< Deuteronomy 32 >
1 Give ear O ye heavens and I will speak, And let the earth hear the sayings of my mouth:
to listen [the] heaven and to speak: speak and to hear: hear [the] land: country/planet word lip my
2 Let my teaching drop as the rain, Let my speech distil as the dew, —As copious rains on tender grass, As myriad drops on seeding plants.
to drop like/as rain teaching my to flow like/as dew word my like/as rain upon grass and like/as shower upon vegetation
3 When, the name of Yahweh, I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness unto our God: —
for name LORD to call: call out to give greatness to/for God our
4 A Rock! faultless his work, For, all his ways, are just, A GOD of faithfulness and without perversity, Right and fair, is he!
[the] rock unblemished work his for all way: conduct his justice God faithfulness and nothing injustice righteous and upright he/she/it
5 They have broken faith with him to be no sons of his—their fault, —A generation twisted and crooked.
to ruin to/for him not son: child his blemish their generation twisted and twisted
6 Is it Yahweh, ye thus requite, O impious people and unwise? Is not, he, thy father who begat thee? He, that made thee and established thee?
to/for LORD to wean this people foolish and not wise not he/she/it father your to buy you he/she/it to make you and to establish: make you
7 Remember the days of age-past times, Remark the years of many generations, —Ask thy father and he will tell thee, Thine elders and they will say to thee: —
to remember day forever: antiquity to understand year generation and generation to ask father your and to tell you old: elder your and to say to/for you
8 When the Most High gave inheritances unto the nations, When he spread abroad the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples, According to the number of the sons of Israel.
in/on/with to inherit Most High nation in/on/with to separate he son: descendant/people man to stand border people to/for number son: child Israel
9 For, Yahweh’s portion is his people, —Jacob, his inherited possession.
for portion LORD people his Jacob cord inheritance his
10 He met him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness, —He encompassed him watched over him, Shielded him as the pupil of his own eye.
to find him in/on/with land: country/planet wilderness and in/on/with formlessness howling wilderness to turn: surround him to understand him to watch him like/as pupil eye his
11 As, an eagle, stirreth up his nest, Over his young ones, fluttereth, Spreadeth abroad his wings, taketh one, Beareth it up on his pinions,
like/as eagle to rouse nest his upon young bird his to hover to spread wing his to take: take him to lift: bear him upon pinion his
12 Yahweh alone did lead him, —And there was with him no GOD of a stranger.
LORD isolation to lead him and nothing with him god foreign
13 He made him ride on the high places of the land, Caused him to eat the increase of the fields, —And gave him to suck honey out of the cliff, And oil out of the rock of flint:
to ride him upon (high place *Q(k)*) land: country/planet and to eat fruit field and to suckle him honey from crag and oil from flint rock
14 Curds of kine and milk of sheep, —With fat of well-fed lambs, Yea rams bred in Bashan, and he-goats, With the white of the kernels of wheat, —And, the blood of the grape, thou didst drink as it foamed.
curd cattle and milk flock with fat ram and ram son: young animal Bashan and goat with fat kidney wheat and blood grape to drink wine
15 Then Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou wast fat, Thou wast thick, Thou wast gorged, So he forsook the GOD who made him, And treated as foolish his Rock of salvation.
and to grow fat Jeshurun and to kick to grow fat to thicken be sated and to leave god to make him and be senseless rock salvation his
16 They moved him to jealousy with foreign [gods], —With abominations, angered they him:
be jealous him in/on/with be a stranger in/on/with abomination to provoke him
17 They sacrificed to mischievous demons to a No-GOD, Gods whom they knew not, —New ones lately come in, Your fathers never shuddered at them!
to sacrifice to/for demon not god God not to know them new from near to come (in): come not to know them father your
18 Of the Rock who had begotten thee, thou wast unmindful, —And didst forget GOD who had given thee birth.
rock to beget you to forget and to forget God to twist: give birth you
19 When Yahweh saw, he derided, —Because his sons and his daughters gave provocation.
and to see: see LORD and to spurn from vexation son: child his and daughter his
20 So he said: —I will hide my face from them, I will see what will be their hereafter, —For a generation given to intrigue, they are, Sons, whom there is no trusting;
and to say to hide face my from them to see: see what? end their for generation perversity they(masc.) son: child not faithful in/on/with them
21 They have moved me to jealousy with a No-GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy with a No-people, With an impious nation, will I anger them.
they(masc.) be jealous me in/on/with not god to provoke me in/on/with vanity their and I be jealous them in/on/with not people in/on/with nation foolish to provoke them
22 For, a fire, is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn as far as hades beneath, —And consume the earth with her produce, And set ablaze the foundations of the mountains: (Sheol )
for fire to kindle in/on/with face: anger my and to burn till hell: Sheol lower and to eat land: country/planet and crops her and to kindle foundation mountain: mount (Sheol )
23 I will heap on them, calamities, —Mine arrows, will I spend upon them:
to snatch upon them distress: harm arrow my to end: expend in/on/with them
24 The meltings of hunger, The devourings of fever, And the dangerous pestilence, —And, the tooth of beasts, will I send among them, With the poison of crawlers of the dust:
empty famine and to feed on flash and destruction bitter and tooth animal to send: depart in/on/with them with rage to crawl dust
25 Without, shall the sword bereave, In the inmost recesses, terror, —To both young man and virgin, Suckling, with man of grey hairs.
from outside be bereaved sword and from chamber terror also youth also virgin to suckle with man greyheaded
26 I said, I would puff them away, I would destroy from mortals, their memory;
to say to cleave them to cease from human memorial their
27 Were it not that the taunt of the foe, I feared, Lest their adversaries should mistake, —Lest they should say—Our own hand, is exalted, It is not Yahweh, therefore who hath wrought all this!
unless vexation enemy to dread lest to alienate enemy their lest to say hand: power our to exalt and not LORD to work all this
28 For a nation of vanished sagacity, they are, —And there is in them no understanding.
for nation to perish counsel they(masc.) and nothing in/on/with them understanding
29 If they had been wise, they would have understood this, —They would have given heed to their here-after!
if be wise be prudent this to understand to/for end their
30 Oh! how would one, have chased, a thousand! And, two, put, ten thousand to flight, —Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And, Yahweh, had abandoned them;
how? to pursue one thousand and two to flee myriad if: until not for rock their to sell them and LORD to shut them
31 For, not like our Rock, is their rock, Our enemies themselves, being judges;
for not like/as rock our rock their and enemy our judge
32 For of the vine of Sodom, is their vine, And of the vineyards of Gomorrah, —Their grapes, are grapes of gall, Clusters of bitter things, are theirs:
for from vine Sodom vine their and from field Gomorrah grape their grape poison cluster gall to/for them
33 The poison of large serpents, is their wine, —Yea the fierce venom of asps.
rage serpent: snake wine their and poison cobra cruel
34 Is not, that, stored up with me, —Sealed up amongst my treasures;
not he/she/it to store up with me to seal in/on/with treasure my
35 Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on.
to/for me vengeance and recompense to/for time to shake foot their for near day calamity their and to hasten ready to/for them
36 For Yahweh will vindicate his people, And upon his servants, will have compassion, —When he seeth that strength is exhausted, And there is no one shut up or at large,
for to judge LORD people his and upon servant/slave his to be sorry: comfort for to see: see for be gone hand: power and end to restrain and to leave: release
37 Then will he say, Where are their gods, The rock in whom they have trusted;
and to say where? God their rock to seek refuge in/on/with him
38 Who used to eat the fat of their sacrifices, To drink the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be over you for a coveting!
which fat sacrifice their to eat to drink wine libation their to arise: rise and to help you to be upon you shelter
39 See, now, that, I, I, am, he that is, And there are no gods with me, —I, kill—and make alive, I wound and, I, heal, And there is none who, from my hand, can deliver,
to see: see now for I I he/she/it and nothing God with me I to die and to live to wound and I to heal and nothing from hand: power my to rescue
40 For I lift up unto the heavens my hand, —And say, Living am, I, unto times age-abiding:
for to lift: vow to(wards) heaven hand: vow my and to say alive I to/for forever: enduring
41 If I whet my flashing sword, And my hand take hold on justice, I will return vengeance unto mine adversaries, And them who hate me, will I requite:
if to sharpen lightning sword my and to grasp in/on/with justice: judgement hand my to return: pay vengeance to/for enemy my and to/for to hate me to complete
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And, my sword, shall devour flesh, —With the blood of the slain and the captive, With the flesh of the chief leader of the foe.
be drunk arrow my from blood and sword my to eat flesh from blood slain: killed and captive from head leader enemy
43 Shout for joy O ye nations [with] his people, For the blood of his servants, he avengeth, —And, vengeance, he returneth unto his adversaries, And is propitious unto the soil of his people.
to sing nation people his for blood servant/slave his to avenge and vengeance to return: pay to/for enemy his and to atone land: soil his people his
44 So Moses came in and spake all the words of this Song in the hearing of the people, —he and Hoshea son of Nun.
and to come (in): come Moses and to speak: promise [obj] all word [the] song [the] this in/on/with ear: hearing [the] people he/she/it and Hoshea son: child Nun
45 And, when Moses made an end of speaking all these words unto all Israel,
and to end: finish Moses to/for to speak: speak [obj] all [the] word [the] these to(wards) all Israel
46 he said unto them—Apply your hearts unto all the words which I am witnessing against you, to-day, —how that ye must command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law;
and to say to(wards) them to set: consider heart your to/for all [the] word which I to testify in/on/with you [the] day which to command them [obj] son: child your to/for to keep: careful to/for to make: do [obj] all word [the] instruction [the] this
47 for it is not, too small a thing, for you, for, it, is your life, —and, hereby, shall ye prolong your days upon the soil whereunto ye are, passing over the Jordan to possess it.
for not word worthless he/she/it from you for he/she/it life your and in/on/with word [the] this to prolong day upon [the] land: soil which you(m. p.) to pass [obj] [the] Jordan there [to] to/for to possess: take her
48 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, on this selfsame day, saying:
and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Moses in/on/with bone: same [the] day [the] this to/for to say
49 Get thee up into this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is over against Jericho—and behold the land of Canaan which I am giving unto the sons of Israel, for a possession;
to ascend: rise to(wards) mountain: mount [the] Abarim [the] this mountain: mount (Mount) Nebo which in/on/with land: country/planet Moab which upon face: before Jericho and to see: see [obj] land: country/planet Canaan which I to give: give to/for son: descendant/people Israel to/for possession
50 and die thou in the mount whither thou art going up, and be withdrawn unto thy kinsfolk, —as Aaron thy brother died in Mount Hor, and was withdrawn unto his kinsfolk;
and to die in/on/with mountain: mount which you(m. s.) to ascend: rise there [to] and to gather to(wards) kinsman your like/as as which to die Aaron brother: compatriot your in/on/with (Mount) Hor [the] mountain: mount and to gather to(wards) kinsman his
51 for that ye acted unfaithfully against me in the midst of the sons of Israel, regarding the waters of Meribah-Kadesh in the desert of Zin, —for that ye hallowed me not in the midst of the sons of Israel.
upon which be unfaithful in/on/with me in/on/with midst son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with water Meribah (Meribath)-kadesh wilderness Zin upon which not to consecrate: consecate [obj] me in/on/with midst son: descendant/people Israel
52 Yet, over against thee, shalt thou behold the land, —but thereinto, shalt thou not enter, into the land which I am giving unto the sons of Israel.
for from before to see: see [obj] [the] land: country/planet and there [to] not to come (in): come to(wards) [the] land: country/planet which I to give: give to/for son: descendant/people Israel