De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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.
De 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 @Ge 14:22.
De 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.
De 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, @Isa 55:10.
De 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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