The Song of Moses
(Judges 5:1-31)
1Give ear,O ye heavens,and I will speak;and hear,O earth,the wordsof my mouth.
2My doctrineshall dropas the rain,my speechshall distilas the dew,as the small rainupon the tender herb,and as the showersupon the grass:
3Because I will publishthe nameof the LORD:ascribeye greatnessunto our God.
4[He is] the Rock,his work[is] perfect:for all his ways[are] judgment:a Godof truthand without iniquity,justand right[is] he.
5They have corruptedthemselves, their spot[is] not [the spot] of his children:[they are] a perverseand crookedgeneration.
6Do ye thus requitethe LORD,O foolishpeopleand unwise?[is] not he thy father[that] hath boughtthee? hath he not madethee, and establishedthee?
7Rememberthe daysof old,considerthe yearsof manygenerations:askthy father,and he will shewthee; thy elders,and they will tellthee.
8When the most Highdividedto the nationstheir inheritance,when he separatedthe sonsof Adam,he setthe boundsof the peopleaccording to the numberof the childrenof Israel.
9For the LORD'Sportion[is] his people;Jacob[is] the lotof his inheritance.
10He foundhim in a desertland,and in the wastehowlingwilderness;he led him about,he instructedhim, he kepthim as the appleof his eye.
11As an eaglestirreth upher nest,flutterethover her young,spreadeth abroadher wings,takeththem, beareththem on her wings:
12[So] the LORDalonedid leadhim, and [there was] no strangegodwith him.
13He made him rideon the high placesof the earth,that he might eatthe increaseof the fields;and he made him to suckhoneyout of the rock,and oilout of the flintyrock;
14Butterof kine,and milkof sheep,with fatof lambs,and ramsof the breedof Bashan,and goats,with the fatof kidneysof wheat;and thou didst drinkthe purebloodof the grape.
15But Jeshurunwaxed fat,and kicked:thou art waxen fat,thou art grown thick,thou art covered[with fatness]; then he forsookGod[which] madehim, and lightly esteemedthe Rockof his salvation.
16They provoked him to jealousywith strange[gods], with abominationsprovoked they him to anger.
17They sacrificedunto devils,not to God;to godswhom they knewnot, to new[gods that] camenewlyup,whom your fathersfearednot.
18Of the Rock[that] begatthee thou art unmindful,and hast forgottenGodthat formedthee.
19And when the LORDsaw[it], he abhorred[them], because of the provokingof his sons,and of his daughters.
20And he said,I will hidemy facefrom them, I will seewhat their end[shall be]: for they [are] a very frowardgeneration,childrenin whom [is] no faith.
21They have moved me to jealousywith [that which is] notGod;they have provoked me to angerwith their vanities:and I will move them to jealousywith [those which are] not a people;I will provoke them to angerwith a foolishnation.
22For a fireis kindledin mine anger,and shall burnunto the lowesthell,and shall consumethe earthwith her increase,and set on firethe foundationsof the mountains.
23I will heapmischiefsupon them; I will spendmine arrowsupon them.
24[They shall be] burntwith hunger,and devouredwith burning heat,and with bitterdestruction:I will also sendthe teethof beastsupon them, with the poisonof serpentsof the dust.
25The swordwithout,and terrorwithin,shall destroyboth the young manand the virgin,the suckling[also] with the manof gray hairs.
26I said,I would scatter them into corners,I would make the remembranceof them to ceasefrom among men:
27Were it notthat I fearedthe wrathof the enemy,lest their adversariesshould behave themselves strangely,[and] lest they should say,Our hand[is] high,and the LORDhath not doneall this.
28For they [are] a nationvoidof counsel,neither [is there any] understandingin them.
29O thatthey were wise,[that] they understoodthis, [that] they would considertheir latter end!
30How should onechasea thousand,and twoput tenthousandto flight,excepttheir Rockhad soldthem,and the LORDhad shut them up?
31For their rock[is] not as our Rock,even our enemiesthemselves [being] judges.
32For their vine[is] of the vineof Sodom,and of the fieldsof Gomorrah:their grapes[are] grapesof gall,their clusters[are] bitter:
33Their wine[is] the poisonof dragons,and the cruelvenomof asps.
34[Is] not this laid up in storewith me, [and] sealed upamong my treasures?
35To me [belongeth] vengeance,and recompence;their footshall slidein [due] time:for the dayof their calamity[is] at hand,and the things that shall comeupon them make haste.
36For the LORDshall judgehis people,and repenthimself for his servants,when he seeththat [their] poweris gone,and [there is] noneshut up,or left.
37And he shall say,Where [are] their gods,[their] rockin whom they trusted,
38Which did eatthe fatof their sacrifices,[and] drankthe wineof their drink offerings?let them rise upand helpyou, [and] be your protection.
39Seenow that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no godwith me: I kill,and I make alive;I wound,and I heal:neither [is there any] that can deliverout of my hand.
40For I lift upmy handto heaven,and say,I livefor ever.
41If I whetmy glitteringsword,and mine handtake holdon judgment;I will rendervengeanceto mine enemies,and will rewardthem that hateme.
42I will make mine arrowsdrunkwith blood,and my swordshall devourflesh;[and that] with the bloodof the slainand of the captives,from the beginningof revengesupon the enemy.
43Rejoice,O ye nations,[with] his people:for he will avengethe bloodof his servants,and will rendervengeanceto his adversaries,and will be mercifulunto his land,[and] to his people.
44And Mosescameand spakeall the wordsof this songin the earsof the people,he, and Hosheathe sonof Nun.45And Mosesmade an endof speakingall these wordsto all Israel:46And he saidunto them, Setyour heartsunto all the wordswhich I testifyamong you this day,which ye shall commandyour childrento observeto do,all the wordsof this law.47For it [is] not a vainthingfor you; because it [is] your life:and through this thingye shall prolong[your] daysin the land,whither ye go overJordanto possessit.
Moses' Death Foretold
48And the LORDspakeunto Mosesthat selfsameday,saying,49Get thee upinto this mountainAbarim,[unto] mountNebo,which [is] in the landof Moab,that [is] over againstJericho;and beholdthe landof Canaan,which I giveunto the childrenof Israelfor a possession:50And diein the mountwhither thou goest up,and be gatheredunto thy people;as Aaronthy brotherdiedin mountHor,and was gatheredunto his people:51Because ye trespassedagainst me amongthe childrenof Israelat the watersof Meribah-Kadesh,in the wildernessof Zin;because ye sanctifiedme not in the midstof the childrenof Israel.52Yet thou shalt seethe landbefore [thee]; but thou shalt not gothither unto the landwhich I givethe childrenof Israel.
