Deuteronomy 32:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition GIVE EAR, O heavens, and I [Moses] will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. American Standard Version (1901) Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. Common English Bible Heaven! Pay attention and I will speak; Earth! Listen to the words of my mouth. Catholic Public Domain Version "Listen, O heavens, to what I am saying. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak: let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth. |
He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord has spoken: I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
Draw near, O nations, to hear; O peoples, give heed! Let the earth hear and all that fills it, the world and all that comes from it.
Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked; be utterly desolate, says the Lord,
Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not given heed to my words, and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
Now, therefore, write this song, and teach it to the Israelites; put it in their mouths, in order that this song may be a witness for me against the Israelites.
Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may recite these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Then Moses recited the words of this song, to the very end, in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.