Deuteronomy Chapter 32
Ayo heavens, tune in, I'm about to drop some wisdom; earth, you best catch these bars I'm laying down.
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
My teachings gonna hit you like a downpour, my words flowing like morning dew, fresh vibes on the lush grass.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
I’m repping the Lord's name: gotta give mad respect to our God, he’s straight flames.
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
He’s the Rock, all his moves are lit: every path he walks is on fleek; he’s truth, no cap, just and fair.
{He is} the Rock, his work {is} perfect: for all his ways {are} judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right {is} he.
They’ve messed themselves up, acting nothing like his kids: they’re a wild and twisted generation, fr.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot {is} not {the spot} of his children: {they are} a perverse and crooked generation. {They have...: Heb. He hath corrupted to himself} {their...: or, that they are not his children, that is their blot}
You really gonna play the Lord like that, you silly folks? Isn’t he the one who bought you? Didn’t he craft you and set you up?
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? {is} not he thy father {that} hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Don’t forget the old days, reflect on all the years that passed: ask your pops, he’ll drop some knowledge; your elders got the scoop.
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. {many...: Heb. generation and generation}
When the Most High divided the nations, and established boundaries for Adam’s fam, he did it based on the kids of Israel.
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
The Lord’s squad is his peeps; Jacob’s the chosen one in his crew.
For the LORD'S portion {is} his people; Jacob {is} the lot of his inheritance. {lot: Heb. cord}
He found him in a wild wilderness, in the rugged desert; he guided him, schooled him, kept him close like his fave.
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. {led: or, compassed}
Like, an eagle’s out here fluffing her nest, swooping over her chicks, spreading her wings, and carrying them like a boss.
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
So the Lord was the only one guiding him, no lie, no other gods around.
{So} the LORD alone did lead him, and {there was} no strange god with him.
He had him riding high on the best spots, catching all the solid vibes from the fields; even sipping honey from the rocks, and oil from the hard stones.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Butter from cows, milk from sheep, with the top-tier stuff from lambs and Bashan rams, and goats, plus the best wheat kidneys; and you were sipping that sweet grape juice.
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
But Jeshurun got all fat and comfy: you got thick, feeling yourself, then you ghosted the God who made you and dissed the Rock of your salvation.
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered {with fatness}; then he forsook God {which} made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
They made him jealous with sus gods, and their wild actions made him furious.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange {gods}, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
They were out here sacrificing to demons, not to God; to gods they didn’t even know, new gods that your fam didn’t respect.
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new {gods that} came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. {not to...: or, which were not God}
You forgot the Rock that gave you life, and ditched the God who crafted you.
Of the Rock {that} begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
And when the Lord peeped this, he was not having it, 'cause of how his kids were acting.
And when the LORD saw {it}, he abhorred {them}, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. {abhorred: or, despised}
And he was like, “I’m gonna hide my face from them and see how this plays out: they’re a straight-up wild generation, kids with no faith.”
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end {shall be}: for they {are} a very froward generation, children in whom {is} no faith.
They got me feeling some type of way with their fake gods; they made me mad with their vibes, so I’m gonna make them jealous with a crew that’s not even a squad; I’ll provoke them with a total cringe nation.
They have moved me to jealousy with {that which is} not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with {those which are} not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
For my anger’s lit like a fire, burning all the way down to the depths, consuming the whole earth and setting the mountains ablaze, no cap.
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. {shall burn: or, hath burned} {shall consume: or, hath consumed}
I’m about to drop some chaos on them; my arrows are ready to pop off.
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
They gonna be hungry and burnt up, feeling that heat, and facing some savage destruction; I’ll also send the wild beasts at them, with the venom of snakes in the dirt.
{They shall be} burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. {heat: Heb. coals}
The sword’s out there, and fear’s in here, taking out the young and the old, no one’s safe, periodt.
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling {also} with the man of gray hairs. {within: Heb. from the chambers} {destroy: Heb. bereave}
I was gonna scatter them everywhere, make sure no one remembers them, fr.
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
But I was lowkey scared of the enemy’s wrath, 'cause they might flex and say, “Our crew did this, and God had nothing to do with it.”
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, {and} lest they should say, Our hand {is} high, and the LORD hath not done all this. {Our...: or, Our high hand, and not the LORD hath done}
They’re just a nation with zero brains, and no understanding, sus.
For they {are} a nation void of counsel, neither {is there any} understanding in them.
If only they were wise and got the bigger picture, and thought about where they’re headed!
O that they were wise, {that} they understood this, {that} they would consider their latter end!
How can one person chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand on the run, unless their Rock sold them out, and the Lord locked them down?
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
Their rock ain't our rock, even the haters know what's good.
For their rock {is} not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves {being} judges.
Their vine's from Sodom, fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are straight garbage, bitter vibes.
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: {of the vine: or, worse than the vine}
Their wine's like dragon poison, cruel venom, no cap.
Their wine {is} the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
This is all stored up with me, sealed in my treasure chest, fr.
{Is} not this laid up in store with me, {and} sealed up among my treasures?
Vengeance is mine, and trust, they’re about to slip up real soon: their bad days are coming in hot.
To me {belongeth} vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in {due} time: for the day of their calamity {is} at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
The Lord's gonna judge his crew, and he’ll feel for his peeps when they’re powerless, no one left to save them.
For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that {their} power is gone, and {there is} none shut up, or left. {power: Heb. hand}
He’ll be like, "Where are their gods, their rock they were vibing with?"
And he shall say, Where {are} their gods, {their} rock in whom they trusted,
Those gods that feasted on their sacrifices and drank their offerings? Let 'em step up and save you, periodt.
Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, {and} drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, {and} be your protection. {your...: Heb. an hiding for you}
Check it, I am he, no other god with me: I take lives, I give life; I hurt, I heal: no one can escape my grip.
See now that I, {even} I, {am} he, and {there is} no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither {is there any} that can deliver out of my hand.
I’m raising my hand to heaven, saying I’m alive forever, no doubt.
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
If I whip out my shiny sword, and grab that judgment vibe; I’m coming for my haters, no cap.
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
I’m gonna make my arrows lit with blood, and my sword’s gonna feast; that’s how we roll with the revenge on the enemy.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; {and that} with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
Ayo, nations, vibe with his crew: he’s gonna avenge his peeps’ blood, throw shade at his foes, and show mercy to his land and people.
Rejoice, O ye nations, {with} his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, {and} to his people. {Rejoice...: or, Praise his people, ye nations: or, Sing ye}
Moses pulled up and dropped this whole song in the ears of the squad, he and Hoshea, son of Nun.
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. {Hoshea: or, Joshua}
Moses wrapped up his speech to all Israel, periodt.
And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
He told them, “Focus up on all these words I’m sharing today, and make sure your kids know to keep it real with this law.”
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
This ain’t just some random talk; it’s your whole vibe: stick to this, and you’ll live long in the land you’re about to own after crossing Jordan.
For it {is} not a vain thing for you; because it {is} your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong {your} days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
And the Lord hit up Moses that same day, saying,
And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
Climb up this mountain Abarim, to Mount Nebo, in Moab, looking over Jericho; peep the land of Canaan I’m giving to the Israelites.
Get thee up into this mountain 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 you’ll pass away on that mountain you’re going up, gathered to your people; just like Aaron your bro did on Mount Hor, gathered to his crew.
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:
Y’all messed up in front of the squad at Meribah-Kadesh, in the wild vibes of Zin; you didn’t show me respect with the crew.
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. {Meribah-Kadesh: or, strife at Kadesh}
But you’ll peep the land from a distance; you just can’t step foot in the place I’m giving to the squad.
Yet thou shalt see the land before {thee}; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.