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Deuteronomy - ch 32 v 1 - 20
- Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
- Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.
- Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.
- The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.
- They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
- Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?
- Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
- When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.
- But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
- He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.
- The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.
- He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,
- Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.
- The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
- They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
- They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.
- Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
- The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
- And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
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