Verse 6

Deuteronomy 32:6

Young's Literal Translation

6 To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֲ לַ/יְהוָה֙ תִּגְמְלוּ זֹ֔את עַ֥ם נָבָ֖ל וְ/לֹ֣א חָכָ֑ם הֲ/לוֹא הוּא֙ אָבִ֣י/ךָ קָּנֶ֔/ךָ ה֥וּא עָֽשְׂ/ךָ֖ וַֽ/יְכֹנְנֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
Do you repay this to the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your father, who made you, and established you?
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Chapter 32 Context
1 'Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth! Focus ↗
2 Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as sh... Focus ↗
3 For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness to our God (Elohim)! Focus ↗
4 The Rock! -- perfect [is] His work, For all His ways [are] just; God (Elohim) of stedfastness, and w... Focus ↗
5 It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked! Focus ↗
6 To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He...
7 Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell... Focus ↗
8 In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam -- He setteth up the bor... Focus ↗
9 For Jehovah's portion [is] His people, Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance. Focus ↗
10 He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round --... Focus ↗
11 As an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings -- taketh them,... Focus ↗
12 Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him. Focus ↗
13 He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him... Focus ↗
14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams, sons of Bashan, And he-goats... Focus ↗
15 And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat -- thou hast been thick, Thou hast been c... Focus ↗
16 They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry. Focus ↗
17 They sacrifice to demons -- no god! Gods they have not known -- New ones -- from the vicinity they c... Focus ↗
18 The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God (Elohim) who formeth thee. Focus ↗
19 And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters. Focus ↗
20 And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what [is] their latter end; For a froward generation [... Focus ↗
21 They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous... Focus ↗
22 For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol -- the lowest, And consumeth e... Focus ↗
23 I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them. Focus ↗
24 Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send up... Focus ↗
25 Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling w... Focus ↗
26 I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man; Focus ↗
27 If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is hi... Focus ↗
28 For a nation lost to counsels [are] they, And there is no understanding in them. Focus ↗
29 If they were wise -- They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end: Focus ↗
30 How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold... Focus ↗
31 For not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] judges!) Focus ↗
32 For of the vine of Sodom their vine [is], And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes o... Focus ↗
33 The poison of dragons [is] their wine And the fierce venom of asps. Focus ↗
34 Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures? Focus ↗
35 Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of... Focus ↗
36 For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth -- the goi... Focus ↗
37 And He hath said, Where [are] their gods -- The rock in which they trusted; Focus ↗
38 Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and... Focus ↗
39 See ye, now, that I -- I [am] He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I h... Focus ↗
40 For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age! Focus ↗
41 If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back v... Focus ↗
42 I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and... Focus ↗
43 Sing ye nations -- [with] his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He tu... Focus ↗
44 And Moses cometh and speaketh all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea so... Focus ↗
45 and Moses finisheth to speak all these words unto all Israel, Focus ↗
46 and saith unto them, 'Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that... Focus ↗
47 for it [is] not a vain thing for you, for it [is] your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on th... Focus ↗
48 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in this self-same day, saying, Focus ↗
49 'Go up unto this mount Abarim, mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, which [is] on the front o... Focus ↗
50 and die in the mount whither thou art going up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brothe... Focus ↗
51 'Because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kades... Focus ↗
52 but over-against thou seest the land, and thither thou dost not go in, unto the land which I am givi... Focus ↗