Some of the most fundamental elements of our historiosophy are missing from the poem of Haazinu. A concise Jewish history which contains no covenant, which involves no choice between good and evil, no exile and no repentance, seems very strange. It appears that the song of Haazinu is describing history from a deterministic view - the inevitability of sin and the punishment that will follow. Why does the song present a view of history so radically different than the one with which we are familiar? 

Courtesy of the Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion