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Deuteronomy 31:1-32:52

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Deuteronomy 31:1-32:52

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This song belongs to the Deuteronomy collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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Deuteronomy
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Deuteronomy
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[Verse 1] A hundred and twenty years today. I can't go out and in. He says this river isn't mine, so Joshua, stand up. Begin. I said it before the camp, be strong and hold your ground. God goes across ahead of you. He won't let you down. [Pre-Chorus] The cloud came down at the tent door, and God said, when you're gone they'll turn to other gods and break it. So write them down a song. And when the trouble comes, it will stand and testify, still on their children's tongues. [Chorus] Let heaven and earth hear it. Let it fall like rain on the ground. He is the Rock. He doesn't crack. No lie in Him is found. Let heaven and earth hear it. Lift it up and let it sound. [Verse 2] Out in the waste where the wind howls, that's where He found the child. He circled him and taught him and kept him through the wild, close as the apple of His eye. The way an eagle stirs her nest and hovers while her young ones fly, He spread His wings and bore him up, and no strange god was by. [Chorus] Let heaven and earth hear it. Let it fall like rain on the ground. He is the Rock. He doesn't crack. No lie in Him is found. Let heaven and earth hear it. Lift it up and let it sound. [Verse 3] He fed him honey from the rock and oil out of the stone, the best of wheat, the blood of grapes, and fat upon the bone. And Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked, and threw his Rock away for gods his fathers never knew that came up yesterday. [Bridge] Then arrows and hunger and burning heat. Where are your gods now? Let them get to their feet. When their strength runs out and no one's left to stand, He'll turn to them with pity. I break, He says. I mend. No one takes you from My hand. [Final Chorus] Let heaven and earth hear it. Let it fall like rain on the ground. He is the Rock. He doesn't crack. No lie in Him is found. Let heaven and earth hear it. Lift it up and let it sound. He will have mercy on His land and on His people too. [Outro] I sang it to them all that day. Then He said, go up the hill.

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Deuteronomy 31: A new leader, a written law, and a song that will remain

Deuteronomy 31 is a chapter about succession, but it refuses to pretend that replacing Moses solves Israel's deeper problem. Joshua is publicly commissioned, and the repeated assurance is that the LORD goes before the people and will not fail them. At the same time, Moses writes the law, places it in the care of priests and elders, orders its public reading, and prepares a song that will remain in Israel's mouth after his death. The chapter is building witnesses that outlive a leader. Its most unsettling feature is the forecast of future betrayal inside the very ceremony of transition. Israel will enter the land, prosper, and turn aside. That prediction does not cancel Joshua's commission or make teaching pointless. It makes them more urgent. Leadership, written law, public hearing, remembered song, heaven, and earth all converge around one problem: how covenant words will continue to speak when Moses no longer can.

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Deuteronomy 32: The Rock remains while the people change their allegiance

Deuteronomy 32 turns the covenant witness into poetry and gives Israel images difficult to forget. The LORD is named first as the Rock, perfect in work and just in all his ways, so the people's later corruption cannot be blamed on a defect in the one who formed them. The song remembers desert care, eaglelike protection, abundant food, and the striking claim that Jacob is the LORD's own portion. Then abundance twists into betrayal: Jeshurun grows fat and kicks, forgetting the Rock who gave life and rescue. Judgment answers that broken allegiance with equally vivid images of fire, hunger, venom, sword, and terror, yet even the threatened devastation is restrained where enemy boasting would deny the LORD's hand. The song moves finally toward vindication, mercy, and a summons to the nations to rejoice. After all that poetry, Moses makes the purpose plain. These words are not empty. They are to be set in the heart, taught to children, and treated as life.

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