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"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
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Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
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For I proclaim the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God.
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He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
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"They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.
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Do you thus deal with the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?
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"Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:
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When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
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For the Lord's portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
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"He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
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As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,
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So the Lord alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him.
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"He 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;
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Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.
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"But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
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They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
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They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.
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Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.
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"And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
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And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.
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They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.