn="559">tell</s> thee. </v>
<vn='8'>When the most <sn="5945">High</s><sn="5157">divided</s> to the <sn="1471">nations</s> their inheritance, when he <sn="6504">separated</s> the <sn="1121">sons</s> of <sn="120">Adam</s>, he <sn="5324">set</s> the <sn="1367">bounds</s> of the <sn="5971">people</s> according to the <sn="4557">number</s> of the <sn="1121">children</s> of <sn="3478">Israel</s>. </v>
<vn='9'><sn="3588">For</s> the <sn="3068">LORD</s> 's <sn="2506">portion</s> is his <sn="5971">people</s>; <sn="3290">Jacob</s> is the <sn="2256">lot</s> of his <sn="5159">inheritance</s>. </v>
<vn='10'>He <sn="4672">found</s> him in a <sn="4057">desert</s><sn="776">land</s>, and in the <sn="8414">waste</s><sn="3214">howling</s><sn="3452">wilderness</s>; he led him <sn="5437">about</s>, he <sn="995">instructed</s> him, he <sn="5341">kept</s> him as the <sn="380">apple</s> of his <sn="5869">eye</s>. </v>
<vn='11'>As an <sn="5404">eagle</s> stirreth <sn="5782">up</s> her <sn="7064">nest</s>, <sn="7363">fluttereth</s><sn="5921">over</s> her <sn="1469">young</s>, spreadeth <sn="6566">abroad</s> her <sn="3671">wings</s>, <sn="3947">taketh</s> them, <sn="5375">beareth</s> them <sn="5921">on</s> her <sn="84">wings</s>: </v>
<vn='12'> So the <sn="3068">LORD</s><sn="910">alone</s> did <sn="5148">lead</s> him, and there was <sn="369">no</s><sn="5236">strange</s><sn="410">god</s><sn="5973">with</s> him. </v>
<vn='13'>He made him <sn="7392">ride</s><sn="5921">on</s> the high <sn="1116">places</s> of the <sn="776">earth</s>, that he might <sn="398">eat</s> the <sn="8570">increase</s> of the <sn="7704">fields</s>; and he made him to <sn="3243">suck</s><sn="1706">honey</s> out of the <sn="4480 5553">rock</s>, and <sn="8081">oil</s> out of the <sn="4480 2496">flinty</s><sn="6697">rock</s>; </v>
<vn='14'><sn="2529">Butter</s> of <sn="1241">kine</s>, and <sn="2461">milk</s> of <sn="6629">sheep</s>, <sn="5973">with</s><sn="2459">fat</s> of <sn="3733">lambs</s>, and <sn="352">rams</s> of the <sn="1121">breed</s> of <sn="1316">Bashan</s>, and <sn="6260">goats</s>, <sn="5973">with</s> the <sn="2459">fat</s> of <sn="3629">kidneys</s> of <sn="2406">wheat</s>; and thou didst <sn="8354">drink</s> the <sn="2561">pure</s><sn="1818">blood</s> of the <sn="6025">grape</s>. </v>
<vn='15'>But <sn="3484">Jeshurun</s> waxed <sn="8080">fat</s>, and <sn="1163">kicked</s>: thou art waxen <sn="8080">fat</s>, thou art grown <sn="5666">thick</s>, thou art <sn="3780">covered</s> with fatness; then he <sn="5203">forsook</s><sn="433">God</s> which <sn="6213">made</s> him, and lightly <sn="5034">esteemed</s> the <sn="6697">Rock</s> of his <sn="3444">salvation</s>. </v>
<vn='16'>They provoked him to <sn="7065">jealousy</s> with <sn="2114">strange</s> gods, with <sn="8441">abominations</s> provoked they him to <sn="3707">anger</s>. </v>
<vn='17'>They <sn="2076">sacrificed</s> unto <sn="7700">devils</s>, <sn="3808">not</s> to <sn="433">God</s>; to <sn="430">gods</s> whom they <sn="3045">knew</s><sn="3808">not</s>, to <sn="2319">new</s> gods that <sn="935">came</s> newly <sn="4480 7138">up</s>, whom your <sn="1">fathers</s><sn="8175">feared</s><sn="3808">not</s>. </v>
<vn='18'>Of the <sn="6697">Rock</s> that <sn="3205">begot</s> thee thou art <sn="7876">unmindful</s>, and hast <sn="7911">forgotten</s><sn="410">God</s> that <sn="2342">formed</s> thee. </v>
<vn='19'>And when the <sn="3068">LORD</s><sn="7200">saw</s> it, he <sn="5006">abhorred</s> them, because of the <sn="4480 3708">provoking</s> of his <sn="1121">sons</s>, and of his <sn="1323">daughters</s>. </v>
<vn='20'>And he <sn="559">said</s>, I will <sn="5641">hide</s> my <sn="6440">face</s><sn="4480">from</s> them, I will <sn="7200">see</s><sn="4100">what</s> their <sn="319">end</s> shall be: <sn="3588">for</s><sn="1992">they</s> are a very <sn="8419">froward</s><sn="1755">generation</s>, <sn="1121">children</s> in whom is <sn="3808">no</s><sn="529">faith</s>. </v>
<vn='21'><sn="1992">They</s> have moved me to <sn="7065">jealousy</s> with that which is <sn="3808">not</s><sn="410">God</s>; they have provoked me to <sn="3707">anger</s> with their <sn="1892">vanities</s>: and <sn="589">I</s> will move them to <sn="7065">jealousy</s> with those which are <sn="3808">not</s> a <sn="5971">people</s>; I will provoke them to <sn="3707">anger</s> with a <sn="5036">foolish</s><sn="1471">nation</s>. </v>
<vn='22'><sn="3588">For</s> a <sn="784">fire</s> is <sn="6919">kindled</s> in mine <sn="639">anger</s>, and shall <sn="3344">burn</s><sn="5704">unto</s> the <sn="8482">lowest</s><sn="7585">hell</s>, and shall <sn="398">consume</s> the <sn="776">earth</s> with her <sn="2981">increase</s>, and set on <sn="3857">fire</s> the <sn="4146">foundations</s> of the <sn="2022">mountains</s>. </v>
<vn='23'>I will <sn="5595">heap</s><sn="7451">mischiefs</s><sn="5921">upon</s> them; I will <sn="3615">spend</s> mine <sn="2671">arrows</s> upon them. </v>
<vn='24'> They shall be <sn="4198">burnt</s> with <sn="7458">hunger</s>, and <sn="3898">devoured</s> with burning <sn="7565">heat</s>, and with <sn="4815">bitter</s><sn="6986">destruction</s>: I will also <sn="7971">send</s> the <sn="8127">teeth</s> of <sn="929">beasts</s> upon them, <sn="5973">with</s> the <sn="2534">poison</s> of <sn="2119">serpents</s> of the <sn="6083">dust</s>. </v>
<vn='25'>The <sn="2719">sword</s><sn="4480 2351">without</s>, and <sn="367">terror</s><sn="4480 2315">within</s>, shall <sn="7921">destroy</s><sn="1571">both</s> the young <sn="970">man</s><sn="1571">and</s> the <sn="1330">virgin</s>, the <sn="3243">suckling</s> also <sn="5973">with</s> the <sn="376">man</s> of gray <sn="7872">hairs</s>. </v>
<vn='26'>I <sn="559">said</s>, I would scatter them into <sn="6284">corners</s>, I would make the <sn="2143">remembrance</s> of them to <sn="7673">cease</s> from among <sn="4480 376">men</s>: </v>
<vn='27'>Were it not <sn="3884">that</s> I <sn="1481">feared</s> the <sn="3708">wrath</s> of the <sn="341">enemy</s>, <sn="6435">lest</s> their <sn="6862">adversaries</s> should behave themselves <sn="5234">strangely</s>, and <sn="6435">lest</s> they should <sn="559">say</s>, Our <sn="3027">hand</s> is <sn="7311">high</s>, and the <sn="3068">LORD</s> hath <sn="3808">not</s><sn="6466">done</s><sn="3605">all</s><sn="2063">this</s>. </v>
<vn='28'><sn="3588">For</s><sn="1992">they</s> are a <sn="1471">nation</s><sn="6">void</s> of <sn="6098">counsel</s>, <sn="369">neither</s> is there any <sn="8394">understanding</s> in them. </v>
<vn='29'>O <sn="3863">that</s> they were <sn="2449">wise</s>, that they <sn="7919">understood</s><sn="2063">this</s>, that they would <sn="995">consider</s> their latter <sn="319">end</s>! </v>
<vn='30'><sn="349">How</s> should <sn="259">one</s><sn="7291">chase</s> a <sn="505">thousand</s>, and <sn="8147">two</s><sn="5127">put</s> ten <sn="7233">thousand</s> to <sn="5127">flight</s>, <sn="518 3808 3588">except</s> their <sn="6697">Rock</s> had <sn="4376">sold</s> them, and the <sn="3068">LORD</s> had shut them <sn="5462">up</s>? </v>
<vn='31'><sn="3588">For</s> their <sn="6697">rock</s> is <sn="3808">not</s> as our <sn="6697">Rock</s>, even our <sn="341">enemies</s> themselves being <sn="6414">judges</s>. </v>
<vn='32'><sn="3588">For</s> their <sn="1612">vine</s> is of the <sn="4480 1612">vine</s> of <sn="5467">Sodom</s>, and of the <sn="4480 7709">fields</s> of <sn="6017">Gomorrah</s>: their <sn="6025">grapes</s> are <sn="6025">grapes</s> of <sn="7219">gall</s>, their <sn="811">clusters</s> are <sn="4846">bitter</s>: </v>
<vn='33'>Their <sn="3196">wine</s> is the <sn="2534">poison</s> of <sn="8577">dragons</s>, and the <sn="393">cruel</s><sn="7219">venom</s> of <sn="6620">asps</s>. </v>
<vn='34'> Is <sn="3808">not</s><sn="1931">this</s> laid up in <sn="3647">store</s><sn="5978">with</s> me and sealed <sn="2856">up</s> among my <sn="214">treasures</s>? </v>
<vn='35'>To me belongeth <sn="5359">vengeance</s>, and <sn="8005">recompense</s>; their <sn="7272">foot</s> shall <sn="4131">slide</s> in due <sn="6256">time</s>: <sn="3588">for</s> the <sn="3117">day</s> of their <sn="343">calamity</s> is at <sn="7138">hand</s>, and the things that shall <sn="6264">come</s> upon them make <sn="2363">haste</s>. </v>
<vn='36'><sn="3588">For</s> the <sn="3068">LORD</s> shall <sn="1777">judge</s> his <sn="5971">people</s>, and repent <sn="5162">himself</s><sn="5921">for</s> his <sn="5650">servants</s>, <sn="3588">when</s> he <sn="7200">seeth</s><sn="3588">that</s> their <sn="3027">power</s> is <sn="235">gone</s>, and there is <sn="657">none</s> shut <sn="6113">up</s>, or <sn="5800">left</s>. </v>
<vn='37'>And he shall <sn="559">say</s>, <sn="335">Where</s> are their <sn="430">gods</s>, their <sn="6697">rock</s> in whom they <sn="2620">trusted</s>, </v>
<vn='38'><sn="834">Which</s> did <sn="398">eat</s> the <sn="2459">fat</s> of their <sn="2077">sacrifices</s>, and <sn="8354">drank</s> the <sn="3196">wine</s> of their drink <sn="5257">offerings</s>? let them rise <sn="6965">up</s> and <sn="5826">help</s> you, and <sn="1961 5921">be</s> your <sn="5643">protection</s>. </v>
<vn='39'><sn="7200">See</s><sn="6258">now</s><sn="3588">that</s><sn="589">I</s>, even <sn="589">I</s>, am <sn="1931">he</s>, and there is <sn="369">no</s><sn="430">god</s><sn="5978">with</s> me: <sn="589">I</s><sn="4191">kill</s>, and I make <sn="2421">alive</s>; I <sn="4272">wound</s>, and <sn="589">I</s><sn="7495">heal</s>: <sn="369">neither</s> is there any that can <sn="5337">deliver</s> out of my <sn="4480 3027">hand</s>. </v>
<vn='40'><sn="3588">For</s> I lift <sn="5375">up</s> my <sn="3027">hand</s><sn="413">to</s><sn="8064">heaven</s>, and <sn="559">say</s>, <sn="595">I</s><sn="2416">live</s><sn="5769">forever</s>. </v>
<vn='41'><sn="518">If</s> I <sn="8150">whet</s> my <sn="1300">glittering</s><sn="2719">sword</s>, and mine <sn="3027">hand</s> take <sn="270">hold</s> on <sn="4941">judgment</s>; I will <sn="7725">render</s><sn="5359">vengeance</s> to mine <sn="6862">enemies</s>, and will <sn="7999">reward</s> them that <sn="8130">hate</s> me. </v>
<vn='42'>I will make mine <sn="2671">arrows</s><sn="7937">drunk</s> with <sn="4480 1818">blood</s>, and my <sn="2719">sword</s> shall <sn="398">devour</s><sn="1320">flesh</s>; and that with the <sn="4480 1818">blood</s> of the <sn="2491">slain</s> and of the <sn="7633">captives</s>, from the <sn="4480 7218">beginning</s> of <sn="6546">revenges</s> upon the <sn="341">enemy</s>. </v>
<vn='43'><sn="7442">Rejoice</s>, O ye <sn="1471">nations</s>, with his <sn="5971">people</s>: <sn="3588">for</s> he will <sn="5358">avenge</s> the <sn="1818">blood</s> of his <sn="5650">servants</s>, and will <sn="7725">render</s><sn="5359">vengeance</s> to his <sn="6862">adversaries</s>, and will be <sn="3722">merciful</s> unto his <sn="127">land</s>, and to his <sn="5971">people</s>. </v>
<vn='44'>And <sn="4872">Moses</s><sn="935">came</s> and <sn="1696">spoke</s><sn="*853"></s><sn="3605">all</s> the <sn="1697">words</s> of <sn="2063">this</s><sn="7892">song</s> in the <sn="241">ears</s> of the <sn="5971">people</s>, <sn="1931">he</s>, and <sn="1954">Hoshea</s> the <sn="1121">son</s> of <sn="5126">Nun</s>. </v>
<vn='45'>And <sn="4872">Moses</s> made an <sn="3615">end</s> of <sn="1696">speaking</s><sn="*853"></s><sn="3605">all</s><sn="428">these</s><sn="1697">words</s><sn="413">to</s><sn="3605">all</s><sn="3478">Israel</s>: </v>
<vn='46'>And he <sn="559">said</s><sn="413">unto</s> them, <sn="7760">Set</s> your <sn="3824">hearts</s> unto <sn="3605">all</s> the <sn="1697">words</s><sn="834">which</s><sn="595">I</s><sn="5749">testify</s> among you this <sn="3117">day</s>, <sn="834">which</s> ye shall <sn="6680">command</s><sn="*853"></s> your <sn="1121">children</s> to <sn="8104">observe</s> to <sn="6213">do</s>, <sn="*853"></s><sn="3605">all</s> the <sn="1697">words</s> of <sn="2063">this</s><sn="8451">law</s>. </v>
<vn='47'><sn="3588">For</s><sn="1931">it</s> is <sn="3808">not</s> a <sn="7386">vain</s><sn="1697">thing</s><sn="4480">for</s> you; <sn="3588">because</s><sn="1931">it</s> is your <sn="2416">life</s>: and through <sn="2088">this</s><sn="1697">thing</s> ye shall <sn="748">prolong</s> your <sn="3117">days</s><sn="5921">in</s> the <sn="127">land</s>, <sn="834 8033">whither</s><sn="859">ye</s> go <sn="5674">over</s><sn="*853"></s><sn="3383">Jordan</s> to <sn="3423">possess</s> it. </v>
<vn='48'>And the <sn="3068">LORD</s><sn="1696">spoke</s><sn="413">unto</s><sn="4872">Moses</s><sn="2088">that</s><sn="6106">selfsame</s><sn="3117">day</s>, <sn="559">saying</s>, </v>
<vn='49'>Get thee <sn="5927">up</s><sn="413">into</s><sn="2088">this</s><sn="2022">mountain</s><sn="5682">Abarim</s>, unto <sn="2022">mount</s><sn="5015">Nebo</s>, <sn="834">which</s> is in the <sn="776">land</s> of <sn="4124">Moab</s>, <sn="834">that</s> is <sn="5921">over</s><sn="6440">against</s><sn="3405">Jericho</s>; and <sn="7200">behold</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="776">land</s> of <sn="3667">Canaan</s>, <sn="834">which</s><sn="589">I</s><sn="5414">give</s> unto the <sn="1121">children</s> of <sn="3478">Israel</s> for a <sn="272">possession</s>: </v>
<vn='50'>And <sn="4191">die</s> in the <sn="2022">mount</s><sn="834 8033">whither</s><sn="859">thou</s> goest <sn="5927">up</s>, and be <sn="622">gathered</s><sn="413">unto</s> thy <sn="5971">people</s>; <sn="834">as</s><sn="175">Aaron</s> thy <sn="251">brother</s><sn="4191">died</s> in <sn="2022">mount</s><sn="2023">Hor</s>, and was <sn="622">gathered</s><sn="413">unto</s> his <sn="5971">people</s>: </v>
<vn='51'><sn="5921 834">Because</s> ye <sn="4603">trespassed</s> against me <sn="8432">among</s> the <sn="1121">children</s> of <sn="3478">Israel</s> at the <sn="4325">waters</s> of <sn="4809 6946">Meribah</s> -Kadesh, in the <sn="4057">wilderness</s> of <sn="6790">Zin</s>; <sn="5921 834">because</s> ye <sn="6942">sanctified</s> me <sn="3808">not</s> in the <sn="8432">midst</s> of the <sn="1121">children</s> of <sn="3478">Israel</s>. </v>
<vn='52'><sn="3588">Yet</s> thou shalt <sn="7200">see</s><sn="*853"></s> the <sn="776">land</s><sn="4480 5048">before</s> thee; but thou shalt <sn="3808">not</s><sn="935">go</s><sn="8033">thither</s><sn="413">unto</s> the <sn="776">land</s><sn="834">which</s><sn="589">I</s><sn="5414">give</s> the <sn="1121">children</s> of <sn="3478">Israel</s>. </v>