Deuteronomy 32

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, &c.

I wish that my doctrine may so fall upon your hearts, as the sweet and gentle showers fall upon the herbs and flowers of the earth; which cause them to spring forth and flourish.

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock.

He is a strong and sure refuge to his Church.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

This people of Israel hath corrupted themselves with their idolatry: the blemishes of their actions are not such as may stand with the profession, which they make of God’s children, errors of infirmity; but such as justly argue them to be a rebellious and wicked generation.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord’s portion is his people.

The Lord hath chosen out Israel to be his share and peculiar possession, among all the nations of the world.

Deuteronomy 32:13

He made him ride on the high places of the earth.

He made him to subdue and triumph over the most defenced cities, and most impregnable places of the earth.

He made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.

He caused the most craggy and barren parts, to yield unto Israel much pleasure and store of delicacies.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked; &c.

But my people, whom I styled righteous, have abused my bounty, and turned my grace into wantonness; for being pampered by my merciful provisions, they have carried themselves rebelliously towards me.

Deuteronomy 32:21

I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people.

This people of Israel shall be moved to anger and envy, by the sight of those mercies, which, diverting from them, I shall bestow upon the Gentiles, whom now they scorn as no people of God.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell.

Those judgments, which I will inflict in my wrathful displeasure, shall be most vehement, and unconceivably fearful.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They shall be burnt with hunger.

Their skins shall turn black with famine.

Deuteronomy 32:30

Except their Rock had sold them.

If God, who was wont to be their refuge, had not given them up into the hands of their enemies, to be bought and sold as slaves.

Deuteronomy 32:31

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

For the gods, in whom the heathen trust, are not like unto our God, even in the judgment of our enemies themselves, who have had experience of the wonderful power of God, both in his judgments and our deliverances.

Deuteronomy 32:32

Their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the

VOL. III. H fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. The fruits that they yield are unsavoury and unwholesome; such as were yielded by those wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah: so abominably evil are their lives, as were those of the cities accursed and consumed from heaven; their works are most distasteful and odious in the judgment of the Almighty.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of dragons.

Their best actions are to God, as the deadliest poison is to the taste of men.

Deuteronomy 32:34

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures.

Are not these wickednesses taken notice of, and kept in perpetual remembrance by me; and, in my eternal decree, reserved to a most certain judgment?

Deuteronomy 32:40

I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

I swear by myself, and say, As I live for ever, I will be avenged on mine enemies.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

I will, by my revenging hand, work an exceeding great slaughter amongst mine enemies.

Deuteronomy 32:47

It is your life.

It is that, which if ye do, ye shall live in performing it.