The song of Moses. ‘Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth’. A covenant lawsuit in verse. The Rock of Israel; his work is perfect; his ways are judgment. Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. The LORD will provoke them with a foolish nation; fire kindled to the lowest hell; arrows drunk with blood. ‘See 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’ (32:39). Vengeance is mine, and recompence. ‘Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people’. Cited in Rom 15:10. Moses teaches the song so that Israel cannot unlearn it. ‘Get thee up into this mountain … and die in the mount’.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Law · Moses — Deuteronomy overview

A. 1–6 Hear, O heavens — doctrine dropping like rain
B. 7–14 He found him in a desert land
C. 15–25 Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked
D. 26–43 Vengeance is mine — and mercy to his land
E. 44–47 It is not a vain thing; it is your life
F. 48–52 Climb Nebo and see the land you may not enter

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Isaiah 13 verses
- Isaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
- Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
- Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
- Read Isaiah 1 →
Psalms 783 verses
- Psalms 78:3that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Psalms 78:52He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
- Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- Read Psalms 78 →
Hosea 133 verses
- Hosea 13:5I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
- Hosea 13:6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
- Hosea 13:12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
- Read Hosea 13 →
Deuteronomy 323 verses
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Deuteronomy 32:5His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
- Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
- Read Deuteronomy 32 →

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Isaiah 632 verses
- Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
- Isaiah 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
- Read Isaiah 63 →
Psalms 812 verses
- Psalms 81:13If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
- Psalms 81:16But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
- Read Psalms 81 →
Deuteronomy 282 verses
- Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- Read Deuteronomy 28 →
Jeremiah 102 verses
- Jeremiah 10:6There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
- Jeremiah 10:16The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
- Read Jeremiah 10 →

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.