{"id":6071,"date":"2023-03-19T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T07:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:26:38","slug":"deuteronomy-321-give-ear-o-heavens-and-i-will-speak-and-hear-o-earth-the-words-of-my-mouth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=6071","title":{"rendered":"Deuteronomy 32:1: “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses has been called the lawgiver but he could also be called the song-giver, as scripture tells us he wrote at least 3 songs of praise. We know he penned the \u201cSong of Deliverance\u201d in Exodus 15, the \u201cTeach Us Song\u201d of Psalm 90, and this song recorded in Deuteronomy 32. It was in Deuteronomy 31 that God commanded Moses to write down this song, which makes God Himself the song-giver<\/em>.<\/p>\n

God still gives songs to His people. One contemporary Christian singer \/songwriter, Annie Herring, says that she is a song-receiver<\/em> not a songwriter. We understand her point and hope more and more young, modern songwriters will get a hold of this idea. If we seek the LORD for His music, for words that focus on Him (and not so much on us or the church), then we will\u00a0truly be singing the songs of heaven. As God told Moses:<\/p>\n

Now therefore, write down 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 (Deut. 31:19).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we focus on Father God as the Giver of Songs, the Holy Spirit as the Conductor, and Jesus as the Singer among us, then perhaps the Body of Christ could be better utilized by the LORD to draw the world to Himself.<\/p>\n

When was the last time you tried to privately sing to God, just you and Him? It is awkward the first time we attempt it, but as we keep practicing, it becomes both easier and more spiritually rich. God desires to hear His people sing to Him. When we do, we are changed to be more and more like Him, conformed to His image.<\/p>\n

“LORD give us new songs in our hearts and in our mouths that elevate You to Your proper position before a dying world.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Deuteronomy 32 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0My 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:\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0Because I will publish the name of the\u00a0LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0He is\u00a0<\/em>the Rock, his work\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>perfect: for all his ways\u00a0are<\/em>judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>he.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0They have corrupted themselves, their spot\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>not\u00a0the spot\u00a0<\/em>of his children: they are\u00a0<\/em>a perverse and crooked generation.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0Do ye thus requite the\u00a0LORD, O foolish people and unwise?\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>not he thy father\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? 7<\/sup> 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.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0When 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.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0For the\u00a0LORD\u2019S\u00a0portion\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>his people; Jacob\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the lot of his inheritance.\u00a0\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0He 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.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0So\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0alone did lead him, and\u00a0there was\u00a0<\/em>no strange god with him.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0He 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;\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0Butter 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. 15<\/sup>\u00a0But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered\u00a0with fatness;\u00a0<\/em>then he forsook God\u00a0which\u00a0<\/em>made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0They provoked him to jealousy with strange\u00a0gods\u00a0<\/em>, with abominations provoked they him to anger.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new\u00a0gods that\u00a0<\/em>came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.\u00a0\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0Of the Rock\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. 19<\/sup>\u00a0And when the\u00a0LORD\u00a0saw\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>, he abhorred\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.\u00a0\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end\u00a0shall be:\u00a0<\/em>for they\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>a very froward generation, children in whom\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>no faith.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0They have moved me to jealousy with\u00a0that which is\u00a0<\/em>not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are<\/em> not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0For 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.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.\u00a024<\/sup> They shall be\u00a0<\/em>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.\u00a0\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling\u00a0also\u00a0<\/em>with the man of gray hairs.\u00a0\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>lest they should say, Our hand\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>high, and the\u00a0LORDhath not done all this.\u00a0\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0For they\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>a nation void of counsel, neither\u00a0is there any<\/em>understanding in them.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0O that they were wise,\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>they understood this,\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>they would consider their latter end!\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had shut them up?\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0For their rock\u00a0is<\/em>not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves\u00a0being\u00a0<\/em>judges.\u00a032<\/sup>\u00a0For their vine\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>grapes of gall, their clusters\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>bitter:\u00a033<\/sup>\u00a0Their wine\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0Is\u00a0<\/em>not this laid up in store with me,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>sealed up among my treasures?\u00a035<\/sup>\u00a0To me\u00a0belongeth\u00a0<\/em>vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in\u00a0due\u00a0<\/em>time: for the day of their calamity\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.\u00a036<\/sup>\u00a0For the\u00a0LORD\u00a0shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em>power is gone, and\u00a0there is\u00a0<\/em>none shut up, or left.\u00a0\u00a037<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall say, Where\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>their gods,\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em>rock in whom they trusted,\u00a038<\/sup>Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>be your protection.\u00a0 39<\/sup>\u00a0See now that I,\u00a0even\u00a0<\/em>I,\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>he, and\u00a0there is\u00a0<\/em>no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither\u00a0is there any\u00a0<\/em>that can deliver out of my hand.\u00a040<\/sup>\u00a0For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.\u00a041<\/sup>\u00a0If 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.\u00a042<\/sup>\u00a0I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh;\u00a0and that\u00a0<\/em>with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.\u00a043<\/sup> Rejoice, O ye nations,\u00a0with\u00a0<\/em>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,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>to his people.\u00a0 44<\/sup> And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.\u00a0\u00a045<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:\u00a046<\/sup>\u00a0And 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.\u00a047<\/sup>\u00a0For it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>not a vain thing for you; because it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong\u00a0your<\/em>days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 48<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,\u00a049<\/sup>\u00a0Get thee up into this mountain Abarim,\u00a0unto\u00a0<\/em>mount Nebo, which\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in the land of Moab, that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:\u00a050<\/sup>\u00a0And 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:\u00a051<\/sup>\u00a0Because 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.\u00a0\u00a052<\/sup>\u00a0Yet thou shalt see the land before\u00a0thee;\u00a0<\/em>but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moses has been called the lawgiver but he could also be called the song-giver, as scripture tells us he wrote at least 3 songs of praise. We know he penned the \u201cSong of Deliverance\u201d in Exodus 15, the \u201cTeach Us Song\u201d of Psalm 90, and this song recorded in Deuteronomy 32. It was in Deuteronomy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16041,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions\/16041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}