Deuteronomy 32:32

If the Rock of Israel was so much mightier than the rock of their enemies, how came it that Israel was beaten and put to flight by their enemies? The reason is here given: It was because Israel had become wholly corrupt and vitiated that they were forsaken of the Lord and left to the power of their enemies. Their vine ; i . e . Israel itself (cf. Psalms 80:9 , etc.; Isaiah 5:2 ; Jeremiah 2:21 ; Hosea 10:1 ). The vine of Sodom . It has been supposed that there is reference here to a particular plant, and different plants have been suggested as deserving to be so named. But it is more probable that Sodom and Gomorrah are here advanced as types of what is depraved, and to the moral taste nauseous (cf. Isaiah 1:10 ; Jeremiah 23:14 ). Gall (cf. Deuteronomy 29:18 ).