7 Remember the ancient days,
Consider the years from generation to generation.
aAsk your father, and he will declare to you,
Your elders, and they will speak to you.
8 aWhen the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
bAccording to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 aFor Yahweh’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10 aHe found him in a desert land,
And in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He encircled him; He cared for him;
He guarded him as bthe pupil of His eye.
11 aLike an eagle that stirs up its nest,
That hovers over its young,
bHe spread His wings and caught them;
He carried them on His pinions.
12 aYahweh alone guided him,
bAnd there was no foreign god with him.
13 aHe made him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
bAnd He made him suck honey from the rock,
And coil from the flinty rock,
14 Curds of cows, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,
aWith the finest of the wheat—
And of the bblood of grapes you drank wine.
15 “aBut Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You grew fat, thick, and sleek—
bThen he abandoned God cwho made him,
And treated dthe Rock of his salvation with wicked foolishness.
16 aThey made Him jealous with strange gods;
bWith abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 aThey sacrificed to demons who were not God,
bTo gods whom they have not known,
cNew gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.
18 You neglected athe Rock who begot you,
bAnd forgot the God who brought you forth.