^{28 Ref} For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

^{29 Ref} Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

^{30 Ref} How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

^{31 Ref} For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

^{32 Ref} 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 Ref} Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.

^{34 Ref} Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

^{35 Ref} Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

^{36 Ref} For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself for his servants; When he seeth that `their' power is gone, And there is none `remaining', shut up or left at large.

^{37 Ref} And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

^{38 Ref} Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, `And' drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

^{39 Ref} 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; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

^{40 Ref} For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,

^{41 Ref} If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

^{42 Ref} I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

^{43 Ref} 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 make expiation for his land, for his people.

^{44 Ref} 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 Ref} And he said unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, `even' all the words of this law.

^{47 Ref} For it is no 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 the Jordan to possess it.

^{48 Ref} And Jehovah spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

^{49 Ref} Get thee up into this mountain of 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 Ref} 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 Ref} because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

^{52 Ref} For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.