1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2My 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:

3Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

4He 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.

5They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

6Do 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?

7Remember 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.

8When 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.

9For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10He 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.

11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

12So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

13He 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;

14Butter 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.

15But 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.

16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

20And 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 isno faith.

21They 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.

22For 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.

23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

24They 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.

25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men

27Were 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

28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there anyunderstanding in them.

29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

30How 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?

31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

35To 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.

36For 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.

37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

38Which 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.

39See 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.

40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

41If 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.

42I 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.

43Rejoice, 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.

44And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

46And 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.

47For 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.

48And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

49Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which isin 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:

50And 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:

51Because 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.

52Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

1Giue eare, O yee heauens, and I will speake; And heare, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2My doctrine shall drop as the raine: my speech shall distill as the deaw, as the smal raine vpon the tender herbe, and as the showres vpon the grasse.

3Because I wil publish the Name of the Lord: ascribe yee greatnesse vnto our God.

4He is the rocke, his worke is perfect: for all his wayes are Iudgement: A God of trueth, and without iniquity, iust and right is he.

5They haue corrupted themselues, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a peruerse and crooked generation.

6Doe ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people, & vnwise? Is not he thy Father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee, and established thee?

7 Remember the dayes of olde, consider the yeeres of many generations: aske thy father, and he will shewe thee, thy Elders, and they wil tell thee.

8When the most High diuided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sonnes of Adam, hee set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9For the Lords portion is his people: Iacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wildernesse: Hee ledde him about, he instructed him, hee kept him as the apple of his eye.

11As an Eagle stirreth vp her nest, fluttereth ouer her yong, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

12So the Lord alone did leade him, and there was no strange God with him.

13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eate the increase of the fields, and he made him to sucke hony out of the rocke, and oyle out of the flintie rocke,

14Butter of kine, & milke of sheepe, with fat of lambes, and rammes of the breed of Bashan, & goats, with the fat of kidneis of wheat, and thou diddest drinke the pure blood of the grape.

15 But Iesurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxen fat, thou art growen thicke, thou art couered with fatnes: then he forsooke God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rocke of his saluation.

16They prouoked him to ielousie with strange gods, with abominations prouoked they him to anger.

17They sacrificed vnto deuils, not to God: to gods whom they knew not, to new gods, that came newly vp, whom your fathers feared not.

18Of the Rocke that begate thee thou art vnmindfull, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the prouoking of his sonnes, & of his daughters.

20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their ende shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

21They haue mooued me to ielousie with that which is not god, they haue prouoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will moue them to ielousie with those which are not a people, I will prouoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burne vnto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.

23I will heape mischiefes vpon them, I will spend mine arrowes vpon them.

24They shall bee burnt with hunger and deuoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts vpon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

25The sword without, and terrour within shall destroy both the yong man, and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray haires.

26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease frō among men:

27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemie, lest their aduersaries should behaue themselues strangely, and lest they should say, Our hande is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.

28For they are a nation voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them.

29O that they were wise, that they vnderstood this, that they would consider their latter end.

30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rocke had sold them, and the Lord had shut them vp?

31For their rocke is not as our Rocke, euen our enemies themselues being iudges.

32For their vine is of the vine of Sodome, and of the fields of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruell venime of Aspes.

34Is not this laide vp in store with me, and sealed vp among my treasures?

35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence, their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamitie is at hand, and the things that shal come vpon them, make haste.

36For the Lord shall iudge his people, and repent himselfe for his seruants, when he seeth that their power is gone; and there is none shut vp, or left.

37And he shall say, where are their gods? their Rocke in whom they trusted;

38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, & dranke the wine of their drinke offerings? let them rise vp and helpe you, and be your protection.

39See now, that I, euen I am he, and there is no god with mee; I kill, and I make aliue: I wound, and I heale: neither is there any that can deliuer out of my hand.

40For I lift vp my hand to heauen, and say, I liue for euer.

41If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take holde on Iudgement, I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

42I will make mine arrowes drunke with blood, (and my sword shal deuoure flesh) and that with the blood of the slaine, and of the captiues, from the beginning of reuenges vpon the enemie.

43Reioyce, O ye nations with his people, for he will auenge the blood of his seruants, and will render vengeance to his aduersaries, and wil be mercifull vnto his land, and to his people.

44 And Moses came and spake all the wordes of this song in the eares of the people, he and Hoshea the sonne of Nun.

45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel.

46And hee said vnto them, Set your hearts vnto all the wordes which I testifie among you this day, which yee shall commaund your children to obserue to doe all the wordes of this Law.

47For it is not a vaine thing for you: because it is your life, and through this thing yee shall prolong your dayes, in the land whither yee goe ouer Iordan to possesse it.

48And the Lord spake vnto Moses that selfe same day, saying,

49Get thee vp into this mountaine Abarim, vnto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is ouer against Iericho, and behold the land of Canaan which I giue vnto the children of Israel for a possession:

50And die in the mount whither thou goest vp, and bee gathered vnto thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered vnto his people:

51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel, at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the wildernesse of Zin: because yee sanctified mee not in the midst of the children of Israel.

52Yet thou shalt see the land before thee, but thou shalt not goe thither vnto the land which I giue the children of Israel.

I == Ps 50:4 ; Isa 1:2 ; Jer 2:12 ; 6:19

II == Ps 72:6 ; Isa 55:10-11 ; Mic 5:7 ; 1st Cor 3:6-8

III == 1st Chr 29:11

 

IV == 2nd Sam 22:3 , 31 ; 23:3 ; Job 34:10 ; Ps 18:2 , 31 , 46 ; 92:15 ; Jer 10:10 ; Dan 4:37 ; Hab 1:12 ; Rev 15:3

V == Matt 17:17 ; Luke 9:41 ; Phil 2:15

VI == Ps 74:2 ; 116:12 ; Isa 27:11 ; 44:2 ; 63:16

VII == Ex 13:14 ; Ps 44:1 ; 78:3-4

 

 

VIII == Gen 11:8 ; Zech 9:2 ; Acts 17:26

 

 

 

IX == Ex 15:16 ; 19:5 ; 1st Sam 10:1 ; Ps 78:71

X == Ps 17:8 ; Prov 7:2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XIII == Job 29:6 ; Ps 81:16 ; Isa 58:14 ; Ezek 36:2

 

 

 

 

 

XV == 1st Sam 2:29

 

 

 

XVI == 1st Kings 14:22 ; 1st Cor 10:22

 

XVII == Lev 17:7 ; Ps 106:37 ; Rev 9:20

XVIII == Jer 2:32

 

 

 

 

XX == Isa 30:9 ; Matt 17:17

 

 

XXI == Hos 1:10 ; Rom 10:19

 

 

 

 

XXII == Jer 15:14 ; Lam 4:11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XXV == Lam 1:20

 

XXVI == Ezek 20:13-14 , 23

 

 

XXVII == Ps 140:8 ; Jer 19:4

 

 

 

XXVIII == Jer 4:22

 

XXIX == Luke 19:42

 

XXX == Lev 26:8 ; Isa 30:17

 

XXXI == 1st Sam 2:2 ; 4:8 ; Jer 40:3

 

XXXII == Isa 1:10

 

 

 

XXXIV == Job 14:17 ; Jer 2:22 ; Hos 13:12 ; Rom 2:5

XXXV == Ps 94:1 ; 2nd Peter 2:3

 

 

XXXVI == Judg 2:18 ; Ps 106:45 ; Jer 31:20

 

 

XXXVII == Judg 10:14 ; Jer 2:28

 

 

 

 

XXXIX == Job 5:18 ; Ps 68:20 ; Hos 6:1

 

 

XL == Gen 14:22

 

XLI == Isa 27:1 ; 34:5 ; 66:16

 

 

XLII == Jer 30:14 ; 46:10 ; Lam 2:5

 

 

 

XLIII == Ps 85:1 ; Rev 6:10 ; 19:2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XLVII == Lev 18:5

 

 

 

 

 

XLIX == Num 33:47-48

 

 

 

 

L == Num 20:25 , 28 ; 33:38

 

LI == Lev 10:3 ; Num 20:11-13 ; 27:14

 

 

 

LII == Num 27:12

 

1 Give ear, O heavens, while I speak; let the earth hearken to the words of my mouth!

2 May my instruction soak in like the rain, and my discourse permeate like the dew, Like a downpour upon the grass, like a shower upon the crops.

3 For I will sing the LORD'S renown. Oh, proclaim the greatness of our God!

4 The Rock - how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, how just and upright he is!

5 Yet basely has he been treated by his degenerate children, a perverse and crooked race!

6 Is the LORD to be thus repaid by you, O stupid and foolish people? Is he not your father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?

7 Think back on the days of old, reflect on the years of age upon age. Ask your father and he will inform you, ask your elders and they will tell you:

8 When the Most High assigned the nations their heritage, when he parceled out the descendants of Adam, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the sons of God;

9 While the LORD'S own portion was Jacob, His hereditary share was Israel.

10 He found them in a wilderness, a wasteland of howling desert. He shielded them and cared for them, guarding them as the apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle incites its nestlings forth by hovering over its brood, So he spread his wings to receive them and bore them up on his pinions.

12 The LORD alone was their leader, no strange god was with him.

13 He had them ride triumphant over the summits of the land and live off the products of its fields, Giving them honey to suck from its rocks and olive oil from its hard, stony ground;

14 Butter from its cows and milk from its sheep, with the fat of its lambs and rams; Its Bashan bulls and its goats, with the cream of its finest wheat; and the foaming blood of its grapes you drank.

15 (So Jacob ate his fill,) the darling grew fat and frisky; you became fat and gross and gorged. They spurned the God who made them and scorned their saving Rock.

16 They provoked him with strange gods and angered him with abominable idols.

17 They offered sacrifice to demons, to "no-gods," to gods whom they had not known before, To newcomers just arrived, of whom their fathers had never stood in awe.

18 You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, You forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 When the LORD saw this, he was filled with loathing and anger toward his sons and daughters.

20 'I will hide my face from them," he said, "and see what will then become of them. What a fickle race they are, sons with no loyalty in them!

21 "Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god' and angered me with their vain idols, I will provoke them with a 'no-people'; with a foolish nation I will anger them.

22 "For by my wrath a fire is enkindled that shall rage to the depths of the nether world, Consuming the earth with its yield, and licking with flames the roots of the mountains.

23 I will spend on them woe upon woe and exhaust all my arrows against them:

24 "Emaciating hunger and consuming fever and bitter pestilence, And the teeth of wild beasts I will send among them, with the venom of reptiles gliding in the dust.

25 "Snatched away by the sword in the street and by sheer terror at home Shall be the youth and the maiden alike, the nursing babe as well as the hoary old man.

26 "I would have said, 'I will make an end of them and blot out their name from men's memories,'

27 Had I not feared the insolence of their enemies, feared that these foes would mistakenly boast, 'Our own hand won the victory; the LORD had nothing to do with it.'"

28 For they are a people devoid of reason, having no understanding.

29 If they had insight they would realize what happened, they would understand their future and say,

30 "How could one man rout a thousand, or two men put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them and the LORD delivered them up?"

31 Indeed, their "rock" is not like our Rock, and our foes are under condemnation.

32 They are a branch of Sodom's vinestock, from the vineyards of Gomorrah. Poisonous are their grapes and bitter their clusters.

33 Their wine is the venom of dragons and the cruel poison of cobras.

34 "Is not this preserved in my treasury, sealed up in my storehouse,

35 Against the day of vengeance and requital, against the time they lose their footing?" Close at hand is the day of their disaster and their doom is rushing upon them!

36 Surely, the LORD shall do justice for his people; on his servants he shall have pity. When he sees their strength failing, and their protected and unprotected alike disappearing,

37 He will say, "Where are their gods whom they relied on as their 'rock'?

38 Let those who ate the fat of your sacrifices and drank the wine of your libations Rise up now and help you! Let them be your protection!

39 "Learn then that I, I alone, am God, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them, and from my hand there is no rescue.

40 "To the heavens I raise my hand and swear: As surely as I live forever,

41 I will sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand shall lay hold of my quiver. "With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those who hate me.

42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall gorge itself with flesh -  With the blood of the slain and the captured, Flesh from the heads of the enemy leaders."

43 Exult with him, you heavens, glorify him, all you angels of God; For he avenges the blood of his servants and purges his people's land.

44 So Moses, together with Joshua, son of Nun, went and recited all the words of this song for the people to hear.

45 When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

46 he said, "Take to heart all the warning which I have now given you and which you must impress on your children, that you may carry out carefully every word of this law.

47 For this is no trivial matter for you; rather, it means your very life, since it is by this means that you are to enjoy a long life on the land which you will cross the Jordan to occupy."

48 On that very day the LORD said to Moses,

49 "Go up on Mount Nebo, here in the Abarim Mountains (it is in the land of Moab facing Jericho), and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their possession.

50 Then you shall die on the mountain you have climbed, and shall be taken to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and there was taken to his people;

51 because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the desert of Zin by failing to manifest my sanctity among the Israelites.

52 You may indeed view the land at a distance, but you shall not enter that land which I am giving to the Israelites."

v 1-3. Introduction to the Song of Moses

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 4-9. God’s perfection and Israel’s folly  (Notice v 4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 10-14. Blessing for Israel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 15-18. Israel’s ingratitude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 19-22. God’s jealousy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 23-27. His chastisement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 28-33. Israel’s lack of discernment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 34-38. God’s vengeance on her foes  (Notice v 35)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 39-43. God’s sovereignty  (Notice v 39)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 44-47. The song has ended and this is Moses last exhortation to the people. Christians many times feel that obedience is optional, but it is our life, v 47; Rom. 12:1.

 

 

 

v 48-52. According to 31:22, Moses wrote the song the Lord commanded the same day he and Joshua appeared before the Lord in the tabernacle. He taught it to the people, but it seems too long for them to have learned it all that same day, so we can infer he began to teach it to them. It seems from 32:44-47 that he gave his final exhortation the same day he first read the song to them. Then in v 48 we see it was the very same day that the Lord ordered Moses up Mount Nebo where he died. God reminds Moses, Deut 3:26, that because of his sin of striking the rock as though he and Aaron were the ones performing the miracle, he would not get to enter the land. Moses had not only failed to honor God, but he had broken God’s symbolism, that Christ had to only be smitten for us once. After we are saved, we have but to speak to Him. Moses was promised again  that  from the mount he would get to see the promised land, see Chapter 34. This had been a long day already, so I would suggest that Moses  gave the blessing of chapter 33 to the people that evening, but didn’t begin the long trek up the mountain until the wee dawn hours of the next day.