Moses’ song: the lord’s favor upon Israel. Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended: Deu 31:30
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Law Repeated for the New Generation
IV. THE FINAL SCENES IN MOSES’ CAREER, Deuteronomy 31-34
3. The Song of Moses and Directions to Ascend Nebo, Deu_32:1-52
33. What does Moses’ song declare about God’s goodness to Israel?
INTRODUCTION
This is again the Greek name for this book, and signifies the “second giving of the Law.” It contains the records of public addresses to Israel, delivered in the eleventh month of the fortieth year of their wanderings through the Wilderness. As Moses uttered them on the eve of his own speedy removal, he was able to speak with unusual emphasis and urgency. The allusions to the natural features amidst which these addresses were given are consistent with the place and speaker. It has been shown also by competent scholarship that Deuteronomy has all the peculiarities of Moses’ style; and any differences of hortatory entreaty and appeal may be accounted for by the mellowing effect of age.
The special references to this book in the New Testament are very significant. Our Lord quoted from it thrice in His Temptation, Mat_4:4; Mat_4:10. See also Rom_10:19; Act_3:22; Act_7:37. There are touches by a later writer, and an appendix, Deu_34:1-12; but the origin of the treatise as a whole must be ascribed to the great Lawgiver.
Deuteronomy 31:30 to Deuteronomy32:1-14
THE SONG OF MOSES
Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended:
“Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
“Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As the light rain upon the tender grass, And as the spring showers upon the herb.
“For I proclaim the name [and presence] of the LORD; Ascribe greatness and honor to our God!
“The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness without iniquity (injustice), Just and upright is He.
“They (Israel) have acted corruptly toward Him. They are not His children, because of their [moral] defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.
“Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is not He your Father who has acquired you [as His own]? He has
“Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you.
“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel.
“For the LORD’S portion and chosen share is His people; Jacob (Israel) is the allotment of His inheritance.
“He found him in a desert land, In the howling wasteland of a wilderness; He kept circling him, He took care of him, He protected him as the apple of His eye.
“As an eagle that protects its nest, That flutters over its young, He spread out His wings and took them, He carried them on His pinions. [Luk_13:34]
“So the LORD alone led him; There was no foreign god with him.
“He made him (Israel) ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He made him suck honey from the rock, And [olive] oil from the flinty rock,
Butter and curds of cows, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of grapes.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Deuteronomy 31:30 to Deuteronomy32:14
MOSES’ SONG: THE LORD’S FAVOR UPON ISRAEL
The song of Moses, like the fabled song of the swan, was his last and sweetest. It is probably the noblest ode in the whole compass of the Bible, and is the source from which subsequent singers derived suggestions for their noblest outbursts. The marginal references prove how deeply it dyed the national sentiment.
It excels in the names and designations of the Almighty. He is the Rock: Deu_31:4; Deu_31:15; Deu_31:18; Deu_31:30; Jehovah: Deu_31:6; Father: Deu_31:6; the Most High: Deu_31:8; God: El, the strong, Deu_31:15, etc. What a study are the names of God, scattered through the Bible! Each was coined to meet some need of the human soul. What the rocks of the desert are to its shifting sands God is amid the changes of this mortal existence.
This earlier part of the song is very tender. We are God’s portion; the apple of His eye; as young eaglets, whom the mother-bird is carefully teaching to fly, the favored recipients of God’s richest gifts, Deu_31:13, etc.
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