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Rh :Even our enemies themselves being judges.
 * For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
 * And of the fields of Gomorrah;
 * Their grapes are grapes of gall,
 * Their clusters are bitter;
 * Their wine is the venom of serpents,
 * And the cruel poison of asps.


 * 'Is not this laid up in store with Me,
 * Sealed up in My treasuries?
 * Vengeance is Mine, and recompense,
 * Against the time when their foot shall slip;
 * For the day of their calamity is at hand,
 * And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.


 * For the will judge His people,
 * And repent Himself for His servants;
 * When He seeth that their stay is gone,
 * And there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
 * And it is said: Where are their gods,
 * The rock in whom they trusted;
 * Who did eat the fat of their sacrifices,
 * And drank the wine of their drink-offering?
 * Let him rise up and help you,
 * Let him be your protection.


 * See now that I, even I, am He,
 * And there is no god with Me;
 * I kill, and I make alive;
 * I have wounded, and I heal;
 * And there is none that can deliver out of My hand.
 * For I lift up My hand to heaven,
 * And say: As I live for ever,
 * If I whet My glittering sword,
 * And My hand take hold on judgment;
 * I will render vengeance to Mine adversaries,
 * And will recompense them that hate Me.
 * I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood,
 * And My sword shall devour flesh;
 * With the blood of the slain and the captives,
 * From the long-haired heads of the enemy.'


 * Sing aloud, O ye nations, of His people;
 * For He doth avenge the blood of His servants,
 * And doth render vengeance to His adversaries,
 * And doth make expiation for the land of His people.

And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. And when Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel, he said unto them: 'Set your heart unto all the words wherewith I testify against you this day; that ye may charge your children therewith to observe to do all the words of this law. For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days upon the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.'

And the spoke unto Moses that selfsame day, saying: 'Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession; and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people. Because ye