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¶ The songe of Moses. He goeth vnto the toppe of Abarim to se the land of promyse.

CAPI. XXXII.

[ A] HEare, o heuen, what I speake, and heare (o earth) the wordes of my mouthe. My doctrine drop as doth the rayne, and my speche floweth as dothe the dewe, as the my∣sellynge vpon the herbes, and as the droppes vpon the grasse. For I wyll call on the name of the Lorde: Magnifye the myghte of oure God.

Perfect are Gods dedes, and all his wayes are rightousnes / God is faithful and without wickednes, both rightous an iust is he.

The frowarde and ouerthwarte genera••••∣on hathe trespased agaynste him, and are not his sonnes by reason they are disfigured. Doest thou so rewarde the Lorde? O folisshe nacion and vnwyse. Is not he thy father, and thyne owner? hath he not made the and ordeined the? Remembre the dayes that are paste: consider the yeres from tyme to tyme. Aske thy father and he wyll shewe the thy auncestours, & they shal tel the, when the most highest sequestred the nacions, and diuided the sonnes of Adam, he put the borders of the nacions faste by the company of the chyldren of Israel.

For the Lordes part is his folke, and Iacob [ B] is the porcion of his inheritaunce.

He founde him in a deserte land, in a voyde ground and in a wylde wildernes. He led him about and gaue him vnderstanding, and kepte him as the apple of his eye.

As an Egle that stereth vp her nest to flee, and flotereth ouer her yonge, he stretched out his wynges, and toke him vp and bare hym on his shoulders. The Lorde alone was his guyde, and there was no straunge God with him.

He set him vp vpon an hye land, and he ate the encrease of the feldes. And he gaue him ho¦nye to sucke out of the rocke, nnd oyle oute of the harde stone. With butter of kyne, & mylke of the shepe, with fat of the lambes, and fatte rammes of Basan, with gotes & where floure. And of the bloud of grapes thou dronkest ripe wyne. [ C]

And Israel waxed fat, and kycked. Thou wast fat, thycke and smothe. And he let God go that made him, and turned his backe from God that saued him. They stirred vp his dis∣pleasure thorow their straunge goddes, & with abhominacions prouoked him.

They offered vnto deuyls, and not to God and to Goddes whiche they knewe not, euen to newe Goddes that came newly vp, whiche theyr fathers neuer worshypped.

Of the God that begat the thou arte vn¦myndfull, and hast forgot Got that made the. And when the Lorde sawe it he was angrye / bicause of the prouokynge of his sonnes and doughters.

And he said, I will hyde my face from them and wyl se what theyr ende shall be. For they are a frowarde generacion & children in whom is no faythe. They haue angred me with him that was no God, & prouoked me with theyr vanities. And I agayne wyll angre them with them which are no people, and wyl pro∣uoke them with a folysshe nacion. For fyre is kyndled in my wrath, and shall burne vnto [ D] the botome of hell. And shal consume the erth with her encrease, and set a fyre the botomes of the mountaynes. I wyll heape myscheues vpon them, and wyll spende all myne arowes amonges them.

They shall pyne awaye by famyn, byrdes shall deuour them with a bytter gnawynge.

I wyl also sende the teth of beestes vpon them, and poyson serpētes of y^e erth. Without do••es the swerde shal destroye them, and with in in the chamber, feare: bothe yonge men and

yonge women, and the suckelynges, with the men of greye heedes. I haue determined to scatter them thorowe out the worlde, and to abolysshe theyr name from amonge men, but for theyr enemyes cause I haue forborne thē, leest theyr aduersaries wolde take vpon them and saye: our hye hande hathe done all these workes, and not the Lorde.

For it is a nacion that hath no forecast, and hath no vnderstandyng in them: I wold the•• were wyse, and vnderstode this, and wold con¦sider their latter ende.

Howe it commeth, that one shall chase a thousande, and two put ten thousand of them to flyghte: but that theyr God hathe soulde them, and bycause the Lord hath gyuen them ouer.

For our rock is not as their rock, no though [ E] our enemyes de iudge. But theyr vynes are of the vynes of Sodom, and of the feldes of Go¦morra. Their grapes are grapes of gal, & their clusters be bytter.

Theyr wyne is the poyson of dragons, and the cruell gal of adders. Are not suche thinges layd in store with me, and sealed vp amonges my treasures? Vengeaunce is myne, and I wyll acquyte: Theyr feete shall slyde when the tyme commeth. For the tyme of theyr de∣struction is at hande, and the tyme that shall come vpon them maketh haste.

For the Lorde wyll do iustyce vnto his peo¦ple, and haue cōpassion on his seruauntes. For it shall be sene that theyr power shall fayle, & their prisoners be lost, and the residue wasted.

[ F] And it shal be sayd: where are their goddes wherin they trusted?

The fat of whose sacrifices they ate, & drāke the wyne of their wessayles, let them ryse vp and helpe you, and be your shylde.

Se nowe howe I am alone, and that there is no God but I. I can kyll and make alyue, and what I haue smytten, that can I heale: neyther is there that can rescue any man oute of my hande.

For I wyll lyfte vp myne hande to heuen, and wyll saye, I lyue euer.

Yf I whet the edge of my swerde as it were a thonderbolt, & myne hand goth about to do iustice, I wyl shewe vengeaunce on myne ene∣myes, and wyl reacquite them that hate me.

I wyll make myne arowes droncken with bloude, and my swerde shall eate flesshe of the bloud of the slayne, and of the captyue, and of myne ennemyes bare heed.

Prayse (ye hethen) his people, for he wyl a∣uenge the bloude of his seruauntes, and wyll reuenge him of his aduersaries, & wil be mer∣cyfull vnto the lande of his people.

[ G] Moses wente and spake all the wordes of this songe in the eares of the people, bothe he and Iosua the sonne of Nun. When Moses had spoken all these wordes vnto the ende to all Israel, he sayd vnto them. Set your hertes vnto all the wordes which I testifie vnto you this day: that ye commaunde them vnto your children to obserue and doo all the wordes of this lawe. For it is not a vayne worde vnto you: but it is your lyfe, & thorowe this worde ye shall prolonge your dayes in the lande whi¦ther ye go ouer Iordan to conquere it.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, the same daye, saying: get the vp in to this mountayne Abarim, vnto mount Nebo, whiche is in the lande of Moab ouer agaynst Iericho. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 holde the lande of Canaan whiche I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vn∣to the chyldren of Israel to possesse. And dye in the mounte whiche thou goest vpon, and be thou put vnto thy people: As Aaron thy bro∣ther dyed in mounte Hor, and was put vnto his people. For ye trespased against me among the chyldren of Israel at the waters of stryfe, at Cades in the wildernesse of Zin: bicause ye halowed me not amonge the children of Isra∣el. Thou shalt se the land before the, but thou shalte not goo vnto the lande whiche I gyue the chyldren of Israel.

Notes

• Esaye .i. a Michi .i. a Esaye .lv. a.
• Genesis .i. d Ecclesi .xlii.
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• Moses goeth vp vnto moū¦•••• nebo.