11. Like an eagle teaching its young to fly,catching them safely on its spreading wings,the Lord kept Israel from falling.
12. The Lord alone led his peoplewithout the help of a foreign god.
13. “He let them rule the highlands,and they ate what grew in the fields.They found wild honey among the rocks;their olive trees flourished in stony ground.
14. Their cows and goats gave plenty of milk;they had the best sheep, goats, and cattle,the finest wheat, and the choicest wine.
15. “The Lord's people grew rich, but rebellious;they were fat and stuffed with food.They abandoned God their Creatorand rejected their mighty saviour.
16. Their idolatry made the Lord jealous;the evil they did made him angry.
17. They sacrificed to gods that are not real,new gods their ancestors had never known,gods that Israel had never obeyed,