Verse 28
Deuteronomy 32:28
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּי ג֛וֹי אֹבַ֥ד עֵצ֖וֹת הֵ֑מָּה וְ/אֵ֥ין בָּ/הֶ֖ם תְּבוּנָֽה
English Translation
For a nation that has perished, they have no counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
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Chapter 32 Context
1
Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
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Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and...
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3
Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God (Elohim).
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The works of God (Elohim) are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God (Elohim) is faithful and...
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They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and per...
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6
Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, th...
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7
Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee:...
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8
When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds...
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9
But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
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10
He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and t...
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11
As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken...
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12
The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.
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13
He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out...
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14
Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Bas...
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15
The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God (Elohim) who made...
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16
They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
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They sacrificed to devils and not to God (Elohim): to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come...
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Thou hast forsaken the God (Elohim) that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
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19
The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
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And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it i...
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21
They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I wil...
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22
A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth wi...
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23
I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
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24
They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send...
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25
Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the s...
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26
I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
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27
But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and...
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28
They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
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O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.
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30
How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God (E...
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31
For our God (Elohim) is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.
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32
Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of...
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33
Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.
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34
Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
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35
Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destructio...
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36
The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants : he shall see that their hand i...
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37
And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?
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38
Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and h...
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39
See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God (Elohim) besides me: I will kill and I will make t...
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40
I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.
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41
If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeanc...
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42
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain a...
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43
Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengea...
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44
So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son...
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45
And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.
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46
And he said to them : Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you s...
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47
For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them...
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48
And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:
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49
Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the lan...
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50
When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mou...
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51
Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradic...
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52
Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Deuteronomy
- Chapter
- Chapter 32 (52 verses)
- Version
- Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition