Deuteronomy 32:1-13

1Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak; listen, earth, to the words from my mouth.

2Let my teaching fall like rain and my word settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass and showers on tender plants.

3For I will proclaim the Lord’s name. Declare the greatness of our God!

4The Rock  — his work is perfect; all his ways are just. A faithful God, without bias, he is righteous and true.

5His people have acted corruptly toward him; this is their defect  — they are not his children but a devious and crooked generation.

6Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father and Creator? Didn’t he make you and sustain you?

7Remember the days of old; consider the years of past generations. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will teach you.

8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance and divided the human race, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the people of Israel.

9But the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob, his own inheritance.

10He found him in a desolate land, in a barren, howling wilderness; he surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the pupil of his eye.

11He watches over his nest like an eagle and hovers over his young; he spreads his wings, catches him, and carries him on his feathers.

12The Lord alone led him, with no help from a foreign god.

13He made him ride on the heights of the land and eat the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from flinty rock,