3. I will announce the name of the Lord.Praise God because he is great!
4. He is like a rock. What he does is perfect.He is always fair.He is a faithful God who does no wrong.He is right and fair.
5. They have done evil against him.To their shame they are no longer his children.They are an evil and lying people.
6. This is not the way to repay the Lord.You are foolish and unwise.He is your Father and Maker.He made you and formed you.
7. Remember the old days.Think of the years already passed.Ask your father. He will tell you.Ask your elders. They will inform you.
8. The Most High God gave the nations their lands.He divided up the human race.He set up borders for the people.He even numbered the Israelites.
9. The Lord took his people as his share.The people of Jacob were his very own.
10. He found them in a desert.It was a windy, empty land.He surrounded them and brought them up.He guarded them as those he loved very much.
11. He was like an eagle building its nest.It flutters over its young.It spreads its wings to catch them.It carries them on its feathers.
12. The Lord alone led them.There were no foreign gods among them.
13. The Lord brought them to the heights of the land.He fed them the fruit of the fields.He gave them honey from the rocks.He brought oil from the solid rock.
14. There were milk curds from the cows and milk from the sheep.There were fat sheep and goats.There were sheep and goats from Bashan.There was the best of the wheat.You drank the juice of grapes.
15. Israel grew fat and kicked.They were fat and full and firm.They left the God who made them.They rejected the Rock who saved them.
16. They made God jealous with foreign gods.They made him angry with hated idols.
17. They made sacrifices to demons, not God.They were gods they had never known.They were new gods from nearby.Your ancestors did not fear them.
18. You left God who is the Rock, your Father.You forgot the God who gave you birth.
19. The Lord saw this and rejected them.His sons and daughters had made him angry.
20. He said, “I will turn away from them.I will see what will happen to them.They are evil people.They are unfaithful children.
21. They used things that are not gods to make me jealous.They used worthless idols to make me angry.So I will use those who are not a nation to make them jealous.I will use a nation that does not understand to make them angry.