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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 32
Israel shall sing the song of Moses, acclaiming: God speaks to heaven and
earth; Israel was known in pre-existencesee
6a; God chose them in this life; they
forgot the Rock of their salvation; he sent terror and a sword and vengeance
upon them;there is no God beside him—Moses gathered to his people.
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1 aGIVE ear, O
ye heavens, and I will speak; and bhear, O earth, the
cwords of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the
arain, my bspeech shall distil as the
cdew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the
showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will apublish the name
of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
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4 He is the aRock, his work
is bperfect: for all his ways are
cjudgment: a God of truth and without iniquity,
djust and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves,
atheir spot is not the spot of his
bchildren: they are a cperverse
and crooked dgeneration.
6 Do ye thus arequite the LORD, O
foolish people and unwise? is not he thy
bfather that hath cbought
thee?a hath he not
dmade thee, and established thee?
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6a is not he thy father that
hath bought thee? Now we know and understand that by the gospel's
everlasting covenant Jesus Christ-Jehovah hath bought and paid for those who
do and will prevail with the Lord, that is Israel. But we do not always
properly associate this provence to be from the 'beginning' in the
pre-existence as being set forth in the grand design of the Plan of God. The
fourth vision of Zechariah helps establish this as being so even as early
[and even before] as
that judgment council of determination between Jehoshua/Jesus/Jehovah and
Lucifer/Satan, as they stood before the presence of God the Father. Therein
God the Father did confirm the mission of Jesus[Jehoshua] and the fate of
those his fellows who were his followers, that is 'Jerusalem' and/or Israel.
(See Commentary upon the chapter of Zechariah
chapter 3).
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7 ¶ aRemember the days of old,
consider the years of many generations: bask thy father,
and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the most High divided to the
anations their binheritance, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the cbounds of the
people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob
is the lot of his ainheritance.
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10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste
howling wilderness; he aled him about, he instructed him,
he kept him as the bapple of his eye.
11 As an aeagle stirreth up her
nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings:
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
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13 He made him ride on the ahigh
places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he
made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of
lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of
wheat; and thou didst drink the pure ablood of the
bgrape.
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15 ¶ But aJeshurun waxed fat,
and kicked: thou art waxen bfat, thou art grown thick, thou
art covered with fatness; then he cforsook God
which made him, and lightly esteemed the dRock of
his salvation.
16 They aprovoked him to
bjealousy with strange cgods, with
abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They asacrificed unto devils,
bnot to God; to cgods whom they knew not,
to new dgods that came newly up, whom your fathers
feared not.
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18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art
unmindful, and hast forgotten God that aformed thee.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he
aabhorred them, because of the
bprovoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will ahide my
face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are
a bvery froward generation, children in whom is no
cfaith.
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21 They have moved me to ajealousy
with that which is not God; they have bprovoked me
to canger with their vanities: and I will move them to
cjealousy with those which are not a people; I will
provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a afire is kindled in mine
anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with
her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap amischiefs upon
them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall be aburnt with
hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will
also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the
dust.
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25 The asword without, and terror
within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling
also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would ascatter them
into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest
they should say, Our hand is ahigh, and the LORD
hath not done all this.
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28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were awise,
that they understood this, that they would consider their
latter bend!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten
thousand to aflight, except their Rock had sold them, and
the LORD had shut them up?
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31 For their rock is not as our
aRock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of
aSodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes
are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their awine is the poison
of bdragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongeth
avengeance, and brecompence; their foot
shall slide in due time: for the day of their
ccalamity is at hand, and the things that shall come
upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall ajudge his
people, and brepent himself for his servants, when he seeth
that their power is gone, and there is none
cshut up, or left.
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37 And he shall say, Where are their
agods, their rock in whom they
btrusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I,
aam he, and there is no god
bwith me: cI kill, and I make a
dlive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any
that can deliver out of my hand.
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40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I
alive for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering asword,
and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies,
and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for
he will aavenge the blood of his servants, and will render
vengeance to his adversaries, and will be bmerciful unto
his land, and to his people.
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44 ¶ And Moses came and spake all the words of
this asong in the ears of the people, he, and
bHoshea the son of Nun.
45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words
to aall Israel:
46 And he said unto them, Set your
ahearts unto all the words which I testify among you this
day, which ye shall command your bchildren to observe to
do, all the words of this law.
47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because
it is your life: and through this thing ye shall
aprolong your days in the land, whither ye go over
Jordan to possess it.
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48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto
mount aNebo, which is in the land of Moab, that
is bover against Jericho; and behold the land of
Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
50 And adie in the mount whither
thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as bAaron
thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
51 Because ye atrespassed against
me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-bKadesh,
in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the
children of Israel.
52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
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