Deuteronomy 32:7-12 Remember the Days of Old - Initial Draft 11-01-2025

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Welcome to the InAllWisdom Podcast, 

A daily podcast dedicated to wisdom for life. 

I am Jim Donnelly, your host. 

 

The title of today’s podcast is: 

Remember The Days of Old

 
 

Some of my approach is unexpected. You won’t be disappointed; stay tuned.
 
 

For each podcast about the song of Moses, I read a single stanza, a paragraph. Every paragraph in this song contains strophes or turns of thought in the conversation.

 

These turns of thought provide my podcast titles.   

 

Reading a paragraph, long or short, will help many readers who may know nothing about this song.  And others who know some things will better understand this song.

 

I use a different translation each month. This will help us hear and better understand one of the longest songs in the Bible. 

 

This song should bring the reader to a knowledge and understanding of what God has already done, is doing now, and will continue to do, until He returns on the clouds of the sky.
 
 

Let’s continue to learn some things about the song of Moses by considering Stanza Two, Deuteronomy 32:7-12.
 
 

Today I am reading from the Contemporary Torah, 2006, The Jewish Publication Society. This edition prints out the verses in half-lines, half-sentences.

 

Deuteronomy 32:7-12

 

7 Remember the days of old,
 
Consider the years of ages past;
 
Ask your parent, who will inform you,
 
Your elders, who will tell you:
 
 

8 When the Most High gave nations their homes
 
And set the divisions of humanity,
 
[God] fixed the boundaries of peoples
 
In relation to Israel’s numbers.
 
9 For Yahweh’s, יהוה’s portion is this people;
 
Jacob, God’s own allotment.
 
 

10 [God] found them in a desert region,
 
In an empty howling waste.
 
[God] engirded them, watched over them,
 
Guarded them as the pupil of God’s eye.
 
 

11 Like an eagle who rouses its nestlings,
 
Gliding down to its young,
 
So did [God] spread wings and take them,
 
Bear them along on pinions;

12 Yahweh, יהוה alone did guide them
 
No alien god alongside.

 

The Contemporary Torah, 2006, The Jewish Publication Society[1]





Deuteronomy 32:7-11, Stanza Two, contains four strophes [turns of thought]:   

       32:7      - Thought 1 - Remember the days of old!

       32:8-9   - Thought 2 - The Most High divided the nations

       32:10    - Thought 3 - Yahweh found them.

       32:12    - Thought 4 - Yahweh guided them.



I begin with the first strophe, thought: “Remember the days of old!

That is a command from the mouth of Yahweh. Remember begins with Genesis 11 when Yahweh divided up the nations and set their boundaries. Including Jacob, God’s own allotment.

Remember continues with how Yahweh found them in an empty howling wasteland. Remember ends with Yahweh being their guide.

Remember, includes Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” I say that because Deut. 32:12 “Like an eagle who rouses its nestlings” is a direct quote: the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.



Legacy Standard Bible (Ge 1:2). (2022). Three Sixteen Publishing.



Also, the Book of Job urges its readers to “remember Creation” with these first words: “A man was …”. I will provide a link to that unexpected approach when I write a blog and give a podcast on Job 1:1.



Further, the Book of Ecclesiastes ends this way: “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days happen and the years draw near in which you will say, ‘I have no delight in them.’” (Eccles 12:1, LSB).



Here in the 21st century, we do not choose to remember the past.

We dismiss this huge nudge because people have raised us to ignore history.



We gladly go in every direction under the sun, and suppress thoughts about the history of mankind. There is no room in our minds for history, especially if it involves God. It just doesn’t fit the 21st-century mindset.



So, I leave you with that problem.



And remind you that the song that Yahweh gave to Moses is the same song that shows up on the pages of the Book of Revelation. This song solves the problem of dismissing history from the conversation between you and God; between you and humankind.



This song links all that God has done in the past, is doing in the present, with all that He will continue to do in the future, until He comes on the clouds of the sky.



Do not let 21st-century cultural thinking keep you from getting on the “Remember Train” that will guide your journey through life, into the future, and into eternity. And those you love and live for, day by day; should also be on that train that travels safely and successfully into the future. 





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Until he comes on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory,

may

       “Yahweh bless you, and keep you;

        Yahweh make His face shine on you,

       And be gracious to you;

       Yahweh lift up His face on you,

       And give you peace.’” 



Legacy Standard Bible (Nu 6:24–27). (2022). Three Sixteen Publishing.



[1]. Stein, D. E. S., Berlin, A., Frankel, E., & Meyers, C. L., eds. (2006). The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation (Dt 32:7–12). The Jewish Publication Society.