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it may be there for a witness against thee. ²⁷For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death? ²⁸Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. ²⁹For I know that after my death ye will in any wise deal corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the end of days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him through the work of your hands.' ³⁰And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished:

האזינו

32Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak;

And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

²My doctrine shall drop as the rain,

My speech shall distil as the dew;

As the small rain upon the tender grass,

And as the showers upon the herb.

³For I will proclaim the name of the Lord;

Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

 

⁴The Rock, His work is perfect;

For all His ways are justice;

A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,

Just and right is He.

⁵Is corruption His? No; His children's is the blemish;

A generation crooked and perverse.

⁶Do ye thus requite the Lord,

O foolish people and unwise?

Is not He thy father that hath gotten thee?

Hath He not made thee, and established thee?

 

⁷Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of many generations;

Ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee,

Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

⁸When the Most High gave to the nations

When He separated the children of men,

He set the borders of the peoples

According to the number of the children of Israel.

⁹For the portion of the Lord is His people,

Jacob the lot of His inheritance.

 

¹⁰He found him in a desert land,

And in the waste, a howling wilderness;

He compassed him about, He cared for him,

He kept him as the apple of His eye.

¹¹As an eagle that stirreth up her nest,

Hovereth over her young,

Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,

Beareth them on her pinions—

¹²The Lord alone did lead him,

And there was no strange god with Him.

 

¹³He made him ride on the high places of the earth,

And he did eat the fruitage of the field;

And He made him to suck honey out of the crag,

And oil out of the flinty rock;

¹⁴Curd of kine, and milk of sheep,

With fat of lambs,

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