031:020 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I
swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey,
and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat;
then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me,
and break my covenant.
031:021 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them,
that this song shall testify before them as a witness;
for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed:
for I know their imagination which they frame this day,
before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
031:022 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it
the children of Israel.
031:023 He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said,
Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring
the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them:
and I will be with you.
031:024 It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished,
031:025 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh, saying,
031:026 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there
for a witness against you.
031:027 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I
am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious
against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
031:028 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven
and earth to witness against them.
031:029 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you;
and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you
will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke
him to anger through the work of your hands.
031:030 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words
of this song, until they were finished.
032:001 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear
the words of my mouth.
032:002 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall
condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.
032:003 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness
to our God!
032:004 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice:
a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
032:005 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not
his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse
and crooked generation.
032:006 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise?
Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you,
and established you.