Deuteronomy 32:5-14

The Song of Moses

5 They have dealt corruptly with him;
they are no longer his children t because they are blemished;
they are u a crooked and twisted generation.
 6 Do you thus repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he v your father, who w created you,
who x made you and established you?
 7 y Remember the days of old;
consider the years of many generations;
z ask your father, and he will show you,
your elders, and they will tell you.
 8 When the Most High a gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he b divided mankind,
he fixed the borders 1 of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God. 2
9 But the Lord's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.

10 "He found him c in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he d encircled him, he cared for him,
he e kept him as the apple of his eye.
 11 f Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
 12 g the Lord alone guided him,
h no foreign god was with him.
 13 i He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with j honey out of the rock,
and k oil out of l the flinty rock.
 14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat 3 of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest 4 of the wheat -
and you drank foaming wine made from m the blood of the grape.

  1. Cross References
    2 Peter 2:13
    Suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
  2. Cross References
    Matthew 17:17
    And Jesus answered, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.
    Luke 9:41
    Jesus answered, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.
    Philippians 2:15
    That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 63:16
    For 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 of old is your name.
    Isaiah 64:8
    But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 74:2
    Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:15
    But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
    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.
    Isaiah 51:13
    And have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 63:11
    Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 44:1
    O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:
  8. Cross References
    Acts 17:26
    And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 11:8
    So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:15
    Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock.
    Jeremiah 2:6
    They did not say, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?
    Hosea 13:5
    It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
  11. Cross References
    Psalms 32:10
    Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 17:8
    Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.
    Proverbs 7:2
    Keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye.
    Zechariah 2:8
    For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 19:4
    You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
  14. Cross References
    Psalms 78:52 - 53
    Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
  15. Cross References
    Isaiah 43:12
    I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "and I am God.
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 58:14
    Then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
    Ezekiel 36:2
    Thus says the Lord God : Because the enemy said of you, 'Aha!' and, 'The ancient heights have become our possession.
  17. Cross References
    Psalms 81:16
    But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.
  18. Cross References
    Job 29:6
    When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
  19. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:15
    Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock.
  20. Cross References
    Genesis 49:11
    Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
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