1Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2My teaching will drop as the rain, my speech will distill as the dew, as fine rain upon the grass, and as showers upon the herb.
3For I will proclaim the name of YHWH; ascribe greatness to our God.
4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are judgment (mishpat); a God (El) of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is he.
5He has acted corruptly toward him; not his sons, their blemish; a generation crooked and twisted.
6Do you thus requite YHWH, O foolish people and not wise? Is he not your father who acquired you? He made you and established you.
7Remember the days of old, consider the years of generation upon generation; ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will say to you.
8When the Most High (Elyon) gave the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
9For the portion of YHWH is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10He found him in a land of wilderness, and in a waste, a howling desert; he encompassed him, he gave him understanding, he guarded him as the pupil of his eye.
11As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads its wings, takes them, bears them upon its pinions —
12YHWH alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.
13He made him ride upon the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; and he made him suck honey out of the crag, and oil out of the flint of the rock;
14curd of cattle and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, sons of Bashan, and he-goats, with the fat of the kidneys of wheat; and the blood of the grape you drank as foaming wine.
15And Jeshurun grew fat and kicked — you grew fat, you grew thick, you became gross — and he abandoned God who made him, and he treated as foolish the Rock of his salvation (yeshuah).
16They roused him to jealousy with strangers; with abominations they provoked him.
17They sacrificed to demons, not God, gods they did not know, new ones who came lately, whom your fathers did not dread.
18The Rock who bore you, you neglected, and you forgot God (El) who brought you forth.
19And YHWH saw and spurned, from the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
20And he said: "I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are a generation of perversities, sons in whom is no faithfulness.
21They, they roused me to jealousy with a not-god, they provoked me with their vanities; and I, I will rouse them to jealousy with a not-people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.
22For a fire has been kindled in my anger, and it burns to the lowest Sheol, and it devours the earth and its produce, and it sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
23I will heap evils upon them; my arrows I will spend upon them.
24Wasted with hunger, and consumed with burning heat and bitter destruction; and the tooth of beasts I will send upon them, with the venom of crawlers of the dust (aphar).
25From outside the sword will bereave, and from the chambers terror; both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man (ish) of gray hair.
26I said, 'I will dash them in pieces, I will make their memory cease from mankind,'
27were it not that I dreaded the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misjudge, lest they say, 'Our hand is exalted, and it was not YHWH who did all this.'
28For they are a nation lost of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
29If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.
30How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and YHWH had shut them up?
31For their rock is not as our Rock; even our enemies being judges.
32For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter.
33The venom of great sea-creatures (tannin) is their wine, and the cruel poison of asps.
34Is not this stored up with me, sealed in my treasuries?
35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot slips; for the day of their calamity is near, and the things prepared for them make haste.
36For YHWH will judge his people, and concerning his servants he will relent, when he sees that the hand is gone, and there is no one shut up or left.
37And he will say, 'Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted,
38who ate the fat of their sacrifices, who drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be a hiding place over you.
39See now that I, I am he, and there is no God with me; I, I kill, and I make alive; I have wounded, and I, I heal; and there is none who delivers from my hand.
40For I lift up my hand to the heavens, and I say, 'As I live (chai) forever,
41if I sharpen the lightning of my sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment (mishpat), I will return vengeance to my adversaries, and to those who hate me I will recompense.
42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh (basar); from the blood of the slain and the captive, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.'
43Shout for joy, O heavens, with him! And let all the sons of God worship him. Shout for joy, O nations, with his people! For he will avenge the blood of his servants, and render vengeance to his adversaries, and atone for the land of his people and his people.
44And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.
45And Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel.
46And he said to them: "Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you this day, which you shall command (tzivvah) your sons to observe to do, all the words of this Torah.
47For it is not an empty word from you; for it is your life (chai); and through this word you shall prolong days upon the ground (adamah) which you are crossing the Jordan there to possess it."
48And YHWH spoke to Moses on that very same day, saying:
49"Go up to this mountain of Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession;
50and die on the mountain where you are going up, and be gathered to your peoples, as Aaron your brother died on mount Hor and was gathered to his peoples;
51because you trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me in the midst of the sons of Israel.
52For from opposite you shall see the land, but there you shall not enter, into the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel."