The chapter recalls forty years in the wilderness before turning to warn against forgetting the LORD once bread, herds, and gold multiply in the land ahead.
Full sung version coming soon.
Lyrics
You shall observe to do all the commandments Which I command you today
That you may live and multiply And go in and possess the land Which the LORD swore to your fathers You shall remember all the way Which the LORD your God has led you these forty years In the wilderness that he might humble you To test you to know what was in your heart Whether you would keep his commandments or not
He humbled you allowed you to be hungry And fed you with manna which you didn’t know Neither did your fathers know That he might teach you That man does not live by bread only But man lives by every word That proceeds out of the LORD’s mouth
Your clothing didn’t grow old on you Neither did your foot swell these forty years You shall consider in your heart That as a man disciplines his son So the LORD your God disciplines you You shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God To walk in his ways and to fear him
For the LORD your God brings you into a good land A land of brooks of water of springs And underground water flowing into valleys and hills A land of wheat barley vines fig trees and pomegranates A land of olive trees and honey A land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity
You shall not lack anything in it A land whose stones are iron And out of whose hills you may dig copper You shall eat and be full And you shall bless the LORD your God For the good land which he has given you
Beware lest you forget the LORD your God In not keeping his commandments His ordinances and his statutes Lest when you have eaten and are full And have built fine houses and lived in them And when your herds and your flocks multiply
And your silver and your gold is multiplied Then your heart might be lifted up And you forget the LORD your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt Out of the house of bondage
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Deuteronomy 8 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.