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Deuteronomy 31:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. "
Deuteronomy 31:19
Verse in Context
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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 come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.
19 “Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to 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 have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
21 It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
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Deuteronomy 31:1
"Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel."
Deuteronomy 31:2
"He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’"
Deuteronomy 31:3
"The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has spoken."
Deuteronomy 31:4
"The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them."
Deuteronomy 31:5
"The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you."
Deuteronomy 31:6
"Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”"
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