Deuteronomy 32
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Deuteronomy 32:4-18

4He is a rock. What he does is perfect. All his ways are fair. He is a faithful God, who does no wrong. He is honorable and reliable.

5He recognizes that his people are corrupt. To their shame they are no longer his children. They are devious and scheming.

6Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and silly people? Isn’t he your Father and Owner, who made you and formed you?

7Remember a time long ago. Think about all the past generations. Ask your fathers to remind you, and your leaders to tell you.

8When the Most High gave nations their land, when he divided the descendants of Adam, he set up borders for the tribes corresponding to the number of the sons of Israel.

9But the Lord’s people were his property. Jacob was his own possession.

10He found his people in a desert land, in a barren place where animals howl. He guarded them, took care of them, and protected them because they were helpless.

11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads its wings to catch them, and carries them on its feathers,

12so the Lord alone led his people. No foreign god was with him.

13He made them ride on the heights of the earth and fed them with the produce of the fields. He gave them honey from rocks and olive oil from solid rock.

14They ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. They drank the blood-red wine of grapes.

15Jeshurun  got fat and disrespectful. (You got fat! You were stuffed! You were gorged!) They abandoned the God who made them and treated the rock of their salvation like a fool.

16They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols.

17They sacrificed to demons that are not God, to gods they never heard of. These were new gods, who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped.

18(You ignored the rock who fathered you and forgot the God who gave you life.)

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