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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:

For the day of vengeance and recompense will come in time. Their foot shall slide, for the day of their calamity is near. And the things that are to come on them shall hurry.

For Yahweh will judge his people, And repent himself for his slaves; When he sees that [their] power is gone, And there is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.

For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,

Rejoice with him, [you] heavens. And bow down before him, all [you] gods. For he will avenge the blood of his sons, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will pay back those who hate him, And will make expiation for the land of his people.

For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.

Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and look at the land of Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession;

For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the sons of Israel.

And he said, Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And with him [were some] from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

And this is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah, And bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for him; And you shall be a help against his adversaries.

Who said of his father, and of his mother, I haven't seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor knew he his own sons: For they have observed your word, And keep your covenant.

And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Yahweh be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that crouches beneath,

And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, And for the precious things of the growth of the moons,

And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, And for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

And for the precious things of the earth and the fullness thereof, And the good will of him that dwelt in the bush. Let [the blessing] come on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brothers.

They shall call the peoples to the mountain; There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.

And he provided the first part for himself, For where the lawgiver's portion was, there the chiefs of the people assembled together; He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, And his ordinances with Israel.

There is none like God, O Jeshurun, Who rides on the heavens for your help, And in his excellency on the skies.

And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses had ended.