6. Is this how you thank the Lord, you stupid, senseless people?Isn’t he your father, your creator?Didn’t he make you and establish you?
7. Remember the days long past;consider the years long gone.Ask your father, he will tell you about it;ask your elders, they will give you the details:
8. When God Most High divided up the nations—when he divided up humankind—he decided the people’s boundariesbased on the number of the gods.
9. Surely the Lord’s property was his people;Jacob was his part of the inheritance.
10. God found Israel in a wild land—in a howling desert wasteland—he protected him, cared for him,watched over him with his very own eye.
11. Like an eagle protecting its nest,hovering over its young,God spread out his wings, took hold of Israel,carried him on his back.
12. The Lord alone led Israel;no foreign god assisted.
13. God made Israel glide over the highlands;he fed him with food from the field,nursed him with honey from a boulder,with oil from a hard rock:
14. curds from the herd, milk from the flock,along with the best of lambs,rams from Bashan, he-goats too,along with the finest wheat—and for drink, wine from the juiciest grapes!