Deuteronomy 32:1–12

32 “Give aear, O heavens, and I will speak;

And hear, O bearth, the words of my mouth.

2 Let cmy 1teaching drop as the rain,

My speech distill as the dew,

dAs raindrops on the tender herb,

And as showers on the grass.

3 For I proclaim the ename of the Lord:

fAscribe greatness to our God.

4 He is gthe Rock, hHis work is perfect;

For all His ways are justice,

iA God of truth and jwithout injustice;

Righteous and upright is He.

5 “They khave corrupted themselves;

They are not His children,

Because of their blemish:

A lperverse and crooked generation.

6 Do you thus mdeal 2with the Lord,

O foolish and unwise people?

Is He not nyour Father, who obought you?

Has He not pmade you and established you?

7 “Remember qthe days of old,

Consider the years of many generations.

rAsk your father, and he will show you;

Your elders, and they will tell you:

8 When the Most High sdivided their inheritance to the nations,

When He tseparated the sons of Adam,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the 3children of Israel.

9 For uthe Lord’s portion is His people;

Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

10 “He found him vin a desert land

And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;

He encircled him, He instructed him,

He wkept him as the 4apple of His eye.

11 xAs an eagle stirs up its nest,

Hovers over its young,

Spreading out its wings, taking them up,

Carrying them on its wings,

12 So the Lord alone led him,

And there was no foreign god with him.