9. For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the measuring line of his inheritance.
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.
19. And when the Lord saw it, his wrath was kindled because of his sons and of his daughters.
20. And he said, I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end shall be: that they are a generation of perversities, sons without faith.
21. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I also will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with foolish Gentiles.
22. For fire shall be kindled in my anger and shall burn unto the lowest part of Sheol and shall consume the earth with her fruit and burn up the foundations of the mountains.