Deuteronomy 32:42-44
Common English Bible
42 I’ll make my arrows drink much blood,
while my sword devours flesh,
the blood of the dead and captured,
flowing from the heads of enemy generals.”[a]
43 Heavens:[b] Rejoice with God![c]
All you gods: bow down to the Lord![d]
Because he will avenge his children’s[e] blood;
he will pay back his enemies;
he will punish in kind those who hate him;[f]
he will cleanse his people’s land.[g]
44 So Moses came and recited all the words of this poem in everyone’s hearing; Joshua,[h] Nun’s son, joined him.
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- Deuteronomy 32:42 Heb uncertain
- Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT nations
- Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT his people
- Deuteronomy 32:43 This line is missing in Heb; it is found in DSS (4QDeutq); LXX him for the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT his servants’
- Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeutq), LXX; MT lacks this line.
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Sam, DSS (4QDeutq), LXX, Vulg; MT his land his people or his land for his people; or, correcting, he will wipe away his people’s tears.
- Deuteronomy 32:44 Sam, Syr, Tg Neofiti; MT Hoshea
Deuteronomy 32:42-44
New International Version
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,(A)
while my sword devours flesh:(B)
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
43 Rejoice,(C) you nations, with his people,[a][b]
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;(D)
he will take vengeance on his enemies(E)
and make atonement for his land and people.(F)
44 Moses came with Joshua[c](G) son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Or Make his people rejoice, you nations
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) people, / and let all the angels worship him, /
- Deuteronomy 32:44 Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua
Deuteronomy 32:42-44
King James Version
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.
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