'The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy
both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of
gray hairs. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that
they would consider their latter end! How should one chase a
thousand; and two put ten thousand to flight?' What a people they
might be, and what a future there is before them, if they would but
be true to God! But they will not. And so Moses' death-song, like
his life's wish, ends in disappointment and sadness, and dread of
the evils which are coming upon his beloved countrymen.
Lastly, he blesses them, tribe by tribe, in strange and grand words,
such as dying men utter, who, looking earnestly across the dark
river of death, see further than they ever saw amid the cares and
temptations of life. And he blesses them. He will say nothing of
them but good. He will speak not of what they will be, but of what
they ought to be and can be. But not in their own strength--only in
the strength of God. Man is to be nothing to the last; and God is
all in all.
'There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the
heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
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