Liber Deuteronomii

Deuteronomii, chapter 32, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 32 Vulgate

   1 "Audite, caeli, quae loquor; audiat terra verba oris mei!
   2 Stillet ut pluvia doctrina mea, fluat ut ros eloquium meum quasi imber super herbam et quasi stillae super gramina.
   3 Quia nomen Domini invocabo: date magnificentiam Deo nostro!
   4 Petra, perfecta sunt opera eius, quia omnes viae eius iustitia. Deus fidelis et absque ulla iniquitate, iustus et rectus.
   5 Peccaverunt ei non filii eius in sordibus suis, generatio prava atque perversa.
   6 Haeccine redditis Domino, popule stulte et insipiens? Numquid non ipse est pater tuus, qui possedit te, ipse fecit et stabilivit te?
   7 Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas; interroga patrem tuum, et annuntiabit tibi, maiores tuos, et dicent tibi.
   8 Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes, quando separabat filios Adam, constituit terminos populorum iuxta numerum filiorum Israel;
   9 pars autem Domini populus eius, Iacob funiculus hereditatis eius.
   10 Invenit eum in terra deserta, in loco horroris et ululatu solitudinis; circumdedit eum et attendit et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui.
   11 Sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos et super eos volitans expandit alas suas et assumpsit eum atque portavit super pennas suas.
   12 Dominus solus dux eius fuit, et non erat cum eo deus alienus.
   13 Constituit eum super excelsam terram, ut comederet fructus agrorum, ut sugeret mel de petra oleumque de saxo durissimo,
   14 butyrum de armento et lac de ovibus, cum adipe agnorum et arietum filiorum Basan et hircorum, cum medulla tritici, et sanguinem uvae biberet meracissimum.
   15 Incrassatus est dilectus et recalcitravit; incrassatus, impinguatus, dilatatus dereliquit Deum factorem suum et recessit a Petra salutari suo.
   16 Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.
   17 Immolaverunt daemonibus et non Deo, diis, quos ignorabant; novi recentesque venerunt, quos non coluerunt patres vestri.
   18 Petram, quae te genuit, dereliquisti, et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui.
   19 Vidit Dominus et sprevit, quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et filiae.
   20 Et ait: "Abscondam faciem meam ab eis et considerabo novissima eorum; generatio enim perversa est, et infideles filii.
   21 Ipsi me provocaverunt in eo, qui non erat Deus, et irritaverunt in vanitatibus suis; et ego provocabo eos in eo, qui non est populus, et in gente stulta irritabo illos.
   22 Ignis succensus est in furore meo et ardebit usque ad inferni profundissima; devorabitque terram cum germine suo et montium fundamenta comburet.
   23 Congregabo super eos mala et sagittas meas complebo in eis.
   24 Consumentur fame et devorabuntur febri et peste amarissima; dentes bestiarum immittam in eos, cum veneno serpentium in pulvere.
   25 Foris vastabit eos gladius, et intus pavor: iuvenem simul ac virginem, lactantem cum homine sene.
   26 Dixi: Disperdam eos, cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum!,
   27 sed arrogantiam inimicorum timui, ne superbirent hostes eorum et dicerent: >Manus nostra excelsa, et non Dominus fecit haec omnia!'.
   28 Gens enim absque consilio est et sine prudentia.
   29 Utinam saperent et intellegerent haec ac novissima sua providerent!
   30 Quomodo persequatur unus mille, et duo fugent decem milia? Nonne ideo, quia Petra eorum vendidit eos, et Dominus tradidit illos?"
   31 Non enim est petra eorum ut Petra nostra, et inimici nostri sunt iudices.
   32 Vere de vinea Sodomorum vinea eorum et de suburbanis Gomorrae; uva eorum uva fellis et botri amarissimi;
   33 fel draconum vinum eorum et venenum aspidum insanabile.
   34 Nonne haec condita sunt apud me et signata in thesauris meis?
   35 Mea est ultio, et ego retribuam in tempore, in quo labetur pes eorum! Iuxta est dies perditionis, et adesse festinat sors eorum.
   36 Iudicabit Dominus populum suum et in servis suis miserebitur; videbit quod infirmata sit manus, et defecerint clausi ac liberati.
   37 Et dicet: "Ubi sunt dii eorum, petra, in qua habebant fiduciam,
   38 de quorum victimis comedebant adipes et bibebant vinum libaminum? Surgant et opitulentur vobis et in necessitate vos protegant!
   39 Videte nunc quod ego sim solus, et non sit Deus praeter me. Ego occidam et ego vivere faciam; percutiam et ego sanabo; et non est qui de manu mea possit eruere.
   40 Levabo ad caelum manum meam et dicam: Vivo ego in aeternum!
   41 Si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum, et arripuerit iudicium manus mea, reddam ultionem hostibus meis et his, qui oderunt me, retribuam.
   42 Inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine, et gladius meus devorabit carnes: de cruore occisorum et captivorum, de capite ducum inimici!"
   43 Laudate, gentes, populum eius, quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur et vindictam retribuet in hostes suos et propitius erit terrae populi sui"
   44 Venit ergo Moyses et locutus est omnia verba cantici huius in auribus populi, ipse et Iosue filius Nun;
   45 complevitque omnes sermones istos loquens ad universum Israel.
   46 Et dixit ad eos: "Ponite corda vestra in omnia verba, quae ego testificor vobis hodie, ut mandetis ea filiis vestris custodire et facere et implere universa verba legis huius;
   47 quia verbum non incassum vobis, sed est vita vestra: et in verbo hoc longo perseverabitis tempore in terra, ad quam, Iordane transmisso, ingredimini possidendam"
   48 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in eadem die dicens:
   49 "Ascende in montem istum Abarim, in montem Nabo, qui est in terra Moab contra Iericho, et vide terram Chanaan, quam ego tradam filiis Israel obtinendam.
   50 Et morere in monte, quem conscendens iungeris populo tuo, sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor et appositus populo suo.
   51 Quia praevaricati estis contra me in medio filiorum Israel ad aquas Meribathcades deserti Sin, quia non sanctificastis me inter filios Israel.
   52 E contra videbis terram et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Israel"

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
   2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
   3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
   4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
   5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
   6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
   7 ¶ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
   8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
   9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
   10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
   11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
   12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
   13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
   14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
   15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
   16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
   17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
   18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
   19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
   20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
   21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
   22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
   23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
   24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
   25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
   26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
   27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
   28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
   29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
   30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
   31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
   32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
   33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
   34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
   35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
   36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
   37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
   38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
   39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
   40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
   41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
   42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
   43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
   44 ¶ And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
   45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
   46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
   47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
   48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
   49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
   50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
   51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
   52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.