WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.150 Day 100 and 60 00:00:04.536 --> 00:00:08.916 so Moses recited this entire song publicly to the Assembly of Israel. 00:00:10.506 --> 00:00:14.856 Listen, o heavens and I will speak Hear O Earth. 00:00:14.886 --> 00:00:18.276 The words that I say, let my teaching fall on you. 00:00:18.276 --> 00:00:19.086 Like rain. 00:00:19.716 --> 00:00:20.736 Let my speech settle. 00:00:20.736 --> 00:00:25.866 Like do let my words fall like rain on tender grass, like 00:00:25.871 --> 00:00:27.906 gentle showers on young plants. 00:00:28.836 --> 00:00:30.816 I will proclaim the name of the Lord. 00:00:30.966 --> 00:00:32.856 How glorious is our God? 00:00:33.306 --> 00:00:34.326 He is the rock. 00:00:34.596 --> 00:00:35.976 His deeds are perfect. 00:00:36.306 --> 00:00:38.706 Everything he does is just and fair. 00:00:39.606 --> 00:00:45.156 He is a faithful God who does no wrong how just and upright he is, but they have 00:00:45.156 --> 00:00:47.676 acted corruptly toward him when they act. 00:00:47.676 --> 00:00:50.556 So perversely, are they really his children? 00:00:50.916 --> 00:00:53.616 They are a deceitful and twisted generation. 00:00:54.441 --> 00:00:56.301 Is this the way you repay the Lord? 00:00:56.511 --> 00:00:58.461 You foolish and senseless people. 00:00:59.121 --> 00:01:01.221 Isn't he your father who created you? 00:01:02.001 --> 00:01:04.551 Has he not made you and established you? 00:01:05.571 --> 00:01:07.551 Remember the days of long ago? 00:01:07.851 --> 00:01:09.741 Think about the generations past. 00:01:10.521 --> 00:01:14.451 Ask your father and he will inform you, inquire of your 00:01:14.451 --> 00:01:15.951 elders, and they will tell you. 00:01:16.956 --> 00:01:20.586 When the most high assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up 00:01:20.586 --> 00:01:24.756 the human race, he established the boundaries of the peoples according 00:01:24.756 --> 00:01:26.586 to the number in his heavenly court. 00:01:27.756 --> 00:01:30.366 For the people of Israel belong to the Lord. 00:01:30.666 --> 00:01:32.706 Jacob is his special possession. 00:01:33.096 --> 00:01:37.536 He found them in a desert land and an empty howling wasteland. 00:01:38.046 --> 00:01:40.236 He surrounded them and watched over them. 00:01:40.866 --> 00:01:43.266 He guarded them as he would guard his own eyes. 00:01:44.016 --> 00:01:48.666 Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he 00:01:48.666 --> 00:01:52.626 spread his wings to take them up and carried them safely on his opinions. 00:01:53.436 --> 00:01:55.236 The Lord alone guided them. 00:01:55.746 --> 00:01:57.456 They followed no foreign gods. 00:01:57.936 --> 00:02:01.956 He let them ride over the highlands and feast on the crops of the fields. 00:02:02.526 --> 00:02:07.626 He nourished them with honey from the rock and olive oil from the stony ground. 00:02:08.256 --> 00:02:11.466 He fed them yogurt from the herd and milk from the flock 00:02:11.736 --> 00:02:13.326 together with the fat of lambs. 00:02:14.136 --> 00:02:18.576 He gave them choice rams from ba and goats, together with the choicest wheat. 00:02:19.476 --> 00:02:24.246 You drank the finest wine made from the juice of grapes, but 00:02:24.251 --> 00:02:27.066 Israel soon became fat and unruly. 00:02:27.636 --> 00:02:30.036 The people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed. 00:02:30.786 --> 00:02:32.976 Then they abandoned the God who had made them. 00:02:33.456 --> 00:02:35.676 They made light of the rock of their salvation. 00:02:36.606 --> 00:02:40.026 They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods. 00:02:40.506 --> 00:02:43.146 They provoked his fury with detestable deeds. 00:02:43.866 --> 00:02:47.826 They offered sacrifices to demons which are not God, to 00:02:47.831 --> 00:02:49.566 Gods they had not known before. 00:02:50.586 --> 00:02:53.436 To new Gods only recently arrived to Gods. 00:02:53.436 --> 00:02:58.626 Their ancestors had never feared you, neglected the rock who had fathered you. 00:02:59.166 --> 00:03:01.086 You forgot the God who had given you birth. 00:03:02.721 --> 00:03:07.911 The Lord saw this and drew back provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters. 00:03:08.481 --> 00:03:13.131 He said, I will abandon them then see what becomes of them for 00:03:13.131 --> 00:03:14.811 they are a twisted generation. 00:03:15.141 --> 00:03:18.921 Children without integrity, they have roused my jealousy by 00:03:18.921 --> 00:03:20.841 worshiping things that are not God. 00:03:21.321 --> 00:03:24.021 They have provoked my anger with their useless idols. 00:03:24.621 --> 00:03:28.401 Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who were not even a people. 00:03:29.076 --> 00:03:33.876 I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles for my anger. 00:03:33.876 --> 00:03:37.986 Blazes forth like fire and burns to the depths of the grave. 00:03:38.556 --> 00:03:41.736 It devours the earth and all its crops, and ignites the 00:03:41.736 --> 00:03:43.176 foundations of the mountains. 00:03:43.626 --> 00:03:47.406 I will heap disasters upon them and shoot them down with my arrows. 00:03:48.126 --> 00:03:52.476 I will weaken them with famine, burning, fever, and deadly disease. 00:03:53.136 --> 00:03:57.756 I will send the fangs of wild beasts and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust. 00:03:58.476 --> 00:04:02.766 Outside the sword will bring death and inside terror will 00:04:02.766 --> 00:04:06.666 strike both young men and young women, both infants and the aged. 00:04:07.296 --> 00:04:11.196 I would've annihilated them, wiping out even the memory of them, but 00:04:11.196 --> 00:04:14.706 I feared the taunt of Israel's enemy who might misunderstand and 00:04:14.711 --> 00:04:17.166 say our own power has triumphed. 00:04:17.436 --> 00:04:19.416 The Lord had nothing to do with this. 00:04:20.541 --> 00:04:22.641 But Israel is a senseless nation. 00:04:22.971 --> 00:04:26.871 The people are foolish without understanding, oh, that they were 00:04:26.871 --> 00:04:28.881 wise and could understand this. 00:04:29.421 --> 00:04:31.221 Oh, that they might know their fate. 00:04:31.821 --> 00:04:34.281 How could one person chase a thousand of them? 00:04:34.521 --> 00:04:38.841 And two people put 10,000 to flight unless their rock had sold them? 00:04:39.111 --> 00:04:40.911 Unless the Lord had given them up. 00:04:41.841 --> 00:04:46.731 But the rock of our enemies is not like our rock as even they recognize. 00:04:47.451 --> 00:04:51.531 Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah. 00:04:52.311 --> 00:04:55.731 Their grapes are poison and their clusters are bitter. 00:04:56.421 --> 00:05:00.651 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. 00:05:01.401 --> 00:05:06.531 The Lord says, am I not storing up these things, sealing them away in my treasury? 00:05:07.101 --> 00:05:08.241 I will take revenge. 00:05:08.391 --> 00:05:11.001 I will pay them back in due time. 00:05:11.001 --> 00:05:12.051 Their feet will slip. 00:05:12.531 --> 00:05:14.511 Their day of disaster will arrive. 00:05:15.066 --> 00:05:16.896 Their destiny will overtake them. 00:05:17.916 --> 00:05:21.966 Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people and he will change 00:05:21.966 --> 00:05:23.406 his mind about his servants. 00:05:23.766 --> 00:05:30.156 When he sees their strength is gone and no one is left slave or free, then 00:05:30.156 --> 00:05:34.896 he will ask, where are their gods, the rocks they fled to for refuge? 00:05:35.526 --> 00:05:39.846 Where now are those gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and 00:05:39.846 --> 00:05:41.646 drank the wine of their offerings? 00:05:42.351 --> 00:05:47.241 Let those Gods arise and help you, let them provide you with shelter. 00:05:47.781 --> 00:05:50.661 Look, now I myself, am he. 00:05:51.261 --> 00:05:53.121 There is no other God but me. 00:05:53.631 --> 00:05:56.301 I am the one who kills and gives life. 00:05:56.631 --> 00:05:58.671 I am the one who wounds and heals. 00:05:59.031 --> 00:06:01.731 No one can be rescued from my powerful hand. 00:06:02.931 --> 00:06:06.261 Now I raise my hand to heaven and declare. 00:06:06.696 --> 00:06:11.616 As surely as I live, when I sharpen my flashing sword and begin to carry 00:06:11.616 --> 00:06:16.506 out justice, I will take revenge on my enemies and repay those who reject me. 00:06:17.016 --> 00:06:21.306 I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword will devour a flesh. 00:06:21.966 --> 00:06:24.366 The blood of the slaughtered and the captives and the 00:06:24.366 --> 00:06:25.746 heads of the enemy leaders. 00:06:26.706 --> 00:06:31.596 Rejoice with him, you heavens, and let all of God's angels worship him. 00:06:31.971 --> 00:06:36.021 Rejoice with his people, you, gentiles, and let all the angels 00:06:36.021 --> 00:06:39.861 be strengthened in him, for he will avenge the blood of his children. 00:06:40.161 --> 00:06:42.201 He will take revenge against his enemies. 00:06:42.591 --> 00:06:46.401 He will repay those who hate him and cleanse his people's land. 00:06:48.321 --> 00:06:52.341 So Moses came with Joshua, son of none and recited all the 00:06:52.341 --> 00:06:54.021 words of this song to the people. 00:06:55.011 --> 00:06:59.001 When Moses had finished reciting all these words to the people of Israel, he added. 00:06:59.901 --> 00:07:02.901 Take to heart all the words of warning I have given you today. 00:07:03.471 --> 00:07:06.981 Pass them on as a command to your children so they will obey 00:07:06.981 --> 00:07:08.871 every word of these instructions. 00:07:09.381 --> 00:07:12.261 These instructions are not empty words. 00:07:12.681 --> 00:07:13.971 They are your life. 00:07:14.661 --> 00:07:18.651 By obeying them, you will enjoy a long life in the land you will occupy 00:07:19.101 --> 00:07:20.751 when you cross the Jordan River. 00:07:23.301 --> 00:07:26.151 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:07:26.301 --> 00:07:27.531 Thank you for joining us.