Deuteronomy 32:1-45
Part of the last words of Moses were a song, which the people were to learn. These words do not seem like a song to us, and perhaps were more a chant. They probably were sung with instruments the same as the people used when they sang at the Red Sea.
In this, are very beautiful words of praise to God, which have been read and loved by many since then. The verses about the eaglet are often read: “As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead.” (Verses 11-12). While in the wilderness the people perhaps had often seen the eagles fly about their nests high up tin some rocky cliff. They knew how the mother bird shakes the nest so the young ones will have to try to fly; then how she flies about underneath them with her great wings spread out, and if the young eagles cannot fly, or become tired, they rest on her strong wings and she carries them to safety.
And so carefully God had led the people of Israel!
The last part of the song was not of joy, but of the sorrows which must come if the people worshipped idols, as the nations around them did.
After the song we read in the next chapter of the blessings which the tribes should have in the good land. One tribe, Simeon, is not spoken of in these blessings, but that tribe shared in the portion of the tribe of Judah. Joshua 19:1 and 9.
The last words given us by Moses are in praise to God:
“Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!” Deuteronomy 33:29.
ML 01/09/1938