8. When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,when he separated the children of men,he set the bounds of the peoplesaccording to the number of the children of Israel.
9. For the Lord’s portion is his people.Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10. He found him in a desert land,in the waste howling wilderness.He surrounded him.He cared for him.He kept him as the apple of his eye.
11. As an eagle that stirs up her nest,that flutters over her young,he spread abroad his wings,he took them,he bore them on his feathers.
12. The Lord alone led him.There was no foreign god with him.
13. He made him ride on the high places of the earth.He ate the increase of the field.He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,oil out of the flinty rock;
14. butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,with fat of lambs,rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,with the finest of the wheat.From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
15. But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.You have grown fat.You have grown thick.You have become sleek.Then he abandoned God who made him,and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
16. They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.They provoked him to anger with abominations.
17. They sacrificed to demons, not God,to gods that they didn’t know,to new gods that came up recently,which your fathers didn’t dread.
18. Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
19. The Lord saw and abhorred,because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
20. He said, “I will hide my face from them.I will see what their end will be;for they are a very perverse generation,children in whom is no faithfulness.