mayest cleave unto him: for he isthy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in
the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
them.
1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
2 And he said unto them, I aman hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out
and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, andhe will destroy these nations from before
thee, and thou shalt possess them: andJoshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath
said.
4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto
the land of them, whom he destroyed.
5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all
the commandments which I have commanded you.
6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is
that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a
good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto
their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
8 And the LORD, he it isthat doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee,
neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of everyseven years, in the solemnity of the
year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall
choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that iswithin
thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe
to do all the words of this law:
13 And thattheir children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the
LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and
present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And
Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud
stood over the door of the tabernacle.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people
will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be
among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will
hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall
them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God isnot
among us?
18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in
that they are turned unto other gods.
19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their
mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that
floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat;

then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song
shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their
seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them
into the land which I sware.
22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for
thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with
thee.
24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book,
until they were finished,
25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your
God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day,
ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words
in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.
29 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.
30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until
they were ended.
1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
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:
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4 He isthe Rock, his work isperfect: for all his ways arejudgment: a God of truth and without
iniquity, just and right ishe.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot isnot the spotof his children: they area perverse
and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? isnot he thy father thathath
bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
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.
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.
9 For the LORD'S portion ishis people; Jacob isthe lot of his inheritance.
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.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings,
taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12 Sothe LORD alone did lead him, and there wasno strange god with him.
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;
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.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art
covered with fatness; then he forsook God whichmade him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his

salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to
anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods thatcame
newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock thatbegat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of
his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they area
very froward generation, children in whom isno faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which isnot God; they have provoked me to anger
with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which arenot a people; I will
provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall beburnt 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.
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the
suckling alsowith the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease
from among men:
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave
themselves strangely, andlest they should say, Our hand ishigh, and the LORD hath not done all
this.
28 For they area nation void of counsel, neither is there anyunderstanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, thatthey understood this, thatthey would consider their latter end!
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?
31 For their rock isnot as our Rock, even our enemies themselves beingjudges.
32 For their vine isof the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes aregrapes
of gall, their clusters arebitter:
33 Their wine isthe poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Isnot this laid up in store with me, andsealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongethvengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in duetime: for the day of
their calamity isat hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that
theirpower is gone, and there isnone shut up, or left.
37 And he shall say, Where aretheir gods, theirrock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, anddrank the wine of their drink offerings? let
them rise up and help you, andbe your protection.
39 See now that I, evenI, amhe, and there isno god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound,
and I heal: neither is there anythat can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
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.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and thatwith
the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.