8. When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage,when he separated out human beings,He set up the boundaries of the peoplesafter the number of the divine beings;
9. But the Lord’s portion was his people;his allotted share was Jacob.
10. He found them in a wilderness,a wasteland of howling desert.He shielded them, cared for them,guarded them as the apple of his eye.
11. As an eagle incites its nestlings,hovering over its young,So he spread his wings, took them,bore them upon his pinions.
12. The Lord alone guided them,no foreign god was with them.
13. He had them mount the summits of the land,fed them the produce of its fields;He suckled them with honey from the cragsand olive oil from the flinty rock;
14. Butter from cows and milk from sheep,with the best of lambs;Bashan bulls and goats,with the cream of finest wheat;and the foaming blood of grapes you drank.
15. So Jacob ate and was satisfied,Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;you became fat and gross and gorged.They forsook the God who made themand scorned the Rock of their salvation.
16. With strange gods they incited him,with abominations provoked him to anger.
17. They sacrificed to demons, to “no-gods,”to gods they had never known,Newcomers from afar,before whom your ancestors had never trembled.
18. You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you,you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19. The Lord saw and was filled with loathing,provoked by his sons and daughters.