Ulangan 31:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka apabila banyak kali mereka ditimpa malapetaka serta kesusahan, maka nyanyian ini akan menjadi kesaksian terhadap mereka, sebab nyanyian ini akan tetap melekat pada bibir keturunan mereka. Sebab Aku tahu niat yang dikandung mereka pada hari ini, sebelum Aku membawa mereka ke negeri yang Kujanjikan dengan sumpah kepada mereka."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka apabila banyak kali mereka ditimpa malapetaka serta kesusahan, maka nyanyian ini akan menjadi kesaksian terhadap mereka, sebab nyanyian ini akan tetap melekat pada bibir keturunan mereka. Sebab Aku tahu niat yang dikandung mereka pada hari ini, sebelum Aku membawa mereka ke negeri yang Kujanjikan dengan sumpah kepada mereka."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka akan jadi apabila segala celaka yang besar-besar dan kesukaran itu berlaku atasnya, bahwa nyanyian ini juga akan naik saksi atas mereka itu, karena tiada ia itu terlupa dari pada mulut anak cucunya! Maka sesungguhnya Kuketahui akan niatnya, yang diadakannya pada hari ini juga, sebelum Kubawa akan mereka itu ke dalam negeri yang telah Kujanji pakai sumpah.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Beholde, thy dayes are come that thou must dye: Call Iosuah therfore, and stande ye in the tabernacle of the congregatio, that I may geue him a charge. And Moyses and Iosuah went & stood in the tabernacle of the congregation. ¹⁵ And the Lorde appeared in the tabernacle, euen in the piller of the cloude: and the piller of the cloude stoode ouer the doore of the tabernacle. ¹⁶ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Beholde, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and this people wyll ryse vp, and go a whoryng after straunge gods of the lande whyther they go, and wyll forsake me, and breake the appoyntmet which I haue made with them. ¹⁷ And then my wrath wyll waxe hot against them in that day, & I wil forsake them, & wyll hide my face from them, and they shalbe consumed, and much aduersitie and tribulations shall come vpon them, so that then they wyll say: Are not these troubles come vpon me, because God is not with me? ¹⁸ And I also wyll surely hyde away my face in that day, for all the euyls sake which they shall haue wrought, in that they are turned vnto straunge gods. ¹⁹ Nowe therfore write ye this song for you, and teache it the children of Israel, and put it in their mouthes, that this song may be my witnesse agaynst the children of Israel. ²⁰ For I wyll bryng them into the lande which I sware vnto their fathers, that floweth with mylke and honye: and they shall eate, and fyll them selues, and waxe fat, and turne vnto strauge gods, and serue them, and blaspheme me, and breake my couenaunt. ²¹ And when much mischiefe and tribulation is come vpon them, this song shall aunswere them as a witnesse: For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouthes of their seede: for I knowe their imagination, which they go about euen nowe, before I haue brought the into the lande which I sware.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this song: A sacred song, appointed to be composed by Moses, doubtless under divine inspiration; which the people were required to learn, and teach to their children from generation to generation. Deuteronomy 31:19

against: Heb. before

I know: Genesis 6:5, Genesis 8:21, Psalms 139:2, Isaiah 46:10, Ezekiel 38:10, Ezekiel 38:11, Hosea 5:3, Hosea 13:5, Hosea 13:6, Amos 5:25, Amos 5:26, John 2:24, John 2:25, Acts 2:23, Acts 4:28

go about: Heb. do

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:44 - a witness Exodus 14:3 - Pharaoh Joshua 24:27 - General 2 Kings 17:13 - testified 1 Chronicles 28:9 - the imaginations Nehemiah 9:29 - testifiedst Nehemiah 9:34 - thou didst Nehemiah 9:35 - fat land Isaiah 34:16 - Seek Isaiah 66:18 - I know Jeremiah 35:17 - Behold Jeremiah 42:19 - admonished you Daniel 10:14 - in the Amos 5:12 - I know Zechariah 11:11 - knew Galatians 5:3 - testify

Cross-References

Genesis 2:14
The name of ye thirde ryuer is Hidekel, & it goeth toward the east side of Assiria: & the fourth ryuer is Euphrates.

Genesis 15:18
In that same day the Lorde made a couenaunt with Abram, saying: vnto thy seede haue I geuen this lande, fro the ryuer of Egypt, euen vnto the great ryuer, the ryuer of Euphrates.

Genesis 31:2
And Iacob behelde the countenaunce of Laban, and beholde, it was not towardes hym as it was wont to be.

Genesis 31:3
And the Lorde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne into the lande of thy fathers, and to thy kynrede, and I wyll be with thee.

Genesis 31:8
When he sayde, the spotted shalbe thy wages: then al the sheepe bare spotted. And when he sayd, the ringstraked shalbe thy rewarde: then bare all the sheepe ringstraked.

Genesis 31:9
Thus hath God taken away the increase of your fathers flocke, and geuen it to me.

Genesis 31:23
Then he toke his brethren with him, and folowed after him seuen daies iourney, & ouertoke him at the mounte Gilead.

Genesis 31:51
And Laban sayde moreouer to Iacob: beholde this heape, and this stone set vp on ende, whiche I haue layde betwixt me and thee,

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, and the God of theyr father, be iudge betwixt vs. And Iacob sware by the feare of his father Isahac.

Genesis 37:25
And they sate them downe to eate bread: and as they lyft vp their eyes and loked about, and behold there came a company of Ismaelites from Gilead, and their camelles laden with spicerie, bawlme, and mirrhe, and were goyng downe ta cary it to Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them,.... As did in the times of the judges, in the Babylonish captivity, and do now in their present exile:

that this song shall testify against them as a witness; which so clearly points at their sins, with all their aggravated circumstances, and describes so fully their calamities, distresses, and punishment for them:

for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; which shows that it respects time to come, their later posterity, whose memory of this song would be conjured up by the evils that should come upon them for their sins; nor is it forgotten by them to this day, who acknowledge there are some things in it now fulfilled or fulfilling in them:

for I know their imagination which they go about even now: or are "making" c; forming and framing within themselves, there being a secret inclination in their minds to idolatry, which were working and contriving schemes to bring it about, and set it up; and this, God, the searcher of hearts, knew full well, and that in process of time this evil imagination would break forth into act, in an open and flagrant manner:

before I have brought thee into the land which I sware; to their fathers, to give it to them for an inheritance, as is suggested in

Deuteronomy 31:20.

c עשה "faciens", Montanus; "quam facit", Pagninus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The transaction recorded in these verses may be regarded as the solemn inauguration of Joshua to the office to which he had some time before Numbers 27:22 been called, and his recognition in it by God, which were manifested by his being summoned into the tabernacle with Moses while the Lord appeared in the pillar of cloud (compare Numbers 11:25; Numbers 12:5).

Deuteronomy 31:16

The future apostasy of the people is announced in the presence of Joshua that the latter might be fully aware of the danger and strive in his day to avert it. This he faithfully did (compare Joshua 24:31); but we find him in his own last address to Israel repeating Joshua 23:15-16 the self-same prediction and warning.

Deuteronomy 31:19

A witness for me against them - i. e., an attestation from their own mouths at once of God’s benefits, their own duties, and their deserts when they should fall away. Being in verse it would be the more easily learned and kept in memory. The use of songs for such didactic purposes was not unknown to the legislators of antiquity. Compare also the advice of Paul, “teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” Colossians 3:16.

Deuteronomy 31:23

He gave - i. e., the Lord gave.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 31:21. This song shall testify against them — Because in it their general defection is predicted, but in such a way as to show them how to avoid the evil; and if they did not avoid the evil, and the threatened punishment should come upon them, then the song should testify against them, by showing that they had been sufficiently warned, and might have lived to God, and so escaped those disasters.