Verse 9
Deuteronomy 32:9
Young's Literal Translation
9
For Jehovah's portion [is] His people, Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֛י חֵ֥לֶק יְהֹוָ֖ה עַמּ֑/וֹ יַעֲקֹ֖ב חֶ֥בֶל נַחֲלָתֽ/וֹ
English Translation
For the portion of the Lord is His people; Jacob is the measure of His inheritance.
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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!
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Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as sh...
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For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim, Ascribe ye greatness to our God (Elohim)!
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The Rock! -- perfect [is] His work, For all His ways [are] just; God (Elohim) of stedfastness, and w...
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It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!
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To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He...
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Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell...
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In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam -- He setteth up the bor...
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9
For Jehovah's portion [is] His people, Jacob [is] the line of His inheritance.
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He findeth him in a land -- a desert, And in a void -- a howling wilderness, He turneth him round --...
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As an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings -- taketh them,...
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Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him.
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He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him...
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14
Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams, sons of Bashan, And he-goats...
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And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat -- thou hast been thick, Thou hast been c...
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They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.
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They sacrifice to demons -- no god! Gods they have not known -- New ones -- from the vicinity they c...
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The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God (Elohim) who formeth thee.
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And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
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And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what [is] their latter end; For a froward generation [...
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21
They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous...
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For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol -- the lowest, And consumeth e...
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I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
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Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send up...
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Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling w...
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I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;
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If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is hi...
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For a nation lost to counsels [are] they, And there is no understanding in them.
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If they were wise -- They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end:
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How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold...
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For not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] judges!)
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For of the vine of Sodom their vine [is], And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes o...
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The poison of dragons [is] their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
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34
Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?
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Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of...
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For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth -- the goi...
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And He hath said, Where [are] their gods -- The rock in which they trusted;
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Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and...
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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...
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For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age!
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If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back v...
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I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and...
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43
Sing ye nations -- [with] his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He tu...
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And Moses cometh and speaketh all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea so...
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and Moses finisheth to speak all these words unto all Israel,
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and saith unto them, 'Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that...
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for it [is] not a vain thing for you, for it [is] your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on th...
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in this self-same day, saying,
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'Go up unto this mount Abarim, mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, which [is] on the front o...
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and die in the mount whither thou art going up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brothe...
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'Because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kades...
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but over-against thou seest the land, and thither thou dost not go in, unto the land which I am givi...
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