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Rh it may be there for a witness against thee. For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the ; and how much more after my death? Assemble unto 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. For I know that after my death ye will in any wise deal corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the end of days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of the, to provoke Him through the work of your hands.' And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished:


 * Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak;
 * And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
 * My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
 * My speech shall distil as the dew;
 * As the small rain upon the tender grass,
 * And as the showers upon the herb.
 * For I will proclaim the name of the ;
 * Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.


 * The Rock, His work is perfect;
 * For all His ways are justice;
 * A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
 * Just and right is He.
 * Is corruption His? No; His children's is the blemish;
 * A generation crooked and perverse.
 * Do ye thus requite the ,
 * O foolish people and unwise?
 * Is not He thy father that hath gotten thee?
 * Hath He not made thee, and established thee?


 * Remember the days of old,
 * Consider the years of many generations;
 * Ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee,
 * Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
 * When the Most High gave to the nations
 * When He separated the children of men,
 * He set the borders of the peoples
 * According to the number of the children of Israel.
 * For the portion of the is His people,
 * Jacob the lot of His inheritance.


 * He found him in a desert land,
 * And in the waste, a howling wilderness;
 * He compassed him about, He cared for him,
 * He kept him as the apple of His eye.
 * As an eagle that stirreth up her nest,
 * Hovereth over her young,
 * Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
 * Beareth them on her pinions—
 * The alone did lead him,
 * And there was no strange god with Him.


 * He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
 * And he did eat the fruitage of the field;
 * And He made him to suck honey out of the crag,
 * And oil out of the flinty rock;
 * Curd of kine, and milk of sheep,
 * With fat of lambs,