1 ¶ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. See also: Isaiah 1:2 Deuteronomy 4:26
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: See also: Isaiah 55:10-11 Psalms 72:6
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. See also: Jeremiah 10:6 Psalms 150:2
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. See also: Psalms 18:30-31 Psalms 92:15
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. See also: Isaiah 1:4 Philippians 2:15
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? See also: Isaiah 63:16 1 John 3:1
7 ¶ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. See also: Psalms 78:3-4 Job 8:8-10
8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. See also: Acts 17:26 Genesis 11:8-9
9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. See also: Jeremiah 10:16 1 Peter 2:9-10
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. See also: Zechariah 2:8 Deuteronomy 8:15-16
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: See also: Exodus 19:4 Isaiah 46:4
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. See also: Psalms 78:52-53 Isaiah 46:4
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; See also: Isaiah 58:14 Job 29:6
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. See also: Genesis 49:11 Psalms 81:16
15 ¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. See also: Deuteronomy 31:20 Hosea 13:6
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. See also: Psalms 78:58 1 Corinthians 10:22
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. See also: Deuteronomy 28:64 Judges 5:8
18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. See also: Isaiah 17:10 Jeremiah 2:32
19 ¶ And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. See also: Psalms 106:40 Judges 2:14
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. See also: Deuteronomy 31:17-18 Deuteronomy 32:5
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. See also: Romans 10:19 Romans 9:25
22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. See also: Lamentations 4:11 Jeremiah 15:14
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. See also: Ezekiel 5:16 Psalms 7:12-13
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. See also: Leviticus 26:22 Ezekiel 5:17
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. See also: Ezekiel 7:15 Lamentations 1:20
26 ¶ I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: See also: Deuteronomy 28:64 Isaiah 63:16
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. See also: Numbers 14:15-16 Exodus 32:12
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. See also: Jeremiah 4:22 Job 28:28
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! See also: Psalms 81:13 Deuteronomy 5:29
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? See also: Leviticus 26:8 Joshua 23:10
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. See also: Exodus 14:25 1 Samuel 2:2
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: See also: Deuteronomy 29:18 Isaiah 1:10
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. See also: Psalms 58:4 Romans 3:13
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? See also: Job 14:17 Hosea 13:12
35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. See also: Romans 12:19 Nahum 1:2
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. See also: Psalms 135:14 Psalms 106:45
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, See also: Jeremiah 2:28 Judges 10:14
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. See also: Leviticus 21:21 Judges 10:14
39 ¶ See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. See also: 1 Samuel 2:6 Hosea 6:1
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. See also: Genesis 14:22 Jeremiah 4:2
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. See also: Isaiah 66:16 Isaiah 34:5-6
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. See also: Deuteronomy 32:23 Jeremiah 46:10
43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. See also: Romans 12:19 Revelation 19:2
44 ¶ And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. See also: Numbers 13:8 Numbers 13:16
45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. See also: 1 Chronicles 22:19 Ezekiel 40:4
47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. See also: Leviticus 18:5 Proverbs 4:22
48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, See also: Numbers 27:12-13
49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: See also: Numbers 27:12 Numbers 33:47-48
50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: See also: Genesis 25:8 Numbers 33:38
51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. See also: Numbers 27:14 Numbers 20:11-14
52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. See also: Deuteronomy 34:1-4 Numbers 27:12