The Song of Moses  (Revelation 15:1–4)

Deḇarim Chapter 32

¹Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;

hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

² Let my instruction fall like rain

and my speech settle like dew,

like gentle rain on new grass,

like showers on tender plants.

³ For I will proclaim the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

Ascribe greatness to our Alahym!

⁴ He is the Rock, His work is perfect;

all His ways are just.

An Al of faithfulness without injustice,

righteous and upright is He.

⁵ His people have acted corruptly toward Him;

the blemish on them is not that of His children,

but of a perverse and crooked generation.  

⁶ Is this how you repay 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,

O foolish and senseless people?

Is He not your Father and Creator?

Has He not made you and established you?

⁷ Remember the days of old;

consider the years long past.

Ask your father, and he will tell you,

your elders, and they will inform you.

⁸When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

when He divided the sons of Aḏam,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

according to the number of the children of Yasharal. 

⁹ But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄’s portion is His people,

Ya‛aqoḇ His allotted inheritance.

¹⁰ He found him in a desert land,

in a barren, howling wilderness;

  He surrounded him, He instructed him,

He guarded him as the apple  of His eye.

¹¹ As an eagle stirs up its nest

and hovers over its young,

  He spread His wings to catch them

and carried them on His pinions.  

¹² 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 alone led him,

and no foreign mighty one was with him.

¹³ He made him ride on the heights of the land

and fed him the produce of the field.

  He nourished him with honey from the rock

and oil from the flinty crag,

¹⁴ with curds from the herd and milk from the flock,

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.

¹⁵ But Yashurun   grew fat and kicked—

becoming fat, bloated, and gorged.

  He abandoned the Aluah who made him

and scorned the Rock of his yeshû‛âh [deliverance].

¹⁶ They provoked His jealousy with foreign mighty ones;

they enraged Him with abominations.

¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons, not to Aluah,

to idols they had not known,

  to newly arrived idols,

which your fathers did not fear.

¹⁸ You ignored the Rock who brought you forth;

you forgot the Al who gave you birth.

¹⁹ When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 saw this, He rejected them,

provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

²⁰ He said: “I will hide My face from them;

I will see what will be their end.

  For they are a perverse generation—

children of unfaithfulness.

²¹ They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not Al;

they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.

  So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people;  

I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.  

²² For a fire has been kindled by My anger,

and it burns to the depths of She’ol;

  it consumes the earth and its produce,

and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

²³ I will heap disasters upon them;

I will spend My arrows against them.

²⁴ They will be wasted from hunger

and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;

  I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them,

with the poison of serpents of the dust.

²⁵ Outside, the sword will take their children,

and inside, terror will strike

  the young man and the young woman,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

²⁶ I would have said that I would cut them to pieces

and blot out their memory from mankind,

²⁷ if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy,

lest their adversaries misunderstand and say:

  ‘Our own hand has prevailed;

it was not 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 who did all this.’ ”

²⁸ Yasharal is a nation devoid of counsel,

with no understanding among them.

²⁹ If only they were wise, they would understand it;

they would comprehend their fate.

³⁰ How could one man pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

  unless their Rock had sold them,

unless 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had given them up?

_³¹ For their rock is not like our Rock,

even our enemies concede.  

³² But their vine is from the vine of Seḏom

and from the fields of Amorah.

  Their grapes are poisonous;

their clusters are bitter.

³³ Their wine is the poison of serpents,

the venom of cobras.

³⁴ “Have I not stored up these things,

sealed up within My vaults?

³⁵ Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.

In due time their foot will slip;

  for their day of disaster is near,

and their doom is coming quickly.”

³⁶ For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 rightly rules His people  

and has compassion on His servants

  when He sees that their strength is gone

and no one remains, slave or free.

³⁷ He will say: “Where are their idols,

the rock in which they took refuge,

³⁸ which ate the fat of their sacrifices

and drank the wine of their drink offerings?

  Let them rise up and help you;

let them give you shelter!

³⁹ See now that I am He;

there is no Alahym 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.

⁴⁰ For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare:

As surely as I live forever,

⁴¹ when I sharpen My flashing sword,

and My hand grasps it in judgment,

  I will take vengeance on My adversaries

and repay those who hate Me.

⁴² I will make My arrows drunk with blood,

while My sword devours flesh—

  the blood of the slain and captives,

the heads of the enemy leaders.”

⁴³  Rejoice, O nations, with His people;   

for He will avenge the blood of His children.  

  He will take vengeance on His adversaries

and repay those who hate Him;  

  He will cleanse His land

and His people.

⁴⁴Then Moshe came with Yahushua  son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. ⁴⁵ When Moshe had finished reciting all these words to all Yasharal, ⁴⁶ he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law. ⁴⁷ 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 Yarděn to possess.”

Moses’ Death Foretold

⁴⁸ On that same day 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Moshe, ⁴⁹ “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Yeriḥo, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Yasharalites as their own possession.

⁵⁰ And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aharon died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

⁵¹ For at the waters of Meriḇah Qaḏěsh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Yasharalites by failing to treat Me as set-apart in their presence. ⁵² Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Yasharalites, you shall not enter it.”

…continued in the next Parashah

Daud’s Song of Deliverance

Shemu’ĕl Bĕt Chapter 22

¹ And Daud sang this song to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 on the day 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Sha’ul. ² He said:

“𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is my rock,

my fortress, and my deliverer.

³ My Alahym is my rock, in whom I take refuge,

my shield, and the horn of my deliverance.

My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior,

You save me from violence.

⁴  I will call upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, who is worthy to be praised;

so shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁵ For the waves of death engulfed me;

the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

⁶ The cords of She’ol entangled me;

the snares of death confronted me.

⁷ In my distress I called upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄;

I cried out to my Alahym.

And from His Hěḵal He heard my voice,

and my cry for help reached His ears.

⁸ Then the earth shook and quaked;

the foundations of the heavens trembled;

they were shaken because He burned with anger.

⁹ Smoke rose from His nostrils,

and consuming fire came from His mouth;

glowing coals blazed forth.

¹⁰ He parted the heavens and came down

with dark clouds beneath His feet.

¹¹ He mounted a cherub and flew;

He soared on the wings of the wind.

¹² He made darkness a canopy around Him,

a gathering of water and thick clouds.

¹³ From the brightness of His presence

coals of fire blazed forth.

¹⁴ 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thundered from heaven;

the voice of the Most High resounded.

¹⁵ He shot His arrows and scattered the foes;

He hurled lightning and routed them.

¹⁶ The channels of the sea appeared,

and the foundations of the world were exposed

  at the rebuke of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,

at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

¹⁷ He reached down from on high and took hold of me;

He drew me out of deep waters.

¹⁸ He rescued me from my powerful enemy,

from foes too mighty for me.

¹⁹ They confronted me in my day of calamity,

but 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was my support.

²⁰ He brought me out into the open;

He rescued me because He delighted in me.

²¹ 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has rewarded me according to my righteousness;

He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

²² For I have kept the ways of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄

and have not wickedly departed from my Alahym.

²³ For all His ordinances are before me;

I have not disregarded His statutes.

²⁴ And I have been blameless before Him

and kept myself from iniquity.

²⁵ So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has repaid me according to my righteousness,

according to my cleanness in His sight.  

²⁶ To the faithful You show Yourself faithful,

to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

²⁷ to the pure You show Yourself pure,

but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

²⁸ You save an afflicted people,

but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

²⁹For You, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, are my lamp;

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 lights up my darkness.

with my Alahym I can scale a wall.

³⁰For in You I can charge an army;

³¹ As for Al, His way is perfect;

the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is flawless.

  He is a shield to all

who take refuge in Him.

³² For who is Alahym besides 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄?

And who is the Rock except our Alahym?

³³ Al is my strong fortress,

and He makes my way clear.

³⁴ He makes my feet like those of a deer

and stations me upon the heights.

³⁵He trains my hands for battle;

my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

³⁶ You have given me Your shield of deliverance,

and Your gentleness exalts me.  

³⁷ You broaden the path beneath me

so that my ankles do not give way.

³⁸ I pursued my enemies and destroyed them;

I did not turn back until they were consumed.

³⁹ I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise;

they have fallen under my feet.

⁴⁰ You have armed me with strength for battle;

You have subdued my foes beneath me.

⁴¹ You have made my enemies retreat before me;

I destroyed those who hated me.

⁴²They looked, but there was no one to save them—

to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, but He did not answer.

⁴³ I ground them as the dust of the earth;

I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

⁴⁴ You have delivered me from the strife of my people;

You have preserved me as the head of nations;

a people I had not known shall serve me.

⁴⁵ Foreigners cower before me;

when they hear me, they obey me.

⁴⁶ Foreigners lose heart

and come trembling   from their strongholds.

⁴⁷ 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 lives, and blessed be my Rock!

And may Alahym, the Rock of my deliverance, be exalted—

⁴⁸ the Al who avenges me

and brings down nations beneath me,

⁴⁹   who frees me from my enemies.

  You exalt me above my foes;

You rescue me from violent men.

⁵⁰ Therefore I will praise You, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, among the nations;

I will sing praises to Your Name.

⁵¹ Great deliverance He brings to His king.

He shows loving devotion to His anointed,

to Daud and his descendants forever.”

Yasharal’s Disobedience

Romiyim Chapter 10

¹⁷ Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Alahym.

¹⁸ But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did:

“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.”   

¹⁹ I ask instead, did Yasharal not understand? First, Moshe says:

“I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation;

I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”   

²⁰ And YashaYahu boldly says:

“I was found by those who did not seek Me;

I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”  

²¹ But as for Yasharal he says:

“All day long I have held out My hands

to a disobedient and obstinate people.”  

A Remnant Chosen by Grace

Romiyim Chapter 11

¹I ask then, did Alahym reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Yasharalite myself, a descendant of Aḇraham, from the tribe of Aḇraham. ² Alahym did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Aliyahu, how he appealed to Alahym against Yasharal: ³ “𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well” ?

⁴ And what was the answer of Alahym to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Ba‛al.” 

⁵ In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by favor. ⁶ And if it is by favor, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, favor would no longer be favor. 

⁷ What then? What Yasharal was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, ⁸ as it is written:

“𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gave them a spirit of stupor,

eyes that could not see,

and ears that could not hear,

to this very day.” 

⁹ And Daud says:

“May their table become a snare and a trap,

a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

¹⁰ May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,

and their backs be bent forever.” 

The Ingrafting of the Gentiles

¹¹ I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, deliverance has come to the nations to make Yasharal jealous. ¹² But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the nations, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!

Romiyim Chapter 12

¹⁹Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.”

Romiyim Chapter 15

⁹ so that the nations may esteem Alahym for His mercy. As it is written:

  “Therefore I will praise You among the nations;

I will sing hymns to Your Name.”  

¹⁰ Again, it says:   “Rejoice, O nations, with His people.”