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For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
Daily Meditation
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. Deuteronomy 32:1-52
Today’s Reading
Deuteronomy 32
Give ear, O ye
heavens, and I will speak
1 Give ear, O ye
heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 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: 3 because I
will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 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. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their
spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked
generation. 6 Do ye thus requite the Lord, Ofoolish people and unwise? is not
he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established
thee?
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. 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. 9 For
the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 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. 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth
over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her
wings: 12 so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with
him. 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; 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.
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. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with
abominations provoked they him to anger. 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. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast
forgotten God that formed thee. 19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because
of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 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. 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. 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. 23 I will
heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 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. 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. 26 I said, I
would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease
from among men: 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. 28 For they are a nation
void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they
were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter
end! 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? 31 For their rock is
not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 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: 33 their wine is the poison of
dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and
sealed up among my treasures? 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. 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. 37 And he shall say, Where are their
gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 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. 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. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and
say, I live for ever. 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. 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. 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.
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. 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all
Israel: 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. 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.
48 And the Lord spake unto
Moses that selfsame day, saying, 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: 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: 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. 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.
