The LORD Vindicates His People
Deuteronomy 32:36–43 is the movement “The LORD Vindicates His People.” Read it inside Moses’ final covenant instruction to Israel on the eastern side of the Jordan as the people prepare for life in the land. The section opens with: “For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.” It closes with: “Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.”
Within the book’s larger story, this section advances several important biblical threads. Death, Life, and Resurrection: God alone kills and makes alive, wounds and heals, and no rival can deliver from His hand.