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Deuteronomy 32:9-20

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9For the LORD ’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

10In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

11like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.

12The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.

13He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,

14with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.

15Jeshurun Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel. grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.

16They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.

17They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.

18You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

19The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

20“I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.