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.
20. He said, I will hide my face from them,and see what becomes of them.For they are a fickle generation,children with no loyalty in them!
21. Since they have incited me with a “no-god,”and provoked me with their empty idols,I will incite them with a “no-people”;with a foolish nation I will provoke them.
22. For by my wrath a fire is kindledthat has raged to the depths of Sheol,It has consumed the earth with its yield,and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.