7. Remember the days of old;consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you,your elders, and they will tell you.
8. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,when he divided mankind,he fixed the borders of the peoplesaccording to the number of the sons of God.
9. But the Lord’s portion is his people,Jacob his allotted heritage.
10. “He found him in a desert land,and in the howling waste of the wilderness;he encircled him, he cared for him,he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,that flutters over its young,spreading out its wings, catching them,bearing them on its pinions,
12. the Lord alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.
13. He made him ride on the high places of the land,and he ate the produce of the field,and he suckled him with honey out of the rock,and oil out of the flinty rock.
14. Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,with fat of lambs,rams of Bashan and goats,with the very finest of the wheat—and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.
15. “But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made himand scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
16. They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17. They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,to gods they had never known,to new gods that had come recently,whom your fathers had never dreaded.