4. The Rock — His work is perfect;all His ways are entirely just. A faithful God, without prejudice,He is righteous and true.
5. His people have acted corruptly toward Him; this is their defect — they are not His childrenbut a devious and crooked generation.
6. Is this how you repay the Lord,you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t He your Father and Creator? Didn’t He make you and sustain you?
7. Remember the days of old;consider the years long past.Ask your father, and he will tell you,your elders, and they will teach you.
8. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance and divided the human race, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the people of Israel.
9. But the Lord’s portion is His people,Jacob, His own inheritance.
10. He found him in a desolate land,in a barren, howling wilderness;He surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the pupil of His eye.
11. He watches over His nest like an eagleand hovers over His young;He spreads His wings, catches him,and lifts him up on His pinions.
12. The Lord alone led him,with no help from a foreign god.
13. He made him ride on the heights of the land and eat the produce of the field.He nourished him with honey from the rockand oil from flint-like rock,
14. cream from the herd and milk from the flock,with the fat of lambs,rams from Bashan, and goats,with the choicest grains of wheat;you drank wine from the finest grapes.
15. Then Jeshurun became fat and rebelled —you became fat, bloated, and gorged.He abandoned the God who made himand scorned the Rock of his salvation.