05:031:025 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of thecovenant of the LORD, saying,
05:031:026 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the arkof the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there fora witness against thee.
05:031:027 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while Iam yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebelliousagainst the LORD; and how much more after my death?
05:031:028 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and yourofficers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and callheaven and earth to record against them.
05:031:029 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
05:031:030 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israelthe words of this song, until they were ended.
05:032:001 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth,the words of my mouth.
05:032:002 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:
05:032:003 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
05:032:004 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.
05:032:005 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
05:032:006 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? isnot he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not madethee, and established thee?
05:032:007 Remember the days of old, consider the years of manygenerations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thyelders, and they will tell thee.
05:032:008 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of thepeople according to the number of the children of Israel.
05:032:009 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
05:032:010 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howlingwilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept himas the apple of his eye.
05:032:011 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on herwings:
05:032:012 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
05:032:013 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that hemight eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suckhoney out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
05:032:014 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and ramsof the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys ofwheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
05:032:015 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.
05:032:016 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
05:032:017 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.
05:032:018 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hastforgotten God that formed thee.
05:032:019 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of theprovoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
05:032:020 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.
05:032:021 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.
05:032:022 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.
05:032:023 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
05:032:024 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burningheat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teethof beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
05:032:025 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both theyoung man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man ofgray hairs.
05:032:026 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
05:032:027 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.
05:032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there anyunderstanding in them.
05:032:029 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that theywould consider their latter end!
05:032:030 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?
05:032:031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
05:032:032 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:
05:032:033 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom ofasps.
05:032:034 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among mytreasures?
05:032:035 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shallslide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand,and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
05:032:036 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself forhis servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, andthere is none shut up, or left.
05:032:037 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
05:032:038 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wineof their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, andbe your protection.
05:032:039 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: Ikill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is thereany that can deliver out of my hand.
05:032:040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
05:032:041 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold onjudgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and willreward them that hate me.
05:032:042 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shalldevour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of thecaptives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
05:032:043 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.
05:032:044 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in theears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
05:032:045 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to allIsrael:
05:032:046 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the wordswhich I testify among you this day, which ye shall commandyour children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
05:032:047 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.
05:032:048 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
05:032:049 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:
05:032:050 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:
05:032:051 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
05:032:052 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not gothither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
05:033:001 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of Godblessed the children of Israel before his death.
05:033:002 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
05:033:003 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
05:033:004 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of thecongregation of Jacob.
05:033:005 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people andthe tribes of Israel were gathered together.
05:033:006 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
05:033:007 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
05:033:008 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
05:033:009 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
05:033:010 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: theyshall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice uponthine altar.
05:033:011 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands;smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and ofthem that hate him, that they rise not again.
05:033:012 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwellin safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the daylong, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
05:033:013 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, forthe precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deepthat coucheth beneath,
05:033:014 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and forthe precious things put forth by the moon,
05:033:015 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for theprecious things of the lasting hills,
05:033:016 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof,and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let theblessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of thehead of him that was separated from his brethren.
05:033:017 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his hornsare like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push thepeople together to the ends of the earth: and they are the tenthousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
05:033:018 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
05:033:019 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shalloffer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of theabundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
05:033:020 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: hedwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of thehead.
05:033:021 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
05:033:022 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
05:033:023 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour,and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the westand the south.
05:033:024 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; lethim be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot inoil.
05:033:025 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shallthy strength be.
05:033:026 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth uponthe heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
05:033:027 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are theeverlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy frombefore thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
05:033:028 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacobshall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shalldrop down dew.
05:033:029 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
05:034:001 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
05:034:002 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, andall the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
05:034:003 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, thecity of palm trees, unto Zoar.
05:034:004 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
05:034:005 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
05:034:006 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
05:034:007 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
05:034:008 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
05:034:009 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
05:034:010 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
05:034:011 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
05:034:012 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.