Deuteronomy and the First Psalms
OUR reading for this week closes Deuteronomy, chapters 22 to 34, and includes the first seventeen Psalms. In Deuteronomy the same instruction from the man of God continues, solemn, hopeful, cheering, earnest, and yet pointing out the awful responsibilities and fearful curses of transgression. These are especially emphasized in chapters 27 and 28. In chapters 32 and 33 many blessed truths of God and prophecies of the tribes are enshrined in songs, which the people were taught to sing through all after time, recalling God's mercy and goodness, and setting forth the importance of sacred song among His children. The last chapter records the death of Moses; probably written by Joshua, the son of Nun.