Deuteronomy 32:19 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Deuteronomy 32:19

17 ^aThey sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.

18 ^aOf the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have ^bforgotten the God who fathered you.

19 “And^a when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
^aChildren in whom is no faith.

21 ^aThey have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger ^bby their foolish idols.
But ^cI will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

22 For ^aa fire is kindled in My anger,
And shall burn to the¹ lowest hell;
It shall consume the earth with her increase,
And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 ‘I will ^aheap disasters on them;
^bI will spend My arrows on them.

24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the ^ateeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword shall destroy outside;
There shall be terror within
For the young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

26 ^aI would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, ^a“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’

28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
Nor is there any understanding in them.

29 ^aOh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their ^blatter end!

30 How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock ^ahad sold them,
And the Lord had surrendered them?

31 For their rock is not like our Rock,
^aEven our enemies themselves being judges.

32 For ^atheir vine is of the vine of Sodom
And of the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter.

33 Their wine is ^athe poison of serpents,
And the cruel ^bvenom of cobras.

34 ‘Is this not ^alaid up in store with Me,
Sealed up among My treasures?

35 ^aVengeance is Mine, and recompense;
Their foot shall slip in due time;
^bFor the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things to come hasten upon them.’

Book Notes:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Deuteronomy

DEUTERONOMY, the second law, a title which plainly shows what is the object of this book, namely, a recapitulation of the law. It was given in the form of public addresses to the people; and as Moses spoke in the prospect of his speedy removal, he enforced obedience to it by many forcible appeals to the Israelites, concerning their long and varied experience both of the mercies and the judgments of God. The minute notices of the heathen people with whom they had come in contact, but who afterward disappeared from the pages of history, as well as the accounts of the fertility and products of Canaan, and the counsels respecting the conquest of that country, fix the date of this book and the time of its composition by the hand of Moses. The close, however, must have been added by another; and, indeed, it is supposed by some to have formed the original preface to the Book of Joshua.

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