7. Remember the old days, the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders and they will tell you.
8. When the Most High apportioned the nations, at his dividing up of the sons of humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the children of Israel.
9. For Yahweh’s portion was his people, Jacob the share of his inheritance.
10. He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he encircled him, he cared for him, he protected him like the apple of his eye.
11. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads out its wings, takes them, carries them on its pinions,
12. so Yahweh alone guided him, and there was no foreign god accompanying him.
13. And he set him on the high places of the land, and he fed him the crops of the field, and he nursed him with honey from crags, and with oil from flinty rock,
14. With curds from the herd, and with milk from the flock, with the fat of young rams, and rams, the offspring of Bashan, and with goats along with the finest kernels of wheat, and from the blood of grapes you drank fermented wine.
15. And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed at the rock of his salvation.
16. They made him jealous with strange gods; with detestable things they provoked him.
17. They sacrificed to the demons, not God, to gods whom they had not known, new gods who came from recent times; their ancestors had not known them.
18. The rock who bore you, you neglected, and you forgot God, the one giving you birth.
19. Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
20. So he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what will be their end, for they are a generation of perversity, children in whom there is no faithfulness.
21. They annoyed me with what is not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.
22. For a fire was kindled by my anger, and it burned up to the depths of Sheol, and it devoured the earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of the mountains.
23. I will heap disasters upon them; my arrows I will spend on them.
24. They will become weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with the poison of the creeping things in the dust;