Deuteronomy 32:2
Let my speech be looked for as the rain, 1 And my words come down as dew, 1 As the shower upon the herbage, 1 And as snow upon the grass. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
1Attend, O heaven, and I will speak; 1 And let the earth hear the words out of my mouth. 1
3For I have called on the name of the Lord: 1 Assign ye greatness to our God. 1
Cross References
Job 29:22At my word they spoke not again, 1 And they were very glad whenever I spoke to them. 1
Isaiah 55:10For as rain shall come down, or snow, from heaven, and shall not return until it have saturated the earth, and it bring forth, and bud, and give seed to the sower, and bread for food:
Hosea 14:5I will restore their dwellings, I will love them truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.
Micah 5:7And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion’s whelp among flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:2-7
The Song of Moses. ( b. c. 1451.) 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… Read the whole commentary →