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Deuteronomy 32:4-18

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4“The Rock! His work is perfect,

For all His ways are just;

A God of faithfulness and without injustice,

Righteous and just is He.

5“They have acted corruptly against Him,

They are not His children, because of their defect;

But are a perverse and crooked generation.

6“Is this what you do to the Lord,

You foolish and unwise people?

Is He not your Father who has purchased you?

He has made you and established you.

7“Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of all generations.

Ask your father and he will inform you,

Your elders, and they will tell you.

8“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the sons of mankind,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the sons of Israel.

9“For the Lord’s portion is His people;

Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

10“He found him in a desert land,

And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness;

He encircled him, He cared for him,

He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

11“As an eagle stirs up its nest,

And hovers over its young,

He spread His wings, He caught them,

He carried them on His pinions.

12“The Lord alone guided him,

And there was no foreign god with him.

13“He had him ride on the high places of the earth,

And he ate the produce of the field;

And He had him suck honey from the rock,

And oil from the flinty rock,

14Curds of the herd, and milk of the flock,

With fat of lambs

And rams, the breed of Bashan, and of goats,

With the best of the wheat;

And you drank wine of the blood of grapes.

15“But Jeshurun became fat and kicked—

You have become fat, thick, and obstinate—

Then he abandoned God who made him,

And rejected the Rock of his salvation.

16“They made Him jealous with strange gods;

With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

17“They sacrificed to demons, who were not God,

To gods whom they have not known,

New gods who came lately,

Whom your fathers did not know.

18“You forgot the Rock who fathered you,

And forgot the God who gave you birth.