Deuteronomy 32:15-38

The Song of Moses

15 "But n Jeshurun grew fat, and o kicked;
p you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
q then he forsook God r who made him
and scoffed at s the Rock of his salvation.
 16 t They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
 17 u They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to v new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
 18 You were unmindful of w the Rock that bore 1 you,
and you x forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 y "The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of z his sons and his daughters.
 20 And he said, a 'I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
 21 b They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger c with their idols.
So d I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with e a foolish nation.
 22 For f a fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to g the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 "'And I will heap disasters upon them;
h I will spend my arrows on them;
 24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send i the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of j things that crawl in the dust.
 25 k Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
 26 l I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces;
m I will wipe them from human memory,"
 27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, n "Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this."'

28 "For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is o no understanding in them.
 29 p If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would q discern their latter end!
 30 How could r one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock s had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
 31 For t their rock is not as our Rock;
u our enemies are by themselves.
 32 For their vine v comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of w poison;
their clusters are bitter;
 33 their wine is the poison of x serpents
and the cruel venom of asps.

34 "'Is not this laid up in store with me,
y sealed up in my treasuries?
 35 z Vengeance is mine, and recompense, 2
a for the time when their foot shall slip;
for b the day of their calamity is at hand,
and their doom comes swiftly.'
 36 For c the Lord will vindicate 3 his people
d and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, e bond or free.
 37 Then he will say, f 'Where are their gods,
g the rock in which they took refuge,
 38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 33:5
    Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
    Deuteronomy 33:26
    There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
    Isaiah 44:2
    Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
  2. Cross References
    1 Samuel 2:29
    Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:20
    For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:16
    And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:6
    Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
  6. Cross References
    2 Samuel 22:47
    The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.
    Psalms 89:26
    He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
    Psalms 95:1
    Oh come, let us sing to the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 78:58
    For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
    Numbers 25:11
    Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 106:37
    They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
    1 Corinthians 10:20
    No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
  9. Cross References
    Judges 5:8
    When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
  10. Cross References
    2 Samuel 22:47
    The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.
    Psalms 89:26
    He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
    Psalms 95:1
    Oh come, let us sing to the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
  11. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:10
    For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger.
    Jeremiah 2:27
    Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!
    Jeremiah 2:32
    Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
    Hosea 8:14
    For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
  12. Cross References
    Judges 2:14
    So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
  13. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:2
    Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
  14. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 31:17
    Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 78:58
    For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
    Numbers 25:11
    Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
  16. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:13
    For all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.
    1 Kings 16:26
    For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.
    Psalms 31:6
    I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.
    Jonah 2:8
    Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
    Acts 14:15
    Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
  17. Cross References
    Romans 10:19
    But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.
    Hosea 1:9 - 10
    And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
  18. Cross References
    Psalms 74:18
    Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
  19. Cross References
    Jeremiah 15:14
    I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.
    Jeremiah 17:4
    You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.
    Lamentations 4:11
    The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 86:13
    For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
  21. Cross References
    Job 6:4
    For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
    Psalms 7:12 - 13
    If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow.
    Psalms 38:2
    For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
    Lamentations 3:12 - 13
    He bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
    Ezekiel 5:16
    When I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.
  22. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:22
    And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.
    Ezekiel 5:17
    I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord ; I have spoken.
  23. Cross References
    Jeremiah 8:17
    For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you," declares the Lord.
    Micah 7:17
    They shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
  24. Cross References
    Lamentations 1:20
    Look, O Lord, for I am in distress; my stomach churns; my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.
    Ezekiel 7:15
    The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.
  25. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:23
    Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
  26. Cross References
    Job 18:17
    His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
    Psalms 34:16
    The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
    Psalms 109:15
    Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
  27. Cross References
    Psalms 140:8
    Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah
    Isaiah 10:13
    For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
    Numbers 14:16
    'It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.'
  28. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:11
    When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.
    Jeremiah 4:22
    "For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise' - in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."
  29. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:29
    Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
    Psalms 81:13
    Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
    Luke 19:42
    Saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
  30. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:7
    You said, "I shall be mistress forever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
    Lamentations 1:9
    Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. "O Lord, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!
  31. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:8
    Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
  32. Cross References
    Judges 2:14
    So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
  33. Cross References
    1 Samuel 2:2
    There is none holy like the Lord ; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
  34. Cross References
    1 Samuel 4:8
    Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.
  35. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:10
    Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
    Jeremiah 23:14
    But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
    Ezekiel 16:46
    And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
  36. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:18
    Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.
  37. Cross References
    Job 20:14
    Yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.
    Job 20:16
    He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
    Psalms 58:4
    They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear.
  38. Cross References
    Job 14:17
    My transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
    Hosea 13:12
    The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
    Romans 2:5
    But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
  39. Cross References
    Psalms 94:1
    O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, s...
    Isaiah 1:24
    Therefore the Lord declares, the Lord of hosts,...
    Isaiah 59:18
    According to their deeds, so will he repay, wra...
    Nahum 1:2
    The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lor...
    Romans 12:19
    Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it ...
    Hebrews 10:30
    For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I...
  40. Cross References
    Psalms 94:18
    When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
  41. Cross References
    2 Peter 2:3
    And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
  42. Cross References
    Psalms 135:14
    For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
    Hebrews 10:30
    For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people.
  43. Cross References
    Judges 2:18
    Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
    Psalms 106:45
    For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
    Psalms 90:13
    Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!
  44. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:10
    Therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.
    1 Kings 21:21
    Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
    2 Kings 9:8
    For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
    2 Kings 14:26
    For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.
  45. Cross References
    Judges 10:14
    Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.
    1 Kings 18:27
    And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, "Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.
    Jeremiah 2:28
    But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
  46. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:31
    For their rock is not as our Rock; our enemies are by themselves.
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