Deuteronomy 31:30 Meaning Moses Spoke in the Ears of All

On the flat land east of the Jordan a man of a hundred and twenty stands in front of everyone he has carried for forty years, and he knows he will not cross the river. That stopping place is not punishment but his measure. Every servant is given a reach, and the one who is lifted highest is still the one who gets a limit, because only the Real has no edge. Before this he was told straight out that after he dies the people will turn aside, so he should write a song and let it stand as a witness. That telling does not shove them into it. Each thing has a shape it has always had in God's knowledge, and knowing takes the shape of what it knows, so the song is not a threat set on top of them but a mirror held up to what they already are.

He writes it and puts it in their mouths. All speech is breath, and the breath is the Merciful breathing out; the world itself is words spoken, and a thing stands up because it hears Be and obeys. The hidden treasure wanted to be known, and so it talks. The scroll is laid outside, next to the gold chest of the law, while the song is set inside the chest of each person, kept in the throat.

Then he says it into their ears, all of it, and does not stop until the last word. One voice, many ears, and no ear takes more than its own shape can hold. The song carries anger and comfort both, and the anger passes while mercy is the floor under everything. When the words are finished the speaker is finished too, and the speech goes on standing there without him, since it was never his breath.