1   Hearken, ye ^note heauens, and I will speake: and let the earth heare the words of my mouth.

2   My ^note doctrine shall drop as the raine, and my speach shal stil as the dew, as the showre vp&obar; the herbes, and as the great raine vpon the grasse.

3   For I will publish the name of the Lorde: giue ye glorie vnto our God.

4   Perfect is the worke of the ^note mighty God: for all his wayes are iudgement. God is true, and without wickednesse: iust, and righteous is he.

5   They haue corrupted them selues towarde him by their vice, not being his children, but a frowarde and crooked generation.

6   Doe ye so rewarde the Lorde, O foolish people and vnwise? is not he thy father, that hath bought thee? he hath ^note made thee, and proportioned thee.

7   ¶2; Remember the dayes of olde: consider the yeeres of so many generations: aske thy father, and he will shewe thee: thine Elders, and they will tell thee.

8   When the most hie God deuided to the nations Moses song. their inheritance, when he separated the sonnes of Adam, he appoynted the borders of the ^note people, according to the nomber of the children of Israel.

9   For the Lordes portion is his people: Iaakob is the lot of his inheritance.

10   He found him in þe; land of þe; wildernes, in a waste, & roaring wildernes: he led him about, he taught him, and kept him as þe; apple of his eye.

11   As an eagle stereth vp her nest, ^note flootereth ouer her birdes, stretcheth out her wings, taketh them, and beareth them on her wings,

12   So the Lorde alone led him, and there was no ^note strange god with him.

13   He caryed him vp to the hie places of the ^note earth, that he might eate the fruites of the fieldes, and he caused him to sucke ^note hony out of the stone, and oyle out of the hard rocke:

14   Butter of kine, and milke of sheepe with fat of the lambes, and rammes fed in Bashan, and goates, with the fat of the graines of wheat, and the red ^note licour of the grape hast thou drunke.

15   ¶2; But he that should haue bene ^note vpright, when he waxed fat, spurned with his heele: thou art fat, thou art grosse, thou art laden with fatnes: therefore he forsooke God that made him, and regarded not the strong God of his saluation.

16   They prouoked him with ^note strange gods: they prouoked him to anger with abominations.

17   They offred vnto deuils, not to God, but to gods whome they knew not: ^note new gods that came newly vp, whome their fathers feared not.

18   Thou hast forgotten the mightie God that begate thee, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19   The Lorde then sawe it, and was angrie, for the prouocation of his ^note sonnes and of his daughters.

20   And he said, I will hide my face from th&ebar;: I will see what their ende shalbe: for they are a frowarde generation, children in wh&obar; is no faith.

21   They haue moued me to ielousie with that which is not God: they haue prouoked me to anger with their vanities: ^note and I will moue them to ielousie with those which are no ^note people: I wil prouoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22   For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burne vnto the bottome of hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.

23   I will spend plagues vpon them: I will bestowe mine arrowes vpon them.

24   They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents creeping in the dust.

25   The sworde shall ^note kill them without, and in the chambers feare: both the yong man and the yong woman, the suckeling with the man of gray heare.

26   I haue said, I would scatter them abroade: I would make their remembrance to cease from among men,

27   Saue that I feared the furie of the enemie, least their aduersaries should ^note waxe proude, and least they should say, Our hie hande and not the Lorde hath done all this:

28   For they are a nation voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them.

29   Oh þt; they were wise, then they would vnderstand

Moses song: He blesseth the tribes. this: they would ^note consider their latter ende.

30   How should ^note one chase a thousand, & two put ten thousande to flight, except their strong God had sold th&ebar;, & the Lord had ^note shut them vp?

31   For their god is not as our God, euen our enemies being iudges.

32   For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters be bitter.

33   Their ^note wine is the poyson of dragons, and the cruel gall of aspes.

34   Is not this laide in store with me, and sealed vp among my treasures?

35    ^noteVengeance and recompence are mine: their foote shall slide in due time: for the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come vpon them, make haste.

36   For the Lorde shall iudge his people, and ^note repent towarde his seruants, when hee seeth that their power is gone, and none ^note shut vp in holde nor left abroad.

37   When men shal say, Where are their gods, their mighty God in whome they trusted,

38   Which did eate the fat of their sacrifices, & did drinke the wine of their drinke offring? let them rise vp, & help you: let him be your refuge.

39   Behold now, for I, I am he, and there is no gods with me: ^note I kill, and giue life: I wound, and I make whole: ^note neither is there any that can deliuer out of mine hand.

40   For I ^note lift vp mine hand to heauen, & say, I liue for euer.

41   If I whet my glittering sworde, and mine hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, and will rewarde them that hate me.

42   I will make mine arrowes drunke with blood, (& my sword shal eate flesh) for the blood of the slaine, and of the captiues, when I beginne to take vengeance of the enemie.

43    ^noteYe nations, praise his people: for he will auenge the ^note blood of his seruants, and will execute vengeance vpon his aduersaries, and will bee mercifull vnto his lande, and to his people.

44   ¶2; Then Moses came and spake all þe; words of this song in the audience of the people, he and ^note Hoshea the sonne of Nun.

45   When Moses had made an end of speaking all these wordes to all Israel,

46   Then hee said vnto them, ^note Set your heartes vnto all the wordes which I testifie against you this day, that ye may commande them vnto your children, that they may obserue and doo all the wordes of this Lawe.

47   For it is no ^note vaine worde concerning you, but it is your life, and by this worde ye shall prolong your dayes in the land, whither yee go ouer Iorden to possesse it.

48    ^noteAnd the Lord spake vnto Moses the selfe same day, saying,

49   Goe vp into the mountaine of Abarim, vnto the mount Nebo, which is in the lande of Moab, that is ouer against Iericho: and beholde the lande of Canaan, which I giue vnto the children of Israel for a possession,

50   And die in the mount which thou goest vp vnto, and thou shalt be ^note gathered vnto thy people, ^note as Aar&obar; thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered vnto his people, Moses song: He blesseth the tribes.

51   Because ye ^note trespassed against me among the children of Israel, at the waters ^note of Meribah, at Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin: for ye ^note sanctified me not among the children of Israel.

52   Thou shalt therefore see the lande before thee, but shalt not go thither, I meane, into the land which I giue the children of Israel.

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