Why were they therefore not their protection? In contrast with Yahweh’s faithfulness and reliability are His people. Can we not remember our first love when all that we desired was to please Him? It should be noted in this regard that throughout the Old Testament it is the moral corruption and ungodliness of the Israelites, and never the vices of the nations, which are compared with the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. a And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun, and Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel (Deuteronomy 32:44-45). The enemy who are being so successful do not have a Rock like Yahweh. 2013. Let them look back over the generations and remember what Yahweh did from the beginning. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!’. For the suckling with the man of grey hairs.”. Because they were Yahweh’s inheritance and His people, when He divided up the world He remembered them, and how many of them there would be, so that he allocated portions to other nations accordingly. For in the end He will deliver His people. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ's love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty souls, and bare our sins in his own body on the tree. Even the barren places would be fruitful. I kill, and make alive; I wound, and heal. Compare for these words Deuteronomy 30:19-20. They only have to ask their fathers, or their elders to discover it. For He is always faithful to His people, and in the end sees them through all their troubles. That is why we so often take little notice of Him and what He requires from our lives. He did not forsake them but tenderly took note of their needs (compare Isaiah 40:11). That might signify that the numbers of the nations were determined by the number of angelic powers who could have charge of them, but that seems to be irrelevant to the context. They had been finally delivered as an undeserving people lost in the wilderness. The begetting and bringing forth in pain may refer to the deliverance from Egypt. No foreign god was concerned. Compare Deuteronomy 31:30. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity. ‘And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel.’. They had become like a party of people who had wandered in the desert and were lost and thirsty, and terrified of the howling creatures around. He asks them, where are they now? None will be safe. This probably means ‘at this time’ rather than literally ‘this very day’ (‘yom’ is a time word which can refer to a period of time rather than always signifying ‘a day’). They are therefore to ascribe greatness to ‘our God’. Because Yahweh sees that the strength of His people has gone, and that all whether prisoner or free are weak and helpless, He will step in on their behalf and act as their vindicator. He is the great “I am”, the One Who is, besides Whom no other can compare. Do they not recognise that He is their Father (Deuteronomy 14:1 compare Exodus 4:22) Who has redeemed them (from bondage in Egypt - Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 9:26; Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 15:15; Deuteronomy 24:18), and has brought them through the wilderness (Deuteronomy 1:31), and has made them into a fruitful and abundant nation, and has shaped them and established them so that they are there ready to possess God’s land and live in it securely? This introduction of a ‘favoured’ enemy will be like a fire kindled by Yahweh (compare Deuteronomy 4:24) which will even burn their dead, (for even they will not escape), will destroy their crops and trees and the land (compare Judges 6:4-5), and set on fire the lower parts of the mountains. Like the mother eagle He alone cared for them. Obtaining honey and oil from a flinty rock is a considerable step up from obtaining water. And the song was given to the people that they might take it to their hearts ready for the time when it was needed. If they were able, let them see to their situation, and help them and protect them. Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Deuteronomy 32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. And the reason that it is like this is because He is proclaiming the name of Yahweh. Some relate the ideas in Deuteronomy 32:32-33 to the enemies, seeing the mention of Sodom and Gomorrah as signifying that they are the product of corruption, and what follows as a description either of the fact that in spite of their success the fruits of it are bitter and poisonous to them, or refer to their poisonous effect on Israel. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. Alternately, and possibly more likely, the thought may more be moral, that these products are the product of sin and corruption like that of Sodom and Gomorrah producing its bitter fruit in them. This is a general statement applied to this particular situation. He alone performs His own will, wounding and healing as He will, with none being able to deliver from His hand. It could have been Eliezar, as High Priest, but Joshua seems the likely contender. Yahweh is emphasised is because he is proclaiming the name ’, he... 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