The Song of Moses
(Revelation 15:1–4)
Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; Isa 1:2Deu 4:26Jer 22:29Psa 49:1Deu 30:19Deu 31:28Jer 6:19Psa 50:4
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Let my teaching fall like rain Isa 55:10-11Psa 72:6Mic 5:7Job 29:22-23Hos 14:51Co 3:6-82Sa 23:4Heb 6:7
and my speech settle like dew,
like gentle rain on new grass,
like showers on tender plants.
For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Jer 10:6Psa 150:2Deu 5:24Eph 1:191Ch 29:11Deu 3:24Exo 33:19Exo 6:3
Ascribe greatness to our God!
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; Psa 18:30-31Psa 92:15Isa 26:42Sa 22:31-32Psa 18:2Dan 4:37Rev 15:3-4Deu 32:30-31
all His ways are just.
A God of faithfulness without injustice,
righteous and upright is He.
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; Php 2:15Isa 1:4Deu 31:29Mat 17:17Luk 9:41Hos 9:9Mat 16:4Psa 78:8
the spot on them is not that of His children,
but of a perverse and crooked generation. 1
Is this how you repay the LORD, Isa 63:161Jn 3:1Isa 44:2Isa 64:8Psa 74:21Co 6:202Pe 2:1Act 20:28
O foolish and senseless people?
Is He not your Father and Creator?
Has He not made you and established you?
Remember the days of old; Psa 78:3-4Job 8:8-10Psa 44:1Isa 46:9Psa 77:5-6Deu 4:32Exo 13:14Isa 63:11
consider the years long past.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will inform you.
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, Act 17:26Gen 11:8-9Dan 4:17Gen 10:25Gen 15:18-21Psa 115:16Gen 10:15Psa 91:1
when He divided the sons of man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God. 2
But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jer 10:161Pe 2:9-101Ki 8:511Ki 8:53Exo 19:5-6Jer 51:19Deu 26:18-19Isa 43:21
Jacob His allotted inheritance.
He found him in a desert land, Deu 8:15-16Psa 17:8Zec 2:8Hos 13:5Jer 2:6Neh 9:19-21Psa 32:7-10Pro 7:2
in a barren, howling wilderness;
He surrounded him, He instructed him,
He guarded him as the apple 3of His eye.
As an eagle stirs up its nest Exo 19:4Isa 46:4Isa 63:9Isa 40:31Isa 31:5Heb 11:3Rev 12:4
and hovers over its young,
He spread His wings to catch them
and carried them on His pinions. 4
The LORD alone led him, Isa 46:4Psa 78:52-53Isa 44:7-8Deu 1:31Isa 43:11-12Isa 63:9-13Psa 136:16Psa 78:14
and no foreign god was with him.
He made him ride on the heights of the land Isa 58:14Job 29:6Psa 81:16Deu 33:26Deu 33:29Ezk 36:2Isa 48:21Ezk 21:17
and fed him the produce of the field.
He nourished him with honey from the rock
and oil from the flinty crag,
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, Gen 49:11Psa 81:16Psa 147:142Sa 17:29Amo 4:1Ezk 39:18Gen 18:8Isa 7:15
with the fat of lambs,
with rams from Bashan, and goats,
with the choicest grains of wheat.
From the juice of the finest grapes
you drank the wine.
But Jeshurun 5grew fat and kicked— Deu 31:20Hos 13:6Deu 33:51Sa 2:29Act 28:27Psa 89:26Jer 5:28Deu 31:16
becoming fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; Psa 78:581Co 10:221Ki 14:222Ki 23:13Deu 5:9Deu 7:25Lev 18:27Nam 1:1-2
they enraged Him with abominations.
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, Deu 28:64Jdg 5:8Lev 17:71Ti 4:1Deu 32:21Isa 44:8Psa 106:37-381Co 10:19-20
to gods they had not known,
to newly arrived gods,
which your fathers did not fear.
You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; Isa 17:10Jer 2:32Deu 32:4Psa 106:21Deu 32:15Deu 6:12Deu 8:11Deu 8:14
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, Psa 106:40Isa 1:2Jdg 2:14Psa 5:4Amo 3:2-3Jer 11:15Jer 44:21-23Lam 2:6
provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
He said: “I will hide My face from them; Deu 31:17-18Deu 32:5Luk 7:31-32Mat 17:172Ch 20:20Deu 31:29Hos 9:12Isa 30:9
I will see what will be their end.
For they are a perverse generation—
children of unfaithfulness.
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; Rom 10:19Rom 9:25Rom 11:11-141Ki 16:261Ki 16:13Psa 78:58Deu 32:16Jon 2:8
they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.
So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; 6
I will make them angry by a nation without understanding. 7
For a fire has been kindled by My anger, Lam 4:11Jer 15:14Isa 24:19-20Jer 17:4Job 9:5-6Mic 1:4Num 16:35Psa 86:13
and it burns to the depths of Sheol;
it consumes the earth and its produce,
and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
I will heap disasters upon them; Ezk 5:16Psa 7:12-13Isa 24:17-18Deu 28:15Ezk 14:21Isa 26:15Lam 3:13Lev 26:24
I will spend My arrows against them.
They will be wasted from hunger Lev 26:22Ezk 5:17Amo 5:18-19Amo 9:3Deu 28:22Deu 28:53Ezk 14:15Ezk 14:21
and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;
I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them,
with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Outside, the sword will take their children, Ezk 7:15Lam 1:202Ch 36:172Co 7:5Isa 30:16Jer 9:21Lam 4:4Lev 26:36-37
and inside, terror will strike
the young man and the young woman,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
I would have said that I would cut them to pieces Deu 28:64Isa 63:16Deu 28:25Deu 28:37Deu 4:27Lev 26:33Lev 26:38Psa 34:16
and blot out their memory from mankind,
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, Num 14:15-161Sa 12:22Exo 32:12Jos 7:9Psa 140:8Zec 1:14-15Dan 4:30-37Ezk 20:13-14
lest their adversaries misunderstand and say:
‘Our own hand has prevailed;
it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, Jer 4:22Hos 4:6Isa 27:11Job 28:28Pro 1:7Deu 32:6Psa 81:121Co 3:19
with no understanding among them.
If only they were wise, they would understand it; Psa 81:13Deu 5:29Hos 14:9Luk 19:41-42Luk 12:20Psa 107:43Isa 10:3Isa 47:7
they would comprehend their fate.
How could one man pursue a thousand, Lev 26:8Jos 23:10Isa 30:17Psa 31:8Psa 44:12Jdg 7:22-231Sa 14:15-172Ch 24:24
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the LORD had given them up?
For their rock is not like our Rock, 1Sa 4:8Exo 14:251Sa 2:2Dan 2:47Jer 40:3Dan 3:29Dan 6:26-27Ezr 1:3
even our enemies concede. 8
But their vine is from the vine of Sodom Deu 29:18Ezk 16:45-51Isa 1:10Isa 5:4Jer 2:21Heb 12:15Lam 4:6Mat 11:24
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
Their wine is the venom of serpents, Psa 58:4Rom 3:13Jer 8:14Job 20:14-16Psa 140:3
the deadly poison of cobras.
“Have I not stored up these things, Hos 13:12Job 14:17Jer 2:22Rom 2:51Co 4:5Rev 20:12-13
sealed up within My vaults?
Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. 9 Rom 12:19Heb 10:30Nam 1:22Pe 2:3Psa 73:17-192Pe 3:8-10Deu 32:43Jer 23:12
In due time their foot will slip;
for their day of disaster is near,
and their doom is coming quickly.”
For the LORD will vindicate His people 10 Psa 135:142Ki 14:26Psa 106:451Ki 14:10Deu 30:1-3Jdg 2:18Jer 31:20Jol 2:14
and have compassion on His servants
when He sees that their strength is gone
and no one remains, slave or free.
He will say: “Where are their gods, Jer 2:28Jdg 10:142Ki 3:13
the rock in which they took refuge,
which ate the fat of their sacrifices Ezk 16:18-19Jdg 10:14Lev 21:21Psa 50:13Hos 2:8Zep 2:11
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them give you shelter!
See now that I am He; 1Sa 2:6Hos 6:1Job 5:18Isa 45:5Isa 45:22Isa 43:13Isa 46:4Isa 45:18
there is no God besides Me.
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal,
and there is no one
who can deliver from My hand.
For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: Gen 14:22Heb 6:17-18Jer 4:2Rev 10:5-6Num 14:28-30Exo 6:8
As surely as I live forever,
when I sharpen My flashing sword, Isa 66:16Isa 34:5-6Exo 20:5Isa 27:1Psa 7:122Ti 3:4Deu 32:35Deu 5:9
and My hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on My adversaries
and repay those who hate Me.
I will make My arrows drunk with blood, Deu 32:23Jer 46:10Ezk 38:21-22Jer 30:14Lam 2:5Ezk 35:6-8Jer 16:10Jer 46:14
while My sword devours flesh—
the blood of the slain and captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, Rev 19:2Rom 12:19Psa 85:1Rev 6:10Deu 32:35Job 13:24Rom 15:9-132Ki 9:7
and let all God’s angels worship Him. 11
Rejoice, O nations, with His people; 12
for He will avenge the blood of His children. 13
He will take vengeance on His adversaries
and repay those who hate Him; 14
He will cleanse His land
and His people.
Then Moses came with Joshua 15son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. Num 13:16Num 13:8Deu 31:22Deu 31:30 When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel, he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law. 1Ch 22:19Ezk 40:4Deu 11:18Pro 3:1-4Deu 4:9Deu 6:6-7Heb 2:1Luk 9:44 For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.” Lev 18:5Pro 4:222Pe 1:161Pe 3:10-12Pro 3:22Deu 30:19-20Pro 3:1-2Pro 3:18
Moses’ Death Foretold
On that same day the LORD said to Moses, Num 27:12-13 “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession. Num 27:122Co 5:1Deu 34:1-5Isa 33:17Num 33:47-48
And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. Gen 25:8Num 20:24-29Num 33:38Dan 12:13Gen 15:15Gen 25:17Gen 49:33
For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence. Num 27:14Num 20:11-141Ki 13:21-26Deu 3:23-27Num 20:24Lev 10:31Pe 4:17Isa 8:13 Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.” Deu 34:1-4Deu 1:37Deu 3:27Deu 32:49Heb 11:13Heb 11:39Num 27:12