Verse 40
Deuteronomy 32:40
Bible in Basic English
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For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי אֶשָּׂ֥א אֶל שָׁמַ֖יִם יָדִ֑/י וְ/אָמַ֕רְתִּי חַ֥י אָנֹכִ֖י לְ/עֹלָֽם
English Translation
For I will lift my hand to the heavens and I will say, "As surely as I live forever."
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 32 Context
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Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:
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My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass...
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For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God (Elohim) be named great.
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He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God (Elohim) without evi...
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They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and...
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Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given yo...
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Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your fath...
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When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he h...
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For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.
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He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and car...
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As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes t...
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So the Lord only was his guide, no other god was with him.
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He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave hi...
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Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and...
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15
But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of...
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The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
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They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God (Elohim), to gods who were strange to them, w...
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You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God (Elohim) who gave you b...
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And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
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And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an un...
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They have given my honour to that which is not God (Elohim), moving me to wrath with their false wor...
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For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth wi...
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I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.
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They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the...
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Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young...
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I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of me...
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But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord...
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For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
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If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
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How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if...
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For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.
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For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evi...
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Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
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Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?
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Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downf...
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For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that thei...
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And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?
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Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your...
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39
See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making...
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For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,
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If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to...
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I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead...
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Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants,...
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So Moses said all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Hoshea, the son of Nun...
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And after saying all this to the people,
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Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give...
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And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days lon...
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That same day the Lord said to Moses,
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Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you ma...
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And let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest with your people;...
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Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the...
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So you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I am giving to the chil...
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