Deuteronomy 32
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Deuteronomy 32:1-13

1Give 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 Jehovah: 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.5They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish; They area perverse and crooked generation.6Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.9For Jehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.10He found him in a desert land, And in the waste 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, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions.12Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him.13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;

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