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Deuteronomy 32:18
18The Rock who birthed you, you ignored. You forgot God who brought you forth.
Deuteronomy 32:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
- New International Version (NIV)You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.
Context of Deuteronomy 32:18
16They made him jealous with strangers, with abominations they angered Him. 17They sacrificed to demons, a non-god, gods they had not known— to new ones who came in lately, ones your fathers had not dreaded. The Rock who birthed you, you ignored. You forgot God who brought you forth. 19“Adonai saw, and He spurned His sons and His daughters out of vexation. 20He said, “I will hide My face from them, I want to see their hereafter. For they are an upside down generation, children with no faithfulness in them.
Read all of Deuteronomy 32Deuteronomy 32:18 word by word
צ֥וּר יְלָדְךָ֖ תֶּ֑שִׁי וַתִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֵ֥ל מְחֹלְלֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 32:18
- Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock—blameless is His work. Indeed, all His ways are just. God of faithfulness without iniquity, righteous and upright is He.
- Isaiah 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and you have not remembered the Rock of your strength. Therefore you plant delightful plants and set out exotic vines.
- Deuteronomy 6:12then watch yourself so that you do not forget Adonai, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
- Deuteronomy 8:11“Take care that you do not forget Adonai your God by not keeping His mitzvot, ordinances and statutes that I am commanding you today.
- Psalms 9:17Adonai is known for executing judgment. The wicked one is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah
- Psalms 44:20Yet You crushed us in a place of jackals, covered us with the shadow of death.
- Psalms 106:21They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt—
- Isaiah 22:10Though you counted the houses of Jerusalem, you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
- Jeremiah 2:32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me, days without number.
- Jeremiah 3:21A voice is heard on the barren hills —the weeping and supplication of the children of Israel— because they perverted their way and forgot Adonai their God.
- Hosea 8:14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built temples, while Judah has multiplied fortified cities. So I will send fire upon its cities that will consume their citadels.”
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 32:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Of the Rock that begat thee - צור tsur, the first cause, the fountain of thy being. See the note on Deuteronomy 32:4.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-42Verses 1-42 Song of Moses If Deuteronomy 32:1-3 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) Deuteronomy 32:4-18, the faithfulness of God, the faithlessness of Israel; (2) Deuteronomy 32:19-33, the chastisement and the need of its infliction by God; (3) Deuteronomy 32:34-42, God‘s compassion upon the low and humbled state of His people. The Song…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-18Verses 15-18 Here are two instances of the wickedness of Israel, each was apostacy from God. These people were called Jeshurun, "an upright people," so some; "a seeing people," so others: but they soon lost the reputation both of their knowledge and of their righteousness. They indulged their appetites, as if they had nothing to do but to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it. Those who make a god of themselves, and a god of their…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18the Rock: This phrase emphasizes God's reliability as Father (see 32:4, 9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-431. Give ear, O ye heavens; ... hear, O earth--The magnificence of the exordium, the grandeur of the theme, the frequent and sudden transitions, the elevated strain of the sentiments and language, entitle this song to be ranked amongst the noblest specimens of poetry to be found in the Scriptures.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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