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Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak;
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and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. |
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My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
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my speech shall distil as the dew, |
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as the small rain upon the tender herb, |
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and as the showers upon the grass: |
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because I will publish the name of the LORD:
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ascribe ye greatness unto our God. |
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He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
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for all his ways are judgment: |
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a God of truth and without iniquity, |
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just and right is he. |
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They have corrupted themselves,
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their spot is not the spot of his children: |
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they are a perverse and crooked generation. |
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Do ye thus requite the LORD,
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O foolish people and unwise? |
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Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? |
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Hath he not made thee, and established thee? |
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Remember the days of old,
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consider the years of many generations: |
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ask thy father, and he will show thee; |
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thy elders, and they will tell thee. |
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When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
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when he separated the sons of Adam, |
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he set the bounds of the people |
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according to the number of the children of Israel. |
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For the LORD's portion is his people;
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Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. |
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He found him in a desert land,
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and in the waste howling wilderness; |
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he led him about, he instructed him, |
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he kept him as the apple of his eye. |
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As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
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fluttereth over her young, |
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spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, |
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beareth them on her wings: |
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so the LORD alone did lead him,
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and there was no strange god with him. |
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
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that he might eat the increase of the fields; |
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and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, |
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and oil out of the flinty rock; |
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butter of kine, and milk of sheep,
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with fat of lambs, |
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and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, |
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with the fat of kidneys of wheat; |
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and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. |
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But Jesh'urun waxed fat, and kicked:
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thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, |
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thou art covered with fatness; |
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then he forsook God which made him, |
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and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. |
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They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,
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with abominations provoked they him to anger. |
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They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; 1 Cor. 10.20
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to gods whom they knew not, |
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to new gods that came newly up, |
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whom your fathers feared not. |
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Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,
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and hast forgotten God that formed thee. |
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And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them,
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because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. |
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And he said, I will hide my face from them,
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I will see what their end shall be: |
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for they are a very froward generation, |
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children in whom is no faith. |
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They have moved me to jealousy 1 Cor. 10.22 with that which is not God;
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they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: |
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and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; |
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I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. Rom. 10.19 |
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For a fire is kindled in mine anger,
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and shall burn unto the lowest hell, |
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and shall consume the earth with her increase, |
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and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. |
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I will heap mischiefs upon them;
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I will spend mine arrows upon them. |
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They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat,
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and with bitter destruction: |
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I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, |
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with the poison of serpents of the dust. |
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The sword without, and terror within,
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shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, |
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the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. |
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I said, I would scatter them into corners,
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I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: |
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were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,
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lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, |
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and lest they should say, Our hand is high, |
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and the LORD hath not done all this. |
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For they are a nation void of counsel,
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neither is there any understanding in them. |
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O that they were wise, that they understood this,
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that they would consider their latter end! |
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How should one chase a thousand,
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and two put ten thousand to flight, |
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except their Rock had sold them, |
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and the LORD had shut them up? |
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For their rock is not as our Rock,
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even our enemies themselves being judges. |
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
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and of the fields of Gomorrah: |
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their grapes are grapes of gall, |
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their clusters are bitter: |
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their wine is the poison of dragons,
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and the cruel venom of asps. |
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Is not this laid up in store with me,
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and sealed up among my treasures? |
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To me belongeth vengeance, Rom. 12.19 · Heb. 10.30 and recompense;
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their foot shall slide in due time: |
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for the day of their calamity is at hand, |
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and the things that shall come upon them make haste. |
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For the LORD shall judge his people,
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and repent himself for his servants, |
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when he seeth that their power is gone, |
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and there is none shut up, or left. |
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And he shall say, Where are their gods,
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their rock in whom they trusted, |
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which did eat the fat of their sacrifices,
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and drank the wine of their drink offerings? |
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Let them rise up and help you, |
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and be your protection. |
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See now that I, even I, am he,
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and there is no god with me: |
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I kill, and I make alive; |
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I wound, and I heal: |
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neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. |
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For I lift up my hand to heaven,
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and say, I live for ever. |
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If I whet my glittering sword,
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and mine hand take hold on judgment; |
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I will render vengeance to mine enemies, |
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and will reward them that hate me. |
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I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,
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and my sword shall devour flesh; |
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and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, |
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from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. |
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Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: Rom. 15.10
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for he will avenge the blood of his servants, Rev. 19.2 |
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and will render vengeance to his adversaries, |
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and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. |
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¶ And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshe'a the son of Nun.
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And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
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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.
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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.
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Moses Permitted to See the Land of Canaan |
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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
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Get thee up into this mountain Ab'arim, 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:
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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:
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because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Mer'ibah–Ka'desh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
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Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. Num. 27.12-14 · Deut. 3.23-27
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