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Deuteronomy 32:2
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the heavens and the earth in the final days of Israel’s wilderness journey, framing his upcoming song as a covenant witness.
The words — יַעֲרֹף (ya.'a.Rof) means "may it drop," and תִּזַּ֥ל (ti.Zal) means "may it distil," both describing the descent of his teaching and speech.
The thread — The rain-and-dew metaphor recurs in Isaiah 55:10, Psalms 72:6, and Micah 5:7 to illustrate divine provision and spiritual renewal.
Why it lands — It demands that the hearer treat the spoken word as a life-giving force that penetrates and nourishes the recipient.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Cross-references
- Isaiah 55:10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- Psalms 72:6 May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
- Micah 5:7 Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
- Job 29:22 After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
- Hosea 14:5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
- 2 Samuel 23:4 is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- Hosea 6:4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
- Hebrews 6:7 For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
- Zechariah 10:1 Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.