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Deuteronomy Chapter 32

Deuteronomy 32:1
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 people's ingratitude.

Deuteronomy 32:2
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 God's glory and that
         the people, as the green grass, may receive the dew of
         his doctrine.

Deuteronomy 32:4
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 God's children, not to honour them, but
          to show them from what dignity they are fallen.

Deuteronomy 32:21
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
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
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 God's hand.

Deuteronomy 32:29
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
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
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
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
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 God's people is shed for their sins
          or trial of their faith, he promises to avenge it.

Deuteronomy 32:47
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
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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