1   Heare ye ^note heauens what thinges I speake, the earth heare the wordes of my mouth.

2   My ^note doctrine grow together as raine, my speach flow as the dew, as it were a shower vpon the herbe, and as it were droppes vpon the grasse.

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3    ^noteBecause I wil inuocate the name of our Lord: geue magnificence to our God.

4   The workes of God be perfect, and al his waies iudgementes: God is faithful, and without any iniquitie, iust and right.

5   They ^note haue sinned to him, and not his children in filthines: a froward and peruerse generation.

6   These thinges doest thou render to our Lord thou foolish and vnwise people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made, and created thee?

7   Remember the old daies, thinke vpon euerie generation: aske thy father, and he wil declare to thee: thy elders, and they wil tel thee.

8   When the highest ^note diuided the nations: when he separated the sonnes of Adam, he appointed the limites of people according to ^note the number of the children of Israel.

9   But our Lords part, is his people: Iacob the corde of his inheritance.

10   He ^note found him in a desert land, in a place of horrour, and of wast wildernes: he ledde him about, and taught him: and kept him as the apple of his eye.

11   As the eagle prouoking her young to flie, and houering ouer them, hath he spred his winges, and he hath taken him, and caried him on his shoulders.

12   Our Lord onlie was his guide: and there was not with him a strange God.

13   He placed him ouer an high land: that he might eate the fruites of the fieldes, that he might sucke ^note honie out of the rocke, and ^note oile out of the hardest stone.

14   Butter from the heard, and milke of the sheepe with the fatte of lambes, and of rammes the sonnes of Basan: and bucke goates with the marow of wheate, and might drinke the bloud of the grape most pure.

15   The ^note beloued was made grosse, and spurned: made grosse, fatted, dilated, he left God his maker, and departed from God his saluation.

16   They prouoked him in strange goddes, and in abominations stirred him to anger.

17   They immolated to diuels and not to God, to goddes, which they knew not: there came ^note new & fresh ones, whom their fathers worshipped not.

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18   God that begatte thee thou hast forsaken, and hast09Q0172 forgotten our Lord thy creatour.

19   Our Lord saw, and was moued to wrath: because his sonnes and daughters prouoked him.

20   And he said: ^note I wil hide my face from them, and wil consider their last: for it is a peruerse generation, and vnfaithful children.

21   They ^note haue prouoked me in that, which was no God, and haue angred me in their vanities: and I wil prouoke them in that, which is no people, and in ^note a foolish nation wil I anger them.

22   A fyre is kindled in my wrath, and shal burne euen to the lowest partes of hel: and shal deuoure the earth with her spring, and shal burne the foundations of mountaines.

23   I wil heape euils vpon them, and myne arrowes I wil spend in them.

24   They shal be consumed with famine, and birdes shal deuoure them with most bitter biting: the teeth of beastes wil I send vpon them, with the furie of those that traile vpon the ground, and creepe.

25   Without shal the sword deuoure them, & within fearefulnes, the young man and the virgin together, the sucking child with the old man.

26   I said: Where are they? I wil make their memorie to cease from among men.

27   But ^note for the wrath of the enemies I haue differed: lest perhaps their enemies might be proude, and would say: Our mightie hand, and not the Lord, hath done al these thinges.

28   A nation without counsel is it, and without wisedome.

29   O that they were ^note wise, and vnderstoode, and would prouide for their last.

30   How should one pursew a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight? was it not therfore, because their God sold them, and our Lord inclosed them?

31   For our Lord is not as their goddes: ^note our enemies also are iudges.

32   Of the vineyard of Sodom, is their vineyard, and of the suburbes of Gomorrha: their grape the grape of gall, and the clusters most bitter.

33   The gall of dragons their wine, and the venime of Aspes vncurable.

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34   Are not these thinges laid vp with me, and signed in my treasures?

35   Reuenge is myne, and I wil repay them in time, that their foote may slide: the day of perdition is at hand, and the times make hast to be present.

36   Our Lord wil iudge his people, and wil haue mercie on his seruantes: he shal see that their hand is weakened, and ^note the shut vp also haue fayled, and the residew be consumed.

37   And he shal say: Where are their goddes, in whom they had confidence.

38   Of whose victimes they did eate fatte, and dranke the wine of their libamentes: ^note Let them arise, and help you, and protect you in necessitie.

39   See ye that I am onlie, and there is no other God besides me: I wil kil, and I wil make to liue: I wil strike, and I wil heale, and there is none that can deliuer out of my hand.

40   I wil lift vp my hand to heauen, and wil say: I liue for euer.

41   If I shal whette my sword as the lightening, and my hand take iudgement: I wil repay vengeance to myne enemies, and them that hate me wil I requite.

42   I wil embrew my arrowes with bloud, and my sword shal deuoure flesh, of the bloud of the slaine and of captiuitie, of ^note the bare head of the enemies.

43   You gentiles09Q0173 prayse his people, because he wil reuenge the bloud of his seruantes: and wil repay vengeance vpon their enemies, and wil be propitious to the land of his people.

44   Moyses therfore came and spake al the wordes of this canticle in the eares of the people, he and Iosue the sonne of Nun.

45   And he finished al these wordes, speaking to the children of Israel.

46   and he said to them: Sette your hartes on al the wordes, which I testifie to you this day: that you command them to your children to keepe and to doe, and to fulfil al thinges of this law that are written:

47   for not in vaine are they commanded you, but that euerie one should liue in them: which doing you may continew a long time in the Land, which passing ouer Iordan you enter to possesse.

48   And our Lord spake to Moyses in the same day, saying:

49   Goe vp into this mount Abarim, that is to say, of passages, into mount Nebo, which is in the Land of Moab against Iericho: and see the Land of Chanaan, which I wil deliuer to

Blessing of the tribes. the children of Israel to obteyne, and die thou in the mount.

50   Which going vp vnto thou shalt be ioyned to thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was layd to his people:

51   because you did preuaricate against me in the middes of the children of Israel at the Waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctifie me among the children of Israel.

52   Ouer against shalt thou see the Land, and shalt not enter into it, which I wil geue to the children of Israel.

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