Deuteronomio 31:21

La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Onde, quando gran mali ed angosce gli saranno avvenute, questo Cantico testimonierà contro a lui in faccia; perciocchè non sarà dimenticato per non esser più nella bocca della sua progenie; conciossiachè io conosca la sua natura, ciò ch’egli fa oggi, innanzi ch’io l’abbia introdotto nel paese, ch’io ho giurato.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
e quando molti mali e molte angosce saran piombati loro addosso, allora questo cantico leverà la sua voce contro di loro, come un testimonio; poiché esso non sarà dimenticato, e rimarrà sulle labbra dei loro posteri; giacché io conosco quali siano i pensieri ch’essi concepiscono, anche ora, prima ch’io li abbia introdotti nel paese che giurai di dar loro".

La Nuova Diodati
Allora avverr che quando molti mali e molte calamit saranno cadute loro addosso, questo cantico testimonier contro di loro, perch esso non sar dimenticato e rimarr sulle labbra dei loro discendenti; io conosco infatti i disegni che essi concepiscono, prima ancora di averli introdotti nel paese che ho promesso con giuramento".

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

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.