9 For athe Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
10 “He found him ain a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He bkept him as the apple of His eye.
11aAs an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,
12So the Lord alone led him, And therewas no foreign god with him.
13 “Hea made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock;
14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, aWith fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the bblood of the grapes.
15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; aYou grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he bforsook God whocmade him, And scornfully esteemed the dRock of his salvation.
16aThey provoked Him to jealousy with1 foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17aThey sacrificed to demons, not to God, Togods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.
18aOf the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have bforgotten the God who fathered you.
19 “Anda when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end willbe, For they are a perverse generation, aChildren in whom is no faith.
21aThey have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger bby their foolish idols. But cI will provoke them to jealousy by thosewhoare not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
22 For aa fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the1 lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 ‘I will aheap disasters on them; bI will spend My arrows on them.
24Theyshallbe wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the ateeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword shall destroy outside; Thereshallbe terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26aI would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, a“Our hand is high; And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’
28 “For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor isthereany understanding in them.
As an eagle . . . fluttereth over her young—This beautiful and expressive metaphor is founded on the extraordinary care and attachment which the female eagle cherishes for her young. When her newly fledged progeny are sufficiently advanced to soar in their native element, she, in their first attempts at flying, supports them on the tip of her wing, encouraging, directing, and aiding their feeble efforts to longer and sublimer flights. So did God take the most tender and powerful care of His chosen people; He carried them out of Egypt and led them through all the horrors of the wilderness to the promised inheritance.
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