King James Version, Updated™

(1) "Give ear, O YOU 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 on the tender herb, and as the showers on the grass.

(3) For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; YOU ascribe greatness to our God.

(4) He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

(5) They have corrupted themselves, their blemish is not the blemish of his children; they are a perverse and crooked generation.

(6) Do YOU thus repay the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has bought you? Has he not made you, and established you?

(7) Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

(8) When the most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the borders of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

(9) For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

(10) He found him in a desert land, and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

(11) As an eagle stirs up its nest, flutters over its young, spreads out its wings, takes them and carries them on its wings,

(12) So the LORD alone led him, and there was no 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 suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

(14) Butter from cattle, and milk from sheep, with fat from lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest kidneys and wheat; and you drank the pure blood of the grape.

(15) But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you have grown fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fat; then he forsook God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

(16) They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

(17) They sacrificed to devils, not to God, to gods whom they did not know, to new gods that came up recently, whom YOUR fathers did not fear.

(18) Of the Rock who fathered you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who formed you.

(19) And when the LORD saw it, he spurned them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

(20) He said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end shall be, for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faith.

(21) They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

(22) For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its 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 be burnt 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 also with 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, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they 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 is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

32 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:

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at 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 their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help YOU, and be YOUR protection.

39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that 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 that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

43 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.

44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

46 And he said unto them, Set YOUR hearts unto all the words which I testify among YOU this day, which ye shall command YOUR children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

47 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.

48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

49 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:

50 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:

51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.