2007-Jun-07
Psalms
135:4
For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto
himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
Isaiah
44:8
Fear ye not [Israel], neither
be
afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye
are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea,
there is no God;
I know not any.
"When the most High divided to
the nations their inheritance,....
....the LORD'S portion is his
people;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance."
...the Song of Moses,
to the
children of
Israel
The LORD spoke of all those things that are determined to occur,
to the children of Israel [God's own, separate people].
Moses is told to write the song, and to announce to the children of
Israel those evils which will befall them, because they will choose to seperate
themselves from their God.
And Moses is told to rebuke this people, for their faithless,
rebellious, nature.
This song of rebuke, was to be written in the law, and it was to be
learned by the children of
Israel, as a witness
against themselves.
Deuteronomy
31:14
¶And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou
must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the
congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went,
and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a
cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the
tabernacle.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with
thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the
gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them,
and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I
will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they
will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God
is not among us?
18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils
which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the
children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a
witness for me against the children of Israel.
20 For when I shall have brought
them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with
milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and
waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and
provoke me, and break my covenant.
21 And it shall come to pass,
when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall
testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of
the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go
about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
22 ¶Moses therefore wrote
this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
23 And he gave Joshua the son of
Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt
bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and
I will be with thee.
24 And it came to pass, when
Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until
they were finished,
25 That Moses commanded the
Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
26 Take this book of the law,
and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God,
that it may be there for a witness against thee.
27 For I know thy rebellion, and
thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have
been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28 Gather unto me all the elders
of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in
their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.
29 For I know that after my
death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way
which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter
days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger through the work of your hands.
30 And Moses spake in the ears
of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they
were ended.
The Song of Moses
Deuteronomy
32:1
¶Give ear, O ye heavens, and I
will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
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:
3 Because I will publish the
name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is
perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without
iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted
themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a
perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O
foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee?
hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 ¶Remember the days of
old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he
will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the most High divided to
the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of
Adam, he
set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of
Israel.
9 For the LORD'S portion is his
people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert
land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he
instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her
nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh
them, beareth them on her wings:
12 So the LORD alone did lead
him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high
places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and
he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty
rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of
sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood
of the grape.
15 ¶But Jeshurun waxed fat,
and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered
with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed
the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy
with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils,
not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up,
whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat thee
thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19 ¶And when the LORD saw
it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his
daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my
face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very
froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
21 They have moved me to
jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger
with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which
are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in mine
anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth
with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon
them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall be burnt with
hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I
will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of
serpents of the dust.
25 The sword without, and terror
within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling
also with the man of gray hairs.
26 ¶I said, I would scatter
them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from
among men:
27 Were it not that I feared the
wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves
strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD
hath not done all this.
28 For they are a nation void of
counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that
they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 How should one chase a
thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had
sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our
Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their 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 the poison of
dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store
with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongeth vengeance,
and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of
their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them
make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his
people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their
power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
37 And he shall say, Where are
their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of
their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them
rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 ¶See now that I, even I,
am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound,
and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to
heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering
sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to
mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk
with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of
the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the
enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with
his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will
render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his
land, and to his people.
44 ¶And Moses came and
spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and
Hoshea the son of Nun.
45 And Moses made an end of
speaking all these words to all Israel:
46 And he said unto them, Set
your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day,
which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of
this law.
47 For it is not a vain thing
for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall
prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
The Most High God foretells, that the children of Israel will choose, for themselves, to
be a rebellious
people, for the most part, walking a life in separation from their God.
God records, that in their time of trouble, he will taunt his faithless
people, and say,
'....Where
are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted...'
Who is it, that will take God's words and boast himself, against God
and against God's
people?
Koran...
But, at the last, God will redeem his people, from their
enemies, and from evil itself.
God will redeem his people from those enemies, who will say,
'....Where
are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted...'
Ezekiel 35:10
¶Because thou
hast said, These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was
there:
11 Therefore,
as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do
according to thine anger, and according
to thine envy which thou hast
used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among
them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou
shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard
all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of
Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have
boasted against me, and have
multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Psalms
46:10
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen,
I will be exalted in the earth.