1 "Give ear, O the heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2 May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distil as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
The feeling here is one of joy. Moses is preparing to make the transition from Earth back to heaven. His song speaks in terms of the sweetness of the material world from which he will soon depart. This is not a song of death, but of Eternal Life.
3 For I will proclaim the name of YHVH. Ascribe greatness to our god!
4 "The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A god of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
This could not honestly be said of the God of the literal interpretation of the first five books of the Bible, but if we understand the allegory, symbol and metaphor it uses, we can agree wholeheartedly.
5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are no longer his children because of their blemish; they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do you thus requite YHVH, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
The "days of old" he recalls is from ancient times, long before the Israelites became a people. It may even go back to the time of Atlantis and before. Our consciousness was there, at the beginning. The history of these people is the history of our consciousness.
9 For YHVH's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
10 "He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
In the beginning, our consciousness was in a wilderness. We were lost in a level of unconsciousness, totally unaware of our divine inheritance.
11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,
12 YHVH alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; and he made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, herds of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat--and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
As our consciousness began to grow, we began to become aware of our spiritual side. The rocks here symbolize spiritual Truths. The blood of the grape is a symbol for the Spirit. All during this learning time, YHVH and his hierarchies watched over us and cared for us.
15 "But Jesh'urun waxed fat, and kicked; you waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek; then he forsook god, who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
Then he forsook YHVH which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominable practices they provoked him to anger.
17 They sacrificed to demons which were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come in of late, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, and you forgot the god who gave you birth.
In our ignorance and lack of experience, we gradually became enamored by the materialism of our surroundings. We turned away from the spiritual path and forgot YHVH.
19 "YHVH saw it, and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, 'I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.