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Deuteronomy 32

Introduction

1  Moses song, which sets forth God's mercy and vengeance.
46  He exhorts them to set their hearts upon it.
48  God sends him up to mount Nebo, to see the land, and to die.
Verse 1

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
4:26, 30:19, 31:28, Psalms 49:1, Isaiah 1:2, Jeremiah 2:12, 6:19, 22:29
Verse 2

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:
drop
2 Samuel 23:4, Job 29:22,23, Psalms 72:6, Isaiah 55:10,11, Hosea 6:4, 14:5, 1 Corinthians 3:6-8, Hebrews 6:7
as the showers
Micah 5:7, Zechariah 10:1
Verse 3

Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Because
Exodus 3:13-16, 6:3, 20:24, 34:5-7, Psalms 29:1,2, 89:16-18, 105:1-5, Psalms 145:1-10, Jeremiah 10:6, 23:6, Matthew 1:23, John 17:6,26
ascribe
5:24, 1 Chronicles 17:19, 29:11, Psalms 145:3, 150:2, Jeremiah 10:6, Ephesians 1:19
Verse 4

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.
the Rock
18,30,31, 1 Samuel 2:2, 2 Samuel 22:2,3,32,47, 23:3, Psalms 18:2,31,46, 61:2-4, Psalms 92:15, Isaiah 26:4, 28:16, 32:2, Matthew 16:16-18, 1 Corinthians 10:4, 1 Peter 2:6
his work
Genesis 1:31, 2 Samuel 22:31, Psalms 18:30, 19:7, 138:8, Ecclesiastes 3:14, Matthew 5:48, James 1:17
all his
10:18, Genesis 18:25, Job 35:14, Psalms 9:16, 97:2, 99:4, Isaiah 30:18, Jeremiah 9:24, Daniel 4:37, John 5:22, Romans 1:32, 2:2,5, James 4:12, Revelation 15:3,4
a God
Exodus 34:6, Psalms 31:5, 98:3, 100:5, 146:6, Isaiah 25:1, Jeremiah 10:10, John 1:14,17, 14:6
without
Job 34:10, Psalms 92:15, Habakkuk 1:13, Romans 3:5
Verse 5

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
They have corrupted themselves
Heb. He hath corrupted to himself.
4:16, 31:29, Genesis 6:12, Exodus 32:7, Judges 2:19, Isaiah 1:4, Hosea 9:9, Zephaniah 3:7, 2 Corinthians 11:3
their spot, etc
or, that they are not his children, that is their blot.
John 8:41
a perverse
9:24, Psalms 78:8, Isaiah 1:4, Matthew 3:7, 16:4, 17:17, Luke 9:41, Acts 7:51, Philippians 2:15
Verse 6

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?
requite
18, Isaiah 1:2, 2 Corinthians 5:14,15, Titus 2:11-14
O foolish
Psalms 74:18, Jeremiah 4:22, 5:21, Galatians 3:1-3
thy father
Exodus 4:22, Isaiah 63:16, Luke 15:18-20, John 8:41, Romans 8:15, Galatians 3:26, 4:6, 1 John 3:1
hath brought
Exodus 15:16, Psalms 74:2, Isaiah 43:3,4, Acts 20:28, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 2 Peter 2:1
made thee
Job 10:8, Psalms 95:6, 100:3, 149:2, Isaiah 27:11, 43:7, 44:2
Verse 7

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.
Remember
Psalms 44:1, 77:5, 119:52, Isaiah 63:11
many generations
Heb. generation and generation.
Psalms 10:6, 77:8; *marg:
ask
4:32, Exodus 13:14, Judges 6:13, Job 8:8-10, Psalms 44:1, 77:5,6,11,12, Psalms 78:3,4, Isaiah 46:9
Verse 8

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.
Most
Numbers 24:16, Psalms 7:17, 50:14, 82:6, 91:1, 92:8, Isaiah 14:14, Daniel 4:17, 5:18, Acts 7:48
divided
Genesis 10:25, 11:9, Psalms 115:16, Acts 17:26
he set
Genesis 10:15, 15:18-21
Verse 9

For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
the Lord's
26:18,19, Exodus 15:16, 19:5,6, 1 Samuel 10:1, Psalms 78:71, 135:4, Isaiah 43:21, Jeremiah 10:16, 51:19, Ephesians 1:18, 1 Peter 2:9,10
lot
Heb. cord.
Micah 2:5
Verse 10

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.
found
8:15,16, Nehemiah 9:19-21, Psalms 107:4,5, Song of Solomon 8:5, Jeremiah 2:6, Hosea 13:5
led him
or, compassed him. he instructed.
4:36, Nehemiah 9:20, Psalms 32:7-10, 147:19,20, Romans 2:18, 3:2
he kept
Psalms 17:8, Proverbs 7:2, Zechariah 2:8
Verse 11

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
Exodus 19:4, Isaiah 31:5, 40:31, 46:4, 63:9, Hebrews 11:3, Revelation 12:4
Verse 12

So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
the Lord
1:31, Nehemiah 9:12, Psalms 27:11, 78:14,52,53, 80:1, 136:16, Isaiah 46:4, Isaiah 63:9-13
no strange
Isaiah 43:11,12, 44:7,8
Verse 13

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;
ride
33:26,29, Isaiah 58:14, Ezekiel 36:2
honey
Job 29:6, Psalms 81:16, Isaiah 48:21, Ezekiel 21:17
Verse 14

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.
Butter
Genesis 18:8, Judges 5:25, 2 Samuel 17:29, Job 20:17, Isaiah 7:15,22
of Bashan
Psalms 22:12, Ezekiel 39:18, Amos 4:1, Micah 7:14
the fat
Psalms 81:16, 147:14
blood
Genesis 49:11, Matthew 26:28,29, John 6:55,56
Verse 15

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.
Jeshurun
33:5,26, Isaiah 44:2
kicked
1 Samuel 2:29, Acts 9:5
waxen fat
31:20, Job 15:27, Psalms 17:10, 73:7, 119:70, Isaiah 6:10, Acts 28:27, Romans 2:4,5
then he
6:10-12, 8:10-14, 31:16,20, Nehemiah 9:25, Isaiah 1:4, Jeremiah 2:5, 5:7,28, Hosea 13:6
the Rock
4, 2 Samuel 22:47, Psalms 18:46, 89:26, 95:1
Verse 16

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
provoked
5:9, 1 Kings 14:22, Nahum 1:1,2, 1 Corinthians 10:22
abominations
7:25, Leviticus 18:27, 2 Kings 23:13
Verse 17

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.
sacrificed
Leviticus 17:7, Psalms 106:37,38, 1 Corinthians 10:20, 1 Timothy 4:1, Revelation 9:20
not to God
or, which were not God.
21, Jeremiah 10:15, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 10:19
to gods
28:64, Isaiah 44:8
to new gods
Judges 5:8
Verse 18

Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
the Rock
4,15, Isaiah 17:10
forgotten
6:12, 8:11,14,19, Psalms 9:17, 44:20-22, 106:21, Isaiah 17:10, 22:10,11, Jeremiah 2:32, 3:21, Hosea 8:14
Verse 19

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
And when
Leviticus 26:11, Judges 2:14, Psalms 5:4, 10:3, 78:59, 106:40, Amos 3:2,3, Zechariah 11:8, Revelation 3:16
abhorred them
or, despised.
Lamentations 2:6
of his sons
Psalms 82:6,7, Isaiah 1:2, Jeremiah 11:15
Verse 20

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.
I will hide
31:17,18, Job 13:24, 34:29, Isaiah 64:7, Jeremiah 18:17, Hosea 9:12
a very
5, Isaiah 65:2-5, Matthew 11:16,17, Luke 7:31,32
children
2 Chronicles 20:20, Isaiah 7:9, 30:9, Matthew 17:17, Mark 9:19, Luke 18:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:2, Hebrews 11:6
Verse 21

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.
moved me
16, Psalms 78:58
with their vanities
1 Samuel 12:21, 1 Kings 16:13,26, Psalms 31:6, Jeremiah 8:19, 10:8, 14:22, Jonah 2:8, Acts 11:15
I will
Hosea 1:10, Romans 9:25, 10:19, 11:11-14, 1 Peter 2:9,10
Verse 22

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.
For a fire
29:20, Numbers 16:35, Psalms 21:9, 83:14, 97:3, Isaiah 66:15,16, Jeremiah 4:4, 15:14, Jeremiah 17:4, Lamentations 2:3, 4:11, Ezekiel 36:5, Nahum 1:6, Malachi 4:1,2, Mark 9:43-48, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, Hebrews 12:29
shall burn
or, hath burned. lowest.
Psalms 86:13, Isaiah 30:33, Zephaniah 3:8, Matthew 10:28, 18:9, 23:33
shall consume
or, hath consumed.
Isaiah 24:6,19,20
foundations
Job 9:5,6, Psalms 46:2, 144:5, Isaiah 54:10, Micah 1:4, Nahum 1:5, Habakkuk 3:10
Verse 23

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
heap mischiefs
28:15, Leviticus 26:18,24, Isaiah 24:17,18, 26:15, Jeremiah 15:2,3, Ezekiel 14:21, Matthew 24:7,8
spend
Psalms 7:12,13, Lamentations 3:13, Ezekiel 5:16
Verse 24

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.
burnt
28:53, Jeremiah 14:18, Lamentations 4:4-9, 5:10
burning heat
Heb. burning coals.
Psalms 18:12-14, 120:4, Habakkuk 3:5
the teeth
Leviticus 26:22, Jeremiah 15:3, 16:4, Ezekiel 5:17, 14:15,21
serpents
Genesis 3:14, 49:15, Isaiah 65:25, Amos 9:3
Verse 25

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
sword
Leviticus 26:36,37, Isaiah 30:16, Jeremiah 9:21, Lamentations 1:20, Ezekiel 7:15, 2 Corinthians 7:5
within
Heb. from the chambers. destroy. Heb. bereave. the young.
Lamentations 2:19-22, 4:4
Verse 26

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
28:25,37,64, Leviticus 26:33,38, Isaiah 63:16, Luke 21:24
Verse 27

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.
lest their
1 Samuel 12:22, Isaiah 37:28,29,35, 47:7, Jeremiah 19:4, Lamentations 1:9, Ezekiel 20:13,14, Ezekiel 20:20-22, Zechariah 1:14,15
they should
Exodus 32:12, Numbers 14:15,16, Joshua 7:9, Psalms 115:1,2, 140:8, Isaiah 10:8-15, Isaiah 37:10,12-23, Daniel 4:30-37
Our hand, etc
or, Our high hand and not the Lord hath done all this.
Verse 28

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
6, Job 28:28, Psalms 81:12, Proverbs 1:7, Isaiah 27:11, 29:14, Jeremiah 4:22, 8:9, Hosea 4:6, Matthew 13:14,15, Romans 11:25, 1 Corinthians 3:19
Verse 29

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
O that
5:29, Psalms 81:13, 107:15,43, Isaiah 48:18,19, Hosea 14:9, Luke 19:41,42
they would
Isaiah 10:3, 47:7, Jeremiah 5:31, 17:11, Lamentations 1:9, Luke 12:20, 16:19-25
Verse 30

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?
one chase
Leviticus 26:8, Joshua 23:10, Judges 7:22,23, 1 Samuel 14:15-17, 2 Chronicles 24:24, Isaiah 30:17
sold them
Judges 2:14, 3:8, Psalms 44:12, Isaiah 50:1, 52:3, Matthew 18:25
shut them
Job 11:10, 16:11, Psalms 31:8
Verse 31

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Exodus 14:25, Numbers 23:8,23, 1 Samuel 2:2, 4:8, Ezra 1:3, 6:9-12, 7:20,21, Jeremiah 40:3, Daniel 2:47, 3:29, 6:26,27
Verse 32

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 of Sodom
or, worse than the vine of Sodom, etc.
Isaiah 1:10, Jeremiah 2:21, Lamentations 4:6, Ezekiel 16:45-51, Matthew 11:24
their grapes
29:18, Isaiah 5:4, Hebrews 12:15
Verse 33

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
the poison
Job 20:14-16, Psalms 58:4, 140:3, Jeremiah 8:14; *marg:; Romans 3:13
Verse 34

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Job 14:17, Jeremiah 2:22, Hosea 13:12, Romans 2:5, 1 Corinthians 4:5, Revelation 20:12,13
Verse 35

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.
To me
43, Psalms 94:1, Nahum 1:2,6, Romans 12:19, 13:4, Hebrews 10:30
their foot
Psalms 73:17-19, Proverbs 4:19, Isaiah 8:15, Jeremiah 6:21, 13:16, 1 Peter 2:8
for the day
2 Peter 2:3
the things
Isaiah 5:19, 30:12,13, 60:22, Habakkuk 2:3, Luke 18:7,8, 2 Peter 2:3, 3:8-10
Verse 36

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.
For the
Psalms 7:8, 50:4, 96:13, 135:14
repent
Judges 2:18, 10:15,16, Psalms 90:13, 106:45, Jeremiah 31:20, Joel 2:14, Amos 7:3,6
power
Heb. hand. none.
1 Kings 14:10, 21:21, 2 Kings 9:8, 14:26
Verse 37

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
Judges 10:14, 2 Kings 3:13, Jeremiah 2:28
Verse 38

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.
eat the fat
Leviticus 21:21, Psalms 50:13, Ezekiel 16:18,19, Hosea 2:8, Zephaniah 2:11
let them
Judges 10:14
your protection
Heb. an hiding for you.
Verse 39

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, even I
Psalms 102:27, Isaiah 41:4, 45:5,18,22, 46:4, 48:12, Hebrews 1:12, Revelation 1:11, 2:8
no god
4:35, Isaiah 45:5,18,22
I kill
1 Samuel 2:6, 2 Kings 5:7, Job 5:18, Psalms 68:20, Isaiah 43:13, Hosea 6:1, John 8:24, Revelation 1:17,18
neither
Job 10:7, Psalms 50:22, Isaiah 43:13, Micah 5:8
Verse 40

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
Genesis 14:22, Exodus 6:8, Numbers 14:28-30, Jeremiah 4:2, Hebrews 6:17,18, Revelation 10:5,6
Verse 41

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.
whet
Psalms 7:12, Isaiah 27:1, 34:5,6, 66:16, Ezekiel 21:9-15,20, Zephaniah 2:12
I will
35, Isaiah 1:24, 59:18, 66:6, Mark 1:2
them that hate
5:9, Exodus 20:5, Romans 1:30, 8:7, 2 Timothy 3:4
Verse 42

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.
make mine
23, Psalms 45:5, 68:23, Isaiah 34:6-8, Jeremiah 16:10, Ezekiel 35:6-8, 38:21,22
revenges
The word parôth, rendered revenges, a sense in which it never seems to be used, has rendered this passage very obscure. As the word paira signifies the hair of the head, both in Hebrew and Arabic, Mr. Parkhurst and others render mairosh parôth, "from the hairy head;" but to have this sense, the words should rather have been mipparôth rosh, according the Hebrew idiom. The word farôu, in Arabic, however, also denotes a prince or chief; and the words may be literally rendered, with the LXX., [apo kephales archonton echthron] "from the head of the chiefs of the enemies." The hyperbaton, or transposition of words from their grammatical order, is very observable in this verse; the third member forming a continuation of the first, and the fourth of the second.
Job 13:24, Jeremiah 30:14, Lamentations 2:5
Verse 43

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. O ye nations.
Genesis 12:3, 1 Kings 8:43, Psalms 22:27, Isaiah 11:10, 19:23,25, Luke 2:10,11,32, Acts 13:47,48, Romans 15:9-13, Revelation 5:9,10
avenge
35, Job 13:24, Jeremiah 13:14, Lamentations 2:5, Luke 19:27,43,44, 21:22-24, Romans 12:19, Revelation 6:10, 15:2,4, 18:2,20, 19:2
render
will be
Psalms 85:1
Verse 44

And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
spake
31:22,30
Hoshea
or, Joshua.
Numbers 13:8,16
Verse 46

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.
6:6,7, 11:18, 1 Chronicles 22:19, Proverbs 3:1-4, Ezekiel 40:4, Luke 9:44, Hebrews 2:1
Verse 47

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.
30:19, Leviticus 18:5, Proverbs 3:1,2,18,22, 4:22, Isaiah 45:19, Matthew 6:33, Romans 10:5,6, 1 Timothy 4:8, 6:6-8, 1 Peter 3:10-12, 2 Peter 1:3,16, Revelation 22:14
Verse 48

And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
A. M. 2553. B.C. 1451. An. Ex. Is. 40. Adar
Numbers 27:12,13
Verse 49

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:
mountain
34:1, Numbers 33:47,48
and behold
34:2-5, Isaiah 33:17, 2 Corinthians 5:1
Verse 50

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:
be gathered
Genesis 15:15, 25:8,17, 49:33, Daniel 12:13
as Aaron
Numbers 20:24-29, 33:38
Verse 51

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.
ye trespassed
3:23-27, Numbers 20:11,12,24, 27:14
Meribah-Kadesh
or, strife at Kadesh.
Numbers 20:13,14
because ye
Leviticus 10:3, 1 Kings 13:21-26, Isaiah 8:13, 1 Peter 4:17
Verse 52

Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
49, 34:1-4, Numbers 27:12, Hebrews 11:13,39

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