10. “He found them wandering through the desert,a desolate, windswept wilderness.He protected them and cared for them,as he would protect himself.
11. Like an eagle teaching its young to fly,catching them safely on its spreading wings,the Lord kept Israel from falling.
12. The Lord alone led his peoplewithout the help of a foreign god.
13. “He let them rule the highlands,and they ate what grew in the fields.They found wild honey among the rocks;their olive trees flourished in stony ground.
14. Their cows and goats gave plenty of milk;they had the best sheep, goats, and cattle,the finest wheat, and the choicest wine.
15. “The Lord's people grew rich, but rebellious;they were fat and stuffed with food.They abandoned God their Creatorand rejected their mighty saviour.
16. Their idolatry made the Lord jealous;the evil they did made him angry.
17. They sacrificed to gods that are not real,new gods their ancestors had never known,gods that Israel had never obeyed,
18. They forgot their God, their mighty saviour,the one who had given them life.
19. “When the Lord saw this, he was angryand rejected his sons and daughters.
20. ‘I will no longer help them,’ he said;‘then I will see what happens to them,those stubborn, unfaithful people.
21. With their idols they have made me angry,jealous with their so-called gods,gods that are really not gods.So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry;I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.