Deuteronomy 32:30 — Meaning and Application

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“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?”

Deuteronomy 32:30

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For they {are} a nation void of counsel, neither {is there any} understanding in them.

O that they were wise, {that} they understood this, {that} they would consider their latter end!

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?

For their rock {is} not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves {being} judges.

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: {of the vine: or, worse than the vine}

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Deuteronomy 32:1

"Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth."

Deuteronomy 32:2

"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:"

Deuteronomy 32:3

"Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God."

Deuteronomy 32:4

"{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."

Deuteronomy 32:5

"They have corrupted themselves, their spot {is} not {the spot} of his children: {they are} a perverse and crooked generation. {They have...: Heb. He hath corrupted to himself} {their...: or, that they are not his children, that is their blot}"

Deuteronomy 32:6

"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?"

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