9. "For the Lord's portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10. "He found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
11. "Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, That hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions.
12. "The Lord alone guided him, And there was no foreign god with him.
13. "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He made him suck honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock,
14. Curds of cows, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat- And of the blood of grapes you drank wine.
15. "But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked- You are grown fat, thick, and sleek- Then he forsook God who made him, And scorned the Rock of his salvation.
16. "They made Him jealous with strange gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.