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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:20

From them. The Jews themselves acknowledged, in the siege of Jerusalem, that God had abandoned and given up to destruction his once beloved people. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vii. 8.) (Calmet) --- Consider, or look on their utter ruin with indifference, or rather with complacency. (Haydock) --- I will laugh at your destruction, Proverbs i. 16. (Calmet) --- God loves without seeing any preceding merit in his creatures, but he never abandons them till they have first proved unfaithful. (Worthington)

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See also Deuteronomy 32:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 32:20. _CHILDREN IN WHOM IS NO FAITH_] לא אמן בם _lo emon bam,_ "There is no _steadfastness_ in them," they can never be depended on. They are _fickle_, because they are _faithless_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SONG OF MOSES If Deuteronomy 32:1 be regarded as the introduction, and Deuteronomy 32:43 as the conclusion, the main contents of the song may be grouped under three heads, namely, (1)...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE SONG OF MOSES CHAPTER 32:1-43 _ 1. The introduction and the theme (Deuteronomy 32:1)_ 2. The foolish people (Deuteronomy 32:5) 3. How Jehovah loved them (Deuteronomy 32:7

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Moses'song is a didactic poem, a theodicy in which Yahweh's ways are vindicated. In its sentiments and artistic form it is unsurpassed in the poetry of the OT. Its dominant theme is Yahweh's justice a...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HIDE MY FACE. See note on Deuteronomy 31:17. FROWARD. perverse. Hebrew. _haphakpak._ First occurance....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God's Vengeance 19  But the Lord saw and He spurned, From grief with His sons and His daughters. 20  -Let me hide my countenance from them, I will see what their end shall be. For an upsetting ra...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And he said_ A gloss, it overloads the rhythm. LET ME HIDE, etc.] Deuteronomy 31:17 f. _their end_ Lit. _their afterwards_, see on Deuteronomy 4:30. _a very froward_, etc.] Heb. is stronger, _a gen...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 20. _I WILL SEE WHAT THEIR END SHALL BE_— See on ver. 29. Houbigant renders it, _and I will see what shall happen to them._ When the Lord says, _they are children in whom is no faith,_ it is me...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 32:19-33 556. What is meant by the use of the word provocation? 557. What foreign people are meant in Deuteronomy 32:21? 558. Where is Sheol? Explain the use of this term here....

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND 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._ And he said ... Certain words occur which make...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    32:20 Children (e-25) Or 'sons'....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SONG OF MOSES The theme of this noble Song is the goodness of Jehovah in choosing Israel and bringing them into a rich land. When they provoke Him with their forgetfulness and unfaithfulness, He d...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NO FAITH] i.e. no faithfulness or fidelity. They have broken their covenant with Jehovah....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A VERY FROWARD GENERATION. — Literally, _a generation of perversities._ CHILDREN IN WHOM IS NO FAITH. — Literally, _children!_ — _there is no relying on them._ (Comp. Deuteronomy 5:5.) Faith is not u...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר אַסְתִּ֤ירָה פָנַי֙ מֵהֶ֔ם אֶרְאֶ֖ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have the song itself. The first part (verses Deuteronomy 32:1; Deuteronomy 32:1) consists of a call to attention. Heaven and earth are called to listen while the servant of God proclaims the n...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The judgments here threatened, will be found in correspondence to their sin. They forsake GOD, and he withdraws the favor of his countenance from them. They provoke him to.jealousy with strange gods;...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We have the prophetic song, which is based on the foreknown fall of the people. First, it declares the perfectness of Jehovah, whatever may take place; it is Israel who have corrupted themselves (comp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SAID, I WILL HIDE MY FACE FROM THEM,.... Now the Lord proceeds to pass sentence on the Jews for their ill treatment of his Son, and of his followers; which respects judgments that should come u...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And 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. Ver. 20. _I will see what their end shall b...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will see what their end will be_ I will make them and others see what the fruit of such actions shall be. _No faith_ No fidelity. They were notoriously perfidious, and had so often broke their cove...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses song, which setteth foorth Gods mercy and vengeance. 46 He exhorteth them to set their hearts vpon it. 48 God sendeth him vp to mount Nebo, to see the land, and die. 1 GIUE eare, O yee heau...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And He said, I will hide My face from them, withdraw His mercy, be inaccessible to all their pleading for mercy. I WILL SEE WHAT THEIR END SHALL BE, for their apostasy was bound to bring them everlast...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jehovah's Sentence and its Execution...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD: MAJESTIC AND FAITHFUL (vs.l-4) In these four verses the introduction of this song of Moses is both magnificent and beautiful. The heavens and the earth are called to hear the faithful words from...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-25 The revolt of Israel was described in the foregoing verses, and here follow the resolves of Divine justice as to them. We deceive ourselves, if we think that God will be mocked by a faithless pe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL SEE WHAT THEIR END SHALL BE; I will see and observe what will be the issue of all this, what will become of them at last; but this God doth not see only by way of speculation, but practically,...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words; of this song, until they were ended." It is not too much to say that one of the very grandest and most comprehensive sections...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 32:20 said H559 (H8799) hide H5641 (H8686) face H6440 see H7200 (H8799) end H319 perverse...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE OVERLORD'S VERDICT IS PRONOUNCED (DEUTERONOMY 32:19). Deuteronomy 32:19 ‘And Yahweh saw, and abhorred, Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. And he said, I will hide my fac...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 32 THE SONG OF MOSES. Having written the Complaint Document as a song to be sung by the children of Israel until its words were fulfilled and it could be called on as a witness against them,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The song and exhortation of Moses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: The warning and consoling words of God sent down from heaven should sink into our hearts and soften them as t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 32:1. _Give ear, oh ye heavens, and I will speak._ This ode, which is full of rhythm, and of almost every poetic excellence and beauty, has been called the Swan song of Moses, who died sin...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A very froward generation._ THE FROWARDNESS OF UNBELIEF 1. Unbelief is a very froward thing, because, in the first place, it gives God the lie. Can anything be worse than this? God saith, “Believe o...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    The song composed by Moses and recited to the people as a witness against them. “It embraces the whole future history of Israel, and bears all the marks of prophetic testimony in the perfectly ideal p...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So this is the song that Moses taught the children of Israel. And incidentally it was the first hit rock song. It is a song about the Rock. Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye gre...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:2; Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 31:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I will see — I will make them and others see, what the fruit of such actions shall be. No faith — No fidelity: perfidious, that have broken their covenant so solemnly made with me....

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