Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the Lord has spoken: ‘I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
Deuteronomy 32:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak; listen, earth, to the words from my mouth. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the Lord has spoken: ‘I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! Let the earth and all that fills it hear, the world and all that comes from it.
Be appalled at this, heavens; be shocked and utterly desolated! This is the Lord’s declaration.
Listen, earth! I am about to bring disaster on these people, the fruit of their own plotting, for they have paid no attention to my words. They have rejected my instruction.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
Therefore write down this song for yourselves and teach it to the Israelites; have them sing it, so that this song may be a witness for me against the Israelites.
Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.
Then Moses recited aloud every single word of this song to the entire assembly of Israel:
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.