Deuteronomy 32:3-14

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ The Rock, his work is perfect,
    and all his ways are just.
A faithful God, without deceit,
    just and upright is he;
⁵ yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him,^[a]
    a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶ Do you thus repay the Lord,
    O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father, who created you,
    who made you and established you?
⁷ Remember the days of old,
    consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you;
    your elders, and they will tell you.
⁸ When the Most High^[b] apportioned the nations,
    when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number of the gods;^[c]
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
    Jacob his allotted share.

¹⁰ He sustained^[d] him in a desert land,
    in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
    guarded him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹ As an eagle stirs up its nest,
    and hovers over its young;
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
    and bears them aloft on its pinions,
¹² the Lord alone guided him;
    no foreign god was with him.
¹³ He set him atop the heights of the land,
    and fed him with^[e] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
    with oil from flinty rock;
¹⁴ curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat of lambs and rams;
Bashan bulls and goats,
    together with the choicest wheat—
    you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.