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Deuteronomy 32 (NET)

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Deuteronomy 32:1¹Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:2 Deut 4:26 Jer 22:29 Ps 49:1 Deut 30:19 Deut 31:28 Jer 6:19 Ps 50:4 Jer 2:12

Deuteronomy 32:2²My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 55:10-11 Ps 72:6 Mic 5:7 Job 29:22-23 Hos 14:5 1 Cor 3:6-8 2 Sam 23:4 Heb 6:7 Hos 6:4 Zech 10:1

Deuteronomy 32:3³For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; you must acknowledge the greatness of our God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 10:6 Ps 150:2 Deut 5:24 Eph 1:19 1 Chr 29:11 Deut 3:24 Exod 33:19 Exod 6:3 Jer 23:6 John 17:26

Deuteronomy 32:4⁴As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 18:30-31 Ps 92:15 Isa 26:4 2 Sam 22:31-32 Dan 4:37 Ps 18:2 Rev 15:3-4 Deut 32:30-31 Matt 5:48 Ps 100:5

Deuteronomy 32:5⁵His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children —this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:4 Phil 2:15 Matt 17:17 Deut 31:29 Luke 9:41 Hos 9:9 Matt 16:4 Ps 78:8 2 Cor 11:3 Acts 7:51

Deuteronomy 32:6⁶Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your Creator? He has made you and established you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 63:16 1 John 3:1 Isa 44:2 Isa 64:8 Ps 74:2 1 Cor 6:20 2 Pet 2:1 Acts 20:28 Deut 1:31 Deut 32:15

Deuteronomy 32:7⁷Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:3-4 Job 8:8-10 Ps 44:1 Isa 46:9 Ps 77:5-6 Deut 4:32 Exod 13:14 Isa 63:11 Judg 6:13 Ps 77:11-12

Deuteronomy 32:8⁸When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 17:26 Gen 11:8-9 Dan 4:17 Gen 10:25 Gen 15:18-21 Ps 115:16 Gen 10:15 Ps 91:1 Ps 92:8 Acts 7:48

Deuteronomy 32:9⁹For the Lord ’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 10:16 1 Pet 2:9-10 1 Kgs 8:51 1 Kgs 8:53 Exod 19:5-6 Jer 51:19 Deut 26:18-19 Isa 43:21 Ps 135:4 1 Sam 10:1

Deuteronomy 32:10¹⁰The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 2:8 Deut 8:15-16 Hos 13:5 Ps 17:8 Jer 2:6 Ps 32:7-10 Neh 9:19-21 Prov 7:2 Song 8:5 Deut 4:36

Deuteronomy 32:11¹¹Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 19:4 Isa 46:4 Isa 63:9 Isa 40:31 Heb 11:3 Isa 31:5 Rev 12:4

Deuteronomy 32:12¹²The Lord alone was guiding him, no foreign god was with him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 46:4 Ps 78:52-53 Isa 44:7-8 Deut 1:31 Isa 43:11-12 Isa 63:9-13 Ps 136:16 Ps 78:14 Deut 32:39 Neh 9:12

Deuteronomy 32:13¹³He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 58:14 Job 29:6 Ps 81:16 Deut 33:26 Deut 33:29 Ezek 36:2 Isa 48:21 Ezek 21:17

Deuteronomy 32:14¹⁴butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 49:11 Ps 147:14 Ps 81:16 2 Sam 17:29 Amos 4:1 Ezek 39:18 Gen 18:8 Isa 7:15 Isa 7:22 Job 20:17

Deuteronomy 32:15¹⁵But Jeshurun became fat and kicked; you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 31:20 Hos 13:6 Deut 33:5 1 Sam 2:29 Acts 28:27 Ps 89:26 Jer 5:28 Deut 31:16 Deut 32:4 Deut 32:6

Deuteronomy 32:16¹⁶They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:58 1 Cor 10:22 1 Kgs 14:22 2 Kgs 23:13 Deut 5:9 Deut 7:25 Lev 18:27 Nah 1:1-2

Deuteronomy 32:17¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:64 Judg 5:8 Lev 17:7 1 Tim 4:1 Deut 32:21 Isa 44:8 Ps 106:37-38 1 Cor 10:19-20 1 Cor 8:4 Jer 10:15

Deuteronomy 32:18¹⁸You forgot the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 17:10 Jer 2:32 Deut 32:4 Ps 106:21 Deut 32:15 Deut 6:12 Deut 8:11 Deut 8:14 Deut 8:19 Hos 8:14

Deuteronomy 32:19¹⁹But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 106:40 Isa 1:2 Judg 2:14 Ps 5:4 Amos 3:2-3 Jer 11:15 Jer 44:21-23 Lam 2:6 Lev 26:11 Ps 10:3

Deuteronomy 32:20²⁰He said, “I will reject them. I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 31:17-18 Deut 32:5 Luke 7:31-32 2 Chr 20:20 Deut 31:29 Hos 9:12 Isa 30:9 Isa 64:7 Isa 65:2-5 Isa 7:9

Deuteronomy 32:21²¹They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 10:19 Rom 9:25 Rom 11:11-14 1 Kgs 16:26 1 Kgs 16:13 Deut 32:16 Jonah 2:8 Ps 78:58 Ps 31:6 Hos 1:10

Deuteronomy 32:22²²For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 4:11 Jer 15:14 Isa 24:19-20 Jer 17:4 Job 9:5-6 Mic 1:4 Num 16:35 Ps 86:13 Zeph 3:8 2 Thess 1:8

Deuteronomy 32:23²³I will increase their disasters; I will use up my arrows on them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 5:16 Isa 24:17-18 Ps 7:12-13 Deut 28:15 Ezek 14:21 Lam 3:13 Lev 26:24 Deut 29:21 Isa 26:15 Jer 15:2-3

Deuteronomy 32:24²⁴They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 26:22 Ezek 5:17 Amos 5:18-19 Amos 9:3 Deut 28:22 Deut 28:53 Ezek 14:15 Ezek 14:21 Gen 3:14 Gen 49:15

Deuteronomy 32:25²⁵The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 7:15 Lam 1:20 2 Chr 36:17 2 Cor 7:5 Isa 30:16 Jer 9:21 Lam 4:4 Lev 26:36-37 Lam 2:19-22

Deuteronomy 32:26²⁶“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:64 Isa 63:16 Deut 28:25 Deut 28:37 Deut 4:27 Lev 26:33 Lev 26:38 Ps 34:16 Luke 21:24

Deuteronomy 32:27²⁷But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say, “Our power is great, and the Lord has not done all this!”’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 14:15-16 1 Sam 12:22 Exod 32:12 Josh 7:9 Ps 140:8 Zech 1:14-15 Dan 4:30-37 Ezek 20:13-14 Ezek 20:20-22 Isa 10:8-15

Deuteronomy 32:28²⁸They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:22 Hos 4:6 Isa 27:11 Job 28:28 Prov 1:7 Deut 32:6 Ps 81:12 1 Cor 3:19 Isa 29:14 Jer 8:9

Deuteronomy 32:29²⁹I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 81:13 Deut 5:29 Hos 14:9 Luke 19:41-42 Luke 12:20 Ps 107:43 Isa 10:3 Isa 47:7 Isa 48:18-19 Luke 16:19-25

Deuteronomy 32:30³⁰How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand, unless their Rock had delivered them up — and the Lord had handed them over?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 26:8 Josh 23:10 Isa 30:17 Ps 31:8 Judg 7:22-23 Ps 44:12 1 Sam 14:15-17 2 Chr 24:24 Isa 52:3 Judg 3:8

Deuteronomy 32:31³¹For our enemies’ rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 14:25 1 Sam 2:2 1 Sam 4:8 Dan 2:47 Dan 3:29 Dan 6:26-27 Ezra 1:3 Ezra 6:9-12 Ezra 7:20-21 Jer 40:3

Deuteronomy 32:32³²For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom; their clusters of grapes are bitter.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 29:18 Ezek 16:45-51 Isa 1:10 Isa 5:4 Jer 2:21 Heb 12:15 Lam 4:6 Matt 11:24

Deuteronomy 32:33³³Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 58:4 Rom 3:13 Jer 8:14 Job 20:14-16 Ps 140:3

Deuteronomy 32:34³⁴“Is this not stored up with me?” says the Lord, “Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 13:12 Job 14:17 Jer 2:22 Rom 2:5 1 Cor 4:5 Rev 20:12-13

Deuteronomy 32:35³⁵I will get revenge and pay them back at the time their foot slips; for the day of their disaster is near, and the impending judgment is rushing upon them!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 12:19 Heb 10:30 Nah 1:2 Ps 73:17-19 2 Pet 2:3 2 Pet 3:8-10 Deut 32:43 Jer 23:12 Nah 1:6 Ps 94:1

Deuteronomy 32:36³⁶The Lord will judge his people, and will change his plans concerning his servants; when he sees that their power has disappeared, and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 135:14 Ps 106:45 1 Kgs 14:10 2 Kgs 14:26 Deut 30:1-3 Judg 2:18 1 Kgs 21:21 2 Kgs 9:8 Amos 7:3 Amos 7:6

Deuteronomy 32:37³⁷He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 2:28 Judg 10:14 2 Kgs 3:13

Deuteronomy 32:38³⁸who ate the best of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise and help you; let them be your refuge!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:18-19 Judg 10:14 Lev 21:21 Ps 50:13 Hos 2:8 Zeph 2:11

Deuteronomy 32:39³⁹“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, “and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:6 Hos 6:1 Job 5:18 Isa 45:5 Isa 45:22 Isa 43:13 Isa 46:4 Isa 45:18 Ps 68:20 Isa 41:4

Deuteronomy 32:40⁴⁰For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 14:22 Heb 6:17-18 Jer 4:2 Rev 10:5-6 Num 14:28-30 Exod 6:8

Deuteronomy 32:41⁴¹I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 66:16 Isa 34:5-6 Exod 20:5 Isa 27:1 Ps 7:12 2 Tim 3:4 Deut 32:35 Deut 5:9 Ezek 21:20 Ezek 21:9-15

Deuteronomy 32:42⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh— the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 32:23 Ezek 38:21-22 Jer 46:10 Ezek 35:6-8 Jer 16:10 Jer 30:14 Jer 46:14 Job 13:24 Lam 2:5 Ps 45:5

Deuteronomy 32:43⁴³Cry out, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge his servants’ blood; he will take vengeance against his enemies, and make atonement for his land and people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 12:19 Rev 19:2 Rev 6:10 Deut 32:35 Ps 85:1 Job 13:24 2 Kgs 9:7 Acts 13:47-48 Isa 11:10 Isa 19:23

Deuteronomy 32:44⁴⁴Then Moses went with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song to the people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 13:16 Num 13:8 Deut 31:22 Deut 31:30

Deuteronomy 32:45⁴⁵When Moses finished reciting all these words to all IsraelCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Deuteronomy 32:46⁴⁶he said to them, “Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 22:19 Ezek 40:4 Deut 11:18 Prov 3:1-4 Deut 4:9 Deut 6:6-7 Heb 2:1 Luke 9:44

Deuteronomy 32:47⁴⁷For this is no idle word for you—it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 18:5 Prov 4:22 2 Pet 1:16 1 Pet 3:10-12 Prov 3:22 2 Pet 1:3 Deut 30:19-20 Prov 3:1-2 Prov 3:18 Isa 45:19

Deuteronomy 32:48⁴⁸Then the Lord said to Moses that same day,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 27:12-13

Deuteronomy 32:49⁴⁹“Go up to this Abarim hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho), and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 27:12 2 Cor 5:1 Deut 34:1-5 Isa 33:17 Num 33:47-48

Deuteronomy 32:50⁵⁰You will die on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and joined his deceased ancestors,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 25:8 Num 33:38 Dan 12:13 Gen 15:15 Gen 25:17 Gen 49:33 Num 20:24-29

Deuteronomy 32:51⁵¹for both of you rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin when you did not show me proper respect among the Israelites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 27:14 Num 20:11-14 1 Kgs 13:21-26 Deut 3:23-27 Num 20:24 Lev 10:3 1 Pet 4:17 Isa 8:13

Deuteronomy 32:52⁵²You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 34:1-4 Deut 1:37 Deut 3:27 Deut 32:49 Heb 11:13 Heb 11:39 Num 27:12

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