Deuteronomy 32:1
Give ear, O ye
a heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
(a) As witness of this peoples ingratitude.
Deuteronomy 32:2
My
b 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:
(b) He desires that he may speak to Gods glory and that the people, as the green grass, may receive the dew of his doctrine.
Deuteronomy 32:4
[He is] the
c Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.
(c) Or mighty God; noting that only God is mighty, faithful and constant in his promise.
Deuteronomy 32:6
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not
d made thee, and established thee?
(d) Not according to the common creation, but he has made you a new creature by his Spirit.
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the
e people according to the number of the children of Israel.
(e) When God by his providence divided the world, he lent for a time that portion to the Canaanites, which would later be an inheritance for all his people Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
f fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
(f) To teach them to fly.
Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the
g earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck
h honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
(g) Meaning, of the land of Canaan, which was high in respect to Egypt.
(h) That is, abundance of all things even in the very rocks.
Deuteronomy 32:15
i 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.
(i) He shows what is the principal end of our vocation.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked him to jealousy with
k strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.
(k) By changing his service for their superstitions.
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to
l new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
(l) Scripture calls new, whatever man invents, be the error ever so old.
Deuteronomy 32:19
And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his
m sons, and of his daughters.
(m) He calls them Gods children, not to honour them, but to show them from what dignity they are fallen.
Deuteronomy 32:21
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
n people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
(n) Which I have not favoured, nor given my law to them.
Deuteronomy 32:25
The sword
o without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
(o) They shall be slain both in the field and at home.
Deuteronomy 32:27
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should
p behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
p Rejoicing to see the godly afflicted, and attributing to themselves that which is wrought by Gods hand.
Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would
q consider their latter end!
(q) They would consider the happiness that was prepared for them, if they had obeyed God.
Deuteronomy 32:33
Their
r wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
(r) The fruit of the wicked are as poison, detestable to God, and dangerous for man.
Deuteronomy 32:36
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
s shut up, or left.
(s) When neither strong nor weak in a manner remain.
Deuteronomy 32:40
For I
t lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
(t) That is, I swear, read ( Genesis 14:22 ).
Deuteronomy 32:43
Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the
u blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.
(u) Where the blood of Gods people is shed for their sins or trial of their faith, he promises to avenge it.
Deuteronomy 32:47
For it [is] not a
x 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.
(x) For I will perform my promise to you, ( Isaiah 55:10 ).
Deuteronomy 32:51
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye
y sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
(y) You were not earnest and constant to maintain my honour.
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