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DEḆARIM 32 (Deuteronomy 32)

1 “Give ear, O shamayim, and let me speak;
And hear, O earth,
The words of my mouth.

2 “Let my instruction fall as rain,
My speech drop down as dew,
As fine rain on the tender plants,
And as showers on the grass.

3 “For I proclaim the Name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
Ascribe greatness to our Elohim.

4 “The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His Ways are right-ruling,
An Ĕl of truth and without unrighteousness,
Righteous and straight is He.

5 “A twisted and wicked generation has corrupted itself,
Their blemish, not His children.

6 “Do you do this to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your Father, who bought you,
Who created you and established you?

7 “Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father and let him show you,
Your elders, and let them say to you:

8 “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of Aḏam,
He established the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Elohim.

9 “For the portion of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is His people,
Ya’aqoḇ His allotted inheritance.

10 “He found him in a wilderness,
And in a wasted, howling desert.
He encompassed him,
He made him understand,
He watched over him as the apple of His eye.

11 “As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Flutters over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Bearing them on its wings.

12 “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 alone led him,
And there was no strange mighty one with him.

13 “He made him ride in the heights of the earth,
And he ate the fruit of the fields,
And He made him to draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock,

14 “Curds from the cattle,
And milk of the flock,
With fatness of lambs,
And rams of the breed of Bashan,
And goats, with the choicest wheat;
And you drank wine, the blood of grapes.

15 “But Yeshurun grew fat and kicked;
You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are covered with fat;
So he forsook Eloah who made him,
And scorned the Rock of his deliverance.

16 “They moved Him to jealousy with the foreign,
With abominations they provoked Him.

17 “They slaughtered to demons – not Eloah –
Mighty ones they did not know,
New ones who came lately,
Which your fathers did not reverence.

18 “You neglected the Rock who brought you forth,
And forgot the Ĕl who fathered you.

19 “And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 saw, and despised,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

20 “And He said, ‘Let Me hide My face from them,
Let Me see what their end is,
For they are a perverse generation,
Children in whom there is no trusting.

21 “They made Me jealous by what is not Ĕl,
They provoked Me with their worthlessness.
But I make them jealous by those who are no people,
I provoke them with a foolish nation.

22 “For a fire was kindled in My wrath
And burns to the bottom of She’ol,
And consumes the earth and its increase,
And lights on fire the foundations of mountains.

23 “I gather evils upon them,
I use up My arrows upon them –

24 “Wasted by scarcity of food,
And consumed by heat and bitter destruction,
And the teeth of beasts I send upon them,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 “The sword bereaves from the outside,
And fear from within,
Both young man and maiden,
Nursing child with the man of grey hairs.

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