Deuteronomy 32:9 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“For the LORD'S portion {is} his people; Jacob {is} the lot of his inheritance. {lot: Heb. cord}”

Deuteronomy 32:9

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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. {many...: Heb. generation and generation}

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.

For the LORD'S portion {is} his people; Jacob {is} the lot of his inheritance. {lot: Heb. cord}

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. {led: or, compassed}

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

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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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