wheat, and watered him with good grape blood.

And when he was fat and full, he became horny. And he became fat, and fat, and strong, and hath forsaken the God that made him: he hath despised the rock of his salvation; 16. And hath provoked him to zeal by strangers; by abominations hath he provoked him to anger.

They have sacrificed unto the devils of the field, and not unto their God, unto gods which they knew not, unto new ones, which were not before, which your fathers did not worship.

Thou hast forsaken thy rock that begat thee, and hast forgotten God that made thee.

And when the LORD saw it, he was wroth with his sons and with his daughters.

And he said: I will hide my face from them, I will see what shall befall them at the last: for it is a perverse kind, they are unfaithful children.

They have provoked me against that which is not God: with their idolatry have they provoked me, and I will provoke them again against that which is not a people; against a foolish people will I provoke them.

For the fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn even to the lowest hell; and shall devour the land with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

I will heap all mischief upon them; I will shoot all mine arrows into them.

They shall faint with hunger, and be consumed with fever, and with sudden death. I will send the teeth of beasts among them, and the poison of serpents.

Outward shall the sword take them, and inward shall terror take them; both young men and virgins, babes with the gray man.

I will say, Where are they? I will lift up their memory among men, 27. If I spared not the wrath of the enemy, lest their enemies should be proud, and say, Our power is great, and the LORD hath not done all these things.

For there is a people where there is no counsel within, and there is no understanding in them.

O, that they might be wise, and hear these things, that they might understand the things that shall come upon them hereafter.

How is it that one shall chase a thousand of them, and two shall make ten thousand to flee? Is it not that she hath sold her rock, and the LORD hath delivered her up?

For our rock is not as their rock: our enemies themselves are judges.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the field of Gomorrha; their grapes are gall, they have bitter berries;

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the gall of fierce vipers.

Is not this hidden with me, and sealed up in my treasures?

Vengeance is mine; I will recompense. In his time shall her foot slide; For the time of her calamity is at hand, And her future hasteth on.

For the LORD will judge his people, and have mercy upon his servants. For he shall see that their power is gone, and that both they that are shut up and forsaken are gone.

And they shall say, Where are their gods, their rock, in whom they trusted?

Of which sacrifice they did eat fat, and drank the wine of their libation? Let them arise, and help you, and protect you!

See ye then that I alone am, and there is no God beside me? I can kill, and I can make alive; I can smite, and I can heal; and there is none that shall deliver out of mine hand.

For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and will say, I live for ever.

When I shall sharpen the lightning of my sword, and my hand shall take hold to punish, then
will I again avenge myself upon mine enemies, and recompense them that hate me.

I will make mine arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh upon the blood of the slain, and upon the prison, and upon the uncovered head of the enemy.

Rejoice, all ye his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will take vengeance on his enemies, and will be gracious unto the land of his people.

And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

And Moses spake all these things unto all Israel,

And he said unto them: Take to heart all the words which I testify unto you this day, that ye command your children to keep and do all the words of this law.

For it is not a vain word unto you, but it is your life: and this word shall prolong your life in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

And the LORD spake unto Moses the same day, saying:

Go up to mount Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho, and possess the land of Canaan, which I will give unto the children of Israel for a possession, 50. And die in the mount, when thou art come up, and gather thyself unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and gathered himself unto his people, 51. Because ye sinned against me among the children of Israel at the water of odds in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, to sanctify me not among the children of Israel; 52. For thou shalt see the land against thee, which I give unto the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter therein:
(Deuteronomy)
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Moses’ valet blessing and divination.

This is the blessing, that Moses the man of God might bless the children of Israel before his death,

And said, The LORD is come from Sinai, and is risen up unto them from Seir; he is broken forth from mount Paran, and is come with many thousands of saints: at his right hand is a fiery law unto them.

How he loveth the people! All his saints are in thy hand: they shall sit at thy feet, and shall learn of thy words.

Moses commanded us the law, the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

And he administered the office of king, and gathered together the heads of the people with the tribes of Israel.

Let Reuben live, and die not; and let his rabble be few.

This is the blessing of Judah. And he said, Lord, hear the voice of Judah, and make him ruler over his people, and let his power be great, and let him be helped against his enemies.

And he said unto Levi, Let thy judgment and thy light abide with thy holy husband, whom thou hast tried in Massa, when ye fought at the water of Hader.

He that saith to his father and to his mother, I see him not; and to his brother, I know him not; and to his son, I know not: they keep thy speech, and keep thy covenant; 10. They shall teach thy statutes unto Jacob, and thy law unto Israel: they shall put incense before thee, and whole sacrifices upon thine altar.

Bless, O LORD, his fortunes, and let the works of his hands please thee: bruise the backs of them that rise up against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not up.

And to Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell safely; he shall always keep over him, and shall dwell between his shoulders.

And to Joseph he said, His land is in the blessing of the LORD. There is noble fruit from heaven, from the dew, and from the deep that is below.

There are noble fruits of the sun, and noble ripe fruits of the moons.

And from the high mountains toward the east, and from the hills for and for.

And precious fruit of the earth, and that which is therein. Let the grace of him that dwelt in the bush be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of Nasir among his brethren.

His glory is like the firstborn ox, and his horns are like the horns of a unicorn: with them shall he thrust the nations together unto the end of the land. These are the thousands of Ephraim, and the thousands of Manasseh.

And unto Zebulun he said, Zebulun, rejoice in thy going forth. But, O Issachar, rejoice in thy tents.

They shall call the nations unto the mount, and there shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness. For they shall suck the multitude of the sea, and the sunk treasures in the sand.

And unto Gad he said, Blessed be Gad the maker of space: he lieth as a lion, and taketh away the arm and the crown.

And he saw that there was given unto him a head, a teacher hidden, which came with the rulers of the people, and shewed the righteousness of the LORD, and his judgments toward Israel.

And unto Dan he said, Dan a young lion; he shall flow from Bashan.

And unto Naphtali he said, Naphtali shall have enough of all that he desireth, and shall be full of the blessing of the LORD: in the evening and in the south shall be his possession.

And to Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with sons; let him be pleasant to his brethren, and dip his foot in oil.

Let iron and brass be in his shoes; let thine old age be as thy youth.

There is no god but the god of the righteous. He that sitteth in the heavens be thy help, and whose glory is in the clouds.

This is the tabernacle of God from the beginning, and among the poor for ever. And he shall cast out thine enemy from before thee, saying, Be thou destroyed.

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