1Ye heavens, hear what things I shall speak; the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2My teaching wax altogether as rain; my speech flow out as dew, as soft rain upon herb, and as drops upon grass.

3For I shall inwardly call the name of the Lord; give ye glory to our God.

4The works of God be perfect, and all his ways be dooms; God is faith-ful, and without any wickedness; he is just [or rightwise] and rightful.

5They sinned against him, and not his sons in the filths of idolatry; shrewd and wayward generation.

6Whether thou yieldest these things to the Lord, thou fond [or foolish] people and unwise? Whether he is not thy father, that wielded thee, and made, and formed thee of nought?

7Have thou mind of eld [or old] days, think thou all generations; ask thy father, and he shall tell to thee, ask thy greater men, and they shall say to thee.

8When the Highest parted folks, when he separated the sons of Adam, he ordained the terms of peoples by the number of the sons of Israel.

9Forsooth the part of the Lord is his people; Jacob is the little part of his heritage.

10The Lord found him in a desert land, in the place of horror, either hideousness, and of waste wilderness; the Lord led him about, and taught him, and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11As an eagle stirring his birds to fly, and flying above them, he spreaded forth his wings, and took them into his protection, and he bare them in his shoulders.

12The Lord alone was his leader, and none alien god was with him.

13The Lord ordained him on an high land, that he should eat the fruits of fields, that he should suck honey of a stone, and oil of the hardest rock;

14butter of the drove, and milk of sheep, with the fatness of lambs, and of rams, of the sons of Bashan; and that he should eat kids with [the] marrow, or tried flour, of wheat, and he should drink the clearest blood, or wine, of the grape.

15The beloved people was made fat, and kicked against; made fat without-forth, made fat within, and alarged; he forsook God his maker, and went away from God his health or his saviour.

16They stirred God to wrath in alien gods that they praised, they stirred him to wrathfulness in their abominations, that is, their own findings.

17They offered to fiends, or devils, and not to God, to gods which they knew not, new gods, and freshly came up by their findings, which their fathers worshipped not.

18Thou hast forsaken God that begat thee, and thou hast forgotten thy Lord creator or the Lord thy maker.

19The Lord saw that, and he was stirred to wrathfulness; for his sons, and daughters stirred him to vengeance.

20And the Lord said, I shall hide my face from them, and I shall behold their last things; for this is a wayward generation, and unfaithful sons they be.

21They have stirred me to wrath in worshipping him that was not God, and they have moved me to vengeance in their vain idols; and I shall stir them in him, that is not a people, and I shall stir them to ire in a fond [or foolish] folk.

22Fire is kindled in my strong vengeance, and it shall burn unto the last things of hell; and it shall devour the land with his fruit, and it shall burn the foundaments of hills.

23I shall gather evils on them, and I shall [ful] fill mine arrows in them.

24They shall be wasted with hunger, and birds shall devour them with most bitter biting; I shall send into them the teeth of beasts, with the strong vengeance of drawing upon earth, and of serpents.

25Sword withoutforth, and dread within, shall waste them; a young man and a virgin together, a sucking child with an eld [or old] man.

26And I said, Where be they now? I shall make the mind or memory of them to cease of all men.

27But I delayed, or tarried, for the wrath of enemies, lest peradventure their enemies should be proud, and say, Our high hand, and not the Lord’s, did all these things.

28It is a folk without counsel, and without prudence, or wariness;

29I would that they savoured, and understood, and purveyed the last things.

30How pursued one man of enemies a thousand of Jews, and two men drove away ten thousand? Whether not therefore for their God had sold them, forsaking them, and the Lord had enclosed them altogether in their enemies? hands?

31For our God is not as the gods of them, and our enemies be judges.

32The vine of them is of the vine of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrah; the grape of them is the grape of gall, and the cluster is most bitter.

33The gall of dragons is the wine of them, and the venom of adders, that may not be healed.

34Whether these things be not hid with me, and be sealed in my treasuries [or treasures]?

35Vengeance is mine, and I shall yield to them in time, that the foot of them slide; the day of perdition is nigh, and the times hasten to be present.

36The Lord shall deem his people, and he shall do mercy in his servants; the people shall see that the hand of fighters is sick, or feeble, and also men enclosed failed, and the remnant people, or left, be wasted.

37And they shall say, Where be their gods, in which they had trust?

38Of whose sacrifices they ate the fatnesses, and they drank the wine of flowing sacrifices, rise they and help you, and defend they you in need.

39See, or understand, ye, that I am God alone, and none other God is except me; I shall slay, and I shall make to live; I shall smite, and I shall make whole; and none is that may deliver from mine hand.

40And I shall raise up mine hand to heaven, and I shall say, I live without end.

41If I shall whet my sword as lightning, and mine hand shall take doom, I shall yield vengeance to mine enemies, and I shall requite to them that hate me.

42I shall full-fill mine arrows with blood, and my sword shall devour fleshes of the blood of them that be slain, and of the captivity, of the heads of enemies made naked.

43Folks, praise ye the people of him, for he shall avenge the blood of his servants, and he shall yield vengeance to the enemies of them; and he shall be merciful to the land of his people.

44Therefore Moses came, and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people; both he and Joshua, the son of Nun.

45And Moses fulfilled all these words, and spake to all Israel,

46and said to them, Put ye your hearts into all the words which I witness to you today, that ye command to your sons, to keep, and to do those [or them], and to fulfill all things that be written in the book of this law;

47for not in vain these things be commanded to you, but that all men should live in doing those things; which if ye shall do, then ye shall abide, and shall continue long time in the land, to which ye shall enter to wield, when Jordan ye have over-passed.

48And the Lord spake to Moses in the same day, and said,

49Go thou up into this hill Abarim, that is, passing, into the hill of Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, against Jericho; and see thou the land of Canaan, which I shall give to the sons of Israel to hold,

50and die thou there in this hill. Into which hill thou shalt go up, and thou shalt be joined to thy peoples, as Aaron, thy brother, was dead in the hill of Hor, and was put to his peoples.

51For ye trespassed against me, in the midst of the sons of Israel, at the waters of Against-saying, in Kadesh, of the desert of Zin; and ye hallowed not me among the sons of Israel.

52Opposite, thou shalt see the land, and thou shalt not enter into it, which I shall give to the sons of Israel.