Deuteronomy 31:19

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Deuteronomy 31:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

18 And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

19 Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.

20 When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

21 And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”

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Deuteronomy 31:22

So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 31:30

Then Moses recited aloud to the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song from beginning to end:

Deuteronomy 32:1

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

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

Deuteronomy 32:3

For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

Deuteronomy 32:5

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

Deuteronomy 32:9

But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

Deuteronomy 32:12

The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

Deuteronomy 32:13

He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

Deuteronomy 32:14

with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

Deuteronomy 32:18

You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Deuteronomy 32:19

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 32:20

He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Deuteronomy 32:27

if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

Deuteronomy 32:28

Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

Deuteronomy 32:31

For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

Deuteronomy 32:32

But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Deuteronomy 32:34

“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

Deuteronomy 32:36

For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

Deuteronomy 32:37

He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

Deuteronomy 32:38

which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

Deuteronomy 32:40

For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

Deuteronomy 32:41

when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

Deuteronomy 32:43

Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.

Deuteronomy 32:44

Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

Deuteronomy 32:45

When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 4:10

The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

Deuteronomy 6:7

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:19

Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Exodus 4:15

You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.

2 Samuel 14:3

Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Isaiah 51:16

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

Isaiah 59:21

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah 1:9

Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

Deuteronomy 31:21

And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”

Deuteronomy 31:26

“Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

Ezekiel 2:5

And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Matthew 10:18

On My account, you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.

John 12:48

There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.