The Song Moses Wrote Before He Died |
Deuteronomy 32:1-52 Deuteronomy the Fifth Book of Moses |
O you heavens, [listen] & I will speak. O earth, hear the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop [like] the rain & [cleanse like] the dew. [Like] the [dew] upon the tender herb & [like] showers upon the grass. |
Because I will [declare] the Name of the Lord & you [must acknowledge] the greatness [of] our God. He is the Rock & His works [are] perfect. For all His ways are [justice.] A God of truth & without [sin.] He is [fair] & [righteous.] |
They have corrupted themselves. Their [sinful blemish] is not [that] of [the Lord God’s] children. They are a [uncooperative] & crooked generation. Do you [repay] the Lord [like this,] [for all He has done for you,] O foolish & unwise people? |
Isn’t He your [heavenly] Father, [Who created] & established you? Remember the days of old & [reflect on] years of many generations [of the past.] Ask your father & he will [show] you & your elders & they will tell you. |
[Psalm 44:1-2 We have heard with our ears, O God, our [forefathers] have told us, what work You did in their days, in the times of old. How You [drove] out the heathen with Your hand & planted them. How You [afflicted] the people & cast them out.] |
When the Most High [God] divided their inheritance to the nations. When He separated the sons of Adam & He set [boundaries for] the people, according to the number of the children of Israel [a.k.a. Jacob.] |
The Lord’s portion is His people. His inheritance is [allotted to] Jacob. [The Lord God] found him in the desert, in the [wasteland] & howling wilderness. [God] led him [around] & He instructed him. [The Lord] kept him as the apple of His eye. |
[Like] an eagle [stirs] up her nest & flutters over her young & spreads [out] her wings & takes them, [carrying] them on her wings. [Similarly,] the Lord alone did lead [them] & there was no strange god with [them.] |
[The Lord God] made [them] ride on the [heights of the land, so they] might eat the increase of [the produce of] the fields. He [fed them with] honey out of a rock & oil out of the rock [of flint.] |
Butter [from the cows] & milk [from] sheep, with [fattened] lambs & rams [from] Bashan & goats, [with the best] wheat & [drank the finest wine] of the grape. But Jeshurun [Israel grew] fat & [rebelled.] |
You have [grown] fat & are [stout] & [plump.] Then [they abandoned] God, [Who] made [them] & [didn’t regard] the Rock of [their] Salvation. They provoked [the Lord God] to jealousy & anger with strange gods & abominations. |
They sacrificed to [demons,] not to [the Lord] God. To gods, whom they [didn't] know, that were newly [made,] whom your [forefathers didn’t] fear [respect.] You aren’t mindful & have forgotten of the Rock [who Fathered] you & God, [Who] formed you. |
When the Lord saw it, He [rejected] them, because of the provoking of His sons & His daughters. [Deuteronomy 29:17 And you have seen their abominations & their idols: wood, stone, silver & gold, [that] were among them.] [God] said, I will hide My face from them. I will see [what will become of them:] for they are a very [devious] generation, children [people who have] no faith. |
They have [made] Me jealousy by [what] is not God. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities & I will [make them jealous by those who] are not a people. I will [anger them by a] foolish nation. |
For [My] anger is [like a growing] fire & shall burn to the lowest [parts of] hell. It shall [devour] the earth [as it grows] & will set the foundations of the mountains on fire. I will [increase their disasters] & [use up My] arrows upon them. |
They shall be burnt [by pangs of] hunger & [scorched by] heat & bitter destruction. Also, I will send the teeth of [wild animals] upon them & poisonous [snakes in] the [dirt.] |
The sword [outside] & terror [inside,] shall destroy both the young man & the [innocent maiden, the nursing child] & the [elderly] man with gray [hair.] I said I would scatter them [to the 4 ends of the earth] & make the [memory] of them cease from [mankind.] |
If I [hadn’t dreaded the angry enemy’s boasts,] lest their adversaries [misunderstand] & say, Our [hands have done all this devastation,] not the [Lord God.] For they are a nation [without advice] & [without] understanding. |
[If only] they were wise, that they understood this, [so] they [might] consider [what their final end would be!] How [could someone] chase 1,000 & 2 [men cause] 10,000 to [flee, unless] their Rock, the Lord had sold them & [given] them up. |
Even our enemies, being judges, [agree that] their rock is not like our Rock. For their vine [of ancestry] is [from] the vine of Sodom & the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are [the] grapes & clusters [of bitterness.] |
Their wine is the poison of [serpents] & the cruel venom of [cobras.] Isn't this [put] up & stored among my treasures? Vengeance & [restitution] belong to Me. In due time, [when] their foot [trips up]: for the day of their calamity is at hand & the things that shall come upon them [are soon.] |
For the Lord [God] shall judge His people & [withdraw] for His [servants' sake,] when He sees their [strength] is gone & there are none [confined nor free that remain.] [The Lord] shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, [that ate] up the fat of their sacrifices & drank the wine of their drink offerings? |
Let them rise up & help you & be your protection. See now that I, even I Am He & there is no god with Me. I kill & I make alive. I wound & I heal. Neither [are] there any [who] can deliver out of My hand. For I lift My hand up to heaven & say, I live forever. |
If I [sharpen] My [shiny] sword & My hand [grasps it] in judgment, I will [deliver revenge] on My enemies & [pay back those who] hate Me. I will make [My] arrows [will drip] with blood & My sword shall devour flesh, [from] the blood of [revenge] upon the enemy, [for the blood of those they killed & those they took captive.] |
*Rejoice, O you nantions, with His people: for He will avenge the blood of His servants & will [take vengeance] on His [enemies] & will be merciful to His land & to His people. |
[Revelation 19:1-2 After these things I heard a great voice of [many] people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, glory, honor & power [belong] to the Lord our God. |
For True & Righteous are His judgments. For He has judged the great [harlot, who corrupted] the earth with her [adultery] & has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand.] |
Moses & [Joshua, Nun’s] son, came & [spoke] all the words of this song to the people. Moses [finished telling] these words to all [of] Israel. [Moses] said to them, [Focus] your hearts [on] all the words that I testify among you this day, which you shall command your children to [obey] & do all the words of this law. |
It [isn’t a worthless] thing for you, because [it’s for] your life. Through [doing] this thing, you shall prolong your [life] in the land, [where] you go over [the] Jordan [River] to possess it. |
The Lord spoke to Moses that [same] day, saying, [Go] up this mountain [of] Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, [across from] Jericho & [see] the land of Canaan, [that] I give to the children [people] of Israel for a possession. |
[You will] die [there on the mountain where] you go up & be gathered to your people [in death, like] Aaron, your brother died in Mount Hor & was gathered to his people, because you [both] sinned against Me] at the Waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin. |
Because you [wouldn’t] sanctify Me in the midst of the children [people] of Israel. [Still] you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go [there] into the land [that] I give to the children [people] of Israel. |