Deuteronomy 32:1-12

1Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.

2Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

3I will proclaim the name of the LORD . Oh, praise the greatness of our God!

4He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

5They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.

6Is this the way you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, Or Father, who bought you who made you and formed you?

7Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God

9For the LORD ’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

10In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

11like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.

12The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.