5. They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
6. Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?
7. Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.
8. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9. For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.
10. In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11. like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.
12. The Lord alone led him; no foreign god was with him.