Deuteronomy 32
Reading Deuteronomy chapter 32 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.
Verses 1–10
1 `Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!
2 Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,
3 For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness to our God!
4 The Rock! --perfect is His work, For all His ways are just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright is He.
5 It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!
6 To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father--thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.
7 Remember days of old--Understand the years of many generations--Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:
8 In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam--He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel.
9 For Jehovah's portion is His people, Jacob is the line of His inheritance.
10 He findeth him in a land--a desert, And in a void--a howling wilderness, He turneth him round--He causeth him to understand--He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.
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