You may have heard of the song of Moses in the Bible and wondered what it is about.
Beyond just wondering, I am sure that reading or seeing the lyrics could be of great value and a source of study for you.
Therefore, in this message, we will look at the song of Moses in the Bible, its revelation, and its lyrics. In addition, I will share a message at the end to admonish you and encourage The Believers Today.
Meanwhile, have you read The Story Of Moses In The Bible? If you have not, I encourage you to read it as a pillar post to this revelation.
The Song Of Moses Revelation
After the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea on dry land, the scriptures said that Pharaoh and his chariots went after them but drowned in the waters.
In Exodus 15:1, “Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, ‘I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.’”
The song that followed the event along the passage was known as the song of Moses and Miriam (also of the children of Israel). If you read down to verse 19, you will see that the song communicated things the Lord did for them and how other nations who heard of them were afraid.
In verses 20 and 21, Miriam and the women went out with tambourines and danced, responding, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
However, there is a revelation of the message called the song of Moses in the Bible (though that phrase appeared once in the book of Revelation). It refers to the song the Lord told Moses to write down before his departure.
According to Deuteronomy 31:16–21 WEB:
“Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.
‘Now therefore write 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.
For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.’”
The passage showed that Moses was with Joshua when they received the word of the Lord to write the song. The song which we identify as the song of Moses in the Bible was to do two main things in summary:
- Foretell what the Israelites would do against the Lord after the demise of Moses.
- Stand as a testimony against them when they finally rebel against the Lord and evil befall them.
So Moses wrote down the song as the Lord instructed him. Then the word of the Lord commissioned Joshua, the son of Nun, as his successor, saying, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”
One would ask, what was the song of Moses in the Bible (as concerning the content of the writing)? I will answer that by sharing the full lyrics in Deuteronomy 32.
Song Of Moses Lyrics In Deuteronomy 32
Before now, Moses had completed the book of the Law, handed it to the Levites, and commanded them to put it in the Ark of the Covenant. And He shared with the Levites what the Lord told him would happen after he died in Deuteronomy 31:24–29.
In verse 30, he assembled the people of Israel to recite the full content of the song, which we will see below as the lyrics of the son of Moses from Deuteronomy 32:1–43 WEB.
“Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
Deuteronomy 32:3 For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!
Deuteronomy 32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32:6 Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:9 For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 32:11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.
Deuteronomy 32:12 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy 32:14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.
Deuteronomy 32:18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Deuteronomy 32:19 Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Deuteronomy 32:20 He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32:25 Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 32:26 I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
Deuteronomy 32:27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’
Deuteronomy 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
Deuteronomy 32:29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
Deuteronomy 32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
Deuteronomy 32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
Deuteronomy 32:34 ‘Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.’
Deuteronomy 32:36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
Deuteronomy 32:37 He will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge;
Deuteronomy 32:38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.
Deuteronomy 32:39 ‘See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy 32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,
Deuteronomy 32:41 if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.’
Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.”
The Message From The Song Of Moses In The Bible
While the song of Moses in the Bible contains a lot of information for study and consideration, it is worth emphasizing the contents of the song were specifically to the Israelites as they moved into the promised land after the death of Moses.
However, I took some moments to pick a few lessons to share about God revealing Himself in the midst of it all. They include that:
- God is Just.
- God is Good.
- God is the Rock of our Salvation.
- He is God all by Himself.
- God is All-powerful.
- God is compassionate.
- Overall, God is faithful.
Though the Israelites were bent on turning from the Lord to other gods and living in wickedness, God allowed them but promised in the song to recompense evildoers and make atonement for his land and his people.
What comes to mind is a reflection of how the message from the song of Moses in Deuteronomy can impact The Believers Today. So, I have a few words for you.
Of course, there is a lot of evil in the world, and you should not be a partaker in it. Christ Jesus became the atonement for sins that those who put their trust in Him should live in eternity. His coming is imminent.
Peter said in the second book of Peter 3:9 WEB, “The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
