Give ear, O heavens, let me speak;Let the earth hear the words I utter!
Word-by-Word Analysis
האזינו
79
השמים
395
ואדברהותשמע
1034
הארץ
296
אמריפי
341
Deuteronomy 32:2
Gematria: 3751
יערףכמטרלקחיתזלכטלאמרתיכשעירםעלידשאוכרביביםעליעשב
May my discourse come down as the rain,My speech distill as the dew,Like showers on young growth,Like droplets on the grass. May my discourse … on the grass I.e., may my words be received eagerly; cf. Job 29.22–23.
Word-by-Word Analysis
יערף
360
כמטר
269
לקחיתזל
585
כטל
59
אמרתי
651
כשעירם
640
עלידשאוכרביבים
705
עליעשב
482
Deuteronomy 32:3
Gematria: 880
כישםיהוהאקראהבוגדללאלהינו
For the name of יהוה I proclaim;Give glory to our God!
Do you thus requite יהוה,O dull and witless people?Is not this the Father Father A poetic figure that takes as a given the ancient Near Eastern status and gender hierarchy: a promise of legitimacy, protection, and sustenance in return for obedience. See further the Dictionary under “father.” who created you—Fashioned you and made you endure!
Word-by-Word Analysis
ה
5
ליהוהבספרי
408
תימן
500
הליהוה
61
בתיבה
419
אחת
409
תגמלוזאתעם
997
נבל
82
ולא
37
חכם
68
הלואהוא
54
אביך
33
קנךהוא
182
עשך
390
ויכננך
156
Deuteronomy 32:7
Gematria: 2974
זכרימותעולםבינושנותדרודרשאלאביךויגדךזקניךויאמרולך
Remember the days of old,Consider the years of ages past;Ask your parent, who will inform you,Your elders, who will tell you:
Curd of kine and milk of flocks;With the best ” of lambs,And rams of Bashan, and he-goats;With the very finest ” wheat—And foaming grape-blood was your drink.
So Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—You grew fat and gross and coarse coarse Meaning of Heb. kasitha uncertain. —They forsook the God who made themAnd spurned the Rock of their support.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישמן
406
ישרון
566
ויבעט
97
שמנת
790
עבית
482
כשיתויטש
1055
אלוה
42
עשהו
381
וינבל
98
צור
296
ישעתו
786
Deuteronomy 32:16
Gematria: 1492
יקנאהובזריםבתועבתיכעיסהו
They incensed [God] with alien things,Vexed [God] with abominations.
They sacrificed to demons, no-gods,Gods they had never known,New ones, who came but lately,Who stirred not your forebears’ fears. Who stirred not your forebears’ fears Meaning of Heb. uncertain; Arabic sha‘ara suggests the rendering “Whom your forebears did not know.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
יזבחו
33
לשדים
384
לא
31
אלה
36
אלהים
86
לא
31
ידעוםחדשים
492
מקרב
342
באו
9
לא
31
שערום
616
אבתיכם
473
Deuteronomy 32:18
Gematria: 1963
צורילדךתשיותשכחאלמחללך
You neglected the Rock who begot you,Forgot the God who labored to bring you forth.
Word-by-Word Analysis
צור
296
ילדך
64
תשי
710
ותשכח
734
אל
31
מחללך
128
Deuteronomy 32:19
Gematria: 1132
ויראיהוהוינאץמכעסבניוובנתיו
יהוה saw and was vexedAnd spurned these sons and daughters.
They incensed Me with no-gods,Vexed Me with their futilities; futilities I.e., idols. I’ll incense them with a no-folk,Vex them with a nation of fools.
“How could one have routed a thousand,Or two put ten thousand to flight,Unless their Rock had sold them, יהוה had given them up?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
איכה
36
ירדף
294
אחד
13
אלף
111
ושנים
406
יניסו
136
רבבהאםלא
281
כיצורם
366
מכרם
300
ויהוה
32
הסגירם
318
Deuteronomy 32:31
Gematria: 1054
כילאכצורנוצורםואיבינופלילים
For their rock is not like our Rock,In our enemies’ own estimation. In our enemies’ own estimation I.e., as everyone must admit. For Heb. pelilim (“own estimation”) see Exod. 21.22; cf. Gen. 48.11.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כי
30
לא
31
כצורנו
372
צורם
336
ואיבינו
85
פלילים
200
Deuteronomy 32:32
Gematria: 4058
כימגפןסדםגפנםומשדמתעמרהענבמוענבירושאשכלתמררתלמו
Ah! The vine for them is from Sodom,From the vineyards of Gomorrah;The grapes for them are poison,A bitter growth their clusters.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כימגפן
203
סדם
104
גפנם
173
ומשדמת
790
עמרהענבמו
483
ענבירוש
638
אשכלת
751
מררת
840
למו
76
Deuteronomy 32:33
Gematria: 2423
חמתתנינםיינםוראשפתניםאכזר
Their wine is the venom of asps,The pitiless poison of vipers.
Word-by-Word Analysis
חמת
448
תנינם
550
יינם
110
וראש
507
פתנים
580
אכזר
228
Deuteronomy 32:34
Gematria: 1455
הלאהואכמסעמדיחתוםבאוצרתי
Lo, I have it all put away,Sealed up in My storehouses,
Word-by-Word Analysis
הלאהוא
48
כמס
120
עמדי
124
חתום
454
באוצרתי
709
Deuteronomy 32:35
Gematria: 3547
לינקםושלםלעתתמוטרגלםכיקרוביוםאידםוחשעתדתלמו
To be My vengeance and recompense,At the time that their foot falters.Yea, their day of disaster is near,And destiny rushes upon them.
O nations, acclaim God’s people!For He’ll avenge the blood of His servants,Wreak vengeance on His foes,And cleanse His people’s land. And cleanse His people’s land Cf. Num. 35.33. Meaning of Heb. uncertain; Ugaritic ’udm‘t “tears” suggests the rendering “And wipe away His people’s tears.” Cf. Isa. 25.8.
he said to them: Take to heart all the words with which I have warned you this day. Enjoin them upon your children, that they may observe faithfully all the terms of this Teaching.
For this is not a trifling thing for you: it is your very life; through it you shall long endure on the land that you are to possess upon crossing the Jordan.
Ascend these heights of Abarim to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab facing Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving the Israelites as their holding.
You shall die on the mountain that you are about to ascend, and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his kin;
for you both broke faith with Me among the Israelite people, at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to uphold My sanctity among the Israelite people.