Deuteronomy 32
King James Version · 52 verses · 1,711 cross-references linking it to 600 other chapters
Explore Deuteronomy 32 in the interactive map- 1Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.25 cross-references: Isaiah 1:2, Deuteronomy 4:26, Jeremiah 22:29, Psalms 49:1, Deuteronomy 31:28
- 2My 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:34 cross-references: Isaiah 55:10–11, Psalms 72:6, Micah 5:7, Job 29:22–23, Hosea 6:4
- 3Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.24 cross-references: Jeremiah 10:6, Psalms 150:2, Deuteronomy 5:24, Ephesians 1:19, Exodus 6:3
- 4He 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.108 cross-references: Psalms 18:30–31, Psalms 92:15, Isaiah 26:4, Psalms 18:2, 2 Samuel 22:31–32
- 5They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.31 cross-references: Philippians 2:15, Isaiah 1:4, Deuteronomy 31:29, Matthew 17:17, Luke 9:41
- 6Do 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?52 cross-references: Isaiah 63:16, 1 John 3:1, Isaiah 64:8, Psalms 74:2, Isaiah 44:2
- 7Remember 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.24 cross-references: Psalms 78:3–4, Job 8:8–10, Psalms 44:1, Isaiah 46:9, Psalms 77:5–6
- 8When 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.42 cross-references: Acts 17:26, Genesis 11:8–9, Psalms 115:16, Daniel 4:17, Genesis 10:25
- 9For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.35 cross-references: Jeremiah 10:16, 1 Peter 2:9–10, Exodus 19:5–6, 1 Kings 8:51, 1 Kings 8:53
- 10He 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.32 cross-references: Hosea 13:5, Deuteronomy 8:15–16, Zechariah 2:8, Psalms 17:8, Psalms 32:7–10
- 11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:15 cross-references: Exodus 19:4, Isaiah 46:4, Isaiah 63:9, Isaiah 40:31, Revelation 12:4
- 12So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.15 cross-references: Psalms 78:52–53, Isaiah 46:4, Isaiah 44:7–8, Isaiah 63:9–13, Deuteronomy 1:31
- 13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;33 cross-references: Isaiah 58:14, Job 29:6, Psalms 81:16, Deuteronomy 33:29, Deuteronomy 33:26
- 14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.32 cross-references: Genesis 49:11, Psalms 81:16, Psalms 147:14, Ezekiel 39:18, Job 20:17
- 15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.99 cross-references: Deuteronomy 31:20, Hosea 13:6, Psalms 89:26, Deuteronomy 33:5, Deuteronomy 32:4
- 16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.35 cross-references: Psalms 78:58, 1 Corinthians 10:22, Nahum 1:1–2, Deuteronomy 5:9, Leviticus 18:27
- 17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.23 cross-references: Judges 5:8, Leviticus 17:7, Deuteronomy 28:64, Psalms 106:37–38, Isaiah 44:8
- 18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.31 cross-references: Isaiah 17:10, Jeremiah 2:32, Psalms 106:21, Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalms 9:17
- 19And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.34 cross-references: Psalms 106:40, Judges 2:14, Isaiah 1:2, Psalms 5:4, Revelation 3:16
- 20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.36 cross-references: Deuteronomy 31:17–18, Deuteronomy 32:5, Luke 7:31–32, Luke 18:8, 2 Chronicles 20:20
- 21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.53 cross-references: Romans 10:19, Romans 9:25, Romans 11:11–14, 1 Kings 16:26, 1 Kings 16:13
- 22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.72 cross-references: Lamentations 4:11, Jeremiah 15:14, Micah 1:4, Job 9:5–6, Numbers 16:35
- 23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.29 cross-references: Ezekiel 5:16, Isaiah 24:17–18, Psalms 7:12–13, Leviticus 26:24, Deuteronomy 28:15
- 24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.35 cross-references: Leviticus 26:22, Ezekiel 5:17, Amos 9:3, Genesis 3:14, Lamentations 5:10
- 25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.26 cross-references: Ezekiel 7:15, Lamentations 1:20, Lamentations 4:4, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Isaiah 30:16
- 26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:46 cross-references: Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 28:37, Psalms 34:16, Leviticus 26:33, Deuteronomy 4:27
- 27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.33 cross-references: Psalms 140:8, Numbers 14:15–16, Exodus 32:12, 1 Samuel 12:22, Joshua 7:9
- 28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.16 cross-references: Jeremiah 4:22, Hosea 4:6, Isaiah 27:11, Job 28:28, Proverbs 1:7
- 29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!46 cross-references: Psalms 81:13, Deuteronomy 5:29, Luke 19:41–42, Hosea 14:9, Luke 12:20
- 30How 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?62 cross-references: Leviticus 26:8, Joshua 23:10, Isaiah 30:17, Psalms 31:8, Judges 7:22–23
- 31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.31 cross-references: Exodus 14:25, 1 Samuel 4:8, Daniel 2:47, 1 Samuel 2:2, Jeremiah 40:3
- 32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:19 cross-references: Deuteronomy 29:18, Isaiah 1:10, Ezekiel 16:45–51, Isaiah 5:4, Jeremiah 2:21
- 33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.9 cross-references: Psalms 58:4, Romans 3:13, Psalms 140:3, Jeremiah 8:14, Job 20:14–16
- 34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?16 cross-references: Job 14:17, Hosea 13:12, Jeremiah 2:22, Romans 2:5, 1 Corinthians 4:5
- 35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.73 cross-references: Romans 12:19, Hebrews 10:30, Nahum 1:2, Psalms 73:17–19, 2 Peter 2:3
- 36For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.59 cross-references: Psalms 135:14, Psalms 106:45, 2 Kings 14:26, Judges 2:18, Deuteronomy 30:1–3
- 37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,15 cross-references: Jeremiah 2:28, Judges 10:14, 2 Kings 3:13
- 38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.11 cross-references: Leviticus 21:21, Ezekiel 16:18–19, Psalms 50:13, Judges 10:14, Hosea 2:8
- 39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.72 cross-references: 1 Samuel 2:6, Hosea 6:1, Job 5:18, Isaiah 45:5, Isaiah 45:22
- 40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.23 cross-references: Genesis 14:22, Hebrews 6:17–18, Jeremiah 4:2, Revelation 10:5–6, Numbers 14:28–30
- 41If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.47 cross-references: Isaiah 66:16, Isaiah 34:5–6, Isaiah 27:1, Psalms 7:12, Ezekiel 21:9–15
- 42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.26 cross-references: Deuteronomy 32:23, Jeremiah 46:10, Ezekiel 38:21–22, Psalms 68:23, Jeremiah 46:14
- 43Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.54 cross-references: Romans 12:19, Revelation 19:2, Revelation 6:10, Psalms 85:1, 2 Kings 9:7
- 44And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.7 cross-references: Numbers 13:8, Numbers 13:16, Deuteronomy 31:22, Deuteronomy 31:30
- 45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
- 46And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.28 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 22:19, Ezekiel 40:4, Deuteronomy 11:18, Proverbs 3:1–4, Deuteronomy 6:6–7
- 47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.23 cross-references: Proverbs 4:22, Leviticus 18:5, 2 Peter 1:16, 1 Peter 3:10–12, Proverbs 3:22
- 48And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,3 cross-references: Numbers 27:12–13
- 49Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:17 cross-references: Numbers 27:12, 2 Corinthians 5:1, Isaiah 33:17, Numbers 33:47–48, Deuteronomy 34:1–5
- 50And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:12 cross-references: Genesis 25:8, Numbers 33:38, Genesis 49:33, Numbers 20:24–29, Genesis 15:15
- 51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah–Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.17 cross-references: Numbers 27:14, Numbers 20:11–14, Numbers 20:24, 1 Kings 13:21–26, Leviticus 10:3
- 52Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.9 cross-references: Deuteronomy 34:1–4, Deuteronomy 32:49, Deuteronomy 3:27, Hebrews 11:39, Deuteronomy 1:37
Explained connections
- Provoked to jealousy
In Moses' song God says he will make Israel jealous through a 'non-people'. Paul sees this in the Gentiles' reception of the gospel, hoping it will stir Israel to faith.
- Vengeance is mine
Moses' song declares that vengeance belongs to God. Paul uses it to tell believers not to avenge themselves but to leave room for God's justice — and to overcome evil with good.
- The Lord will judge his people
Hebrews quotes the same line as a sober warning: deliberately rejecting Christ's sacrifice leaves only judgement. The same text gives comfort in Romans and warning in Hebrews.
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People in Deuteronomy 32
God, Jacob, Moses, Adam, Joshua, Nun, Moab, Aaron
Places in Deuteronomy 32
Bashan, Gomorrah, Sodom, Jordan, Canaan, Mount Nebo, Moab, Jericho, Abarim, Mount Hor, Meribah-kadesh, Zin