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Deuteronomy 32:1 |
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Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. |
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Deuteronomy 32:2 |
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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: |
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Deuteronomy 32:3 |
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Because I will publish the name of the LORD:
ascribe ye greatness unto our God. |
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Deuteronomy 32:4 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:5 |
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They have corrupted themselves, their spot is
not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. |
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Deuteronomy 32:6 |
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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? |
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Deuteronomy 32:7 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:8 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:9 |
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For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob
is the lot of his inheritance. |
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Deuteronomy 32:10 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:11 |
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As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth
over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: |
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Deuteronomy 32:12 |
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So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was
no strange god with him. |
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Deuteronomy 32:13 |
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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; |
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Deuteronomy 32:14 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:15 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:16 |
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They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,
with abominations provoked they him to anger. |
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Deuteronomy 32:17 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:18 |
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Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,
and hast forgotten God that formed thee. |
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Deuteronomy 32:19 |
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And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them,
because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. |
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Deuteronomy 32:20 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:21 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:22 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:23 |
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I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend
mine arrows upon them. |
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Deuteronomy 32:24 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:25 |
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The sword without, and terror within, shall
destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray
hairs. |
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Deuteronomy 32:26 |
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I said, I would scatter them into corners,
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: |
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Deuteronomy 32:27 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:28 |
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For they are a nation void of counsel, neither
is there any understanding in them. |
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Deuteronomy 32:29 |
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O that they were wise, that they understood
this, that they would consider their latter end! |
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Deuteronomy 32:30 |
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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? |
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Deuteronomy 32:31 |
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For their rock is not as our Rock, even our
enemies themselves being judges. |
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Deuteronomy 32:32 |
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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: |
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Deuteronomy 32:33 |
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Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the
cruel venom of asps. |
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Deuteronomy 32:34 |
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Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed
up among my treasures? |
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Deuteronomy 32:35 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:36 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:37 |
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And he shall say, Where are their gods, their
rock in whom they trusted, |
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Deuteronomy 32:38 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:39 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:40 |
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For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I
live for ever. |
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Deuteronomy 32:41 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:42 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:43 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:44 |
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And Moses came and spake all the words of this
song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. |
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Deuteronomy 32:45 |
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And Moses made an end of speaking all these
words to all Israel: |
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Deuteronomy 32:46 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:47 |
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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. |
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Deuteronomy 32:48 |
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And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame
day, saying, |
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Deuteronomy 32:49 |
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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: |
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Deuteronomy 32:50 |
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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: |
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Deuteronomy 32:51 |
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Because ye trespassed against me among the children
of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye
sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. |
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Deuteronomy 32:52 |
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Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but
thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. |
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