34 (A)Is it not stored up with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?
35 (B)Vengeance is Mine, and retribution;
(C)In due time their foot will slip.
(D)For the day of their disaster is near,
And the impending things are hurrying to them.’
36 (E)For the Lord will vindicate His people,
(F)And will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their [a]strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.
37 And He will say, ‘(G)Where are their gods,
The rock in which they took refuge?
38 (H)Those who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
(I)Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your protection!
39 (J)See now that I, I am He,
(K)And there is no god besides Me;
(L)It is I who put to death and give life.
(M)I have wounded and it is I who heal,
(N)And there is no one who can save anyone from My hand.
40 Indeed, (O)I raise My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,
41 (P)If I have sharpened [b]My flashing sword,
And My hand has taken hold of justice,
(Q)I will return vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.
42 (R)I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
(S)And My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired [c]leaders of the enemy.’
43 (T)Rejoice, you nations, with His people;
(U)For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
(V)And will return vengeance on His adversaries,
(W)And will atone for His land and His people.”

44 Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he, with [d](X)Joshua the son of Nun. 45 When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, “(Y)Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you will command (Z)your sons to [e]follow carefully, all the words of this Law. 47 For it is not a [f]trivial matter for you; indeed (AA)it is your life. And (AB)by this word you will prolong your days in the land, [g]which you are about to cross the Jordan to [h]possess.”

48 Now (AC)the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, 49 (AD)Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab [i]opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel as a possession. 50 Then you are to die on the mountain where you ascend, and be (AE)gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 (AF)because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the (AG)wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel. 52 (AH)For you will see the land at a distance but (AI)you will not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:36 Lit hand
  2. Deuteronomy 32:41 Lit the lightning of My sword
  3. Deuteronomy 32:42 Lit head
  4. Deuteronomy 32:44 Lit Hoshea
  5. Deuteronomy 32:46 Lit be careful to perform
  6. Deuteronomy 32:47 Lit empty word
  7. Deuteronomy 32:47 Lit where
  8. Deuteronomy 32:47 Lit possess it
  9. Deuteronomy 32:49 Lit which is opposite

18 But they (A)lie in wait for their own blood;
They ambush their own lives.

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