Deuteronomy 32:10

“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness, etc.] In (<053210>Deuteronomy 32:10-12) instances are given of the goodness of God to the people of Israel, when in the wilderness; by which is meant, either “the wilderness of the land of Egypt”, as it is called, (<262036>Ezekiel 20:36); where they were in a most miserable and forlorn condition, in which the Lord found them, and out of which he brought them; or rather the desert of Arabia, a waste place, where no provisions could be had; a howling wilderness, through the blowing of the winds, the cries of wild creatures, as dragons, owls, ostriches, and the like, as the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, and Aben Ezra, and the…”

“found him in a desert land--took him into a covenant relation at Sinai, or rather "sustained," "provided for him" in a desert land. a waste howling wilderness--a common Oriental expression for a desert infested by wild beasts.”

“Song of Moses If Deuteronomy 32:1-3 be regarded as the introduction, and Deuteronomy 32:43 as the conclusion, the main contents of the song may be grouped under three heads, namely, (1) Deuteronomy 32:4-18, the faithfulness of God, the faithlessness of Israel; (2) Deuteronomy 32:19-33, the chastisement and the need of its infliction by God; (3) Deuteronomy 32:34-42, God’s compassion upon the low and humbled state of His people. The Song differs signally in diction and idiom from the preceding chapters; just as a lyrical passage is conceived in modes of thought wholly unlike those which belong to narrative or exhortation, and is uttered in different phraseology. There are, however, in the…”

“He found him - Not by chance, but as it were looking out and seeking for him. He did indeed manifest himself to him in Egypt, but it was in the wilderness at Sinai, God found him in an eminent manner, and revealed his will to him, and entered into covenant with him, and imparted himself and his grace and blessing to him. By this word he also signifies both their lost condition in themselves, and that their recovery was not from themselves, but only from God who sought and found them out by his grace. In the waste howling wilderness - In a place destitute of all the necessaries and comforts of life, which also was a type of that desolate and comfortless condition in which all men are before…”

“found: Deu 8:15, Deu 8:16; Neh 9:19-21; Psa 107:4, Psa 107:5; Sol 8:5; Jer 2:6; Hos 13:5 led him: or, compassed him he instructed: Deu 4:36; Neh 9:20; Psa 32:7-10, Psa 147:19, Psa 147:20; Rom 2:18, Rom 3:2 he kept: Psa 17:8; Pro 7:2; Zac 2:8 Deuteronomy 32:11”