8. When Elyon gave nations their heritage, when He separated the sons of man, He set boundaries for the people by the number of Bnei-Yisrael.
9. But Adonai’s portion is His people— Jacob is the share of His inheritance.
10. He found him in the wilderness land, in the void of a howling waste. He surrounded him, cared for him, guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
11. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, He spreads His wings, catches him, lifts him up on His pinions.
12. Adonai alone guided him— there was no foreign god with him.
13. He made him mount the heights of the land. so he ate the produce of the field. He suckled him with honey from a rock, with oil from a flinty boulder.
14. Butter of cattle and milk of a flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the Bashan and he-goats, with fat of the kidneys of wheat, and blood of grapes you drank.
15. But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— you got fat, you grew thick, you gorged! He forsook God who made him. He mocked the Rock of his salvation.
16. They made him jealous with strangers, with abominations they angered Him.
17. They sacrificed to demons, a non-god, gods they had not known— to new ones who came in lately, ones your fathers had not dreaded.
18. The Rock who birthed you, you ignored. You forgot God who brought you forth.
19. “Adonai saw, and He spurned His sons and His daughters out of vexation.
20. He said, “I will hide My face from them, I want to see their hereafter. For they are an upside down generation, children with no faithfulness in them.
21. They made Me jealous with a non-god. They vexed Me with airy idols. So I will make them jealous with a non-people. With a foolish nation I will vex them.
22. For fire has ignited in My nostrils— it will burn to Sheol beneath, devour the earth and her produce, and scorch the foundations of mountains.
23. I will heap calamities upon them. With My arrows I will finish them.