3. For I will proclaim the Lord’s name.Ascribe greatness to our God!
4. The Rock, his work is perfect,for all his ways are just.A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,just and right is he.
5. They have dealt corruptly with him.They are not his children, because of their defect.They are a perverse and crooked generation.
6. Is this the way you repay the Lord,foolish and unwise people?Isn’t he your father who has bought you?He has made you and established you.
7. Remember the days of old.Consider the years of many generations.Ask your father, and he will show you;your elders, and they will tell you.
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.