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New Living Translation (NLT)

Deuteronomy 32
⁹ “For the people of Israel belong to the LORD; Jacob is his special possession.
¹⁰ He found them in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland. He surrounded them and watched over them; he guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.
¹¹ Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them up and carried them safely on his pinions.
¹² The LORD alone guided them; they followed no foreign gods.
¹³ He let them ride over the highlands and feast on the crops of the fields. He nourished them with honey from the rock and olive oil from the stony ground.
¹⁴ He fed them yogurt from the herd and milk from the flock, together with the fat of lambs. He gave them choice rams from Bashan, and goats, together with the choicest wheat. You drank the finest wine, made from the juice of grapes.
¹⁵ “But Israel soon became fat and unruly; the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed! Then they abandoned the God who had made them; they made light of the Rock of their salvation.
¹⁶ They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods; they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.
¹⁷ They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God, to gods they had not known before, to new gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared.
¹⁸ You neglected the Rock who had fathered you; you forgot the God who had given you birth.
¹⁹ “The LORD saw this and drew back, provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.