1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

1 Audite, cæli, quæ loquor:
audiat terra verba oris mei.

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:

2 Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea,
fluat ut ros eloquium meum,
quasi imber super herbam,
et quasi stillæ super gramina.

3 Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

3 Quia nomen Domini invocabo:
date magnificentiam Deo nostro.

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.

4 ¶ Dei perfecta sunt opera,
et omnes viæ ejus judicia:
Deus fidelis, et absque ulla iniquitate,
justus et rectus.

5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

5 Peccaverunt ei, et non filii ejus in sordibus:
generatio prava atque perversa.

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?

6 Hæccine reddis Domino,
popule stulte et insipiens?
numquid non ipse est pater tuus,
qui possedit te, et fecit, et creavit te?

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.

7 Memento dierum antiquorum, cogita generationes singulas:
interroga patrem tuum,
et annuntiabit tibi:
majores tuos, et dicent tibi.

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.

8 Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes,
quando separabat filios Adam,
constituit terminos populorum
juxta numerum filiorum Israël.

9 For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

9 Pars autem Domini, populus ejus:
Jacob funiculus hæreditatis ejus.

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.

10 Invenit eum in terra deserta,
in loco horroris, et vastæ solitudinis:
circumduxit eum, et docuit:
et custodivit quasi pupillam oculi sui.

11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

11 Sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos,
et super eos volitans,
expandit alas suas, et assumpsit eum,
atque portavit in humeris suis.

12 So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

12 Dominus solus dux ejus fuit,
et non erat cum eo deus alienus:

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;

13 constituit eum super excelsam terram,
ut comederet fructus agrorum:
ut sugeret mel de petra,
oleumque de saxo durissimo;

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.

14 butyrum de armento, et lac de ovibus
cum adipe agnorum,
et arietum filiorum Basan: et hircos
cum medulla tritici,
et sanguinem uvæ biberet meracissimum.

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.

15 ¶ Incrassatus est dilectus, et recalcitravit:
incrassatus, impinguatus, dilatatus,
dereliquit Deum factorem suum,
et recessit a Deo salutari suo.

16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

16 Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis,
et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.

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.

17 Immolaverunt dæmoniis et non Deo,
diis quos ignorabant:
novi recentesque venerunt,
quos non coluerunt patres eorum:

18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

18 Deum qui te genuit dereliquisti,
et oblitus es Domini creatoris tui.

19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

19 ¶ Vidit Dominus, et ad iracundiam concitatus est:
quia provocaverunt eum filii sui et filiæ.

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.

20 Et ait: Abscondam faciem meam ab eis,
et considerabo novissima eorum:
generatio enim perversa est,
et infideles filii.

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.

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 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.

22 Ignis succensus est in furore meo,
et ardebit usque ad inferni novissima:
devorabitque terram cum germine suo,
et montium fundamenta comburet.

23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

23 Congregabo super eos mala,
et sagittas meas complebo in eis.

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.

24 Consumentur fame,
et devorabunt eos aves morsu amarissimo:
dentes bestiarum immittam in eos,
cum furore trahentium super terram, atque serpentium.

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.

25 Foris vastabit eos gladius,
et intus pavor,
juvenem simul ac virginem,
lactentem cum homine sene.

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

26 ¶ Dixi: Ubinam sunt?
cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum.

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.

27 Sed propter iram inimicorum distuli:
ne forte superbirent hostes eorum,
et dicerent: Manus nostra excelsa,
et non Dominus, fecit hæc omnia.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

28 Gens absque consilio est,
et sine prudentia.

29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

29 Utinam saperent, et intelligerent,
ac novissima providerent.

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?

30 Quomodo persequatur unus mille,
et duo fugent decem millia?
nonne ideo, quia Deus suus vendidit eos,
et Dominus conclusit illos?

31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

31 Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eorum:
et inimici nostri sunt judices.

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:

32 De vinea Sodomorum, vinea eorum,
et de suburbanis Gomorrhæ:
uva eorum, uva fellis,
et botri amarissimi.

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

33 Fel draconum vinum eorum,
et venenum aspidum insanabile.

34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

34 Nonne hæc condita sunt apud me,
et signata in thesauris meis?

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.

35 Mea est ultio, et ego retribuam in tempore,
ut labatur pes eorum:
juxta est dies perditionis,
et adesse festinant tempora.

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.

36 Judicabit Dominus populum suum,
et in servis suis miserebitur:
videbit quod infirmata sit manus,
et clausi quoque defecerunt,
residuique consumpti sunt.

37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

37 ¶ Et dicet: Ubi sunt dii eorum,
in quibus habebant fiduciam?

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.

38 de quorum victimis comedebant adipes,
et bibebant vinum libaminum:
surgant, et opitulentur vobis,
et in necessitate vos protegant.

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.

39 Videte quod ego sim solus,
et non sit alius deus præter me:
ego occidam, et ego vivere faciam:
percutiam, et ego sanabo,
et non est qui de manu mea possit eruere.

40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

40 Levabo ad cælum manum meam,
et dicam: Vivo ego in æternum.

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.

41 Si acuero ut fulgur gladium meum,
et arripuerit judicium manus mea:
reddam ultionem hostibus meis,
et his qui oderunt me retribuam.

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.

42 Inebriabo sagittas meas sanguine,
et gladius meus devorabit carnes;
de cruore occisorum et de captivitate,
nudati inimicorum capitis.

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.

43 Laudate, gentes, populum ejus,
quia sanguinem servorum suorum ulciscetur:
et vindictam retribuet in hostes eorum,
et propitius erit terræ populi sui.

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.

44 ¶ Venit ergo Moyses, et locutus est omnia verba cantici hujus in auribus populi, ipse et Josue filius Nun.

45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

45 Complevitque omnes sermones istos, loquens ad universum Israël,

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.

46 et dixit ad eos: Ponite corda vestra in omnia verba, quæ ego testificor vobis hodie: ut mandetis ea filiis vestris custodire et facere, et implere universa quæ scripta sunt legis hujus:

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.

47 quia non incassum præcepta sunt vobis, sed ut singuli in eis viverent: quæ facientes longo perseveretis tempore in terra, ad quam, Jordane transmisso, ingredimini possidendam.

48 And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

48 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in eadem die, dicens:

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:

49 Ascende in montem istum Abarim, id est, transituum, in montem Nebo, qui est in terra Moab contra Jericho: et vide terram Chanaan, quam ego tradam filiis Israël obtinendam, et morere in monte.

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:

50 Quem conscendens jungeris populis tuis, sicut mortuus est Aaron frater tuus in monte Hor, et appositus populis suis:

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.

51 quia prævaricati estis contra me in medio filiorum Israël ad aquas contradictionis in Cades deserti Sin: et non sanctificastis me inter filios Israël.

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.

52 E contra videbis terram, et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Israël.