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Day 100 and 60
so Moses recited this entire song publicly to the Assembly of Israel.
Listen, o heavens and I will speak Hear O Earth.
The words that I say, let my teaching fall on you.
Like rain.
Let my speech settle.
Like do let my words fall like rain on tender grass, like
gentle showers on young plants.
I will proclaim the name of the Lord.
How glorious is our God?
He is the rock.
His deeds are perfect.
Everything he does is just and fair.
He is a faithful God who does no wrong how just and upright he is, but they have
acted corruptly toward him when they act.
So perversely, are they really his children?
They are a deceitful and twisted generation.
Is this the way you repay the Lord?
You foolish and senseless people.
Isn't he your father who created you?
Has he not made you and established you?
Remember the days of long ago?
Think about the generations past.
Ask your father and he will inform you, inquire of your
elders, and they will tell you.
When the most high assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up
the human race, he established the boundaries of the peoples according
to the number in his heavenly court.
For the people of Israel belong to the Lord.
Jacob is his special possession.
He found them in a desert land and an empty howling wasteland.
He surrounded them and watched over them.
He guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.
Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he
spread his wings to take them up and carried them safely on his opinions.
The Lord alone guided them.
They followed no foreign gods.
He let them ride over the highlands and feast on the crops of the fields.
He nourished them with honey from the rock and olive oil from the stony ground.
He fed them yogurt from the herd and milk from the flock
together with the fat of lambs.
He gave them choice rams from ba and goats, together with the choicest wheat.
You drank the finest wine made from the juice of grapes, but
Israel soon became fat and unruly.
The people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed.
Then they abandoned the God who had made them.
They made light of the rock of their salvation.
They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods.
They provoked his fury with detestable deeds.
They offered sacrifices to demons which are not God, to
Gods they had not known before.
To new Gods only recently arrived to Gods.
Their ancestors had never feared you, neglected the rock who had fathered you.
You forgot the God who had given you birth.
The Lord saw this and drew back provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
He said, I will abandon them then see what becomes of them for
they are a twisted generation.
Children without integrity, they have roused my jealousy by
worshiping things that are not God.
They have provoked my anger with their useless idols.
Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who were not even a people.
I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles for my anger.
Blazes forth like fire and burns to the depths of the grave.
It devours the earth and all its crops, and ignites the
foundations of the mountains.
I will heap disasters upon them and shoot them down with my arrows.
I will weaken them with famine, burning, fever, and deadly disease.
I will send the fangs of wild beasts and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
Outside the sword will bring death and inside terror will
strike both young men and young women, both infants and the aged.
I would've annihilated them, wiping out even the memory of them, but
I feared the taunt of Israel's enemy who might misunderstand and
say our own power has triumphed.
The Lord had nothing to do with this.
But Israel is a senseless nation.
The people are foolish without understanding, oh, that they were
wise and could understand this.
Oh, that they might know their fate.
How could one person chase a thousand of them?
And two people put 10,000 to flight unless their rock had sold them?
Unless the Lord had given them up.
But the rock of our enemies is not like our rock as even they recognize.
Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison and their clusters are bitter.
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
The Lord says, am I not storing up these things, sealing them away in my treasury?
I will take revenge.
I will pay them back in due time.
Their feet will slip.
Their day of disaster will arrive.
Their destiny will overtake them.
Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people and he will change
his mind about his servants.
When he sees their strength is gone and no one is left slave or free, then
he will ask, where are their gods, the rocks they fled to for refuge?
Where now are those gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and
drank the wine of their offerings?
Let those Gods arise and help you, let them provide you with shelter.
Look, now I myself, am he.
There is no other God but me.
I am the one who kills and gives life.
I am the one who wounds and heals.
No one can be rescued from my powerful hand.
Now I raise my hand to heaven and declare.
As surely as I live, when I sharpen my flashing sword and begin to carry
out justice, I will take revenge on my enemies and repay those who reject me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword will devour a flesh.
The blood of the slaughtered and the captives and the
heads of the enemy leaders.
Rejoice with him, you heavens, and let all of God's angels worship him.
Rejoice with his people, you, gentiles, and let all the angels
be strengthened in him, for he will avenge the blood of his children.
He will take revenge against his enemies.
He will repay those who hate him and cleanse his people's land.
So Moses came with Joshua, son of none and recited all the
words of this song to the people.
When Moses had finished reciting all these words to the people of Israel, he added.
Take to heart all the words of warning I have given you today.
Pass them on as a command to your children so they will obey
every word of these instructions.
These instructions are not empty words.
They are your life.
By obeying them, you will enjoy a long life in the land you will occupy
when you cross the Jordan River.
This concludes today's immerse reading experience.
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