Deuteronomy 32:52
Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- E contra videbis terram, et non ingredieris in eam, quam ego dabo filiis Israël.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπέναντι ὄψῃ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐκεῖ οὐκ εἰσελεύσῃ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֥י מִנֶּ֖גֶד תִּרְאֶ֣ה אֶת הָאָ֑רֶץ וְשָׁ֨מָּה֙ לֹ֣א תָב֔וֹא אֶל הָאָ֕רֶץ אֲשֶׁר אֲנִ֥י נֹתֵ֖ן לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Into it. By repeating this reproach and judgment, God excited in his servant the most lively sentiments of repentance for his fault, Numbers xx. (Haydock)
Aaron had been deprived of the sight of this delightful country. If they had been labouring for its acquisition alone, the reflection must have been very cutting. But they had a better country in view, though they had greatly desired to enter into that land which was to be ennobled and purified by the birth and blood of the Son of God. (Haydock)
Having received the order from God in the evening, after Moses had taught his canticle to the people, he immediately set his house in order, and on the following morning he gave his last blessing to the tribes of Israel, and was attended by the chiefs to the foot of the mountain. (Salien)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVI
26. “And they angered Him at the waters of strife: so that Moses was vexed for their sakes” ( ver. 32 ); “because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake doubtfully with his lips” ( ver. 33 ). What is spake doubtfully? As if God, who had done so great wonders before, could not cause water to flow from a rock. For he touched the rock with his rod with doubt, and thus distinguished this miracle from the rest, in which he had not doubted. He thus offended, thus deserved to hear that he should die, without entering into the land of promise. For being disturbed by the murmurs of an unbelieving people, he held not fast that confidence which he ought to have held. …