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The Song of Moses

¹Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;

hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

²Let my teaching fall like rain

and my speech settle like dew,

like gentle rain on new grass,

like showers on tender plants.

³For I will proclaim the name of the LORD.

Ascribe greatness to our God!

⁴He is the Rock, His work is perfect;

all His ways are just.

A God of faithfulness without injustice,

righteous and upright is He.

⁵His people have acted corruptly toward Him;

the blemish on them is not that of His children,

but of a perverse and crooked generation.

⁶Is this how you repay the LORD,

O foolish and senseless people?

Is He not your Father and Creator?

Has He not made you and established you?

⁷Remember the days of old;

consider the years long past.

Ask your father, and he will tell you,

your elders, and they will inform you.

⁸When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

when He divided the sons of man,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

according to the number of the sons of God.

⁹But the LORD’s portion is His people,

Jacob His allotted inheritance.

¹⁰He found him in a desert land,

in a barren, howling wilderness;

He surrounded him, He instructed him,

He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

¹¹As an eagle stirs up its nest

and hovers over its young,

He spread His wings to catch them

and carried them on His pinions.

¹²The LORD alone led him,

and no foreign god was with him.

¹³He made him ride on the heights of the land

and fed him the produce of the field.

He nourished him with honey from the rock

and oil from the flinty crag,

¹⁴with curds from the herd and milk from the flock,

with the fat of lambs,

with rams from Bashan, and goats,

with the choicest grains of wheat.

From the juice of the finest grapes

you drank the wine.

¹⁵But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—

becoming fat, bloated, and gorged.

He abandoned the God who made him

and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁶They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;

they enraged Him with abominations.

¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not to God,

to gods they had not known,

to newly arrived gods,

which your fathers did not fear.

¹⁸You ignored the Rock who brought you forth;

you forgot the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹When the LORD saw this, He rejected them,

provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

²⁰He said: “I will hide My face from them;

I will see what will be their end.

For they are a perverse generation—

children of unfaithfulness.

²¹They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God;

they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.

So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people;

I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

²²For a fire has been kindled by My anger,

and it burns to the depths of Sheol;

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

²³I will heap disasters upon them;

I will spend My arrows against them.

²⁴They will be wasted from hunger

and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;

I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them,

with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

²⁵Outside, the sword will take their children,

and inside, terror will strike

the young man and the young woman,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

²⁶I would have said that I would cut them to pieces

and blot out their memory from mankind,

²⁷if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy,

lest their adversaries misunderstand and say:

‘Our own hand has prevailed;

it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

²⁸Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,

with no understanding among them.

²⁹If only they were wise, they would understand it;

they would comprehend their fate.

³⁰How could one man pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had sold them,

unless the LORD had given them up?

³¹For their rock is not like our Rock,

even our enemies concede.

³²But their vine is from the vine of Sodom

and from the fields of Gomorrah.

Their grapes are poisonous;

their clusters are bitter.

³³Their wine is the venom of serpents,

the deadly poison of cobras.

³⁴“Have I not stored up these things,

sealed up within My vaults?

³⁵Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.

In due time their foot will slip;

for their day of disaster is near,

and their doom is coming quickly.”

³⁶For the LORD will vindicate His people

and have compassion on His servants

when He sees that their strength is gone

and no one remains, slave or free.

³⁷He will say: “Where are their gods,

the rock in which they took refuge,

³⁸which ate the fat of their sacrifices

and drank the wine of their drink offerings?

Let them rise up and help you;

let them give you shelter!

³⁹See now that I am He;

there is no God besides Me.

I bring death and I give life;

I wound and I heal,

and there is no one

who can deliver from My hand.

⁴⁰For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare:

As surely as I live forever,

⁴¹when I sharpen My flashing sword,

and My hand grasps it in judgment,

I will take vengeance on My adversaries

and repay those who hate Me.

⁴²I will make My arrows drunk with blood,

while My sword devours flesh—

the blood of the slain and captives,

the heads of the enemy leaders.”

⁴³Rejoice, O heavens, with Him,

and let all God’s angels worship Him.

Rejoice, O nations, with His people;

for He will avenge the blood of His children.

He will take vengeance on His adversaries

and repay those who hate Him;

He will cleanse His land

and His people.

⁴⁴Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. ⁴⁵When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel, ⁴⁶he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law. ⁴⁷For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Moses’ Death Foretold

⁴⁸On that same day the LORD said to Moses, ⁴⁹“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.

⁵⁰And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

⁵¹For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence. ⁵²Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”

Moses Blesses the Twelve Tribes

¹This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death. ²He said:

“The LORD came from Sinai

and dawned upon us from Seir;

He shone forth from Mount Paran

and came with myriads of holy ones,

with flaming fire at His right hand.

³Surely You love the people;

all the holy ones are in Your hand,

and they sit down at Your feet;

each receives Your words —

⁴the law that Moses gave us,

the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

⁵So the LORD became King in Jeshurun

when the leaders of the people gathered,

when the tribes of Israel came together.

⁶Let Reuben live and not die,

nor his men be few.”

⁷And concerning Judah he said:

“O LORD, hear the cry of Judah

and bring him to his people.

With his own hands he defends his cause,

but may You be a help against his foes.”

⁸Concerning Levi he said:

“Give Your Thummim to Levi

and Your Urim to Your godly one,

whom You tested at Massah

and contested at the waters of Meribah.

⁹He said of his father and mother,

‘I do not consider them.’

He disregarded his brothers

and did not know his own sons,

for he kept Your word

and maintained Your covenant.

¹⁰He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob

and Your law to Israel;

he will set incense before You

and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

¹¹Bless his substance, O LORD,

and accept the work of his hands.

Smash the loins of those who rise against him,

and of his foes so they can rise no more.”

¹²Concerning Benjamin he said:

“May the beloved of the LORD

rest secure in Him;

God shields him all day long,

and upon His shoulders he rests.”

¹³Concerning Joseph he said:

“May his land be blessed by the LORD

with the precious dew from heaven above

and the deep waters that lie beneath,

¹⁴with the bountiful harvest from the sun

and the abundant yield of the seasons,

¹⁵with the best of the ancient mountains

and the bounty of the everlasting hills,

¹⁶with the choice gifts of the land and everything in it,

and with the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush.

May these rest on the head of Joseph

and crown the brow of the prince of his brothers.

¹⁷His majesty is like a firstborn bull,

and his horns are like those of a wild ox.

With them he will gore the nations,

even to the ends of the earth.

Such are the myriads of Ephraim,

and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

¹⁸Concerning Zebulun he said:

“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your journeys,

and Issachar, in your tents.

¹⁹They will call the peoples to a mountain;

there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness.

For they will feast on the abundance of the seas

and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

²⁰Concerning Gad he said:

“Blessed is he who enlarges

the domain of Gad!

He lies down like a lion

and tears off an arm or a head.

²¹He chose the best land for himself,

because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there.

He came with the leaders of the people;

he administered the LORD’s justice

and His ordinances for Israel.”

²²Concerning Dan he said:

“Dan is a lion’s cub,

leaping out of Bashan.”

²³Concerning Naphtali he said:

“Naphtali is abounding with favor,

full of the blessing of the LORD;

he shall take possession

of the sea and the south.”

²⁴And concerning Asher he said:

“May Asher be the most blessed of sons;

may he be the most favored among his brothers

and dip his foot in oil.

²⁵May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze,

and may your strength match your days.”

²⁶“There is none like the God of Jeshurun,

who rides the heavens to your aid,

and the clouds in His majesty.

²⁷The eternal God is your dwelling place,

and underneath are the everlasting arms.

He drives out the enemy before you,

giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

²⁸So Israel dwells securely;

the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled

in a land of grain and new wine,

where even the heavens drip with dew.

²⁹Blessed are you, O Israel!

Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD?

He is the shield that protects you,

the sword in which you boast.

Your enemies will cower before you,

and you shall trample their high places.”

By the Rivers of Babylon

¹By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept

when we remembered Zion.

²There on the willows

we hung our harps,

³for there our captors requested a song;

our tormentors demanded songs of joy:

“Sing us a song of Zion.”

⁴How can we sing a song of the LORD

in a foreign land?

⁵If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

may my right hand cease to function.

⁶May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth

if I do not remember you,

if I do not exalt Jerusalem

as my greatest joy!

⁷Remember, O LORD,

the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell:

“Destroy it,” they said,

“tear it down to its foundations!”

⁸O Daughter of Babylon,

doomed to destruction,

blessed is he who repays you

as you have done to us.

⁹Blessed is he who seizes your infants

and dashes them against the rocks.

The Temptation of Jesus

¹Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, ²where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.

³The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

⁴But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”

⁵Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. ⁶“I will give You authority over all these kingdoms and all their glory,” he said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish. ⁷So if You worship me, it will all be Yours.”

⁸But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

⁹Then the devil led Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here. ¹⁰For it is written:

‘He will command His angels concerning You

to guard You carefully,

¹¹and they will lift You up in their hands,

so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

¹²But Jesus answered, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

¹³When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

Jesus Begins His Ministry

¹⁴Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news about Him spread throughout the surrounding region. ¹⁵He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by everyone.

The Rejection at Nazareth

¹⁶Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read, ¹⁷the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me,

because He has anointed Me

to preach good news to the poor.

He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives

and recovery of sight to the blind,

to release the oppressed,

¹⁹to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

²⁰Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him, ²¹and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

²²All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His lips. “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” they asked.

²³Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”

²⁴Then He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown. ²⁵But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land. ²⁶Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon. ²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed— only Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged. ²⁹They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff. ³⁰But Jesus passed through the crowd and went on His way.

Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit

³¹Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath He began to teach the people. ³²They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.

³³In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon. He cried out in a loud voice, ³⁴“Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are — the Holy One of God!”

³⁵But Jesus rebuked the demon. “Be silent!” He said. “Come out of him!” At this, the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without harming him.

³⁶All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” ³⁷And the news about Jesus spread throughout the surrounding region.

Jesus Heals at Peter’s House

³⁸After Jesus had left the synagogue, He went to the home of Simon, whose mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. So they appealed to Jesus on her behalf, ³⁹and He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and began to serve them.

⁴⁰At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them. ⁴¹Demons also came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked the demons and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.

Jesus Preaches in Judea

⁴²At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place, and the crowds were looking for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving. ⁴³But Jesus told them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well, because that is why I was sent.”

⁴⁴And He continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.