When the MostHighdivided to the nationstheirinheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the peopleaccording to the number of the children of Israel.
He made him ride on the highplaces of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suckhoney out of the rock, and oil out of the flintyrock;
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 thoudidstdrink the pureblood of the grape.
But Jeshurunwaxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grownthick, thou art coveredwithfatness; then he forsook God whichmade him, and lightlyesteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Theyhavemoved me to jealousywiththatwhich is not God; theyhaveprovoked me to angerwiththeirvanities: and I willmovethem to jealousywiththosewhich are not a people; I willprovokethem to angerwith a foolishnation.
For a fire is kindled in mineanger, and shallburnunto the lowesthell, and shallconsume the earthwith her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Theyshall be burntwithhunger, and devouredwithburningheat, and withbitterdestruction: I willalsosend the teeth of beastsuponthem, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lesttheiradversariesshouldbehavethemselvesstrangely, and lesttheyshould say, Our hand is high, and the LORDhath not done all this.
To me belongethvengeance, and recompence; theirfootshallslide in due time: for the day of theircalamity is at hand, and the thingsthatshallcomeuponthemmakehaste.
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I makealive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
I willmakeminearrowsdrunkwithblood, and my swordshalldevourflesh; and thatwith the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revengesupon the enemy.
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he willavenge the blood of his servants, and willrendervengeance to his adversaries, and will be mercifulunto his land, and to his people.
And he saiduntothem, Set yourheartsunto all the wordswhich I testifyamong you this day, which ye shallcommandyourchildren to observe to do, all the words of this law.
For it is not a vainthing for you; because it is yourlife: and throughthisthing ye shallprolongyourdays in the land, whither ye go overJordan to possess it.
Get thee up intothismountainAbarim, untomountNebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is overagainstJericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I giveunto the children of Israel for a possession:
Because ye trespassedagainst 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.