6 Is this how you repay the Lord,

you foolish and senseless people?x

Isn’t he your Father and Creator?I,y

Didn’t he make you and sustain you?

7 Remember the days of old;

consider the years of past generations.

Ask your father, and he will tell you,

your elders, and they will teach you.

8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritanceJ

and divided the human race,z

he set the boundaries of the peoplesaa

according to the number of the people of Israel.K

9 But the Lord’s portion is his people,

Jacob, his own inheritance.ab

10 He found him in a desolate land,

in a barren, howling wilderness;

he surrounded him, cared for him,a

and protected him as the pupil of his eye.b

11 He watches overA his nest like an eagle

and hovers over his young;

he spreads his wings, catches him,

and carries him on his feathers.c

12 The Lord alone led him,

with no help from a foreign god.

13 He made him ride on the heights of the landd

and eat the produce of the field.

He nourished him with honey from the rock

and oil from flinty rock,

14 curds from the herd and milk from the flock,

with the fat of lambs,

rams from Bashan,e and goats,

with the choicest grains of wheat;

you drank wine from the finest grapes.C