10. He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11. As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings,
12. so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13. He made him ride on the high places of the earth that he might eat the fruits of the field; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the strong flint,
14. butter of cows and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams of the sons of Bashan (or fruitfulness) and goats with the fat of kidneys, of wheat; and thou didst drink the blood of the grape, pure wine.
15. But Jeshurun (the upright one) waxed fat and kicked; (thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou hast covered thyself) and forsook the God who made him and lightly esteemed the strong One of his saving health.
16. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came from nearby, whom your fathers feared not.
18. Of the strong One that begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgotten the God that travailed for thee.