Deut 32
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Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words out of my mouth.
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Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower
upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
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For I have called on the name of the Lord: assign you greatness to our God.
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As for God, his works are true, and all his ways are Gr. judgements judgement: God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness
in him; just and holy
is the Lord.
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They have sinned, not pleasing him; spotted children, a froward and perverse generation.
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Do you thus recompense the Lord? is the people thus foolish and unwise? did not he
himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you?
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Remember the days of old, consider the years Gr. in ages of ages for past ages: ask your father, and he shall relate to you,
your elders, and they
shall tell you.
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When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set
the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.
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And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.
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He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: he led him
about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of an eye.
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As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having
spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:
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the Lord alone led them, there was no strange god with them.
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He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the
fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.
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Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams, of calves and kids,
with fat of kidneys of wheat; and he drank wine, the blood of the grape.
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So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick
and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.
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They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly
angered me.
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They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh
gods came in, whom their fathers knew not.
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You have forsaken God that engendered you, and forgotten God who feeds you.
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And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters,
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and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them
in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.
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Ro 10:19 They have provoked me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have exasperated
me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation,
I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.
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For a fire has been kindled out of my anger, it shall burn to hell below; it shall
devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the
mountains.
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I will gather evils upon them, and will Gr. cause my weapons to war together against them fight with my weapons against them.
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They shall be consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be
irremediable Gr. downfall, or falling away destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the
rage
of serpents creeping on the ground.
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Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror shall issue out of the
secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him
who has grown old.
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I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from among men.
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Were it not for the anger of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies
should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not the Lord,
has done all these things.
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It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them.
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They had not sense to understand: let them reserve these things against the time to
come.
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How Gr. shall should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold
them, and the Lord delivered them up?
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For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies are void of understanding.
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrha: their grape
is a grape of gall, their cluster is one of bitterness.
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Their wine is the rage of serpents, and the incurable rage of asps.
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Behold! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed among my treasures?
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In the day of vengeance Ro 12:19 I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their
destruction is near to them, and the judgements at hand are close upon you.
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For the Lord shall judge his people, and shall be comforted over his servants; for
he saw that they were Gr. paralyzed utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:
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and the Lord said, Where are their gods on whom they trusted?
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the fat of whose sacrifices you ate, and you drank the wine of their drink-offerings?
let them arise and help you, and be your protectors.
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Behold, behold that I am he, and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make
to live: I will smite, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of
my hands.
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For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say,
I live for ever.
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For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand shall take hold of judgement;
and I will render judgement to my enemies, and will recompense them that hate me.
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I will make my weapons drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, it shall
glut itself with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity of the Alex. eynwn, Gentiles heads of their enemies that
rule over them.
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Rejoice, you heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; Ro 15:10 rejoice you Gentiles, with his people,
and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves
in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and
recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord
shall purge the land of his people.
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And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel; and
Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears of the people, he and
Joshua the son of Naue.
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And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.
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And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify
to you this day, which you shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words
of this law.
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For this is no vain word to you; for it is your life, and because of this word you
shall live long upon the land, into which you go over Jordan to inherit it.
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And the Lord spoke to Moses in this day, saying,
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Go up to the mount Abarim, this mountain Nabau which is in the land of Moab over against
Jericho, and behold the land of Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel:
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and die in the mount where you go up, and be added to your people; as Aaron your brother
died in mount Or, and was added to his people.
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Because you disobeyed my word among the children of Israel, at the waters of strife
of Cades in the wilderness of Sin; because you sanctified me not among the sons of
Israel.
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You shall see the land before you, but you shall not enter into it.