When the most highest gave the nations an inheritance, and
divided the sons of Adam, he put the borders of the nations, fast
by the multitude of the children of Israel. For the LORD's part is
his folk, and Israel is the portion of his inheritance. He found
him in a desert land, in a void ground and a roaring wilderness.
He led him about and gave him understanding, and kept him as the
apple of his eye. As an eagle that stirreth up her nest and
fluttereth over her young, he stretched out his wings and took him
up and bare him on his shoulders. The LORD alone was his guide,
and there was no strange god with him. He set him up upon an high
land, and he ate the increase of the fields. And he gave him honey
to suck out of the rock, and oil out of the hard stone. With
butter of the kine and milk of the sheep, with fat of the lambs
and fat rams and he goats with fat kidneys and with wheat. And of
the blood of grapes thou drunkest wine. And Israel waxed fat and
kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go that
made him and despised the rock that saved him. They angered him
with strange gods and with abominations provoked him. They offered
unto field devils and not to God, and to gods which they knew not
and to new gods that came newly up which their fathers feared not.
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