The KJV Holy Bible

 

Deuteronomy Chapter Thirty Two

 

1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

3 Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

6 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9 For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

12 So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

20 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.

21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

36 For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

48 And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

 

 

Esoteric Interpretation & Commentary

 

The Hermetic Blueprint of Deuteronomy Chapter Thirty-Two: The Song of the Rock and the Cycle of Alchemical Recompense 

"Chapter Thirty-Two is the Supreme Vibrational Failsafe—the Song of Moses. It outlines the Absolute Perfection of the Superconscious Source and details the tragic, cyclical tendency of the Awakened Mind to become bloated with Spiritual pride. The Sovereign Will sings of the devastating friction required to shatter this egoic idolatry and the Ultimate, Inescapable Power of the Divine Light to both kill the false self and Resurrect the Pure Vessel."

 

 

Verses 1-4: The Immovable Rock and the Perfection of the Source - "Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth... He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." 

The Song begins by calling both the "Heavens" (the Conscious Mind) and the "Earth" (the Subconscious matrix) into Absolute Alignment. The Superconscious is identified as "the Rock." This establishes the fundamental Physics of the Great Work: the Universal Logos is an Unalterable, Immovable, and Flawlessly Objective Frequency. Its "Work is Perfect," meaning the Laws of Energetic Cause and Effect, Karma, and Alchemical transmutation operate without the slightest error, bias, or iniquity. The localized Mind must Conform to the Rock; the Rock will never bend to accommodate the chaotic whims of the Ego.

 

 

Verses 5-14: The Elevation of the Vessel and the Divine Nurturing - "For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land... he kept him as the apple of his eye... He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields..." 

The Song recounts the miraculous Alchemical Elevation of the Mind. The Superconscious locates the fragmented, Unrefined Intellect (Jacob) wandering in the barren, exhausted state of the lower Astral plane (the desert land). Through Divine Grace, it shields the vulnerable vessel "as the apple of his Eye," gradually elevating the Psyche to the "High Places"—the Stabilized Frequencies of Spiritual Perception. Here, the Mind is nourished with the Purest Intellectual and Emotional Vitality (the increase of the fields), Thriving in Perfect Energetic Equilibrium.

 

 

Verses 15-18: Spiritual Bloat and the Forgetting of the Source - "But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation... They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up..." 

"Jeshurun" Represents the Upright, Awakened Vessel. However, as the Mind absorbs this massive influx of Spiritual Power, a critical danger emerges: it "waxes fat." The Orthodox Intellect becomes bloated with Spiritual pride, Psychic materialism, and Complacency. Intoxicated by its own expanded capabilities, it kicks against the Sovereign Will and abandons the foundational Rock. Instead, it begins pouring its Vital Energy (sacrificing) into "new gods"—novel, untested ego-constructs, glamorous Spiritual illusions, and parasitic astral attachments that demand no true Alchemical labor.

 

 

Verses 19-27: The Withdrawal of the Light and the Provocation of the Ego - "And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them... And he said, I will hide my face from them... They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God... and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation." 

In response to this Internal idolatry, the Superconscious initiates a severe Transmutational correction. It "hides its face," completely withdrawing the sensible comfort and Illumination of the Higher Mind. To shatter the arrogant, bloated Ego, the Divine Law employs a Profound Psychological Tactic: it subjects the Intellect to chaotic, primitive, and unrefined base frequencies ("a foolish nation"). The once-proud Orthodox Intellect is humiliated and provoked to anger by its sudden inability to control or suppress these basic, "inferior" mechanical impulses, completely breaking its Illusion of Supremacy.

 

 

Verses 39-43: The Supreme Transmutative Fire: I Kill and I Make Alive - "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand... Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants..." 

This is the Ultimate Realization of the Hermetic Path. The Divine Light reasserts itself as the Sole, Sovereign Causal Power within the Microcosm. It declares that it is the source of the Entire Alchemical Spectrum: it is the Severe, Ruthless Fire that must "kill" and "wound" the false, crystallized ego, and it is simultaneously the miraculous, restoring balm that "makes alive" and "heals" the Purified Psychic Vessel. Once the Internal rebellion is crushed and the false structures are dissolved, Total Energetic Sovereignty is Permanently re-established, and the Inner Faculties (nations) rejoice in the Restored Harmony.

 

 

Verses 44-52: The Ascension of Nebo and the Dissolution of the Foundational Will - "And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo... and die in the mount whither thou goest up... Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh..." 

Having delivered the resonant failsafe of the Song, the foundational, structural Will (Moses) receives its final command. It must ascend Mount Nebo to view the Ultimate, Stabilized State of Higher Consciousness (the Promised Land), but it is explicitly forbidden from entering. The localized, rigid Will must voluntarily dissolve ("die in the mount"). Because this forceful faculty previously "trespassed" by striking the rock in frustration—attempting to Force Spiritual Flow through harsh Discipline rather than organically speaking to it—it cannot cross the final threshold. It must fade into the heights of the Mind, making way for the Active, Resonant Frequency of Joshua to Guide the Vessel Forward.