Deuteronomy 32:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Deuteronomy 32:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.

Deuteronomy 32:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

Deuteronomy 32:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.

Deuteronomy 32:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.

Deuteronomy 32:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God- gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.

Deuteronomy 32:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

The Lord saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 32:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

"I will hide my face from them," he said, "and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.

Deuteronomy 32:22   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 32:23   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

"I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.

Deuteronomy 32:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.

Deuteronomy 32:26   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory,

Deuteronomy 32:27   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, 'Our hand has triumphed; the Lord has not done all this.' "

Deuteronomy 32:28   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.

Deuteronomy 32:30   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?

Deuteronomy 32:32   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.

Deuteronomy 32:33   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Deuteronomy 32:34   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

"Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?

Deuteronomy 32:35   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them."

Deuteronomy 32:36   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

The Lord will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.

Deuteronomy 32:37   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

He will say: "Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,

Deuteronomy 32:38   (Read all of Deuteronomy 32)

the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!