9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
10. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11. As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.
12. The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.
13. He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,
14. Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.
15. The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
16. They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
17. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.
18. Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
19. The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
20. And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
21. They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.
22. A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.
23. I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
24. They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
25. Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
26. I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
27. But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.
28. They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
29. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.