1Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.
2Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.
3I will proclaim the name of the Lord.
Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
4He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
5They are corrupt and not his children;
to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
6Is this the way you repay the Lord,
you foolish and unwise people?
Is he not your Father, your Creator,32:6 Or Father, who bought you
who made you and formed you?
7Remember the days of old;
consider the generations long past.
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.
8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,
he set up boundaries for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God
9For the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance.
10In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11like an eagle that stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
that spreads its wings to catch them
and carries them on its pinions.
12The Lord alone led him;
no foreign god was with him.
13He made him ride on the heights of the land
and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,
and with oil from the flinty crag,
14with curds and milk from herd and flock
and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan
and the finest grains of wheat.
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
15Jeshurun32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel. grew fat and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned the God who made them
and rejected the Rock their Saviour.
16They made him jealous with their foreign gods
and angered him with their detestable idols.
17They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God –
gods they had not known,
gods that recently appeared,
gods your ancestors did not fear.
18You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19The Lord saw this and rejected them
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
20‘I will hide my face from them,’ he said,
‘and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,
children who are unfaithful.
21They made me jealous by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
22For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.
It will devour the earth and its harvests
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23‘I will heap calamities on them
and expend my arrows against them.
24I will send wasting famine against them,
consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with grey hair.
26I said I would scatter them
and erase their name from human memory,
27but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, “Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.” ’
28They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment in them.
29If only they were wise and would understand this
and discern what their end will be!
30How could one man chase 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,
as even our enemies concede.
32Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,
and their clusters with bitterness.
33Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.
34‘Have I not kept this in reserve
and sealed it in my vaults?
35It is mine to avenge; I will repay.
In due time their foot will slip;
their day of disaster is near
and their doom rushes upon them.’
36The Lord will vindicate his people
and relent concerning his servants
when he sees their strength is gone
and no-one is left, slave or free.32:36 Or and they are without a ruler or leader
37He will say: ‘Now where are their gods,
the rock they took refuge in,
38the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up to help you!
Let them give you shelter!
39‘See now that I myself am he!
There is no god besides me.
I put to death and I bring to life,
I have wounded and I will heal,
and no-one can deliver out of my hand.
40I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear:
as surely as I live for ever,
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 the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.’
43Rejoice, you nations, with his people,32:43 Or Make his people rejoice, you nations32:43 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) people, / and let all the angels worship him, /
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.
44Moses came with Joshua32:44 Hebrew Hoshea, a variant of Joshua son of Nun and spoke 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 obey carefully all the words of this law. 47They are not just idle words for you – they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.’
Moses to die on Mount Nebo
48On that same day the Lord told Moses, 49‘Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, opposite Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. 50There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. 51This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites. 52Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.’
摩西之歌
1“诸天啊，请留心听；
大地啊，请听我说。
2愿我的教导如雨降下，
愿我的话语如露滴落，
像水滴滋润嫩草，
像甘霖浇灌草木。
3我要宣扬耶和华的名，
你们要颂赞我们上帝的伟大。
4“祂是磐石，
祂的作为完美，
祂按公义行事，
祂信实可靠，公平正直。
5狡诈、堕落的一代啊，
你们却对祂不忠，行事败坏，
不配做祂的儿女。
6愚昧无知的人啊，
你们就这样报答耶和华吗？
祂是你们的父，你们的创造主，
祂创造了你们，塑造了你们。
7“要回顾往昔，追溯历史；
问你们的父亲，
他们必回答你们；
问你们的长者，
他们必告诉你们。
8当初，至高者赐万国产业，
把人类分开，
祂依照天使32:8 “天使”希伯来文是“以色列的儿子”。的数目，
为万族定疆界。
9但以色列人属于耶和华，
雅各是祂的产业。
10“在荒凉的旷野，
在野兽吼叫的荒野，
耶和华找到他们，
庇护他们，看顾他们，
保护他们如同保护眼中的瞳仁，
11又如老鹰搅动窝巢，
盘旋在雏鹰之上，展开双翼，
背着雏鹰飞翔。
12耶和华独自带领他们，
身边没有外族神明。
13耶和华使他们驰骋在大地的高处，
吃田间的五谷，
磐石中的蜂蜜，
石头地产的油；
14吃牛酪和羊奶，
肥美的羔羊，
巴珊的绵羊和山羊，
上好的麦子；
喝葡萄汁酿的酒。
15“但耶书仑32:15 “耶书仑”是以色列的昵称。吃饱喝足，
养肥长壮后，就得意忘形，
背弃造他们的上帝，
藐视救他们的磐石。
16他们拜外族的神明，令祂愤恨；
行可憎之事，惹祂发怒。
17他们祭拜的不是真神，
而是鬼魔，
是他们素不认识的新神明，
是他们祖先所不敬畏的。
18他们轻视生他们的磐石，
忘记养他们的上帝。
19“耶和华看见祂儿女的恶行，
就愤然厌弃他们，
20说，‘这堕落的子民，
不忠的儿女！
我要掩面不理他们，
看他们的结局如何。
21他们拜假神，让我愤恨；
供虚无之物，惹我发怒。
我要借无名之民挑起他们的嫉妒，
用愚昧的国民激起他们的怒气。
22我的怒火已经点燃，
要烧到阴间的尽头，
吞灭大地及其出产，
甚至烧毁山的根基。
23“‘我要使灾祸连连临到他们，
我的箭都射向他们。
24他们必饱受饥荒之苦，
被瘟疫和灾祸吞噬，
被猛兽和毒蛇袭击。
25外有刀剑杀戮，
内有恐惧笼罩，
少男、少女、婴儿、
老人无一幸免。
26我本要消灭他们，
使世人忘记他们；
27但我不愿让敌人夸口，
宣称这是他们的胜利，
而非我的作为。’
28“以色列人愚昧无知，毫无见识。
29如果他们有智慧，
就能明白这一切、
知道自己的结局。
30若不是他们的磐石卖掉他们，
若不是耶和华抛弃他们，
一人怎能赶散他们千人？
二人怎能击溃他们万人？
31我们的敌人也承认他们的磐石不如我们的磐石。
32他们犹如来自所多玛、
长在蛾摩拉的葡萄树，
结的葡萄粒粒有毒，串串苦涩；
33酿的酒如蛇的毒液，
如眼镜蛇的毒液。
34“祂说，‘我把这一切积存起来，
封在我的仓库里。
35申冤在我，我必报应，
到时候他们必站不住脚，
他们遭祸的日子近了，
他们的末日来了。’
36“耶和华见自己的子民力量衰竭，
奴隶和自由人所剩无几，
必为他们主持公道，
怜悯祂的仆人。
37祂必说，‘你们的神明在哪里？
庇护你们的磐石在哪里？
38它们吃你们祭牲的脂肪，
喝你们的奠酒。
让它们起来帮助你们，
庇护你们吧！
39“‘你们要知道，
唯有我是上帝；
除我之外，别无他神。
我掌管生死，我打伤、我医治；
无人能逃出我的掌心。
40我向天伸手，
凭我的永恒起誓，
41我要磨快闪亮的剑，
主持公道，报应仇敌，
惩罚恨我的人。
42我要使我的箭饱饮鲜血，
被杀被掳之人的血；
我的剑要吞噬人肉，
敌人将领的肉。’
43“列邦啊，
你们当与祂的子民一同欢乐！
因为祂要为自己的仆人报血仇，
报应祂的仇敌，
洁净祂的土地和子民。”
44摩西和嫩的儿子约书亚把这首诗歌读给会众听。
摩西的遗嘱
45读完后，摩西又对以色列人说： 46“要谨记我今天警告你们的话，要吩咐你们的子孙谨遵这律法上的话。 47这律法不是空话，而是你们的生命。你们若遵守这律法，就必长住在约旦河对岸你们将要占领的土地上。”
预言摩西的死
48当天，耶和华对摩西说： 49“你去耶利哥对面的摩押，登上亚巴琳山区的尼波山，观看我要赐给以色列人作产业的迦南。 50之后，你会死在山上，归到你祖先那里，如亚伦在何珥山离世归祖一样。 51因为在荀旷野，在加低斯的米利巴泉旁，你和亚伦对我不忠，没有在以色列人中尊我为圣。 52所以，你只能远远地观看我要赐给以色列人的土地，却不能进去。”
