Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Give ear, O heavens, and I will
speak; hear, O earth, the
words
of my mouth .
`
Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And
thou
dost
hear, O earth, sayings
of my mouth !
Let
my
teaching
fall
like
rain and
my speech
settle
like
dew ,
like
gentle
rain
on new
grass, like
showers on tender
plants.
Drop
as
rain doth
My doctrine;
Flow
as
dew doth
My
sayings;
As
storms
on the
tender
grass, And
as
showers on the
herb,
For I
will
proclaim
the name of the
LORD.
Ascribe greatness to our God!
For the Name of Jehovah
I
proclaim,
Ascribe ye
greatness to our God!
He
is
the Rock ,
His work is
perfect;
all His ways are just .
A
God of faithfulness
without
injustice
, righteous and upright is He.
The Rock !
--
perfect
`is'
His work ,
For
all His ways `
are '
just ;
God of stedfastness
, and
without
iniquity:
Righteous and upright `
is '
He.
His
people
have
acted
corruptly toward
Him; the
spot
on
them
is not that
of
His children
, but
of
a perverse and crooked generation.
It
hath
done
corruptly to
Him; Their
blemish
is not His sons'
, A generation
perverse and crooked !
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?
To
Jehovah
do
ye
act
thus
, O people
foolish and not
wise
? Is not He
thy
father --
thy
possessor
? He made thee,
and doth
establish
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.
Remember days of old --
Understand
the years of
many
generations
--
Ask thy
father, and he doth
tell thee;
Thine
elders, and they say
to
thee:
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
.
In
the Most High causing
nations to
inherit
, In
His
separating
sons of Adam
--
He setteth
up
the borders
of the peoples By
the number of the sons of Israel
.
But
the
LORD’s
portion is His people, Jacob His allotted
inheritance.
For
Jehovah's
portion `
is '
His people, Jacob `is'
the
line
of
His inheritance.
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.
He findeth
him in a land --
a
desert
, And
in a void
--
a
howling wilderness ,
He turneth
him round
--
He causeth
him to
understand
--
He keepeth
him as the apple of His eye.
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 .
As an eagle waketh
up its nest ,
Over its young ones
fluttereth
, Spreadeth
its
wings --
taketh
them ,
Beareth
them on its
pinions ;
--
The
LORD
alone led
him, and no foreign
god was
with him.
Jehovah
alone doth
lead
him, And there
is
no strange
god with him.
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,
He maketh
him ride on high
places
of earth,
And he
eateth
increase
of the fields,
And
He maketh
him suck
honey from a
rock ,
And oil out
of
the flint
of
a
rock;
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 .
Butter
of
the herd ,
and milk of
the flock, With fat of lambs, and
rams ,
sons
of
Bashan, And he-
goats, with fat
of kidneys
of
wheat ;
And
of the blood
of
the grape
thou
dost
drink
wine !
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.
And
Jeshurun waxeth
fat ,
and doth
kick:
Thou
hast
been
fat --
thou
hast
been
thick
, Thou
hast
been
covered
. And
he leaveth
God who made him ,
And dishonoureth
the Rock of his salvation.
They provoked
His
jealousy
with
foreign
gods;
they
enraged
Him with abominations.
They make
Him zealous
with strangers,
With
abominations they
make
Him
angry
.
They sacrificed
to demons ,
not
to
God ,
to
gods they had
not known ,
to
newly
arrived
gods,
which
your fathers did
not
fear.
They sacrifice
to demons --
no
god !
Gods they have
not known --
New
ones
--
from
the
vicinity
they
came;
Not
feared
them
have
your fathers !
You
ignored
the Rock who
brought
you
forth;
you
forgot
the
God who gave
you
birth
.
The Rock that
begat
thee
thou
forgettest,
And
neglectest
God who formeth
thee
.
When
the LORD
saw
this,
He
rejected
them,
provoked
to
anger
by
His sons and daughters.
And
Jehovah
seeth
and
despiseth
--
For
the provocation
of
His sons and His
daughters.
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
.
And
He saith
: I hide My face from them ,
I see what `is'
their latter
end ;
For a froward
generation `are'
they,
Sons
in
whom
is
no
stedfastness
.
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
.
They have made
Me
zealous
by `no-
god ,'
They made
Me angry
by
their vanities;
And
I make them zealous
by `no-
people ,'
By
a
foolish
nation
I make them angry.
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.
For a fire hath
been kindled in
Mine
anger, And it burneth
unto
Sheol --
the lowest,
And
consumeth
earth and its increase
, And setteth
on
fire
foundations of mountains.
I will
heap
disasters
upon them ;
I
will
spend
My
arrows against
them.
I gather
upon them evils,
Mine
arrows I
consume
upon
them.
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.
Exhausted
by
famine,
And consumed
by heat,
and bitter destruction.
And
the teeth
of beasts I
send
upon
them, With poison
of fearful
things
of
the dust.
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.
Without
bereave
doth
the sword, And at
the inner-chambers
--
fear
, Both
youth
and virgin,
Suckling
with
man of
grey
hair
.
I would
have said that
I would
cut
them to
pieces
and
blot
out
their memory
from mankind,
I have said :
I blow
them away,
I
cause
their remembrance
to
cease
from man;
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. ’”
If not --
the anger
of an
enemy I
fear
, Lest their adversaries know
--
Lest
they
say ,
Our hand is
high,
And
Jehovah
hath
not wrought
all this.
Israel
is
a nation devoid
of
counsel
, with
no understanding among
them.
For
a nation lost
to
counsels
`are'
they
, And
there
is
no understanding in
them.
If only
they were wise ,
they would
understand
it
; they would
comprehend
their fate.
If they were wise --
They deal
wisely
`with'
this
; They attend
to
their latter
end:
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?
How doth
one pursue a thousand, And
two cause
a
myriad
to flee!
If
not
--
that
their rock hath
sold them, And
Jehovah
hath
shut
them up?
For their
rock
is
not like
our Rock, even
our enemies concede.
For not as
our Rock `is'
their
rock
, (And
our enemies `are'
judges!)
But
their
vine
is
from
the vine of Sodom and from
the fields of Gomorrah .
Their
grapes
are
poisonous
; their clusters
are bitter .
For
of
the vine of Sodom their
vine
`is',
And of
the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes
`
are '
grapes
of
gall
--
They
have
bitter clusters;
Their wine is
the venom of serpents,
the
deadly
poison
of
cobras
.
The
poison
of
dragons
`is'
their wine And
the fierce
venom of asps
.
“Have
I
not stored
up these
things,
sealed up
within
My vaults
?
Is
it
not laid
up with
Me?
Sealed among
My treasures
?
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
. ”
Mine `are'
vengeance
and
recompense,
At
the
due time --
doth
their foot slide
; For near
is
a
day of their
calamity
, And haste
do
things
prepared
for
them
.
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
.
For Jehovah
doth
judge
His people ,
And for
His servants doth
repent
Himself.
For
He seeth
--
the
going
away
of
power,
And
none
is restrained
and left
.
He will
say:
“
Where are their gods ,
the rock in which they took
refuge,
And
He hath
said,
Where `
are '
their gods --
The rock in which they trusted;
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
!
Which the fat of their sacrifices do
eat,
They
drink
the wine of their libation!
Let them arise
and help you ,
Let it
be
for
you a
hiding-place
!
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 .
See ye,
now ,
that I --
I
`
am '
He ,
And
there is no god with
Me :
I put
to
death ,
and I keep
alive
; I have
smitten,
and I heal ;
And there is not
from My hand a
deliverer,
For I lift up My hand to
heaven
and declare:
As
surely
as
I live forever,
For I lift up unto
the
heavens
My hand ,
And have
said,
I live --
to
the
age!
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 .
If
I have
sharpened
the
brightness
of
My sword, And My hand doth
lay
hold
on
judgment, I turn
back
vengeance to
Mine
adversaries ,
And to
those hating
Me --
I
repay!
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
. ”
I make drunk Mine
arrows
with blood, And
My sword devoureth
flesh ,
From
the blood of the pierced
and captive
, From
the head
of the freemen
of
the
enemy.
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.
Sing
ye
nations --
`
with '
his people ,
For the blood of His servants
He avengeth,
And
vengeance He
turneth
back
on His adversaries ,
And hath
pardoned
His land --
His people. '
Then
Moses came
with
Joshua
son
of
Nun
and recited
all the words of this song in the hearing
of the people .
And
Moses cometh
and speaketh
all the words of this song in the ears
of the people ,
he
and
Hoshea
son
of
Nun;
When
Moses had
finished
reciting
all these words to
all Israel,
and
Moses finisheth
to
speak
all these words unto
all Israel,
he
said
to
them, “Take
to
heart all these
words I testify
among
you today
, so
that you
may
command your children
to carefully
follow
all the words of this law .
and
saith
unto
them, `Set
your
heart to
all the
words which
I am
testifying
against
you to-day
, that ye
command your sons
to observe
to
do
all the words of this law ,
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. ”
for it
`is'
not a
vain
thing
for
you, for
it
`is'
your life, and by this
thing
ye
prolong
days
on
the ground
whither
ye
are passing
over
the Jordan to possess it
. '
On
that
same day the
LORD
said
to
Moses
,
And
Jehovah
speaketh
unto
Moses,
in
this
self-
same day, saying,
“
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 .
`
Go up unto
this
mount
Abarim ,
mount Nebo, which
`is'
in the land of Moab ,
which
`is'
on
the
front
of
Jericho, and see
the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons
of
Israel
for
a
possession ;
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 .
and die
in
the mount
whither
thou
art
going
up
, and be gathered unto
thy
people, as Aaron thy
brother
hath
died in
the
mount Hor ,
and is
gathered unto
his people :
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.
`Because
ye
trespassed
against
me
in
the
midst
of
the
sons
of
Israel
at the waters of Meribath
-Kadesh ,
the wilderness of Zin --
because
ye
sanctified
Me not
in the
midst
of
the
sons
of
Israel;
Although
you
shall
see
from
a
distance
the land that
I am giving the Israelites,
you
shall
not
enter
it
. ”
but
over-against
thou
seest
the land ,
and
thither
thou
dost
not
go
in,
unto
the
land
which
I am giving to
the sons
of
Israel
. '
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