Verse 28
Deuteronomy 32:28
Literal Standard Version
28
For they are a nation lost to counsels, || And there is no understanding in them.
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.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 32 Context
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“Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And you hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!
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My doctrine drops as rain; My sayings flow as dew; As storms on the tender grass, || And as showers...
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For I proclaim the Name of YHWH; Ascribe greatness to our God (Elohim)!
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The Rock—His work is perfect, || For all His ways are just; God (Elohim) of steadfastness, and witho...
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It has done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not of His sons, || A generation perverse and crooked...
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Do you act thus to YHWH, || O people foolish and not wise? Is He not your Father—He who bought you?...
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Remember days of old—Understand the years of many generations—Ask your father, and he tells you; You...
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In the Most High causing nations to inherit, || In His separating sons of Adam—He sets up the border...
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For YHWH’s portion is His people, || Jacob is the line of His inheritance.
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He finds him in a land—a desert, || And in a void—a howling wilderness, || He turns him around—He ca...
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As an eagle wakes up its nest, || Flutters over its young ones, || Spreads its wings and takes them,...
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YHWH alone leads him, || And there is no strange god with him.
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He makes him ride on high places of earth, || And he eats increase of the fields, || And He makes hi...
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Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, || With fat of lambs, and rams of sons of Bashan, || And...
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And Yeshurun waxes fat, and kicks: You have been fat, you have been thick, || You have been covered....
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They make Him zealous with strangers, || They make Him angry with abominations.
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They sacrifice to the demons, not God (Elohim), || To gods they have not known, || New ones—they cam...
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You forget the Rock that begot you, || And neglect God (Elohim) who forms you.
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And YHWH sees and despises—For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
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And He says: I hide My face from them, || I see what their latter end is; For they are a contrary ge...
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They have made Me jealous by what is not God (Elohim), || They made Me angry by their vanities; And...
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For a fire has been kindled in My anger, || And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol, || And consume...
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I heap calamities on them, || I consume My arrows on them.
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Exhausted by famine, || And consumed by heat and bitter destruction—I also send the teeth of beasts...
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The sword destroys from outside, || And out of the inner-chambers—terror, || Both youth and virgin,...
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I have said: I blow them away, || I cause their remembrance to cease from man;
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If I do not fear the anger of an enemy, || Lest their adversaries know—Lest they say, Our hand is hi...
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For they are a nation lost to counsels, || And there is no understanding in them.
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If only they were wise, || They would deal wisely with this, || They would attend to their latter en...
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How does one pursue a thousand, || And two cause a myriad to flee, || If not that their Rock has sol...
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For their rock is not as our Rock || (And our enemies are judges!)
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, || And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of...
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The poison of dragons is their wine || And the fierce venom of cobras.
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34
Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?
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Vengeance and retribution are Mine, || At the due time—their foot slides; For near is a day of their...
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For YHWH judges His people, || And gives comfort over His servants. For He sees the going away of po...
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And He has said, Where are their gods—The rock in which they trusted?
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Who eat the fat of their sacrifices, || And drink the wine of their drink-offering? Let them arise a...
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See, now, that I am He, || And there is no god besides Me; I put to death and I keep alive; I have s...
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For I lift up My hand to the heavens, || And have said, I live for all time!
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If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, || And My hand lays hold on judgment, || I return ve...
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I make My arrows drunk with blood, || And My sword devours flesh, || From the blood of the pierced a...
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Sing, O nations, with His people, || For He avenges the blood of His servants, || And He turns back...
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And Moses comes and speaks all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea son o...
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and Moses finishes to speak all these words to all Israel,
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and says to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you today, that you...
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for it is not a vain thing for you, for it is your life, and by this thing you prolong days on the g...
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And YHWH speaks to Moses on this very same day, saying,
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“Go up to this Mount Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is on the front of Jeri...
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and die on the mountain to where you are going up, and be gathered to your people, as your brother A...
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because you trespassed against Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kades...
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Indeed, you see the land before you, but you do not go in there to the land which I am giving to the...
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